Nathaniel Cook was the designer of a set of chess figures, which is now the standard set.
He registered his design at the Patent Office on March 1, 1849 under the Ornamental Designs Act of 1842. As he was the editor of the Illustrated London Times, the newspaper where Howard Staunton wrote a regular chess column, he asked Staunton to advertise his chess set. He did it in his column on September 8, 1849, and the set became famous under the name Staunton chess set.
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History of the Staunton chess set (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/staunton.htm)
Anthony Cook, at times aided by his brother Nathaniel, embarked on a murder spree in the Toledo, Ohio, area that killed nine people from 1973 until his 1981 arrest for murder.
The Cook brothers confronted the couple while they were sitting in a car and forced them into the backseat, driving them to a secluded area and shooting Gordon dead.
Anthony Cook agreed to another term of fifteen years to life for the murder of Gordon while Nathaniel received twenty to seventy-five years in prison for the attempted murder of the girlfiend and the brothers confessed to a startling string of killings and attempted murders over an eight year period spanning for 1973 through 1981.
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