Sir William McAlpine | ... Southern Railway". This was re-erected at the private Fawley Hill Museum of | , whose company built Waterloo International. Waterloo International close ... |
Josiah Wedgwood | ... n of a British horticultural society was suggested by John Wedgwood (son of | ) in 1800. His aims were fairly modest: he wanted to hold regular meetings ... |
A. J. P. Taylor | In 1969, along with Hugh Trevor-Roper and | , he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's fou ... |
Clive James | ... llander wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence. | wrote a poem titled "A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky" in his book, . ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read | 's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
Richard Owen | ... fragment of bone to his uncle, John Rule, a Sydney surgeon, who sent it to | who at that time was working at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College ... |
Albert Einstein | ... time or lived in Halesite include comedian/singer Fanny Brice and scientist | |
Thomas Hardy | ... nd a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of | 's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll' ... |
Bjarne Stroustrup | ... 8 for the discovery. In 1983, the C++ programming language was developed by | as an extension to the original C programming language also developed at B ... |
Magdi Yacoub | ... Harpenden, Herts in January 1979, which led to a heart bypass operation by | in June 1979. After the heart attack, Morecambe asked Yacoub what would ha ... |
Mark Killilea | ... e "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, | and Albert Reynolds |
KRBC-TV | ... KAKW-DT from the Waco/Temple/Killeen DMA. As well as KTXS-TV, KTAB-TV, and | from the Abilene/Sweetwater/Brownwood DMA. The Comanche Chief serves as th ... |
Ned Sublette | ... heard in the ragtime compositions of Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, and others. | echoes the widely held view that the habanera rhythm "found its way into r ... |
Ronald J. Brachman | ... has been no small amount of inconsistency in the usage of the "is-a" link: | wrote a paper titled "What IS-A is and isn't", wherein 29 different semant ... |
Robert Penn Warren | ... e procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel All the King's Men by | described a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look lik ... |
Henry Cavendish | ... lfuric acid. In 1776 Lavoisier showed that it contained oxygen, and in 1785 | determined its precise composition and showed that it could be synthesized ... |
Roger Sessions | ... ztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, | , Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill |
Greg Bear | The setting for | 's City at the End of Time is one hundred trillion years in the future and ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... guards, and palace guards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on | by Mehmet Ali Ağca, the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed com ... |
Katherine Anne Porter | From 1892 to 1901 Kyle was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning author, | . Many of her most famous short stories such as Noon Wine are set in locat ... |
John Lydon | ... s in favor of dense, repetitive dub- and krautrock-inspired soundscapes and | 's cryptic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. The year before Metal Box was ... |
Paul Tillich | ... has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, Hastings Rashdall and | . It remains the most popular view of atonement among liberal Christians. ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
John Tukey | ... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as | , condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ... |
Juan de la Cierva | | was a Spanish engineer and aeronautical enthusiast. In 1921, he participat ... |
Sam Gilliam | ... nsen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, | , Mario Merz, Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists who emerged ... |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | In 1969, along with | and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Wins ... |
Sir Peter Ustinov | ... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, | , Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
Daniel C. Tsui | ... rst Störmer and former Bell Laboratories researchers Robert B. Laughlin and | ; they consequently won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for the discovery. In 1983, ... |
Leda Cosmides | ... f Charles Darwin that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and | . Central to evolutionary theory is that all biological organisms under ch ... |
Richard Serra | ... is, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, | , Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz, Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". | 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ... |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was | ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ... |
Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit is a serial novel by | published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the ... |
Charles Darwin | ... tionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories of | that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides. ... |
Harold Lamb | ... world for me." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, | , Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years ... |
Arthur Compton | ... ated a two-stage model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré, | , Henry Margenau, and Daniel Dennett |
George Harrison | ... eld at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 29 November 2002 as a memorial to | on the first anniversary of his death. The event was organized by Harrison ... |
Elliott Yamin | ... nections within the Sony family to produce, record, distribute, and promote | 's debut album under a dormant Sony-owned imprint, rather than waiting for ... |
Charlotte Auerbach | ... a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mice maintained by geneticist | . Histopathological studies in the 1960s revealed that the cerebellum of r ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ry, but the word was considered vulgar. (Note the exclamation by Estella in | 's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!") Howe ... |
Kiri Te Kanawa | Prominent New Zealand musicians performing at home and abroad include Dame | , Sir Donald McIntyre, Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, ... |
Seán Doherty | ... p, known as the "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, | , Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
Hani Hanjour | ... rorists, boarded American Airlines Flight 77 and hijacked the plane so that | could pilot and crash the plane into the Pentagon as part of the September ... |
Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
Henry Margenau | ... model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, | , and Daniel Dennett |
George Philip | ... he constructed a large family home: Spade House. He had two sons with Jane: | (known as "Gip") in 1901 (d.1985) and Frank Richard in 1903. The marriage ... |
Sarah Palin | ... episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor | 's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trail ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... iverse as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, | , Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra ... |
KTXS-TV | ... KCEN-TV, KWTX-TV, and KAKW-DT from the Waco/Temple/Killeen DMA. As well as | , KTAB-TV, and KRBC-TV from the Abilene/Sweetwater/Brownwood DMA. The Coma ... |
Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
Pope John Paul II | ... said that his religion was the "most important thing" in his life. In 1998, | made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSG), the highest ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir | 's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
Milton Friedman | While | described The General Theory as "a great book", he argues that its implici ... |
Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
Hastings Rashdall | ... ce the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, | and Paul Tillich. It remains the most popular view of atonement among libe ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and | |
Joseph Locke | ... ed men were starting to make their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupil | and finally Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His conservative views on the capabil ... |
John Hollander | ... ersially nonsensical, and Chomsky's example remains by far the most famous. | wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence |
Alex North | ... works, including pieces by composer György Ligeti rather than the score by | , although Kubrick had also hired Frank Cordell to do a score. While North ... |
Tim Berners-Lee | The Semantic Web as described by | is one example of the many attempts over many decades to define standards ... |
Lagrange | The theorem was proved by | and generalized by Hans Heinrich Bürmann, both in the late 18th century. T ... |
Lewis Carroll's | ... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). | "snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... along with President Clinton at the public memorial service. He paraphrased | by saying of his nephew: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, t ... |
KTAB-TV | ... KWTX-TV, and KAKW-DT from the Waco/Temple/Killeen DMA. As well as KTXS-TV, | , and KRBC-TV from the Abilene/Sweetwater/Brownwood DMA. The Comanche Chie ... |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... ); the great industrialist and architect of the nearby Atmospheric railway, | ; Prog-rock band Wishbone Ash, supermodel Lily Cole, comedian Jim Davidson ... |
Mohamed Atta | ... rest of the muscle hijackers began to join them. Hazmi met frequently with | , the ringleader of the attacks, during the summer of 2001 |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... all number of barons to pay homage to Eustace as their future king; but the | , Theobald of Bec, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronatio ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | Radio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of | 's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti ... |
Marx's | ... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of | thought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ... |
Jessica Simpson | ... Other Female Teen Pop stars such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and | then also became very popular at the end of the decade. Hanson was initial ... |
Hou Jing | ... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander | , sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ... |
Joseph Locke | ... tar" driven by his brother Robert and "Rocket" driven by assistant engineer | . The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ... |
Maureen McCormick | ... l Ann Martin (née Tyler) (Florence Henderson), whose daughters are Marcia ( | ), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen). The wife and daughters take th ... |
Taylor Branch | ... s. Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position, | in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy adminis ... |
Paul McCartney | ... Shea," and featured many special guest appearances, including former Beatle | who closed the second show with an emotional rendition of The Beatles clas ... |
Robert Whitman | ... da Childs, Steve Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, | , John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These p ... |
George Macartney | #Lady Jane Stuart (c. 1748 – 28 February 1828), who married | , later the 1st Earl Macartney, on 1 February 1768 |
Goethe | ... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. | defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ... |
Louis XVIII | ... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of | . They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ... |
Antoine Lavoisier | ... lopment of modern chemistry. Chemistry as we know it today, was invented by | with his law of Conservation of mass in 1783. The discoveries of the chemi ... |
Ashton Kutcher | The 2005 film Guess Who starring | and Bernie Mac is a loose remake styled as a comedy rather than a drama, w ... |
John Cage | ... Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, | , Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These performances ... |
Lord Warkworth | #Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married | , later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, on 2 July 1764 |
Neil MacGregor | ... it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been | |
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
Joseph Whitworth | ... on of men to build on his work, such as Richard Roberts, Joseph Clement and | |
Sydney Brenner | ... n proteins in Belgium on 8 April 1953 went unreported by the British press. | , Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were s ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... into the castle without meeting resistance and looted the Jewel House. The | , Simon Sudbury, took refuge in St John's Chapel, hoping the mob would res ... |
Matthew Arnold | ... nnection of Georgian culture with that of Shahnama: Furthermore he remarks: | used a famous episode from the epic as the basis of his poem Sohrab and Ru ... |
Donald Trump | ... t season. In the final episode of the second season, he was matched against | , with King being killed again, this time in the ring |
Nikola Tesla | ... tor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by | (Westinghouse) and others. Electrification of factories was fastest betwee ... |
Piero Sraffa | ... han any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including Isaiah Berlin and | . Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewish friends, most ... |
Yvonne Rainer | ... ed at the Judson Memorial Church, New York, and the Judson dancers, notably | , Trisha Brown, Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Simonne Forti, Deborah Hay, L ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... has hosted nationally known entertainers such as Gwen Stefani, Rob Zombie, | , Josh Groban, and Bob Dylan. The annual Apollo Night talent show draws ab ... |
Winston Churchill | ... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister | was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of | from June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992 |
Sir Rowland Hill | ... ho can be said to have changed the face of the postal service forever it is | , with his reforms of the postal system based on the concept of penny post ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... op Thuc had the power to ordain he did not have the authority to do so from | , which is a requirement for licit episcopal holy orders in Roman Catholic ... |
Trisha Brown | ... n Memorial Church, New York, and the Judson dancers, notably Yvonne Rainer, | , Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Simonne Forti, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including | , records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ... |
William Schuman | ... ri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, | , Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill |
Tony Accardo | ... ous Italian organized crime families since the early-20th century including | (boss from about 1945 to 1992) and Joseph Andriacchi. Although not as many ... |
Norbert Wiener | ... still be regarded as rather crude and hazardous in many respects." In 1948 | , the author of Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Anima ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became | . With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ... |
Karl Marx | ... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with | and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ... |
David Starkey | ... been carried out by other parties. Many modern historians though, including | , and Michael Hicks, or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard him ... |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated | in County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ... |
John Lindley | ... each of its four gardens. The library is based upon the book collection of | |
Edmundo O'Gorman | ... exico. Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, | , Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conduc ... |
John Burnside | ... literature, the critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist, | ; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal b ... |
King George V | ... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of | . In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ... |
David Stannard | ... es and European colonizers came into widespread conflict, resulting in what | has called a genocide of the indigenous populations. Early European immigr ... |
Sidgwick | ... ntral error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and | . Since then, the term has become common in English-language ethical theor ... |
Milton Friedman | In 1947, Popper founded with Friedrich Hayek, | , Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to defend classical ... |
Marcus George Singer | Walter Terence Stace, in The Concept of Morals (1937), wrote: | observed that there are two importantly different ways of looking at the g ... |
J. L. Mackie | In a 1955 article published in the philosophy journal Mind, | attempted to resolve the paradox by distinguishing between first-order omn ... |
Leslie Orgel | Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, | , and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to see ... |
Robert Whitman | ... ys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and | among others were notable creators of Happenings |
Nikola Tesla | ... h neighboring village Shoreham, was also the home to inventor and scientist | 's early research facilities |
Carmen Rasmusen | ... In the music industry BYU is represented by former American Idol contestant | and Mormon Tabernacle Choir director Mack Wilberg |
Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska | ... rn in Brussels as the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and | , and the grandson of Polish King John III Sobieski |
V.H. Galbraith | ... ut a forgery. A prominent claim was made in 1964 by the respected historian | in his essay "Who Wrote Asser's Life of Alfred?" Galbraith argued that the ... |
Leo Steinberg | ... sical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photography. | uses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's "flatbed" p ... |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Isaiah Berlin | ... itically, rather than any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including | and Piero Sraffa. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewi ... |
Michael Almereyda | ... referred to as Hamlet 2000) is a 2000 American film written and directed by | , set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... been developed into numerous versions by thinkers as diverse as David Marr, | , Jerry Fodor, and David Lewis. Functionalism helped lay the foundations f ... |
see of Canterbury | ... is mother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, that Walter should be chosen for the | , as well as to the monks of the cathedral chapter, and soon after Walter' ... |
Ernest Rutherford | In 1911, | gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's m ... |
Michael Faraday | In 1820, the British scientist | liquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperat ... |
Álvaro del Portillo | In 1975, Escriva died and was succeeded by | . In 1982, Opus Dei was made into a personal prelature. This means that Op ... |
Aaron Carter | ... om the 1990s are Brothers Nick Carter from The Backstreet Boys and pop star | were both teen idols in their heyday, as was Ricky Martin during the Latin ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... m His sub-Vicar, with the automatic right of succession to the papacy after | . On August 6, 1978, Pope Paul died and Domínguez claimed the papacy, proc ... |
Hani Hanjour | ... nia for Yemen in June 2000. Hazmi stayed in California until he met up with | in December 2000 and they both traveled to Phoenix, Arizona. They later mo ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
Dorothy Hodgkin | Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, | , Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in Apr ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... ry 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded | 's electromagnetic theory of light, which was first demonstrated by David ... |
WMOR-TV | ... from Orlando. Most major stations from Orlando are available over the air. | , an independent television station, is licensed to Lakeland, with its stu ... |
Lord Young of Dartington | ... rs, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood, | , Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
François Quesnay | ... communalism and egalitarianism. This influenced European intellectuals like | , an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming ... |
Dave Hickey | Thomas McEvilly, agreeing with | , says that U.S postmodernism in the visual arts began with the first exhi ... |
Wilhelm Ostwald | ... ction of nitric acid is via the Ostwald process, named after German chemist | . In this process, anhydrous ammonia is oxidized to nitric oxide, in the p ... |
Sir Hermann Bondi | ... Charlton area of Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The report of | into the North Sea flood of 1953 affecting parts of the Thames Estuary and ... |
Richard Anthony Salisbury | ... Kensington Palace), Charles Francis Greville (a Lord of the Admiralty) and | , who was to become the Secretary of the new society |
Steven Chu | ... transition. In 1985, laser cooling was used to slow and manipulate atoms by | and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by Robert Four ... |
Hogarth | ... current arts and letters. His Tragedy of Tragedies of Tom Thumb (for which | designed the frontispiece) was, for example, quite successful as a printed ... |
Richard Owen | ... forms diverged from this shared unity in a branching pattern. The anatomist | used this to support his idealist concept of species as showing the unroll ... |
Samuel Noah Kramer | ... g the annual Akitu (New Year) ceremony, at the spring Equinox. According to | in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history (end of the third mi ... |
WFTV | ... which offers most television stations from the Tampa Bay market, as well as | , the ABC affiliate from Orlando. Most major stations from Orlando are ava ... |
4th Earl of Cork | ... quired by the Cavendish family in 1753 when the daughter and heiress of the | , Lady Charlotte Boyle (1731-1754) married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of ... |
Bill Clinton | ... tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by | . Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeal ... |
C. S. Lewis | Fantasy fiction is particularly rich in references to flat worlds. In | ' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the fictional world of Narnia is "round l ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of | – built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ... |
Charles Francis Greville | ... Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace), | (a Lord of the Admiralty) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become ... |
Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
WRAL-TV | ... e board, and assistant chief executive officer. His daily CBC editorials on | , given at the end of each night's local news broadcast in Raleigh, made H ... |
Walter Pater | ... oets, a group whose writings derived, in many ways, from the prose works of | , Hopkins's academic coach for his Greats exams, and later his lifelong fr ... |
Dave Hodgson | ... by Frank Branston, until his death in 2009. The current Mayor of Bedford is | from the Liberal Democrat Party |
Benjamin Franklin | In 1758, | and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ... |
George Anson | Admirals | . and Admiral Jonathon Band, current First Sea Lord are both notable in Po ... |
Earl Robinson | ... arsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, | , Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael ... |
Albert Einstein | ... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported | 's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ... |
Charles Dickens | | makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... tered the oil business by starting a refinery. In 1867, his older brother ( | )'s partnership of Rockefeller & Andrews absorbed this refinery. In 1870, ... |
Yoichiro Nambu | ... omposed of three up quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, Moo-Young Han with | and Oscar W. Greenberg independently resolved the problem by proposing tha ... |
George Grant Elmslie | ... Harold C. Bradley House, designed collaboratively by Louis H. Sullivan and | in 1908–1910 now serves as the Sigma Phi Fraternity in the University Heig ... |
Karl Marx's | ... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of | Capital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ... |
C. S. Lewis | At least one line in the | book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events - and t ... |
Niels Bohr | ... Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He strongly disagreed with | 's instrumentalism and supported Albert Einstein's realist approach to sci ... |
Khalid al-Mihdhar | ... ived in the United States from Bangkok, Thailand, on January 15, 2000, with | in Los Angeles. The two stayed at Parkwood Apartments in San Diego until M ... |
Robert Goulet | ... reen Actors Guild (SAG); Valerie Harper, Loni Anderson, Hector Elizondo and | |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
Edward, the Prince of Wales | ... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by | ; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ... |
Paul Krugman | ... been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, | , Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 30 ... |
Michael Hicks | ... other parties. Many modern historians though, including David Starkey, and | , or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard himself as the most li ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... tts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political commentator | praised the film because of the way people were portrayed doing the real w ... |
John Whitgift | ... 9 November 1586 he was detained by the gaoler and brought before Archbishop | . He insisted on the illegality of this arrest, refused either to take the ... |
Raymond Gosling | ... f DNA X-ray diffraction data collected by Rosalind Franklin and her student | . The controversy arose from the fact that some of these data were shown t ... |
Noam Chomsky | "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by | in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is gramm ... |
Ralph Erskine | Notable Newcastle housing developments include | 's the Byker Wall designed in the 1960s and now Grade II* listed. It is on ... |
William Farish | First formalized by Professor | (1759–1837), the concept of an isometric had existed in a rough empirical ... |
Alfred Tarski | ... pondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician | and published in 1933. Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequenc ... |
Roddy Doyle | Irish writer | wrote a short story by the same title about an Irish girl who brings home ... |
A. J. Rowledge | Under | , the design of the newly-renamed Lion was completed in 1917, and the firs ... |
Max V. Mathews | ... Appleton also was influenced by the work of the "father" of computer music, | and by French composers Francois Bayle, Beatriz Ferreyra and Michel Redolf ... |
Whitney Houston | ... p star Michael Jackson, and a wave of female vocalists like Tina Turner and | . Michael Jackson and Prince has been described as the most influential fi ... |
JK Galbraith | Power may be held through | summarises the types of power as being "Condign" (based on force), "Compen ... |
Frank Knight | ... s and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on | , one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who ... |
Charles Darwin | In On the Origin of Species (1859), | proposed evolution through natural selection, a theory central to modern b ... |
John Locke | ... grarian philosophy of Physiocracy. The Physiocrats, along with the ideas of | and the Romantic Era, formed the basis of modern European and American agr ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and | . In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's work The Lord of the Rings, will o' the wisps are present in the Dead M ... |
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Anthony Blunt | The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman | , Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ... |
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Ted Kennedy | ... ot to do so would amount to a tax increase. Working with Democratic Senator | , McCain was a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, which ... |
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E. W. Bullinger | Knowledge of the Babylonian zodiac is also reflected in the Hebrew Bible. | interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon) (1175–1240) was a 13th century | in England. Today he is primarily remembered for his connection to St Edmu ... |
Adam Smith | ... eaning of such terms. There is a linguistic division of labor, analogous to | 's economic division of labor, according to which such terms have their re ... |
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Michael Riffaterre | ... m include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, | , and Umberto Eco |
William Cullen | The first known method of artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by | at the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1756. Cullen used a pump to cr ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian | —led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New ... |
R. John Ellis | ... with DNA during the assembly of nucleosomes. The term was later extended by | in 1987 to describe proteins that mediated the post-translational assembly ... |
Álvaro del Portillo | ... e the second Prelate of Opus Dei in 1994. The first Prelate of Opus Dei was | , who held the position from 1982 until his death in 1994.Opus Dei's highe ... |
John Cage | ... 931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings to | 's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Soc ... |
John Beazley | ... tradition of this type has been discerned in 5th century BC Greek pottery— | identified a scene of Apollo, Delian palm in hand, revenging Orion for the ... |
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George Akerlof | ... an economics has been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as | , Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian sti ... |
Joseph Locke | ... e, rather than the West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured by | over Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a lo ... |
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Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
Kenneth Rexroth | ... t Allen Ginsberg when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of | . Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This ... |
Douglas LePan | | , an official from the Canadian High Commission, wrote |
T.J. Gottesdiener | ... ction is 'Almaty Financial District and Esentai Park'. This was designed by | , who designed 7 World Trade Center in New York City, Time Warner Center i ... |
Alison Knowles | ... e publisher of the Something Else Press, a Concrete poet, married to artist | and an admirer of Marcel Duchamp. Ihab Hassan includes, "Intermedia, the f ... |
Kenneth Mees | The Kodak Research Laboratories were founded in 1912 with | as the first director. Principal components of the Kodak Research Laborato ... |
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Paul Krugman | In 1991, | , as a highly regarded international trade theorist, put out a call for ec ... |
David Gross | The discovery of asymptotic freedom in the strong interactions by | , David Politzer and Frank Wilczek allowed physicists to make precise pred ... |
Gauss | ... s with roots in the 19th century and just prior. Important names are Euler, | , Riemann, Cauchy, Weierstrass, and many more in the 20th century. Complex ... |
Hogarth | ... the sometimes affectionate and sometimes savage caricatures of Rowland and | |
John Cage | Precursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp, | 's 4' 33" which is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and Ra ... |
Major-General Henry Y.D. Scott | The hall was designed by civil engineers Captain Francis Fowke and | of the Royal Engineers and built by Lucas Brothers. The designers were hea ... |
Steven Lukes | ... enabling nature of power. A comprehensive account of power can be found in | Power: A Radical View where he discusses the three dimensions of power. Th ... |
Joseph Burr Tyrrell | ... expedition of the Geological Survey of Canada, led by the famous geologist | . Due to a lack of specialised equipment the almost complete skull could o ... |
John Paul II | ... r 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope | , head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elev ... |
Chris Bryant | ... this role was challenged in the House of Commons by Shadow Justice Minister | in February 2011, at the time of the 2011 Libyan civil war, on the grounds ... |
Robert Edmond Grant | ... the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by | , but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's embryology of divergence in whi ... |
Joseph Banks | ... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir | (President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ... |
Andrew Wiles | ... and z such that x^n+y^n=z^n . Before this was proven for all n>2 in 1995 by | , it had been proven for many values of n. These proofs inspired further r ... |
August Derleth | | later made alterations to the biography of Alhazred, such as redating his ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
Richard Serra | ... period 1966 - 1976 and was applied to the work of Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, | and new work by former minimalists Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Sol LeW ... |
Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales | ... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later met | there, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... ts candidate in the race for U.S. Senate in 2000, which was won by Democrat | . Howell received 11.9% of the vote (a total of 308,860 votes). Howell had ... |
David Starkey | ... and devotion have earned her many admirers among historians. These include | , feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carol ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... on, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes. | 's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique. The novel's exposito ... |
Frank Wilczek | ... totic freedom in the strong interactions by David Gross, David Politzer and | allowed physicists to make precise predictions of the results of many high ... |
Donald Judd | Minimalists like | , Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Agnes Martin, John McCracken and others continue ... |
Kristy Swanson | ... cter of Buffy. The shallow cheerleader of the 1992 Buffy film, as played by | , had grown more mature and open-minded. Buffy now identified with the soc ... |
Jim Gibbons | ... contraception and was described as "an Irish solution to an Irish problem". | , who was a devout Catholic and had a deep hatred of Haughey failed to tur ... |
Andrew Davies | ... TV series co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, Little Dorrit, written by | , and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Ma ... |
Gary Becker | ... the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Robert Barro and | , say that the empirical evidence for beneficial effects from Keynesian st ... |
Richard Attenborough's | In 1969, Seymour appeared uncredited in her first film, | Oh! What a Lovely War. In 1970, Seymour appeared in her first major film r ... |
Donald Judd | ... l Foster, in his essay The Crux of Minimalism, examines the extent to which | and Robert Morris both acknowledge and exceed Greenbergian modernism in th ... |
Alan Watts | ... student at the American Academy of Asian Studies, where Saburō Hasegawa and | , among others, were teaching. Hasegawa introduced Snyder to the treatment ... |
Richard Feynman | ... interactions could probably not be fully described by quantum field theory. | argued that high energy experiments showed quarks are real particles: he c ... |
Stephen Byers | ... uspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, alongside Patricia Hewitt and | . Consequently, he was dropped from the NATO "group of 12" committee that ... |
Chris Bisson | ... company financed and produced Stepdad in 2007, starring Ricky Tomlinson and | among others; it was entered into the Cannes Film Festival. A new film Sna ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector | ;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ... |
John James Audubon | ... ere commissioned for books. Among the most famous of these bird artists was | , whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success ... |
Robert Barro | ... Lucas, questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like | and Gary Becker, say that the empirical evidence for beneficial effects fr ... |
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode | ... uest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by | in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation; but Montagu House becam ... |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | In Britain the Great Western Railway, designed by | , pioneered broad gauge from 1838 with a gauge of , and retained this gaug ... |
Geneva | He studied at the School of Architecture in | , Switzerland. In 1963, he founded a group formed by architects, engineers ... |
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Valois Tapestries | | - Van Damme, Jean Claude - Van den Bergh, Frans - Vandenbroucke, Frank (cy ... |
KXAS-TV | ... as part of the Dallas-Fort Worth DMA. Local media outlets include: KDFW-TV, | , WFAA-TV, KTVT-TV, KERA-TV, KTXA-TV, KDFI-TV, KDAF-TV, and KFWD-TV. Other ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... June 24, 1922), American financier, was a co-founder with his older brother | of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He was the son of Willi ... |
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Pope John Paul II | ... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of | . He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ... |
James Cook | ... rom the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain | and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of p ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife, | , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ed to marry his fiancée until he cries "The earth is flat as a pancake". In | 's The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, the protagonists spread the ... |
King Edward VIII | In 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future | ) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ... |
Bill Clinton | ... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, | and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ... |
George V | ... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and | . American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | ... many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and | , support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition statin ... |
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Richard Dawkins | "Viruses of the Mind" (1993) is an article by | using memetics and analogies with biological and computer viruses, and wit ... |
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Charles Oman | ... ve often been overstated, with many Twentieth Century writers repeating Sir | 's idea that the battle represented a turning point in military history, w ... |
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Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
Charles Darwin | | 's theory of evolution is based on three principles: natural selection, he ... |
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Jerry Donohue | ... the imino and enol forms that Crick and Watson had assumed. They consulted | who confirmed the most likely structures of the nucleotide bases. The base ... |
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Alison Knowles | Others, including Hannah Higgins, daughter of fluxus artists | and Dick Higgins, assert that although Maciunas was a key participant, the ... |
Raoul Hafner | ... he British military "Rotachute" gyro glider designed by expatriate Austrian | . This led him to adapt the design for his own purposes and eventually mar ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... to learning that he is said to have been summoned by his uncle Athelm, the | , to enter his service. He was later appointed to the court of King Athels ... |
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John Major | ... principal editorial cartoonist. One of Bell's most famous caricatures is of | as a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in ... |
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George Antheil | ... 'Inhumaine (The Inhuman One). In 1924, in collaboration with Dudley Murphy, | , and Man Ray, Léger produced and directed the iconic and Futurism-influen ... |
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Stafford Cripps | ... the sub-continent, the British government sent a delegation to India under | , in what came to be known as the Cripps' Mission. The purpose of the miss ... |
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Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
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Archbishop of Canterbury | ... t, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr Rowan Williams, the | , is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Flanders. Ned's "unbearable pious ... |
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Arthur C. Clarke | ... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future. | 's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ... |
François Quesnay | ... were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism; leading physiocrats like | were avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies |
Julian Budden | ... ut no one else has performed the same tricks nearly as well". Opera scholar | remarks on Puccini's "inept handling of the political element", but still ... |
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Pope Paul VI | ... to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by | on October 28, 1965. (The full text in English is available from the . |
Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
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George V | In 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of King | and Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ... |
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Emperor Wu of Chen | ... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself as | in 557 AD |
Paul McCartney | ... ica, the Top 20 hit "Veronica", one of several songs Costello co-wrote with | in that period (see Collaborations) |
David A. Smith | ... earch on what became the Etoys system. More recently he started, along with | , David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, Julian Lombardi, and Mark McCa ... |
Francis Glisson | ... e 16th century there were few vitalistic scientists left. One exception was | (1597–1677) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi ( ... |
George Harrison | ... each number one in the UK single chart. "More than a Woman" was replaced by | 's "My Sweet Lord" which is the only time in the UK singles chart history ... |
James Lovelock | In 1984, | and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ... |
Peter Deutsch | ... Berkeley. In 1965, several Project GENIE members, specifically Lampson and | , developed the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' S ... |
Ian Kershaw | ... th century and were not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as | and Brigitte Hamann dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, whic ... |
King George V | ... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later | , with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ... |
John Lennon | ... ublished in 2005; the book records similar sayings between Groucho Marx and | |
Marcello Malpighi | ... was Francis Glisson (1597–1677) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor | (1628–1694) |
Charles Oman | Ammianus notes the important role of the Gothic cavalry. | , believing that the cavalry were the majority of the Gothic force, interp ... |
Elizabeth II | ... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, | . The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ... |
Tricia Helfer | ... d Cylons appeared, including Michael Trucco, Aaron Douglas, Dean Stockwell, | , Grace Park, Rick Worthy, Matthew Bennett, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael H ... |
Philip Pullman | ... Weeks Later. The docklands also appear in The Ruby in the Smoke, a novel by | |
Joseph Greenberg | ... y Maurice Delafosse (1914). However, it did not come into general use until | (1963) formally proposed its adoption. In doing so, Greenberg sought to em ... |
Michael Palin | ... nes, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then | came out as an over the top announcer who eventually states that he only e ... |
Gunther Schuller | ... 42), Eduard Tubin's Concerto (1948), Lars-Erik Larsson's Concertino (1957), | 's Concerto (1962), and Hans Werner Henze's Concerto (1966) |
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Thomas Sydenham | ... is disputed and the origination of the fifth sign has also been ascribed to | and Virchow |
Locke | ... ential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and | ", including the idea of a three-branched government |
Joseph Greenberg | ... ded Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary. | (1950) strongly confirmed Cohen's rejection of "Hamitic", added (and sub-c ... |
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov | ... hey are most likely to have had to have developed through language contact. | and Vladimir Toporov believed in the unity of Balto-Slavic, but not in the ... |
Alfred Marshall | ... turns to scale and perfect competition, underlining some doubtful points of | 's theory of the firm. This was amended for British readers and published ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... 1957, a second summit conference was held; this time British Prime Minister | arrived earlier than President Eisenhower, to make it clear that they were ... |
Tori Spelling | ... ls, while the series would make actresses Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and | household names in the US. The show also had many cast changes, though Gar ... |
Robert Haynes | ... Cs) are added to the atmosphere. Motivated by Lovelock's book, biophysicist | worked behind the scenes to promote terraforming, and contributed the word ... |
William Pengelly | ... coexistence theory. The cave was extensively explored from 1865 to 1880 by | , who found evidence to support McEnery's hypothesis. The caves have attra ... |
Erasmus Darwin | ... e seriously ill and returned to his home at Turnhurst, Staffordshire, where | attended him and discovered that he was suffering from diabetes |
Paul Davies | The physicist | also supports the view that if a planetary catastrophe threatens the survi ... |
Godfrey Hounsfield | ... d "Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART)" which was later adapted by Sir | as the image reconstruction mechanism in his famous invention, the first c ... |
Alan Hovhaness | ... Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, | , Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzyszto ... |
Alexander Nowell | ... As a boy, Harrison attended St Paul's School and the Westminster School of | . Raised in Protestant circles, Harrison entered Christ Church, Oxford and ... |
Wang Dao | ... ministration, such as Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period, | and Bao Jingyan of the Eastern Jin, as well as Fan Zhen, Xing Shao , and F ... |
William Hogarth | ... e Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (in an about the UK Independence Party) | ;'s The Gate of Calais about the ban on UK meat exports following outbreak ... |
John Cecil Masterman | ... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as | , chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ... |
Henry Cavendish | ... reference to its chemical inactivity) was suspected to be present in air by | in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William R ... |
Barry Cunliffe | ... became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton succeeding | . During his time at Southampton he directed excavations at Quanterness in ... |
Erwin Chargaff | ... equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. A visit by | to England in 1952 reinforced the salience of this important fact for Wats ... |
Mary of Guise | ... ible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent | , who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen ... |
Ronald N. Bracewell | ... echanism in his famous invention, the first commercial CT scanner. In 1956, | used a method similar to Radon Transform to reconstruct a map of solar rad ... |
John Cage | ... noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by | 's prepared piano.) Typically, he played a conventional instrument, in sta ... |
Anne of Austria | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married | , daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ... |
Robert Boyle | In 2004 The | Science Room was opened nearby in the dedicated to his life and works wher ... |
Charles II | ... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders of | the remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ... |
William Ramsay | ... Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir | in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carb ... |
Virgil Thomson | ... critics would argue, is used to make the exploration of oil look beautiful. | composed the music for the film |
Juliana of the Netherlands | ... ands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen | and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From birth Willem-Alexander has ... |
Josiah Wedgwood | ... ans, pins, wire, and other goods. Housing was provided for workers on site. | and Matthew Boulton (whose Soho Manufactory was completed in 1766) were ot ... |
George Martin Lees | ... n 1926 under the direction of a geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, | , but no oil was found. The oil issue raised its head again in 1933 after ... |
Bill Clinton | ... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President | |
Milton Friedman | ... sm articulated by economists working in the Neoclassical tradition, such as | . Neoliberalism emphasizes the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage ... |
Margaret Thatcher | Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of | , British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... e new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadgifu of Kent, by the | , Oda, and by the East Anglian nobles, at whose head was the powerful eald ... |
Ian Graham | From 1970 onwards, | made numerous visits to Yaxchilan and recorded the inscriptions there. The ... |
William Tite | ... ver the Thames) when its main line was extended from Nine Elms. Designed by | , it was raised above marshy ground on a series of arches. The unfulfilled ... |
Fulton J. Sheen | ... Martin, who gave him his first big break, and the televangelist archbishop, | . In a 2003 Inside the Actors Studio interview, Sheen explained, "Whenever ... |
John Wilkes | ... n lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there and | was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at ... |
Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 by | has several characters seeing a play called 'The Courier's Tragedy' by the ... |
Latimer | ... before Mary's death in 1558 after hearing the words of Cranmer, Ridley, and | , three Protestant martyrs burned at the stake in Oxford |
Henry Cowell | ... ed with classical composer Rubin Goldmark and avant-garde composer-theorist | |
Peter Medawar | ... tually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist | , and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
Ken Wallis | Wing Commander | has held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying car ... |
Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
Paul Dirac | ... charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by | in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his pr ... |
Sir Arthur Wellesley | ... sence the French situation in Spain deteriorated, and then became dire when | arrived to take charge of British-Portuguese forces |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In the fictional world of | 's Middle-earth, Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a h ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
Barry Williams | ... mer hiatus from the show, headlining as The Kids from the Brady Bunch. Only | and Maureen McCormick stayed in the music business as adults. Christopher ... |
Nelson Goodman | ... is true if it would be accepted by anyone under ideal epistemic conditions. | had formulated a similar notion in Fact, Fiction and Forecast in 1956. In ... |
Maximilian I of Bavaria | ... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, King | introduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... hinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and | . Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the ... |
Gabrielle Carteris | | left the show following the fifth season |
John Lydon | ... s picked up on by NME who championed the band, although one guest reviewer, | of Public Image Limited condemned the band as "trendy hippies. |
John Major | ... ct and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, when | was Conservative . An increased offer of up to 262p per share was enough t ... |
Whitney Houston | ... re films, including Honey (recast to Jessica Alba). Some Kind of Blue and a | -produced remake of the 1976 film Sparkle were canceled due to Aaliyah's d ... |
Catherine Parr | ... , Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager, | . In 1551, he became Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the s ... |
Peter Tait | After Hamilton's death, his student | continued promoting quaternions. At this time, quaternions were a mandator ... |
Ernst Gombrich | ... opper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian | , biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
Mary Jane West-Eberhard | ... logical and other phenotypic novelties. The case for this was argued for by | in her 2003 book Developmental plasticity and evolution |
John Zorn | ... collaborators from highly varied fields: players as diverse as Pat Metheny, | , Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, tap ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
Paul McCartney | ... e Abbey Road album, the cover of which features the band crossing the road. | has owned a property in the area since the 1960s along with many other fam ... |
Robert Lowell | ... rton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet | , cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs ... |
George Bernard Shaw | Many people have criticized the golden rule | ;once said that "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules". Shaw ... |
Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
Steve Reich | ... y wide range of dynamics. In some respects, this is similar to the music of | , Philip Glass, and Brian Eno, pioneers of minimalism. Typically, post-roc ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783), | , Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ... |
Geneva | ... land to resemble more closely the Protestant churches of Europe, especially | . The Puritans objected to ornaments and ritual in the churches as idolatr ... |
Charles Parsons | ... Armstrong's artillery, Be-Ro flour, Joseph Swan's electric light bulbs, and | ' invention of the steam turbine, which led to the revolution of marine pr ... |
Kim Zolciak | ... ain and Usher live in the Roswell area and are frequently seen around town. | , on The Real Housewives of Atlant |
Ringo Starr | ... mers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, | , Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood an ... |
Robert Boyle | ... , tapestry hangings, embroidered silks and velvet. It was here in 1627 that | The Father of Modern Chemistry, the fourteenth of the Earl's fifteen child ... |
Charles Thomas Bolton | ... trong candidate for a black hole, Cygnus X-1, was discovered in this way by | , Louise Webster and Paul Murdin in 1972. Some doubt, however, remained du ... |
Robert W. Taylor | ... ACM. In 2004, he won the Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Alan C. Kay, | , and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto. In 2006 he was inducted a ... |
Stephen Leacock | ... London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and | . Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Au ... |
Ozzy | ... he was "...thoroughly thrilled with Chris... it reminds me a lot like when | found Randy Rhoads" |
Bill Clinton | ... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator opposite | on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ... |
Thomas Lockey | ... s Bodley's Librarian; their levels of diligence have varied over the years. | (1660–1665) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson (1701–1719) ... |
Lennox Lewis | In May 2005, King was sued by | , who wanted $385 million from the promoter, claiming King used threats to ... |
Karl Popper | ... o you. Their tastes may not be the same" (Maxims for Revolutionists; 1903). | wrote: "The golden rule is a good standard which is further improved by do ... |
Tim Berners-Lee | In 1980, physicist | , who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system ... |
Bill Clinton | ... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic President | upon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ... |
Ian McEwan | Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) in fiction include | 's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called End ... |
Kenneth G. Wilson | ... fined states of a gauge theory. It was introduced by the Nobel prize winner | and is treated in a separate article |
Henry Salt | ... large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum. Thereafter, the UK appointed | as consul in Egypt who amassed a huge collection of antiquities. Most of t ... |
Zachary Macaulay | ... ed around the Common. They included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and | , father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, M.P., ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... e sanctifying value of work, and its fidelity to Catholic beliefs. In 2002, | canonized Escrivá, and called him "the saint of ordinary life. |
Joseph Fontenrose | ... t Oenopion taught the Chians how to make wine before anybody else knew how. | wrote Orion : the Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress (1981) to show Orion ... |
Anna Nicole Smith | ... ies, odd Texas-related news items and personalities from the previous year. | (prior to her death) was a perennial "winner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Fa ... |
Josiah Wedgwood | ... n of Staffordshire to the Trent and to the Mersey. The first sod was cut by | in 1766 and Brindley carried it away in a barrow. From Runcorn, the canal ... |
Ehud Barak | ... nments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 ( | ), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996–1999 ... |
Ivan Sutherland | ... eering, earning a Master's degree and a Ph.D. degree. There, he worked with | , who had done pioneering graphics programs including Sketchpad. This grea ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... Chicago Park District, is the only lakefront structure to be built based on | 's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The island was to be populated by trees and grass ... |
Jean-Pierre Changeux | ... s) depended on specific genetic mutations. In 1961, however, Jacques Monod, | and François Jacob discovered within the bacterium Escherichia coli a gene ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... leau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of Henry IV of France (1553–1610) and | (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldes ... |
Hatshepsut | ... . However, some time not long after the death of her husband (Thutmose II), | assumed the royal regalia and the title of pharaoh, reigning for 21 years. ... |
Pope Benedict | ====2008====In April, during a visit to the United States, | admitted that he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that ... |
King George V | Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to | , where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ... |
Lukas Foss | ... an, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, | , Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby La ... |
Thomas Wolfe | ... econd half of the 15th century to the present (the last author discussed is | ) |
David Wheeler | ... his Turing Award Lecture in 1993, Lampson himself attributes this saying to | |
Dimitri Nanopoulos | ... anolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and | |
Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Paul Tsongas | ... 93, despite his having initially backed former fellow Massachusetts Senator | in the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries. Kennedy floor managed succe ... |
Gilbert Ryle | For | (1949), a category (in particular a "category mistake") is an important se ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ritish colonies in North America in 1765, where it was first grown for hay. | wrote a letter in 1770 mentioning sending soybeans home from England. Soyb ... |
Tori Spelling | ... in the 2008 spin-off series, 90210 along with former costars Jennie Garth, | , Ann Gillespie, and Joe E. Tata |
Tom Clarke | ... er to talk Connolly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including | and Patrick Pearse, met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reac ... |
John Harbison | ... ade of the 21st century, new concerti include Kalevi Aho's Concerto (2005), | 's Concerto for Bass Viol (2006), and André Previn's Double Concerto for v ... |
Harold Wilson | ... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, | 's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ... |
Bill Clinton | ... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both | and George W. Bush asserted that free trade would gradually open China to ... |
Edward Hall Alderson | ... entary scrutiny of the original bill, especially under cross-examination by | . The Bill was rejected. A revised bill with a new alignment was submitted ... |
Robert Lowell | ... 1996. Heaney's personal papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. | called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, in ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... a became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by | before the "Velvet Revolution" later that year. After the dissolution of C ... |
Hilda Ellis Davidson | | , writing on Snorri's unique description of Hel in his Prose Edda, states ... |
Emperor Xuan of Chen | ... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as | . At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
Thomas Telford | ... ty of some turnpike trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, | and John Macadam. The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the me ... |
Roland Beamont | ... ore, and the exhaust plume was visible from a long distance. Wing Commander | had the 20 mm cannon on his Tempest adjusted to converge at ahead. This wa ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 's role in the Church of England is titular; the most senior clergyman, the | , is the spiritual leader of the Church and of the worldwide Anglican Comm ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a direct realist view of this relation. For a time, under the influence of | , he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most p ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... list theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by | and others. These have led to a wider variety of teaching methods ranging ... |
Tom Cole | ... l level, Lawton lies in Oklahoma 4th Congressional district, represented by | . In the State Senate, the county is represented by District 31 (Don Barri ... |
Samuel Atkins Eliot | ... a change in his family's economic circumstances—the failure of his father, | , in the Panic of 1857. Eliot had to face in the fact that "he had nothing ... |
Paris Hilton | ... y may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies (as | did in the US presidential election, 2008) it's clearly not correct to lab ... |
John Wilkins | In 1648 | cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople 1554-1562, as rec ... |
Joseph Bell | ... in, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on | , who in his use of "" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey ce ... |
Edward James Reed | The naval architect | wrote: "the turret-ship 'Wivern', belonging to the Royal Navy, has a low f ... |
David Lodge | ... ting a precedent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, | , Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The ... |
Walter Darby Bannard | ... , Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Alan Saret, | , Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, ... |
Alfred Tarski | ... ave learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps | ." Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek. For his part ... |
Richard Powers | University of Illinois English Professor and National Book Award winner | set his novel Galatea 2.2 at the multidisciplinary Beckman Institute for A ... |
Britney Spears | ... sman for such products as Viagra, Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Pepsi-Cola (with | ), and as an occasional political commentator on the popular American inte ... |
Maxwell | The most dramatic prediction of | 's theory of electromagnetism, published in 1865, was the existence of ele ... |
Sydney Kentridge | ... igh Court of Justice found the Privy Council's decision to be unlawful. Sir | , QC described the treatment of the Chagossians as "outrageous, unlawful a ... |
John Argyris | ... Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, | , Panagiotis Kondylis and Dimitri Nanopoulos |
Norman Dello Joio | ... lburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, | , Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevs ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
Seymour Papert | In 1968, he met | and learned of the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp optimized ... |
James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
Patricia Churchland | ... of MR have been proposed by Jaegwon Kim, David Lewis, Robert Richardson and | |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... or the revitalized Quart Festival 2009 includes world-famous stars, such as | , Fergie, The Black Eyed Peas, Marilyn Manson and Placebo |
Dennis Gabor | ... thought, starting with Haar's work in the early 20th century. Later work by | yielded Gabor atoms (1946), which are constructed similarly to wavelets, a ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
Adam Smith | In 1776, | published the paper An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town. | spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ... |
John Lennon | ... ay around as was often believed. The riff was provided to "Fame" co-writers | and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Bro ... |
Maureen McCormick | ... show, headlining as The Kids from the Brady Bunch. Only Barry Williams and | stayed in the music business as adults. Christopher Knight readily admits ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
Ken Wallis | ... 8M was designed to use surplus McCulloch engines used on flying unmanned s. | developed a miniature autogyro craft, the Wallis autogyro, in England in t ... |
Larry Zox | ... d Tuttle, Alan Saret, Walter Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, | , Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, ... |
Gian Carlo Menotti | ... n Françaix's Concerto (1975), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk (1980), | 's Concerto (1983), Christopher Rouse's Concerto (1985), and Henry Brant's ... |
Stella Gibbons | ... urzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, | , Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, ... |
John Scott Haldane | ... ilar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and Eugene Wigner. | adopted an anti-mechanist approach to biology and an idealist philosophy e ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague | ), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of ... |
Carlos Chávez | ... 995 Revelation. Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, | , Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy ... |
Adam Smith | In the 18th century, | declared that China had been one of the most prosperous nations in the wor ... |
John Lennon | James is mentioned in The Beatles' song "For You Blue": while | plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), George Harrison says, "Elmore J ... |
James Cook | ... by execution dock was run by Samuel Batts. His daughter, Elizabeth, married | in 1762 at Barking, after the Royal Navy captain had stayed at the Inn. Th ... |
Leonard Kleinrock | ... sed in modern packet switching networks was performed in the early 1960s by | |
Archbishop of Canterbury | The Church of England's three senior bishops—the | , the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London are made Privy Counsello ... |
Henry Glassie | ... er version of the tale, "Willy the Whisp", is related in Irish Folktales by | . The first modern novel in the Irish language, Séadna by Peadar Ua Laogha ... |
Geneva | After returning to | early in July, Dunant decided to write a book about his experiences, which ... |
WCYB-TV | ... essee Television Designated Market Area (DMA). The broadcasting antenna for | , Channel 5, Bristol, Virginia is on Rye Patch Knob, with the top of the a ... |
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos | ... ars he worked alongside Handel - in 1717/18 both men were employed there by | . (For more see Baker and Baker, ref. below |
Peter Dickinson | ... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was | in 1981 |
Adam Smith | ... survive outside of the system containing all of the specialized components. | described economic specialization in his classic work, The Wealth of Natio ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... he first land grant including Yeading was made by Offa in 790 to Æthelhard, | : "in the place called on linga Haese [Hayes] and Geddinges [Yeading] arou ... |
Philip Pullman | ... nning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner - | 's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June at the British Library |
George Harrison | ... For You Blue": while John Lennon plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), | says, "Elmore James got nothin' on this, baby." Other artists influenced b ... |
Eric Bentley | ... el is about life and death." Another view was advanced by critic and writer | , who disliked the ending, stating, "the last scene of Carousel is an impe ... |
Milton Friedman | ... along with other three left-wing intellectuals, in with the known economist | , who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the "tyranny of the status quo" ... |
John Scott Haldane | By the 1930s vitalism had fallen out of favour by most biologists. In 1931 | stated |
Douglas Bader | ... was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flier | was born in St. John's Wood |
Tori Spelling | ... ut the producers felt that she would be better for the part of Andrea. When | auditioned for the show, she used the name Tori Mitchell and auditioned fo ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... e Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the | |
Raymond Gosling | ... y of Cambridge, England. Using "Photo 51" (the X-ray diffraction results of | and Rosalind Franklin of King's College London, given to them by Gosling a ... |
Albert Einstein | ... the individual's capacity to judge his or her fatherland's foreign policy. | stated that "Nationalism is an infantile disease... It is the measles of m ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... age of eight-and-a-half, upon the assassination of his father. His mother, | , acted as Regent until Louis XIII came of age at thirteen. Marie maintain ... |
Antoine Lavoisier | Around 1770, | , the "Father of Nutrition and Chemistry" discovered the details of metabo ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... s story. During this run on the title, Grant Morrison (issues #25 & 26) and | (issue #27) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's st ... |
Jerome Bruner | ... ized for educational use. This led him to learn of the work of Jean Piaget, | , Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced ... |
Morris Kline | ... ber in space, music number in time, and astronomy number in space and time. | classifies the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic), stati ... |
Henry Cowell | By the middle decades of the 20th century, however, composers like | , Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen and George Crumb, re-introduced im ... |
Jan Smuts | ... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this was | who took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ... |
Tom Sizemore | ... some of his other films. It stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, | , and |
Lyon Playfair | ... there in 1843. A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to | at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close f ... |
Philip Roth | The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by | . It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general, | stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ... |
Morton Feldman | ... e middle decades of the 20th century, however, composers like Henry Cowell, | , Karlheinz Stockhausen and George Crumb, re-introduced improvisation to c ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself | . He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ... |
Sir Arthur Evans | ... ndon and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks. | doubled the amount of money that went with the studentship, paying out of ... |
Stanley Crouch | ... a close second). In his Newsweek article "The Problem With Jazz Criticism" | considers Miles Davis' playing of fusion as a turning point that led to sm ... |
Roy Fedden | The Pegasus was designed by Sir | as the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Company's very successful Bristo ... |
James Lind | ... ist Leonardo da Vinci compared metabolism to a burning candle. In 1747, Dr. | , a physician in the British navy, performed the first scientific nutritio ... |
John Searle | ... nt. However, there have been other criticisms. The Chinese room argument by | (1980) is a direct attack on the claim that thought can be represented as ... |
John Lennon | ... biting his Kinetic Light Sculptures at the Indica Gallery. Mardas impressed | with the Nothing Box; a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, a ... |
Rogers Brubaker | ... e idea of the Jewish diaspora, he recognised the expanding use of the term. | (2005) also notes that use of the term diaspora has been widening. He sugg ... |
Bill Clinton | ... censed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to | , which Bush said was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican ... |
William McDougall | ... vers worked with two of his graduate medical students, Charles S. Myers and | who assisted him at this period in a series of experiments on vision and w ... |
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Wang Mang | ... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent | . This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ... |
Peter Maxwell Davies | ... lso composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, | , Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhane ... |
Robert E. Jackson | ... me the City's first female mayor. She narrowly defeated incumbent mayor Dr. | , Ph.D. in a bitterly contested race. (Dr. Jackson had been the longest se ... |
Charles Bigelow | ... om this time at RIT went on to become influential type designers, including | and Kris Holmes, who together created the Lucida type family. Other promin ... |
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Gabriel Harvey | ... ops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and | , two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on a ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
Niels Bohr | A number of physicists began to advocate vitalism. | was one of the first to suggest that special laws not found in inanimate m ... |
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Edmund Waller | ... enerall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), and | 's poem, Battle of the Summer Islands (1645) |
Calvin Coolidge | ... e last months of the Roosevelt administration) and 10 June, and in 1925 (by | ) expanded the National Forest. An early supervisor of the forest was Will ... |
Churchill | ... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; only | was more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ... |
Sarah Palin | ... with the people" and needed to step down—a call echoed by his running mate, | , governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ... |
Adam Smith | ... ecognized as an intangible quality of persons in economics back to at least | . He distinguished it (as "enterprise") from labour which can be coerced a ... |
Charles Darwin | ... to think and behave independently. The Emperor accepted new ideas, such as | 's theory of evolution, of which he remarked that "the laws that he [Darwi ... |
WKPT-TV | ... The television towers for WJHL-TV, Channel 11, Johnson City, Tennessee, and | , Channel 19, Kingsport, Tennessee, are standing side by side in a common ... |
Geneva | ... ment in 1599. A copy of the first edict, sent for safekeeping to Protestant | , survives. The provincial parlements resisted in their turn; the most rec ... |
KAUZ-TV | ... t provides local news. All other major stations including, KFDX-TV 3 (NBC), | (CBS), and KJTL-TV (Fox) are based in Wichita Falls |
Buffon | ... frequent visits to the home of a relation where he could borrow volumes of | 's massive Histoire Naturelle. All of these he read and re-read, retaining ... |
Jean Gottmann | This concept of a "megalopolis" was first proposed by the French geographer | in his book Megalopolis, a study of the northeastern United States. One pr ... |
Nicholas Bye | ... rst directly elected mayor in the South West region. Conservative candidate | became the first mayor elected under this system in October 2005, under an ... |
Taylor Branch | ... onounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. According to biographer | , King's autopsy revealed that though only 39 years old, he had the heart ... |
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link | The genus was first described in the scientific literature by | in his 1809 work Observationes in ordines plantarum naturales. Link includ ... |
Philip Larkin | ... St. John's College, Oxford, where he read English. It was there that he met | , with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. While at ... |
Niklaus Wirth | ... op-down design was promoted in the 1970s by IBM researcher Harlan Mills and | . Mills developed structured programming concepts for practical use and te ... |
Richard Owen | Sir | and Alfred Newton both wanted to be the first to describe the post-cranial ... |
Quintin Hogg | Announcing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MP | stated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ... |
Geneva | ... was one of the Swiss venues for the 2008 European Championships, as well as | , Zurich and Bern. The championships were jointly hosted by Switzerland an ... |
Charles Dickens | ... bling dens and brothels, and was known as a dangerous place to go. In 1842, | visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he h ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... gous to the laws of physics except for their being restricted to organisms. | supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and ... |
Darryl Strawberry | ... the home dugout and old locker room of the New York Jets. Former Mets star | , then playing for the Yankees, hit a home run during the game. Stadium op ... |
Sir John Forbes MD FRS | ... ts. He built up a good practise as a speech therapist and was patronised by | , who sent him pupils for twenty four years. Hunt's most famous case came ... |
Bob Saget | ... ities such as Dr. Joyce Brothers, Nipsey Russell, Abe Vigoda, James Lipton, | and William Preston as the character, Carl 'Oldy' Olsen, also made frequen ... |
Winston Churchill | ... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving | and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... e are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Some, such as | , believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as Thomas Paine w ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from | 's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is ... |
Michael Palin | ... former in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, | and Jonathan Lynn |
Pope John XXIII | ... on in a manner and to a degree appropriate to their present divided state." | , who convoked the Council that brought this change of emphasis about, sai ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923, | was sworn in as President by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., a Verm ... |
Michael Dummett | ... his other positions. The problems with this position have been described by | , Jerry Fodor, Ernest Lepore, and others. In the first place, they suggest ... |
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute | In the ensuing century Cardiff was at peace. In 1766, | married into the Herbert family and was later created Baron Cardiff, and i ... |
John Henry Newman | ... ed to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, | . Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. On 5 May 1868 Ho ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself | , he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ... |
Alfred Newton | Sir Richard Owen and | both wanted to be the first to describe the post-cranial anatomy of the do ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
Matthew Arnold | ... reline buildings with the naked eye, and the lights of land at night, as in | 's poem "Dover Beach" |
Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
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Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
Sir Michael Foster | ... special senses displayed by the candidates; it was in reaction to this that | , who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed R ... |
George MacDonald Fraser | ... to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by | |
Lawrence Summers | ... sicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-president | after his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, | and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ... |
John Zorn | ... mprovisation group Nuova Consonanza. Anthony Braxton has written opera, and | has written acclaimed orchestral pieces |
Evan Davis | ... which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today presenter | commented that "She shouldn't be guest editing; she should be permanently ... |
Mark Yudof | ... guished themselves in legal academia and practice are university presidents | (President of the University of California system), John Frederick Zeller ... |
George Harrison | ... build the inventions. He was involved in the hasty departure of Lennon and | from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, and Lennon's divorce of ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... . In this period, with the encouragement of his friend the Welsh politician | , Robeson recorded a number of radio concerts for supporters in Wales |
Crown Prince | ... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon, | , and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... ve plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre (1902), | ' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter ... |
J. W. Dunne's | ... plays are more varied in tone than the novels, several being influenced by | theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner (1932) ... |
Jeff Cooper | ... he Scout Rifle is a class of general-purpose rifles defined and promoted by | in the early 1980s |
Ken Wallis | ... Wick in Scotland, a total of breaking the old record held by Wing Commander | |
Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
Paul Boyer | In the 1960s through the 1970s, | developed the binding change, or flip-flop, mechanism, which postulated th ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ncil's decree on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio of 21 November 1964, and | 's encyclical, Ut Unum Sint of 25 May 1995 |
Paul Preston | ... in right-wing politics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians | and Brian Crozier state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's minist ... |
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute | In 1793, | was born. He would spend his life building the Cardiff docks and would lat ... |
Zachary Leader | ... g with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, | , Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the tw ... |
Sir Rowland Hill | ... n the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840, as a part of postal reforms promoted by | . With its introduction, the postage fee was now to be paid by the sender ... |
Corey Haim | ... tars Sally Field (also executive producer), James Garner, Brian Kerwin, and | |
James Plaskitt | ... the 2010 general election the constituency was represented in parliament by | (Labour). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as it ... |
Sue Townsend | In the book Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by | , Adrian names the swan that terrorises him outside his apartment Gielgud ... |
Chris Lintott | ... 0th episode of The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Dr. | , Jon Culshaw, Prof. Brian Cox, and the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who o ... |
Oliver Letwin | ... lished a transcript of a double interview with Lawson and Tory Policy Chief | , in which Lawson described Letwin's views on global warming as "pie in th ... |
Lord Curzon | Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by | to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ... |
David Shepherd | ... of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, Joanna Lumley and | |
Errol Morris | ... a perspective and point of views. Some films such as The Thin Blue Line by | incorporated stylized re-enactments, and Michael Moore's Roger & Me placed ... |
Winston Churchill | ... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, | and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for | |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
Thomas Bodley | ... on). It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when | (a former fellow of Merton College) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the Un ... |
Paul D. Boyer | ... University of Washington. The University also graduated Nobel Prize winner | , as well as Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the electronic television) and ... |
Isaac Newton | ... sits that pressure is due not to static repulsion between molecules, as was | 's conjecture, but due to collisions between molecules moving at different ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court. | saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ... |
Arthur Wellesley | After Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonel | arrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ... |
Kenneth E. Iverson | ... in A Programming Language, a book describing a notation invented in 1957 by | while at Harvard University. Iverson had developed a mathematical notation ... |
Charles Dickens | ... in in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by | . He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it ... |
Steven Chu | ... Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second, Federico Peña. | became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, ... |
Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
David Gale | ... nly used for the graph; in this form the game was independently invented by | , and has been known as Gale, Bridg-It, and Bird Cage |
Martin Amis | ... econd half of the twentieth century." He was the father of English novelist | |
Jon Culshaw | ... The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Dr. Chris Lintott, | , Prof. Brian Cox, and the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who on leaving the ... |
Xu Xianzhi | ... y before being judged incompetent and killed by government officials led by | , replacing him with Emperor Wen of Liu Song, another son of Emperor Wu. T ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | ... l organizations and academics, notably including its former Chief Economist | , who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treas ... |
Julius von Haast | Haast's Eagle was first classified by | in the 1870s, who named it Harpagornis moorei after George Henry Moore, th ... |
John E. Walker | ... synthase generated by rotation of the gamma subunit. The research group of | , then at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, crystalliz ... |
John Whitgift | In 1599, the Archbishop of Canterbury | and the Bishop of London George Abbot, whose offices had the function of l ... |
David G. Kendall | ... n Telephone Exchange, published the first paper on queueing theory in 1909. | introduced an A/B/C queueing notation in 1953. Important work on queueing ... |
Angus Deaton | ... the income of each person (or percentile). Princeton development economist | (1997, 139) simplified the Gini calculation to one easy formula |
William Sherard | ... alauma", the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist | , who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil o ... |
Alfred Russel Wallace | ... her vitalistic theories. The work of Reinke was an influence for Carl Jung. | believed qualitative novelties could arise through the process of evolutio ... |
Kenneth E. Iverson | ... ost computer platforms. It is based on a mathematical notation developed by | and associates that features special attributes for the design and specifi ... |
Ringo Starr | ... ight. For example, during The Beatles' appearance he persistently addressed | as "Bongo" |
Calvin Coolidge | ... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President | , the Republican candidate |
William Hogarth | | painted his satirical 'March of the Guards to Finchley' in 1750. It is a d ... |
MC Hammer | ... acks and commentary by experts on Brown's music. In 1991, Brown appeared in | 's video "Too Legit to Quit" (or "2 Legit 2 Quit"), someone Hammer idolize ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... penheimer claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist | many years ago was that the package of the Mongoloid anatomical changes co ... |
William Astbury | ... he first crude X-ray diffraction images of DNA were collected in the 1930s, | had talked about stacks of nucleotides spaced at 3.4 angström (0.34 nanome ... |
James Watt | Human knowledge and mastery over nature advances when | builds a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expediti ... |
Albert Einstein | ... y from collisions between the particle and gas molecules. As pointed out by | in 1905, this experimental evidence for kinetic theory is generally seen a ... |
Simon Blackburn | ... nto others' ... is a concept that essentially no religion misses entirely." | also states that the Golden Rule can be "found in some form in almost ever ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | In 1599, the | John Whitgift and the Bishop of London George Abbot, whose offices had the ... |
Crispin Wright | The brain in a vat argument has also been subject to criticism. | argues that Putnam's formulation of the brain-in-a-vat scenario is too nar ... |
David G. Kendall | ... r describing the characteristics of a queueing model was first suggested by | in 1953. Kendall's notation introduced an A/B/C queueing notation that can ... |
Charles P. Thacker | ... he Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Alan C. Kay, Robert W. Taylor, and | for their work on Alto. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Compute ... |
Adrian Sanders | ... constituency. The constituency elects one Member of Parliament, since 1997 | of the Liberal Democrats. Torquay, the rest of South West England, and Gib ... |
Mark Catesby | ... or the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of | 's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. These were ... |
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | ... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 | (brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ... |
Geneva | Dunant was born in | , Switzerland, the first son of businessman Jean-Jacques Dunant and Antoin ... |
Corey Haim | ... (Brian Kerwin), to move back in with her and their 12-year-old son, Jake ( | ) |
Sandra Cisneros | ... Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, | , Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, De ... |
William Lawrence Bragg | ... tempt to do so. They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both | and Wilkins. In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick ma ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... mid 1920s, he was the third highest income tax payer in the US behind only | and Henry Ford. During this period, while he served as Secretary of the U. ... |
Harlan Mills | Top-down design was promoted in the 1970s by IBM researcher | and Niklaus Wirth. Mills developed structured programming concepts for pra ... |
Ulrika Jonsson | ... s, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, | , Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, Yehudi Menuhi ... |
Edward Frankland | ... new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of | . From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und an ... |
Geneva | ... fled the country during this time, most notably John Calvin, who settled in | |
Vincent Massey | ... d military affairs in the 1920s. Its first ambassador to the United States, | , was named in 1927. Canada became an active member of the British Commonw ... |
John N. Gray | According to | , Popper held that "a theory is scientific only in so far as it is falsifi ... |
J. B. S. Haldane | The geneticist | wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remain ... |
Henry V of England | ... y, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of | ), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insuffi ... |
Roy Fedden | ... itish nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aero engine. Designed by | of the Bristol Aeroplane Company it was used to power both civil and milit ... |
Anthony Braxton | ... collection of like-minded improvisors, which at various times has included | , Tristan Honsinger, Misha Mengelberg, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Bere ... |
Augustus Wollaston Franks | ... relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of | to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect ... |
Isaac Newton | ... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as like | as you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ... |
David Gale | ... it can be used to prove the two-dimensional Brouwer fixed point theorem, as | showed in 1979, and the determinacy of higher-dimensional variants proves ... |
Nicholas Bye | ... rst directly elected mayor in the South West region, Conservative candidate | becoming the first mayor elected under this system in October 2005, under ... |
James Cook | ... ototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continues as Captain | claims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic ... |
William Burges | ... ian period by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, and the architect | . Original Roman work can, however, still be distinguished in the wall fac ... |
Nicolas Collins | ... ndustrial noise artists from the late 20th and early 21st centuries include | , William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, Psyclones, The Haters, Boyd ... |
Pedro II | ... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor | , so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ... |
Johann Jacob Dillenius | ... genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of | 's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, F ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor general | alluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ... |
Newton | ... niana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa. | used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to th ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Bree is a fictional village in | 's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thoug ... |
Butler Lampson | QED is a line-oriented computer text editor that was developed by | and L. Peter Deutsch for the Berkeley Timesharing System running on the SD ... |
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke | ... ed by William Kent; and the Doric Column of Victory in the park designed by | , and finished by Roger Morris. The latter rose to a height of , complete ... |
Duke of York and Albany | ... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English | , the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ... |
Kim Dae-jung | In response to the summit between Kim Jong-il and | in 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to reconnect the sect ... |
André-Marie Ampère | Through popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed that | used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began cal ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regent | allowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ... |
Prince Juan Carlos | In 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir, | , which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... 's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas. | was accused of brandishing a poker at Popper during a meeting of the Cambr ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | | objected to the ranking of races as more or less neotenous. But Gould argu ... |
Steve Lacy | ... stan Honsinger, Misha Mengelberg, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Beresford, | , Johnny Dyani, Leo Smith, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, J ... |
Judi Dench | ... winners include Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh, Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and | |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... of Roman Catholic ceremonies in the 20th and 21st centuries. For instance, | leads the Stations of the Cross called the Scriptural Way of the Cross (wh ... |
William McDougall | ... reaction was to decline, but he soon agreed on learning that C.S Myers and | , two of his best former students, would participate. The other members we ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President | ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | A palantír (pl. palantíri) is a magical artifact from | 's fantasy legendarium. A palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" ... |
Peter Medawar | ... ious mutations that are believed to allow—even cause—age-related mortality. | formalised this observation in his mutation accumulation theory of aging. ... |
Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
Jared Diamond | | describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced s ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a short story by | . The story is about a polo match set in British colonial , told from the ... |
Peter Shaffer's | ... ikov) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of | play Amadeus. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Acto ... |
Bronson Pinchot | ... The All-New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy: For Love or Mummy, with actors | and playing the lookalike nephews of the original Laurel and Hardy, Stanle ... |
Professor James Ward | ... m with the degree of M.A. honoris causa and, in 1904 with the assistance of | , Rivers made a further mark on the world of psychological sciences, found ... |
Carl Linnaeus | The species was first officially described by Swedish botanist | in 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been id ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled and was promulgated by | on November 21, 1964. The title in Latin means "Restoration of Unity" and ... |
Barbara McClintock | ... genetic loci called nucleolar organizing regions (NORs), first described by | . Because of this non-random organization, the nucleolus is defined as a " ... |
Neville Chamberlain | ... . Smith became active in student politics, mostly protesting Prime Minister | 's seemingly soft attitude toward Nazism. While at Oxford, he was the firs ... |
Dave Nellist | ... an serving with Coventry City Council is former Militant Tendency Labour MP | who now represents the Socialist Party (England and Wales) |
L. Peter Deutsch | ... line-oriented computer text editor that was developed by Butler Lampson and | for the Berkeley Timesharing System running on the SDS 940. It was impleme ... |
Barbara Cartland | ... 008 television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic of the romantic novelist | which was shown on BBC Four in the UK |
Jim Yong Kim | ... ebruary 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician | on July 1, 2009 |
Prince Shōtoku | Spying in Japan dates as far back as | (572–622), although the origins of spying and assassination date much earl ... |
Linus Pauling | ... ucture was driven in part by the knowledge that they were competing against | . Given Pauling's recent success in discovering the Alpha helix, they fear ... |
John Hicks | ... sticky prices or wages. Post Keynesians typically reject the IS/LM model of | , which was very influential in neo-Keynesian economics |
James Bradley | ... n of the axis of the Earth was discovered in 1728 by the British astronomer | , but this nutation was not explained in detail until 20 years later |
Sir John Masterman | ... ames used in the novel; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from | , an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | ... asury Department, and US and other developed country trade negotiators. See | , The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Glob ... |
Thomas Hornsby | The astronomer | observed the transit of Venus from the tower of the five orders in 1769 |
George C. Williams | Another evolutionary theory of aging was proposed by | and involves antagonistic pleiotropy. A single gene may affect multiple tr ... |
Robert Stephenson | ... ned by the architect John Dobson, and was constructed in collaboration with | . The first services were operated by the North Eastern Railway company. T ... |
Donald Knuth | CWEB is a computer programming system created by | and Silvio Levy as a follow up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, ... |
Carl Gustav Hempel | ... ems to be a valid scientific hypothesis. These examples were pointed out by | . Hempel came to acknowledge that Logical Positivism's verificationism was ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when | won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 4 ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | His 1152 marriage to | allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ... |
Albert Einstein | In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to | 's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
Álvaro del Portillo | ... mbers were 50:50 for and against Franco, according to John Allen. Similarly | , the former Prelate of Opus Dei, said that any statements that Escrivá su ... |
Bill Clinton | ... er is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. Hazel O'Leary, | 's first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, | was quoted as saying: "This is what God would have built if he had had the ... |
Fred Brooks | ... Chapter 6 called "A programming language" for the book he was writing with | , Automatic Data Processing, which would later be published in 1963 |
Max Born | Far from claiming to make "the contradiction disappear" which | thought could be achieved with a statistical approach, de Broglie extended ... |
Isaac Newton | ... e enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of | 's papers. It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... rk Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in | 's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's ... |
John Allan Broun | ... t left Dumfries to go on and found the University of Sydney Medical School. | 's contribution to science were his discoveries around magnetism and meteo ... |
Max Planck | ... appeared to be the physicist who most sought that dimension of action which | , at the beginning of the 20th century, had shown to be the only universal ... |
Edward Jenner | ... when a smallpox epidemic begins in New England. Smallpox was then cured by | |
Bill Clinton | ... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President | , bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with | |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | ... ristopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of | . He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory S ... |
Georges-Louis Le Sage | ... hich were neglected by their contemporaries) were Mikhail Lomonosov (1747), | (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James Waterston ... |
Kazuhiko Nishijima | ... Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and | . To gain greater insight, the hadrons were sorted into groups having simi ... |
Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
John Dryden | ... iers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and | .) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts, it is usually n ... |
Walter de Merton | ... y of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when | , chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes fo ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, in 1964, | praised the organization in a handwritten letter to Escrivá, saying |
Gunther Schuller | ... mpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer Max Roach. Composer | wrote: ... In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it ... |
Zweig | ... ilar purposes. Notable contributions to wavelet theory can be attributed to | ’s discovery of the continuous wavelet transform in 1975 (originally calle ... |
Richard Keynes | ... ) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile. His nephews include | (1919–2010) a physiologist; and Quentin Keynes (1921–2003), an adventurer ... |
Snoop Dogg | ... hich featured a track called "Calling Mumia" with vocals by American rapper | ), Battle In Seattle and Trouble the Water. All of this soundtrack work wa ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... settling in Philadelphia. Putnam attended Central High School; there he met | , who was a year behind him. The two have been friends—and often intellect ... |
John Tyndall | ... renamed antibiotics by Selman Waksman, an American microbiologist, in 1942. | first described antagonistic activities by fungi against bacteria in Engla ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
Emily Dolvin | ... er of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. | , the aunt of Jimmy Carter (the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... from physics into biology that he was influenced by both Linus Pauling and | . It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biological molecules could ... |
Robert Conquest | ... ther displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist | , the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–V, which drew heavily up ... |
Timothy Barnes | ... Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the writer Stephen Williams and historian | to mean that the two men were longterm allies, that their respective roles ... |
Max Roach | ... Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer | . Composer Gunther Schuller wrote: ... In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hine ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... y theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution. | believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been ... |
Melvin Calvin | ... determine that the oxygen liberated in photosynthesis came from the water. | and Andrew Benson, along with James Bassham, elucidated the path of carbon ... |
Adam Smith | ... r natural price of a commodity. The labour theory of value, as presented by | , however, did not require the quantification of all past labour, nor did ... |
John Locke | ... f the individual but neither of them believed in the divine right of kings. | , on the other hand, who gave us Two Treatises of Government and who did n ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... n the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, playing the | |
Jacques Cassini | ... . Longitude within individual signs was still being used as late as 1740 by | in his Tables astronomiques |
Rodney Marsh | ... 2–3 defeat away to local rivals Tampa Bay Rowdies on 17 June 1978, in which | scored all three for the home team. Banks later began a business which dis ... |
Harold Pinter | ... of Samuel Beckett's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator | and directed by American playwright David Mamet; Gielgud died mere weeks a ... |
Benjamin Franklin | | attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ... |
Clement Attlee | ... ustry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war government of | ) over the closure of pits whose uneconomic operation accounted for the co ... |
Elizabeth II | | | |
David Starkey | ... nd proto-feminist, Agnes Strickland. This assumption has been challenged by | in his book Six Wives in which he points out that such a situation would h ... |
Ringo Starr | Moon's close friend | was seriously concerned about his lifestyle and told Moon that if he kept ... |
Charles Darwin | ... discover exactly which molecule was the genetic molecule. In Crick’s view, | ’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Gregor Mendel’s genetics and ... |
Charles Darwin | ... g to similar projects. His efforts were recognized both at home and abroad. | said of him: "The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific ... |
Daubechies | ... he CWT (1982), Jan-Olov Strömberg's early work on discrete wavelets (1983), | ' orthogonal wavelets with compact support (1988), Mallat's multiresolutio ... |
Missy Elliott | ... cubus, Pitchshifter, Linkin Park, The Roots, Talvin Singh, MIDIval Punditz, | , The Freestylers, Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie (the last two both usin ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... ovember 25 of that year that the last Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke | abdicated. In the Russian Empire, the city continued to serve its role as ... |
Murray Gell-Mann | ... ne Wigner and Werner Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by | and Kazuhiko Nishijima. To gain greater insight, the hadrons were sorted i ... |
John Cage | The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer | in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of indetermi ... |
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | ... s. William Robertson and Edward Spence are other Victoria Cross recipients. | , UK Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, was quartered in Dumfries in 1796 d ... |
Elizabeth II | ... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of | and Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ... |
Edward Frankland | With | he found that nitriles can be hydrolyzed to the corresponding acids |
David Cameron | ... as an ethnic Indian population of over 1.6 million. In 2010, Prime Minister | described Indian – British relations as the "New Special Relationship" |
Chris Lintott | ... of Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with Sir Patrick Moore and | , which was published in October 2006. In October 2007, more than 30 years ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ican government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), | postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, | who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ... |
Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of | , and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian C ... |
John R. Horner | ... currently still working on growing a tail, and changing the wings to claws. | used evolutionary developmental biology on a chick embryo because he knew ... |
Piers Paul Read | Criticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics like | and Vittorio Messori to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in referenc ... |
Darwin's | ... al History Museum narrating commentary to some of the exhibits that support | theory of natural selection |
John Terraine | ... d Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian | . The list of episodes were |
John Wesley | ... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman | and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ... |
Linus Pauling | ... Crick’s transition from physics into biology that he was influenced by both | and Erwin Schrödinger. It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biolo ... |
George Zweig | ... ghtfold way, invented in 1961 by Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman. Gell-Mann and | , correcting an earlier approach of Shoichi Sakata, went on to propose in ... |
Federico Capasso | ... Dağdeviren and his team. In 1994, the quantum cascade laser was invented by | , Alfred Cho, Jerome Faist and their collaborators and was later greatly i ... |
Harold Pinter | ... his wife. When his wife then calls demanding to know why he is late for the | play, he tries to call Vicky, but is unable to reach her. Vicky sees Steve ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to | 's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ... |
Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | ... th parliamentary power. In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, | , and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. In the ensuing elections, however ... |
Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
President Clinton | ... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from then | for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ... |
Norman Birnbaum | ... amily". At the time of Kennedy's death, sociologist and Nation board member | wrote that Kennedy had come to be viewed as the "voice" and "conscience" o ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | In 1859, after reading a paper by Clausius, | formulated the Maxwell distribution of molecular velocities, which gave th ... |
George Rochberg | ... , Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, | and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these ... |
Pope John Paul I | ... denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature, Moncada stated. | , a few years before his election, wrote that Escrivá was more radical tha ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of | 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which led to the use of the term as a ... |
John R. Horner | ... e key evo-devo topics of evolutionary innovation and morphological novelty. | began his Project "How to Build a Dinosaur" in 2009 in conjunction with hi ... |
William Edward Parry | ... am Bay was named after the famed British Arctic explorer and navigator, Sir | , as were two other nearby features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point. The bay ... |
Winston Churchill | ... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister | and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ... |
Sebastian Bach | ... r, Suzuki was replaced by Ralph Santolla, formerly of Death, Iced Earth and | . Santolla stated he is a Catholic and this has received a small amount of ... |
Robert J. Flaherty | The film's story was written by | and F.W. Murnau; with the exception of the opening scene, the film was dir ... |
Bill Clinton | One of former President | 's great-grandfathers is buried here |
Newton | Following the classical dynamics of | and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in | 's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ... |
Bill Clinton | ... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President | ’s climate change initiative |
Albert Einstein | In the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along with | investigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ... |
Kathleen Kenyon | ... on methods he used, for example the grid system (later developed further by | and known as the Wheeler-Kenyon method), were significant advances in arch ... |
Louis XVIII of France | ... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King | lived in exile at from 1809 to 1814 |
Alexander Fleming | ... , others pursued similar lines of inquiry but it was not until in 1928 that | observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as | , Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, M ... |
Robert Sternberg | ... ut themselves and the world. In his triangular theory of love, psychologist | theorizes that love is a mix of three components: some (1) passion, or phy ... |
Benjamin Bell | ... in Dumfries as was John Craig, mathematician, and polymath James Crichton. | after being born in Dumfries went on to become considered the first Scotti ... |
Peter Shor | ... s later greatly improved by the innovations of Claire Gmachl. Also in 1994, | devised his quantum factorization algorithm. In 1996, SCALPEL electron lit ... |
Gao Huan | ... ain authority. As conflict swelled in the north between successive leaders, | took control of the east and Luoyang (holding Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by | , included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ... |
Leslie Orgel | ... istof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, the late | , Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter the la ... |
Carl Linnaeus | ... in his 1620 Prodromus. Brassica napobrassica was first validly published by | in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as a variety of B. oleracea: B. olerace ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... Common rendered Übermensch as "Superman"; Common was anticipated in this by | , who had done the same in his 1903 stage play Man and Superman. Walter Ka ... |
Maurice Wilkes | ... arts of the matrix to implement different instructions. The design inspired | to develop the concept of microprogramming |
King George IV | ... es, although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between | , and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick, who had sought her rights ... |
Piers Morgan | ... later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Michael, | , Kate Moss, Chris Moyles, Paul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, C ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... g of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil: | 's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner describes the Will o' the wisp |
Stanislaus II of Poland | ... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... annoyance with the interference of their Visitor (patron) William Laud, the | . Due to this, the college was moved to London at the start of the Civil W ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... theorized that many of Treebeard's mannerisms are based on Tolkien's friend | , a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming pre ... |
Augustus Pitt Rivers | ... was influenced greatly by the work of the archaeologist Lieutenant General | (1827–1900). The two constant themes in his attempts to improve archaeolog ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author | (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posth ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... e visited the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale as the guest of the local MP | , revisited his ties to the black community in Cardiff's Butetown and gave ... |
A. O. Hume | Inspired by a suggestion made by | , a retired British civil servant, seventy-three Indian delegates met in B ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | The Ultimate Sin is the fourth studio album by | . It was released on 22 February 1986, and it was remastered and re-issued ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ant figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment were | and Thomas Jefferson |
Prince Albert | ... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that year | became the patron of the regatta |
Walter de Merton | Merton College was founded in 1264 by | , Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Rochester. It has a claim to be the oldest ... |
John Diefenbaker | ... ing re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice); Alexander Mackenzie and | , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their death ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of | 's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/B ... |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | While other notable people include Sir | Famous Engineer of the Industrial Revolution, was born in Portsmouth., Sir ... |
Ibrahim Pasha | ... oman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his son | to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial ga ... |
Charles Dickens | ... nce been extended to refer to any drunken revelry. In A Tale of Two Cities, | uses the words: "the law was certainly not behind any other learned profes ... |
Charles Dickens | ... in England and Wales since the Reformation lived in Finchley. The novelist | wrote Martin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North ... |
Alberto Ginastera | ... 959), the Cantata Misericordium, op. 69 (1963), and Phaedra, op. 93 (1975). | also composed three works in this form: the Cantata para América Mágica, o ... |
Harold Pinter | ... y Television. Playing themselves, they were in Toronto during their tour of | 's No Man's Land. According to Dave Thomas, in his book, , their sketch wa ... |
Joseph Bell | ... me considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was | who Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based ... |
Galla Placidia | When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his mother | convinced him to exile, rather than kill, Honoria. He also wrote to Attila ... |
Bob Munden | ... of World Records museum opened in the Empire State Building. Speed shooter | then went on tour promoting the Guinness Book of World Records by performi ... |
James Hopwood Jeans | ... and as founded on exercises using the method of inversion, such as found in | textbook Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947). | called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... derable that Sarah hoped to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer, to | , for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, Robert Wal ... |
Geneva | ... age surface elevation of above sea level is controlled by the Seujet Dam in | |
Marx | ... ased by selling it), then profit was impossible. David Ricardo (seconded by | ) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had confused labour with ... |
Don Mitchell | ... tical models on the mechanics of the inner and middle ear, MacArthur Fellow | , Professor of Geography, who has developed studies in cultural geography, ... |
James Clark Ross | ... ded financial support to the Enderby Brothers' expedition. In 1841, Captain | , who sighted the islands on his own expedition to Antarctica, gave it the ... |
Tomaso Poggio | ... Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, | , the late Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his y ... |
Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
Patrick Pearse | ... olly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including Tom Clarke and | , met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reached. During the me ... |
John Wesley | In terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike | , was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ... |
Anthony Braxton | ... io Morricone was a member of the free improvisation group Nuova Consonanza. | has written opera, and John Zorn has written acclaimed orchestral pieces |
Charles Dickens | ... ened in 1853 after Beacon Hill headland was dynamited to make space for it. | was said to have made readings there. In the 1900s a ballroom and a new se ... |
Sir Henry Savile | ... y south of the hall. The quad was the culmination of the work undertaken by | at the beginning of the 17th century. The foundation stone was laid shortl ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... in MMORPGs. 2007 saw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on | 's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based o ... |
James Dewar | Hydrogen was liquefied for the first time by | in 1898 by using regenerative cooling and his invention, the vacuum flask. ... |
Philip Larkin | ... ped in a pattern which was the inverse of that followed by his close friend | . Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, ... |
Ebenezer Cunningham | ... formal maps for relating solutions of Maxwell’s equations was identified by | (1908) and Harry Bateman (1910). Their training at Cambridge University ha ... |
Oscar Peterson | ... wn, Perlman has also played jazz, including an album made with jazz pianist | , and klezmer. Perlman has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, no ... |
Karl Marx | ... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other. | wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ... |
David Van Tieghem | ... s sound can be recognised in "The Promise", "El Diablo" and "Lady Ice") and | , a percussionist from New York |
Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
Snoop Dogg | ... ke; fellow performers included Enrique Iglesias, Kanye West, Kelly Rowland, | and Kelly Clarkson. Furtado also hosted a program about AIDS on MTV, which ... |
David Cronenberg | ... ctors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, | , Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has ... |
Ghostface Killah | ... vity, and a rise through the ranks of the illegal industry." Wu-Tang member | appeared on over half of the album's tracks, with Wu-Tang member RZA produ ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... oversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: | alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, ... |
David Mundell | Politician | was born in Dumfries as were William Dickson, William Pattison Telford, Sr ... |
Harry Bateman | ... ons of Maxwell’s equations was identified by Ebenezer Cunningham (1908) and | (1910). Their training at Cambridge University had given them facility wit ... |
Cotton Mather | ... us other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: "Connecticotian" – | in 1702. "Connecticutensian" – Samuel Peters in 1781. "Nutmegger" is somet ... |
Linus Pauling | ... stable helical conformation of amino acid chains in proteins (the α helix). | was the first to identify the 3.6 amino acids per helix turn ratio of the ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... ts typically associated with it contributed to this generic classification. | owned a copy of Piers Plowman. A Crowley edition owned in 1613 by an educa ... |
Missy Elliott | Aaliyah was honored at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards by Janet Jackson, | , Timbaland, Ginuwine and her brother, Rashad, who all paid tribute to her ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and | (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ... |
Winston Churchill | ... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, and | ordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ... |
Judith of Bavaria | ... rown sons. A fourth son, Charles the Bald, was born to Louis's second wife, | , in 823. When Louis tried in 833 to re-divide the empire for the benefit ... |
Walter Pater | ... in 1864. During this time he studied with the prestigious writer and critic | , who tutored him in 1866 and who remained a friend till September 1879 wh ... |
Rod Blagojevich | Daley and Illinois Governor | held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ... |
Benjamin Franklin | The colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led by | to form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ... |
Pope John Paul I | ... of the Catholic Church remains unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted | (1978) and Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Pa ... |
Zaha Hadid | ... omplex in nearby Weil am Rhein, composed of buildings by architects such as | (fire station), Frank Gehry (design museum), Alvaro Siza Vieira (factory b ... |
Michael Holroyd | ... iration behind the character of St. John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out. | describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewi ... |
Jan Ingenhousz | In 1778, | , court physician to the Austrian Empress, repeated Priestley's experiment ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... town later became a favorite residence for many rich New Yorkers, including | , who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. Kykuit, Rockefeller's elaborate ma ... |
Bernard Williams | According to | , Moore's use of the phrase 'naturalistic fallacy' to describe this partic ... |
Hulk Hogan | ... eam television series. The film also features professional wrestler Terry " | " Bollea as the supporting character "Thunderlips". This role brought Hoga ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... her Hitchens author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, | , poet and author of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnig ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi | ... rivate minting of coins. This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow | (d. 180 BCE), who abolished private minting. In 182 BCE, Lü Zhi issued a b ... |
Torsten Hägerstrand | ... etition ; François Perroux's (1950) Economic Spaces: Theory and Application | ;'s (1953) Innovationsförloppet ur Korologisk Synpunkt; Edgar S. Dunn's (1 ... |
James Ross | The Ross Sea was discovered by | in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt. Erebus vo ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... as solicitors or barristers but satisfy the Master of the Faculties of the | that they possess an adequate understanding of the law. Both the latter tw ... |
Adrian Sanders | ... y parliamentary constituency which was created in 1974 and has been held by | of the Liberal Democrats since 1997. Brixham and part of Paignton fall wit ... |
Richard Bentley | ... ion), where Arbuthnot probably wrote the "Virgilius restauratus" satirizing | |
William Penn | ... imrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are | who believed he was descended from the Penn family of Penn and so is burie ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... endencies split), but they eventually folded as well, with Trujillo joining | 's band (and later Metallica) and Muir performing as Cyco Miko, releasing ... |
David Lloyd George | ... llor of the Exchequer was longer than that of any of his predecessors since | , who served from 1908–15. This was subsequently passed by Labour's Gordon ... |
Rob Ford | ... f "Marg, Princess Warrior", conducting an ambush interview of Toronto Mayor | at his home, which aired on 22 Minutes the following evening. Ford's react ... |
Bill Clinton | ... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of the | Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... e 1960s, under the 1962 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between | and John F. Kennedy, the United States would supply Britain with Polaris m ... |
Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1963, Hilary discovered Amis's love affair with novelist | . Hilary and Amis separated in August; he went to live with Howard. He div ... |
George Harrison | ... UK tour and shortly before he was due to perform at a memorial concert for | with The Rolling Stones. He had suffered from cardiac problems since the 1 ... |
Murray Gell-Mann | The word quark was coined by American physicist | (b. 1929) in its present sense. It originally comes from the phrase "Three ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., | in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ... |
Dani Fernández | ... stors to the club leading to some unexpected signings, such as Sekou Cissé, | and Stefan Babović |
Charles Mingus | ... ngwriting, conducting (e.g., David Currie) or acting as a bandleader (e.g., | ). In some regions there may not be enough work in music to make a living, ... |
Augustus Wollaston Franks | ... tly by the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of | . Sir Arthur Evans doubled the amount of money that went with the students ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... ant's biomass comes from the inputs of photosynthesis, not the soil itself. | , a chemist and minister, discovered that, when he isolated a volume of ai ... |
John Neville Keynes | ... April 1946 at the age of 62. Both of Keynes's parents outlived him: father | (1852–1949) by three years, and mother Florence Ada Keynes (1861–1958) by ... |
Isaac Newton | ... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir | , and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ... |
Anthony Braxton | ... umber of free musicians are well known, including saxophonists Evan Parker, | and Peter Brötzmann, trombonist George Lewis, guitarist Derek Bailey, and ... |
Rodney J. Woods | Also, the City elected its first Commissioner of African-American descent, | , in a landslide against a former commissioner |
Bill Clinton | ... George W. Bush carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004. | was the last Democratic presidential nominee to carry Texas County in 1992 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... the first official U.S. stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting | and George Washington. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 184 ... |
John Carmel Heenan | ... nce to the biblical quote of Jesus as a "sign that is spoken against." Said | , Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster: "One of the proofs of God's favour i ... |
Henry Cowell | The idea of the event began in | 's philosophy of music. Cowell, a teacher to John Cage and later to Dick H ... |
C. Wright Mills | ... itings were produced by such sociological luminaries as Talcott Parsons and | . Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleolo ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... ate 1950s and early 1960s following the "cognitive revolution" initiated by | 's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally. The origins ... |
Robert Axelrod | ... ender and receiver of that help, this tendency has been noted in studies by | that are summarized in his book The Evolution of Cooperation (1984). The s ... |
Dorothy Whitelock | ... albraith's arguments were refuted to the satisfaction of most historians by | in Genuine Asser, in 1967 |
Alan Turing | ... traced back as early as Descartes in the 17th century, and proceeding up to | in the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by ... |
Michael Faraday | ... pard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in 1784. | liquefied ammonia to cause cooling, Oliver Evans designed the first closed ... |
Harold Wilson | ... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of | , with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ... |
Rodney Berman | ... and three councillors sit as Independents. The Leader of the Council, Cllr | , is from the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru hav ... |
Ken Vandermark | ... of the spectrum, including trumpeters Rob Mazurek and Cuong Vu, saxophonist | , guitarist Nels Cline, bassist Todd Sickafoose, keyboardist Craig Taborn, ... |
Three Leagues | ... as an area with Catholic inhabitants under the suzerainty of the Protestant | . It served as an important route to Italy for France and also it provided ... |
A. S. Eddington | ... which Dingle considered overly speculative and not based on empirical data. | was another target of Dingle's critique, and the ensuing debate eventually ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... an legend, and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by | , and a speculative explanation of the writing of Kubla Khan, and what the ... |
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... om Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Minister | who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed h ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and | , and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ... |
Bill Clinton | ... s. While George W. Bush carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004, | also carried the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like many rural count ... |
Lord Grenville | ... Wilberforce and Charles Fox led the campaign in the House of Commons, while | advocated the cause in the House of Lords |
Sarah Palin | ... d by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor | , current Governor Sean Parnell and three other former governors, 11 senat ... |
Albert Einstein | ... etical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was | 's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906 |
Martin Kamen | Samuel Ruben and | used radioactive isotopes to determine that the oxygen liberated in photos ... |
Jürgen Habermas | ... social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, György Lukács and | . Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Josep ... |
Jenny Willott | In Westminster, Cardiff is represented by | (Liberal Democrat) in Cardiff Central, Jonathan Evans (Conservative) in Ca ... |
Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
Albert Einstein | ... Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to | 's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this p ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ame Nuada probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which | suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of ... |
Rod Blagojevich | ... plan to move under cover of darkness included the city's 50 aldermen, Gov. | , Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Homeland Security offi ... |
Maria Luisa of Savoy | ... use her influence in carrying out his plans. Upon the death of the Queen ( | ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 b ... |
Charles II | ... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and | |
Noam Chomsky | ... ch broader layers of the population, and were championed by figures such as | . The 2003 invasion of Iraq led to a significant anti-war movement in whic ... |
Sir Frank Whittle | Coventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering. | , the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Court of Faculties. The Court of Faculties is attached to the office of the | |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | ... n Bernadotte and Kersten came to public attention through British historian | . In 1953, Trevor-Roper published an article based on an interview and doc ... |
William Cullen | ... – The first documented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by | , Gaspard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in ... |
Edward Joseph O'Hare | Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare was born in St. Louis, Missouri to | and Selma O'Hare. Butch had two sisters, Patricia and Marilyn. When their ... |
Khalid al-Mihdhar | In 1995, he and his childhood friend, | , joined a group that went to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims in the Bosni ... |
Elizabeth II | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queen | among many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ... |
King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
Robert Wyatt | ... n, a version of the song was a minor UK hit for former Soft Machine drummer | |
Anthony Barber | ... ibes an earlier period of rapid expansion under the tenure as chancellor of | in the Conservative government of Sir Edward Heath (1970 to 1974). Critics ... |
Donald Broadbent | ... in the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by | 's book Perception and Communication in 1958. Since that time, the dominan ... |
Ferdinand II of Portugal | ... Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of | , and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Co ... |
Julie Morgan | ... embly Cardiff is represented by Jenny Rathbone (Labour) in Cardiff Central, | (Labour) in Cardiff North, Vaughan Gething (Labour) in Cardiff South and P ... |
Elliot Morley | ... Sovereign may however remove an individual from the Council. On 8 June 2011 | was expelled following his conviction on charges of false accounting in co ... |
Emperor Ming of Southern Qi | ... Emperor's Wu's first cousin. He killed them in turn and crowned himself as | . Using the government secretaries (典签官), he slaughtered all the descendan ... |
Kara Walker | ... ment, grew up in Stockton and attended Tokay High School. Silhouette artist | was raised in Stockton, as was Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman W ... |
Charles Dickens | ... hail from Portsmouth or who have lived in the city include: famous authors | – famous for such works as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwic ... |
Winston Churchill | ... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Minister | tasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ust as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburban dioceses around Rome. | abolished all administrative rights cardinals had with regard to their tit ... |
Persi Diaconis | Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (like | a generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the Univers ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... vernor General Luke E. Wright, Burnham Park in honor of Baguio city planner | , Governor Pack Road, and Session Road |
Peter Ustinov | ... h, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by | |
Martin Seligman | Psychologist | provides the acronym PERMA to summarize Positive Psychology's correlationa ... |
James Cook | ... Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant | on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 t ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... useums and Galleries Act 1992. Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the | , the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons. The board w ... |
Pridi Banomyong | ... to reflect its tradition associated with the French education system where | , Thammasat's founding father was educated |
The Duke of Kent | ... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was from | that the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ... |
Boris Aronson | ... staging. The set, designed in the style of Marc Chagall's paintings, was by | . A colorful logo for the production, also inspired by Chagall's work, was ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by | in England |
George Davis Snell | ... Owen Chamberlain (Physics, 1959), K. Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001), and | (Physiology or Medicine, 1980). Educators include the current chancellor o ... |
Bill Clinton | ... er Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as | and Barack Obama), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanis ... |
Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
William Penn | ... as early as 1763-1769), Derr had purchased several tracts of land from the | family and other neighboring land owners; the largest of which was known a ... |
WWMT | | , West Michigan's CBS / CW affiliate, is licensed and operates out of Kala ... |
Ray Lankester | ... nimal testing. The legislation was promoted by Charles Darwin, who wrote to | in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree tha ... |
Dickens | ... here he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since | , he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed ... |
Jonathan Evans | ... diff is represented by Jenny Willott (Liberal Democrat) in Cardiff Central, | (Conservative) in Cardiff North, Alun Michael (Labour) in Cardiff South an ... |
Victor S. Miller | ... ptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and | in 1985 |
Samuel Pepys | ... g mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and | . However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was al ... |
Harold Wilson | ... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister | and without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ... |
Niels Bohr | ... ed the strange properties of the photoelectric effect. The Danish physicist | used this same constant in 1913 to explain the stability of Rutherford’s a ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... e residence of the American governor-general. The famous American architect | , one of the earliest successful modern city planners, laid a meticulous p ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... an sees (who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by | three years earlier). Not holding a suburbicarian see, they cannot elect t ... |
Neal Koblitz | ... . The use of elliptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by | and Victor S. Miller in 1985 |
Rodney King | ... Watts Riots, the videotaped 1991 beating by Los Angeles Police officers of | , and the riot following their acquittal have been suggested by some peopl ... |
John Ashbery | ... Progress of Stories (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, | and Harry Mathews. Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in Englan ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... ntly subterranean): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and | seem to have been influenced by Gaddis (indeed, upon publication of V., Py ... |
Kendrick Frazier | ... he name The Zetetic and retitled after a few months under the editorship of | , former editor of Science News. Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope calls Sk ... |
William Penn | Upper Dublin dates back to 1684, when Edward Tanner was granted land by | in the Province of Pennsylvania and named it "Upper and Lower Dublin." Low ... |
Andrew Waugh | ... her restricted work to the last three months of the year. In November 1847, | , the British made several observations from Sawajpore station located in ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland. | says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ... |
Charles Darwin | ... fically aimed at regulating animal testing. The legislation was promoted by | , who wrote to Ray Lankester in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on v ... |
John Cage | Stockhausen, along with | , is one of the few avant-garde composers to have succeeded in penetrating ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... inting artist John Walker. The prize was awarded by celebrity presenter Sir | |
John Charles McQuaid | ... normal law enforcement processes." The report criticized four archbishops – | who died in 1973, Dermot Ryan who died in 1984, Kevin McNamara who died in ... |
Richard Hakluyt | ... retaliation, the village was sacked and burned. English writer and courtier | 's contemporary reports of the first voyage to Virginia, compiled from acc ... |
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | ... ok, that it was published as "propaganda" for reformist interests backed by | or other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glos ... |
Charles II | ... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored | , who granted the most liberal political terms |
Duke of Richmond | During February 1844, the | initiated the Central Agricultural Protection Society (CAPS, commonly know ... |
Andrew Waugh | ... ial English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by | , the British . Waugh named the mountain after his predecessor in the post ... |
Charles II | The principal advisor to | , the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ... |
Tarō Asō | ... nd nationalist, he enjoyed the respect of his colleagues and enemies alike. | , the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan, is a great-great-grandson of Ōkubo Tos ... |
Charles François de Cisternay du Fay | By the mid—18th century the French chemist | had discovered two types of static electricity, and that like charges repe ... |
John Carey | ... positive view of his work became widely accepted. The noted English critic | was a major influence on his rehabilitation. He praises him in his 1992 bo ... |
Frank Drake | ... ns, an idea that he had first developed informally with American astronomer | in 1975. In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by ... |
Daniel Dennett | In his book "Kinds of Minds", philosopher | wrote, "Dualism...and Vitalism (the view that living things contain some s ... |
Manfred R. Schroeder | ... in the excitating sound build up in notably different sound waves. In 1964, | published "A new method of Measuring Reverberation Time" in the Journal of ... |
Isaac Newton | ... olars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, | , and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time ... |
Bam Margera | TV-Star | and his friends travelled to Rovaniemi in their movie in order to find San ... |
Pope Paul VI | In 1965 | decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the ... |
Heath Ledger | ... Actor award for Geoffrey Rush and Gregor Jordan's 1999 film Two Hands gave | his first leading role. After Ledger's successful transition to Hollywood, ... |
John D. Barrow | ... of universal gravitation. While Kant's argument is historically important, | says that it "...gets the punch-line back to front: it is the three-dimens ... |
George V | ... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as | put it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ... |
Walter Burkert | ... the name is the Mycenaean Greek a-re, written in Linear B syllabic script. | notes that "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of ... |
Noam Chomsky | Academic | argues that Drug laws are currently, and have historically, been used by t ... |
Alan Ayckbourn | ... music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of two plays by | , and two different styles of musical in On connaît la chanson (Same Old S ... |
Charles II | ... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from | to George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ... |
Claudia Jordan | ... and the show. Following the departures of Nikki Ziering, Heather Kozar and | in the 2000s (decade), producers decided to use a rotating cast of models ... |
Sir Karl Popper | ... be able to see that I fully accept the recent philosophical achievements of | with his concept of three worlds. I was a dualist, now I am a trialist! Ca ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and | |
Bill Clinton | ... eorge W. Bush carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004, | won the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like most of the rural countie ... |
Catherine de' Medici | ... n a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with | 's entourage |
Adrian Edmondson | ... red on BBC2 between 1991 and 1995. It was written by and starring comic duo | and Rik Mayall as Richie and Eddie, two flatmates living on the dole in Ha ... |
Brian Friel | ... at the time on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Anne Friel, playwright | 's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon and Robert Harri ... |
Norbert Wiener | ... scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, | , John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was ... |
Adam Smith | | and David Hume were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A n ... |
Samuel Wilberforce | ... Barbara (b. 1799), Elizabeth (b. 1801), Robert Isaac Wilberforce (b. 1802), | (b. 1805) and Henry William Wilberforce (b. 1807). Wilberforce was an indu ... |
Joseph Larmor | ... approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along with George FitzGerald and | . Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the Lorentz transfor ... |
Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
George IV | ... he final three joint rulers (1760–1837), there was only one short visit, by | in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy Adolphus represented the monarch in Han ... |
John Winthrop the Younger | ... territory. By the 1640s, he began to grant land to the Pequot War veterans. | , the son of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was among those ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of | " |
Isaac Newton | ... e same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius. | and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work o ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies | , Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
Zoe Karbonopsina | ... , he fell out with Leo VI over the latter's fourth marriage to his mistress | . Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the fut ... |
Andrew Sarris | ... ough it is implied that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film critic | notes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what ... |
David Lloyd George | During the Second Dáil the Irish Republic and the British Government of | agreed to hold peace negotiations. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Ai ... |
Louis XVIII | ... 2, when Hugo was only twenty years old, and earned him a royal pension from | . Though the poems were admired for their spontaneous fervor and fluency, ... |
Robin Cook MP | ... ng personal attack on the Prime Minister, calling his behaviour 'reckless'. | and a few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the ... |
Fulton J. Sheen | ... broadcasting in the Spring of 1949. Another television preacher of note was | , who successfully switched to television in 1951 after two decades of pop ... |
Donald Trump | ... FL quarterback. He was selected by the USFL's New Jersey Generals (owned by | ) in the 1985 territorial draft, which took place months before the 1985 N ... |
William Thomson | ... athematical tripos training in mathematical analysis; the Glasgow physicist | and his circle of associates established a new mathematical physics relati ... |
Ronald Knox | ... s the end of his life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. He had hoped that | , a Roman Catholic priest and writer whom he admired, would instruct him i ... |
John VI of Portugal | ... one another. In the Portuguese colony, the heir apparent Pedro, son of King | , proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... during this period. In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to | |
Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Max Born | ... an a “classical” mechanics, formulated in matrix-form by Werner Heisenberg, | , and Pascual Jordan in 1925, were based on the probabilistic relationship ... |
George FitzGerald | A more theoretical approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along with | and Joseph Larmor. Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the ... |
Travis Barker | ... d in 2005, leading Hoppus to form the band +44 with fellow Blink-182 member | . Blink-182 then announced their reformation in 2009. However, Hoppus stat ... |
Robert Isaac Wilberforce | ... than ten years: William (b. 1798), Barbara (b. 1799), Elizabeth (b. 1801), | (b. 1802), Samuel Wilberforce (b. 1805) and Henry William Wilberforce (b. ... |
William Hyde Wollaston | By the 1810s | made improvements to the galvanic cell |
WOOD-TV | ... s that serve the entire market are receivable in Kalamazoo, including WWMT, | (NBC), WXMI (Fox), WZPX (Ion) and WLLA (religious). Some channels based in ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the | , devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ... |
Otto Luening | ... concrète approach that Davis and producer Teo Macero (who had studied with | at Columbia University's Computer Music Center) had begun to explore in th ... |
John James Audubon | ... squirrels," probably in reference to the sound they make. In the mid-1800s, | and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Qua ... |
Ludovic Kennedy | ... k returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with | in A Life in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life bas ... |
Charles II | ... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns of | to George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ... |
Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
Zachary Macaulay | ... Trade began meeting again, strengthened with prominent new members such as | , Henry Brougham and James Stephen. In June 1804, Wilberforce's bill to ab ... |
Peter Ustinov | | played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King | . During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ... |
Hugh Latimer | ... lerk or registrar of the court of requests which the Protector, possibly at | 's instigation, illegally set up in Somerset House to hear poor men's comp ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diarist | was the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ... |
WXMI | ... e entire market are receivable in Kalamazoo, including WWMT, WOOD-TV (NBC), | (Fox), WZPX (Ion) and WLLA (religious). Some channels based in the norther ... |
Joseph Glanvill | The Drummer of Tedworth is a report of supernatural activity by | in the West Country of England, in his Saducismus Triumphatus. The book's ... |
Prince George of Denmark | In 1702, he was at Epsom when | , husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ... |
Andrew Huxley | ... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with | and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
Julie Taymor | ... ued Broadway version of Icarus," loosely modeled after Spider-Man director, | |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... Electricity and Magnetism, an 1873 treatise on electromagnetism written by | , eleven general equations of the electromagnetic field are listed and the ... |
Douglas Hofstadter | ... del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a 1979 book by | , described by his publishing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds an ... |
Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian | published in 1958. The novel depicts influences of British colonialism and ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister) | was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen | , that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ... |
Murray Barr | A Barr body (named after discoverer | ) is the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell, rendered inactive ... |
WLLA | ... ble in Kalamazoo, including WWMT, WOOD-TV (NBC), WXMI (Fox), WZPX (Ion) and | (religious). Some channels based in the northern part of the market reach ... |
Hugh Hefner | In 1992 Smith was chosen by | to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... , published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies. The critic | found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 "with its ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... limit of 70, and this continued under his successors. At the start of 1971, | set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more ... |
Alessandro Volta | Galvani's scientific colleagues generally accepted his views, but | rejected the idea of an "animal electric fluid," replying that the frog's ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winner | was devoting much of his energy to the Abbey Theatre and writing for the s ... |
Jason Donovan | The World War II drama Blood Oath (1990) debuted both Russell Crowe and | , in minor cinematic roles. Crowe demonstrated his versatility as an actor ... |
Romanos Lekapenos | ... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral | , who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ... |
Michael Faraday | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, | , Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Chri ... |
Fulton J. Sheen | ... o Pulpit on NBC received 4,000 letters weekly and Roman Catholic archbishop | received between 3,000–6,000 letters weekly. The total radio audience for ... |
John Playfair | ... tatements of his geological ideas (though not his thoughts on evolution) by | in 1802 and then Charles Lyell in the 1830s popularised the concept of an ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | The Black Speech is a fictional language created by | |
Gene Amdahl | ... l's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect | , and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall syste ... |
George Grosz | ... schools, and Art reflected the new ideas of the time, with artists such as | being fined for defaming the military and for blasphemy |
Allen Tate | ... e Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through | , and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriag ... |
André-Marie Ampère | ... aking advance, although he left further work on electromagnetism to others. | quickly repeated Oestred's experiment, and formulated them mathematically |
Nicholas Serota | ... lly and internationally, as well as who are rising stars. Tate Director Sir | has been the Chair of the jury since his tenure at the Tate (with the exce ... |
Albert Einstein | The concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday. | wrote |
Bill Clinton | ... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by President | and other world leaders |
Charles Lyell | ... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and then | in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ... |
Paulini | In 2004, Australian Idol finalist | 's debut single "Angel Eyes" and album One Determined Heart both reached n ... |
Adam Smith | ... therlands remained supreme in this field. Due to its popularity at the time | 's Wealth of Nations was banned due to its criticism of government control ... |
Robert Boyle | Further work was conducted by Otto von Guericke, | , Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin co ... |
Shelagh Delaney | The works for which she is now best remembered are probably | 's A Taste of Honey (1958), which gained great critical acclaim, and the s ... |
Norbert Wiener | He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, | , Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawre ... |
Thomas Hardy | ... of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, Edmund Gosse, | and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space of time, came a ... |
Home Riggs Popham | ... y forces tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command of | and William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke. The invasions were repell ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
Richard Feynman | ... hen later confirmed experimentally by Heinrich Hertz in 1887. The physicist | predicted that, "The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignif ... |
Max Müller | ... 5/1875-76, written on birch bark in bold Sharada, was only in part used by | for his edition of the Rigveda with Sayana's commentary |
Robert Wyatt | ... Costello interpreted the character of Chief of Police, with Barbara Bonney, | , Sting and Amanda Roocroft, and the album reached No. 2 in the Billboard ... |
Robert Penn Warren | ... ion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist | , who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and ... |
Robert Peel | ... They arise from the attempted assassination of the British Prime Minister, | , in 1843 by Daniel M'Naghten. In fact, M'Naghten fired a pistol at the ba ... |
James Gibbs | ... rt of the complex, it was designed around 1715 by either Lord Burlington or | , who also designed the ‘Pagan Temple’ in the gardens. James Gibbs was sac ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ks had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologist | who read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has bee ... |
Guy Sebastian | ... as the winner of an early series of Australian Idol, soul singer/songwriter | has also made an impact on this genre in Australia winning awards at the U ... |
Charles II | ... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. | restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ... |
Romanos I | ... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new Emperor | Lekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ... |
Robert Lowell | ... ; his verse is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what | described as a 'diamond-edge', and the 'glory of its hard, electric rage'. ... |
Humphry Davy | Sir | 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ... |
William Whewell | ... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, | coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ... |
Malcolm McLaren | ... lph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, | , and Radclyffe Hall |
Andrew Johnson | ... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War. | , later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ... |
Alan Bullock | ... cal police, ignored the order. Researchers, including William L. Shirer and | , are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for starting th ... |
Hans Krebs | ... arly 20th century. One of the most prolific of these modern biochemists was | who made huge contributions to the study of metabolism. He discovered the ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Becket acquired a position in the household of Theobald of Bec, by now the | |
Ernest Rutherford | ... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium. | and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ... |
Louis R. Gottschalk | ... lished her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriage, to historian | (1899–1975), ended in divorce in 1925, at the end of which year she went t ... |
David Foster Wallace | ... as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and | , who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recog ... |
Oliver Heaviside | The origin of the loading coil can be found in the work of | on the theory of transmission lines. Heaviside (1881) represented the line ... |
Benjamin Franklin | The American scientist | , who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ... |
King Charles II | ... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to | , purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ... |
John Flamsteed | ... ley wanted it published immediately, to support their work on orbits, while | , the Royal Astronomer whose observations they were, wanted to keep the da ... |
Abraham Rees | ... ng technology. Encyclopaedias such as Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704) and | 's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) contain much of value. Cyclopaedia contains an ... |
William Diller Matthew | ... valid Albertosaurus material were reassigned to a different genus: in 1922 | renamed A. sarcophagus into Deinodon sarcophagus and in 1939 German paleon ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... nistration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is | , in office since 22 May 2004 |
Taylor Branch | ... ller, Damon Strange, who worked for a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Historian | called the conviction of Damon Strange a "breakthrough verdict" on p. 391 ... |
Gabrielle Carteris | ... is version are Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, | , Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, Tori Spelling |
Scott Fahlman | Zawinski's early career included stints with | 's Lisp research group at Carnegie Mellon University, Expert Technologies, ... |
Edward VII | ... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by | "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ... |
Ernest Augustus | ... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother, | , and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ... |
Bill Clinton | ... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and | |
Paul Muldoon | ... d to build their large existing archive from Irish writers including Yeats, | , Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the The Belfast Grou ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ular conditions and was evidence of benevolent design in nature. Studies of | 's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natu ... |
James Randi | According to | , controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sourc ... |
KTLA | ... p station of the Dodgers during the team's first 36 seasons in Los Angeles. | would broadcast Dodger games from 1993 to 2001 and KCOP from 2002 to 2005 |
John Lennon | In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, | stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, Woman Is the N ... |
William Beveridge | In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer | , who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ... |
Desmond O'Malley | ... romise not to "stand idly by"). A minority of ministers - two, according to | - would have favoured such a course, but the Irish Army was completely unp ... |
Hilda Ellis Davidson | ... that "half-goddesses" stand higher than "half-gods" in Germanic mythology. | (1948) states that Hel "as a goddess" in surviving sources seems to belong ... |
Johnny Torrio | Luciano, under the urging of | , set up the Mafia's governing body, organizing The Commission with the Ma ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
Nicholas Serota | ... ring, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir | (about the purchase of a trustee's work) |
Giuseppe Caprio | ... des, he was not the naive idealist his critics made him out to be. Cardinal | , the substitute Papal Secretary of State, said that John Paul quickly acc ... |
William Penn | | presented the tract of land around present day Upper Moreland Township to ... |
Eugênio de Araújo Sales | ... cardinals are barred from the conclave. The current cardinal protopriest is | of Brazil |
Paul McCartney | ... f concerts took place in the park, including performances by Van Halen, Sir | , Celine Dion, Rammstein, Sir Elton John and Metallica |
Adam Smith | ... to the remainder of society in this sense may be deemed to be "antisocial". | wrote that a society "may subsist among different men, as among different ... |
Nikola Tesla | In 1891, | established his Houston Street laboratory. Much of Tesla's research was lo ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... ark to become the center of government and a design commission was given to | to create a master plan for the city patterned after Washington D.C.. Thes ... |
James Q. Wilson | ... n windows policing was another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by | and George L. Kelling, who suggested that police should pay greater attent ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | Von Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and | . He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of se ... |
Bill Gates | ... oele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was designed by Greg Norman. | was married on the 12th hole tee-box at The Challenge at Manele |
Bill Dally | ... he CSX700 (2008) has 192. Stream Processors is headed by computer architect | . Their Storm-1 processor (2007) contains 80 SIMD cores controlled by a MI ... |
Clement Attlee | ... ister in the world: Chris Watson. In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by | , was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme. Social D ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair. When | abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes ... |
Peter Norvig | ... rnegie Mellon University, Expert Technologies, Inc. and Robert Wilensky and | 's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by Richard P. Gabri ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for | |
Alessandro Volta | ... ctricity was the medium by which nerve cells passed signals to the muscles. | 's battery, or voltaic pile, of 1800, made from alternating layers of zinc ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... ngs used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, | , Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Mall ... |
Geri Allen | With | With Arcana With Chet Baker With George Cables With Ron Carter With Stanle ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father | |
Dana Redd | , | is the Mayor of Camden. She is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns ... |
James Cook | ... . The island name was first written in English, in 1778 by British explorer | and his crew members. They wrote it as "Owhyhee" or "Owhyee". Explorers Mo ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President | , Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ... |
Francis Crick | ... y "holding positions" on the pathway to mechanistic understanding. In 1967, | , the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, stated "And so to those of yo ... |
Richard Baxter | However, | ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria ... |
Oliver Heaviside | #Equation (54) is an equation that | referred to as 'Faraday's law'. This equation caters for the time varying ... |
Robert Stephenson | ... he Tyne Bridge of 1928 which was built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, and | 's High Level Bridge of 1849, the first road/rail bridge in the world |
Yaa Asantewaa | ... of Samory Ture's new-founded Wassoulou Empire in 1898 and the Ashanti queen | in 1902, most West African military resistance to colonial rule came to an ... |
Leon Fleisher | ... oles was on October 11, 2008, in an all-Beethoven program featuring pianist | performing the Emperor Concerto |
Albert Einstein | ... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905 | , then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, | conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fu ... |
Michael Faraday | In 1832, | 's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... insurance and state pensions were introduced by the 1945 Labour government. | , who had introduced the Labour Party's National Health Service in 1948, c ... |
King George VI | ... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by | as the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ... |
James Connolly | ... Despite his opposition to communism and socialism, he sometimes worked with | , who also supported Irish nationalism |
John Cage | ... starting with 18th century concert hall music. Hegarty contends that it is | 's composition 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half mi ... |
KTTV | Dodgers games are also aired on former flagship | Channel 11 as part of the Major League Baseball on Fox package, as well as ... |
William Charles Wells | ... t in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by | and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publ ... |
Richard P. Gabriel | ... y and Peter Norvig's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by | 's Lucid Inc. where he was eventually put to work on Lucid's Energize C++ ... |
Leszek Kołakowski | Although | 's works were officially banned in Poland, underground copies of them infl ... |
Harold Pinter | ... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by | , is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ... |
John Herschel | ... le toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir | . Youthful inventiveness finds a way, however |
Richard Attenborough | ... st marriage to Michael Attenborough, the son of British film actor/director | , lasted from 1971 to 1973. Her second marriage to Geoffrey Planer lasted ... |
Merce Cunningham | Sigur Rós collaborated with Radiohead in October 2003 to compose music for | 's dance piece Split Sides; Sigur Rós’s three tracks were named Ba Ba Ti K ... |
John Lydon | ... ums for the band Public Image Limited, fronted by former Sex Pistols singer | , on their 1986 release album/cassette/compact disc (the album title varie ... |
Max Perutz | The first protein structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by | and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-reso ... |
Michael Longley | ... ng archive from Irish writers including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, | and other members of the The Belfast Group |
Gregory Bateson | ... Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, | , Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. He influenced ge ... |
George Antheil | ... ncluded the phonographic playback of a nightingale recording. Also in 1924, | created a work titled Ballet Mécanique with instrumentation that included ... |
Tori Spelling | ... ering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, | |
Alan Dershowitz | ... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side." | , an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ... |
Lynne Featherstone | ... he Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, formed at the 2010 general election. | is the Liberal Democrat MP for the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency, wh ... |
Max Planck | ... antities (“quanta”), according to a constant that the theoretical physicist | had posited in 1900 to arrive at an accurate theory for the distribution o ... |
Oliver Heaviside | The need for loading coils was discovered by | in studying the disappointing slow speed of the Transatlantic telegraph ca ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... a dynamics analysis of the centrifugal governor, conducted by the physicist | in 1868 entitled On Governors. This described and analyzed the phenomenon ... |
George II | ... amed after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King | , who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759. Montague was incorporat ... |
Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ion of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its soporific power." | compared vitalism to stating that water is the way it is because of its "a ... |
Jared Diamond | ... n of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent after about 8000 BC. | traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Cresce ... |
Ice-T | ... festival in Los Angeles and San Francisco with artists such as Soundgarden, | , Indigo Girls, Queen Latifah, Iggy Pop, The Charlatans, The Cramps and Pu ... |
Polyperchon | When Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to | , excluding Cassander, his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to ... |
WYMT-TV | | WKHA-TV, a satellite station of Kentucky Educational Televisio |
Hideki Yukawa | ... he laws governing the uncertainties inherent in the quantum world. Notably, | proposed that the positive charges of the nucleus were kept together court ... |
Locke's | Subscribing to | empiricist viewpoint involving the tabula rasa, Herbart believed that the ... |
Mario Vargas Llosa | ... ique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, | , Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
T. Dan Smith | ... rt of Grainger Town as a prelude to the modernist rebuilding initiatives of | , the leader of Newcastle City Council. A corruption scandal was uncovered ... |
Leon Golub | ... ing consequences of a contemporary bombing of a small, ancient Basque town. | 's Interrogation III (1981), depicts a female nude, hooded detainee strapp ... |
Michael Faraday | André-Marie Ampère in 1819-1820 | ;invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analyse ... |
Charles II | After the Restoration, King | and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ... |
Ambrose Philips | ... d him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of | , who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guard ... |
Thomas Spring-Rice | ... icability". He submitted a copy of this to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, | , on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "private and confidenti ... |
Adam Smith | ... antilist writers presenting an overarching scheme for the ideal economy, as | would later do for classical economics. Rather, each mercantilist writer t ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, | of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ... |
Adelaide of Susa | ... 078. He ruled only nominally, as true power was in the hands of his mother, | |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
Pope John Paul II | In Solicitudo Rei Socialis, a major document of Catholic Social Teaching, | identifies the concept of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as a c ... |
King Edward VII | ... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland of | his consort Alexandra of Denmark |
Paulson | ... e are called parameters by some authors (e.g., Prawitz, "Natural Deduction" | ;, "Designing a theorem prover"). Parameters locally defined within the pr ... |
Allan Bloom | ... into moral and political decay. Robert Bork's Slouching Toward Gommorah and | 's The Closing of the American Mind are famous expressions of this point o ... |
Robert Hanbury Brown | ... the second to be discovered. The diameter of Sirius A was first measured by | and Richard Q. Twiss in 1959 at Jodrell Bank using their stellar intensity ... |
Cerys Matthews | ... s host to free musical performances (from artists such as Ash, Jimmy Cliff, | , the Fun Loving Criminals, Soul II Soul and The Magic Numbers), fairgroun ... |
Bryan R. Wilson | ... ons merely based on negative experiences of some members. Sociologists like | write about some former members of any religious group who may have psycho ... |
KCAL-TV | ... West ballparks) for both flagship radio station KLAC and television outlets | and Prime Ticket. Scully is simulcast for the first three innings of each ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... appeared: The Rise of the Russian Empire, a historical study modelled upon | 's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
King Edward VII | | granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ... |
Kenneth E. Iverson | ... P. Sharp Associates' Sharp APL product. Unlike most other APL interpreters, | had some influence in the way nested arrays were implemented in Sharp APL ... |
André-Marie Ampère | ... ity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to Hans Christian Ørsted and | in 1819-1820; Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Geo ... |
Édouard-Raymond Fabre | George-Étienne Cartier married Hortense Fabre, daughter of | , former Mayor of Montreal |
Cassander | ... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding | , his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ... |
Richard Price | ... of Chances which was read to the Royal Society in 1763 after Bayes's death. | shepherded the work through this presentation and its publication in the P ... |
Wesley J. Smith | Author and anthropocentrism defender | has written that human exceptionalism is what gives rise to human duties t ... |
Tim Hunt | ... cis Crick Graduate Lectures. The first two lectures were by John Gurdon and | |
Henry V | ... ns; his success was partly due to the military skill of his son, the future | . Henry V's own reign, which began in 1413, was largely free from domestic ... |
Charles II of England | ... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of | . In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ... |
Albert Einstein | While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of | 's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mat ... |
Sir Rowland Hill | The Englishman | started to take an interest in postal reform in 1835. In 1836, a Member of ... |
Paul Volcker | ... former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair | ; Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehea ... |
Newton’s | ... forces that Herbart attempted to explain by means of mathematical formulas. | influence can be seen in Herbart’s beliefs about how forces mechanically i ... |
Paul Tillich | ... on theologians and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, | , Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
James II | After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor | visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... kespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer | in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mr ... |
John Gurdon | ... s hosts The Francis Crick Graduate Lectures. The first two lectures were by | and Tim Hunt |
The Queen | Her Majesty | visited on |
Ralph Hartley | ... oretical work in data transmission and information theory by Harry Nyquist, | , Claude Shannon and others during the early 20th century, was done with t ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
William Cullen | Neurosis was coined by the Scottish doctor | in 1769 to refer to "disorders of sense and motion" caused by a "general a ... |
Marcel Lefebvre | ... er, almost immediately a lightning rod for conservative attacks. Archbishop | cited this document as one of the fundamental reasons for his difficulties ... |
Chomsky | | initially hoped to overcome the limitations of context-free grammars by ad ... |
Marquess of Clydesdale | ... ouston Everest Flight of 1933, which saw a formation of aircraft led by the | fly over the summit in an effort to deploy the British Union Flag at the t ... |
Colin Leakey | ... archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of | |
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | The Lennox sisters were daughters of | , a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II of England. ... |
David Cronenberg | ... This Time?" Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in | 's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. That same year, Walken ... |
Humphry Davy | ... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir | and independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ... |
William Penn | ... ship was one of the original manors reserved for his family in the 1680s by | , the founder of Pennsylvania |
Bernard Katz | ... erform some of the experiments which proved chemical synaptic transmission. | and Eccles worked together on some of the experiments which elucidated the ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... ard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by the well-known industrialist | , his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, ... |
Keith Joseph | ... ex. The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, with | suggesting "Uxbridge" in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon |
James Randi | In 2005, | offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US$1 million prize to d ... |
Blake Morrison | ... accused Heaney of being "an apologist and a mythologizer" of the violence, | suggests the poet "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well a ... |
Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
Tolkien | ... Eddings did not realize it until several years later. Upon seeing a copy of | 's The Lord of the Rings, in a bookshop, he allegedly muttered, "Is this o ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... re winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, John Turner replaced | as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prim ... |
Ansel Adams | ... and other luminaries to be inspired by Taos and each other. Among them were | , Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, author D. H. Lawrence and his wife, ... |
John Paul II | ... he limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and | continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular churches, out of ove ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... orations until it was broken up by the United States Supreme Court in 1911. | was a founder, chairman and major shareholder. As it grew exponentially an ... |
Egidio Vagnozzi | ... ressure continued on Murray, with Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. Archbishop | attempting to silence him. Cardinal Spellman, along with his Jesuit superi ... |
John Whitgift | ... he had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction. He warmly remonstrated with | , the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, over his persecuting Articles of ... |
Robert Napier | ... dros II for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken by | during the |
Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
Travis Barker | ... drinking problem became far too prevalent. Hoppus and DeLonge asked drummer | of Blink-182's support band The Aquabats to fill in for Raynor for the rem ... |
John Denham | ... lustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by | , part of his description of the Thames |
Prince | ... shops such as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by the | and Princess of Wales. It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Mark ... |
Woody Holton | Historian | , for example, argued that even though the boundary was pushed west in sub ... |
Oliver Heaviside | ... experimental result of Weber and Kohlrausch. But it wasn't until 1884 that | , concurrently with similar work by Willard Gibbs and Heinrich Hertz, grou ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as | , Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Je ... |
David Livingstone | ... le River. Speke continued and found the actual source, Lake Victoria. Later | passed by the lake. He noted the name "Liemba" for its southern part, a wo ... |
William Huggins | In 1868, Sirius became the first star to have its velocity measured. Sir | examined the spectrum of this star and observed a noticeable red shift. He ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... tical jurisdiction. He warmly remonstrated with John Whitgift, the Anglican | , over his persecuting Articles of 1583. The finest encomium was passed on ... |
Ehud Barak | ... f the Second Intifada led to a sharp swing to the right in Israeli politics | ;was defeated by in 2001 |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... use the general Liu Yu seized the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin, becoming | (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the Southern and Northern Dynasties period |
Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
Alexander Dalrymple | The Royal Society suggested command be given to Scottish geographer | , whose acceptance was conditional on a brevet commission as a captain in ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... ion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus, King George III was requested by the | to issue in 1787 the Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice, as a rem ... |
Murray Gell-Mann | ... by scattering and decay provided a key to new fundamental quantum theories. | and Yuval Ne'eman brought some order to these new particles by classifying ... |
Arthur Wellesley | ... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of | (later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ... |
Ice-T | ... e of gangsta rap, had Toddy Tee's influential Batteram mixtape in 1985, and | 's "Six in the Morning" in 1986 before N.W.A.'s first records, leading to ... |
Donald Trump | ... iberal Democrat, joined the Scottish Green Party in protest to the plans by | to develop on an important environmental site at Menie. On 13 October 2009 ... |
Richard Price | ... findings on probability theory were passed in manuscript form to his friend | after his death |
Leibniz | ... ngoing, and viciously personal disputes between the followers of Newton and | concerning priority over the analytical techniques of infinitesimal calcul ... |
Jessica Mauboy | 2006 Australian Idol runner-up | made her musical solo debut in 2008 with the single "Running Back", which ... |
Lord Salisbury | Curzon became Assistant Private Secretary to | in 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and | , expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless communication tasks where ... |
Winston Churchill | ... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like | , Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ... |
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... lpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister, | on 6 April 1882. Today, it features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued ... |
Kim Medcalf | ... d stage in April 2006 in Hay Fever alongside Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang and | . She finished off 2006 with the role of Mistress Quickly in the RSC's new ... |
Don Byron | Clarinetist | has recorded and performed Scott's music, as have the Kronos Quartet, Ster ... |
Martin Lowry | In 1923, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and | published essentially the same theory about how acids and bases behave, us ... |
Leibniz's | ... l external objects existing in the world as reals, which can be compared to | concept of monads |
Augustin Bea | ... l both the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity led by Cardinal | and the Theological Commission (led by Cardinal ) introduced revised draft ... |
Harry Partch | John Cage, | , Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, created entire ... |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock | British diplomat and former British ambassador to the UN | stated in early 2009 that the Hamas charter was "drawn up by a Hamas-linke ... |
André Kertész | ... e city through this medium, in which he was tutored by his fellow Hungarian | . He later wrote that he used photography "in order to capture the beauty ... |
Arne Tiselius | ... me theory about how acids and bases behave, using an electrochemical basis. | developed the first sophisticated electrophoretic apparatus in 1937 and so ... |
Antipater | ... the war against Eumenes, who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of | , Antigonus, Ptolemy, Craterus, and the other generals. Eumenes was defeat ... |
John Couch Adams | ... the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were made by | in England. Le Verrier announced his final predicted position for Uranus's ... |
Brian Cowen | ... on of the in 2005.In response to the Ferns Report, Ireland's Prime Minister | stated that he was "ashamed by the extent, length, and cruelty" of child a ... |
Isaac Newton | ... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of | 's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ... |
Richard Rorty | ... be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation. | , Kierkegaard, and Wittgenstein challenge the sense of questioning whether ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... ilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – | – Andrew Youn |
Terry Eagleton | ... poet seeking religious and aesthetic unity". Heaney is described by critic | as "an enlightened cosmopolitan liberal", refusing to be drawn. Eagleton s ... |
John Venn | ... erard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, | the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP ... |
Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... bert in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was by | in his Theory of Analytic Functions (1797, 1813). He said, "One may view m ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... in 1827. Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by | , in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862 |
Princess Elizabeth | ... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with | , the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ... |
Marquess of Bute | The town grew rapidly from the 1830s onwards, when the | built a dock which eventually linked to the Taff Vale Railway. Cardiff bec ... |
John Dryden | ... e. The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works of | and Alexander Pope. Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the work ... |
Peter Heather | ... the Roman province of Raetia in the winter of 401/402. From this, historian | concludes that at this time the Vandals were located in the region around ... |
Carol Ann Duffy | In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate | who gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of A ... |
Paul VI | ... abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes | and John Paul II continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular chu ... |
Sir Christopher Wren | ... taining only Henry VIII's Great Hall. The country's most eminent architect, | , was called upon to draw the plans, while the master of works was to be W ... |
Richard Ellmann | Wilde's life was still waiting for independent, true scholarship when | began researching his 1987 biography Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumousl ... |
Stephen Stigler | In his later years he took a deep interest in probability. | feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work writ ... |
Nikola Tesla | The original inventors of radio, such as | and Guglielmo Marconi, expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless comm ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | Another important antecedent to spacetime was the work of | as he used partial differential equations to develop electrodynamics with ... |
George Finch | The British returned for a 1922 expedition. | ("The other George") climbed using oxygen for the first time. He ascended ... |
John Cage | (Sometimes referred to as "found" instruments or as custom percussion) | , Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, c ... |
James II | ... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with | , and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ... |
Philip Roth | ... n 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the | story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Be ... |
Carl Woese | In 1987, | established this grouping, calling it informally the "purple bacteria and ... |
Aneurin Bevan | In 1951, British Health Minister | expressed the view that, "It is probably true that Western Europe would ha ... |
T. E. Lawrence | ... tral Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D.G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley and | excavated at Carchemish. In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing ... |
Fritz Haber | In 1898, | showed that definite reduction products can result from electrolytic proce ... |
Kofi Annan | ... and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of Goldman Sachs; and | , former Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Edmond Halley | ... when naval officers had refused to take orders from civilian commander Dr. | . The impasse was broken when the Admiralty proposed James Cook, a naval o ... |
Michael Faraday | ... out his 1861 paper, derived theoretically using a molecular vortex model of | 's "lines of force" and in conjunction with the experimental result of Web ... |
Gil Evans | With | With Tommy Flanagan With Hal Galper With Stan Getz With Dexter Gordon With ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... nce. For his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–89), | , aiming to unite the two extremes of Constantinian scholarship, offered a ... |
Edward Hodges Baily | ... of 1832, stands beside Monument Metro Station and was designed and built by | and Benjamin Green. Hodges, who also built the Nelson's Column, designed a ... |
Hulse | ... of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to | and Taylor in 1993 |
Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
Newton | ... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, and | was himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ... |
Robert Hardy | ... Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987), Make and Break (with | , 1987), Can You Hear Me Thinking? (co-starring with her husband, Michael ... |
Anthony Greenwood | ... nding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, | , Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations ... |
Anthony Thwaite | ... Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – | – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – Jo ... |
Richard Schickel | ... g Ryan beguiles in three different roles." Fifteen years later, Time critic | listed it as one of his "Guilty Pleasures"; while acknowledging "there are ... |
Stewart Brand | The author and editor | once wrote: "Gary Snyder's poetry addresses the life-planet identification ... |
Bill Clinton | ... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate | , Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ... |
Geri Halliwell | ... was a #2 hit in the UK for The Weather Girls in 1984 and a UK #1 remake for | in 2001. Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band perform the Chuck Ber ... |
Chinua Achebe | ... guage means knowing how to intersperse speech with a good dose of proverbs. | (in Things Fall Apart) describes proverbs as "the palm oil with which word ... |
John Lennon | ... s a key component in individuals' personal image. Musicians Buddy Holly and | became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore to the point th ... |
Perdiccas | ... t heir. The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person of | in 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... tionship between discrete “states” and denied the possibility of causality. | established an equivalent theory based on waves in 1926; but Heisenberg’s ... |
Bill Clinton | ... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by | |
Tina Wesson | ... All-Stars were as follows: 2nd = $250,000; 3rd = $125,000; 4th = $100,000. | , the first player voted off in Survivor: All-Stars, received $25,000. In ... |
George V | ... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King | of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ... |
Charles Clarke | ... y Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister | |
Jacques d'Amboise | Other ballets include Prologue choreographed by | for the New York City Ballet in 1967 as a prequel to Shakespeare's play, O ... |
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt | A Palestinian Arab revolt broke out in April 1834 when | announced he would recruit troops from the local Muslim population. An est ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... ix cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons; however, | began to exceed the overall limit of 70, and this continued under his succ ... |
Huan Xuan | ... otably won the Battle of Fei River in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress | 's rebellion, leading to his dominance over the Eastern Jin court. In orde ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was an | (1691–1694) |
Bill Clinton | ... rétien was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and | were known to be golfing partners. Their governments had many small trade ... |
Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
Oliver Heaviside | ... ctrical engineering. Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, | , Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Sw ... |
Eudora Welty | ... rialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white: | , James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers Col ... |
Charles Scott Sherrington | ... class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under | at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Ph ... |
John Bolitho | ... one in Restormel (the party leader Dick Cole) and, until his death in 2005, | in North Cornwall. One of the MK councillors in Kerrier, Loveday Jenkin, j ... |
Robert Peel | ... of Adam Smith and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by | symbolised the emergence of free trade as an alternative system. Mercantil ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... to have him made Bishop of Worcester (and subsequently Bishop of London and | ). Dunstan remained Edgar's advisor throughout his reign |
Edmond Halley | In 1718, | discovered the proper motion of the hitherto presumed "fixed" stars after ... |
Joseph Black’s | ... also produced new concepts, such as the University of Glasgow experimenter | notion of latent heat and Philadelphia intellectual Benjamin Franklin’s ch ... |
James Cook | ... bruary 25, 1779, when Captain Charles Clerke sighted the island from aboard | 's HMS Resolution. Clerke had taken command of the ship after Cook was kil ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Queen Mother. Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then | , Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (h ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like D. H. Lawrence, | , and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. William Carlos Williams was ... |
François Langelier | ... ission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court | . Amongst its recommendations for permanently recording the celebrations f ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese. On December 13, 2002 | accepted Law's resignation as Archbishop and reassigned him to an administ ... |
Cecil Taylor | Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), | , Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006) ... |
Emilio Segrè | ... by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and | . For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what ... |
John Arbuthnot | ... sy. The attacks by Alexander Pope (he was assigned a niche in The Dunciad), | and others demonstrated their inability to appreciate his work, as they co ... |
Charles Mingus | Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), Cecil Taylor, | , Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and Anthony Br ... |
Martin Litchfield West | ... ace between two opposite army camps where champion combat would take place. | has pointed out that a story very similar to that of David and Goliath app ... |
Lord Liverpool | ... ent of peace during 1814, corn prices decreased, and the Tory government of | passed the 1815 Corn Law. This resulted in serious rioting in London |
Stephen Leacock | In Canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene. | was one of the best known early Canadian satirists, and in the early 20th ... |
Lynne Jones | ... er with the Member of Parliament for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency, | of which most of the ward is part. However, meetings are well attended wit ... |
Revilo P. Oliver | ... hile others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist | and the Korean-American Mike Kim) |
Andrew Dasburg | Parisian born | (1887–1979) was one of the earliest friends of Luhan to come and stay in T ... |
Daniel Solander | ... e Royal Society representatives: naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks' assistants | and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles Green, and artists Sydney Parkinson ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ber 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President | that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts ... |
ABC 33/40 | ... re, such as WJSU-TV (WJSU is a local broadcast station for Birmingham-based | ), WBRC-TV (Fox), and WVTM-TV (NBC). Alabama Public Television erected its ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, | , and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ... |
Alexander Fleming | ... tibiotics. Penicillin, a drug produced by P. chrysogenum, was discovered by | in 1929, and found to inhibit the growth of Gram positive bacteria (see be ... |
Bill Clinton | ... nee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat | . Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law ... |
Benoît Mandelbrot | It was discovered by | that changes in prices do not follow a Gaussian distribution, but are rath ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
Frank Macfarlane Burnet | The pathogen of Q fever was discovered in 1937, when | and Mavis Freeman isolated the bacterium from one of Derrick’s patients. I ... |
George MacDonald Fraser | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by | (1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schoolda ... |
Bill Clinton | ... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President | seized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ... |
Daubenton | In 1799 he succeeded | as professor of natural history in the Collège de France. In 1802 he becam ... |
Prince Charles | ... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". | wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and | . At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ... |
Bill Clinton | ... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President | into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ... |
Johann Christoph Pepusch | ... Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by | . The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became hou ... |
Baddeley | ... short-term memory is distinct from these more hypothetical concepts. Within | 's influential 1986 model of working memory there are two short-term stora ... |
Domingo de Soto | ... anish School of Salamanca writers Francisco de Vitoria (1480 or 1483–1546), | (1494–1560), Martin de Azpilcueta (1491–1586), and Luis de Molina (1535–16 ... |
Satyendra Nath Bose | ... assert that “God does not play dice with the universe”. Also in the 1920s, | 's work on photons and quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose- ... |
DeFontes Broadcasting Ltd. | ... g companies in Bermuda: (BBC, not to be confuse with the BBC in the UK) and | (VSB). The Bermuda Broadcasting is a privately held corporation. The BBC o ... |
Stan Walker | Other singers in the R&B/soul genre include Jade MacRae, Israel Cruz, | and Ricki-Lee Coulter, who experimented with R&B for her first two albums, ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic | came to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabili ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... that Marie de France was known at the court of King Henry II and his wife, | . A contemporary of Marie, the English poet Denis Piramus, mentions in his ... |
George V | ... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of | . He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... st selling album in the world. Black Sabbath had split with original singer | in 1979 and replaced him with Ronnie James Dio, formerly of Rainbow, givin ... |
Earle Birney | ... elling Place (1961) was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poet | edited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). He also collaborated with L ... |
Cavalier-Smith | ... rmed in the early 1990s by genetic studies, most notably by Gajadhar et al. | , introduced the formal name Alveolata in 1991, although at the time he ac ... |
Thomas Young | ... don, where John Dalton argued for an atomistic interpretation of chemistry, | argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, and Michael Faraday esta ... |
Emperor Wu of Liang | ... pass power of rule onto their heirs to continue their dynasty successfully. | (502–549 AD), however, was the most notable ruler of his age, being a patr ... |
Günter Grass | ... ) and even after World War II (as the 'Static' poet). He was referred to in | 's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht ... |
James Cook | ... rth-western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and the Fijian islands. | explored the Pacific islands and the east coast of Australia in the 18th c ... |
Maxwell | ... hen N = 3 or 1 are both problems avoided. In 1922, Hermann Weyl showed that | 's theory of electromagnetism works only when N = 3 and T = 1, writing tha ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... as of London, and later Thomas à Becket; circa 1118 – 29 December 1170) was | from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and | , he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ... |
James II | ... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators against | in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ... |
Richard Feynman | ... adequately resolved until after World War II ended, when Julian Schwinger, | , and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga independently posited the technique of renormaliz ... |
Robert Stephenson | ... of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, | , engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor ... |
Ricki-Lee Coulter | ... ers in the R&B/soul genre include Jade MacRae, Israel Cruz, Stan Walker and | , who experimented with R&B for her first two albums, Ricki-Lee (2005) and ... |
Ruth Padel | ... in 2006 which left him "babyish" and "on the brink". Poet and Forward judge | described the work as "a collection of painful, honest, and delicately wei ... |
Anthony Braxton | ... arles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and | (Radano 1993, 110) cite Stockhausen as an influence |
Robert Stephenson | ... ology. It was based on experience gained from earlier designs by George and | , including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814); Locomotion No 1 (1 ... |
Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of | . The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ... |
William Bligh | In 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty against | led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pi ... |
Colm Tóibín | ... and delicately weighted poems...a wonderful and humane achievement". Writer | described Human Chain as "his best single volume for many years, and one t ... |
Queen Olga of Greece | ... Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents were | and the Mayor of Corfu |
Michael Palin | ... peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and | . The dedication displays photos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and ... |
KTLA | Hearn was the long-time host of Bowling for Dollars on | (1972-1977); KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV (1978). He called the closed-circuit tele ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... e mainly owed his immunity. He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of | or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple ... |
Bill Clinton | ... counties, its voters often favor Republican and conservative issues. While | did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, Georg ... |
Marian McPartland | A CD recording of a collaboration with | on her show Piano Jazz was released in 2005. It featured Costello singing ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... claration on Christian Education. It was promulgated on October 28, 1965 by | , following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,290 to 35 |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himself | and invaded the south to reunify China |
James Cook | ... given to the mountain in 1851 by Captain John Lort Stokes to honour Captain | who first surveyed and circumnavigated the islands of New Zealand in 1770. ... |
Noam Chomsky | The formalism of context-free grammars was developed in the mid-1950s by | , and also their classification as a special type of formal grammar (which ... |
Karl Marx | ... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and | , as one of the three principal architects of modern social science |
Brian Aldiss | A contemporary of | and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ... |
KCAL-TV | ... the long-time host of Bowling for Dollars on KTLA (1972-1977); KHJ-TV (now | (1978). He called the closed-circuit television broadcast of the first Ali ... |
Richard Porson | ... holars such as R Dawes, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt, | , Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and James Henry Monk. Although the Dutch ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist | |
Jürgen Habermas | ... phy of convergence proposed by the Frankfurt School (e.g. Theodor W. Adorno | ) |
J. Presper Eckert | ... rties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to John Mauchly and | , which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Rand. In the 1973 decis ... |
Pope John XXIII | On 15 December 1958, Luciani was appointed Bishop of Vittorio Veneto by | . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 27 December from ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ter the final episode of his season aired), he was lauded by then-President | . Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, Judd Winick, went on to be ... |
Lord Acton | ... ecursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including Macaulay and | , have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for su ... |
Shiffrin | ... is referred to as the "modal model" and has been most famously detailed by | . The exact mechanisms by which this transfer takes place, whether all or ... |
Charles Tilstone Beke | ... raphical results and his political intrigues. He was especially attacked by | , who impugned his veracity, especially with reference to the journey to K ... |
John Mauchly | ... ght by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to | and J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Ra ... |
Macaulay | ... Borgia the precursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including | and Lord Acton, have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the adm ... |
Richard Bowdler Sharpe | ... us name for grebes and European ones, following Nicholas Aylward Vigors and | , for divers. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature trie ... |
Girolamo Bortignon | In 1947, he was named vicar general to Bishop | , OFM Cap, of Belluno. Two years later, in 1949, he was placed in charge o ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, | , and Lord Chancellor. As chancellor, Walter began the keeping of the Char ... |
Don Zagier | In 1975, number theorist | commented that primes bot |
Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
Edward VIII | ... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of | . Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ... |
Linacre | ... d it, before considering Lily. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "with Grocyn and | as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England possessed". Lily ... |
Charles II of England | ... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of | in 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ... |
Ada Louise Huxtable | ... crowds visited the new museum, and critics generally voiced their approval. | wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was "a palatial statement ... |
Joseph Locke | ... ar driven by his brother Robert Sr. and Rocket driven by assistant engineer | . The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ... |
Oscar Zariski | ... University, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard while under the direction of | . He won the Fields Medal in 1970 |
Norfolk Tides | ... play in the Coastal Plain League, a summer baseball league. In Norfolk, the | of the International League and the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hocke ... |
Patricia Churchland | ... ned with consciousness. He even collaborated with neurophilosophers such as | . In 1983, as a result of their studies of computer models of neural netwo ... |
Horace Lamb | ... l have an answer for the first." A similar witticism has been attributed to | (who had published a noted text book on Hydrodynamics)—his choice being qu ... |
Karl Popper | ... ing to the autonomous education philosophy emerged from the epistemology of | in The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, which ... |
Margaret of Anjou | ... re defeated and forced to flee to France. There, they made an alliance with | , and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in a ... |
Goethe | ... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers as | and the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ... |
Karl Marx | ... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by | . On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ... |
Grocyn | ... who refused it, before considering Lily. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "with | and Linacre as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England poss ... |
King James II | ... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, as | and his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland |
Robert Metcalfe | ... ped at Xerox PARC between 1973 and 1974. It was inspired by ALOHAnet, which | had studied as part of his PhD dissertation. The idea was first documented ... |
Charles Theodore | ... is residence to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Elector | became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In ... |
Louis XVIII | ... circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, | , the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled ... |
Max Müller | ... it was in the center of attention of western scholarship from the times of | and Rudolf Roth onwards. The Rigveda records an early stage of Vedic relig ... |
Grady Booch | Cem Kaner and | have publicly stated that the document could be improved. Many claim that ... |
William Harvey | William Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner | 's advice, very famous in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age o ... |
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore | ... in which Frederick the town was named for, but the likeliest candidates are | (one of the proprietors of Maryland ) |
William Osler | ... pprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at . | records that Hunter gave Jenner William Harvey's advice, very famous in me ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... re's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by | , Doctor Destiny escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dr ... |
Judi Dench | ... in 1994 that was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included | , Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Simon Russell Beale |
Vincent Persichetti | ... for any low-voiced instrument, such as double bass, contrabassoon, or tuba. | wrote solo works—which he called "Parables"—for many instruments. He wrote ... |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
David Boggs | ... n May 22, 1973. In 1975, Xerox filed a patent application listing Metcalfe, | , Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson as inventors. In 1976, after the system ... |
George Harrison | ... d Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, | , Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, a ... |
King James VII | ... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting for | in 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ... |
Dietrich Küchemann | ... ritish design was for a thin-winged delta shape (which owed much to work by | , then at the ) for a transatlantic-ranged aircraft for about 100 people, ... |
Giuseppe Piazzi | In 1801, the astronomer | discovered an object which he initially believed to be a comet. Shortly th ... |
Butler Lampson | ... filed a patent application listing Metcalfe, David Boggs, Chuck Thacker and | as inventors. In 1976, after the system was deployed at PARC, Metcalfe and ... |
Terry Winograd | ... ntersected with hard science in the works in natural language processing by | (1973) and the establishment of the first cognitive sciences department in ... |
Joseph Black | ... d from the Latin word calor, meaning heat. Scottish physician and scientist | , who was the first to recognize the distinction between heat and temperat ... |
Robert Caro | ... the people whose names appeared on the ballots being dead on election day. | argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells ... |
Johann Reinhold Forster | ... a suppressed name unfit for further use and establishing Gavia, created by | in 1788, as the valid genus name for the loons. However, the situation was ... |
Chinua Achebe | In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer | , author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in hi ... |
Eudora Welty's | ... dom Singers paid tribute to Evers in the haunting "Ballad of Medgar Evers." | short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From," in which the speaker is the ... |
Peter Simon Pallas | ... ted to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist | . The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the a ... |
Gideon Mantell | ... il collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare, William Buckland, and | , who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dinosau ... |
James Watt | ... acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ( | 's first partner) in 1746. He was able to greatly increase the scale of th ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said by | to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ... |
Lewis Cass | ... ine from 14,684 in 2000. Its county seat is Atlantic. It was named to honor | , who was the 1848 Democratic nominee for President |
Bligh | ... d Aitutaki around AD 900. The first known European contact was with Captain | and the crew of the HMS Bounty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, ... |
the Queen | ... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of | . However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ... |
John Cage | ... xtended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as | , Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a g ... |
William B. Sandys | ... the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822), | 's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (1833), and Thomas K. ... |
Eric Nies | ... a springboard to further success, especially in the entertainment industry. | of the cast went on to become a model, actor, and television host, and was ... |
Stephen Gray | Further work was conducted by Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle, | and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin conducted extensi ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by | , which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that |
Herschel Walker | ... upset at how top draft pick, defensive tackle Danny Noonan and running back | weren't being used enough |
Gottfried Leibniz | ... al occurrence. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and | , rejected the story |
Davies Gilbert | ... Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of | 's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822), William B. Sandys's Selection of ... |
John Roebuck | ... on of sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman | (James Watt's first partner) in 1746. He was able to greatly increase the ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
Jean-Antoine Nollet | In 1746 the French scientist and abbé | , gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in ... |
Lavoisier | ... ve quantity. The idea that heat was a conservative quantity was invented by | , and is called the 'caloric theory'; by the middle of the nineteenth cent ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even | , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca |
James B. Sumner | ... ny plants and animals. In 1937 catalase from beef liver was crystallised by | and the molecular weight was worked out in 1938 |
Carl Linnaeus | ... name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by | ) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genu ... |
Rowan Williams | The current archbishop is the Most Reverend | . He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Aug ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on | 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ... |
Sir Charles Parsons | ... lileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, | , Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Gr ... |
G. M. Trevelyan | According to the historian | , they were two of the best magistrates in eighteenth-century London, and ... |
Aaron Copland | ... t was nominated for four Oscars. The musical score was by American composer | . Running in theaters in 1939, it disappeared for many years at a time unt ... |
Frederick York Powell | ... 03 and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in succession to | in 1904. Firth's historical work was almost entirely confined to English h ... |
Xiao Yan | ... ed after Xiao Baojun killed his prime minister Xiao Yi, leading his brother | to revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared Emper ... |
Frederick William IV | ... hein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, | gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität |
Smith Hempstone | ... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador | , to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991 |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... mony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the | , thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Cathol ... |
Empress Lü Zhi | ... Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother | . Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless Gaozu ordered Liu ... |
Charles II | ... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son, | , who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister | and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ... |
Michael Johnson | ... -studded history: Pietro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions | and Donovan Bailey went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and improv ... |
Shirley Williams | ... n which the stranger replied "I'm so sorry. For a moment I thought you were | " |
Leon Kirchner | ... Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as John Cage, | and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, w ... |
Lord Kelvin | ... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and | , electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... h the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and | |
Oliver Heaviside | ... laced by vector analysis, which had been developed by Josiah Willard Gibbs, | , and Hermann von Helmholtz. Vector analysis described the same phenomena ... |
Lacey Schwimmer | ... n Season 7 of Dancing with the Stars, and was paired with swing dance champ | . They finished in third place |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... conclusion". It was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom by | to overcome the obstruction of the Irish nationalist party and was made pe ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader, | |
Henry Chadwick | The modern assessment of Priscillian is summed up in Cambridge professor | 's Priscillian of Avila: The Occult and the Charismatic in the Early Churc ... |
Jock Colville | ... Lord Chamberlain said estimates of £100 million were "grossly overstated". | , who was her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, ... |
Benjamin Franklin's | ... y. This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by | one-fluid theory later in the century |
Fred Hoyle | ... me to be called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1948, | set out his opposing steady state theory in which the universe continually ... |
Geneva | ... he IWA held a preliminary conference in 1865, and had its first congress at | in 1866. Due to the wide variety of philosophies present in the First Inte ... |
John Woodward | He first wrote satire in 1697, when he answered Dr. | 's An essay towards a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, ... |
Mike Davis | ... of India were affected and millions died, and Curzon has been criticised by | , an American Marxist, for allegedly having done little to fight the famin ... |
Britney Spears | ... lming Next to You, starring alongside Adrian Grenier. Hart asked her friend | to do a remix of her song "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and add it to the movie's ... |
Nicholas Aylward Vigors | ... ornithologists using the genus name for grebes and European ones, following | and Richard Bowdler Sharpe, for divers. The International Commission on Zo ... |
Geoffrey de Havilland | ... cism of jet engines as too fuel-hungry and unreliable, committee member Sir | , head of the de Havilland company, used personal influence and his compan ... |
Xiao Daocheng | ... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The general | slowly gained power and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his ... |
Johann von Goethe | The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet | once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ... |
Pevsner | ... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what | termed the "black-and-white revival" |
Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... d, and did not follow the metric pattern of a base unit and prefixed units. | and Elihu Thomson (through the British Association for the Advancement of ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts. | 's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. S ... |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
Alessandro Volta | In 1800 | invented the Voltaic Pile, allowing for a continuous current of electricit ... |
Malcolm McLaren's | ... s" magazine. In a November 1976 article in Melody Maker, Caroline Coon used | term "New Wave" to designate music by bands not exactly punk, but related ... |
Geoffrey de Havilland | ... known as Joan Fontaine (born 22 October 1917). Her paternal cousin was Sir | (1882–1965), an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito, a ... |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
Günter Grass | German author | is one of a number of intellectuals and commentators who have also called ... |
Peter Simon Pallas | ... on in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists Leonhard Euler and | from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to the Russian capital |
Pepys | ... Temple, ed. by TP Courtenay; C North's Examen, 26; Dalrymple's Mem. (1790) | ;'s Diary (17 Feb. 1663); Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap. iii. 295; Carte's Lif ... |
Godfrey Hounsfield | The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir | in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-ray ... |
William Crookes | ... the elements it was not until the late 1800s that the element was isolated. | observed the phosphorescent spectra of the rare elements and observed spec ... |
Mr. Fox | ... Ploweman unto Christe was "first set forth by Tindal, since, exemplified by | ." Since the language of this text is similar to that of Piers Plowman, Fu ... |
Lewis Cass | Cass County is named in honor of | , a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ... |
Richard Feynman | ... rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time. Nobel Laureate | described turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | The chief minister of Henry VIII, the | Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Roman Catholic papacy's imperium i ... |
William Petty | ... mounts of trade data and used it extensively in their research and writing. | , a strong mercantilist, is generally credited with being the first to use ... |
Roger Penrose | ... Big Bang singularity exist in the universe. The hypothesis was conceived by | in 1969. Cosmic censorship hypotheses should be distinguished from chronol ... |
Sarah Palin | Alaska Governor | was revealed as McCain's surprise choice for running mate on August 29, 20 ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... ere inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: Cornelius Castoriadis, | , and Pierre Clastres |
Baron von Zach | ... t from sight for several months, but was recovered later in the year by the | and Heinrich W. M. Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by Friedr ... |
G. N. Amdahl | ... . P. Luhn wrote an internal IBM memorandum that used hashing with chaining. | , E. M. Boehme, N. Rochester, and Arthur Samuel implemented a program usin ... |
Perdiccas | ... exander's death in 323 BC, Antigonus also received Pamphylia and Lycia from | , regent of the empire, at the Partition of Babylon. He incurred the enmit ... |
Paul Mellon | ... l Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., declared the need for a new building. | , a primary benefactor of the gallery and a member of its building committ ... |
Tonya Cooley | ... ing reality TV personalities, including herself, ' Trishelle Cannatella, 's | , and 's Coral Smith |
Alan Lomax | ... chers included , founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and | ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who he ... |
Paul R. Ehrlich | Naturalist | wrote that the Passenger Pigeon's extinction "illustrates a very important ... |
Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Sydney Brenner | ... ure was established in 2003 following an endowment by his former colleague, | , joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The lec ... |
Jenny Kwan | ... ropped to only two — MacPhail and neighbouring Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA | . They were also the only surviving members of the previous Cabinet; even ... |
Coral Smith | ... alities, including herself, ' Trishelle Cannatella, 's Tonya Cooley, and 's | |
Arthur Conolly | The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to | (1807–1842), an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's S ... |
Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ton, now part of Imperial College London) in London, studying biology under | . As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science As ... |
John Winthrop | ... House at Harvard University is named in honor of him and of his descendant | , who briefly served as President of Harvard |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... derive electric and magnetic metric units, following the recommendation of | in 1832 |
King George VI | ... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by | . The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ... |
Charles Darwin | Local attractions include Down House (the home of | ), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home of William Pitt the Younger) ... |
Friedrich Gauss | ... on Zach and Heinrich W. M. Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by | . This object came to be named Ceres, and was the first asteroid to be dis ... |
Robert Adam | ... of Luton and had Luton Hoo designed and built by the neoclassical architect | . Work commenced in 1767. The original plan had been for a grand and magni ... |
Roger Penrose | The hypothesis was first formulated by | in 1969, and it is not stated in a completely formal way. In a sense it is ... |
William Marshal | ... Life of William Marshal, which dates to soon after 1219, when word reached | , one of the richest and most influential barons, that Richard was dead, h ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
Adrian Edmondson | ... he ITV pantomime – Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, | , Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. The show was first broad ... |
Charles Lyell | ... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed by | and others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ... |
Pope John Paul I | In the work known as Illustrissimi, a collection of letters written by | when he was Patriarch of Venice, Dupanloup is one of the "recipients" of t ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... Ball was possibly the British leader most loved by the Maltese population. | became an assistant to Ball in 1804 and later described his administration ... |
Kevin Warwick | ... riment with RFID implants was conducted by British professor of cybernetics | , who implanted a chip in his arm in 1998. In 2004 Conrad Chase offered im ... |
Bill Clinton | A similar study of Asian Americans in 1998 resulted in President | presenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 to Japanese Americ ... |
John Daniell | ... y's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, | invented a primary cell in which hydrogen was eliminated in the generation ... |
Abdus Salam | ... f the electromagnetic and weak interactions in the standard model is due to | , Steven Weinberg and, subsequently, Sheldon Glashow. After the discovery, ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), | in The Prime Minister (1940), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953) (BAFTA Award ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
Julian Huxley | ... , E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Sir | , Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir C ... |
Newton | ... n Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of | . At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were m ... |
Albert Einstein | ... attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless. | and Heinrich Mann sent a letter to the International League for Human Righ ... |
Charles Darwin | This was the first stop the HMS Beagle made on its journey on which | would make his amazing discoveries |
Jamie Chung | castmate | has appeared in various television and film roles, including Dragonball Ev ... |
Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... 8, 1794, the president of the commission which developed the metric system, | , proposed in a report to the commission the names déci-jour and centi-jou ... |
Peter Ackroyd | Little Dorrit formed the backdrop to | 's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982) |
John James Audubon | ... popular, commercial hunting started on a prodigious scale. The bird painter | described the preparations for slaughter at a known pigeon-roosting site |
Margaret of Anjou | ... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen | were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ... |
Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Godfrey Hounsfield | ... and of the transverse axial scanning method – this last due to the work of | and South African-born Allan McLeod Cormack – gradually supplanted it as t ... |
Stefan Wyszyński | ... rations of the 1,000th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland led by Cardinal | and other bishops turned into a huge demonstration of the power and popula ... |
Avi Shlaim | ... mission, without the consent of their commander, as described by historian | |
Bill Clinton | ... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nominee | responded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ... |
William Buckland | ... sh geologists and fossil collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare, | , and Gideon Mantell, who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, ples ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and | 's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought |
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute | # | (30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814 |
André-Marie Ampère | In 1821, | suggested that telegraphy could be done by a system of galvanometers, with ... |
WGNT | ... television affiliates are WTKR-TV 3 (CBS), WAVY 10 (NBC), WVEC-TV 13 (ABC), | 27 (CW), WTVZ 33 (MyNetworkTV), WVBT 43 (Fox), and WPXV 49 (ION Television ... |
D.S.Falconer | The "reeler" mouse was described for the first time in 1951 by | in Edinburgh University as a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mi ... |
John Lennon | ... ly Damage Your Health. She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member | ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after multiple failed ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... l style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and | helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author). ... |
Cotton Mather | ... ntless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "infinite multitudes," and | described a flight as being about a mile in width and taking several hours ... |
John Lennon | ... s by Glyn Johns of the Get Back album (which would later become Let It Be). | may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get Back bootlegs; L ... |
Maynard Smith | ... opt T instead of S. This fact represents the point of departure of the ESS. | and Price specify two conditions for a strategy S to be an ESS. Eithe |
Charles Dickens | ... ationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, | , Hippocrates, and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, ... |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented by | in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system |
John Eccles | Popper and | speculated on the problem of free will for many years generally agreeing o ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... is John Kerry, who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator | on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is Scott Brown, who won the special ... |
Thomas Telford | The road was re-paved in the early 19th century by | who brought it back into use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches br ... |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
James Watt | A fundamental change in working principles was brought about by | . In close collaboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in ... |
Michael Palin | ... yika featured in the documentary series Pole to Pole. The BBC documentarian | stayed on board the MV Liemba and traveled across the lake |
Paul VI | ... mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of Pius XII or | . Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact that he was ... |
Joseph Black | ... ncept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by | in 1762. The term 'latent heat of expansion' is also used. The latent heat ... |
Geneva | ... ano Maria Tomasi at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in | on 22 September 2009, the Holy See stated that the majority of Catholic cl ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark. | has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ... |
Randy Jackson | ... es, Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Foxworthy, Kix Brooks, Bob Kingsley, Crook & Chase, | , Walt Love, Al Gross, Dick Bartley, and (via reruns) Casey Kasem. Other t ... |
Michael Longley | ... was born. A second son, Christopher, was born in 1968. That same year, with | , Heaney took part in a reading tour called Room to Rhyme, which led to mu ... |
Adrian Sanders | ... d until 1997 Torbay constituency was a safe Tory seat, but Liberal Democrat | overturned spy writer Rupert Allason's majority by just 12 votes in 1997, ... |
Huygens | ... ad to be justifiable in terms of direct physical action, a position held by | and the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who, while following in the ... |
Tori Spelling | In guest appearances, Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty and | reprised their roles as Kelly Taylor, Brenda Walsh and Donna Martin, respe ... |
Cleopatra II of Egypt | ... 138 BCE), Ptolemy VI of Egypt (reigned 163–145 BCE), and Ptolemy's co-ruler | were deteriorating, and they supported a rival claimant to the Seleucid th ... |
George V | ... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 and | announced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... either of these writers treated the four-parameter rotations as an algebra. | had also discovered quaternions in 1819, but this work was only published ... |
William Grove | ... alloying the amalgamated zinc with mercury would produce a better voltage. | produced the first fuel cell in 1839. In 1846, Wilhelm Weber developed the ... |
Isabel Bayrakdarian | ... rina Allegrova, Garou, Alla Pugacheva, Shadmehr, Ian Gillan, Hasmik Papian, | , Siavash Ghomayshi, Space, Bambir, Grigory Leps, George Benson, and many ... |
Queen Elizabeth | In 1939, King George VI and | toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
Prince Henry | ... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son | , Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ... |
Nicholas Bye | ... r 2005, the winning candidate was a former Liberal Parliamentary Candidate, | , who won the election as a Conservative |
Lady Margaret Beaufort | ... III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of | . However, on the accession of Henry VII following the Battle of Bosworth ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the | 's brother Henry Wellesley and later - in one of the period's more celebra ... |
Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
William Penn | The status continued unofficially until the area was included in | 's charter for Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1682. During this later period ... |
A. C. Grayling | ... nor do I see why I should. I'm a historian." Similarly, British philosopher | has described British area bombardment as an "immoral act" and "moral crim ... |
Paul Tillich | ... dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of | and Henry Nelson Wieman". A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his disser ... |
Oscar Peterson | ... erforming in festivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, | , Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She ... |
Osvaldo Golijov | ... Bûcher, Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion, René Clemencic Kabbala, and | La Pasión según San Marcos. Oratorios by popular musicians include Paul Mc ... |
Henry Cowell | ... Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, | , Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzys ... |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | ... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed against | is a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ... |
Bill Clinton | ... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President | ), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ... |
Geneva | ... he principles of John Calvin which Knox had been exposed to while living in | , Switzerland. In 1560, the Scottish Parliament abolished papal jurisdicti ... |
John Aubrey | ... lton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. [The writer] | (1626-97) tell us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in ab ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by | . One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greate ... |
Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... hysics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser. | developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the un ... |
Ampère | ... eld exerts a force on a current. The phenomenon was further investigated by | , who discovered that two parallel current-carrying wires exerted a force ... |
John Smeaton | ... e joint patent expired, of which 14 were abroad. In the 1770s, the engineer | built some very large examples and introduced a number of improvements. A ... |
Lord Melbourne | ... . The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was William IV, who dismissed | in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 removed the monarch's authori ... |
Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | ... Johnson was offered the vice-presidential nomination. Some sources (such as | 's) state that Kennedy offered the position to Johnson as a courtesy and d ... |
Benjamin Barber | ... ation issues from a number of internationally recognised experts, including | (formerly an adviser to President Bill Clinton), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (U ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | named after | |
George Martin | ... lbum, Only Visiting This Planet, the first album in a projected trilogy, in | 's London AIR Studios. Only Visiting This Planet, which was "Initially coo ... |
Adrian Edmondson | ... French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and | began their careers. The stand-up comedy circuit rapidly expanded from Lon ... |
Charles Hatchett | ... ng Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of | who discovered niobium |
Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
Walter Kauzmann | ... bonding, an idea first put forth by William Astbury in 1933. Later work by | on denaturation, based partly on previous studies by Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang, ... |
G. H. Hardy | ... ng the topic. In particular, number theorists such as British mathematician | prided themselves on doing work that had absolutely no military significan ... |
Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
Meredith Monk | ... minimalist works of Philip Glass, a Baltimore native based out of New York, | and others |
Kathy Griffin | ... stand-up performance in Saratoga, California, Wozniak began dating comedian | . Together, they attended the 2007 Emmy Awards, and he subsequently made m ... |
Paul McCartney | ... h-profile concerts. Linkin Park, The Prodigy, t.A.T.u., Shakira, Scorpions, | , Roger Waters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other celebrities performed the ... |
Bill Clinton | ... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating that | was in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ... |
Milton Friedman | ... ughart. The book also received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, | , and Thomas Sowell |
John Maynard Smith | Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by | and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper. Such was the time taken in pee ... |
Sten Sture the Elder | ... outside Stockholm) October 1471 where he was defeated by the Swedish regent | who was supported by the Danish-Swedish nobleman's clan the Thott family. ... |
Donald Knuth | In 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler with | and David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Soci ... |
William Trevor | ... Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in | 's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea ... |
Winston Churchill | ... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as | , Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... klin. Crick and Watson felt that they had benefited from collaborating with | . They offered him a co-authorship on the article that first described the ... |
Linus Pauling | In the book The Nature of the Chemical Bond, | credits T. S. Moore and T. F. Winmill with the first mention of the hydrog ... |
Steve Fossett | More recently, in 2001, | passed over just south of Aitutaki in the balloon Solo Spirit during his r ... |
Walter Burley | ... Eleatics and sceptics are treated under the Italic. From the statements of | (a 14th-century monk) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of ... |
KVER-CA | ... ix Spanish-language networks (local or regional affiliates like KUNA-LP and | ), some are over-air signals from Mexico. About eight Los Angeles televisi ... |
Sir Paul McCartney | ... , are entitled to the honorific "Lady" before their husband's surname. Thus | 's ex-wife was formally styled Lady McCartney (rather than Lady Paul McCar ... |
Paul McCartney | ... second greatest and most important cultural event of the rock and roll era. | , who participated in Uncuts poll stated, "It's the way [Presley] sings it ... |
George Martin | Compiled by producer | and the (then) three surviving members of the band, 1 includes the 27 Beat ... |
William Herschel | ... old. It was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir | (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicti ... |
Joan Rivers | ... ntreux" at the Montreux Comedy Festival in 1985. In 1986 he was sidekick to | on her UK talk show. He appeared as Mr Jolly in 1987 in The Comic Strip Pr ... |
William Astbury | ... secondary structures based on hydrogen bonding, an idea first put forth by | in 1933. Later work by Walter Kauzmann on denaturation, based partly on pr ... |
Joseph Locke | ... railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant | who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... tromagnetic waves can travel over some distance. This had been predicted by | and Michael Faraday. With his apparatus configuration, the electric and ma ... |
Aneurin Bevan | ... y J. B. Priestley on "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", which was critical of | for changing his mind about nuclear weapons and ceasing to advocate unilat ... |
Da Brat | ... rs, including Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, | , Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., Foxy Brown, and Lisa Lopes from T ... |
KUNA-LP | ... alley, and six Spanish-language networks (local or regional affiliates like | and KVER-CA), some are over-air signals from Mexico. About eight Los Angel ... |
Kirk Varnedoe | ... s of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in | and Adam Gopnik's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Ar ... |
Bill Clinton | ... sted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, | and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras a ... |
Harold Pinter | ... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". | read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... tromagnetic telegraph was created by Baron Schilling in Russia, and in 1833 | and Wilhelm Weber invented their own code to communicate over a distance o ... |
Fynes Moryson | In | 's "Itinerary" (1617) is a similar allusion to the habit of carrying umbre ... |
King Juan Carlos I | On 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility by | with the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (English: Marquis of ... |
Britney Spears | On September 4, 2003, | , Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith and others performed in a nati ... |
Missy Elliott | ... een a number of female rap stars, including Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Lil' Kim, | , Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M.I.A., Foxy Brow ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... nalism, Chauvinism", in The Review of Politics 7.4, (October 1945), p. 457, | , the political theorist, describes the concept |
Edward Ruscha | Bridget Riley, | , an |
Britney Spears | ... ured a soundtrack which included previously unreleased songs by 'N Sync and | . Bass collaborated with Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and Tru ... |
Margaret Drabble | ... arrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966). Also, Arnold Bennett: A Biography by | (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1974) |
Max Perutz | ... hese data were shown to them, without her knowledge, by Maurice Wilkins and | . Her experimental results provided estimates of the water content of DNA ... |
KESQ-TV | ... 's radio stations are licensed to Indio: KESQ 1400 AM (in Spanish) owned by | /KDFX-CA, KKUU 92.7 FM (Urban/Hip-hop/R&B) owned by Morris Communications, ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... l, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as | , Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. The world was changing rapidly, ... |
Robert Caro | ... life by an exceptional lust for power and control. As Johnson's biographer | observes, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was u ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... e of about a million at his home city of Lyon, in celebration of a visit by | . Watching from Lyon Cathedral, the Pope began the concert with a good-nig ... |
Marc Isambard Brunel | ... o produce concrete. Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer | several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel |
Hailsham | ... ial act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords Home and | were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting the ... |
John Vane | ... throps jararaca, a South American pit viper, in 1965. Ferreira then went to | 's laboratory as a postdoctoral with his already-isolated BPF. The convers ... |
Frederick Sanger | The first protein to be sequenced was insulin, by | , in 1949. Sanger correctly determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, ... |
Robert Adam | ... istic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, Tobias Smollett, | , William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably to the Scotti ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia | ;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip |
Neil Gaiman | ... of sub-stories in the Season 17 episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". | 's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples ... |
Edgar F. Codd | Tuple calculus is a calculus that was introduced by | as part of the relational model, in order to provide a declarative databas ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... ident. Ickx finished second in the drivers' championship, with 37 points to | 's 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three f ... |
George Nares | ... oratories for natural history and chemistry. The expedition, led by Captain | , sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval office ... |
Paul Samuelson | ... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed, | , writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ... |
William Julius Wilson | Rustin's analysis was supported by the later research by | . Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ... |
John Sayles | ... had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and | launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining ... |
Andrew Wiles | ... ts Murray Gell-Mann in 2002, Steven Weinberg in 2005, and the mathematician | in 2003) take a walk from Dunsink Observatory to the Royal Canal bridge wh ... |
WVBT | ... CBS), WAVY 10 (NBC), WVEC-TV 13 (ABC), WGNT 27 (CW), WTVZ 33 (MyNetworkTV), | 43 (Fox), and WPXV 49 (ION Television). The Public Broadcasting Service st ... |
Kirk Varnedoe | ... with all uses of the term postmodern there are critics of its application. | , for instance, stated that there is no such thing as postmodernism, and t ... |
Charles Dickens | ... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, | and Christopher Marlowe |
George V | ... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King | , responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ... |
James Cook | Captain | , in one of his voyages, sees some of the natives of the South Pacific Isl ... |
Richard Claverhouse Jebb | ... ipus the King, even if they don't always agree on the reasons. For example, | claimed that "The Oedipus Tyranus is in one sense the masterpiece of Attic ... |
Wilhelm Ostwald | ... the behaviour of dilute solutions and gases. In 1887, he and German chemist | founded an influential scientific magazine named Zeitschrift für physikali ... |
Einstein's | ... inguishes these spaces from the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and | general theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician Euc ... |
Elizabeth II | On 17 May 2011, | became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ... |
Leslie Orgel | ... rned with the origins of the genetic code. In 1966, Crick took the place of | at a meeting where Orgel was to talk about the origin of life. Crick specu ... |
James Cook | The name Anchor Point comes from a legend that when | discovered the area, he lost an anchor. Settlers came beginning in the ear ... |
Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
famous physicist | ... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the | ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ... |
Charles II of England | The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was | 's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ... |
John Evelyn | ... ge parasol of the Chinese Government officials, borne by native attendants. | , in his Diary for June 22, 1664, mentions a collection of rarities shown ... |
George V | ... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon. | , who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ... |
Bill Clinton | ... mocrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Michael Faraday | ... ern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, | , Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Th ... |
James II | ... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successor | attempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ... |
King George II | ... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by | . Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ... |
R. M. Hare | ... legedly exercised an important influence on the work of Plato. According to | , this influence consists of three points: (1) The platonic Republic might ... |
James Cook | ... as reputed to be Commodore John Byron in 1765, the immediate predecessor of | 's more famous explorations of the Pacific between 1769-1779. With the gro ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of Thomas Becket, the | . The problem for the King was that the Church acted like an imperium in i ... |
James Randi | ... of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, | , and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Eva ... |
Rupert Brooke | ... this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. ( | , whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) Hamo's death hit ... |
James B. Sumner | ... s as enzymes in living organisms was not fully appreciated until 1926, when | showed that the enzyme urease was in fact a protein |
John Locke | ... ote a manual for the education of young children, drawing from the ideas of | , and founded (1764) the famous Smolny Institute, which admitted young gir ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... ubjectively aware of by way of introspection. Rey suggests that people like | are wrong to view "beliefs" as only being useful instruments by which Folk ... |
W. D. Hamilton | The concept was derived from R. H. MacArthur and | 's work on sex ratios, derived from Fisher's principle, especially Hamilto ... |
Nelly Furtado | At the 2007 ceremony, host | made Juno history by being the first nominee with multiple nominations to ... |
Lord Bassam of Brighton | ... recruits to the same terrorist training camps in Pakistan used by Al Qaeda. | , then Home Office minister, stated that International Sikh Youth Federati ... |
Lil' Kim | ... ere have been a number of female rap stars, including Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, | , Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, M. ... |
Ryan Seacrest | ... 970; current hosts of countdown shows in various formats include Rick Dees, | , Jeff Foxworthy, Kix Brooks, Bob Kingsley, Crook & Chase, Randy Jackson, ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | | , one of the most influential mathematicians of the early 19th century, de ... |
Sir Charles Parsons | ... extracted from wind or flowing water. The modern steam turbine invented by | in 1884 today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the worl ... |
Joan Rivers | ... te include Graydon Carter, the editor of the magazine Vanity Fair, comedian | , actress Christine Baranski, and bandleader Peter Duchin. Past notable re ... |
Walter William Skeat | ... rface of the water. Robinson replied, "A schooner let her be." According to | , the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from th ... |
Bruce Cockburn | A Humanitarian Award was inaugurated in 2006. | was the first artist to be given this honour |
Albert Einstein | ... rtz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by | ) when he noticed that a charged object loses its charge more readily when ... |
Alexander von Humboldt | On August 15, 1801, the Prussian scientist | reached Fontibón where Mutis, and began his expedition to New Granada, Qui ... |
Bill Clinton | President | performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded to McEwen by stating that | had been heckled in his maiden speech, and had responded, "The time will c ... |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... tant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and | . These men were following in his footsteps. Stephenson was also farsighte ... |
Wheatstone | ... ed the electrical telegraph, demonstrated commercially in 1837 by Cooke and | , was one of its earliest applications. With the construction of first int ... |
Brenda Maddox | ... blish two additional papers from King's College along with the helix paper. | suggested that because of the importance of her experimental results in Wa ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... ta. Asked how it felt having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like bei ... |
Michael Faraday | ... avel over some distance. This had been predicted by James Clerk Maxwell and | . With his apparatus configuration, the electric and magnetic fields would ... |
Charles Darwin | ... y was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, | , Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and in ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | The district of Altötting was established in 1837. The current | was born here 1927 in the village of Marktl |
Charles Darwin | ... g and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by | during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contribu ... |
Walter Pater | ... about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and | |
Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
Jeremy Taylor | ... choly Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and | , whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectiv ... |
Mo Mowlam | ... ters played the late MP and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, | in a drama for Channel 4, broadcast in early 2010. She had misgivings abou ... |
Jon Trickett | ... The rally was attended by over 1,000 people. It was addressed by Labour MPs | , , , , and , and of and of the . In the House of Commons, 161 MPs (88 of ... |
Pope John Paul II | ====2003==== | stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ... |
Linus Pauling | ... se A become a major target for biochemical study for the following decades. | is credited with the successful prediction of regular protein secondary st ... |
Charles Dickens | ... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by | , and in this folk rhyme |
Max Hastings | ... f the city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to | , by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irreleva ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... le:Sir Joshua Reynolds 008.jpg|Colonel John Hayes St. Leger (detail) by Sir | File:Thomas Rowlandson (12).jpg|Rowlandson often satirised the military Fi ... |
William Oughtred | ... ff an interest in sundials. In the summer of 1663, he read Wingate's Canon, | 's Canon, and Thomas Stirrup's Art of Dialling. At about the same time, he ... |
Alexander von Humboldt | ... poor to develop the telegraph on their own, but they received funding from | . Carl August Steinheil in Munich was able to build a telegraph network wi ... |
Bill Gates | ... t's INS to the Bettman Archive. Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder | 's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of U ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ecipients be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, President | presented the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With ... |
W. W. Skeat | All modern discussion of the text revolves around the classifications of | . Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only t ... |
W. T. Tutte | ... recorded as being studied by R. L. Brooks, C. A. B. Smith, A. H. Stone and | at Cambridge University |
Norfolk Tides | ... state on MASN. When the New York Mets ended their long affiliation with the | in 2007, the Orioles adopted the minor league club as their top level (AAA ... |
Frank Spedding | ... tion from Bayan Obo, China, with an even "richer" europium content of 0.2%. | , celebrated for his development of the ion-exchange technology that revol ... |
James Gibbs | ... ll) in 1716, the 'Pagan Temple' (designed by the Catholic Baroque architect | ) and the Rustic House (designed by Lord Burlington) |
Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
Princess Anne | ... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 and | in 1950 |
Lord Camden | ... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of | , the champion of colonial rights |
Reginald Pole | ... ed only in the order of cardinal deacons. For example, in the 16th century, | was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest. In 1917 it wa ... |
John Lennon | ... t and actor of English, Japanese and Irish Descent. He is the only child of | and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather ... |
Charles Darwin | ... from speculating about the gradual transmutation of species, right up until | published On the Origin of Species more than two decades after Cuvier's de ... |
Averil Cameron | ... iastical history—a genre that was founded by Eusebius of Caesarea. However, | has argued convincingly that Procopius' works reflect the tensions between ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, | , and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a r ... |
Robert Harkness | ... the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geologist | was schooled in Dumfries and subsequently resided in the town. Sir Frank W ... |
Steven Lukes | In Power: A radical view (1974) | outlines two dimensions through which power had been theorised in the earl ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... Dick's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in | 's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49. The Pynchon novel features "The Scope" ... |
Charles Wheatstone | ... l electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and | . Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837 as an alarm system, and it ... |
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | ... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to | , at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ... |
Fred Donner | In his book The Early Islamic Conquests (1981), | argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominen ... |
Sydney Brenner | Crick addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with | , Aaron Klug, and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's wo ... |
John Penn | ... n a very small scale, Crimean War gunboat engines designed and assembled by | of Greenwich are recorded as the first instance of the application of mass ... |
Goethe | ... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by | or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ... |
Adam Smith | ... t. A number of scholars found important flaws with mercantilism long before | developed an ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, Dudl ... |
William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
Albert Einstein | ... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation. | dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ... |
Lloyd George | ... , India, at the time) and had lost “his old pompous ways”. Curzon served in | 's small War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916. I ... |
Charles Darwin | William Charles Wells, predecessor to | on the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geolo ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ntly screened it in the White House, as did many other American presidents. | cited High Noon as his favorite film and screened it a record 17 times at ... |
Aaron Klug | ... k addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with Sydney Brenner, | , and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's work, they spe ... |
Miranda Seymour | ... edition published as Under the Influence, 1979), and also was the basis for | 's novel The Summer of '39 (1998). In 1939 Riding and Graves parted, and i ... |
Joseph Rotblat | ... ard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and | |
Harold Pinter | ... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and | 's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ... |
King Charles II | By 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with | , who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ... |
Peter Ustinov | ... originally intended to be performed by a cast including Spike Milligan and | , but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once they realised he co ... |
Carl Benjamin Boyer | ... e finite.". He also provided a wrong explanation of the rainbow phenomenon. | described Avicenna's ("Ibn Sīnā") theory on the rainbow as follows |
S.R. Gardiner | ... Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by | , who wrote about the same period, his books were highly regarded |
John Locke | ... ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, Dudley North, and | undermined much of mercantilism, and it steadily lost favor during the 18t ... |
Charles Dickens | ... y), and this work sometimes led Wells to be touted as a worthy successor to | . Wells also wrote abundantly about the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes ( ... |
Paul Green | Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright | wrote The Lost Colony in 1937 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the ... |
Alfred Russel Wallace | ... in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included Michael Faraday, | , Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their work predominantly involve ... |
George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
Éamon de Valera | ... iffith's concept of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy and the new members, under | , who wanted to achieve a republic. Matters almost led to a split at the p ... |
Brian Friel | ... ish. Following the success of the Field Day Theatre Company's production of | 's Translations, Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors i ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... s each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince | . The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma |
Charles Dickens | ... Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" in | ' Hard Times (1998) and a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thir ... |
Heath Ledger | ... amily goes to Charlestown to vote on independence, Gabriel Martin played by | reads in the paper that there was an uprising in Chestertown, with British ... |
John Lennon | ... in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, | wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been w ... |
Winston Churchill | ... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with | , then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ... |
John Lennon | In a 1975 interview, | recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... of the city is built on uneven, hilly terrain of the northern section. When | plotted the plans for the city, he made the City Hall as a reference point ... |
Richard F. Lyon | Others, invented by | and sold by Xerox, used a 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integra ... |
Glenn T. Seaborg | ... discovery of americium in 1944, the periodic table had been restructured by | to its present layout, containing the actinide row below the lanthanide on ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... ossils, was subtropical, and supported an environment lush with vegetation. | suggests that Antarctica, "provided a clement and ratite-friendly land bri ... |
Ringo Starr | ... in the spring of 1962, prior to The Beatles' EMI contract, on a night when | happened to be sitting in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to bl ... |
Thomas Henry Tizard | ... sons of Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour). Also among the officers was | who had already carried out important hydrographic observations on previou ... |
Carl Linnaeus | The genus name Glycine was originally introduced by | (1737) in his first edition of Genera Plantarum. The word glycine is deriv ... |
George Antheil | Lamarr also co-invented – with composer | – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hop ... |
Michael Faraday | ... cientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included | , Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their wor ... |
WTHR | ... ffiliate WRTV (channel 6), CBS affiliate WISH-TV (channel 8), NBC affiliate | (channel 13), Fox affiliate WXIN (channel 59), and PBS local affiliate WFY ... |
Stanley Elkin | ... avid Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and | (The Magic Kingdom) |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
Hodding Carter | In 1932 | founded the now-defunct Hammond Daily Courier, which he left in 1939 to mo ... |
Harold Pinter | ... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by | from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ... |
Michael Graves | ... uilding, as they tended to celebrate postmodern architects from the US like | |
George Bernard Shaw | ... ws was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright | . He was educated at the local school, Synge Street CBS. (His first name c ... |
Josiah Wedgwood | ... otto "Am I not a Man and a Brother?" designed by the renowned pottery-maker | . The committee also sought to influence slave-trading nations such as Fra ... |
Sima Yi | ... hey were initially in a relatively stable formation. After a 249 AD coup by | , the Sima family essentially controlled Cao Wei and soon conquered Shu Ha ... |
Simon Schama | ... "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", but according to historian | this is incorrect: he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer E ... |
Henry More | ... rm "Gnosticism" does not appear in ancient sources, and was first coined by | in a commentary on the seven letters of the Book of Revelation, where More ... |
John Hutton Balfour | ... Campbell, and Andrew Francis Balfour (one of the sons of Scottish botanist | ). Also among the officers was Thomas Henry Tizard who had already carried ... |
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | ... of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after | |
Skeat | ... g.) There is little actual evidence for this proposal, and much against it. | believed that the A-text was incomplete and based his editions on a B-text ... |
Alfredo Ottaviani | ====1962====Cardinal | , Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, sent a letter w ... |
Minoru Yamasaki | ... lometre (2,300 acre) park built around Wascana Lake and designed in 1961 by | — the Seattle-born architect best known as the designer of the original Wo ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
Lawrence of Arabia | ... sly begun to support Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of the Hejaz by seconding | in 1915. The Saudi Ikhwan began conflict with Emir Feisal also in 1917 jus ... |
Philip Pullman | ... rry Potter series), and later had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of | 's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her f ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, | , has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 15 December 1969, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice by | and took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. Pope Paul creat ... |
Charles Dickens | ... character Little Dorrit (Amy) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper (née Mitton): | sometimes visited her and her family; they lived in The Cedars, a house on ... |
Murray Gell-Mann | ... ooth has organized a pilgrimage, where scientists (including the physicists | in 2002, Steven Weinberg in 2005, and the mathematician Andrew Wiles in 20 ... |
Brian Josephson | ... asha Demkina. In a self-published commentary, Nobel Prize-winning physicist | criticized the test and evaluation methods and argued that the results sho ... |
Juan de la Cierva | ... rotor disc in order to generate rotation. Invented by the Spanish engineer | to create an aircraft that could safely fly at slow speeds, the autogyro w ... |
Albert Einstein | ... tific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with | 's 1916 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed t ... |
Peggy Duff | ... . Collins was chosen as its Chairman, Bertrand Russell as its President and | as its organising secretary. The other members of its executive committee ... |
Erich Segal | ... early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with | 's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respe ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... n, Robert Graves, David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister | was wounded in the hip, leaving him with a lifelong shuffle to his walk. H ... |
Herman Boerhaave | ... the 1773 discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientist | had discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as "le cad ... |
Chyna | ... y Stiller, Al Green, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, former WWE wrestler | , and Bass's bandmates Timberlake and Kirkpatrick. The film also featured ... |
Charles Wuorinen | ... ie Kobalt (1989–90), "...a music for double bass solo and grand orchestra." | added several important works to the repertoire, Spinoff trio for double b ... |
Sir William Hamilton | ... no difficulty in giving his Sovereignty to England; and I have lately, with | , got a Note that Malta should never be given to any Power without the con ... |
Ashton Kutcher | ... wood would feature several Cedar Rapidians including actors Bobby Driscoll, | , Elijah Wood and Ron Livingston. The area has also produced a number of p ... |
James Cook | ... d Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captain | during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779 |
Charles Dickens | Novelists such as | often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... used mostly to glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by | , with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of ... |
Robert Menzies | ... red. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return to power. The Prime Minister, | , adroitly used the defection of a Soviet official to his advantage, and h ... |
James Lovelock | ... them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s The Ants, SimEarth: | ’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics and World Dynamics ... |
Robert Boyle | ... ion of an equation of state. In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemist | performed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which w ... |
Martin Kemp | ... Barbican's exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now curated by | , Marina Wallace and Joanne Bernstein. alongside other pieces by Bacon, Kl ... |
Linus Pauling | ... has a net negative sum. The initial theory of hydrogen bonding proposed by | suggested that the hydrogen bonds had a partial covalent nature. This rema ... |
Gene Amdahl | ... ipal design engineer was then-UCLA-faculty-member Lowell Amdahl, brother of | . The AN/UYK-1 was built by the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (later TRW) fo ... |
Pope John Paul II | Of the 232 cardinals that | elevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ... |
Viviane Reding | ... ating these actions to pursue its political agenda. EU Justice Commissioner | stated that the European Commission should take legal action against Franc ... |
Alan Ayckbourn | ... (1981), and Michael Gambon in a stage production at Scarborough directed by | in 1990. Gambon had been in Olivier's earlier production. In an interview ... |
WTTO | ... r, but it actually broadcasts from studios in Birmingham, simulcasting with | (channel 21). All of Birmingham's television stations are viewed in Bessem ... |
Michael Foot | ... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, | , Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat |
Pedro Zamora | ... or his poor personal hygiene, and his roommates, most notably AIDS activist | . As the show increased in popularity, Zamora’s life as someone living wit ... |
Saul Bellow | ... eventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as | and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start ... |
Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
Mel Giedroyc | ... people who were born in Epsom include television personalities Jeremy Vine, | and Michaela Strachan (born in Ewell) as well as artist Simon Starling, ac ... |
Stuart Kauffman | Dartmouth alumni in academia include | and Jeffrey Weeks, both recipients of MacArthur Fellowships (commonly call ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under | . The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... ayers, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare and | plays |
Eduardo Francisco Pironio | ... th general great joy they had elected "God's candidate". Argentine Cardinal | stated that, "We were witnesses of a moral miracle." And later, Mother Ter ... |
John Locke | ... ations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are | 's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government ... |
John Cage | ... the band. Cale, who was influenced greatly by his work with La Monte Young, | and the early Fluxus movement, encouraged the use of alternative ways of p ... |
Henry Nottidge Moseley | ... ic work was conducted by Wyville Thomson, John Murray, John Young Buchanan, | , and Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm. The official expedition artist was John J ... |
John Wilkes | The journalist | published a newspaper called The North Briton, in which both Bute and the ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... alloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though | had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising t ... |
William Charles Wells | ... appointment at the Crichton hospital his son, was educated at the Academy. | , predecessor to Charles Darwin on the theory of natural selection was ano ... |
Josyf Slipyj | ... wear Eastern-style cassocks entirely of scarlet. (There is a photograph of | , Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and Cardinal, wearing ... |
Don Coppersmith | ... 3727 ) due to Vassilevska Williams. The original algorithm was presented by | and Shmuel Winograd in 1990, has an asymptotic complexity of O(n 2.376 ). ... |
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna | ... lmar Union. He received the power from temporary Swedish regents archbishop | and lord Erik Axelsson Tott. However, Sweden being volatile and split by f ... |
Chaz | ... survived by his wife Mary Bono and children Christy, Chianna, Chesare, and | . His mother Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at ... |
Coral Smith | ... typical views about blacks imparted to s Mike Mizanin by his uncle offended | and Nicole Mitsch when he related them, and they tried to educate him on A ... |
Alan Turing | ... hers. Most influential among these was the definition of Turing machines by | in 1936, which turned out to be a very robust and flexible notion of compu ... |
Sir Richard Attenborough | Mountbatten was portrayed by Peter Harlowe in | 's 1982 epic Gandhi |
Richard Dawkins | ... plication of the law of the State". In April 2010, Christopher Hitchens and | wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humanity due to what they ... |
Snoop Dogg | ... les; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and | . Gangsta rap continued to exert a major presence in American popular musi ... |
Charles Hard Townes | ... century science, including Stephen Hawking and many nobel laureates such as | |
Adrienne Clarkson | On December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor General | as the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ... |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
Paul Tillich | ... of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. | , an important existentialist theologian following Kierkegaard and Karl Ba ... |
Missy Elliott | Aaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and | for her second album, One in a Million; it sold 3.7 million copies in the ... |
John Wesley | The Methodist Church, founded by | , upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ... |
Drew McDermott | Steve Hanks and | argued, on the basis of their Yale shooting example, that this solution to ... |
Mike Mizanin | The stereotypical views about blacks imparted to s | by his uncle offended Coral Smith and Nicole Mitsch when he related them, ... |
Peter Hogg | ... cumstances, at the expense of the government powers. Constitutional scholar | has approved of the generous approach in some cases, although for others h ... |
John Locke | ... ad scrawled, "Maybe now, there will be liberty!" and a hand-copied quote by | asserting that a man has a right to kill someone who takes away his libert ... |
A. E. Housman | ... ert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – | – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jenn ... |
Evan Seinfeld | ... . K. Simmons, Dean Winters, Scott William Winters, Kirk Acevedo, Erik King, | , David Zayas, Lauren Vélez, and Edie Falco |
Michael Clanchy | ... thor of the Tractatus, and the historian Ralph Turner agrees. The historian | says of Walter "The proliferation of documents was a European and a contin ... |
Raymond Reiter | ... default, sometimes called the commonsense law of inertia, was expressed by | in default logic |
Marina Warner | The jury included musician Neil Tennant, author | , curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired b ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... rship roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, including | and many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes |
Enrico Clementi | ... table shows atomic radii computed from theoretical models, as published by | and others in 1967. The values are in picometres (pm) |
Melissa Howard | ... gious intolerance was a point of contention among housemates Julie Stoffer, | and Jamie Murray on more than one occasion |
Tommy Lee | ... otos from the famed Stolen Honeymoon sex tape featuring Pamela Anderson and | . It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female models peeing, w ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of | , Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ... |
Elaine Pagels | ... d by modern scholarship, but in the later case considered quite possible by | (1979), who called for Buddhist scholars to try to find parallels |
Carl Friedrich Gauss' | Germain's interest in number theory was renewed when she read | monumental work Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. After three years of working ... |
Neil Gaiman | In the late 1990s, Avary was hired by Warner Bros studio to adapt | 's comic series The Sandman to the big screen. He frequently sparred with ... |
Guy of Lusignan | ... ncess Sybilla, sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, | , king |
George II | In 1737, | began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ... |
Clement Attlee | ... nomic activity. In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister | , Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become know ... |
King Edward VII | ... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as | . For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ... |
Steve Reich | ... of the later 20th-century composers, such as John Cage, John Corigliano and | , used modernist and minimalist techniques. Reich discovered a technique k ... |
John Myhill | ... roblems solvable by Turing machines with specific bounded resources include | 's definition of linear bounded automata (Myhill 1960), Raymond Smullyan's ... |
Darwin | ... fish precursors would have lived in shallow water for a long period, and by | , who predicted a gradual migration of the eye, mirroring the metamorphosi ... |
Sir Isaac Newton | ... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of | and Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ... |
Queen Caroline | His Paradise Lost (1732), suggested by | , has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the po ... |
Desmond O'Malley | ... city. He continued to speak on political issues, particularly in favour of | at the time of his expulsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to acce ... |
Bill Gates | Discussions proceeded rapidly, involving | , then CEO of Microsoft, personally. Gates called Perlman at his home on E ... |
George Bernard Shaw's | Pretty Woman bears striking resemblances to Pygmalion myths: particularly | play of the same name, which also formed the basis for the Broadway musica ... |
Richard Ellmann | | says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had ... |
Catherine de' Medici | When Italian duchess | married the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to ... |
Robert J. Flaherty | Man of Aran (1934) is a fictional documentary (ethnofiction) by | about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portra ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, | predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ... |
Hamburg cell | ... friends with Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming the | . Together, after pledging their lives to martyrdom, they became the leade ... |
Raymond III of Tripoli | ... m was left to his nephew Baldwin V, whom he had crowned as co-king in 1183. | again served as regent. The following year, Baldwin V died before his nint ... |
KRCR-TV | ... ite of KCVU, are based in Chico and ABC affiliate KAEF, a semi-satellite of | , is based in Redding. In previous decades all major networks had producti ... |
Richard Serra | ... uss argued that by 1968 artists such as Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, and | had "entered a situation the logical conditions of which can no longer be ... |
George Canning | In 1827, after a rapid decline in health, Tory Prime Minister | died in the same room where Charles James Fox had died in 1806 |
R Dawes | ... ts, by which the 18th century was distinguished, including scholars such as | , J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Pete ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of | 's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ... |
Harold Bloom | ... rthering his control over the characters . A. C. Bradley, and more recently | , have been major advocates of this interpretation. Other critics, most no ... |
Wang Mang | ... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurping | banned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ... |
John Cage | Many of the later 20th-century composers, such as | , John Corigliano and Steve Reich, used modernist and minimalist technique ... |
Christopher Tolkien | ... ed them in 1998 to New Line Cinema. The heirs of Tolkien, including his son | , filed suit against New Line Cinema in February 2008 seeking payment of p ... |
Ziad Jarrah | ... o moved to Germany in 1996 and soon became close friends with Mohamed Atta, | and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming the Hamburg cell. Together, after pledging ... |
A. N. Wilson | The friendship of Winifred and Hitler is treated fancifully in | 's novel, Winnie and Wolf (2007) |
George II | ... e United Kingdom, although the title was not then in use. The next monarch, | , witnessed the final end of the Jacobite threat in 1746, when the Catholi ... |
Steve Lacy | ... found a foothold in Europein part because musicians such as Ayler, Taylor, | and Eric Dolphy spent extended periods in Europe. A distinctive European c ... |
Patrick J. Hayes | ... pecifying which conditions are not affected by an action. John McCarthy and | defined this problem in their 1969 article, Some Philosophical Problems fr ... |
Hilary Mantel | ... ical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris. The novelist | portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wol ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... al or real—including scientists such as Thomas Edison, Charles Steinmetz or | —were popularly conceived of as having wizard-like powers |
Mohamed Atta | ... ab Emirates who moved to Germany in 1996 and soon became close friends with | , Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming the Hamburg cell. Together, ... |
Livia | ... y in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans. | had an estate there, according to Suetonius. The city under Roman control, ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
Bill Clinton | ... n a majority in the county before 2008 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
David Armitage | ... Emerich de Vattel, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and Samuel Pufendorf. Historian | has argued that the Declaration is a document of international law. Accord ... |
Thomas Keneally | ... ected by Fred Schepisi was an award winning historical drama from a book by | about the tragic story of an Aboriginal Bushranger |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened by | on 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ... |
Albert | ... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, | , Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Stuart Thomas Butler | ... stratospheric ozone. This was rectified in 1963 by the Australian physicist | and his student K.A. Small who showed that stratospheric ozone absorbs an ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and | . The former visit came amidst an historical setting after the fall of com ... |
Egon Wellesz | ... Other pupils of this generation included Heinrich Jalowetz, Erwin Stein and | , and somewhat later Eduard Steuermann, Hanns Eisler, Rudolf Kolisch, Paul ... |
Chris Daughtry | ... ep rally and concert. Featured performers have included Lonestar, Ludacris, | , and most recently Cartel, Guster and The Avett Brothers |
Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
Stephen Cook | ... speed-up theorem. The field really began to flourish when the US researcher | and, working independently, Leonid Levin in the USSR, proved that there ex ... |
Anders Celsius | In the 18th century, | performed his research there and built the first observatory proper in 174 ... |
Robert Kowalski | ... was created around 1972 by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel, based on | 's procedural interpretation of Horn clauses. It was motivated in part by ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
Rowan Williams | ... appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, | , at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, amo ... |
Jane Wiedlin | ... ) investigating the motorist's abandoned car, and a singing telegram girl ( | ), with the wrench, the lead pipe, and the gun in the lounge, the library, ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof. | proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ... |
Jean-Yves Tadié | ... brother and someone very much like himself..." — Marcel Proust: A Life, by | , 1996. Racine's influence can also be seen in A.S. Byatt's tetralogy ( Th ... |
Aaron Copland | ... f international attention. Following Gershwin, the first major composer was | from Brooklyn, who used elements of American folk music, though it remaine ... |
Twyla Tharp | In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer | , scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel f ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... extinction of the dinosaurs under which to accumulate relevant differences. | describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from th ... |
Eric Nies | ... conflict over these issues. housemate Kevin Powell had such arguments with | , Julie Gentry, and Becky Blasband. The premiere episode of the season dep ... |
Robert Kowalski | ... as popular in North America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. According to | , the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer and Ph ... |
Hulk Hogan | ... ision shows such as Saturday Night Live (on a 10th-season episode hosted by | and Mr. T), and the 1984 film Special People. In 1985, he appeared at the ... |
Albert Einstein | ... described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1905, | proposed the existence of a light-particle in answer to the question: "wha ... |
Cindy Sherman | ... Byrne and Lutz divorced in 2004. Byrne began a relationship with the artist | in 2007 |
Benoît Tremblay | ... hard was joined by five of his fellow Tories, Nic Leblanc, Louis Plamondon, | , Gilbert Chartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles R ... |
T Tyrwhitt | ... including scholars such as R Dawes, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, | , Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and James Henry Monk. Alt ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... re chanting in Skanderbeg Square Baker's famous saying of "Freedom works!". | became the first leading religious figure to visit Tirana after Mother Ter ... |
Vince Cable | ... n Time on 18 September 2008, he praised Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman | for his analysis of the ongoing economic and financial crisis, and apparen ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... "refuses to play the game" of other dramatists of the period, for instance | , who used their characters to draw audiences to grander ideals |
Nina Flowers | ... star". The first season's winner was BeBe Zahara Benet, and first runner-up | was chosen by fans as "Miss Congeniality" through voting via the show's of ... |
Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
Milton Friedman | David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and | . His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and m ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... tension of the Civil War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, | and Grant, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves ... |
Arnold Rampersad | ... ibrary of America, together with an introduction, a chronology and notes by | , a well-regarded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition ... |
Lois Wolk | ... n Joaquin is part of the 5th and 14th districts, which are held by Democrat | and Republican Tom Berryhill respectively. County government was recently ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... take on World War I, which was released in a cinematic version directed by | in 1969 |
Whitney Houston | ... Out". The record was equalled by The Bee Gees in the 1970s and surpassed by | in the 1980s. "Yesterday" also marked a turning point in who wrote number ... |
Richard Stallman | ... y Ram Samudrala in early 1994. It was based on the idea of Free Software by | and coincided with nascent open art and open information movements. Up to ... |
Charles William King | ... Buddhism was first proposed by the Victorian gem collector and numismatist | (1864). Mansel (1875,) considered the principal sources of Gnosticism to b ... |
Niels Bohr | ... e summer of 1913, this value was naturally obtained by the Danish physicist | as a consequence of his atom model, and also published independently by Pr ... |
King George V | ... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was | ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... tion of particles, regardless of whether or not free will exists. Physicist | describes such ideas in his 2010 book The Grand Design. According to Hawki ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... d current affairs from a left wing perspective. It's named after the famous | poem. Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's politica ... |
Rafe de Crespigny | Sima Guang is best remembered for his Zizhi Tongjian masterwork, and | describes him as "perhaps the greatest of all Chinese historians" |
Charles Dickens | ... ced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), | (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), ... |
Edgar Meyer | ... with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944. The classical bassist | has frequently branched out into , old-time, jazz, and other genres |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included | and C. S. Lewis) and Richard Tarnas |
Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
Terry Winograd | ... e World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge His supervisor | encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 4 September 2009, Hislop appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the | , Rowan Williams, at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and ... |
Peter Ackroyd | Other biographers, such as | , have offered a more sympathetic picture of More as both a sophisticated ... |
Peter Carey | ... German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and | , from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the s ... |
Richard Adams | ... ith his warhorse Skylark, is featured prominently in the novel Traveller by | |
Rod Blagojevich | ... he Capitol Steps, poking fun at Illinois politics, especially then-Governor | . The Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps performs the "Bottle Dance ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... ly compatibilistic (deterministic) free will is possible based on the data. | , a nobel laureate in physics and one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... |
Ronald Fisher | Along with Leonard Tippett and | , he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory. The Gumbel ... |
Zhuge Liang | ... y popularized two-character surnames and a number of important figures like | and possessed them. As of 2009, in the United States, 70,000 family names ... |
Daniel Dennett | | uses the case of the Three Mile Island accident as an example of the diffi ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... r death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in | 's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every sort f ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... e striking example of similar placental and marsupial forms is described by | in The Blind Watchmaker as a case of convergent evolution, because mammals ... |
Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
Gary Snyder | Among the Beats, | and Allen Ginsberg in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis o ... |
Ernest Rutherford | ... aper, with some unknown radiation that could not be turned off like X-rays. | continued these experiments and discovered two different kinds of radiatio ... |
Simon Blackburn | ... itions, such as those on murder, mass atrocities, and slavery. For example, | states that "apologists for Hinduism defend or explain away its involvemen ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... ongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, | as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Rog ... |
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Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
Albert Einstein | ... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of | |
Benjamin Franklin | ... uture US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) | ;(1706–1790); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muska ... |
Cormac McCarthy | ... amed for Alexander W. Terrell, a Texas state senator. It is the setting for | 's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adapta ... |
Maximilian Joseph | ... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, | , the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ... |
Richard Feynman | ... s Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicist | at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. F ... |
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Gershom Scholem | ... of Jewish spirituality. The birth of academic scholarship of Kabbalah under | , and the search for deeper Jewish spirituality, in the 20th Century, redi ... |
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Anthony Kenny | ... oment is common in science and frequently resolved with later advancements. | argues against utilitarianism using the "standard argument" against free w ... |
Richard Bentley | ... ok to bell-ringing at Great St Mary's as exercise. He was a bitter enemy of | , who he declared knew nothing of Greek except from indexes |
John Zorn | ... n-Jewish emigre composer Yaacov Bilansky Levanon in Palestine in the 1920s. | 's Masada Chamber Ensemble recorded an album called Bar Kokhba, showing a ... |
Jonathan Lethem | ... Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt, | , Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom were aware of his li ... |
Charles Dickens | ... late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and | was serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes place sevente ... |
King George II | ... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to | –making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ... |
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Neil Gaiman | ... lan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and | , have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct a ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller and | dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ... |
Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
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James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
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Ozzy Osbourne | ... mer Aynsley Dunbar, formerly of Journey, and keyboardist Don Airey from the | band and Rainbow, were brought in for the recording of the album. The albu ... |
Lewis Fry Richardson | ... famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, | and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson |
Charles Dickens | The number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and | . Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ... |
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Francis Nicholson | In September 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led by | finally captured Port Royal after a siege of one week. This ended official ... |
Lloyd George | ... es into gold – but with Keynes's help the Chancellor of the Exchequer (then | ) was persuaded that this would be a bad idea, as it would hurt the future ... |
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Winston Churchill | ... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. | claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ... |
Brigitte Nielsen | ... appeared in Webex TV commercials and magazine ads. In 2001 he recorded with | , credited as Gitta, the Eurodance track "You're No Lady" |
Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
Hanna Neumann | ... Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, | , Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson |
Pope John XXIII | ... tion of the Congregation for Rites on the application to local calendars of | 's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 July 1960 decreed that "the fe ... |
Pierre Trudeau | Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like | and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ... |
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Antoine Lavoisier | Berthollet, along with | and others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which s ... |
Alan Turing | ... ombinator is the Turing fixed-point combinator (named after its discoverer, | ) |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... 32); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817); Prime Ministers | (1809–1898) and Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenb ... |
Richard Smalley | ... of the University of Sussex), James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and | , from Rice University, discovered C 60 , and shortly thereafter came to d ... |
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George Harrison | ... nd also influenced their musical contemporaries, with both Eric Clapton and | citing the Band as a major influence on their musical direction in the lat ... |
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Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
Mousse T. | ... ventually certified platinum and double gold by the IFPI. Producers such as | and Pontus Söderqvist consulted on Now... Us!, whose media-critical leadin ... |
KTVQ | Four television stations serve Ranchester: | (CBS) and KULR (NBC) from Billings, KSWY (NBC) from Casper, and PBS statio ... |
Grant Gilmore | ... nd fiercely litigated sections of the UCC is Section 2-207, which Professor | called "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time." It governs a "b ... |
Jeremy Corbyn | ... ture the opportunity to start again". It was signed by only two other MPs ( | and John McDonnell) |
Manmohan Singh | ... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and | , pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ... |
George V | On 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as | , and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ... |
KTAB-TV | ... ne/Sweetwater/Brownwood DMA provide coverage for Mills County they include: | and KRBC-TV |
Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
Alistair Cooke | ... towering figure among the informative programmes was Letter from America by | , which was broadcast for over 50 years. For many years, a daily reading f ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... e other space advocates such as actor Tom Hanks and author and futurist Sir | . In a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" s ... |
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G. H. Hardy | ... statement of this is found in an essay written by the British mathematician | in defense of pure mathematics |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... "Runes") are the letters of a semi-artificial script which was invented by | for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. The initia ... |
Samuel Pepys | At the start of the Restoration era, on 11 October 1660, | saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, with C ... |
St. Gallen | ... , as the rule of the Carolingians waned, Magyars destroyed Basel in 917 and | in 926. Only after the victory of King Otto I over the Magyars in 955 in t ... |
Judi Dench | ... radio adaptation on 13 February 1995; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured | as "Lady Bracknell", Sir Michael Hordern as "Lane", Michael Sheen as "Jack ... |
Shmuel Winograd | ... evska Williams. The original algorithm was presented by Don Coppersmith and | in 1990, has an asymptotic complexity of O(n 2.376 ). This algorithm, and ... |
Hirohito | ... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regent | on 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident) |
Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
Henry Lipson | ... , Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist | |
José Ramos-Horta | ... born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with | , he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work "towards a just and peac ... |
Pope John Paul II | | , following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ... |
Gary McMichael | ... finally dissolved itself in 2001 following very limited electoral success. | , son of John McMichael, was the last leader of the UDP, which supported t ... |
Jack Layton | ... a promise he later reneged upon when elected as Prime Minister. NDP leader | followed suit soon after with a similar guarantee, and later Martin promis ... |
Goethe | ... es Brahms in his Rinaldo, that—like the Walpurgisnacht—was set to a text by | . Other cantatas, Beethoven's Meeresstille, works of Brahms and many notab ... |
J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
Thomas Hooker | The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. | led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and fou ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and | )—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ... |
George IV | ... orphyria, an illness rendering him incapable of ruling. His son, the future | , ruled in his stead as Prince Regent. During the Regency and his own reig ... |
James George Frazer | ... t in early records such as the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas. | asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfuncti ... |
Thomas Young | ... 00 books and manuscripts, a figure reduced to about 7,000 in seven years by | |
Paul Edmund Strzelecki | ... hest of all Australian mountains. It was named by the Polish explorer Count | in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the American Re ... |
Porson | ... mbridge, and in 1809 was elected Regius Professor of Greek in succession to | . The establishment of the classical tripos was in great measure due to hi ... |
Queen Isabella | ... became the first woman imprisoned in the Tower of London after she refused | admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, ... |
D. H. Pennington | ... r Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, | , Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had previously opposed B ... |
Ice-T | ... ck to the mid-1980s style of Philadelphia's Schoolly D and the West Coast's | , the style broadened and came to apply to many different regions in the c ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... who was the daughter of a pastor near Lausanne and who had been engaged to | . In 1764, Madame de Verménou brought Suzanne to Paris as her companion. T ... |
Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... rvations." Germain obtained the lecture notes and began sending her work to | , a faculty member. She used the name M. LeBlanc, “fearing,” as she later ... |
Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
Louis Antoine de Bougainville | ... thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, when | rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New ... |
Michael Almereyda | ... artin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker | . Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road ... |
Charles Mingus | ... iels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, were central to the history of jazz. Notably, | was a highly regarded composer as well as a bassist noted for his technica ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
George Martin | ... d an international reputation as a tourist getaway, and the record producer | established an important recording studio there, Associated Independent Re ... |
WISC-TV | ... the administration of Republican mayor Bill Dyke, a one-time personality on | who was later to run for U.S. vice president with segregationist Lester Ma ... |
Charles Richard Fairey | During the First World War the EMI factories produced aircraft. | was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fa ... |
John Arbuthnot | ... e Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, | , Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbro ... |
Wang Mang | ... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when | (r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ... |
Rupert Brooke | Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, | , Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literatu ... |
David Mumford | ... his work is now "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through | , Pierre Deligne and others) hardly includes all of the content |
Desmond O'Malley | ... he biggest crowds in the city's history. Lynch's friend and political ally, | , delivered the graveside oration, paying tribute to Lynch's sense of dece ... |
David Armitage | ... time and was consulted during the drafting process. According to historian | , the United States Declaration of Independence did prove to be internatio ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ould walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni." A fan of | 's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in sto ... |
KRBC-TV | ... r/Brownwood DMA provide coverage for Mills County they include: KTAB-TV and | |
Barbara Yorke | ... archiepiscopate, within a year of him succeeding his father. The historian | argues that there were two co-rulers of Kent after Æthelberht's death, Ead ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... s canonized by Pope Gregory XV, and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by | . Her books, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, ... |
Gavin de Beer | ... biology ('evo-devo') played little part in the synthesis, but an account of | 's work by Stephen J. Gould suggests he may be an exception |
Mike Read | ... rie would return for the band's next single, "The Power of Love", imitating | in a parody of the DJ's banning of their previous single, "Relax" |
Hedrick Smith | ... ms passed few laws of his own in part because of this bridge-burning style. | 's The Power Game depicts several senators specifically blocking Helms's g ... |
Stewart Jackson | ... de the whole Soke. The serving member for Peterborough is the Conservative, | MP , who defeated Labour's Helen Clark in the 2005 general election. In 19 ... |
Papin's | ... 1733 under a joint patent. Newcomen's engine appears to have been based on | experiments carried out 30 years earlier, and employed a piston and cylind ... |
Edward VII | ... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future | and George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
Winston Churchill | ... 945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister | , and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issu ... |
St. Gallen | ... egion 2, Kriens, Territorial Region 3 (Altdorf), and Territorial Region 4 ( | ). According to Commons, Territoral Region 3 includes Emergency Aid Battal ... |
Walter Pater | ... lvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, | and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable ... |
George Steiner | ... ewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, | , and James Fenton |
Elizabeth II | ... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen | . The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ... |
Sir Lawrence Bragg | ... y. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of | , who won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Bragg was influential ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included | , Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... d Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir | . Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, an ... |
Martin Hinds | ... was the hallmark of the good Muslim. The modern scholars Patricia Crone and | , in their book God's Caliph, outline the evidence for an early, expansive ... |
Whitney Houston | ... ow scheduled for release in August 2012. The remake stars Jordin Sparks and | , in her final film role before her death. The film will be produced and d ... |
Lloyd George | The three principal players at Versailles were Britain's | , France's Clemenceau and America's President Wilson |
George Canning | ... the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of | and Lord Goderich. Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming V ... |
Kleene | ... nistic notion of truth often leads to misinterpretations about its meaning. | formally defined intuitionistic truth from a realist position, yet Brouwer ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
George Martin | ... tles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an organ, and that | later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his Epiphone Texan steel-s ... |
Lewis Spratlan | ... h, law and society expert Austin Sarat, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer | , professor emeritus of the music faculty. (See List of Amherst College pe ... |
Charles Boyle | ... ject of academic controversy. The Christ Church College editor of Phalaris, | , resented Bentley's paper. He had already quarreled with Bentley in tryin ... |
Tawny Kitaen | ... e was boosted by heavy airplay of its videos on MTV, which featured actress | , whom Coverdale later married. None of the band members who played on the ... |
Hermann Bondi | ... es surfaces of simultaneity by considering light pulses, in accordance with | 's idea of the k-calculus. A second approach calculates a straightforward ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
David Bohm | Some quantum physicists have supported Sheldrake's hypothesis. The late | suggested that Sheldrake's hypothesis was in keeping with his own ideas on ... |
Craig Raine | ... king Jews undesirable." Eliot never re-published this book nor the lecture. | , in his books In Defence of T.S. Eliot (2001) and T. S. Eliot (2006), has ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young | was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ... |
Charles D. Coryell | ... ories at the point) in 1945 by Jacob A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin and | by separation and analysis of the fission products of uranium fuel irradia ... |
Clinton Thomas Dent | In 1885, | , president of the Alpine Club, suggested that climbing Mount Everest was ... |
William Burges | ... The current castle is an elaborately decorated Victorian folly designed by | for the Marquess and built in the 1870s, as an occasional retreat. However ... |
Eleanor of Arborea | ... rvived until 1420. The most remarkable Sardinian figure of the Middle Ages, | , was co-ruler of that region in the late 14th century; she laid the found ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
Patricia Crone | ... dicting the Quran, was the hallmark of the good Muslim. The modern scholars | and Martin Hinds, in their book God's Caliph, outline the evidence for an ... |
Richard Hare | ... in order to decide what to do, and must think as an act utilitarian would. | supported this theory with his concept of the Archangel, which holds that ... |
Charles Dickens | Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in | 's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... itle character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from | 's book , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The mov ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm with | as head of state (represented by a Governor-General) |
Herbert L. Anderson | ... which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall; the members of the team were | , Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Fr ... |
David Mundell | ... ire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale constituency and is represented by Conservative | |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
Charles Darwin | | 's On the Origin of Species was successful in convincing most biologists t ... |
Lord Dawson of Penn | George V died on 20 January 1936, after his physician, | , gave him an injection of morphine and cocaine which may have hastened hi ... |
George Martin | ... also had the chance to perform Beatles songs at the Hollywood Bowl with Sir | . He frequently conducts songwriting workshops in California, where he now ... |
Richard Ellmann | ... insisting that a playbill from the first performance be reproduced inside. | argues that the proofs show a man "very much in command of himself and of ... |
Lord Sumner | ... erning reparations. Their place was taken by the Heavenly Twins – the judge | and the banker Lord Cunliffe whose nickname derived from the "astronomical ... |
Saul Bellow | ... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate | , Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ... |
William Penn | ... here are some vague assertions that Arthur Penn, brother of the more famous | , also formed part of the Quaker community of the British Virgin Islands f ... |
George V | ... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and | ) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ... |
Richard Walker | ... e college statutes required the sentence to be exercised by the vice-master | , who was a friend of Bentley and refused to act. Although the feud contin ... |
James Fenton | ... ported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, George Steiner, and | |
Geneva | ... iting Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, | , and Athens. With him on his tour was a group that included Ras Seyum Man ... |
John Malcolm | ... a the parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sir | has an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia." In some scu ... |
Amartya Sen | In another article explicitly referring to Huntington, | (1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ... |
Marshal Mannerheim | On the eve of the Winter War, when | once again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ... |
Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
John Wilkins | ... r year he was alao elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1675 he edited | 's Principles of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of ... |
Erik Axelsson Tott | ... om temporary Swedish regents archbishop Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and lord | . However, Sweden being volatile and split by factions (benefits of union ... |
Leo Berman | ... al Area. The county is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by | (R) of Tyler. Its U.S. representative is Louie Gohmert(R), and the Texas S ... |
Patrick Bateson | ... g Sheldrake's prediction. In an independent analysis of the data, biologist | agreed with Rose that the results ran counter to the prediction of morphic ... |
Herbert L. Anderson | ... finding Fermi in his office, Bohr went down to the cyclotron area and found | . Bohr grabbed him by the shoulder and said: “Young man, let me explain to ... |
John Dryden | ... en blamed them for its destruction. For example, English Enlightenment poet | wrote, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, / Did all the matchl ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister | . The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ... |
Sue Townsend | In | 's , Adrian writes a book entitled Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in w ... |
Bill Clinton | ... cember 1996. Bishop Belo capitalised upon this honour through meetings with | of the United States and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. In 1995, he also ... |
Wiles | ... this theorem. Shimura dryly commented that his first reaction on hearing of | 's proof of the semistable case of the theorem was 'I told you so' |
Jürgen Habermas | ... tution are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, | , Karl-Otto Apel and Hannah Arendt. The campus is situated in two urban ar ... |
President Svinhufvud | ... nd Progressive) and social democratic coalition which wanted to ensure that | would not be re-elected. Kallio took a role of a parliamentarian president ... |
Ringo Starr | ... the US for one week on 30 May. This is the version released in the US with | on tambourine and session musician Andy White on drums |
Robert May | ... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist | , in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ... |
José Ramos-Horta | ... f peace and reconciliation were internationally recognised when, along with | , he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1996. Bishop Belo capit ... |
William Thomson | ... considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, | , Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid governor) |
Philip Pearlstein | ... rs continue to be utilized by artists such as Joseph Raffael, Andrew Wyeth, | , Eric Fischl, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Francesco Clemente. Mode ... |
Richard Crossman | In March 1946, British Labour Party MP | gave the following description of activity at the hotel: "private detectiv ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... spects of his self-imposed restrictions somewhat as the work progressed. As | sardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted of the last opera Götterdämmeru ... |
Sir John Randall | ... igration was made possible by the newly won influence of physicists such as | , who had helped win the war with inventions such as radar. Crick had to a ... |
The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after which | became Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ... |
Liu Yu | Liu Song founder | was originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ... |
Edward Llwyd | ... yer and his servant dying of cold in Beddgelert, noted by Welsh antiquarian | . There is also the "Cave of the black crwth player" near Criccieth, which ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to take command of the ruins on May 18. The Abbey was rebuilt after the war | ;reconsecrated it in 1964 |
Lewis Wolpert | ... who have sought to discuss his work, thoroughgoing metaphysical naturalists | and , reportedly refused to even examine his evidence—a fact cited as illu ... |
Thomas Burgess | ... Valckenaer and Johann Jakob Reiske. The Miscellanea, which was re-edited by | (1781), Gottlieb Christoph Harless (1800) and Thomas Kidd (1817), for many ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... oncorde, with the French spelling, but was officially changed to Concord by | in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the Fr ... |
The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
Philip Larkin | ... el Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – | – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... oing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health. | accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26 ... |
Anthony Kenny | ... ol. He held the post from 1965 to 1978, when he retired (he was replaced by | ). Among those of his students at Balliol who went on to develop our under ... |
William Taubman | ... hysicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer | , African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert Hadley Arkes, ... |
B. V. Bowden | The appointment of | (later Lord Bowden) in 1953 marked the beginning of a phase of expansion. ... |
Leibniz | ... rs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu. | , echoing the prevailing perception in Europe until the Industrial Revolut ... |
Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was al ... |
Thomas Firmin | ... from charges of sympathy with Socinianism in his previous associations with | , Stephen Nye and others |
Pope Paul VI | ... nisext Council. Constantine was the last pope to visit Constantinople until | did again in 1967 |
Kimora Lee Simmons | ... exclusively at Neiman Marcus prices ranging from $300 to $5000 Designed by | and launched as the initial collection. The jewellery is all hand-made, co ... |
W. H. Auden | ... and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows. | , in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit ... |
John Dryden | ... ut the flaws in human society in general and English society in particular. | wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original a ... |
Paul Berman | In his Terror and Liberalism, | proposes another criticism of the civilization clash hypothesis. According ... |
Robert Browning | Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial is the title of a poem by | from his 1876 collection, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper. It ... |
Carl Gauss | ... tions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of | , also a mathematician and physicist. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named i ... |
Bill Clinton | ... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted for | in 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ... |
Alan Ayckbourn | ... diptych of Smoking/No Smoking (1993): Resnais, having admired the plays of | for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, ... |
George Harrison | ... gy 2 compilation. On take 1, McCartney can be heard giving chord changes to | before starting, but George does not appear to actually play. Take 2 had t ... |
David Bates | ... aboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including | , Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey and Nevill Mott; he ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... egel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and | . The campus is situated in two urban areas and several buildings. In nume ... |
John Herschel | In his book Outlines of Astronomy, first published in 1849, the astronomer | wrote |
King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author | first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ... |
John C. Lettsome | ... mber of famous historical figures came from that small community, including | , William Thornton, Samuel Nottingham and Richard Humphreys. There are som ... |
A. S. F. Gow | ... ur shoulders, and brains, not pudding, in your head." His younger colleague | quotes examples of these attacks, noting that they "were often savage in t ... |
Marianne Moore | ... king him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist. | also became associated with the group during this period. However, with Wo ... |
James Bowdoin | ... ions made at high values with lower-valued paper. The merchants, among them | , were opposed, because they were generally lenders who stood to lose by s ... |
Peter Ustinov | ... herry Orchard (1954), The Potting Shed (1958), Five Finger Exercise (1959), | 's comedy Half Way Up a Tree (1967), and Private Lives (1972). Gielgud won ... |
Jill Paton Walsh | ... and which remained as fragments and notes at her death. It was completed by | and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradis ... |
Ringo Starr | ... he drummer of the fictional band The Rutles. A spoof of The Beatles drummer | |
J. B. S. Haldane | ... igures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, | , Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverik ... |
Alan Cairns | ... ntended to be a source for national values and national unity. As Professor | noted, "The initial federal government premise was on developing a pan-Can ... |
Erik Axelsson Tott | ... t tenure as monarch was preceded by regents, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and | and succeeded by regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa. Also Duke of Schleswig and H ... |
Niels Bohr | ... retation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with | , who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... ciation of Ideas). A friend, associate, and one of his chief advocates, was | (1733–1804), the discoverer of oxygen. Priestley was one of the foremost s ... |
Steven Purcell | ... defected to the Labour Party in late 2007 after praising the Leadership of | . While Alex Dingwall and Colin Deens have both defected from the SNP, bec ... |
Michael Freeden | ... alist society: sociality, social responsibility, cooperation, and planning. | in his study Ideologies and Political Theory (1996) states that all social ... |
Benjamin Baker | ... ced, and the project was subsequently taken over by Sir John Fowler and Sir | . who designed a structure that was built by Glasgow based company Sir Wil ... |
Robert Lucas | ... m Hayek's Austrian School. So successful were these criticisms that by 1980 | was saying economists would often take offence if described as Keynesians |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... n was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which | 's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film. Bakshi arrang ... |
Rafe de Crespigny | ... ave reached the court of Emperor Huan of Han (r. 146–168 CE) in 166 CE, yet | asserts that this was most likely a group of Roman merchants. Other travel ... |
Julie Bovasso | ... ood of New York City. Tony lives at home with his parents (Val Bisoglio and | ) and works at a dead-end job at a small hardware store by day. But on Sat ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ly of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin of | used the Bonheurs as an example of "Hereditary Genius" in his 1869 essay o ... |
Mo Mowlam | The Labour politician | was educated in Coventry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Soci ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... gs, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and | ) and Richard Tarnas |
Bill Kidd | ... el. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of sitting councillor, | (SNP). The resulting by-election was won by Labour candidate, Anne McTagga ... |
Emma Stone | In the 2011 motion picture The Help, the titular character played by | is seen in an oblique camera angle to have a copy of Native Son on her boo ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with | , the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ... |
C. S. Lewis | A version of Bacchus also appears in | ' Prince Caspian, part of The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis depicts him as d ... |
Michael Dummett | ... support to several schools of philosophy, most notably the Anti-realism of | . Thus, contrary to the first impression its name might convey, and as rea ... |
William Cohen | ... peacekeeping efforts on the continent. In 1998, the U.S. Defence Secretary, | , said that Morocco and the U.S. have "mutual concerns over transnational ... |
John Dryden | ... nd Hislop recounted the history of the post from the first official holder, | , to the then recently announced first female, first Scot and first openly ... |
Charles II | Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to | . In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ... |
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade | ... scribed as "the dullest problem imaginable") in the laboratory of physicist | at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II (in p ... |
Charles Babbage | ... loped by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1804), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, | , Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM. Another va ... |
Ashton Kutcher | ... are League of America, The Brett Favre Fourward Mississippi Foundation, and | 's RockWorks Foundation. Many of Bass's family members in Mississippi were ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of | 's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ... |
Geneva | ... id that the Alien Acts were aimed at Albert Gallatin, the Jeffersonian from | ; and the Sedition Act aimed at Benjamin Franklin Bache's Aurora |
Lady Margaret Beaufort | ... nd received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by | , mother of King Henry VII |
The Prince of Wales | ... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh, | , The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York |
J. R. R. Tolkien | | 's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) shares elements with De ... |
William Byrd | In 1728, | headed an expedition sent to determine the true boundary between Virginia ... |
Henry Briggs | Common logarithms are sometimes also called Briggsian logarithms after | , a 17th-century British mathematician |
Francis Galton | ... family was renowned as a family of artists is attested to by the fact that | , the cousin of Charles Darwin used the Bonheurs as an example of "Heredit ... |
WKTU | ... ble guests. His co-host was Michelle Visage, with whom he also co-hosted on | radio. On one episode, RuPaul featured guests Chi Chi LaRue and Tom Chase ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by | and Frederik Pohl, Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subra ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... hey recognised the play's cleverness, humour and popularity with audiences. | , for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that come ... |
Nikola Tesla | In 1891, | invented the Tesla coil, an air-cored, dual-tuned resonant transformer for ... |
Coleridge | ... ary." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote | after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ed his former Senate colleague Bob Dole for president, while Gantt endorsed | . Although Helms is generally credited with being the most successful Repu ... |
Simon Conway Morris | ... re re-wound and played back, life would have taken a very different course. | counters this argument, arguing that convergence is a dominant force in ev ... |
Diana Trilling | ... Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as Irving Howe and | |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... erhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like | , Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen |
WPVI-TV | WABC-TV cooperates with sister station | in Philadelphia—popularizer of the Action News format—in the production an ... |
King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
E. B. Ford | ... clude R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, | , Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, ... |
Jonathan Lethem | ... nington College, which Ellis himself attended, where he met future novelist | and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's ... |
James Bowdoin | ... 1752 by the Kennebec Company to William Bowdoin of Boston, older brother of | . Originally called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it was settled some years ... |
Sir John Franklin | In 1825, | wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" wh ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired | 's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ... |
Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
Newtonian | ... t series of lectures ("A Confutation of Atheism"), he endeavours to present | physics in a popular form, and to frame them (especially in opposition to ... |
Adam Smith | ... . The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of | , who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburg ... |
Stephen Hawking | In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against | that the hypothesis was false. Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to th ... |
John Locke | The outlines of Hartley's theory are as follows. Like | , he asserted that, prior to sensation, the human mind is a blank slate. B ... |
Langston Hughes | ... Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets | and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionis ... |
Sir Arnold Hall | ... s. Chaired by Lord Cohen, the committee tasked an investigation team led by | , Director of the RAE at Farnborough, to perform a more detailed investiga ... |
Otto Robert Frisch | ... y, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew | , correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following ... |
G. I. Taylor | ... of fiber diffraction analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time as | and Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile material ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... lution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book Wonderful Life, | argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ten abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by | as a chapter title in and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The s ... |
Robert Peel | ... urne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis. Prospective prime minister | requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MP ... |
George Harrison | # "Something" ( | ) – 3:0 |
Geneva | Necker was born on September 30, 1732 in | , then an independent republic. His father was a native of Küstrin in Neum ... |
Richard Marius | A number of modern historians and writers, such as | , have evaluated More in his political capacity and have criticised him fo ... |
John Preskill | In 1991, | and Kip Thorne bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false. ... |
George Placzek | ... interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following an advice of | , Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939 |
Sarah Palin | ... had finished. In another, he suggested that USA vice-presidential candidate | was rare among politicians in being good-looking; the laughter from the au ... |
Gil Amelio | ... ed the Board of Directors of Ripcord Networks, Inc., joining Ellen Hancock, | , Mike Connor, and Wheels of Zeus co-founder Alex Fielding, all Apple alum ... |
Bob Winter | ... erform associated tasks as a general civil leader. The current incumbent is | |
Steven Strogatz | ... N 978-0385531689). The six degrees research is based on his 1998 paper with | in which the two presented a mathematical theory of the small world phenom ... |
Alvah Bessie | Lardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like | , Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole ... |
Michael Palin | ... the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke | included in the script, in which he describes the character removing his m ... |
Irving Howe | ... n uproar in the Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as | and Diana Trilling |
Ilan Stavans | ... rd, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar | , novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pu ... |
Mike Mizanin | ... winning the seat as a Republican in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District. | has also found fame as a WWE wrestler wrestling under the name "The Miz," ... |
Kip Thorne | In 1991, John Preskill and | bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false. Hawking concede ... |
Alvin Plantinga | ... g, greater than anything else that one can do for it, is to be truly free." | 's "free will defense" is a contemporary expansion of this theme, adding h ... |
Doris Lessing | ... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, | , Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ... |
Ralph Hartley | ... communications machines such as teletypes and stock ticker machines (1870). | suggested the use of a logarithmic measure of information in 1928. Claude ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by | 's The Jungle Book. , it had been on the New York Times Bestseller childre ... |
Karl Popper | ... contend, the greatest harms are more consequential than the greatest goods. | also referred to an epistemological argument: “It adds to clarity in the f ... |
the King | ... alth. The defensive war fought by the forces of the Commonwealth ended when | , convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated by joining the Targ ... |
Henry Briggs | ... the decadic logarithm, named after its base, and Briggsian logarithm, after | , an English mathematician who pioneered its use. It is indicated by log 1 ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such as | and Elizabeth Fry |
Robert Peel | ... led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir | an opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Comm ... |
Edgar F. Codd | ... sources). However, the term did not appear until 1993 when it was coined by | , who has been described as "the father of the relational database". Codd' ... |
Ruth Rendell | ... and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist | , writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "...impossible to tell where Do ... |
James VII and II | ... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was | , who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution |
Robert F. Coleman | ... I was gay, Psycho would be read as a different book." In an interview with | , Ellis refers to his as an "indeterminate sexuality", and said "any other ... |
Herbert Simon | ... re their levels of expertise. The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, | , and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability ... |
Cerys Matthews | ... mals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Los Campesinos!, The Longcut, and, for a time, | ) and Ankstmusik, the label (which is now based in Pentraeth on Anglesey a ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... t, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and | . On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge in which he offered ... |
J. Presper Eckert | ... Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors | and John Mauchly, and the associated line of computers which continues to ... |
Charles Dickens | ... umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the | novel . Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that | , Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ... |
William Huggins | ... the English chemist William Allen Miller and English amateur astronomer Sir | used the wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic ... |
John Garang | ... would get various portfolios and as a result of the death of vice president | . The National Congress Party kept control of the key energy, defense, int ... |
John Mauchly | ... ration, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and | , and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one ... |
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | The Comet was a hit with passengers including | and Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ... |
Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
Hōjō Tokimasa | After the death of his father Yoritomo in 1199, Sanetomo's grandfather | usurped all political and military power of the shogunate, relegating the ... |
Isaac Newton | ... he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action which | had published in his Principia. His psychological theory was suggested by ... |
Caterina Sforza | ... y and 4,000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France. His first victim was | (mother of the Medici condottiero Giovanni dalle Bande Nere), ruler of Imo ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... aint Marcellinus, and on 13 July the feast day of Saint Anacletus. In 1960, | , while keeping the 26 April feast, which mentions the saint under the nam ... |
Julian Huxley | ... etics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology. | invented the term, when he produced his book, (1942). Other major figures ... |
the Duke of Edinburgh | ... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that | (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances |
Edward VII | ... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King | , who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ... |
Joseph Addison | ... ny letters, owes much to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like | and Jonathan Swift |
Goethe | ... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787, | wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist) |
Bill Clinton | ... ummit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President | , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Ya ... |
Robert Lucas | ... tes economy recover from the late-2000s recession. Some economists, such as | , questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Rob ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... m paganism was in use in English before the 17th century. The OED instances | 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776): "The divisions of Christia ... |
Prince Charles | ... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and | , called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ... |
Charles Dickens | Other tourist attractions include the birthplace of | , the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ... |
Ehud Barak | ... place between United States President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister | , and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Ultimately, it was an ... |
WKBW-TV | ... ic also hosted the television series Polka Time for Buffalo, New York-based | for 26 weeks in 1962. He commuted from Cleveland to host each episode, whi ... |
Henry V | ... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of | (1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ... |
Gil Amelio | ... chnology companies and developing them, with Apple alumni Ellen Hancock and | |
Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
Noam Chomsky | ... al governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. | states that Interview |
Peter Atkins | ... e University of East Anglia, which resulted in criticism from Lord Winston, | , Richard Wiseman and the Royal Societ |
August Derleth | ... al newspapers. His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the | Society |
Simon Cowell | ... llent! He's the real deal, the absolute antithesis to all that the likes of | stand for. And for that we should all be grateful. This tour will be a cel ... |
Otto Hahn | In December 1938, the German chemists | and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting th ... |
British Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... U.S. subprime mortgage market – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In October, the | referred to Keynes as he announced plans for substantial fiscal stimulus t ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... ared in late 1961 to represent the recent victory of British prime minister | 's Conservative Party in parliamentary elections. The American actress, wh ... |
Daniel Negreanu | ... d in the money in several events and has been tutored by poker professional | . Maguire can be seen on ESPN's coverage of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... actor," was among the first American colonialists to write literary satire. | and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture th ... |
Richard Schickel | Hitchcock related this anecdote in a television interview for | 's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies and for Dick Cavett's interview ... |
Alan Lomax | ... usic. These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector | , whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century. The ... |
Derek Parfit | ... ity of a population based on the total utility of its members. According to | , this type of utilitarianism falls victim to the Repugnant Conclusion, wh ... |
Edwin Hewitt | ... at infinitesimals are precise, clear, and meaningful, building upon work by | and Jerzy Łoś. According to Jerome Keisler, "Robinson solved a three hundr ... |
Frederick William IV | ... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to | , Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ... |
Carol Ann Duffy | ... ntly announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, | . His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Goo ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from | 's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ... |
Charles Sutherland Elton | In 1927 | , a British ecologist, gave the first working definition of the niche conc ... |
Joan Rivers | ... Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with then-unknown | . (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a cru ... |
Mo'Nique | ... Floetry in 2005 and singer Kelis in 2006 as opening acts. Comedian/actress | served as host for the 2006 Sugar Water Tour |
Elizabeth II | On August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queen | to appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ide in Fayette County, GA. Their two children are now in college. President | appointed Lee Haney Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitnes ... |
William Allen Miller | In 1863 the English chemist | and English amateur astronomer Sir William Huggins used the wet collodion ... |
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Pierre Trudeau | ... vernor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister | , having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the ... |
Salman Rushdie | ... he Six Billionth Citizen". The essay was written by British-Indian novelist | , who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religi ... |
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Robin Cook | ... oll invited to a reception at the Palace of Westminster hosted by Labour MP | . The collective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivis ... |
Richard Marius | ... nt religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as | , have been more critical, believing that such persecutions were a betraya ... |
Michael Faraday | Quantitative aspects of electrolysis were originally developed by | in 1834. Faraday is also credited to have coined the terms electrolyte, el ... |
Donald Knuth | In Introduction to MMIX, | proposed that this unit be called a large kilobyte (abbreviated KKB). Othe ... |
Roger Penrose | ... created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician | independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "i ... |
Steven Schwartz | ... he world by various sources. The current Vice-Chancellor of the university, | , has outlined that one of the aims for Macquarie is to remain in the top ... |
Michael Faraday | The concept of the electric field was introduced by | . An electric field is created by a charged body in the space that surroun ... |
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Jack Layton | After the Gomery findings, NDP leader | notified the Liberals of conditions for the NDP's continued support; the t ... |
John James Audubon | ... ted States during the 19th century; outstanding early practitioners include | , as well as early Hudson River School painters such as William H. Bartlet ... |
Paul Dirac | ... in physics before eventually winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Similarly, | , one of the founders of quantum mechanics, began his academic career as a ... |
John Aubrey | ... hn Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to | , Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit." At thirteen he was admitted to Queen ... |
John Maddox | ... d reviews. Then in September 1981, Nature published an editorial written by | , the journal's senior editor, entitled "A book for burning?" In it, Maddo ... |
Richard Adams | ... asual manner. This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as | ' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into ... |
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle | ... hat, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted to | for his appointment as governor. According to Worcester, it was "very much ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... merican author Frank G. Slaughter and published in 1965. It largely drew on | 's history of the Roman Empire as well as Eusebius of Caesarea's contempor ... |
Grace Hopper | ... e Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch, Robert Campbell, and | |
Alexander von Humboldt | One of the first synthetic peroxides, barium peroxide, was synthesized by | in 1799 as a by-product of his attempts to decompose air. Nineteen years l ... |
Paul McCartney | In 1987, Costello began a long-running songwriting collaboration with | . They wrote a number of songs together, including |
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Burkert, Walter | ... rences==*Broad, William J. , New York : Penguin, 2006. ISBN 1-59-420081-5.* | , Greek Religion 1985.* Connelly, Joan Breton, , Princeton University Pres ... |
William Penn | ... er". In 1715, founder Sir Mathias Vincent and others failed to pay taxes to | , who took them to court. In the end, in southern West Vincent Township we ... |
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James Q. Wilson | The broken windows theory was first introduced by social scientists | and George L. Kelling, in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which app ... |
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Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 634, following the appointment of the strongly anti-Puritan William Laud as | , the colony saw a large influx of immigrants |
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Richard Ellmann | ... he library, returned the presentation copy to Wilde with a note of apology. | argues that Wilde's poem "" was a sincere, though flamboyant, attempt to e ... |
Simon Jenkins | ... many as one of the outstanding pieces of Christian architecture in England. | ' book, England's Thousand Best Churches, has St Botolph's ranked within t ... |
John Davenant | ... e, he was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608. Dr | , bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to John Aubr ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from | to weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... or the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172). It was established by | on 15 August 1967. Its current President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno s ... |
Bill Clinton | ... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, | , and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ... |
Benjamin Franklin | On September 27, 1786, Mason wrote to | that he had returned to Philadelphia with his wife, seven sons, and one da ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, | and Orson Welles |
Margaret Atwood | ... work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author | and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near fut ... |
John Cage | ... sound of one drone could make music. Also in 1949, Pierre Boulez befriended | , who was visiting Paris to do research on the music of . John Cage had be ... |
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson | ... la and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells. | 's On Growth and Form gives extensive treatment to these spirals. He descr ... |
Missy Elliott | ... the Rain" was released as the album's lead single. She also has a song with | . 2011 saw Queen Latifah sing "Who Can I Turn To" in a duet with Tony Benn ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president | |
Paul McCartney | ... The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band, | . He was accompanied by a string quartet. The final recording was so diffe ... |
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Adam Lambert | ... . The production played at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and also featured | . Kilmer had previously played Moses in the animated film The Prince of Eg ... |
Joanna Lumley | ... ole of Steed, with two new partners, Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey ( | ). It aired on ITV in the UK in 1976-1977, CTV in Canada, CBS in the Unite ... |
Nevil Maskelyne | ... 's Lunar Tables. He also contributed to the Nautical Almanac, working under | , Astronomer Royal |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... c figures, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, whom Charles appointed | . Many of Charles's subjects felt this brought the Church of England too c ... |
Langston Hughes | ... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, | , Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Albert Einstein | ... he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption. His research, which was encouraged by | , was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budape ... |
John Lennon | ... ased Home at Last. Included on this album is "God Part III", which draws on | 's "God" and the U2 riposte ("God II"); "Come Away", written about his 197 ... |
Edmund Campion | ... was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571, | named the pharaoh Amenophis; Keating named him Cincris |
Margaret Thatcher | ... Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Bot ... |
Thomas Pynchon | Mason is one of the titular characters of | 's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon |
Joseph Weber | ... ronomy to complement electromagnetic telescopes and neutrino observatories. | pioneered the effort to detect gravitational waves in the 1960s through hi ... |
Robert Menzies | | defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ... |
Biz Markie | ... rom Shanté followed: "Bite This" (1985), "Queen of Rox" (1985), introducing | on "Def Fresh Crew" (1986), "Payback" (1987), and perhaps her greatest rec ... |
James II | The early reign of | was relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife, | |
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Pope Benedict XVI | ... 4, 2010, a report by the New York Times cited the Fr. Murphy case to accuse | of a cover-up while he was head of the CDF in 1996.However Father Thomas B ... |
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Steve Reich | ... experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center working with Morton Subotnick, | , Pauline Oliveros, and Ramon Sender. His most influential teacher, howeve ... |
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Queen Elizabeth II | ... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played | in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ... |
Professor Steven Schwartz | ... he position of Vice-Chancellor for just under 20 years, and was replaced by | at the beginning of 2006. Yerbury's departure was attended with much contr ... |
William Worthy | ... hose to not defend him. The ACLU later reversed their stance, and supported | and Rockwell Kent in their passport confiscation cases, which resulted in ... |
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Albert Einstein | In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, | predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and ... |
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Frederick Marryat | #The Phantom Ship by | (1792–1848) |
Dorothy Baker | In 1938, | borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and publish ... |
John Burnet | ... asyllus placed his birth in 470 BC, the later date is probably more likely. | has argued that the date of 460 is "too early", since according to Diogene ... |
Isaac Newton | It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and | starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ... |
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Stephen Cole Kleene | ... ome being intuitive". (Turing 1939, reprinted in Davis 2004, p. 210) Later, | brought forth a more rational consideration of intuitionism in his Introdu ... |
Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy | ... mance, Poetic Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780199215508* | , The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of re ... |
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Robert Resnick | ... he restated and elaborated on this result as printed below, (with physicist | 's comments following Einstein's) |
Alan Turing | ... l offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). | considers |
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Michael Faraday | ... process now known as electrolysis. Their work was greatly expanded upon by | in 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effect ... |
Edmund Blunden | ... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: | , Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson |
Jack Layton | ... privately met with BQ leader Gilles Duceppe and New Democratic Party leader | in a Montreal hotel. The meeting took place between the three party leader ... |
Ringo Starr | ... ases had worked with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, | , Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond |
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Elizabeth Hurley | ... 1,500 non-members who had worked during the strike. SAG trial boards found | and Tiger Woods guilty of performing in non-union commercials and both wer ... |
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Rachel Carson | ... rmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as | and Murray Bookchin had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at t ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
Desmond Tutu | ... statues of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, | , F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled wi ... |
Max Born | ... not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by Albert Einstein and | invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a direct effec ... |
Henri de Lubac | | , Augustinianism and Modern Theology (Herder & Herder) ISBN 0-8245-1802-0 ... |
Greenberg, Joseph | ... sound values of the sibilants will also use the conventional symbols, e.g. | , The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic. 1990. P.379. In: On languag ... |
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George II of Great Britain | ... can Forbes of Culloden, was Lord President of the Court of Session for King | 's government in London. Duncan Forbes and Alexander Ross the Pitcalnie ch ... |
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Adrienne Clarkson | ... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General | , stating |
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Richard Dawkins | ... th the title mimicking the controversial book by one of Sheldrake's critics | , who wrote The God Delusion. [In an interview with Fortean Times, Sheldra ... |
William Penn | ... ers arrived in 1773-1774, having purchased the land from the descendants of | ; other pioneers soon bought land from the state government |
Mayrhofer | ... ek (hélos) ‘swamp’, the Rigvedic term refers mostly to stagnant waters, and | considers unlikely a connection with the root * ‘run, flow’ |
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Thomas Hill Green | Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included | (1839-1882), James Ward (1843-1925), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-19 ... |
Gottfried Leibniz | It was independently developed by | and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinites ... |
Hugh Whitemore | ... uke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in | 's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell |
Raymond Carver | ... he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as Ernest Hemingway or | . With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone description, Lawson created ... |
Charles Mingus | ... re's origins lie in seminal work by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, | , Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. Generally, the term post-bop is taken ... |
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Nadja Benaissa | ... ts remained and were sent home to prepare. After a final elimination round, | , Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, Vanessa Petruo and Jessica Wahls were cho ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as | in the British film A Question of Attribution |
Richard Cobden | ... be and will be associated with the success of these measures is the name of | . Without scruple, Sir, I attribute the success of these measures to him |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of | , who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ... |
Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting w ... |
James Mackintosh | ... n classics, philosophy and mathematics. He there formed the acquaintance of | , who, though a year younger, was a year his senior as a student. While th ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark and | or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
Herbert Aptheker | ... Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speaker | and civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson; however, the two speakers ca ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by | in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ... |
James Prescott Joule | ... y in 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effect | studied mathematically in 1840. One of the most important discoveries rela ... |
Captain James Cook | ... er (Quakers have a tradition of "virtue names") and his father was a fan of | . Morse's father was, by trade, a taxi driver and Morse likes to explain t ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
George Bernard Shaw | Wilde was the sole literary signatory of | 's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) a ... |
Conrad Aiken | ... particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, | , and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the E ... |
Pedro Zamora | | struggled with AIDS. He succumbed to the disease on November 11, 1994, hou ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | One could argue, based on the work of | , that the transport definition precedes the more recent way the term is u ... |
Karl Marx | ... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists. | said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ve, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of | . The amount of charge is usually given the symbol Q and expressed in coul ... |
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Charles Barry | ... or, the home of garden designer William Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by | with a rose garden by Geoffrey Jellicoe |
Buffon | ... 1801. The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, | , Lavater, Pestalozzi and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish ... |
Charles II | ... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting | to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ... |
King Edward VII | ... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of | , began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of | , who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ... |
William Ramsay | ... e continued his studies at University College, London, under Professors Sir | , W. C. McC. Lewis, and F. G. Donnan, taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He ... |
Charles Mingus | ... nd "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, | , Bill Evans, and Gil Evans" as influences on his work, demonstrating how ... |
Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
Richard, Earl of Cornwall | ... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century and | reconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ... |
Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
Biz Markie | ... ords and assembled various hip hop acts, including MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, | , Roxanne Shanté, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, and Masta Ace. His Juice Crew coll ... |
Jan Smuts | ... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General | |
Daniel G. Bobrow | The developer team – amongst them Daniel Murphy and | – chose the name TENEX (TEN-EXtended) for the new system. It included a fu ... |
Alan Plater | ... as featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by | : The Beiderbecke Affair (1984), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), and The Bei ... |
KFSM-TV | ... ussellville is on the "fringe" of both service areas. Russellville receives | (CBS) and KFTA-TV (FOX) from Fort Smith and KARK-TV (NBC) and KATV-TV (ABC ... |
Averil Cameron | ... own when Procopius himself died, and many historians (James Howard-Johnson, | , Geoffrey Greatrex) date his death to 554, but in 562 there was an urban ... |
Charles Sherrington | ... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942 | visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep |
Neville Chamberlain | ... make an official visit to discuss Germany's intentions for Czechoslovakia. | was in favour of a meeting, and there was talk of a pact being signed betw ... |
Prince Albert | ... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of | . Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ... |
Richard Ellmann | ... of estranging himself from his family. A precocious seventeen year old, by | 's account, he was "...so young and yet so knowing, was determined to sedu ... |
Mitchell Feigenbaum | ... xamples of models for dynamical systems. Named after mathematical physicist | , the two Feigenbaum constants appear in such iterative processes: they ar ... |
George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
KABC-TV | ... ed-and-operated stations at the time—WLS-TV in Chicago, WXYZ-TV in Detroit, | in Los Angeles, and KGO-TV in San Francisco (though KGO-TV and WXYZ-TV did ... |
Pedro Zamora | Irene Barrera got married during the season. | exchanged wedding vows with his boyfriend, Sean Sasser, during the season |
James Clerk Maxwell | Following is a derivation wildly different from the derivation described by | and later described with fewer assumptions by Ludwig Boltzmann. Instead it ... |
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Jack Layton | ... d other issues. Wilkins, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, and NDP leader | accused Martin of orchestrating a row with the US in order to garner publi ... |
elder brother | ... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his | , and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ... |
KFTA-TV | ... the "fringe" of both service areas. Russellville receives KFSM-TV (CBS) and | (FOX) from Fort Smith and KARK-TV (NBC) and KATV-TV (ABC) from Little Rock ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... aken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by Prime Minister | 's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier Rob ... |
David Foster | ... e song "The Power of the Dream", composed by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and | , with words by Linda Thompson was performed in the opening ceremony by Cé ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... parade in Surrey, saying it was a glorification of terrorism. In 2008, Dr. | , Prime Minister of India, expressed his concern that there might be a res ... |
Gene Amdahl | At IBM, a small team at Poughkeepsie including John Griffith and | worked on the design proposal. Just after they finished and were about to ... |
Pierre Raymond de Montmort | ... of , discovered in part by Jacob Bernoulli along with French mathematician | , is in the problem of derangements, also known as the hat check problem. ... |
George Martin | ... s claims, a delay may have been due to a disagreement between McCartney and | regarding the song's arrangement, or the opinion of the other Beatles who ... |
Egon Orowan | ... tion analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time as G. I. Taylor and | , realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be expl ... |
Shaw | Like | and Brecht, Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical w ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | In 1958, the | appointed Eliot to a commission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | The distribution is named after | and Ludwig Boltzmann |
Calvin Coolidge | ... lakes at the base of the mountains. After congressional approval, President | signed the executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park on F ... |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States. | , the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ... |
Bill Clinton | ... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with | , the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ... |
Thomas Friedman | ... n Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists | and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter an ... |
Milton Friedman | ... conomies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques from | and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments ... |
Samuel Horsley | ... the third edition. In a new edition of 1821 he omitted the attack on Bishop | , and stated that his political opinions had undergone no substantial chan ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... mmission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). A harsh critic of Eliot, | , was also a member of the commission, where their antagonism turned into ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child of | and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ... |
John Latham | Described scientifically by English naturalist | in 1790, the Black Swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenop ... |
David Bohm | ... 's ideas have resonated with the general public and some physicists such as | . The idea that fields may influence cells has even received cautious supp ... |
KGO-TV | ... the time—WLS-TV in Chicago, WXYZ-TV in Detroit, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, and | in San Francisco (though KGO-TV and WXYZ-TV did not use the Eyewitness New ... |
The Queen | ... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940. | herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... liot's poetry, particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like | , Conrad Aiken, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being wr ... |
John James Audubon | ... . The average weight of these pigeons was 340–400 grams (12–14 oz) and, per | 's account, length was 42 cm (16.5 in) in males and 38 cm (15 in) in femal ... |
Robert Peel | ... 9, 1829, the Metropolitan Police Act was passed by Parliament, allowing Sir | , the then home secretary, to found the London Metropolitan Police. This p ... |
John Cage | Riley also cites | and "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davi ... |
Edward Jenner | ... he husband of Anne Hunter, a teacher, and friend of, and collaborator with, | , the inventor of the smallpox vaccine |
Rutherford's | ... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering | atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ... |
Adam Smith | ... al mercantilism. In the English-speaking world its ideas were criticized by | with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and later David Rica ... |
Robert Adam | ... in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where (after meeting architects | and Sir William Chambers) he was involved in building additions to Somerse ... |
Ornette Coleman | ... llege. In LA's jazz milieu, he played alongside notable musicians including | , Don Cherry and Billy Higgins |
George Weigel | ... n The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church, | claims that it was the infidelity to orthodox Roman Catholic teaching, the ... |
Philip Rubin | ... atory experiments was developed at Haskins Laboratories in the mid-1970s by | , Tom Baer, and Paul Mermelstein. This synthesizer, known as ASY, was base ... |
Winston Churchill | ... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with | 's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ... |
Sir Patrick Moore | ... fle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, | as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself ... |
Damon Dash | ... ither was married. Aaliyah was engaged to co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records | at the time of her death and had plans to marry him after the premiere of ... |
John Evelyn | ... fonts for their classical books; he had these made in Holland. He assisted | in his Numismata. Bentley did not settle down to the steady execution of a ... |
George Mouzalon | ... 8, Michael Palaiologos instigated a coup against the influential bureaucrat | , becoming joint guardian for the eight-year old Emperor John IV Doukas La ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | ... r 1708 he married his maternal first cousin Archduchess & Princess Imperial | , Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I ... |
Carly Fiorina | ... became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO | , to ease the integration of the two companies. However, Capellas was repo ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... diplomatic pressure to make them withdraw from Egypt. Controversy surrounds | , who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Min ... |
Marcel Lefebvre | ... sia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop | who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his ... |
John Cornwell | ... ople in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies. In the words of | , "they treated him with condescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luci ... |
Isaac Newton | ... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by | |
WCBS-TV | The format quickly rejuvenated a station that had long been an also-ran to | and WNBC-TV. Within a year, channel 7 had shot to first place in the ratin ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... s created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed several songs relating to | 's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental), an ... |
Sir Peter Scott | ... erland and Mongolia) have joined the IWC. This shift was first initiated by | , the then head of the World Wildlife Fund. Labelling the IWC a "butchers' ... |
George Harrison | ... 9 November 2002 to pay tribute to Clapton's life-long friend, former Beatle | |
Merce Cunningham | ... n 1967, Stella designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by | . The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of Stella ... |
Melvin Calvin | ... istry at the University of Manchester. Two of his pupils, Eugene Wigner and | , went on to win a Nobel Prize. The focus of his interests began to turn t ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | John married Archduchess | , daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, his first cousin, in 1708. Fr ... |
Paul Samuelson | ... unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England." | coined a term Sraffa bonus to name the gains from trade of inputs |
Maclaurin | Several mathematicians, including | and d'Alembert, attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it w ... |
Richard Stallman | ... rnel development was a controversial one. Some, notably GNU Project founder | , expressed concern about proprietary tools being used on a flagship free ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | The Gladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in | 's Middle-earth. In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gl ... |
Cotton Mather | In 1718, | contacted Yale and asked for his help. Mather represented a small institut ... |
Alfred Russel Wallace | ... ed the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocated by | and August Weismann with its heavy dependence on natural selection. Weisma ... |
Robert Adam | ... 1572 Alnwick castle was uninhabited. In the second half of the 18th century | carried out many alterations. The interiors were largely in a Strawberry H ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... brain size, and in particular the development of theory of mind abilities. | in The God Delusion suggested that our morality is a result of our biologi ... |
Kim Dae-jung | ... ent. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and | (both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their diff ... |
Paul Farmer | According to | , the US administration dismantled the constitutional system, reinstituted ... |
Steve Reich | ... (1964)and the Keyboard Studies. The first performance of In C was given by | , Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, and Morton Subotnick. Its form was an inno ... |
KVUE | ... twork television stations (affiliations in parentheses) include KTBC (Fox), | (ABC), KXAN (NBC), KEYE-TV (CBS), KLRU (PBS), KNVA (The CW), KBVO (My Netw ... |
Andrew Lyne | In 1991 | , M. Bailes and S.L. Shemar claimed to have discovered a pulsar planet in ... |
William Wotton | ... pistles of Phalaris, his major academic work, almost accidentally. In 1697, | , about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, ... |
Barry Williams | ... 's Eve 2006, Garrett first appeared in Las Vegas with retro act , hosted by | . The show also featured the Bay City Rollers, Bo Donaldson and The Heywoo ... |
Jackie Fahey | ... rship election arise. This group, known as the "gang of five," consisted of | , Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
Jack Layton | ... to attract voters who were leaning towards the NDP, but New Democrat leader | responded by focusing his attacks on Liberal corruption |
Benjamin Robins | English military engineer and mathematician | (1707–1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did so ... |
Christopher Ricks | ... eader." Julius's viewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as , | , George Steiner, and James Fenton |
Elaine Pagels | ... olossians. Proponents of the view that Paul was actually a gnostic, such as | of Princeton University, view the reference in Colossians as something tha ... |
Moses I. Finley | ... William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir | ; Arthur Rock, a cofounder of Intel; Donna Shalala, former United States S ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... nguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')." | , "[r]egarded as the father of modern linguistics" |
John Crowe Ransom | ... enging poem like "The Waste Land." Of course, there were some critics, like | , who wrote mostly negative criticisms of Eliot's work but who also had so ... |
Fritz Haber | ... Admiral Horthy régime. In 1920 he returned to Karlsruhe, and was invited by | to join the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Faserstoffchemie in Berlin. In 192 ... |
Heath Ledger | ... e Eagels, James Dean, Spencer Tracy, Peter Finch, Sir Ralph Richardson, and | . |
Gil Evans | ... ic groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, and | " as influences on his work, demonstrating how he pulled together strands ... |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Since 2007 the historic Leibniz Letters, which can be viewed in the | Library, are on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register |
Edward Gibbon | ... r sources -- Theophanes, the Paschal Chronicle, and Paullus Diaconus—state. | accepts this implication as fact, although none of the three sources expli ... |
Missy Elliott | ... igned with Atlantic Records. She worked with record producers Timbaland and | , who contributed to her second studio album, One in a Million. The album ... |
Thomas Hooker | ... to the governorship. These two men, along with Anne Hutchinson and pastors | and John Wheelwright, espoused religious or political views that were at o ... |
Richard Stallman | ... rom Common Lisp. It supports imperative and functional programming methods. | chose Lisp as the extension language for his rewrite of Emacs (the origina ... |
Kip Thorne | ... eriment aiming to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by | and Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint proj ... |
John XXIII | ... lus that he took it as a thankful honour to his two immediate predecessors: | , who had named him a bishop, and Paul VI, who had named him Patriarch of ... |
John Crowe Ransom | ... acock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – | – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – ... |
Prince George, Prince of Wales | ... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son, | , dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ... |
George Bernard Shaw | The Ring has been the subject of myriad interpretations. For example, | , in , argues for a view of The Ring as an essentially socialist critique ... |
James Q. Wilson | The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists | and George L. Kelling. Since then it has been subject to great debate both ... |
Jeremiah Dixon | ... ts to determine the distance from the earth to the sun. Mason was joined by | , a surveyor and amateur astronomer from Cockfield in the County of Durham ... |
Ronald Drever | ... to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and | of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scient ... |
David Foster | ... hompson was performed in the opening ceremony by Céline Dion accompanied by | on the piano, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Centennial Choir (Mor ... |
Piero Sraffa | Inspired by | , a new strand of trade theory emerged and was named neo-Ricardian trade t ... |
Paul VI | ... his two immediate predecessors: John XXIII, who had named him a bishop, and | , who had named him Patriarch of Venice and a cardinal. He was also the fi ... |
KEYE-TV | ... s (affiliations in parentheses) include KTBC (Fox), KVUE (ABC), KXAN (NBC), | (CBS), KLRU (PBS), KNVA (The CW), KBVO (My Network TV), and KAKW (Univisio ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after | |
Frederic Prokosch | ... oyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – | – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sasso ... |
Hirohito | ... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether | was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ... |
Max Müller | ... eph von Schelling (1775–1854) to depict early stages of monotheism, however | (1823–1900), a German philologist and orientalist, brought the term into c ... |
William Cheselden | Hunter studied under | at Chelsea Hospital and Percival Pott at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. After ... |
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers | ... lso has minor league teams in hockey (Milwaukee Admirals) and baseball (the | , based in Appleton and the Beloit Snappers of the Class A minor leagues). ... |
Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland | However in the 19th century | replaced much of Adam's architecture. Instead he paid Anthony Salvin £250, ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ormation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope. In 2000, | declared More the "heavenly patron of statesmen and politicians". In 1980, ... |
Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
George Martin | ... cquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which later became EMI. | joined in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955. ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
Isaac Newton | ... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants." | |
Dale Frail | On 21 April 1992, radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and | announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. Th ... |
George Romanes | ... about whether natural selection alone was sufficient to explain speciation, | coined the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocat ... |
Mousse T | ... Fury in the Slaughterhouse are originally from Hanover. Also, acclaimed DJ | has his main recording studio in the area. Eurovision Song Contest winner ... |
Maxwell | The original derivation by | assumed all three directions would behave in the same fashion, but a later ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
Osborne Reynolds | In a classic set of experiments, the Englishman | (1842–1912) of the University of Manchester demonstrated that the airflow ... |
K. Eric Drexler | | later took the Feynman concept of a billion tiny factories and added the i ... |
James II of England | ... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king | . In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ... |
Charles Darwin | ... owed the work on the structure and distribution of coral reefs conducted by | in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor Edgewo ... |
Thomas Lawrence | ... Antoine Houdon, Jean Marc Nattier, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert, | , Jacques Louis David, Antoine Jean Gros and also Pierre Auguste Renoir |
Arthur Robert Hinks | ... ustus Young. From 1903 to 1905, he worked at the Cambridge Observatory with | as a research assistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the str ... |
Samuel Pepys | ... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, where | heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ... |
Bernhard Neumann | ... phism) only countably many finitely generated recursively presented groups. | has shown that there are uncountably many non-isomorphic two generator gro ... |
Linus Pauling | ... francium would almost certainly be a liquid if enough were to be produced. | estimated the electronegativity of francium at 0.7 on the Pauling scale, t ... |
Suzanne Caron | ... mber 6, involved a three-way race for mayor between incumbent borough mayor | , former mayor Vera Danyluk, and Brigitte Mack-Arsenault, president of a m ... |
Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens | On 2 November 1933, Lord Norman married | , London councillor and granddaughter of the Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of A ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | Others, such as | , reject the notion that genetic entities are subject to anything other th ... |
Richard J. Evans | ... just as tragic as the Holocaust. Against Hillgruber, the British historian | wrote that though the expulsions of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe was ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... nthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as | , Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder. Many advocates of Green anarchism and ... |
Killah Priest | Cesare Borgia is mentioned in the song "B.I.B.L.E.", performed by | , which appears on GZA's 1995 album Liquid Swords, as well as Killah Pries ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... eam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Olga Korbut and | pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial skills on beam; other ... |
Robert Peel | Wellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by | , whilst the party evolved into the Conservatives. When the Tories were re ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the | (played by Stephen Fry) |
Samuel Barber | ... on Bredon'), Ian Venables (Songs of Eternity and Sorrow), and the American | (e.g. 'With rue my heart is laden'). Gerald Finzi repeatedly began setting ... |
Humphry Davy | Since the discovery of potassium by | , it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ... |
Niklaus Wirth | ... . The compiler itself was largely inspired by the "Tiny Pascal" compiler in | 's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", one of the most influential ... |
Richard Dawkins | In The Selfish Gene, author | asserts the gene is the only true unit of selection. (Dawkins also attempt ... |
John Lydon | ... n the group. At the Black Swan, he approached the Sex Pistols' lead singer, | (then going by Johnny Rotten), and suggested they get a band together if t ... |
Viscount Wellington | ... ttle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3–6 May 1811), the British-Portuguese Army under | checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Mass ... |
John Major | ... er Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of | (1990–97). In the 2005 general election, Nicholas Soames held the seat wit ... |
Charles II | ... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's son | was declared king |
Fujiwara no Mototsune | Nyōgo: Fujiwara no Kazuko (藤原佳珠子), daughter of | (藤原基経 |
Morgagni | ... animals). His very innovative work may be viewed as sitting between that of | whose work Virchow studied, and that of Paul Ehrlich, who studied at the C ... |
John Foxe | ... the Haven. Not far away, in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of | , the author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
Mallory Snyder | ... n Behle, 's Cory Murphy, ’s Rebecca Lord, ’ Matt Smith and Julie Stoffer, ' | , ’s Lacey Buehler, and 's Chet Cannon, for example, all stated they were ... |
Isaac Newton | ... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up). | , a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ... |
Manfred R. Schroeder | ... stic masking codec was first proposed in 1979, apparently independently, by | , et al. from AT&T-Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and M. A. Krasner both in ... |
WDIV-TV | Ascerbic sports anchor Al Ackerman of Detroit's WXYZ-TV (and later | ) initiated the phrase "Bless You Boys" whenever the Tigers would win a ga ... |
Graham Higman | ... ly presented groups that cannot be finitely presented. However a theorem of | states that a finitely generated group has a recursive presentation if and ... |
George Darwin | ... ssistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the strong influence of | |
Max Born | In 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with | , and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. From Jan ... |
Robert Peel | ... ws in 1846, with Wellington and most of the former Cabinet still supporting | , but most of the MPs led by Lord Derby supporting a protectionist stance. ... |
Isobel Armstrong | ... ce centre. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor | , the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their ... |
John Flamsteed | ... This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of | 's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and ... |
Wassily Leontief | ... H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were exposed in empirical tests by | who found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods de ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, | (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... axwell's equations are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician | , since in an early form they are all found in a four-part paper, "On Phys ... |
Alvin Liberman | ... of speech in the form of a spectrogram back into sound. Using this device, | and colleagues were able to discover acoustic cues for the perception of p ... |
George Martin | In 1950, Preuss hired 24-year-old | as his assistant. When Preuss retired in 1955 Martin succeeded him as labe ... |
John Kaye | Boole became a prominent local figure, an admirer of | , the bishop. He took part in the local campaign for early closing. With E ... |
Charles II | ... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of | , a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ... |
Sidney Dillon Ripley | # | , 1964–198 |
WXYZ-TV | Ascerbic sports anchor Al Ackerman of Detroit's | (and later WDIV-TV) initiated the phrase "Bless You Boys" whenever the Tig ... |
Galen Strawson | The contemporary philosopher | agrees with Locke that the truth or falsity of determinism is irrelevant t ... |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
Gabriel Harvey | ... is friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and | , of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classi ... |
John Cage | ... luence of Henry Cowell in San Francisco in the late 1940s, Lou Harrison and | began composing music for junk (waste) percussion ensembles, scouring junk ... |
Trishelle Cannatella | ... housemates have been involved in pregnancy scares, such as Steven Hill and | during the season, Cohutta Grindstaff and KellyAnne Judd during the season ... |
Charles Pelham Villiers | ... rs 1830–41 decided not to repeal the Corn Laws. However the Liberal Whig MP | proposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both | and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she marri ... |
Lagrange | ... tional symbols. The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated by | and Laplace in the 1770s has been put in the form of operator equalities b ... |
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | In 1962, | stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ... |
Thomas Hooker | ... large group in 1636. The settlers were Puritans from Massachusetts, led by | . Hooker had been prominent in England and was a professor of theology at ... |
John Lennon | ... to find the world's favourite song. In 2000 it came second to "Imagine" by | in a Channel 4 television poll of The 100 Best Number 1s. It has been in t ... |
Gerhard Weinberg | ... Cold War, this could had helped cause World War III. The American historian | wrote that the explusions of the Sudeten Germans was justified as the Germ ... |
Edmond Halley | ... on of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by | and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version o ... |
Charles II | ... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as | . Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ... |
Ice-T | ... of his career condemning violence and writing on issues of race and class. | was one of the first rappers to call himself a "playa" and discuss guns on ... |
John Locke | | denied that the phrase "free will" made any sense (compare with theologica ... |
John Maynard Smith | ... ent in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, George C. Williams, | and others led to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution in ... |
John XXIII | ... able to have a great deal of influence in all university affairs. In 1413, | granted the university extensive special privileges, such as university ju ... |
King Charles II | He visited the City as a courtier to | in 1671 and described it thus |
C. Northcote Parkinson | | , more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ... |
Randy Jackson | ... by various studio musicians for the recording of Raised on Radio, including | (bass guitar) and Larrie Londin (drums). Smith did record three tracks wit ... |
Bob Saget | ... t-starred on the series over the course of its run, including Debbie Allen, | , Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Rodd ... |
KYW-TV | ... viewers. News director Al Primo brought the format to WABC-TV in 1968 from | in Philadelphia, but added a twist—a degree of conversational chatter amon ... |
Brianna Taylor | ... at they had endured prior to filming, such as 's Chris Beckman, Hollywood's | and ' Ryan Knight |
John Neville Keynes | ... ridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to an upper-middle-class family. His father | was an economist and a lecturer in moral sciences at the University of Cam ... |
W. D. Hamilton | ... refined after the initial establishment in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of | , George C. Williams, John Maynard Smith and others led to the development ... |
Geneva | He spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and | , and in 1850 graduated at New York University. He then lived for two year ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ver a local road is named after Haggard). He was visited here by his friend | . In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias document ... |
Isaac Newton | ... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and | in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ... |
Hilary Mantel | ... shed satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal character in | 's 1998 novel, The Giant, O'Brien |
Ornette Coleman | ... clear, vocal bowed tone, while Charlie Haden, best known for his work with | , defined the role of the bass in Free Jazz |
James George Frazer | ... the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and | , which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. ... |
J. J. C. Smart | In modern times, | has described the problem of admitting indeterminism |
Katherine Anne Porter | ... bert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of | 's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, she was the first woman to preside o ... |
Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
George C. Williams | ... e initial establishment in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, | , John Maynard Smith and others led to the development of a gene-centered ... |
Adam Smith | ... f free trade, was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of | , David Hume and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that ... |
Charles Theodore | ... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to | , the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ... |
King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
Richard Stallman | ... ge of software, having started in 1984, the author having collaborated with | , pre-GNU |
Harold Macmillan | ... e of his life" in Dan Macmillan, older brother of the future Prime Minister | . Despite his middle-class background, Keynes mixed easily with upper-clas ... |
Stanley Bruce | ... Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down | 's Nationalist government in 1929), merged to form the UAP. Lyons was chos ... |
Adam Smith | ... nomist Frederick Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least | . Unlike Hayek however Polanyi argues that there are higher and lower form ... |
Tolkien | ... Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre- | English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsan ... |
Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Prize-winning economist | has also argued that the Act helped to create the crisis. An article in th ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and | before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a sch ... |
Adam Smith | | displays trade taking place on the basis of countries exercising absolute ... |
Isabella of Austria | ... th in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King Christian II, with his wife | , was also interred in the royal family chapel. In 1807 the former Francis ... |
Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
Christopher Wren | The study of spirals in nature have a long history, | observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observ ... |
Minoru Yamasaki | ... ur Khan and the World Trade Center towers in New York by American architect | . The decade also brought experimentation in geometric design, pop-art, po ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister | . The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ... |
Francis Galton | ... believed in the theory of eugenics. In 1904 he discussed a survey paper by | , co-founder of eugenics, saying "I believe ... It is in the sterilisation ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... at on other planets beings could exist in an unfallen state was explored by | in his novel |
Alfred Marshall | ... as found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including | , John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of se ... |
KGMB | ... he day" and a Hawaiian language news broadcast. Honolulu television station | includes a Hawaiian language segment during their morning local news progr ... |
Robert Goulet | Following a third special, Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and | , Garland's weekly series debuted September 29, 1963. The Judy Garland Sho ... |
Lewis Wolpert | Sheldrake has entered into a scientific wager with fellow biologist | on the importance of DNA in the developing organism. Wolpert bet Sheldrake ... |
James Cook | ... English word "taboo" derives from this later meaning and dates from Captain | 's visit to Tonga in 1777 |
Missy Elliott | ... (2000), Aaliyah postponed the recording of the album. Artists Timbaland and | , who were both major contributors on previous album One in a Million, wer ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... talitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Handmaid's Tale by | and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
Richard Crossman | ... . No remorse was expressed for the largest group of victims, the Arab dead. | , a British Labour Party MP, whose experience on the Anglo-American Commit ... |
Tony Blackburn | ... e 1970s by the prominent local grocery company. It was opened by Radio 1 DJ | and occupied an unusual location over the River Holme beside the town's sm ... |
Michael Faraday | ... herefore the capacitance. The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after | , and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a pot ... |
Bill Clinton | ... l basis by the regulators that had regulated those activities prior to GLB. | , as well as economists Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen have all argued that t ... |
Louis Kahn | In 1974, | 's last and arguably most famous building, the National Assembly Building ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... es. The office also settles labour issues which arise. It was instituted by | on 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a |
Jack Zipes | ... e initial reviews refer to the work as a fairy story. However, according to | writing in "The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales", Bilbo is an atypical cha ... |
George Harrison | ... the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, | , Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltne ... |
Queen Margaret | ... nd crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of | at Linlithgow. The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from t ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... about the business practices of the Standard Oil Company and its president, | , which sparked legislative action in Congress concerning monopolies |
John Desmond Bernal | ... acking of the State. Demands in Britain, amongst people such as the Marxist | , for centrally planned scientific research, led Polanyi to argue that sci ... |
Henry Margenau | ... ned this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Popper, | , Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
Alfred Marshall | ... Cambridge after receiving a scholarship for this also to study mathematics. | begged Keynes to become an economist |
Robert Peel | During 1841 Sir | became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent o ... |
Richard Smalley | ... he family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ), was prepared in 1985 by | , Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice Univers ... |
Jo Brand | ... ve a particular loathing of "Mockneys" such as Nigel Kennedy, Ben Elton and | . His other pet hates include Endemol, Peter Bazalgette and Big Brother, a ... |
George Everest | ... one name over all others. So, he decided that Peak XV should be named after | , his predecessor as Surveyor General of India. He wrote |
Walter Burkert | ... f Illuyankas has been seen as a prototype of the battle of Zeus and Typhon. | and Calvert Watkins each note the close agreements. Watkins' How to Kill a ... |
King James' | ... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestalling | attempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ... |
Tom Stoppard | The events of the play Arcadia, by | , take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire |
Isaac Newton | ... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning. | was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ... |
Ringo Starr | Farner toured with | 's Allstars from 1994 to 1995, which also featured Randy Bachman, John Ent ... |
J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
Fujiwara no Mototsune | Nyōgo: Fujiwara no Yoriko (藤原頼子) (?–936), daughter of | (藤原基経 |
Richard Cobden | During 1841 Sir Robert Peel became Conservative Prime Minister and | , a major proponent of free trade, was elected for the first time. Peel ha ... |
James II | ... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and | , it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ... |
Adela of Flanders | ... ll-known devoutness quickly caught the popular imagination. When his queen, | , came to move her husband's body to Flanders, a bright light shone around ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... dered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, foll ... |
KSAS-TV | Fox affiliate KOCW, a satellite of | in Wichita, is licensed to Hoisington and broadcasts on digital channel 14 |
current Prince of Wales | ... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the | ). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ... |
Henry Nottidge Moseley | ... matical characteristics of a wide range of shells from Helix to Spirula and | described the mathematics of univalve shells. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's ... |
Alan Kay | ... called Babelfish. In 1994, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to | , where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he j ... |
Michael Ignatieff | ... ing Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was immediately forced out and replaced by | , who quickly distanced the party from the coalition |
Karl Popper | ... ve since refined this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, | , Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
Edgeworth David | ... Darwin in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor | of the University of Sydney lead the expeditions in 1896 & 1897. Photograp ... |
Edward Bromhead | ... s Institute, the Lincoln Mechanics' Institution, which was founded in 1833. | , who knew John Boole through the Institution, helped George Boole with ma ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, | faces William Shakespeare |
Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
Doris Lessing | ... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast, | 's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ... |
Max Mathews | ... (vocoder) recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from | . Coincidentally, Arthur C. Clarke was visiting his friend and colleague J ... |
Adam Smith | ... the late 18th century, especially in England, in light of the arguments of | and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by Robert Peel s ... |
John Lennon | ... s" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by | and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hea ... |
John Lennon | ... chedelic rock, mod and similar genres; this was called Group Sounds (G.S.). | of The Beatles later became one of most popular Western musicians in Japan ... |
Roger Scruton | ... ge of the award. The discussion was chaired by Tim Marlow and also included | , Waldemar Januszczak, Richard Cork, David Sylvester and Norman Rosenthal. ... |
John Cage | ... asis of noise. In remarking on Varese's contributions the American composer | stated that Varese had "established the present nature of music" and that ... |
Isaac Todhunter | ... es of the Royal Society and the British Museum; but it was left incomplete. | printed the manuscripts in 1865, in a supplementary volume |
Christopher Longuet-Higgins | ... he same year. The credit for explaining such biradicals is usually given to | in 1950 |
Edward | ... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: | , Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Narcissus Marsh | ... e Prizes, Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, and Vicar-General to | , the primate. King found a friend in Anthony Upton, one of the judges, wh ... |
Octavio Paz | A month after losing the election, at the invitation of | , Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century ... |
Paul McCartney | ... itled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by John Lennon and | , released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1 ... |
WPVI-TV | ... -to-analog converter box, for older television sets. WABC's sister station, | , was also pulled from Cablevision service in the central New Jersey count ... |
William Penn | ... le colonies. Later in the century, the new Pennsylvania colony was given to | in settlement of a debt the king owed his father. Its government was set u ... |
Joanna Lumley | The series also featured guest appearances by such noted personalities as | as the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, ... |
King George II | ... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole | ;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ... |
Leibniz | ... e to deny all that Cardan affirms and to affirm all that Cardan denies. Yet | and Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the ... |
Margaret Atwood | The Republic of Gilead is a fictional country that is the setting of the | dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale |
Václav Havel | ... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with | on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ... |
Bob Neill | ... oceedings is very high". The Shadow Local Government and Planning Minister, | , stated that should the Conservative Party win the 2010 general election, ... |
Joseph Banks | ... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote to | in August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed |
Goethe | ... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from | 's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly |
Neil Gaiman | Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and | . She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are ... |
John de Chastelain | ... ce for a prosecution. The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General | , chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, ... |
Fujiwara no Yoshifusa | ... , also called the Somedono empress 染殿后). Seiwa's mother was the daughter of | (藤原良房), who was regent and great minister of the council of state |
Wendell Corey | ... nwriter John Michael Hayes based on his own wife, and his policeman buddy ( | ) to his theory, and eventually succeeds. As with Lifeboat and Rope, the p ... |
Charles II of England | ... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by King | at the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ... |
Dewar | ... icle on tropolone. Tropolone had been recognised as an aromatic molecule by | in 1945 |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves were analysed theoretically by | in 1864. Maxwell developed a set of equations that could unambiguously des ... |
Michael Graves | ... of view of postmodern architects such as Philip Johnson, Charles Moore and | who advocated a return to pre-modern styles of architecture and the incorp ... |
J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
Richard Karp | ... at there exist practically relevant problems that are NP-complete. In 1972, | took this idea a leap forward with his landmark paper, "Reducibility Among ... |
Albert Einstein | ... The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, | , Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, | was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ... |
Prince George, Duke of York | Albert Victor's brother, | , now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ... |
George Martin | ... Fagandini's interval signals "Time Beat" was reworked with assistance from | (in his pre-Beatles days) and commercially released as a single using the ... |
Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
Charles Clarke | ... em with no Commons representative in East Anglia; the former Home Secretary | being a high level casualty in the 2010 election |
Henry Sacheverell | In 1710 he became a supporter of the High Church party, on the side of | ; and was supposed to have had some part in setting up The Examiner. He wa ... |
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew | ... in structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and | , respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-resolution structures of protein ... |
Moses I. Finley | ... ld out of ten was an actual beneficiary) – therefore, the idea, advanced by | , that the whole scheme was at most a form of random charity, a mere imper ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, | . This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been ... |
F. L. Lucas's | ... hology (VII.141) on Protesilaus by Antiphilus of Byzantium in turn inspired | poem 'The Elms of Protesilaus' (1927) |
James M. McPherson | ... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historian | wrote |
James II | ... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future | , brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of | . The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ... |
R.A. Fisher | ... was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by | . In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University Coll ... |
Bill Clinton | On July 12, 1994, U.S. President | spoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe |
Thomas E. Kurtz | ... IC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and | |
Philip Miller | ... he word vanilla entered the English language in the 1754, when the botanist | wrote about the genus in his Gardener’s Dictionary. Vainilla is from the d ... |
John Major | ... for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under his predecessor | ) and for the fact that the total salary cost of special advisers across a ... |
James II | ... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read | 's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ... |
Alfred Marshall | ... so in 1909, Keynes accepted a lectureship in economics funded personally by | . Keynes's earnings rose further as he began to take on pupils for private ... |
C. S. Lewis | In 1950 | (1898–1963) published the first of installment of his Chronicles of Narnia ... |
Joanna Lumley | ... d become a patron of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, | and David Shepherd |
Dowager Empress | ... reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the | in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist mov ... |
Jacob Lawrence | ... oger Medearis; Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Ben Shahn | ;, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Rudolph F. Zallinger, George Tooker, Robert ... |
Ed Bullins | In 1967, Eldridge Cleaver, along with Marvin X, | and Ethna Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San F ... |
Goethe | ... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by | , Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ... |
Drew Gilpin Faust | ... evolved primarily around the maintenance or expansion of slavery. Historian | observed that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited sl ... |
Karl Marx | ... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century. | refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ... |
Tommy Kirkham | ... p for some time, support Shoukri and break away under former UPRG spokesman | . Other senior members met with Taoiseach for talks on 13 July in the same ... |
Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
George V | ... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of | and Queen Mary |
Fujiwara no Yoshifusa | Originally under the guardianship of his maternal grandfather | , he displaced Imperial Prince Koretaka (惟喬親王) as Crown Prince. Upon the d ... |
James Van Allen | ... alone, while a cone would have properties that varied with its orientation. | of the University of Iowa proposed a cylindrical satellite, which became E ... |
Chaz | ... married singer/entertainer Cher; their daughter Chastity (now legally named | after gender transition) was born on March 4, 1969. In 1975 the couple div ... |
Lukas Foss | ... e taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as | , Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, ... |
Stephen Byers | ... advisers across all government departments had reached £4 million. In 2001, | , then Secretary of State for Transport, was forced to resign because of t ... |
Clement Attlee | British Prime Minister | commented in the House of Commons |
Edward M. Kennedy | ... ent John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and | , soon all held prominent positions in the federal government, and receive ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... ise final and a silver on the beam — becoming the only female gymnast since | to win an individual event gold after winning the all-round title in the s ... |
Bill Clinton | ... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-president | wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ... |
Edward Bernard | ... accompanied by his tutor. Bentley soon met Dr John Mill, Humphrey Hody, and | . Here he studied the manuscripts of the Bodleian, Corpus Christi and othe ... |
George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
Michael Faraday | The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction was discovered independently by | and Joseph Henry in 1831. However, Faraday was the first to publish the re ... |
Henry Oldenburg | ... pantheist, that is, equating God with the material universe. In a letter to | Spinoza states that: "as to the view of certain people that I identify god ... |
Alfred North Whitehead | ... s: materialism (August Weismann), vitalism (Hans Driesch), and organicism ( | ). Sheldrake describes his own hypothesis as fitting within the third trad ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... e use of the "out" metaphor. This campaign is endorsed by prominent atheist | , who states "there is a big closet population of atheists who need to 'co ... |
Fujiwara no Mototsune | The first kampaku | was influential in the process by Kōkō became emperor. At the time Emperor ... |
Michael Faraday | ... ons is always valid but more restrictive than that originally formulated by | . |
Newton Arvin | ... uments and records for the day by day Melville Log (1951). In the same year | published the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction ... |
Ringo Starr | ... lub Band in 1967. The song was written for and sung by The Beatles' drummer | as the character "Billy Shears"; it is ranked #304 on Rolling Stones list ... |
Charles II | ... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King | ) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ... |
Charles Theodore | ... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt. | , who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ... |
Robert Peel | Along with | , Wellington became an increasingly influential member of the Tory party, ... |
Maximilian IV | ... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France. | Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ... |
T. D. Barnes | ... c tradition developed which presented Constantine as a committed Christian. | 's seminal Constantine and Eusebius (1981) represents the culmination of t ... |
Anthony Braxton's | Much of the multi-instrumentalist | music could be classified as free jazz. His Ghost Trance Music, which intr ... |
Tennyson's | ... of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition of | Poems (1857 |
Walter Pater | Wilde did not meet | until his third year, but had been enthralled by his Studies in the Histor ... |
Pamela Anderson | ... ), beginning with photos from the famed Stolen Honeymoon sex tape featuring | and Tommy Lee. It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female mod ... |
KTLA | ... touchables. In 1955, the network picked up the national broadcast rights to | 's Dodge Dancing Party, which eventually evolved into The Lawrence Welk Sh ... |
Prince George of Denmark | ... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended | , the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested |
George Szirtes | ... ire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – | – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Fr ... |
Charlotte of Albret | On 10 May 1499, Cesare married | (1480 – 11 March 1514). She was a sister of John III of Navarre. They were ... |
Alan Turing | ... king our tacit awareness. Contrary to the views of his colleague and friend | , whose work at The University of Manchester prepared the way for the firs ... |
Sir Ernest Gowers | ... tably of all, Fowler's Modern English Usage and The Complete Plain Words by | . Detailed guidance on many aspects of writing British English for publica ... |
Irene of Athens | ... ditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empress | was too weak to oppose Charlemagne. Charlemagne was to intervene in church ... |
Sydney Chapman | ... atmospheric dynamics, and co-authored the monograph Atmospheric Tides with | |
Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby | ... n (London, 1709—1710) and the preface to Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for | (1708)—both without his name. His manuscript collections on the history an ... |
Martin Lister | In 1699 he published A Journey to London, after the method of Dr. | , who had published A Journey to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal ... |
Patrick Dean | ... that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir | , British ambassador in Washington, argued that it "would also give curren ... |
William Henry John Slee | ... and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush, along with partner | . Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New S ... |
John Foxe | ... cs during his time as Lord Chancellor. The popular anti-Catholic polemicist | , who "placed Protestant sufferings against the background of... the Antic ... |
Bill Clinton | ... homa City area to be released from their duties for their safety. President | learned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Tur ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the | combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ... |
Norman Dello Joio | ... University where he had such notable students as Lukas Foss, Graham George, | , Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning ... |
Daniel Dennett | "Modern compatibilists", such as Harry Frankfurt and | , argue that there are cases where a coerced agent's choices are still fre ... |
Isaac Newton | ... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712, | , then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ... |
Bill Clinton | ... (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States President | admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the ... |
Richard Adams | ... dio Decibel and began work on recordings that were inspired by another book | ;' Watership Down. Using the same session musicians but with a new produce ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including | , Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhe ... |
George Harrison | ... throw tomatoes at him should he perform it live. (In the early days, after | made a passing comment that he liked jelly babies, the group was showered ... |
Steve Fossett | ... marama, and the prevailing conditions have attracted record seekers such as | |
John Bryan Ward-Perkins | ... ng was turning over the soil a meter deep, destroying all surface evidence. | , then Director of the British School at Rome, set into motion the South E ... |
Newton | ... h included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics – | 's Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would co ... |
William McDougall's | In support of his hypothesis, Sheldrake cites replications of | experiment with rats in a water maze and Mae-Wan Ho's replication of CH Wa ... |
Sherburne F. Cook | Of the history of the indigenous population of California, | (1896–1974) was the most painstakingly careful researcher. From decades of ... |
John Cage | ... n Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of | . There he also met Cage's collaborator, pianist David Tudor, who subseque ... |
Thomas Tooke | During 1820 the Merchants' Petition, written by | , was presented to the Commons demanding free trade and an end to protecti ... |
James, Duke of York | ... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, | . A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ... |
Brianna Taylor | 's Kimberly Alexander got into an argument with | , who is African American, and said, "Let's not get ghetto." When roommate ... |
Vanessa Feltz | ... nders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, Jeremy Clarkson, | and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-Ge ... |
William Stanley Jevons | ... ole's work was extended and refined by a number of writers, beginning with. | . Augustus De Morgan had worked on the logic of relations, and Charles San ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – | – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ... |
Peter Heylin | ... room. The Church History was angrily attacked from the high-church side by | . At the Oxford Act of 1657, Robert South, who was Terrae filius, lampoone ... |
Albert Einstein | The maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed by | in 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ... |
Isabella d'Este | Cesare Borgia had wanted to take over Mantua while | was ruling |
Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". President | spoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony |
Gottfried Leibniz | ... highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and | . Newton was even accused of introducing occult agencies into natural scie ... |
Adam Smith | ... g other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), Karl Marx quotes | and sums up |
Empress Dowager Longyu | ... nephew Puyi, who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the | . In another coup de'tat, Yuan Shikai overthrew the last Qing emperor, and ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for | 's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ... |
Denis Healey | ... us. Sir Michael founded the institute together with the British Labour M.P. | and journalist Alastair Buchan |
Pope John Paul II | With the changes in the canonization process introduced by | in 1983, a College of Relators was added to prepare the cases of those dec ... |
Carolyn Parrish | ... ith "the Keystone Kops running around" by one of its parliamentary members, | . In criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's response to Hurrica ... |
Martin Litchfield West | The scholar | writes that the Pythia shows many traits of shamanistic practices, likely ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... tism, which also drew upon theoretical work by German theoreticians such as | and Wilhelm Weber. The encapsulation of heat in particulate motion, and th ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess | with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ... |
Daniel Dennett | ... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher | , Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), regular featured columnist ... |
Britney Spears | ... kthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as | , Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at ... |
Carl Linnaeus | In his 18th century work Systema Naturae, | coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but combined it with ... |
Carl Woese | ... come a search for the universal tree or the universal ancestor, a phrase of | . The tree that results has some unusual features, especially in its roots ... |
Ziad Jarrah | ... number as 3402142-D, and gave a New York hotel as his permanent residence. | had checked into the hotel on August 27 |
Milton Friedman | ... have learned about business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from | to Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned ... |
Bill Clinton | ... etanyahu opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood. In 1998, U.S. President | persuaded the two leaders to meet. The resulting Wye River Memorandum deta ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 8 May 1969, | issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ... |
Neil Turok | The ekpyrotic model came out of work by | and Paul Steinhardt and maintains that the universe did not start in a sin ... |
Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
Michael Abercrombie | ... f the architect Patrick Abercrombie. One of his sons was the cell biologist | . A grandson, Jeff Cooper, produced an admirable bibliography of his grand ... |
Donald Trump | ... business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from Milton Friedman to | ... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned a thing or two ... |
Walter Burkert | ... l for Hera, Dionysus is invited to come as a bull; "with bull-foot raging." | relates, "Quite frequently [Dionysus] is portrayed with bull horns, and in ... |
Alasdair Whittle | ... al bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog. Archaeologists | and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be "significan ... |
George II | ... ow in England. Set in , the house was completed in 1729 during the reign of | and designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a lead ... |
Raymond Williams | ... ncing that France had entered the race to industrialise. In his 1976 book , | states in the entry for "Industry": "The idea of a new social order based ... |
Charles Lyell | ... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", and | memorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ... |
George A. Miller | ... oratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor | . Development began in 1985. Over the years, the project received funding ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... aves began soon after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as | , Jagadish Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ... |
Hans Mommsen | ... s a functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich such as Martin Broszat, | and Ian Kershaw have been very hostile or lukewarm towards the totalitaria ... |
Moses Montefiore | ... e of the straw bonnet trade. Moses Chaim Montefiore, the grandfather of Sir | , also came to the country at much the same time for precisely the same re ... |
John Lennon | ... g task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of | (who had himself appeared on the show in 1975). This particular episode co ... |
Louis XVIII | ... ater lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by | and Napoleon III, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and | 's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ... |
Lord Burlington | ... e house was completed in 1729 during the reign of George II and designed by | . William Kent (1685–1748), who took a leading role in designing the garde ... |
W. H. Auden | In a 1955 letter to | , Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the ... |
Ian Kershaw | ... interpretation of the Third Reich such as Martin Broszat, Hans Mommsen and | have been very hostile or lukewarm towards the totalitarianism concept, ar ... |
Simon Hornblower | ... , but even if this assertion is correct, no such plan was ever implemented. | asserts that Thebes' great legacy to fourth century and Hellenistic Greece ... |
Sandy Mölling | ... ll-female pop trio from Germany, consisting of band members Lucy Diakovska, | , and Jessica Wahls. Critically acclaimed, the band has won dozen of award ... |
Mark Pattison | ... ary works. C.P. Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by the story of | , a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrate ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellor | to re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities". | in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ... |
Isaac Newton | ... ly credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, although | preferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed t ... |
Ringo Starr | ... en he made a record of his early songs with such figures as Rory Gallagher, | , Elton John and Brian May called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album ... |
Richard Kirwan | Following criticism, especially the arguments from | who thought Hutton's ideas were atheistic and not logical, Hutton publishe ... |
Chen Ning Yang | ... nteraction; it was assumed to be a universal law. However, in the mid-1950s | and Tsung-Dao Lee suggested that the weak interaction might violate this l ... |
James Stirling | ... nction's important functional properties, including the reflection formula. | , a contemporary of Euler, also attempted to find a continuous expression ... |
Tom Stoppard | ... th, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in human existence. | 's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy first s ... |
John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ch events spiralled out of control in the run up to and after independence. | , the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governme ... |
Isaac Newton | ... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as | , and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... nished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, including | and a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths. In 1936, when Griffiths ... |
Gordon Bell | ... ess radar cross section data for the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft. | remembered that it was being used in some time later, but could not recall ... |
Lewis Carroll | Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by | ), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ... |
Hugh Hefner | ... s article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul | , claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, P ... |
Elsie Widdowson | ... ter World War II took place according to nutritional principles drawn up by | and others. In 1941, the first Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) were ... |
Karl Marx | ... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and | ) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ... |
Winston Churchill | ... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from | , then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... govia as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressed | that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attem ... |
Edmund Davy | ... yfuel welding, became well established. Acetylene was discovered in 1836 by | , but its use was not practical in welding until about 1900, when a suitab ... |
William Warde Fowler | ... d to have been buried near the altar of Fons (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. | observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons ... |
Sir Harrison Birtwistle | Amongst British composers, | readily acknowledges the influence of Stockhausen's Zeitmaße (especially o ... |
David Quammen | ... name for the bird, dodô, is taken from the internationally used word dodo. | considered the idea that dodo was an approximation of the bird's own call, ... |
Robert Sternberg | ... r Tufts faculty include former American Psychological Association president | , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosoph ... |
John Locke | ... oncept or doctrine derived from liberal political theory. It traces back to | in late 17th century England and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, th ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
Jagadish Chandra Bose | ... n after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, | and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
Margaret Drabble | ... tween different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. | described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848" ... |
Joseph Needham | ... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian | quotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying |
Kofi Annan | ... treaty bodies. In his September 2002 report the former UN Secretary General | on 'Strengthening the United Nations; an agenda for further change' sugges ... |
Samuel Alexander | ... rd (or Cambridge) to admit a Jewish Fellow, the Australian-born philosopher | (appointed 1882) |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... nts conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, Jagadish Chandra Bose and | during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... ee jazz movement coalesced around such important (and disparate) figures as | , Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... w York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, Herman Klein, and | , castigated a succession of visiting Mediterranean tenors for resorting t ... |
Charles II | ... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London by | in 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ... |
Prince George of Denmark | ... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband, | in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ... |
Ornette Coleman | ... y increased. As guitarist Marc Ribot has remarked, free jazz musicians like | and Albert Ayler, "although they were freeing up certain strictures of beb ... |
Crown Prince Naruhito | ... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when | of Japan studied there (1983–85) |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to | , with whom he shared, as author of The Epic (1914), a professional intere ... |
David Cameron | ... has always been held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, currently | |
Niko | ... five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. His brother | would also win a Nobel Prize (for physiology, during 1973) for his work in ... |
King George II | ... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to | , for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000 |
Alfred Marshall | ... financial consultant. In 1924 Keynes wrote an obituary for his former tutor | which Schumpeter called "the most brilliant life of a man of science I hav ... |
Ali Akbar Khan | ... e Young discovered Indian music in 1957 on the campus of the UCLA. He cites | (sarod) and Chatur Lal (tabla) as particularly significant. The discovery ... |
Bill Gates | ... ft CEO Steve Ballmer's chair-throwing incident from 2005. Microsoft founder | is a popular target of jokes by Slashdotters, and all stories about Micros ... |
Michael Faraday | ... dies could be magnetized; these discoveries were completed and explained by | |
John Locke | ... aced back to Treatise of Taxes, written in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to | 's notion, set out in the Second Treatise on Government (1689), that prope ... |
Montesquieu | ... ng (as she frankly admitted) the philosophers of Western Europe, especially | and Cesare Beccaria |
Harrie Massey | ... e scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, | and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines an ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
Mohamed Atta | ... urly parking lot. Inside the vehicle, authorities found a letter written by | , maps of Washington, D.C. and New York City, a cashier's check made out t ... |
John Lennon | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of | , Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained ... |
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | ... cluded a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and | |
Sid Watkins | ... Ratzenberger's fatal crash. Senna was met by FIA's Medical Chief Professor | , who recalled that Senna was tearful, despite meeting Ratzenberger only o ... |
Thomas Henry Huxley | ... in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such as | and E. Ray Lankester. Enthusiasm waned: it was often difficult to find evi ... |
Gibbon | ... 654. This code gave occasion to some well-known comments by Montesquieu and | , and has been discussed by Savigny (Geschichte des romischen Rechts, ii. ... |
Karl Marx | ... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by | ) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ... |
Johannes Hevelius | ... olemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and | 20 |
Empress Dowager Cixi | ... drafted by the Guangxu Emperor in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the | , who placed Emperor Guangxu under house arrest in a coup d'état. Further ... |
Ornette Coleman | ... sced around such important (and disparate) figures as Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, | , and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known figures such as Joe Mane ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as | 's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... e years 1490 to 1492 as a page in the household service of John Morton, the | and Lord Chancellor of England. Morton enthusiastically supported the "New ... |
Churchill | ... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought that | would reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ... |
Ringo Starr | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of John Lennon, | , Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained friendships w ... |
Bill Clinton | ... had a major role in the Senate trial following the impeachment of President | . After the House narrowly voted to impeach Clinton, Lott proceeded with t ... |
Dirac | ... 934, introduces the idea that the photon is equivalent to the fusion of two | neutrinos |
Jeffrey Weeks | Dartmouth alumni in academia include Stuart Kauffman and | , both recipients of MacArthur Fellowships (commonly called "genius grants ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned), | ’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ... |
Arthur Young | ... er reputation in their writings. The leading economists of her day, such as | and Jacques Necker, became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, e ... |
Robert Sternberg | In 2006, Dean of Arts and Sciences | added experimental criteria to the application process for undergraduates ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Sindarin: ), originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in | 's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondo ... |
Niels Bohr | After spending 1928 and 1929 in England and Denmark, working briefly with | , Hückel joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart. In ... |
John Harbison | ... r world premieres of their works, including Igor Stravinsky, William Kraft, | , Witold Lutosławski, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Wi ... |
J. J. Thomson | ... s own as a compressed electron (detected in 1897 by British experimentalist | ) would prove unstable. Meanwhile, other experimenters began to detect une ... |
Trenyce Cobbins | ... til at least May 2009, season two American Idol contestants Frenchie Davis, | and winner Ruben Studdard starred in the 30th anniversary national tour of ... |
Michael Frayn | ... him off the big screen for several years. One, Noises Off..., based on the | play, has subsequently developed a strong cult following, while the other, ... |
John Major | ... lack of responsiveness in the quality of public services. The government of | sought to tackle this with a Citizen's Charter programme. This sought to e ... |
Andrew Sarris | Film critic | considers it to be "Huston's best film", and the film that made Marilyn Mo ... |
Leopold I of Belgium | ... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned by | in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ... |
Clinton C-Sox | ... s on June 28. After just two games with the Smokies, he was promoted to the | of the Midwest League where he posted a record of 4 wins and 7 losses |
John James Audubon | ... life illustration reached its peak in the 19th century with artists such as | , and today many naturalist field guides are still illustrated with waterc ... |
Cornelius Vermuyden | ... The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, who employed | as engineer. Contrary to popular belief, Vermuyden was not involved with t ... |
William Bligh | ... island with a European settlement at the time, Timor was the destination of | and seamen loyal to him following the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 178 ... |
Francis Crick | ... be found in the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. In his autobiography, , | wrote about his choice of the word dogma and some of the problems it cause ... |
Walter Burkert | ... erfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.' | observes that "Frenzied women from whose lips the god speaks" are recorded ... |
Aaron Copland | ... ncluding Igor Stravinsky, William Kraft, John Harbison, Witold Lutosławski, | , Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Adams ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
Thomas Linacre | ... St Mary’s. More received a classical education at Oxford and was a pupil of | and , becoming proficient in both Greek and Latin. He left Oxford in 1494 ... |
Anthony Braxton | ... ructures are employed, some of them very detailed and complex; the music of | furnishes many examples. It would perhaps be best to call this modern or a ... |
William Ernest Johnson | ... the 1870s. Other significant figures were Platon Sergeevich Poretskii, and | . The conception of a Boolean algebra structure on equivalent statements o ... |
Isaiah Berlin | According to | , Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ... |
Vivian H. H. Green | ... tional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector | . At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a p ... |
John Smeaton | ... covery of concrete (based on hydraulic lime mortar) by the British engineer | , which had been lost for 1300 years |
John Forman | ... man, Joanne Woodward, Robert Redford, George Roy Hill, William Goldman, and | , among others |
Ornette Coleman | Free jazz is most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of | and Cecil Taylor and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other i ... |
WSBT-TV | Mishawaka located stations include | (CBS), WBND-LP (ABC), WCWW-LP (CW) and WMYS-LP (My Network TV) |
Henry V of England | ... p with, and probable secret marriage to, Catherine of Valois, widow of King | |
Mohamed Atta | ... partment data mining project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, | and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents |
Hannah Arendt | ... published a letter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including | , Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which describe ... |
Bill Clinton | ... the inspectors were not kicked out by Saddam Hussein, but were withdrawn by | |
Lewis Carroll | ... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, | , James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ... |
Khalid al-Mihdhar | ... that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, | , Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda age ... |
Sten Sture the Younger | His first marriage (1490–1495) with Iliana Gädda, produced the son | . He married a second time with Mette Dyr |
Doug Marlette | ... ganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late | , and David Payne |
Wiener | ... discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, Turing, Khinchin, Markov and | , all mathematicians, made major contributions to science and probability ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... #31 (Nov. 1989). A few months after this, the Spectre has a cameo in writer | 's The Books of Magic, a four-issue miniseries starring many DC occult cha ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | According to | , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ... |
Edmund Wilson | The Hollow Men appeared in 1925. For the critic | , it marked "The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such e ... |
WFNA 55 | ... y four television stations: WPMI 15 (NBC), WKRG 5 (CBS), WALA 10 (Fox), and | (CW). The regional area is also served by WEAR 3 (ABC) and WJTC 44, an ind ... |
Jay Dardenne | ... sas Parish. The parish gave a plurality of 48 percent to Secretary of State | . Both Jindal and Dardenne were easy statewide winners in the nonpartisan ... |
King George V | Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of | , and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ... |
Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
Harald V | ... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King | , and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ... |
Paul Ginsparg | The e-print archive arXiv.org (pronounced "archive") was created by | in 1991 at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the purpose of distributing ... |
Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
WBND-LP | Mishawaka located stations include WSBT-TV (CBS), | (ABC), WCWW-LP (CW) and WMYS-LP (My Network TV) |
James Smithson | ... of knowledge" from a bequest to the United States by the British scientist | (c. 1765–1829), who never visited the new nation. In Smithson's will, he s ... |
Run | ... Flash, got in the studio, they never put their greatness on records. Me and | and Jay would listen ... and we'd say, 'They didn't do that shit last nigh ... |
Judi Dench | ... called Sir Elton or Sir Elton John, but never Sir John. Similarly, actress | DBE may be addressed as Dame Judi or Dame Judi Dench, but never Dame Dench |
Cecil Taylor | ... most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of Ornette Coleman and | and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... aration opposing the invasion of Iraq (along with prominent figures such as | and Susan Sarandon); the declaration appeared in the magazine The Nation. ... |
Tom Stoppard | Housman is the main character in the 1997 | play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ... |
Marwan al-Shehhi | ... ing project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and | all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents |
John Playfair | In the Spring of 1788 he set off with | to the Berwickshire coast and found more examples of this sequence in the ... |
Gary Snyder | ... Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and | . Many advocates of Green anarchism and primitivism consider Fredy Perlman ... |
Paul McCartney | ... of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, John Lennon and | 's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as did many young bands ... |
Allen Tate | ... , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, Eliot's failed marriage. | perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing that, "The mythologies disapp ... |
WEAR 3 | ... (CBS), WALA 10 (Fox), and WFNA 55 (CW). The regional area is also served by | (ABC) and WJTC 44, an independent station. They are both based in Pensacol ... |
Peter Ustinov | ... uarded by Satwant and Beant. She was to be interviewed by the British actor | , who was filming a documentary for Irish television. According to informa ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... e of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson. He, Watson and | were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for ... |
Árpád Pusztai | ... lutinin. Potatoes have been genetically modified with the GNA gene. In 1998 | said in an interview on a World in Action programme that his group had obs ... |
Michael Noonan | ... chell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of | following the 2002 general election. The position of deputy leader has bee ... |
Henry V of England | ... fe of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King | , focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt ... |
George Martin | ... ardas often said that the Abbey Road studio was "no good", much to producer | 's annoyance: "The trouble was that Alex was always coming to the studios ... |
Geneva | ... r days every two weeks for 9 months of the year with other regular shows in | , Lausanne and Basel. The very first shows in 2006 brought to Switzerland ... |
Lyon Playfair | For example, in 1854 | (later 1st Baron Playfair, GCB, PC, FRS (1 May 1818 – 29 May 1898), a Brit ... |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... connections resulted in rapid growth at the expense of nearby towns not on | 's railways. The more central Torquay railway station was opened on 2 Augu ... |
Peter Sellars | ... of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director | , conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov. The opera ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... Durham savant John Bird Emerson makes an appearance in Mason and Dixon by | Emerson’s works include |
Nikolaas Tinbergen | ... l prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist | and chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library foun ... |
KDKA-TV | ... uired the aforementioned monopoly in Pittsburgh with DuMont-owned WDTV (now | , and ironically now a CBS O&O) being part of the merger. However, Paramou ... |
John Locke | ... l influence on the words of the Declaration. The English political theorist | , whom Jefferson called one of "the three greatest men that have ever live ... |
James Dyson | In the early first decade of the 21st century, the British inventor | launched the ContraRotator, a type of washing machine with two cylinders r ... |
Sidney Hook | ... umber of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, | , and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a terrorist, rig ... |
WPMI 15 | Mobile is served locally by four television stations: | (NBC), WKRG 5 (CBS), WALA 10 (Fox), and WFNA 55 (CW). The regional area is ... |
Charles Dickens | ... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by | |
Graeme Koehne | ... g Julian Cochran, Gordon Hamilton, Liza Lim, Nigel Westlake, David Worrall, | , Elena Kats-Chernin, Carl Vine, Brett Dean, Martin Wesley-Smith, Georges ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... hat help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in | 's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's re ... |
Geneva | ... hemical and biological weapons in warfare. Signed into International Law at | on June 17, 1925 and entered into force on February 8, 1928, this treaty s ... |
Turing | ... and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, | , Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contribution ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, | , Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, U ... |
Phil Hogan | ... t of the parliamentary party on 5 June 2002. Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, | and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the re ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, | , Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ... |
Bill Clinton | ... of those guilty of "Plastic Paddyism" (or, in his words, "Dermot-itis") are | , Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Scottish-Australian songwriter Eri ... |
Clement Attlee | ... egion and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to | appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ed in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people. | , the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has stoked this sentiment as wel ... |
John Ray | The first classification of birds was developed by Francis Willughby and | in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae |
John Major | ... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir | was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ... |
Otto Hahn | ... w element should be named hahnium (Ha), in honor of the late German chemist | . Consequently hahnium was the name that most American and Western Europea ... |
Drew G. Faust | ... oston-area colleges and universities including Harvard University President | and UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Ce ... |
Eric Hobsbawm | ... time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians. | held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt un ... |
Alvin Hansen | ... to achieve widespread acceptance, with eminent American professors such as | agreeing with the General Theory before the outbreak of World War II |
Sir Walter Scott | The legend was actually formalised by | and was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ... |
Martha Graham | ... epted by the John Murray Anderson School of Theatre, and studied dance with | |
Bryan R. Wilson | Dr. Lonnie D. Kliever (1932–2004), Gordon Melton, and | . An opposing camp less critical of apostate narratives as a group include ... |
Francis Willughby | The first classification of birds was developed by | and John Ray in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae |
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Heath Ledger | ... Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and | |
Mark Pattison | ... ve volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547; of these, a friendly critic, | , is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, "par ... |
Charles Lyell | ... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of | 's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ... |
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Nina Bawden | ... Wireless Theatre Company. She appeared in a production of Carrie's War, the | novel, at the in 2009 |
King James II | Princess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of | (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ... |
Niels Bohr | ... roposed the name nielsbohrium (Ns) in honor of the Danish nuclear physicist | . The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ... |
Max Planck | ... s included the wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of | and Albert Einstein on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material ... |
Charles II | ... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until | sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
Raymond III of Tripoli | ... umphrey IV of Toron to Isabella of Jerusalem. The siege was raised by Count | , and Raynald was quiet until 1186 |
Charles Wheatstone | ... e details of his apparatus, which utilized the relaying mirrors employed by | in 1835 for measuring the velocity of the electric discharge; but owing to ... |
Julian Huxley | ... s Symbionticism and the origin of species; and there was a brief mention by | in 1930; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking. Symbiosis as ... |
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Charles Darwin | ... local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with | , and had two gastropods (snails or slugs) named after him |
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Andrew Huxley | ... electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin, | , and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of Be ... |
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Gauss | An alternative notation which was originally introduced by | and which was sometimes used is the Pi function, which in terms of the gam ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
Linnaeus | The Barn Swallow was described by | in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rec ... |
George Martin | ... from that day's work on the song; asked why a longer version wasn't issued, | explained: "I think it gets boring. |
Rudyard Kipling | ... bell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, | . Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of science fict ... |
Pat Barker | ... life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised by | in the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneratio ... |
Johnny Rotten | ... of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer | made some adjustments. Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 ... |
John Zorn | ... ay, and the Lounge Lizards, who were the first group to call themselves "". | began to make note of the emphasis on speed and dissonance that was becomi ... |
Charles Mingus | ... later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers included | , Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Joe Maneri and Sun Ra. Although ... |
Ornette Coleman | ... o free jazz. This began in 1986 with the album Spy vs. Spy, a collection of | tunes done in the contemporary thrashcore style. The same year, Sonny Shar ... |
WXYZ-TV | ... ing Company during that same year, with WENR-TV (now WLS-TV) in Chicago and | in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its the ... |
Joshua Lederberg | The role of symbiosis in cell evolution was revived partly by | , and finally brought to light by Lynn Margulis in a series of papers and ... |
Albert Einstein | ... wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck and | on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material, passed his thesis ... |
WHME-TV | ... s located in nearby South Bend, IN include WNDU-TV (NBC), WNIT-TV (PBS) and | (LeSEA) |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... cs, which was elaborated upon by Ludwig Boltzmann and the British physicist | , held that energy (including heat) was a measure of the speed of particle ... |
Cleo Laine | ... logy, the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel, the musical partnership of Dame | & Sir John Dankworth, and the harmonica |
Michael Holroyd | ... roup), it was not widely publicised until the late 1960s, in a biography by | . He had an unusual relationship with the painter Dora Carrington. She lov ... |
James E. Talmage | In 1930, a small volume edited by Apostle | titled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ... |
Hugh Edwin Strickland | This view was later supported by | and Melville after a dissection of the preserved head and foot from a stuf ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ed rapidly during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after | , Karol Wojtyła Airport, with connections to several European cities |
Adam Smith | Scottish economist | accepted the LTV for pre-capitalist societies but saw a flaw in its applic ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offered | a place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ... |
Damon Dash | ... hropist. She was the creative director for Rocawear and formerly married to | . Rachel Roy is sold in several upscale department stores including Bloomi ... |
J. Arch Getty | ... Sheila Fitzpatrick, Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and | . Though their individual interpretations differ, the revisionists have ar ... |
Gunther Schuller | ... Casino in New Rochelle, New York. The Glen Island date according to author | attracted "a record breaking opening night crowd of 1800..." With the Glen ... |
Alan Ryan | ... the relations between them. His 1984 book Reasons and Persons (described by | in The Sunday Times as "something close to a work of genius") has been ver ... |
WJTC 44 | ... ox), and WFNA 55 (CW). The regional area is also served by WEAR 3 (ABC) and | , an independent station. They are both based in Pensacola, Florida. Mobil ... |
John Lennon | ... , the same sort of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, | and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as di ... |
Leibniz | ... tended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously with | ). He provided a comprehensive formulation of classical mechanics and inve ... |
Hatshepsut | ... he Cachette Court, the start of the processional route to the Luxor Temple. | had monuments constructed and also restored the original Precinct of Mut, ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. When | came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ... |
George Armitage Miller | ... et team includes the following members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory: | , Christiane Fellbaum, Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and B ... |
WMYS-LP | ... aka located stations include WSBT-TV (CBS), WBND-LP (ABC), WCWW-LP (CW) and | (My Network TV) |
Murray Gell-Mann | ... obert Marshak and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later, Richard Feynman and | proposed a V−A (vector minus axial vector or left-handed) Lagrangian for w ... |
Philip Henry Gosse | ... Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by | , in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", Go ... |
W. H. Auden | ... erse (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the original volume done by | . Amis took the anthology in a markedly new direction: Auden had interpret ... |
Lee Kuan Yew | On May 18, 2010, Bilbao was awarded by the government of Singapore with the | World City Prize, at the World Cities Summit 2010. It is considered the Pr ... |
Guy of Lusignan | That year he allied with Sibylla and | against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed to the recognition of ... |
Ingeborg Tott | ... ensdotter Bielke, half-sister of the future Charles VIII. He was married to | , niece by marriage of Magdalen of Sweden, in 1467; she was a renaissance ... |
Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
Richard Feynman | ... s needed. In 1957, Robert Marshak and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later, | and Murray Gell-Mann proposed a V−A (vector minus axial vector or left-han ... |
Gil Evans | ... to explore modal harmony (a concept explored much later by Miles Davis and | ) from a jazz arranging perspective. Of note is the sheet of sound effect ... |
Malcolm McLaren | ... London SS was managed by Bernard Rhodes, a sometime associate of impresario | and a friend of the band McLaren managed, the Sex Pistols. Jones and his b ... |
WCWW-LP | Mishawaka located stations include WSBT-TV (CBS), WBND-LP (ABC), | (CW) and WMYS-LP (My Network TV) |
Ehud Barak | Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, | , at the Camp David Summit in July 2000. Due partly to his own politics (B ... |
Anderson Cooper | ... lues Club in New York, in addition to performing a song live on CNN for the | . However, Brown remained hospitalized, and his medical condition worsened ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then | , Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he t ... |
WLS-TV | ... the American Broadcasting Company during that same year, with WENR-TV (now | ) in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call ... |
Bernard Katz | ... xley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of | and others on the electrochemistry of the synapse. These studies complemen ... |
WNDU-TV | Stations located in nearby South Bend, IN include | (NBC), WNIT-TV (PBS) and WHME-TV (LeSEA) |
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf | ... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of | (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ... |
John Lennon | ... ed with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because | had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal w ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
Shannen Doherty | ... and T.S. (Jeremy London), who have broken up with their girlfriends—Rene ( | ) and Brandi (Claire Forlani), respectively. As fate would have it, a loca ... |
Alan Lomax | In 1936 | recorded the Soul Stirrers for the Library of Congress's American music pr ... |
Robert Stanley Weir | ... . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906. | wrote in 1908 another English version, one that is not a literal translati ... |
Sid Watkins | ... two minutes of crashing, Senna was extracted from his race car by Professor | and his medical team. Initial treatment took place by the side of the car, ... |
Michael Faraday | | formulated that electromotive force (EMF) produced around a closed path is ... |
Cotton Mather | ... Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England (1654), | 's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), and Winthrop's Journal were efforts ... |
Paul McCartney | The Beatles often called Mardas the "Greek wizard", and | remembered being interested in his ideas: “Well, if you [Mardas] could do ... |
Michael Faraday | ... mers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids. | is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831 though it ma ... |
Fynes Moryson | ... o hurt others like millers whose livelihood relied on agricultural produce. | reported on these problems in his 1617 work An Itinerary |
Robert Stephenson | ... accident. The bridge had been designed and built by famed-railway engineer | for the Chester and Holyhead Railway. A Royal Commission inquiry found tha ... |
Conrad Aiken | Eliot wrote to | on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ... |
Richard of Cornwall | ... y period of Ottoman rule. Richard the Lionheart retook the city soon after. | , brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between Templars an ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of | was in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ... |
C. P. Snow | ... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in | ’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ... |
Bill Gates | On March 6, 1988 Alan Cooper showed | his shell prototype that allowed widgets to be added dynamically. March 20 ... |
Joanna Lumley | ... man and Diana Rigg later co-starred in Bond films. The New Avengers regular | had, prior to that series, appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty' ... |
John Dalton | ... in places such as the newly established Royal Institution in London, where | argued for an atomistic interpretation of chemistry, Thomas Young argued f ... |
Aaron Copland | ... land as Grounde) is repeated as the basis of a piece underneath variations. | describes basso ostinato as "the easiest to recognize" of the variation fo ... |
John Malcolm | ... nce in the Persian Gulf, a policy originally proposed by British politician | . Indeed the British government was engaged in making agreements with loca ... |
Henry Cavendish | ... cape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to | in 1783 of the Royal Society |
Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | In 1796, mathematician | promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ... |
Wilfred Trotter | ... he "strange new subject called psychoanalysis", he met and was impressed by | , an outstanding brain surgeon who had also written the famous Instincts o ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by | , which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch (a story-internal version of the ... |
George Martin | ... t now, it seems strangely similar to The Goon Show." Lennon also noted that | had made records with both Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers |
Winston Churchill | ... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous members | and the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... nd René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, | ’s book (1958) and Masaki Kobayashi’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no ... |
Vartan Gregorian | ... Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president | , and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association |
King George VI | ... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy." | , as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ... |
Christopher Anderson | ... ous journals that would eventually be cited in over a hundred other papers. | wrote in a 1992 news article in Nature that Hagelin, co-developer of one o ... |
Alan Dershowitz | ... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British." | wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ... |
Nadja Benaissa | ... nion studio album entitled Welcome to the Dance in 2009. In September 2010, | officially left the band to due to private reasons, leaving No Angels as a ... |
John Lennon | ... made a considerable impact on the humour of The Beatles, and especially on | . On 30 September 1973, Lennon reviewed the book The Goon Show Scripts for ... |
Albert Einstein | In 1915, | developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ... |
Richard Dawkins | ... have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, | , Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen F ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... o was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 by | in 1970 |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker | introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... antium Cura) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. The Council, established by | on June 28, 1988, is dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and peo ... |
Clement Attlee's | St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister | proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white domini ... |
David Bohm | ... bilistic models which dominate quantum mechanical theory; it was refined by | in the 1950s |
Robert J. Flaherty | With | 's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism; Fla ... |
W. Edwards Deming | In his managerial and statistical writings, | placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ... |
Nikola Tesla | The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by | in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boun ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular, | never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title |
Darwin | 230 years before | 's theory of evolution, the appearance of the dodo and the red rail led Pe ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by | , the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy |
Sydney Brenner | ... Jolla, near San Diego, California; guest speakers included James D. Watson, | , Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churc ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... s, Trajan was considered a virtuous pagan, while the 18th century historian | popularized the notion of the Five Good Emperors, of which Trajan was the ... |
Randolph Quirk | Furthermore, | and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ... |
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure | ... ormities had been noted by Nicolas Steno and by French geologists including | , who interpreted them in terms of Neptunism as "primary formations". Hutt ... |
Susan McClary | Through the 1980s and 1990s, this trend continued as musicologists like | , Marcia Citron and Ruth Solie began to consider the cultural reasons for ... |
Clive James | ... n possible without this kind of self discipline. Nevertheless, according to | , Amis reached a turning point when his drinking ceased to be social, and ... |
WXYZ-TV | ... ad only nine full-time affiliates to augment its five O&Os—WJZ, WENR, KECA, | in Detroit and KGO-TV in San Francisco |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 78, where he took a job with the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then | , Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for ... |
Duke of Cumberland | ... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the | . Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ... |
Cleo Laine | ... ter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, | , Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Pr ... |
Robert Conquest | ... , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, | , Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe tot ... |
Lewis Carroll | ... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of | 's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... urned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) Francis Crick and | of King's College were personal friends, which influenced subsequent scien ... |
Nelly Furtado | ... n its video. The music video title "...On the Radio (Remember the Days)" by | replaced by the original title "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)." Th ... |
James Prescott Joule | ... eory of Lazare and Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron; the experimentation of | on the interchangeability of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and electrical ... |
Svante Nilsson | ... uently fell out with the majority of the Swedish nobility, most prominently | , and the Swedish council of the realm declared him to be deposed as regen ... |
John Lennon | ... many skiffle groups that followed was The Quarrymen formed in March 1957 by | . Donegan's "Gamblin' Man" / "Puttin' On the Style" single was number one ... |
Princess Anne | ... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, | , Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ... |
Sten Sture the Elder | ... f Sweden no later than 1482, but acted in opposition to his distant kinsman | , going as far as supporting John of Denmark. Unwillingly he then switched ... |
B. F. Skinner | ... y of operant conditioning with pigeons. Starting in the 1940s, initiated by | at Harvard University, the keys were mounted vertically behind a small cir ... |
King George VI | ... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing | as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ... |
Grafton Elliot Smith | ... ct and Dream which was published a year after his death by his close friend | |
Rudyard Kipling | ... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, by | in his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ... |
KGO-TV | ... affiliates to augment its five O&Os—WJZ, WENR, KECA, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and | in San Francisco |
WSJV | ... by South Bend, IN include WNDU-TV (NBC), WNIT-TV (PBS) and WHME-TV (LeSEA). | (Fox) also broadcasts in the Michiana area from Elkhart, IN |
Constance of Antioch | ... joining the Second Crusade in 1147. In the east, he entered the service of | , whose first husband had died in 1149. She married Raynald in secret in 1 ... |
Adam Lambert | ... h Katy Perry presented to Brian May. Queen closed the awards ceremony, with | on vocals, performing "The Show Must Go On", "We Will Rock You" and "We Ar ... |
George Fordyce | ... monstrating that the oxidation of food is the source of body heat. In 1790, | recognized calcium as necessary for fowl survival. In the early 19th centu ... |
David Crystal | There are also some who reject both linguistic imperialism and | 's theory of the neutrality of English. They argue that the phenomenon of ... |
Sarah Palin | ... iticians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and | , have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their speeches. Ronald ... |
Heath Ledger | ... the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher (played by | ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen |
Philip J. Davis | ... st prominent mathematicians of all time. Its history, notably documented by | in an article that won him the 1963 Chauvenet Prize, reflects many of the ... |
Norman Naimark | ... uvinism and xenophobia that have often resulted from nationalist sentiment. | relates the rise of nationalism to ethnic cleansing and genocide |
Hugh Hefner | ... ckers. Cigarette, liquor and car companies began to sponsor tournaments and | held backgammon parties at the Playboy Mansion. Backgammon clubs were form ... |
Michael Faraday | ... emistry, Thomas Young argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, and | established the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Meanwhile, the an ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... eonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, | , Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... elopment is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church. It was established by | on 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Ca ... |
Peter Sellars | ... Viola embarked on The Tristan Project. At the invitation of opera director | , he created video sequences to be shown as a backdrop to the action on st ... |
Charles II | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and | ratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ... |
Catherine of Aragon | Using her late mother's relationship with Henry's first queen | , Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with Lady Mary. B ... |
Mark Thompson | ... founder Thomas Bodley, the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC | and Sir Andrew Wiles who proved Fermat's Last Theorem. , a famous Canadian ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ght to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and | . The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize ... |
Max Müller | ... asvati River with the Ghaggar-Hakra River was accepted by Christian Lassen, | , Marc Aurel Stein, C.F. Oldham and Jane Macintosh, while some Vedic schol ... |
Geneva | ... ymedia journalist Guy Smallman was seriously injured by a police grenade in | . He was covering protests against the G8 summit in nearby Evian for Indym ... |
Humphry Davy | ... nded to believe was a unified and organic Nature. The English scientist Sir | , a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “a ... |
Aaron Klug | ... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, | , Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ntment of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He now became acquainted with | , and through his influence was commissioned, with Jean-Baptiste Biot, to ... |
H. Newell Martin | ... an, Gilman recruited internationally known luminaries such as the biologist | ; the physicist Henry A. Rowland (the first president of the American Phys ... |
King James II & VII | ... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of | , and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by | . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being no ... |
Disraeli | The British Prime Minister | 's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ... |
Robert Adam | ... hat British and European Neoclassical architects added to their vocabulary. | , for example, based a bed and one of the ceilings at Osterley House on th ... |
Lord Palmerston | ... Thomas Cochrane of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, | , but the British Ordnance Department rejected the proposal as "as bad a m ... |
Andrew Wiles | ... , the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sir | who proved Fermat's Last Theorem. , a famous Canadian neurosurgeon had als ... |
Harold Wilson | ... the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments of | and James Callaghan, with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dea ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... nd was now part of her household. It was in the household of King Henry and | 's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the Ki ... |
William Ewart Gladstone | ... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister | . Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather |
WKPT-TV | ... valley floor, and 4,370 feet (1,332m) above mean sea level. The antenna for | next door stands 193 feet (58.8m) above ground, also 2,319 feet (707m) abo ... |
Albert Einstein | ... 998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like | , historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary an ... |
Hani Hanjour | ... n two weeks before the . Nawaf continued living with Shaikh until December. | arrived in San Diego in early December 2000, joining Hazmi, but on Decembe ... |
Thomas Bodley | ... d chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder | , the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Si ... |
Brigitte Nielsen | In the aftermath of Schwarzenegger's infidelity scandal, actress | came forward and stated that she too had an affair with Schwarzenegger whi ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver": | wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ... |
Charles Babbage | ... orge Everest) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and | |
Frederic Bartlett | Not only Sassoon, but his patients as a whole, loved him and his colleague | wrote of hi |
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Charles II | ... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of | in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ... |
George Everest | In 1855 he married Mary Everest (niece of | ), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles |
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Jacob Lawrence | During the twentieth century, the American artist, | created his Vesalius Suite based on the anatomical drawings of Andreas Ves ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ly is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by | on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substitut ... |
John Lennon | On 15 December 1969, Moon joined | 's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in Londo ... |
Tom Clancy | Prince Philip is a minor character in | 's novel Patriot Games |
Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... . A scientific theory can be thought of as a model of reality. According to | in A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two ... |
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Carl Friedrich Gauss | | rewrote Euler's product a |
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Martin Amis | # | , a novelist, twice married: first in 1984 (divorced) to Antonia Phillips, ... |
John Cage | ... n (often drawing equally on contemporary composers such as Anton Webern and | for inspiration) |
Albert Einstein | ... apes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, | , and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of ... |
Tom Cole | ... es are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), Dan Boren (D-OK-2), Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3), | (R-OK-4), and James Lankford (R-OK-5) |
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Anthony Braxton | ... of improvising musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, | , Jack DeJohnette, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou D ... |
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Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis was married a second time, to the novelist | from 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... given on the occasion of his visit to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, | suggested a reading of the events of the Holocaust as motivated by a hatre ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Author | was a Merton Professor of English Language and Literatur |
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Adam Ulam | ... anz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, | , Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Co ... |
George Boole | ... acHale, in his George Boole: his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggests | may have been a model for Moriarty |
Martha Stewart | ... of the original founders of Alderson, stated "every business profited" when | was incarcerated at Alderson and media attention was focused on the commun ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | When | subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ader, but some find this "difficulty" rewarding. Wolfe said, in a letter to | : "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educat ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... elieving that anything that could be given a name must refer to a thing and | and others have criticized psychologists for doing just that. A committed ... |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
William Burges | ... -Ansbach (1683–1737); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–92) his architect | (1827–1881) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret |
Bob Saget | ... ion sponsors research into the condition. Comedian and television presenter | , a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, star ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign. | depicted him in the film Elizabeth. He was a prominent supporting characte ... |
David Cameron | ... The Princess Royal unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister | and the Mayor of London had given speeches |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman | , the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ... |
WLS-TV | ... of five O&Os, which included stations in the critical Chicago (WENR-TV, now | ) and Los Angeles (KECA-TV, now KABC-TV) markets. Even then, by 1951 ABC f ... |
John Michell | ... massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist | in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society |
Ramsay MacDonald | ... mining theme in honour of Fisher's occupation before entering public life. | , Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, unveiled a memorial to Fisher in ... |
Heath Ledger | ... 14th century, the story begins with the protagonists and squires, William ( | ), Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat (Alan Tudyk), discovering their master, Sir ... |
Louis XVIII | ... s of their lives they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, King | was worried that he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was d ... |
Thomas Gainsborough | ... nal art". Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were | , John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, ... |
Zaha Hadid | ... to be redeveloped, following a 2007 master plan designed by Iraqi architect | . This current peninsula will be transformed into an island and will featu ... |
Nicolaes Witsen | ... ord was then introduced to the English-speaking world by the Dutch traveler | in his 1692 book Noord en Oost Tataryen, which detailed his travels among ... |
Paul McCartney | ... ayed at the Colosseum in recent years have included Ray Charles (May 2002), | (May 2003), Elton John (September 2005), and (July 2006) |
James Cook | ... r the French. On 11 June 1770, the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by explorer | , ran on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. Lightenin ... |
Zenobia | The Augustan History ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that | queen of Palmyra in the late 3rd century AD was descended from Cleopatra, ... |
Sam Shepard | ... bout Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite | in 1983's The Right Stuff. He has appeared in small roles in a number of o ... |
Ahmed al-Ghamdi | ... is not known if al-Hazmi attended the service. May 2, two other hijackers, | and Majed Moqed, arrived in Virgina and moved in with them. On May 8, Alra ... |
John Dryden | ... dramatic adaptation of the novel for radio was produced for BBC Radio 4 by | in 2000. An operatic adaptation, The Handmaid's Tale, by Poul Ruders, prem ... |
Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
John Kendrew | ... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and | at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ... |
Colm Tóibín | ... assination of his family members and close friends, lynchings and bombings. | wrote, "throughout his career there have been poems of simple evocation an ... |
Godfrey Timmins | ... d local Wicklow TDs Liam Kavanagh (Labour), Ciarán Murphy (Fianna Fáil) and | (Fine Gael). At his funeral, Senator Nora Connolly O'Brien, daughter of th ... |
Asa Gray | ... a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of | 's . She also collected butterflies and moths and later wrote, "I believe ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... cession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry’s marriage to | . In 1535, he was tried for treason, convicted on perjured testimony and b ... |
Edward Mellanby | ... as Osborne also performed pioneering work on vitamins A and B. In 1919, Sir | incorrectly identified rickets as a vitamin A deficiency because he could ... |
Paul Samuelson | ... ate 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and | ) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writings in terms of forma ... |
Tom Friedman | ... imate of the cost of rebuilding. And with whom? As New York Times columnist | points out, there's a retail store mentality that suggests to some — if "y ... |
James Crichton-Browne | ... me the Balfour family home and, in 1840, the birthplace of the psychiatrist | . Hutton was one of the most influential participants in the Scottish Enli ... |
Edgar Meyer | In addition to being a noted classical player, | is well known in bluegrass and newgrass circles. Todd Phillips is another ... |
Farquhar Buzzard | ... attention to his care. During his illness in 1928, one of his doctors, Sir | , was asked who had saved the King's life. He replied, "The Queen". In 193 ... |
Brian Cowen | ... When the issue was (successfully) submitted to a referendum a second time, | , the Taoiseach of Ireland, stated that he had obtained "legal guarantees" ... |
Ornette Coleman | The mid-1950s recordings of | for Contemporary (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the fi ... |
Rupert Brooke | ... for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included | and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Pro ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ees were Senator John McCain, of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor | for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... or the Doctrine of the Faith by its prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now | ), to Bishops of the entire Catholic Church * Pontifical secret;Church pre ... |
Sir Robert Menzies | ... on in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia, delegates, including | , met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between ... |
Sam Shepard | ... nds $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Chuck Yeager ( | ) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his w ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | Following an indication of | , Rocktaeschel (1922) proposed for lngamma an approximation for large Re(z ... |
Joan Ruddock | ... mme in 1999, reviving debate about Soviet links to CND. Allen stood against | for the leadership of CND in 1985, but was defeated. Ruddock responded to ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987, | celebrated Mass before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's Parkstadion. The P ... |
Matthew Arnold | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – | – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire ... |
Willie Aames | ... ll), on the ABC series The Odd Couple, a part that previously was played by | |
Matilda of Flanders | ... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of | , who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ... |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | ... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, | (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ... |
John Polkinghorne | ... tion of black holes. In his book Questions of Truth, the particle physicist | has another difficulty with Smolin's thesis, in that one cannot impose the ... |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... sh included the artist and poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, | , John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed t ... |
Michael Palin | #Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python: | , Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, C ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... unicationibus Socialibus) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the med ... |
John Hicks | In the late 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably | , Franco Modigliani, and Paul Samuelson) attempted to interpret and formal ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | An early German influence came from | , whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ... |
George Harrison | ... or a UNICEF charity concert. The supergroup also consisted of Eric Clapton, | , Nicky Hopkins, Yoko Ono, Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann. The band play ... |
Larry Page | ... such as with Google Image Search. Google Search was originally developed by | and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special featur ... |
Charles Dickens | ... uired to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by | in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, whic ... |
August Derleth | ... brief (and only) mention it is not clear what Lovecraft meant Hastur to be. | developed Hastur into a Great Old One in his controversial reworking of Lo ... |
Geoffrey Ashe | ... trade) and Saxon artifacts. The use of the name Camelot and the support of | helped ensure much publicity for the finds, but Alcock himself later grew ... |
Walter A. Shewhart | In 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr. | proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ... |
Clement Attlee | ... spite his popularity as a war hero Churchill suffered a landslide defeat to | whose government's economic policy continued to be influenced by Keynes's ... |
King George II | ... pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received from | in 1730. This star also represents the Sun at the longest day of the year, ... |
West, Martin Litchfield | ... ense of the Gaseous Vent Theory." Clinical Toxicology 40.2 (2000) 189–196.* | , The Orphic Poems, 1983. ISBN 0-19-814854-2.*Stephen G. Miller, Ancient G ... |
Joan Robinson | ... subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, | , Nicholas Kaldor and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky wr ... |
WABC-TV | ... re its flagship owned and operated station ("O&O"), WJZ-TV in New York (now | ) signed on in August of that year. The rest of ABC's fleet of owned-and-o ... |
Harold Pinter | The 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale was based on a screenplay by | and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offre ... |
W. H. Auden | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – | – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Lauren ... |
George Harrison | ... as held at Royal Albert Hall on November 29, 2002, the first anniversary of | 's passing |
Robert Browning | ... s, politicians, literary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, | and Wilkie Collins), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her sto ... |
Srinivasa Ramanujan | ... vogue, and was appointed to a chair partly on the strength of this result. | wrote about generalisations of the binomial theorem, and earned a reputati ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
Karl Dietrich Bracher | The German historian | , whose work is primarily concerned with Nazi Germany, argues that the "to ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... 30 km, was installed at Cerchi, Italy. At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, | delivered a lecture entitled , describing the equipment which allowed effi ... |
Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway is represented in Westminster by | MP. Dumfries is contained within two separate constituencies within the Sc ... |
Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
Edmund Wilson | ... the period of his fame by Hugh Walpole, W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. | tried to rehabilitate his reputation with a long essay in The New Yorker |
Perry Miller | In his The New England Mind, | writes about the Encyclopaedia |
Charles Samuel Myers | ... d his official post as Lecturer in Experimental Psychology in favour of Dr. | , and now held only a lectureship on the physiology of the special senses. ... |
Max Perutz | ... Bridget Fell, with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined | and John Kendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at ... |
Winston Churchill | ... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war | attempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ... |
Henry V of England | ... een's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the death of her husband | on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King Hen ... |
Michael Palin | ... r made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, | and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to the previous two ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... 9), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and | 's Handmaid's Tale (1985) |
August Derleth | ... m House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, | and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute |
Sam Shepard | ... epard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper and | as Yeager |
Cecil Taylor | ... (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the first two albums by | (Jazz Advance and Looking Ahead) mark the beginnings of free jazz, though ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... f the academic papers are reversed, they describe real mathematical events. | wrote a famous paper on the dynamics of an asteroid in his early 20s, whic ... |
Steve Reich | ... ck Sabbath. Minimalism also emerged, led by composers such as Philip Glass, | and Michael Nyman. This was a break from the intellectual serial music of ... |
Henry Sidgwick | ... y" as our highest concern. Such an inclusion would pave the way for ethics. | longed for the fusion of ethics and rationality and, while Parfit admits t ... |
Charles Dickens | ... was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and | had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there ... |
John Playfair | ... ment, and fell in with numerous first-class minds in the sciences including | , philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by | , and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ... |
John Michell | ... too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by | and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity ... |
Ansel Adams | ... - National Archives 79-AA-M01.jpg|Long's Peak from Road as photographed by | in 1941 |
Joseph Black | ... s through the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was particularly friendly with | , and the two of them together with Adam Smith founded the Oyster Club for ... |
Gina Yashere | ... comedians from around the world with the likes of Greg Fleet, Akmal Saleh, | and Jeff Green in sold-out performances. Local stand-up comedians includin ... |
Joan Robinson | ... ideas and insights. However even in the early years Post Keynesians such as | sought to distance themselves from Keynes himself and much current Post Ke ... |
Heath Ledger | ... ure film written, directed, and produced by Brian Helgeland. The film stars | , Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as G ... |
Harold Wilson | ... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of | , and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ... |
Oscar I of Sweden | ... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent from | and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ... |
Alexander von Humboldt | ... s were over. The first letter he received, while in the lazaretto, was from | ; and this was the origin of a connection which, in Arago's words, lasted ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... aly"; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of | , he addressed his letters of credence to the "King of Italy and Emperor o ... |
William Cumming Rose | In the 1930s, | identified essential amino acids, necessary protein components which the b ... |
John Lennon | ... was trying to get all of their music on to the cartridge. Suzuki also cited | as an influential figure to all the composers while the soundtrack was bei ... |
Adam Smith | ... cholars point to Keynes as representing the ideals of modern liberalism, as | represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war Winston Chur ... |
MC Hammer | ... zier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, | , Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J ... |
Bramwell Tovey | ... ear contract, and in 2007 he was given a one-year extension. In March 2008, | was named to the post for an initial two-year contract beginning Summer of ... |
C. S. Lewis | For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received | 's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... , and to the sympathies of fellow appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the | ) and Lord Hertford, Catherine obtained effective control and was able to ... |
F. H. Bradley | ... l dissertation for Harvard on Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of | , but he failed to return for the viva voce exam |
David Bohm | ... ect and real physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the work of | . The de Broglie-Bohm theory is today the only interpretation giving real ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... es. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him | 's Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs, on the recommendation of Tomk ... |
King George V | ... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra, | refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ... |
Olga of Kiev | ... ten again, thus tearing the prince’s body apart.") and avenged by his wife, | . The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indic ... |
WPVI-TV | ... etwork picked up its first primary affiliates, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia (now | ) and WMAL-TV in Washington (now WJLA-TV) before its flagship owned and op ... |
Sir William Hamilton | ... an to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note | ;'s collection of Greek vases. During the few years after its foundation t ... |
Peter Maxwell Davies | Guests have included | , Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Chri ... |
William Cohen | ... good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators | and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, an ... |
HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
W. H. C. Frend | ... been criticized by biblical scholars and ecclesiastical historians such as | and Robert E. Van Voorst. After reviewing criticisms from several authors, ... |
Henry Aldrich | ... church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church | designed a new church; it is thought, however, that on some of the later f ... |
Karl Dietrich Bracher | ... ond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, | , Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightl ... |
Joseph Thomas Clover | ... eason and hanged at Tyburn in London in 1723. Nearby, a plaque commemorates | (1825–82), the father of modern anaesthetics, who was born above a shop ov ... |
David King | ... cast to reach a plateau of more than 9 billion during the 21st century. Sir | , former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, told a parliamenta ... |
John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ing on a scale sufficient to eliminate unemployment. According to economist | (then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the ... |
WJLA-TV | ... iates, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia (now WPVI-TV) and WMAL-TV in Washington (now | ) before its flagship owned and operated station ("O&O"), WJZ-TV in New Yo ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
Jessica Simpson | ... inner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Famers" include Ross Perot, Tom DeLay, and | . It releases biennial lists with explanations of the "Ten Best" and "Ten ... |
Adam Smith | ... the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist | . Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University and communicated his sci ... |
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | ... Salisbury, descended from his younger son Robert. One of the latter branch, | (1830–1903), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and ... |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | The political scientists Carl Friedrich and | were primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ... |
Ice-T | ... s, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, | , Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, 50 ... |
Ringo Starr | ... vernment restrictions. On 22 July 1967, Harrison and his wife, Pattie Boyd, | and Neil Aspinall flew to Athens, where they stayed in Mardas' parents' ho ... |
William Osler | ... become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including | , William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. During this period Hop ... |
William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
George II | Queen Anne's successor was George I; he and his son | were the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
Adam Smith | of his hopes that | 's 'invisible hand' can help Britain out of the economic hole it is in: "I ... |
Joseph Black | ... ngs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend | on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785. Hutton subsequ ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... because I'd read it." One work that made a particular impression on him was | 's The Lord of the Rings from his school library, although it only had the ... |
Juan Linz | ... Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and | describe totalitarianism in slightly different ways. They all agree, howev ... |
Majed Moqed | ... Hazmi attended the service. May 2, two other hijackers, Ahmed al-Ghamdi and | , arrived in Virgina and moved in with them. On May 8, Alrababah suggested ... |
Henry Salt | ... tta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts and purchases from | , British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ram ... |
Bernice Johnson Reagon | ... n, Meg Christian, and Margie Adam, African-American women activists such as | and her group Sweet Honey in the Rock, and peace activist Holly Near. Wome ... |
Margaret of Anjou | The unpopularity of Henry's counsellors and his belligerent consort, | , as well as his own ineffectual leadership, led to the weakening of the H ... |
Geneva | ... exhibition match. His next Candidates' match was against Lajos Portisch at | 1977, and Spassky won again, by 8½–6½, to qualify for the final. But at Be ... |
Snoop Dogg | ... the Radio (Remember the Days)." This also happened to "That's That Shit" by | featuring R. Kelly, which became "That's That". In Avril Lavigne's song "M ... |
Elias Ashmole | ... reated the order of the Hatchet (orden de la Hacha) in 1149. As reported by | in The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Gart ... |
Paul McCartney | ... " single was number one on the UK chart in July 1957, when Lennon first met | |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother | , upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ... |
Linus Pauling | ... 25. Bragg was influential in the effort to beat a leading American chemist, | , to the discovery of DNA's structure (after having been 'pipped-at-the-po ... |
John Locke | ... ical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and | . The original position figures prominently in his book, A Theory of Justi ... |
Ruairi Quinn | ... in May, and was introduced in 1994. Recently, senior politicians (including | ) have been considering the addition of one or two extra public holidays t ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien's | ... play somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of | The Lord of the Rings. Later, two other games were released in this series ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... en strict rules of bebop could be loosened or abandoned at will. Similarly, | , the most prominent free jazz pianist, began stretching the bop boundarie ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by | who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
George II | ... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under | and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
Hannah Arendt | In The Origins of Totalitarianism, | argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new forms of government, ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... n 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared. Their adaptation of | 's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being pla ... |
Robert Browning | ... tjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – | – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Har ... |
Ralph Hartley | ... in part on earlier work in the field by Bell researchers Harry Nyquist and | , but it greatly extended these. Bell Labs also introduced a series of inc ... |
James Bruce | ... , Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38), Richard Pococke (1738), | (1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1777), William Ge ... |
WJZ-TV | ... ed the WJZ callsign when it acquired a Baltimore television station in 1959 | ;in Baltimore, and its sister radio station, are now owned by CBS. |
Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Cabell was also a major influence on | , acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and America ... |
Lacépède | ... defined by Linnaeus. It was later assigned as the type species of Dugong by | and further classified within its own family by Gray and subfamily by |
Frank Kermode | ... earning his bachelor's degree after three years, instead of the usual four. | writes that the most important moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was ... |
Paul Volcker | ... ree year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under | , initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing ... |
Kazuo Ishiguro | ... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include | and Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ... |
John Locke | ... man motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity. Self following from | has been seen as a product of episodic memory but research upon those with ... |
John Evelyn | ... in his Tour of the whole Island of Great Britain (1724) wrote of the City: | (1620–1706) Royalist, Traveller and Diarist wrote to Sir Thomas Browne |
Margaret Thatcher | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister | dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... ing Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, | for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, ... |
George Harrison | In May 1968, The Beatles met at Kinfauns, the Esher home of | , to review and record demos of songs under consideration for their next a ... |
Adam Smith's | ... the development of the political and sociological analyses, culminating in | The Wealth of Nations. One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented ... |
Milton Friedman | ... cluded Austrian school economist Ludwig von Mises along with the then young | . Initially the society had little impact on the wider world – Hayek was t ... |
Martin Lister | ... gs (or Jenyns), a Member of Parliament, and Frances Thornhurst. Her uncle ( | ) was a prominent naturalist. Richard Jennings came into contact with Jame ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | In 1873 Heaviside had encountered | 's newly published, and today famous, two-volume Treatise on Electricity a ... |
Rupert Brooke | ... Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – | – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K ... |
Ringo Starr | ... featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists including | , session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor/musician Miguel ... |
Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
WABC-TV | ... d its sister television station took on the abandoned call-letters WABC and | . (Westinghouse later reclaimed the WJZ callsign when it acquired a Baltim ... |
James Watt | ... g the workings of an invention the patent system rewarded inventors such as | by allowing them to monopolise the production of the first steam engines, ... |
WTTV-4 | Preseason games not shown on national television were seen locally on | , Indiana's 4. Beginning in 2011, the preseason games will be shown on WND ... |
Empress Deng Sui | ... d then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his wife | (d. 121 CE) managed state affairs as the regent empress dowager during a t ... |
Pope John Paul II | During his tour of America in October 1979, | was also among those hosted by Shea Stadium. On the morning of the Pontiff ... |
John Lydon | In | 's autobiography, Rotten: No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish, Lydon claimed that ... |
Harrison Birtwistle | ... to the BBC Proms Archive web-site, on 9 August 1976. The programme included | 's Meridian and Arnold Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony. In 1977 he bec ... |
William Cochran | In 1951, together with | and Vladimir Vand, Crick assisted in the development of a mathematical the ... |
King George V | ... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter, | and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ... |
Peter Gay | ... particular deist author as "a constructive deist" or "a critical deist". As | notes |
James Cook | John Ledyard led a team to attempt an ascent on the third voyage of Captain | in January 1779. They struggled to go directly up from Kealakekua Bay, but ... |
William Stanier | ... briefly held the office of Chief Mechanical Engineer pending the arrival of | became Vice President (Railway traffic, operating & commercial), with sepa ... |
Majora Carter | ... Yunus, author and columnist, William Safire, environmental justice advocate | , and environmental law attorney, Robert Kennedy Jr |
Baron von Mueller | Giles' friend | raised a subscription so that a new expedition could be made. The services ... |
Edmund Blunden | ... Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – | – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thoma ... |
Bill Clinton | ... nies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and | , who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serv ... |
Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is the American novel that turned its author | into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit ... |
George Russell | The modal theory stems from a work by | , but again Miles Davis unveiled this shift to the rest of the jazz world ... |
Brigitte Nielsen | It is the birthplace of politician Helle Thorning-Schmidt and actress | |
Albert Einstein | In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and | signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ... |
Brandon Carter | ... both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of Werner Israel, | , and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating that a stationar ... |
Pope John Paul II | Eight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade, | twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he w ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of | . The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ... |
Alfred Cort Haddon | The turning point came in 1898 when | seduced "Rivers from the path of virtue... (for psychology then was a chas ... |
Sir John Randall | ... included in a written progress report for the King's College laboratory of | from late 1952 |
Isaac Newton | ... adition established by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician | . Where Descartes held that all motions should be explained with respect t ... |
WAVY-TV | ... twork are also popular as an alternative to cable television in Portsmouth. | and WVBT-TV are both sister stations owned by and have their office and st ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... e traditional, supply-oriented interpretation of the Industrial Revolution. | has proposed that the Industrial Revolution had its origins in the Early M ... |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Ian McEwan | ... Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and | . The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ... |
Richard Pococke | ... incia (1718 and 1720–21), Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38), | (1738), James Bruce (1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncour ... |
Kevin Warwick | Cyborg scientist | is also a Coventrian, as is Sir John Egan, industrialist and former Chief ... |
Richard Stallman | Since October 2000, Fravia got in touch with | at a LinuxDay event in Milan to which they were invited by a common friend ... |
Charles Darwin | ... was the basis of a lifelong friendship between Rivers and the genial son of | |
Sir Henry Bessemer | ... method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when | invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in larg ... |
Werner Israel | ... ck hole that is both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of | , Brandon Carter, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating ... |
Eamon Gilmore | ... o have praised the proposals stating that they have considerable potential. | 's Labour Party has launched policies which are seen to be broadly consist ... |
Adam Lambert | ... on the season finale of American Idol with winner Kris Allen and runner-up | providing a vocal duet. In November 2009, May appeared with Taylor on the ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... its political opponents in the United States, including Senators Helms and | , with the assistance of the CIA and National Security Council. Helms prop ... |
E. H. Carr | ... stern World (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historian | claimed that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianis ... |
Charles Darwin | In 1959, the centenary year of | 's publication of The Origin of Species, the Ecuadorian government declare ... |
Abdus Salam | ... ies for International Year of Physics 2005. Pakistani theoretical physicist | won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the electroweak interaction |
Isaac Newton | ... wever, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir | . In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life i ... |
Empress Dowager Dou | ... he aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), Emperor He (r. 88–105 CE) had | (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power. This was ... |
Ernest Rutherford | Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by | as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ... |
George Harrison | ... ad taken over from another posthumous release when the song was replaced by | 's "My Sweet Lord", and the first time that a woman had a posthumous numbe ... |
David Starkey | ... ibuted to the perception that he is "a cantankerous old sod". The historian | has described him as a kind of " H.R.H Victor Meldrew". For example, in Ma ... |
John Lennon | ... s signature song, "Piano Man". includes the harmonica throughout the piece. | played harmonica on early Beatles' hits as "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me ... |
Edward Weston | Renowned photographer | moved to Carmel in 1929 and shot the first of numerous nature photographs, ... |
Edgar Meyer | ... uta-Aho (b. 1941), Italian composer Fernando Grillo, and US player-composer | . For a longer list, see the List of contemporary classical double bass pl ... |
John Wesley | ... iritual observance. Members of holiness movements, such as those started by | and George Whitefield, often practice such regular fasts as part of their ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, | , and Adrien-Marie Legendre. At the end of the century, the members of the ... |
Karl Popper | ... d and incurable" could ignore the trend towards totalitarianism, said Carr. | , in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicis ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... nsters of Rock festival in Brazil, co-headlining alongside Alice Cooper and | . In January 1995, Megadeth appeared on the soundtrack of the horror film ... |
Lester B. Pearson | Prime Minister | in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ... |
Richard Hamming | ... (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947, | invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reas ... |
Charles Babbage | ... m regular communication among those in the field of science. In a review of | 's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, h ... |
Francis Cornford | ... ded history of the Greek language. In the book From Religion to Philosophy, | suggests that the Orphics used the word "theory" to mean 'passionate sympa ... |
Milton Friedman | ... article with the title inspired by a possibly tongue-in-cheek comment from | , a comment later echoed by U.S. President Richard Nixon, that "We are all ... |
Alfred Russel Wallace | ... the Linnean Society (which led Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species) | says of the evolutionary principle |
George FitzGerald | ... iction of what is now known as Cherenkov radiation, and inspired his friend | to suggest what now is known as the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction |
A.W. Franks | ... xcavations in Cyprus. In 1897 the death of the great collector and curator, | , was followed by an immense bequest of 3,300 finger rings, 153 drinking v ... |
Muhammad Yunus | ... President of the United States, Al Gore, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, | , author and columnist, William Safire, environmental justice advocate Maj ... |
WTHR-13 | ... simulcasted on an approved station announced by NFL Network which has been | and WXIN-59 in the past with FOX 59 simulcasting the latest games in 2010 |
Philip Larkin | Other Coventrians in the arts include the highly acclaimed poet | , actors Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, a ... |
Gene Weingarten | ... ion of the phrase is "Marrying Irving", coined by Washington Post columnist | . A recent cinema-specific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to th ... |
Nicholas Serota | Unlike recent years, Sir | was not the jury chairman; instead, the chairman was Christoph Grunenberg, ... |
Gil Evans | ... of the Cool. Cool jazz recordings by Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, | , Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quartet usually have a "lighter" sound whi ... |
Phil Hogan | ... argely centred on the make up of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament. FG's | TD, has published the party's answer to the political and constitutional r ... |
Gregory Bateson | The cybernetician and anthropologist | would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, ... |
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui | In medicine, | was the first Pakistani scientist to bring the therapeutic constituents of ... |
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth | ... chool and enable use of the Charity School's unspent trust funds. Named for | — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in ... |
WNDY-23 | ... TTV-4, Indiana's 4. Beginning in 2011, the preseason games will be shown on | except for those carried nationally by the networks. Indiana Hoosiers anno ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister | |
Brook Taylor | British work, carried on by mathematicians such as | and Colin Maclaurin, fell behind Continental developments as the century p ... |
Janice Dickinson | ... i Obermaier, Bebe Buell, Carly Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, | , Carla Bruni, Sophie Dahl and , among others |
Ansel Adams | Weston had traveled extensively with legendary photographer | , who moved to Carmel in 1962, several years after receiving his 3rd Guggg ... |
George Harrison | ... is recording with another noise recording in 1969 entitled . Beatles member | also released a noise/musique concrète recording in 1969, titled Electroni ... |
Bob Frankston | ... mpt to computerize it on the newly introduced personal computers. Joined by | , the two created the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, and released it on the ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism. | later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ... |
Colin Maclaurin | British work, carried on by mathematicians such as Brook Taylor and | , fell behind Continental developments as the century progressed. Meanwhil ... |
Harold Bloom | ... luenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and | , with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A ... |
Matthew Tindal | ... of deism. Deism flourished in England between 1690 and 1740, at which time | 's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730), also called "The Deist's Bi ... |
Thomas Young | ... tin Fresnel, with whose history, as well as that of Etienne-Louis Malus and | , this part of his life is closely interwoven |
Waleed al-Shehri | According to librarian Kathleen Hensmen, Wail al-Shehri and | used Internet access at Delray Beach Public Library in August 2001, where ... |
William Stanier | The arrival of the new chief mechanical engineer, | , who was brought in from the Great Western Railway by Josiah Stamp in 193 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by President | in 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ... |
Geneva | ... hurch. Zwingli and Calvin were supported by the city councils in Zurich and | |
WVBT | ... CBS), WAVY 10 (NBC), WVEC-TV 13 (ABC), WGNT 27 (CW), WTVZ 33 (MyNetworkTV), | 43 (Fox), and WPXV 49 (ION Television). The Public Broadcasting Service st ... |
WNDY-23 | ... r provides play-by-play. Regular-season Monday Night games are simulcast on | and those from NFL Network on simulcasted on an approved station announced ... |
Wail al-Shehri | According to librarian Kathleen Hensmen, | and Waleed al-Shehri used Internet access at Delray Beach Public Library i ... |
David Foster | ... ajor phase of the band's career took off in late 1981—with a new producer ( | ), a new label (Warner Brothers), and the addition of keyboardist/guitaris ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... es to the United States. Under American control, the new government invited | to plan a modern Manila. The Burnham Plan was a project that attempted to ... |
Robert Browning | ... thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was a misquotation of | 's Rabbi ben Ezra, the first few lines of which (starting "Grow old along ... |
James Thornhill | ... r artists commissioned to decorate the rooms included Grinling Gibbons, Sir | and Jacques Rousseau; furnishings were designed by Daniel Marot |
Satam al-Suqami | ... was one of four hijackers including Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, and | , sharing a room at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts |
Carl Bosch | ... rl Bosch Museum which shows life and work of chemist and Nobel Prize-winner | . Then there is the Documentation and Culture Centre of German Sinti and R ... |
Jerry Hall | ... "My marriage ended on my wedding day." In late 1977, he began seeing model | , while still married to Bianca. After a lengthy cohabitation and several ... |
Joseph Larmor | Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, | , Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind these equations s ... |
Frank Whittle | In 1930, having found no interest from the RAF for his idea, | patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The ... |
Jacob Lawrence | ... e used for the training of Coast Guardsmen, including the celebrated artist | and actor Buddy Ebsen. It was also a popular place for R&R for soldiers fr ... |
Tom Clancy | The Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by | . The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
Howard Colvin | ... lf, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb. According to | , "Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of ... |
James Clerk Maxwell | ... rvomechanism, its analysis in a dynamic system is far from trivial. In 1868 | wrote a famous paper "On governors" that is widely considered a classic in ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ty and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of John McCain and | over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In Canfield City ... |
James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
Mohand al-Shehri | ... mber 10, 2001, Shehhi was one of four hijackers including Fayez Banihammad, | , and Satam al-Suqami, sharing a room at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massa ... |
Christiaan Huygens | ... Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France | ;in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle in England |
George FitzGerald | Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, | , Joseph Larmor, Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind th ... |
James Bradley | ... come an assistant at Lilienthal Observatory near Bremen. There he worked on | 's stellar observations to produce precise positions for some 3,222 stars |
Roland Beamont | ... t until the end of 1942, when its good qualities—seen from the start by S/L | of 609 Squadron—became apparent. It was extremely fast, tough and capable, ... |
Harold F. Dodge | ... United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, W. Edwards Deming, | , George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson ... |
Robert Conquest | ... – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – | – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la ... |
Christopher Wren | Ogilby died in London in 1676 and was buried at St. Brides, one of Sir | 's new churches |
Fayez Banihammad | On September 10, 2001, Shehhi was one of four hijackers including | , Mohand al-Shehri, and Satam al-Suqami, sharing a room at the Milner Hote ... |
WGNT | ... television affiliates are WTKR-TV 3 (CBS), WAVY 10 (NBC), WVEC-TV 13 (ABC), | 27 (CW), WTVZ 33 (MyNetworkTV), WVBT 43 (Fox), and WPXV 49 (ION Television ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, President | awarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ... |
Karl Popper | ... nce Aronsen, Richard Pipes, Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, | , Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, ... |
Henry Head | ... National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. It was here that he and | were to meet and form a lasting friendship |
Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
W. Edwards Deming | ... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, | , Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ... |
James Watt | ... ke) and governors which control motive power input. He considers devices by | , Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, William Thomson, Léon Foucault ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
Sir John Randall | ... ng's College London, whose Biophysics department was under the direction of | . (Randall had turned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) ... |
Karl Marx | ... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had | (as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ... |
Laplace | ... on of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and | , the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of railways and ... |
Octavio Paz | ... s considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as | , Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fue ... |
Robert Hooke | ... nne and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and | and Robert Boyle in England |
D. A. Pennebaker | ... rt Drew), Harlan County, USA (directed by Barbara Kopple), Dont Look Back ( | ), Lonely Boy (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor) are all frequently deemed ci ... |
Walter A. Shewhart | ... rance Department gave the world and the United States such statisticians as | , W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. J ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
Karl Marx | ... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of | , and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ... |
Willard Libby | In 1934, | found weak beta activity in pure neodymium, which was attributed to a half ... |
Robert Jameson | ... wster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with | (1774–1854), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of ... |
Fleeming Jenkin | ... e power input. He considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, | , William Thomson, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid govern ... |
Robert FitzRoy | The voyage of the Beagle brought the survey ship HMS Beagle, under captain | , to the Galápagos on 15 September 1835 to survey approaches to harbours. ... |
Martha Nussbaum | ... percent of women experience Types I and II, and 15 percent Type III, though | writes that Type III nevertheless accounts for 80–90 percent of all such p ... |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | In 1931, | calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron ... |
John Dryden | ... 's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him by | in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad. Whatev ... |
Richard B. Haldane | ... would later contribute to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary. | , the Liberal MP and reformer, visited him and had him transferred in Nove ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law, | readily accepted her as John's wife |
Empress Liang Na | ... eunuch allies were slaughtered. The regent Liang Ji (d. 159 CE), brother of | (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of Consort Deng Mengnü (later empress) ... |
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth | ... ished a trust to help Wheelock. The head of the trust was a Methodist named | |
see of Canterbury | Laurence succeeded Augustine to the | in about 604, and ruled until his death on 2 February 619. To secure the s ... |
Harold Bloom | ... ted in the religious philosophy of Hegel; one might compare literary critic | 's recent attempts to identify Gnostic elements in contemporary American r ... |
Rodney King | ... incidents go unnoticed by the family until Derek has an argument (involving | ) with his mother's new boyfriend Murray (Elliott Gould), who is Jewish. L ... |
Louis H. Sullivan | ... Shorewood Hills.) The Harold C. Bradley House, designed collaboratively by | and George Grant Elmslie in 1908–1910 now serves as the Sigma Phi Fraterni ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... enry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen | . Catherine was presumably named after Queen Catherine, who was also her g ... |
Conrad Aiken | ... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with | , the American novelist |
George Canning | ... being the place of death of Charles James Fox in 1806. Tory Prime Minister | also died there, in 1827 |
Vint Cerf | #Redirect | |
Thomas Hooker | ... nd Laud's policies, and some left as a result, such as the Puritan minister | , who set sail for America along with other religious dissidents in the Gr ... |
George Paget Thomson | ... ey. Bell researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with | for the discovery of electron diffraction, which helped lay the foundation ... |
Bill Clinton | ... inister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States | , Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the Group of Eigh ... |
Paul Russell | ... imself was uncomfortable with the terms deist and atheist, and Hume scholar | has argued that the best and safest term for Hume's views is irreligion |
Charles Darwin | ... captain and others on board, including his companion, the young naturalist | , made observations on the geology and biology on Chatham, Charles, Albema ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing president | in 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ... |
Maurice Bowra | ... omb of Orion most likely at the foot of Mount Cerycius (now Mount Tanagra). | argues that Orion was a national hero of the Boeotians, much as Castor and ... |
Charles Darwin | ... ure and the sciences. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as | , Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, ... |
John Keble | Irenaeus' works were first translated into English by | and published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series |
Pope Paul VI | ... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966, | in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ... |
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington | Chiswick House was inherited by | , 4th Earl of Cork and Baron Clifford (1694–1753) on the death of his fath ... |
Henry V of England | King | is credited with having invented what some consider the first true passpor ... |
Gottfried Leibniz | ... rect physical action, a position held by Huygens and the German philosopher | , who, while following in the Cartesian tradition, developed his own philo ... |
Popper falsifiable | Smolin has noted that the string theory landscape is not | if other universes are not observable. This is the subject of the Smolin-S ... |
James Watt | | designed his first governor in 1788 following a suggestion from his busine ... |
George Harrison | ... Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by John Lennon with assistance from | and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was trying to paint a picture of a revolution ... |
Elizabeth II | ... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter, | . Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ... |
Sir James Hall | ... took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologist | of Dunglass. They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then j ... |
Brunhilda of Austrasia | ... ekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partly based on | , but the chronology has been reversed in the poems |
Stanley Kutler | ... Howard Hughes. Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian | , who has written several books about Nixon and Watergate, sued for releas ... |
John Graunt | ... cation of Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality by | . Early applications of statistical thinking revolved around the needs of ... |
Lil' Kim | ... Awards in September of the year and shocked the audience by touching rapper | 's exposed breast, pasty-covered nipple, amazed at the young rapper's bras ... |
Empress Dowager Dou | ... 81 CE), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested | (d. 172 CE) and Chen Fan. General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs. He ... |
Richard Cumberland | The utilitarian philosopher, Dr. | , was 14th Lord Bishop of Peterborough from 1691 until his death in 1718; ... |
Langston Hughes | ... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, | , Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ... |
Ralph Hartley | During the late 1920s, Harry Nyquist and | developed a handful of fundamental ideas related to the transmission of in ... |
Lucinda Creighton | ... or the party in the Dáil have strongly advocated liberal economic policies. | and Leo Varadkar in particular have been seen as strong advocates of a neo ... |
Bamber Gascoigne | ... ion was launched as University Challenge in 1962. The program, presented by | , produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was ... |
David Charvet | ... ostitute hired by Kimberly Shaw to have an affair with Michael Mancini, and | played Craig Field, Amanda's new co-worker and later Sydney's boyfriend. T ... |
Walter Burkert | ... for certain months of every year. According to some modern writers such as | , this corresponds with the dry Mediterranean summer, during which plant l ... |
Isaac Newton | ... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir | , Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ... |
John Lennon | ... se of sound collage, credited to Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by | with assistance from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was tryi ... |
Ralph Hartley | ... power or power spectral density. The law is named after Claude Shannon and | |
Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
Robert Boyle | ... scal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and | in England |
Max Roach | Some musicians of the time combined performance with teaching. | and Archie Shepp taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Aft ... |
Hatshepsut | ... or discovered a "porch of drunkenness" built onto the temple by the pharaoh | , during the height of her twenty year reign. In a later myth developed ar ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... , particularly when he had the honour of spending a month in the company of | ; he later described how he spent "many hours every day talking – the grea ... |
Brigitte Nielsen | The character was played by | in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hi ... |
Lord Fulton | ... inistrators at under-secretary level and above had been privately educated. | ’s committee reported in 1968. He found that administrators were not profe ... |
Modesto A's | ... ee home runs and two triples. Henderson spent the following season with the | . He batted .345 in 134 games during his record-setting season with Modest ... |
Unita Blackwell | ... t is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous natives is | , Mississippi's first black female mayor, who was elected in 1977. She bec ... |
Frederick Wiseman | ... llan King, and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, | and Albert and David Maysles |
Pope John Paul II's | ... on Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by | motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former foll ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | Aulë is a fictional character from | 's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appear ... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... tudy of games of chance. The method of least squares was first described by | around 1794. The use of modern computers has expedited large-scale statist ... |
Tom Clancy | ... n Clark (real name John Terrence Kelly) is a fictional character created by | who appears in many of Clancy's novels |
Oliver Heaviside | ... invariant when transformed from the ether to a moving frame. Early in 1889, | had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding a s ... |
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke | ... wning as King Henry III of England, she left him in the care of his regent, | and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of Angoulême |
Dickens | ... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of | and Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ... |
Louis Kahn | ... mongst them were Kisho Kurokawa, Junzo Sakakura, Alison and Peter Smithson, | , Jean Prouvé, B. V. Doshi and Jacob Bakema. The conference ended with Tan ... |
Charles Wheatstone | ... his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster. Sir | discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the constructi ... |
Cardinal Newman | ... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, | and Walter Pater |
Max Perutz’s | ... right place, in the right frame of mind, at the right time (1949), to join | project at Cambridge University, and he began to work on the X-ray crystal ... |
Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich | ... ace transform, also known as the "Bromwich integral"). The UK mathematician | later devised a rigorous mathematical justification for Heaviside's operat ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | Laurence (sometimes Lawrence or Laurentius; died ) was the second | from about 604 to 619. He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from ... |
Nikola Tesla | Both | and Hidetsugu Yagi attempted to devise systems for large scale wireless po ... |
Harold Bloom | ... or Death in the Andes) and the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. The literary critic | has included his novel The War of the End of the World in his list of esse ... |
Donald Lynden-Bell | Olin Eggen, | , and Allan Sandage in 1962, proposed a theory that disk galaxies form thr ... |
Bob Neill | ... oceedings is very high". The Shadow Local Government and Planning Minister, | , stated that should the Conservative Party win the 2010 general election, ... |
Charles Reed | ... ation, the committee consisted on twelve advisors under the chairmanship of | FSA (son of the Congregational philanthropist Dr Andrew Reed) who rose to ... |
Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
Gordon Bell | ... PDP-11 16-bit computer was designed in a crash program by Harold McFarland, | , Roger Cady, and others. The project was able to leap forward in design w ... |
W. H. Auden | ... A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings). Their work involved poets such as | , composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J. B. Priestley. ... |
Winston Churchill | ... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister | , to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ... |
Paul Krugman | Economist | argues the economic expansion during the Reagan administration was primari ... |
Winston Churchill | ... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944. | (The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ... |
King George II | Colleges created by | of Great Britain |
Adrian Edmondson | ... who had appeared in the final episode of the first series as "Mad Gerald"), | , Nigel Planer, Mark Arden, Stephen Frost, Chris Barrie and Jeremy Hardy. ... |
Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer | , describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... red by Mozart's tune. The line "The True North strong and free" is based on | 's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A ... |
Walter Burkert | ... y no part in recorded Greek literary texts, or historical records of cults. | notes the presence of Tethys in the episode of Iliad XIV that the Ancients ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... as given the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | that calls on all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. P ... |
WANE-TV | WINT-TV, Channel 15, which became | , Fort Wayne, in 1956, began broadcasting from studios in Waterloo in 1954 |
Joseph Stiglitz | and | |
Howard Moscoe | ... thy sons command" be partly reverted to "in all of us command." Councillor | said that the words native land were not appropriate for the many Canadian ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of | , a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ... |
Jon Appleton | ... loped as the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer" by Dartmouth College Professor | , in association with NED co-founders Cameron W. Jones and Sydney A. Alons ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... full university in 1955. The title of Pontifical University was granted by | in 1972. The university has three campuses in the city |
Ken Vandermark | ... ago, notable performers are Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Ernest Dawkins, | , and Hamid Drake |
Peggy Glanville-Hicks | ... adhered to more traditional idioms include Arthur Benjamin, George Dreyfus, | and Robert Hughes. In recent times composers including Julian Cochran, Gor ... |
Richard Wright | Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author | . The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African Ameri ... |
Lawrence Durrell | ... avie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – | – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... dern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". | says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible ... |
John Polkinghorne | ... ch it has created the physical world. However many modern scholars (such as | ) hold that it is part of a deity's nature to be consistent and that it wo ... |
KFOR-TV | ... tionally by the agency. Broadcast television in Oklahoma began in 1949 when | (then WKY-TV) in Oklahoma City and KOTV-TV in Tulsa began broadcasting a f ... |
George Antheil | Avant garde composer | , a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with ... |
Gershom Scholem | | once described Gnosticism as "the Greatest case of metaphysical anti-Semit ... |
Aaron Copland | ... On the Waterfront (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlier works by | and Igor Stravinsky with its "jazz-based harmonies and exciting additive r ... |
Wellington | ... dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British General | signed the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other stro ... |
Abdus Salam | ... eraction, the theory of which was developed around 1968 by Sheldon Glashow, | and Steven Weinberg. They were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for ... |
George Harrison | ... d-a-half-hour documentary about the life and music of former Beatles member | , which premiered in the United States on HBO over two parts on October 5 ... |
Jeremy Paxman | ... taken off the air in 1987. In 1994 the show was resurrected by the BBC with | as the new quizmaster. It remains very popular in Britain. The show, and t ... |
Paul Krugman | Nobel laureate | also actively argued the case for vigorous Keynesian intervention in the e ... |
Ziad Jarrah | | , Atta, and Shehhi, having progressed in their training, all took foreign ... |
Paul McCartney | Moon was | 's guest at a film preview of The Buddy Holly Story on the evening of 6 Se ... |
Milton Friedman | ... th well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and | . The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen debate |
George Akerlof | ... Keynesian government intervention to mitigate the financial crisis include | , Brad Delong |
J. R. R. Tolkien | In the works of | , the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. They are th ... |
Marc Isambard Brunel | ... leading to its importance in the development of the Industrial Revolution. | , the father of famed Portsmouth engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, establi ... |
Benedict XVI | ... ls prior to his election. After being elected Pope, Ratzinger took the name | . Benedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope s ... |
Benjamin Jowett | Nightingale also much later had strong relations with | , who may have wanted to marry her |
Cassander | ... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power of | and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under De ... |
C. P. Snow | ... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, | , says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ... |
Edgar F. Codd | ... propagated through the rest of the database via the defined relationships. | , the inventor of the relational model, introduced the concept of normaliz ... |
James Allason | ... ctical ideas were sidelined by an experienced planning staff led by Lt-Col. | , though some, such as a proposal to launch an amphibious assault near Ran ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... jor stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work of Ornette Coleman and | . In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Ph ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... s the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, | , Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage ... |
Roland Beamont | ... w role as a low-altitude interceptor. Through the support of pilots such as | the Typhoon also established itself in roles such as night-time intruder a ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
Chomsky | Herman and | (1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. ... |
Danny Gokey | ... reers of Kellie Pickler, Josh Gracin, Bucky Covington, Kristy Lee Cook, and | (as well as that of occasional country singer Kelly Clarkson) in the decad ... |
Charles Hard Townes | ... the laser was first described, in a technical paper by Arthur Schawlow and | |
Pope Paul VI | ... n Law (promulgated 1917). Further steps toward reorganization were begun by | in the 1960s. Among the goals of this curial reform were the modernization ... |
Richard Wright | ... rded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition also contains | 's 1940 essay How 'Bigger' Was Born |
Peter Ustinov | At one point later in the series, | was a guest on the one-shot "upside down" episode, during which the televi ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... which is always conferred posthumously and was finally bestowed upon her by | in 1970 along with Saint Catherine of Siena making them the first women to ... |
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | ... ldings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk | , at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the "Egyptian Hall" ... |
James Baldwin's | ... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. | 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... period between the first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from | to Pope Paul VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the ... |
Henry DeWolf Smyth | ... iked among people of all strata, from other Nobel Laureates to technicians. | , who was Chairman of the Princeton Physics department, had once invited F ... |
Charles Mingus | ... f free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included | (1922–1979), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard ... |
Erik Christopher Zeeman | In a 1964 paper, | showed that the causality preserving property, a condition that is weaker ... |
Ziad Jarrah | In mid-March, | was in Georgia as well, staying in Decatur. At the end of the month, Jarra ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from Pope John XXIII to | , who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the Islamologist L ... |
Richard Holmes | ... Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and, according to military historian | , he also dipped a reluctant toe into politics. Shortly before the general ... |
Lawrence Klein | Tinbergen's work on macroeconomic models was later continued by | , contributing to another Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. For h ... |
Galla Placidia | ... on in 424 to defeat the western usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to install | and her son, Valentinian III, in his place. He also helped to negotiate a ... |
Walter Scott | ... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir | called him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ... |
Alan Blinder | ... e resulting body of work largely composing New Keynesian economics. In 1992 | was writing about a "Keynesian Restoration" as work based on Keynes's idea ... |
Sarah Palin | ... Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, in which Judd condemned Alaska governor | for supporting aerial wolf hunting. In response, Palin stated the reason t ... |
Whitney Houston | ... h Ryan O'Neal. However, plans of this adaptation fell through. Years later, | and Kevin Costner assumed the roles of Ross and O'Neal in the 1992 film. I ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
Richard Strachey | ... mon, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir | , an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, th ... |
Joseph Needham | ... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited by | concluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ... |
Tim Berners-Lee | ... blem of distributed authoring on the World Wide Web with interested people. | 's original vision of the Web was that of a medium for both reading and wr ... |
Geri Allen | ... African-American musicians (Steve Coleman, Graham Haynes, Cassandra Wilson, | , Greg Osby etc.) who emerged in New York with a new sound and specific id ... |
Joseph Chamberlain | ... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of | 's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ... |
Robert Burton | In England, the term deist first appeared in | 's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by | through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide |
Henry Barkly | ... 1872 when the local politician John Molteno - with the backing of Governor | - instituted responsible government, making the Ministers directly respons ... |
Pierre Trudeau | ... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to | |
Lord Adrian | ... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor | . Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ... |
Lockean | "Reason" was the ultimate court of appeal for deists. Tindal presents a | definition of reason, self-evident truth and the light of nature |
Anna of Savoy | ... Constantinople. On 8 February, an agreement was concluded with the empress | , whereby he and John V Palaiologos would rule jointly. The agreement was ... |
Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
Ornette Coleman | ... e Haden (born 1937) is best known for his long association with saxophonist | and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimen ... |
Roddy Doyle | ... writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and | . Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are found in Dublin, in ... |
Adam Smith | ... parks and old-English farmyards; the smugglers really start smuggling (cf. | 's approval of smuggling); and the "Samuel Johnson Dining Experience" turn ... |
Marvin Kalb | ... in the ratings against ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Roger Mudd and | (as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed by Chris Wallace i ... |
Charles Mingus | ... as deemed controversial when this approach was first developed. The bassist | is also frequently associated with the avant-garde in jazz, although his c ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ress in which Damon commented on the Republican Vice Presidential candidate | , whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case John McCain were to n ... |
Joseph Kruskal | ... eated by Max Mathews. New greedy algorithms developed by Robert C. Prim and | , revolutionized computer network design. In 1958, the laser was first des ... |
General Mannerheim | ... art in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War. When the regent, | , later heard about this, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, o ... |
C. S. Lewis | In recent times, | has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work The Problem of ... |
Paris Hilton | ... mber 2003, she officially joined the show, adding celebrity figures such as | and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as Belinda Stronach, to t ... |
Hans Küng | ... sexuals. In the 20th century, theologians like Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, | , John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt, challenged traditional ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... awarded the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | calling for all people to strive for peace |
Don Cupitt | ... arl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, | , challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the B ... |
Ornette Coleman | The first major stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work of | and Cecil Taylor. In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, ... |
John VI Kantakouzenos | On 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war between | and the regency ended with John VI entering Constantinople. On 8 February, ... |
Alexander von Humboldt | The city is named for German naturalist | |
Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
Alistair Cooke | ... ular the pursuit of objectivity. Taking as an example some comments made by | in 1935, where Cooke claimed to be without politics as a critic, Anderson ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | William Laud was appointed | in 1633, and began a series of unpopular reforms such as attempting to ens ... |
Nawaf al-Hazmi | ... h mosque, sometime in early April. They were joined there by 9/11 hijackers | and Hani Hanjour who had moved out of San Diego and Arizona after living i ... |
Cleopatra I Syra | ... es the weight of previous finds from the same era and may bear the image of | , the wife of the Egyptian king |
Andrew Johnson | ... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor | used his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ... |
Henry V of England | ... forgotten after centuries of nonuse. During the late medieval period, King | (lived 1387-1422) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings ... |
Richard Stallman | ... etween the 16th to 18 November 2005, founder of the free software movement, | , protested the use of RFID security cards by covering his card with alumi ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by | |
John Diefenbaker | ... e factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by | , in the 1957 election. Because the Liberals were still mostly classically ... |
Josh Gracin | ... ddition to Underwood, American Idol launched the careers of Kellie Pickler, | , Bucky Covington, Kristy Lee Cook, and Danny Gokey (as well as that of oc ... |
Charles Darwin | ... the older English names, principally because those were the names used when | visited |
Reginald Heber | ... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – | – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
Thomas Gray | ... Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – | – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E ... |
Milton Friedman | ... rade barriers than any administration since Hoover." By contrast, economist | has pointed to the number of pages added to the Federal Register each year ... |
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia | In the context of quantum gravity, | (2000) introduced what now is called doubly special relativity, by proposi ... |
Max Mathews | ... one of the first computer programs to play electronic music, was created by | . New greedy algorithms developed by Robert C. Prim and Joseph Kruskal, re ... |
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | ... f courtesan and socialite Martha Ray, his former lover, and the mistress of | . The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, ... |
Jack Dunitz | Sydney Brenner, | , Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the fi ... |
Hani Hanjour | ... in early April. They were joined there by 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and | who had moved out of San Diego and Arizona after living in or visiting Abd ... |
Cecil Taylor | ... bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, a rhythm section honed with | as leader. Coltrane championed many younger free jazz musicians, (notably ... |
Griff Rhys Jones | ... eader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, Ken Follett, | and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In particular, the city ... |
Planck | ... nosphere was confirmed in 1923. The predictions by Heaviside, combined with | 's radiation theory, probably discouraged further attempts to detect radio ... |
Joan Rivers | ... Davis appeared on several talk shows and was interviewed by Johnny Carson, | , Larry King and David Letterman, discussing her career but refusing to di ... |
Jane Ira Bloom | ... iver Lake, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Thomas Buckner, Robert Dick, India Cooke, | , Karlton Hester, Roman Stolyar, , and many others |
Oscar Peterson | ... bassist Ray Brown (1926–2002), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, | , Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet; hard ... |
Pope John Paul II | The Holy See took a firm stance against the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. | 's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with ... |
Tricia Helfer | ... e Bamber (Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama), James Callis (Dr. Gaius Baltar), and | as a Cylon known as "Number Six". The mini-series was a ratings success fo ... |
Kellie Pickler | ... the 2000s. In addition to Underwood, American Idol launched the careers of | , Josh Gracin, Bucky Covington, Kristy Lee Cook, and Danny Gokey (as well ... |
Albert Einstein | ... han Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and | on physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed ... |
Tom Cole | U.S. Representative | , currently the only Native American serving in Congress, lives in Moore w ... |
Charles Voyde Harrelson | Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, the son of Diane Lou (née Oswald) and | , who divorced in 1964; he has two brothers, Jordan and Brett. Harrelson's ... |
William Butler Yeats | ... having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates | , George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and pl ... |
Dorothea Lange's | ... e Vine Hill area from 1940 to 1972. Florence Owens Thompson, made famous by | Migrant Mother photograph, died in Scotts Valley in 1983 |
John William Ward | # | , 1971—197 |
Kristy Lee Cook | ... Idol launched the careers of Kellie Pickler, Josh Gracin, Bucky Covington, | , and Danny Gokey (as well as that of occasional country singer Kelly Clar ... |
John Zorn | ... players include Charles Gayle, William Parker, Matana Roberts, Chad Taylor, | , Assif Tsahar, Tom Abbs, Kenny Werner, and Chris Speed. In Chicago, notab ... |
Charles II | ... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, | gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ... |
Robert Goulet | ... also an abridged (100 minute) 1967 network television version that starred | , with choreography by Edward Villella |
Charles Dickens | The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on | ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" ma ... |
David Starkey | ... in, and Italian and began learning Spanish when she was Queen. According to | , Catherine was most likely better educated overall than Anne Boleyn. As a ... |
Brandy Norwood | ... the film and a well earned third Golden Globe nomination. In 1999, she and | co-starred in the film, Double Platinum, which was released prior to the r ... |
Neville Chamberlain | ... o communicate with London. The FA's work showed that British Prime Minister | was determined to go to war if Germany invaded Poland in 1939. This direct ... |
Bucky Covington | ... derwood, American Idol launched the careers of Kellie Pickler, Josh Gracin, | , Kristy Lee Cook, and Danny Gokey (as well as that of occasional country ... |
Michael Palin | ... radio and played with the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by | and John Cleese in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese re ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... hapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 1867 by Charles Thomas Longley, | , and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales (later ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Osca ... |
George Martin | ... their own, the various Beatles supplied a total of "30 or so" tape loops to | , who selected 16 for use on the song. Each loop was about six seconds lon ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, | was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ... |
Alfred North Whitehead | ... daism). The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articulated by | in the early 20th century and expanded upon by the aforementioned philosop ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister | , who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ... |
Khalid al-Mihdhar | ... o and Arizona after living in or visiting Abdussattar Shaikh's house, where | also stayed. This mosque had recently in January 2001 hired the same imam ... |
Philip Hardwick | ... close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect | , the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal (today known as the Gloucester an ... |
Arthur Compton | ... eaction was achieved, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, | , to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. Th ... |
Max Planck | ... Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by | , Werner Heisenberg, and Albert Einstein on physics. Disdainful of Turin s ... |
Maxwell's | ... de did much to develop and advocate vector methods and the vector calculus. | formulation of electromagnetism consisted of 20 equations in 20 variables. ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... ed her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and | . Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in ... |
William Hogarth | ... pprentices being given the day off for them. One such event was depicted by | in his satirical print, The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (1747) |
Prince Charles | ... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid. | of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ... |
James Cook | ... y, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain | 's ship Endeavour in 1768 |
Frenchie Davis | ... 8 and lasting until at least May 2009, season two American Idol contestants | , Trenyce Cobbins and winner Ruben Studdard starred in the 30th anniversa ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... 08 Whitesnake played at the Rock2Wgtn two day festival, which also featured | , Kiss, Poison, Alice Cooper and Lordi, with special effects by the Academ ... |
Kunigunde of Austria | The marriage of his daughter | to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and decepti ... |
Charles II of England | ... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, which | ordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ... |
Henry V of England | During the Hundred Years' War, on 19 January 1419, Rouen surrendered to | , who annexed Normandy once again to the Plantagenet domains. But Rouen di ... |
Lord Macartney | ... Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included | , Lord Caledon and Sir John Francis Cradock. Irish settlers were brought i ... |
Eero Saarinen | ... el's World Fair and Yale University's hockey stadium, which was designed by | (both structures completed in 1958). The roof of the Philips pavilion was ... |
William Hosking | ... iding lines" and a unique nondenominational chapel (see the architecture of | ) |
King George V | ... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 | and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ... |
Norman Davies | ... a was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. For example, | wrote "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK, which could fairly claim to be t ... |
John Lennon | ... Revolver. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by | . The track included looped tape effects. For the track Paul McCartney sup ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was | ; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ... |
Tommy Lee | ... mmers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including Dave Grohl, Neil Peart, | , Peter Criss, and Brad Wilk |
The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
John Wesley | ... he early 13th century, but little remains from that period. John Bunyan and | both preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and spire were complet ... |
Charles II of England | ... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King | through the Connecticut Charter of 1662 |
Paul McCartney | ... arily by John Lennon. The track included looped tape effects. For the track | supplied a bag of ¼-inch audio tape loops he had made at home after listen ... |
Clinton | ... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President | to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ... |
David Starkey | ... er since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and | 's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identifi ... |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... l Revolution. Marc Isambard Brunel, the father of famed Portsmouth engineer | , established in 1802 the world's first mass production line at the Portsm ... |
J. R. R. Tolkien | ... his characters, for example the song "Namarie" in The Lord of the Rings by | , which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel |
Charles Darwin | In 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to | 's theories. Broca was rather inspired with the whole idea of evolution. H ... |
Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... trict, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. Following the death of | , the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is John ... |
Myleene Klass | ... ong "Streets of London". The interview was filmed in Paris and conducted by | |
Kofi Annan | ... States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General | as top world leaders |
Malcolm McLaren | ... nsion between Matlock and Rotten, which Matlock suggests was exacerbated by | 's attempts to pit the two men against each other. Matlock was replaced by ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that | ever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ... |
Roger Penrose | ... no singularities appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties | and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities are ... |
Jose Canseco | ... n three consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series behind Mark McGwire, | and Dennis Eckersley. In more recent years, the A's have often been playof ... |
Harold Wilson | ... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election when | was appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ... |
J. L. Lagrange | ... for examination at Toulouse, he astounded his examiner by his knowledge of | |
Sam Shepard | In the 2011 movie Blackthorn, | plays an elderly Butch Cassidy who has survived the Sundance Kid and elude ... |
Brian Aldiss | Most of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting. | , another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ... |
Bill Clinton | ... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic President | did not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ... |
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton | ... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet | , but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and | |
Zenobia | ... rn provinces of the empire, the so-called "Palmyrene Empire" ruled by Queen | from the city of Palmyra. Zenobia had carved out her own empire, encompass ... |
King George II | ... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British | . However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ... |
Viscount Melbourne | ... otorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of Prime Minister | . The film was written and directed by Robert Bolt and starred his wife, S ... |
Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
Stephen Hawking | ... appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose and | used global techniques to prove that singularities are generic |
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery | ... en travelling on the Continent, through his freemasonry, through his cousin | , through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of Yo ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
Humphry Davy | ... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by | in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ... |
J. B. J. Delambre | ... ste Biot, to complete the meridian arc measurements which had been begun by | , and interrupted since the death of P. F. A. Méchain in 1804). Arago and ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... Baron Burgh in 1529, at the age of seventeen. However since the release of | The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six ... |
Alick Isaacs | Meanwhile, the British virologist | and the Swiss researcher Jean Lindenmann, at the National Institute for Me ... |