| Aristotle | ... the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, | , and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, a ... |
| Rick Upchurch | Denver kick returner | returned the ensuing kickoff a super bowl record 67 yards to the Cowboys 2 ... |
| Ibn Battuta | ... enone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de' Conti, or | , a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle E ... |
| Greg Craig | ... president when he was gloomiest and getting him to add past Kennedy staffer | to his defense team, which helped improve the president's fortunes. In the ... |
| Mike Shinoda | ... nese-American family's experience during the internment period. Lead singer | 's paternal grandparents were interned during World War II, along with his ... |
| Bolk | ... opmental timing (allometry and heterochrony). Man himself was, according to | , a typical case of evolution by retention of juvenile characteristics (ne ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Slavoj Žižek | ... Ideological State Apparatuses has been of interest to Slovenian philosopher | ; the attempt to view history as a process without a subject garnered symp ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... mes Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff | . The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated an ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jerry Bails | ... d painting, Norse mythology, and numismatics. He revealed in letters to fan | that he kept large troves of reference material, mentioning in 1971, "I ma ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... er, Paganini also became close friends with composers Gioachino Rossini and | . Rossini and Paganini met in Bologna in the summer of 1818. In January 18 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
| 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 ... |
| Larry Sabato | ... d it "McCain's plan" and University of Virginia political science professor | said, "McCain owns Iraq just as much as Bush does now." The surge and the ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with | slogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ... |
| Hipparchus | ... oman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer | of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a disc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Owen Gleiberman | ... tle character, played by Tobey Maguire. The film was directed by Sam Raimi. | of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to "lend even the smal ... |
| Hessel Gerritsz | ... hos first appears on a published map in 1622, on a little-known portolan by | . They are unlabelled, however, being marked merely as a group of small ci ... |
| Pausanias | He was a son of Talaus and Lysimache. | calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls her Eurynome. He was one of ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... originally an olive green with matching company logotype all in lower case. | insisted on promoting the color capability of the Apple II by putting rain ... |
| Shen Kuo | ... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman | (1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ... |
| Ken Thompson | ... applies an extended regular expression syntax that was added to Unix after | 's original regular expression implementation. fgrep searches for any of a ... |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... 24 August 1736, he married Mary Wortley Montagu (daughter of Sir Edward and | ), bringing the large Wortley estates to his family. In 1737, due to the i ... |
| François Truffaut | Interviewed in 1966 by | , Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story |
| Slavoj Žižek | ... f film theorists with psychoanalytic potential, including Jacques Lacan and | . Hitchcock again filmed extensively on location, this time in the Norther ... |
| Jean Muir | ... Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, | , George Murphy, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. ... |
| Kathleen Ankers | ... 'Bud' Melman," announcer Bill Wendell, writer Adam Resnick, scenic designer | , stage manager Biff Henderson, producer Robert Morton, director Hal Gurne ... |
| Elvis Mitchell | ... major critics (listed as "Top Critics") gave favorable reviews. Film critic | of the New York Times lauded it as a "vital and sharply intelligent film," ... |
| John Tradescant the elder | ... acres (170,000 m²), date from the early 17th century, and were laid out by | . Tradescant visited Europe and brought back trees and plants that had nev ... |
| Stanley Morison | ... Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after | had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and t ... |
| Averroes | ... de the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, | , Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has b ... |
| Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
| William Morris | ... a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is | ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (bureau ... |
| Amy Taubin | ... ctor" who had "embraced the very structure that" destroyed her. Film critic | suggests that Betty is a reincarnation of Sandy from Lynch's Blue Velvet: ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kenneth Tynan | ... s and Counter Notes also reprints a heated war of words between Ionesco and | based on Ionesco's above stated beliefs and Ionesco's hatred for Brecht an ... |
| White House Chief of Staff | ... luding Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and | Alexander Haig. The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... who have formulated a two-stage model for free will include William James, | , Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and Daniel Dennett |
| 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 ... |
| Jeremy Blake | ... he paranoid final days and suicides of celebrity artists Theresa Duncan and | . In 2010, Ellis released the sequel to his debut novel, in the form of Im ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ime teacher on campus named Daniel Walsh, so he decided to take a course on | with Walsh. Through Walsh, Merton was introduced to Jacques Maritain at a ... |
| Franco Zeffirelli | ... and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in October 1960, directed and designed by | . During this period, she toured the United States and Canada, and appeare ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sebastian Brant | ... examples of Renaissance satire include Till Eulenspiegel, Reynard the Fox, | 's Narrenschiff (1494), Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1509) and Thomas More's ... |
| Howard Hughes | In 1950 Rank sold Simmons's contract to | , who then owned the RKO studio in Hollywood. That year she was voted the ... |
| Charles Bridgeman | ... great that the contributions to the English garden made by his predecessors | and William Kent are often overlooked; even Kent's apologist Horace Walpol ... |
| Victor Lardent | ... ypeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by | at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Moris ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... hard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, | , Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli ... |
| Gerald of Wales | ... erson at 165 m (180 yards) "part of the time" and could always hit an army. | commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century |
| Dante Ferretti | ... Martin, and John Logan, costume designer Sandy Powell, production designer | , and composers Robbie Robertson, Howard Shore and Elmer Bernstein. Schoon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Paxton | ... at the town was "all prospect and no city." In 1859, it was renamed for Sir | , architect of the Crystal Palace, who was a major shareholder in the Illi ... |
| Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | ... from the original Gundam creators like Yoshiyuki Tomino, Kunio Okawara and | . Also collected various real world space exploration science and referenc ... |
| William Townsend Aiton | ... ds bookshop in Piccadilly, London. Wedgwood was chairman; also present were | (successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens) ... |
| Su Song | ... l hour, the device was also a striking clock. The famous clock tower of the | built by 1094 during the Song Dynasty would employ Yi Xing's escapement wi ... |
| Larry Wall | ... t list) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs (originally | 's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matc ... |
| Chief of Staff in the White House | ... ilitary aides-de-camp, a Secretary to the President (somewhat equivalent to | , except it is a permanent civil service position) and a press office. In ... |
| Edward Granville Browne | ... overy of numerous compounds and chemicals including kerosene, among others. | considers him as "probably the greatest and most original of all the physi ... |
| John Hunter | ... th century by the physician Marie François Xavier Bichat, and the physician | who recognized a "living principle" in addition to mechanics |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection). Later under the leadership of | between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the "Schutz-Staffel" and grew fr ... |
| Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
| Olaus Magnus | ... of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673), but was also used earlier by | in his Description of the Northern peoples (1555). There is another sugges ... |
| Aristotle | ... introduced much of Plato to the Western world, shaking the domination which | had come to exercise over Western European thought in the high and later m ... |
| 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 ... |
| Genevieve Gorder | ... ject of TLC Network television program Town Haul in which interior designer | , a regular designer for TLC's program Trading Spaces, undertook to make o ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ny things that God cannot do, but that nonetheless he counts as Omnipotent. | advanced a version of the omnipotence paradox by asking whether God could ... |
| Alfonso X of Castile | ... rst with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by | in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of ... |
| Hipparchus | ... , three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by | around 130 BC, but he ignored the problem by dropping the concept of a fix ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, | , and other early Greek philosophers. Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was one o ... |
| Jimmy Hill | ... st famous former managers are Jesse Carver, George Raynor, Harry Storer and | . Others include Noel Cantwell, Dave Sexton, John Sillett, Bobby Gould, Ph ... |
| Maharal of Prague | ... in Worms and Metz. His grandmother Eva Bacharach was a granddaughter of the | , and his father Moses Samson Bacharach, and grandfather had served as rab ... |
| Strabo | ... iffered on whether the term included Sicily or merely Apulia and Calabria — | being the most prominent advocate of the wider definitions |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... its best to avoid any application of the law of the State". In April 2010, | and Richard Dawkins wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humani ... |
| Kenneth Turan | ... ine a tickle of flirtatious music." In the Los Angeles Times review, critic | noted that Dunst and Maguire made a real connection on screen, concluding ... |
| Mark Kriski | ... dson (who would eventually host the series), while the second was emceed by | |
| Ken Thompson | Grep was created by | as a standalone application adapted from the regular expression parser he ... |
| William Aiton | ... hairman; also present were William Townsend Aiton (successor to his father, | , as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir Joseph Banks (President of the Ro ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... me in the historic Unitarian Meeting House, designed by one of its members, | |
| Bobby Jindal | ... ean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. The election of | as Governor of Louisiana has been hailed as pathbreaking. He is the first ... |
| Dick Cheney | Former US Vice President | opposed the signing ratification of a treaty banning the use chemical weap ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | ... s the sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as | 's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dy ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... pple has paid high attention to its quality of packaging, partly because of | ' personal preferences and opinions on packaging and final product appeara ... |
| William Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... ees are Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Past awardees are composers such as | and performers such as Carol Channing. The 2010 award will go to |
| Lagrange | The theorem was proved by | and generalized by Hans Heinrich Bürmann, both in the late 18th century. T ... |
| Bruce Halpenny | Additionally, board games can be therapeutic. | , a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “With crime you d ... |
| Ferdinand von Richthofen | ... " and "Seidenstraßen"- 'the Silk Road(s)' or 'Silk Route(s)' were coined by | , who made seven expeditions to China from 1868 to 1872. Some scholars pre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Theresa Duncan | ... e name, depicting the paranoid final days and suicides of celebrity artists | and Jeremy Blake. In 2010, Ellis released the sequel to his debut novel, i ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... aid it was very gripping and scary despite some minor unanswered questions. | gave the film "Thumbs Down" and felt it was boring and "borderline ridicul ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (from | ). He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | His advice and work influenced | , a friend of the Hammerstein family from childhood. Sondheim has attribut ... |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... ); the great industrialist and architect of the nearby Atmospheric railway, | ; Prog-rock band Wishbone Ash, supermodel Lily Cole, comedian Jim Davidson ... |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury | ... The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander | , advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of by | in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia |
| 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 ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... er Abelard. Since the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians | , Hastings Rashdall and Paul Tillich. It remains the most popular view of ... |
| Simon of Southwell | ... had been educated at Bologna in his household, including John of Tynemouth, | , and Honorius of Kent. He also employed the architect Elias of Dereham, w ... |
| Haskell Curry | ... us. One well-known fixed-point combinator in the untyped lambda calculus is | 's Y = λf·(λx·f (x x)) (λx·f (x x)). The name of this combinator is someti ... |
| Dave McKean | ... ere. He cowrote the screenplay for the movie MirrorMask with his old friend | for McKean to direct. In addition, he wrote the localized English language ... |
| Richard Roeper | ... ixed or average) from 36 reviews. On the television program Ebert & Roeper, | gave the film "Thumbs Up" and said it was very gripping and scary despite ... |
| Siegfried Linkwitz | ... design, as the components interact in complex ways. Crossover design expert | said of them that "the only excuse for passive crossovers is their low cos ... |
| Military Intelligence Hall of Fame | Pinkerton is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. He is a member of the | |
| Dave Foley | ... Conan interacted with the children, encouraging them to boo whenever guest | became too long-winded and boring |
| Dashiell Hammett | The film's story was written by | , based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or sho ... |
| 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 ... |
| L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... including the philosophers François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire, 1694–1778) and | (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Je ... |
| Wilbur David Cook | ... e this name as it was located on high land that overlooked downtown Dallas. | , the landscape designer who had planned Beverly Hills, California, and Ge ... |
| David Denby | ... the original story". Vincent Canby found it "both numbing and impressive". | of New York felt that the film would not make sense to viewers who had not ... |
| Jon Stewart | Bert was also stated by | on March 18, 2010 to be "A fastidious, pigeon-worshiping, felt tyrant. Who ... |
| Joseph Whitworth | ... on of men to build on his work, such as Richard Roberts, Joseph Clement and | |
| Galen | ... icine, and similarly to earlier Islamic writers he followed the approach of | (and Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander Meiklejohn | # | , 1912—192 |
| Amazing Stories | ... d text pieces for Weird Tales and Planet Stories, and was also published in | and Marvel Science Stories. He wrote for a diverse range of pulp magazines ... |
| Mercator, Gerardus | ... l - Mechelen - Meerhout - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - | - Merckx, Eddy - Merelbeke - Merksplas - Mertens, Pierre - Mesen - Meulebe ... |
| Marcel Proust | ... ionary proportions. His work is still widely read and frequently performed. | developed a fondness for Racine at an early age, "whom he considered a bro ... |
| J.G. Crace | ... so much so that the present skyline is largely Paxton's work. At this time | of London, the leading maker of Gothic Revival furniture and his partner t ... |
| William Morris | ... , prosperous once more, left him indifferent. (Böll seemed to be a pupil of | – he made known that he would have preferred Cologne cathedral unfinished, ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... concept has recently been called "The Platinum Rule" Philosophers, such as | , Friedrich Nietzsche, and , have objected to the rule on a variety of gro ... |
| 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 |
| Hugo Haase | ... sisting of three MSPD and three USPD members. Led by Ebert for the MSPD and | for the USPD it sought to act as a provisional cabinet of ministers. But t ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... eron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic | called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". ... |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | ... Postal Service with Connecticut themes include Nathan Hale, Eugene O'Neill, | , Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan which ... |
| 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 |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
| Stephen Colbert | ... xas Ranger Lever while Chuck Norris was coincidentally sponsoring Huckabee. | made the claim that because of "the Colbert bump", he was responsible for ... |
| William Kent | ... utions to the English garden made by his predecessors Charles Bridgeman and | are often overlooked; even Kent's apologist Horace Walpole allowed that Ke ... |
| Mike Mignola | ... ific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and | , film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, ho ... |
| John McCarthy | ... thout explicitly specifying which conditions are not affected by an action. | and Patrick J. Hayes defined this problem in their 1969 article, Some Phil ... |
| Alain Colmerauer | ... iation for (French for programming in logic). It was created around 1972 by | with Philippe Roussel, based on Robert Kowalski's procedural interpretatio ... |
| Étienne Polverel | French colonial commissioner | proclaimed the city Port-Républicain on 23 September 1793 "in order that t ... |
| Onias III | ... Simon II died in 175 BCE, conflict broke out between supporters of his son | (who opposed Hellenization, and favored the Ptolemies) and his son Jason ( ... |
| Duns Scotus | ... ncept of "inscape" which was derived, in part, from the medieval theologian | . The exact detail of "inscape" is uncertain and probably known to Hopkins ... |
| Colin Powell | ... 97. Llewellyn is the daughter of J. Bruce Llewellyn, and a family friend of | , who originally introduced the couple to each other |
| John Lindley | ... each of its four gardens. The library is based upon the book collection of | |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... s Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and | (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist Pr ... |
| Bosley Crowther | New York Times film critic | reviewed the picture favorably, both the screenplay and the direction, wri ... |
| Oliver Evans | In 1805, American inventor | designed, but never built, a refrigeration system based on the vapor-compr ... |
| Gene Siskel | ... ck's facade was one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of | and Roger Ebert's "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under deve ... |
| Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... een raging for at least 340 years, having first been observed by astronomer | . Neptune also had its own lesser known Great Dark Spot |
| Ted Patrick | ... as founded by concerned family members of followers, including deprogrammer | , to "free" them from their involvement in the group |
| Sir Thomas Browne | ... orated dozens of invented words. The early modern English prose writings of | are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the Oxford English Dictio ... |
| Dharmakirti | ... t millennium BCE, and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists | and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's ... |
| Pedro Vicente Maldonado | ... notable icons in Ecuadorian sciences are the mathematician and cartographer | , born in Riobamba in 1707, and the printer, independence precursor, and m ... |
| Yan Xishan | ... itions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such as Li Zongren and | who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They knew that if t ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... liptical ring by 84 CE. With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor | (张衡, 78-139 CE), the sphere was totally complete in 125 CE, with horizon a ... |
| Mike Mignola | ... His Horse by Susanna Clarke. Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, | , Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Rus ... |
| Philip French | ... ich she received her second Oscar nomination. In the opinion of film critic | , a film of 1958, Home Before Dark, saw her give "perhaps her finest perfo ... |
| Lee Boyd Malvo | ... purportedly under mind control, including Patty Hearst, Steven Fishman and | , have not been successful |
| Raymond Smullyan | ... include John Myhill's definition of linear bounded automata (Myhill 1960), | 's study of rudimentary sets (1961), as well as Hisao Yamada's paper on re ... |
| Kindi | ... nsively. Greco-Roman (Mid- and Neo-Platonic, and Aristotelian) texts by the | school were commented, redacted and developed substantially by Islamic int ... |
| Nicolaas Samuelsz Cruquius | ... of Rhine to the sea. The designs for this were already done back in 1731 by | but the implementation could no longer be postponed to prevent the decline ... |
| Mary Beth Cahill | ... y for fellow Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. and lent his chief of staff, | , to the Kerry campaign. Kennedy's appeal was effective among blue collar ... |
| Erasistratus | Early references to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, | , Plutarch and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
| Friedrich August Rosen | ... on of any portion of the Rigveda in any Western language was into Latin, by | (Rigvedae specimen, London 1830). Predating Müller's editio princeps of th ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... charged at the time that it was made "under direct orders of the Kremlin." | , who reviewed the film for Sight and Sound in 1954, said it was "as clear ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
| Duperrey | ... slands were named after the first in the Russian (Krusenstern) and French ( | ) maps (1820), later in the English maps. However, they were claimed under ... |
| Dignāga | ... , and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists Dharmakirti and | during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer | (78–139 CE) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sph ... |
| Bob Black | ... ards mysticism, occultism, and irrationalism. Bey did not respond publicly. | wrote a rejoinder to Bookchin in Anarchy after Leftism |
| Aristotle | ... European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by the works of | and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist ... |
| Narendra Karmarkar | ... , the Karmarkar Linear Programming Algorithm was developed by mathematician | . Also in 1984, a divestiture agreement signed in 1982 with the American F ... |
| Ramban | ... ere is some dispute as to how to divide these up (mainly between the rabbis | and ) |
| Igor Bensen | ... tt companies made further innovations. Late-model autogyros patterned after | 's designs feature a rear-mounted engine and propeller in a pusher configu ... |
| Frank J. Sprague | ... ry gradually in the 1890s after the introduction of a practical DC motor by | and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by Nikola Tesla (Westingh ... |
| Tadeusz Gronowski | ... the front fuselage, and a blue tailplane was introduced, the 1929-designed | logo, however, despite many changes in livery, was kept through the years, ... |
| Immanuel Kant | | famously criticized the golden rule for not being sensitive to differences ... |
| Ray Mancini | ... s, but was knocked out in three during his challenge against world champion | in Reno. Chacon then beat Carlton Sparrow by a TKO in five rounds and anno ... |
| Dorothy Hodgkin | Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, | , Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in Apr ... |
| James Agee | ... and, Richard Brooks), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of | 's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending (1969), again direc ... |
| Harry Wheatcroft | ... r's first marriage in 1961 was to Anna Wheatcroft (niece of the rose grower | ). They had two sons Daniel and Piers, but divorced in 1966 and Baker lost ... |
| George Dantzig | ... arch, linear programming problems can be solved by the simplex algorithm of | |
| Aristotle | ... translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as | and Procopius. Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nick Xenophon | ... rical basis, and was reaffirmed by the 1974 Royal Commission into Gambling: | was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Leg ... |
| Dicaearchus | ... rk on the Pythagoreans, which unfortunately has not survived. His disciples | , Aristoxenus, and Heraclides Ponticus had written on the same subject. Th ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... s and currently holds a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic | named The Right Stuff best film of the year, and wrote, "it joins a short ... |
| Aristotle | In astronomy, he criticized | 's view of the stars receiving their light from the Sun. Ibn Sīnā stated t ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer | . He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary boo ... |
| George Tsypin | ... ucted by Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Opera, St. Petersburg, designed by | . The production drew parallels with Ossetian mythology |
| Josephus | ... n dynasty is the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian | , (37–shortly after 100 CE). Josephus' account is the only primary source ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... ntly. In December 1919 he married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy, and in 1920 he met | , who would remain a lifelong friend |
| Aristotle | ... viding his time between Oxford and Paris, and helped introduce the study of | . He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Kent | where he served under | , one of the founders of the new English style of landscape garden. While ... |
| Otto Neurath | ... s efficiently in order to satisfy human needs. Socialist intellectuals like | had realised that in a completely socialised economy, prices would not exi ... |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | ... port of the RSS for this movement. Consequently, many RSS volunteers led by | participated in the movement. But Golwalkar has also been critical of the ... |
| Ptolemy | ... It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a reg ... |
| Leonard Maltin | ... tasy and romance.". In his book The Disney Films, film critic and historian | stated that, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney ... |
| Aristotle | ... nimalium; Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae | ;, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; T ... |
| Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz | ... d Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, who shared the directorship. From 1870 to 1889 | , nephew of the famous organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradon ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bavarian Geographer | A mediæval document of ca. 850, called | after its anonymous creator, mentions the Slavic tribe of Wolinians who th ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... 350 BCE. (cf. Phlegon, quoted in the 5th century geographical dictionary of | , under 'Gergis'). Other places claimed to have been her home. The sibylli ... |
| Lawrence Wollersheim | ... various legal proceedings against "cult" groups. In 1980, ex-Scientologist | successfully sued the Church of Scientology in a California court which de ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
| John Charles Daly | ... n appeared on-stage and proclaimed himself "the second mystery guest". Host | quickly called for "the relieving crew" and said "schedule two" (a code wo ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... predecessor Rocky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. | and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction fro ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... O'Brien accused his show of being the sole cause of presidential candidate | 's status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever wh ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and | . She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézout and Le Calcul D ... |
| Strabo | ... gured by Pacudius, shows an umbrella with a bent handle, sloping backwards. | describes a sort of screen or umbrella worn by Spanish women, but this is ... |
| Patrick Moore | ... laner as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, | as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Bu ... |
| Syed Ahmed Khan | ... amhansa, Sri Aurobindo, Subramanya Bharathy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir | , Rabindranath Tagore, and Dadabhai Naoroji, as well as women such as the ... |
| Euler | ... stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and | ). A special case of Fermat's theorem may have been known much earlier by ... |
| François Truffaut | The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and | and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes al ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
| John Philoponus | ... omentum, was developed along similar lines by medieval philosophers such as | and Jean Buridan. Motions below the lunar sphere were seen as imperfect, a ... |
| David Hockney | ... advertising, and iconography of the mass production age. The early works of | and the works of Richard Hamilton, John McHale, and Eduardo Paolozzi were ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... med on 5 July, presciently foreshadowing the celebrated radio broadcasts of | |
| Steve Jobs | ... er engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with | and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak created the Apple I computer and co-created the ... |
| Jeremy Clarkson | ... x Warp he plays TV presenter Geoffrey Vantage, parodying Top Gear presenter | (this episode broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 26 October 2008). He also plays ... |
| Saul Kripke | Putnam, along with | , Keith Donnellan, and others, contributed to what is known as the causal ... |
| Richard Bartle | ... that the online female persona has a number of positive social attributes. | , author of Designing Virtual Worlds, classified multiplayer RPG-players i ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... per proprietor Twiggy Rathbone (who bore more than a passing resemblance to | ) and his editor, Russell Spam |
| Franco Zeffirelli | ... Royal Opera House in 1964, with Tito Gobbi as Scarpia. This production, by | , remained in continuous use at Covent Garden for more than 40 years until ... |
| François Truffaut | ... , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and | |
| Johann Jakob Reiske | ... lanea critica (1745), which gained the commendation of L. C. Valckenaer and | . The Miscellanea, which was re-edited by Thomas Burgess (1781), Gottlieb ... |
| Koichi Nakamura | ... Productions. It focuses on the creation of the series and stars Yujii Hori, | (the main programmer), Koichi Sugiyama, Akira Toriyama, and Yukinobu Chida ... |
| Irving R. Levine | ... se worked for INS were future broadcasters William Shirer, Edwin Newman and | , who in 1950 covered the outbreak of war in Korea for INS. Marion Carpent ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | Much of the town flooded with the Lake Pontchartrain storm surge of | in 2005. The police station was destroyed by the floodwaters, along with t ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... antic before the U-boat blockade began, and joined his father-in-law, Rabbi | , in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Seeking to contribut ... |
| Gene Siskel | ... ky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. Roger Ebert and | attributed the film's success to the positive reaction from critics and au ... |
| John Cockcroft | ... in Manchester. Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir | , aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaste ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... xophone was invented for use in both orchestras and concert bands. Composer | wrote approvingly of the new instrument in 1842. By 1846 Sax had designed, ... |
| Ron Atkinson | ... s include Noel Cantwell, Dave Sexton, John Sillett, Bobby Gould, Phil Neal, | , Gordon Strachan, Peter Reid, Gary McAllister, Micky Adams, Iain Dowie an ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... c tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, | , Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... d her focus to stage and television acting. She toured the United States in | 's well-reviewed musical A Little Night Music, then took the show to Londo ... |
| Jean Buridan | ... ed along similar lines by medieval philosophers such as John Philoponus and | . Motions below the lunar sphere were seen as imperfect, and thus could no ... |
| Richard Jordan Gatling | ... ic power source was not a novel idea at the end of the World War II era, as | himself did just that in a patent he filed in 1893 |
| Lewis Fry Richardson | ... famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, | and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson |
| Henry Kissinger | ... purchase Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (the Lockheed bribery scandals). Although | tried to stop the details from making their way to the Japanese government ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Farish | First formalized by Professor | (1759–1837), the concept of an isometric had existed in a rough empirical ... |
| Himmler | ... pronounced it likely that Speer himself came close to being assassinated by | after he unwittingly put himself in the care of an SS doctor |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as Albert Camus and | . In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he def ... |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ... s Germany. Among the prominent thinkers associated with the institution are | , Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and Ha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... h new rules restricted the air intake dramatically. In 1971 Lotus principal | introduced the Lotus 56B F1 car, powered by a Pratt & Whitney STN 6/76 ga ... |
| William Morris | ... ip Webb designed Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist | on the western edge of the heath, in the hamlet of Upton — before Upton be ... |
| Fallopius | ... professorship, which had become vacant by the death of his friend and pupil | |
| Pier Luigi Nervi | ... ll field and track. The nearby Thompson Arena, designed by Italian engineer | and constructed in 1975, houses Dartmouth's ice rink. Also visible from Me ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, | , Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, S ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and | . In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ... |
| Ptolemy | ... f the ecliptic. Hipparchus probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. | describes his instrument in the Syntaxis (book v. chap. i). It consisted o ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ia as his "Sedona Cabin," is where he and his running-mate, Alaska governor | , prepared for their debates |
| Fritz Leiber | ... contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and | . Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including autho ... |
| René Descartes | ... ason to reject the concept of 'absolute' omnipotence, while others, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem |
| Samuel Ferguson | ... Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and | |
| Stephen A. Kent | ... lled scientific community of scholars engages in some "corrupt" practices". | has also published several articles about brainwashing. These scholars ten ... |
| Álvaro de Mendaña | ... rst inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesian people. In 1568 Spanish navigator | sailed through the islands and is understood to have sighted Nui during hi ... |
| Alberto Gonzales | ... the future acting attorney general, to take office upon the resignation of | , effective September 17, 2007 |
| Jim A. Kuypers | ... ny of the positions in the preceding study are supported by a 2002 study by | : Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues. In th ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... ation who provided information, similar to the "Baker Street Irregulars" of | |
| G. W. F. Hegel | ... nder and friend of Richard Rothe, Müller bitterly opposed the philosophy of | and the criticism of F. C. Baur. His book, Über den Gegensatz des Protesta ... |
| Pliny | ... re probably disposed groups of statuary. The pteron consisted (according to | ) of thirty-six columns of the Ionic order, enclosing a square cena. Betwe ... |
| Dionisio Alcalá Galiano | ... A possible eruption was seen in June 1792 during the Spanish expedition of | and Cayetano Valdés. Their report read, in part |
| Tony Benn | ... French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology, | , announced that he would change the spelling back to Concorde. This creat ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... cluding 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by | and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East an ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Pettit Memorial Chapel, designed by | , the Lampert-Wildflower House, and the James Knox Taylor designed Belvide ... |
| Robert Abbott | Baroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by | . In 1963, at the suggestion of his publisher, he changed the name to Ulti ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... eciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as | , his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... yrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History of | around AD 77-79. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams, to powder the hai ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... d "cinema at its finest". In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, | , who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a ... |
| William Camden | ... ations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and | . He also used his own observation, experience and wit, and wrote in a con ... |
| Rex Reed | ... briefly owning a home in New Milford, Connecticut near her longtime friend | . Later she moved to Santa Monica, California, where she lived until her d ... |
| Rex Reed | ... ew York Film Festival, where it captured the attention of film critics like | . When Richard Dreyfuss appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, ... |
| Ptolemy | Soon after, he wrote the Compendium of the Almagest, a commentary on | 's Almagest. Avicenna concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... September 16, 2004. Mobile also suffered millions of dollars in damage from | on August 29, 2005. A storm surge of , topped by higher waves, damaged eas ... |
| Yngvar Nielsen | ... among historians and archeologists for many years. The Norwegian historian | , commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this quest ... |
| Ivan Pavlov | ... enced both the neuron theory of Ramón y Cajal and the conditioned reflex of | , in essence he simply interpreted this new neurological research in terms ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... . Bowie also would say later: "he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image." | , in the Rolling Stone magazine edition for their List of 100 Greatest Sin ... |
| Alfonso X of Castile | ... clopaedia Britannica on Astronomy during the 1960s, in a discussion of King | 's interest in astronomy during the 13th century. (Alfonso is credited wit ... |
| Jethro Tull's | ... became available which increased food production with ever fewer labourers. | seed drill invented in 1701 was a mechanical seeder which distributed seed ... |
| Pausanias | ... indeed have touched with excitement. But it was being shown in the time of | in the 2nd century AD |
| Pablo Picasso | ... entury art critics have suggested that the "analytic Cubist" experiments of | and Georges Braque were founded upon Poussin's example. In 1963 Picasso ba ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... onsidered to be magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d'Aurillac and | : both men were active in the scientific research of their day as well as ... |
| Alan Turing | ... ombinator is the Turing fixed-point combinator (named after its discoverer, | ) |
| Wilhelm von Bezold | ... had a deep interest in meteorology probably derived from his contacts with | (who was Hertz's professor in a laboratory course at the Munich Polytechni ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | | referred to the city in his review of as a "spectacular achievement", and ... |
| Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
| Galen | ... tion of Aristotle (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of | (into terrae, lapides and metals). The four parts of Ibn Sina's classifica ... |
| 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 ... |
| Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup | ... for women’s education and its separation from the church. He opposed famous | (1802–1878), Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans, who wanted to keep control ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
| Mitt Romney | ... that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans". | , former Massachusetts Governor and Kennedy's opponent in the 1994 senate ... |
| wizard | ... he finds a magic ring, he is more baggage than help. Gandalf, an itinerant | introduces Bilbo to a company of thirteen dwarves. During the journey the ... |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... ucted, but the weight of water in the raised tanks caused them to collapse. | was consulted and came up with the plans for two mighty water towers, one ... |
| William Starling Burgess | ... d evidence that the design of Times New Roman was based on a 1904 design of | |
| Mark Twain | ... ome sum for that day of one hundred dollars a month. Famous American author | , who saw the Pony Express in action first hand, described the riders in h ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... like a coherent sentence does not mean the sentence really makes any sense. | asserts that the paradox arises from a misunderstanding of omnipotence. He ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Architect | spent much of his childhood in Madison and studied briefly at the Universi ... |
| Oliver Evans | ... d the Orukter Amphibolos, was conceived and built by United States inventor | in 1805, although it is disputed to have successfully travelled over land ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS | . Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... architectural designs located in River Forest such as the Winslow House by | . The population was 11,635 at the 2000 census |
| Rashi | ... ruit changed this and thus was born the yeitzer hara, the Evil Inclination. | notes that the first sin came about because Eve added an additional clause ... |
| Sheridan Morley | ... n 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. As | later reported: "At first she thought they were joking. She had never done ... |
| Pierre Bernard | ... ches on the show at different periods. One of the show's graphic designers, | was featured several sketches, such as: "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... and sometimes written to be played by amateurs. The concept was inspired by | . An example of this is his Trauermusik (Funeral Music), written in Januar ... |
| G. H. Hardy | ... statement of this is found in an essay written by the British mathematician | in defense of pure mathematics |
| William Starling Burgess | ... 987 suggested the real creator was a wooden boat designer from Boston named | . In 1904 he created it for company documents at his shipyard in Marblehea ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... iver. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of George Washington, and | planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ... |
| Ptolemy | ... sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially Pliny and | ) gives the following account |
| Galileo | ... owledge", History, analogous to the contributions of Thales to mathematics, | to physics, or, better, Freud's , in that the structure of his theory is u ... |
| Thomas Hearne | ... aesenti. The Carmen de Moribus bears Lily's name in the early editions; but | asserts that it was written by Leland, who was one of his scholars, and th ... |
| Mondino | ... ements of astrology. Although modern anatomical texts had been published by | and Berenger, much of their work was clouded by their reverence for Galen ... |
| Henry Lipson | ... , Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist | |
| Pablo Picasso | ... y expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist | . Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request he played ten minutes of ... |
| John Hyrcanus | ... s sons Judas Maccabeus, Jonathan Apphus, and Simon Thassi, and his grandson | . The books include historical and religious material from the Septuagint ... |
| Brain Trust | ... ring President Roosevelt's "New Deal" program, Baruch was a member of the " | " and helped form the National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
| Roland Barthes | ... terature have often been less systematic (or, in some special cases such as | 's S/Z, they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to r ... |
| Karen Wynn Fonstad | ... n The Atlas of Middle-earth, predating the New Line films by over a decade, | estimates the diameter of the city to be much smaller - estimating for the ... |
| Berenger | ... trology. Although modern anatomical texts had been published by Mondino and | , much of their work was clouded by their reverence for Galen and Arabian ... |
| Lewis A. McArthur | ... er below the outlet of Wallowa Lake. The author of Oregon Geographic Names, | , said that although the origin of this name is disputed, he puts great we ... |
| Aristotle | In Greece, Hesiod, | and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roma ... |
| Aristotle | ... es, which was a significant improvement over the two-part classification of | (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of Galen (into terr ... |
| Berlioz | ... Hauptmann, acquiring the then-conventional prejudices against the music of | , Liszt and Wagner. (This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter ... |
| Hipparchus | ... ably used a solstitial armilla for measuring the obliquity of the ecliptic. | probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. Ptolemy describes his ins ... |
| Rob Janoff | ... McKenna Advertising, the team assigned to launch the Apple II consisted of | , art director, Chip Schafer, copywriter and Bill Kelley, account executiv ... |
| Stanley Morison | ... t who created Times New Roman. Traditionally the inventor was thought to be | , and it made its debut in the Oct. 3, 1943 issue of The Times of London. ... |
| Alkindus | ... udius Ptolemy (his Optics in Arabic translation) and the Islamic scientists | (al-Kindi) and Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham). He includes a discussion of the p ... |
| Clement Scott | ... and Henry Arthur Jones produced Hoodman Blind and in 1886 co-operated with | in Sister Mary. In 1886 Barrett left the Princess's Theatre, and in this s ... |
| Francis Preston Blair | ... aster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of | , a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, ... |
| Gary Gygax | ... nd Geneva Resort. Lake Geneva was also home to Dungeons and Dragons creator | until his death in 2008. Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose, also owned p ... |
| Chip Berlet | | , writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), identified Horowitz' ... |
| Pausanias | ... of fifty Roman miles from Peuce by the Danube Delta, and the temple there. | has been told that the island is "covered with forests and full of animals ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... n instrumental in the prior 2004 alteration of this law to prevent Governor | from appointing a Republican senator should John Kerry's presidential camp ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | In Britain the Great Western Railway, designed by | , pioneered broad gauge from 1838 with a gauge of , and retained this gaug ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited | (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor of the armillary sphere. The name of this d ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... elling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion." | of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ogical commentaries, had a great influence on Medieval philosophers such as | . Scholastic European scholars, who sought to reconcile the philosophy of ... |
| Pausanias | ... ce, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by Aleus, | was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric and Archaic pe ... |
| William Camden | ... ow known to be false. A short passage making this claim was interpolated by | into his 1603 edition of Asser's Life. Doubts have also been raised period ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kunio Okawara | ... , Gundam functions with different designs and coloring (with most following | 's original Gundam design). Producer Masahiko Asano wrote in his notes on ... |
| Giorgetto Giugiaro | ... y, also eclipsed the profits of its American parent company. The designs of | became dominant, along with those of Marcello Gandini in Italy. The 1970s ... |
| Robert Fourer | ... y Steven Chu and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by | , David M. Gay and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. Also in 1985, Bel ... |
| J. Hoberman | ... here than the power to enter and to program the dream life of the culture?" | from The Village Voice echoes this sentiment by calling it a "poisonous va ... |
| Manohla Dargis | ... lenhaal, and Julia Stiles. The film generated mostly negative reviews, with | of the Los Angeles Times describing it as "smug and reductive." She next a ... |
| Aristotle | ... wise man will know what is right, do what is good, and therefore be happy. | (384 BC – 322 BC) posited an ethical system that may be termed "self-reali ... |
| John Britten | ... iated with attempting to develop too many new technologies at once. In 1987 | developed the Aero-D One featuring a composite monocoque chassis that only ... |
| William S. Clark | Prior to Uchimura's arrival, | , a graduate of Amherst College, had spent the year assisting the Japanese ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... 5. In the 1980s, there was an attempt by unknown entrepreneurs to seek from | , who owned The Times, the right to use the Times Roman name; separately, ... |
| Jay Cocks | ... riginal draft. It was re-written several times by various writers including | (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Ga ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington, | , and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ... |
| Aristotelian | ... e Renaissance's revival of classical learning and thought. A revolt against | logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence ... |
| Yuri Matiyasevich | ... am contributed to the resolution of Hilbert's tenth problem in mathematics. | had formulated a theorem involving the use of Fibonacci numbers in 1970, w ... |
| Lu Xun | ... ctions; his innovative use of informal, humorous, and varied language (even | (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of Qu ... |
| Stanisław Lem | ... contains a science fiction story written by one of that novel's characters. | 's Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius from The Cyberia ... |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... dictatorship in the heart of Europe" by the former U.S. Secretary of State | . He and other Belarusian officials are also subject of the s imposed by t ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and | , support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition statin ... |
| Thomas Wriothesley | ... ossessed". Lily's pupils included William Paget, John Leland, Antony Denny, | and Edward North, 1st Baron North. The school became a paragon of classica ... |
| Pausanias | ... od" status. She did, however, have followers, the Iasides ("sons of Iaso"). | (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of Amphiaraus in Oropos, Attic ... |
| Erwin Komenda | ... 42 and widely used in World War II. The amphibious bodywork was designed by | , the firm's body construction designer, using the engine and drive train ... |
| Abū Alī ibn Sīnā | ... in: Sufficientia) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by | (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia. Despite its Engl ... |
| Félix Guattari | ... with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan-Bush era in the U.S. | disregards the "large promotional operations dubbed 'neo-expressionism' in ... |
| George Harrison | ... Bartók. Tritone relations are also important in the music of George Crumb. | uses tritones on the downbeats of the opening phrases of the Beatles songs ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
| William Playfair | ... mong other things she used the pie chart, which had first been developed by | in 1801. While taken for granted now, it was at the time a relatively nove ... |
| White House Chief of Staff | Eisenhower was the first President to hire a | or "gatekeeper" – an idea which he borrowed from the United States Army. E ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
| Walter Burkert | ... y much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult," | remarked of Greek nature deities. They were normally considered to be very ... |
| Wilhelm Pfitzer | ... ve developed hybrids, most notably Victor Lemoine, while in 1857 the German | listed 24 varieties. In 1861 the Royal Horticultural Society held trials i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hipparchus | The Greek astronomer | (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited Eratosthenes (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor ... |
| John M. Ford | ... uch as Gene Roddenberry's novelization of , J. A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, | 's The Final Reflection, Margaret Wander Bonanno's Strangers from the Sky ... |
| Victor Lemoine | ... half-dozen French growers are known to have developed hybrids, most notably | , while in 1857 the German Wilhelm Pfitzer listed 24 varieties. In 1861 th ... |
| Igor Bensen | The autogyro was resurrected after World War II when Dr. | , a Russian immigrant in the USA, saw a captured German U-Boat's Fa 330 gy ... |
| Richard Corliss | ... and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics." | from Time Magazine highly praised the film, saying: "From lift-off to spla ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | Associated with the pragmatists, | , William James, and especially John Dewey, pragmatic ethics holds that mo ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... lson obtained evidence that Davis was engaged in a sexual relationship with | and subsequently filed for divorce citing Davis's "cruel and inhuman manne ... |
| Porphyry | ... in the anonymous Parmenides commentary (Fragment XIV) ascribed by Hadot to | [...] and is also found in Plotinus' Ennead 6.7, 17, 13-26. |
| Joseph Paxton | ... or the place developed into a passion. In 1850 he engaged his architect Sir | , the designer of The Crystal Palace, to carry out improvements and additi ... |
| René Descartes | Some Philosophers, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent. In addition, some philosophers ... |
| John Amos Comenius | ... s displaced by French, Italian, and English by the end of the 16th century. | was one of many people who tried to reverse this trend. He composed a comp ... |
| Martin Davis | ... teger coefficients) has a solution among the integers. Putnam, working with | and Julia Robinson, demonstrated that Matiyasevich's theorem was sufficien ... |
| George Hudson | Magnates like | developed routes in the North and Midlands by amalgamating small railway c ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
| Cosmas Indicopleustes | ... led to Iberia and beyond, Nearchus, the 6th century merchant and later monk | (Cosmas who sailed to India) and the explorer of the Northwestern passage ... |
| Aristotle | ... lian Physics was not designed with these sorts of calculations in mind, and | 's philosophy regarding the heavens was entirely at odds with the concept ... |
| Jennifer Meyer | Maguire met | in 2003 while he was shooting the movie Seabiscuit at Universal Studios, a ... |
| Aristotle | ... e critics insisted on judging him according to the traditional standards of | and his Italian commentators from which he tended to stray. Attitudes shif ... |
| Averroes | ... ch as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and | (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted Greek thought in the context of their religion. ... |
| Kleene | ... nistic notion of truth often leads to misinterpretations about its meaning. | formally defined intuitionistic truth from a realist position, yet Brouwer ... |
| Edward Said | ... oups share (or do not share), regardless of cultural or religious identity. | issued a response to Huntington's thesis in his "The Clash of Ignorance". ... |
| Marie François Xavier Bichat | Vitalism was revived in the early 18th century by the physician | , and the physician John Hunter who recognized a "living principle" in add ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Sometimes credited with the greatest development in parachutes since | , the American Domina Jalbert invented the Parafoil which had sectioned ce ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with Frank P. Ramsey and | , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability an ... |
| Strabo | ... dure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and | (c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited ... |
| Porphyry | ... xts, which shed light on some of the more puzzling comments by Plotinus and | regarding the Gnostics. More importantly, the texts help to distinguish di ... |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | ... ssional colleague, as they would any man, by simply rejecting the work.” So | , who had been appointed to review her work, recommended she publish it, a ... |
| Strabo | ... ers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59 | ;, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian ... |
| Avicenna | ... Islamic philosophers such as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), | (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted Greek thought in the con ... |
| Teucer | ... ean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where | is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor. Ar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Poirot, Hercule | ... Marie - Picard language - Picqué, Charles - Pirson, André-Eugène - Pittem - | - Polder Model - Political parties in Belgium - Politics and Government of ... |
| Mark Twain | ... in the past, among the most renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, | , Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian write ... |
| Dick Bruna | The Dutch artist | , creator of Miffy, has suggested that Hello Kitty is a copy of Miffy (in ... |
| Hyrcanus II | 10. | , 67–66 BC |
| Alfonso X | ... ge between Edward, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of | . Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets ag ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
| John Dewey | ... origin of pragmatic ethics in the United States, especially in the work of | |
| Ernest Newman | ... sickened by the cheapness and emptiness" of Puccini's music. Veteran critic | , while acknowledging the "enormously difficult business of boiling [Sardo ... |
| Zheng He | ... was referred to as Bīnláng Yù in the navigational drawings used by Admiral | of Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas. Fifteenth-cent ... |
| Dirk Gently | ... writing a sixth novel in the Hitchhiker's series. He was working on a third | novel under the working title, The Salmon of Doubt, but felt that the book ... |
| Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
| Gerardus Mercator | ... ohannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius, Ferdinand Verbiest and | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... on the Roof called A Shoggoth on the Roof, which incorporates the works of | . In the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), parodies "Matchmaker" |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ata that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in | 's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his ... |
| Josephus | ... . 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6 | ;, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; P ... |
| Mark Van Doren | ... 18th Century English literature course during the spring semester taught by | , a professor with whom he maintained a friendship until death. Van Doren ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... s in any particular country's self-interest to open its borders to imports. | proved that a country with monopoly pricing power on the international mar ... |
| Aristobulus II | 11. | , 66–63 BC |
| Porphyry | ... agoras was famous for leaving behind him a way of life. Both Iamblichus and | give detailed accounts of the organisation of the school, although the pri ... |
| Christian Thomasius | ... eded, a process only completed at the end of the Baroque period circa 1730. | still met opposition as he argued in his 1701 Dissertatio de crimine magia ... |
| Margaret Singer | ... Barker and other scholars have criticized mental health professionals like | for accepting lucrative expert witness jobs in court cases involving NRMs. ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... sidered using chemical warfare. One of the earliest such references is from | , who proposed a powder of sulfide of arsenic and verdigris in the 15th ce ... |
| David Hilbert | ... prove that no such general algorithm can exist. It was therefore shown that | 's famous tenth problem has no solution |
| The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews. | of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerfu ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... iderable influence in European philosophy. Eros and Civilisation (1955), by | , explicitly attempted to merge Marxism with Freudianism. The social scien ... |
| Henry Corbin | ... and he studied, worked with, and published books by Nasr, Toshihiko Izutsu, | and others. He was editor of Sophia Perennis, the Journal of the IIAP |
| Pausanias | ... ers: Achilleion in Messenia (Stephanus Byzantinus), Achilleios in Laconia ( | , III.25,4) Nicolae Densuşianu (Densuşianu 1913) even though he recognized ... |
| Pytheas | Notable Greek seafarers include people such as | of Marseilles, Scylax of Caryanda who sailed to Iberia and beyond, Nearchu ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted | 's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ... |
| David Hilbert | ... ve whole. This work systematized an ample body of research by Emmy Noether, | , Richard Dedekind, and Emil Artin. In the following year, 1931, he was ap ... |
| Carl Schmitt | ... hke is now a leading conservative antidemocratic intellectual and editor of | . Later that year, Gudrun and Bernward were engaged to be married. Both we ... |
| Hyrcanus II | 12. | , 63–40 BCE (restored but demoted to Ethnarch |
| 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 ... |
| Hipparchus | ... , where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like | and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds has his ... |
| Joseph Fourier | ... ers. Seven years later this tradition was broken when she made friends with | , a secretary of the Academy, who obtained tickets to the sessions for her |
| Immanuel Kant | ... and John Stuart Mill, and deontological ethics as epitomized by the work of | . The late 19th Century also saw the origin of pragmatic ethics in the Uni ... |
| Tony Cozier | ... er recorded by Lord Beginner, is rarely credited to Lord Kitchener although | and many who attended the Test at The Oval can attest that it was a Kitch ... |
| Robert Novak | ... 1994, Helms created a sensation when he told broadcasters Rowland Evans and | that Clinton was "not up" to the tasks of being commander-in-chief, and su ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... ptember 2005 Simmons was on Entertainment Tonight to discuss the effects of | on his family in his hometown of New Orleans and his involvement in aiding ... |
| Rei Hino | ... agi for some time. The character Minako is closest to being friends with is | , with whom she has a conflicted relationship. Rei is supposed to be the s ... |
| Isambard Brunel | ... te Company (with a distinguished list of aristocratic patrons, and Marc and | as, respectively, a trustee and consulting engineer), gave an enormous imp ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... ronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by | ). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and physicist ... |
| Ulpian | ... nd fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. According to | , there were three types of roads |
| 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 ... |
| Pat Cash | ... ode. Other appearances include: John Hewson in The Soufflé Rises (series 1) | ;in The Desert Angel; Cheryl Kernot in We Ain't Got Dames (series 1); Bert ... |
| Norman Foster | ... cuted), it has been added to over subsequent decades by major names such as | and Rick Mather |
| L. E. J. Brouwer | In the early twentieth century | represented the intuitionist position and David Hilbert the formalist posi ... |
| Dave McKean | ... erry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, | , Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston ... |
| George Boolos | ... hy which do not add any subsets of the integers and later, with his student | , that the first such "non-index" is the ordinal \beta_0 of ramified analy ... |
| Amartya Sen | In another article explicitly referring to Huntington, | (1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... nal sin has tended to become softened, but has persisted in some form as in | 's idea of "radical evil" |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... tent description of a state of affairs. This position was once advocated by | . This definition of omnipotence solves some of the paradoxes associated w ... |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | ... o the poor condition of the facilities, the British Government commissioned | to design a prefabricated hospital, which could be built in England and sh ... |
| Bosley Crowther | In his review in the New York Times, | said the film "crackles with allusive life and fire in its tender and agon ... |
| Otto Neurath | ... ch as Bertrand Russell and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, | , and Moritz Schlick. Morris was greatly impressed with the logical positi ... |
| Jeremy Clarkson | ... a person who is well-meaning but absent-minded or ineffectual. For example, | often refers to Highways Agency Traffic Officers, who exasperate him as a ... |
| Bill O'Reilly | ... g break in Acapulco just a week after the dissemination of the email, while | devoted a segment of his show, The O'Reilly Factor, to urge students to st ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... Shepard gives the film much well-needed heft. He is the center of gravity". | wrote, "The movie has the happy, excited spirit of a fanfare, and it's ast ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... subscribe to the theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. | and Jonathan Ross seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andreas Vesalius | ... s (Pope Adrian VI), Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, | , Ferdinand Verbiest and Gerardus Mercator |
| Ptolemy | ... s included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... ucted. Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT (started by | in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997), the Trillium so ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... quentialist theories of utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and | , and deontological ethics as epitomized by the work of Immanuel Kant. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... ecurity of despots rests entirely on the loyalty and power of mercenaries”. | wrote how some form of ‘guard’ (viz. a personal army) is needed for absolu ... |
| Janet Maslin | ... mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film." | made the film an NYT Critics' Pick, calling it an “absolutely thrilling” f ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... n/Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and art, as well as stories by | |
| 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 ( ... |
| Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... ed by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846. It was named after | , signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. By 1850, Rusk reportedl ... |
| Galen | ... ribed by Celsus (ca 30 BC–38 AD), while loss of function was added later by | even though the attribution is disputed and the origination of the fifth s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Moore | ... taple "Take the Skinheads Bowling" was used as the title track for the 2002 | film Bowling for Columbine. A portion of the original Camper Van Beethoven ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristobulus I | 7. | , 104–103 BC |
| 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 ... |
| John Stow | ... d, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends | and William Camden. He also used his own observation, experience and wit, ... |
| Jack Telnack | ... design of the Taurus. It used a controversial new shape that chief designer | claimed was penned to make the Taurus stand out to sedan buyers, and liken ... |
| Rudolf Carnap | ... philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and members of the Vienna Circle like | , Otto Neurath, and Moritz Schlick. Morris was greatly impressed with the ... |
| Russell Page | ... e with an un-Brownian circuit walk in which Brown himself was not involved. | , who began his career in the Brownian landscape of Longleat but whose own ... |
| John Lennon | ... ublished in 2005; the book records similar sayings between Groucho Marx and | |
| Ferdinand Verbiest | ... , Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius, | and Gerardus Mercator |
| Philip French | ... or perhaps these things are the non-sequiturs and subconscious of dreams." | from The Observer sees it as an allusion to Hollywood tragedy, while Jane ... |
| Marcello Malpighi | ... was Francis Glisson (1597–1677) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor | (1628–1694) |
| James Blish | ... observed by mankind: Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. | 's Cities in Flight series of books (1955 and 1962) ends with the disrupti ... |
| James Atkinson | There have been a number of English translations, almost all abridged. | of the East India Company's medical service was the first to undertake a t ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... ted. This has resulted in various leaders speaking to midshipmen, including | , football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia |
| Peter Geach | | describes and rejects four levels of omnipotence. He also defines and defe ... |
| Alexander Jannaeus | 8. | , 103–76 BC |
| Aristotle | ... Bacon had received showed him the rare defects in existing academic debate. | was known only through translations, as none of the professors would learn ... |
| William of Ockham | ... rgne, Henry of Ghent, Albert Magnus, Thomas Acquinas, John Duns Scotus, and | |
| Rick Perry | ... The Department of Commerce was one of three departments that Texas governor | advocated eliminating during his 2012 presidential campaign, along with th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dennis Ritchie | ... e atomic layer at a time. In 1969, the UNIX operating system was created by | and Ken Thompson. From 1969 to 1971, Aaron Marcus, the first graphic desig ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kamui Fujiwara | ... Gangan. Emblem of Roto, by Chiaki Kawamata and Junji Koyanagi, with art by | , consists of twenty-one volumes published between 1991 and 1997. In 2004 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Al-Farabi | ... m translated into Arabic. Islamic philosophers such as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), | (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted ... |
| Peter Travers | ... ard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide." | from Rolling Stone Magazine praised the film and wrote: "Howard lays off t ... |
| Aristotle | ... d the profits made from his performances and rhetoric classes. According to | , his students included Isocrates. (Other students are named in later trad ... |
| Sergio Rinland | Argentine | designed the team's final cars around Judd engines, except for 1991 when Y ... |
| Earl Bellamy | ... ) until he left in 1971 to produce The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. | rounded out the series as director of the show's final year |
| 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 ... |
| John Harvey Kellogg | ... ten featured. The bathhouses followed the hydrotherapy regimen developed by | at his Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, which was very popular at the ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... t least to the 12th century, addressed by Averroës (1126–1198) and later by | . Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (before 532) has a predecessor version o ... |
| David Ansen | ... ilots to a mighty public relations enterprise". In his review for Newsweek, | wrote, "When The Right Stuff takes to the skies, it can't be compared with ... |
| Paracelsus | ... wed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and | later taught. At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to ... |
| Spencer Christian | ... New York, whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included | , Andrea Kirby, Judy Licht, Dick Wolfsie, and longtime Eyewitness News rep ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... s and maintained higher viewership levels for much of the 1960s, even after | took over CBS's competing program (initially named Walter Cronkite with th ... |
| Ptolemy | ... and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: | , iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. ... |
| Chiaki Kawamata | ... oshi no Daichi, were published in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Emblem of Roto, by | and Junji Koyanagi, with art by Kamui Fujiwara, consists of twenty-one vol ... |
| Theophrastus | ... totle, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica | ;, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works ... |
| Strabo | ... own contacts between China and the West around 200 BCE. The Greek historian | writes "they extended their empire even as far as the Seres (China) and th ... |
| Bruce Hoffman | ... ilitary command and their Criminal Investigation Division. Security analyst | has written that the "Hotel housed the nerve centre of British rule in Pal ... |
| Varro | ... ation between Aeneas and Dido. Servius in his commentary (4.682; 5.4) cites | (1st century BC ) for a version in which Dido's sister Anna killed herself ... |
| Syed Ahmed Khan | ... of rights if the Congress alone were to represent the people of India. Sir | launched a movement for Muslim regeneration that culminated in the foundin ... |
| Matthew Paris | ... g's election by the people. This story is only contained in the writings of | , however, and although it seems certain that Walter made a speech, it is ... |
| Carroll Shelby | ... of the giant poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride and the home of racing legend | . Pittsburg is also the birthplace of Cavenders Boot City |
| Dave Foley | ... cluding Bill Burr, David Cross, Louis C.K., Hannibal Buress, Mitch Hedberg, | , and Demetri Martin. In 2005, Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, e ... |
| Sharlene Wells Hawkes | ... rsonalities include award-winning ESPN sportscaster and former Miss America | '86 and former co-host of CBS's The Early Show Jane Clayson Johnson '90. I ... |
| Avicenna | ... er criticized by Persian Islamic philosophers such as Abu Rayhan Biruni and | in the early 11th century. Biruni in particular wrote a short Risala treat ... |
| Allan Pinkerton | ... d named the town Dundee in honor of his Scottish hometown. In 1843 Scotsman | , later the renowned detective, set up business as a cooper. The town was ... |
| Aristotle | ... eloped the whole of this material into the unity of a comprehensive system. | of Stagira, the most important disciple of Plato, shared with his teacher ... |
| Virgil Thomson | ... critics would argue, is used to make the exploration of oil look beautiful. | composed the music for the film |
| Alex Ross | ... ilharmonic has become an extremely progressive and well-regarded orchestra. | of The New Yorker said this |
| Steven Hassan | ... r in the West and was largely superseded by exit counseling. Exit counselor | promotes what he calls the "BITE" model in his book (2000). The BITE model ... |
| Al-Kindi | ... antiquity and had them translated into Arabic. Islamic philosophers such as | (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn ... |
| John Speed's | ... between Dorking and Leatherhead (most recently during the 1976 drought). In | 1611 map of Surrey this stretch of the river is denoted by a series of hil ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... ns was entirely at odds with the concept of heliocentrism. It was not until | observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, and the phases of Venus ... |
| Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | ... map to label the main stem as the Colorado was drawn by French cartographer | in 1743 |
| Tetsuya Mizuguchi | ... eam behind the Panzer Dragoon series. It was conceptualized and produced by | . His company, Q Entertainment released a high definition version, Rez HD ... |
| William Morris | ... MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – | – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love P ... |
| Project Chanology | Anti-Scientology protests by Anonymous, commonly known as | , are sometimes labeled as "trolling" by media such as Wired, and the part ... |
| G.E. Hutchinson | ... is termed the realized niche. The ecological niche has also been termed by | a "hypervolume." This term defines the multi-dimensional space of resource ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
| Manolo Blahnik | ... shion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers Jimmy Choo and | , and two Prada stores. The district also has banks that cater for rich in ... |
| Andreas Vesalius | ... ica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by | (1514–1564) |
| Adolphe Clément | ... starting L'Auto. He was supported by other wealthy anti-Dreyfusards such as | and Édouard Michelin. (They were also concerned with Le Vélo because its p ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he was not an existentialist and often criticized existentialist figurehead | . Although Ionesco knew Beckett and honored his work, the French group of ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ps the law of buoyancy, also known as Archimedes' Principle. The astronomer | wrote the Almagest, a comprehensive astronomical text that formed the basi ... |
| 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 ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... d domination per se, but he is a friend of Hastur and Cthulhu (based on the | Mythos characters). He was hired in September 2000 and he had formerly wor ... |
| Jack Williamson | ... eloped from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by | in a science-fiction story ("Collision Orbit") published during 1942 in As ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... f Rights, which was then included in a new constitution. Another Virginian, | , drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independe ... |
| Geoffrey Kirkland | ... tor in a Supporting Role (Sam Shepard), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( | , Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, Geo ... |
| Douglas Coupland | The eponymous heroine of | 's novel Girlfriend in a Coma is Karen Ann McNeil. She collapses after a p ... |
| Edwin Meese | ... e a nominee to fill Rehnquist's seat as associate justice. Attorney General | , who advised Reagan on the choice, only seriously considered Bork and Sca ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... rginia Beach that criticized Christian leaders, including Pat Robertson and | , as divisive conservatives, declaring "... we embrace the fine members of ... |
| Kenneth Tynan | ... se as the straight man, Braben inverted the relationship; as theatre critic | noted, Braben made Wise's character a comic who was not funny, while Morec ... |
| Patrick Whitefield | — | , How to make a forest garden p16 |
| Porphyry | ... balus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by | (On Abstinence 4:17) and Stobaeus (Eccles., iii, 56, 141). Clement of Alex ... |
| Jakob Meckel | ... the trench warfare of World War I. A German military advisor sent to Japan, | , had a tremendous impact on the development of the Japanese military trai ... |
| Kurt Schwitters | ... anese noise artist Masami Akita who himself was inspired by the Dada artist | 's Merz art project of psychological collage). In the late 1970s and early ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... too ambitious, facetious and hip for its own box-office good". Film critic | wrote, "I didn't find it hard to accept the uninflected, deadpan tone, and ... |
| 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 |
| Aristotle | ... posed, among the earliest recorded being those of Aristotle and Archimedes. | (384 BC−322 BC) remarked that as the distance decreases, the time needed t ... |
| Aristotle | ... out the necessity for more than one piece of evidence goes back at least to | 's Nicomachean Ethics: "For as one swallow or one day does not make a spri ... |
| E.A. Wallis Budge | ... as a result of the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund under the efforts of | . The collection stood at 57,000 objects by 1924. Active support by the Mu ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lady Anne Berry | ... isley is thus the society's oldest garden. Rosemoor came next, presented by | in 1988. Hyde Hall was given to the RHS in 1993 by its owners Dick and Hel ... |
| Galen | ... ndition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Plutarch and | . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 in a trea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Actaeon | ... the violent lover of the Divine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are | , Leucippus (son of Oenomaus), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover ... |
| Sukumar Azhikode | ... s home to prominent malayalam literary figures like Kovilan, Kunhunni Mash, | , K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Joseph (author), Attoor Ravi Varma, ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Sterritt | ... cussion and multiple interpretations. Christian Science Monitor film critic | spoke with Lynch after the film screened at Cannes and wrote that the dire ... |
| Tim Sweeney | ... me's name, one that had been in development for over three years in founder | 's garage before the game was released |
| Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
| Fabio Taglioni | ... planted on the soil, like Baracca's horse, but unlike Ferrari's cavallino. | used the cavallino rampante on his Ducati motorbikes, as Taglioni was born ... |
| Aristotle | ... been a disciple of Grosseteste. He became a master at Oxford, lecturing on | . There is no evidence he was ever awarded a doctorate — the title Doctor ... |
| Pei Xiu | ... reference for maps was not thoroughly described until the published work of | (224–271 CE), there is evidence that in the early 2nd century CE, cartogra ... |
| Ruy Barbosa | ... ea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, | of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sán ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to The Natural History of Pliny, by | (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor Tiberius had the cucumber on his ... |
| Lytton Strachey | ... ly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality. Keynes, together with writer | , had reshaped the Victorian attitudes of the influential Cambridge Apostl ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | Many people have criticized the golden rule | ;once said that "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules". Shaw ... |
| Margaret Singer | ... context thought reform was possible without violence or physical coercion. | , who also spent time studying the political brainwashing of Korean prison ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zhang Zhongjing | ... to heal an organ associated with the fire phase. To this end, the physician | (c. 150–c. 219 CE) prescribed regulated diets rich in certain foods that w ... |
| Humphry Repton | ... of a painter, and its design could not be divorced from that of the garden" | observed that Brown "fancied himself an architect", but Brown's work as an ... |
| Yuko Yamaguchi | ... different themed designs are released regularly, following current trends. | , the main designer for most of Hello Kitty's history, has said that she i ... |
| Hipparchus | ... ents survived. Although he wrote at least fourteen books, almost nothing of | ' direct work survived. Of the 150 reputed Aristotelian works, only 30 exi ... |
| Aristotle | ... was the author of De Differentiis, a detailed comparison between Plato and | s' conceptions of God. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced t ... |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | ... (also known as the Cauchy–Goursat theorem) in complex analysis, named after | , is an important statement about line integrals for holomorphic functions ... |
| Galen of Pergamon | ... the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to | , who lived in the 2nd century AD, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine a ... |
| Roger Ebert | Film critic and Urbana native | is a graduate of Urbana High School. During his senior year he was co-edit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n (it did so until 1925). The astronomical day had begun at noon ever since | chose to begin the days in his astronomical periods at noon. He chose noon ... |
| Aristotle | ... ith treason. According to the Constitution of the Athenians associated with | , he was later acquitted by bribing the jury. Anytus later won favor by pl ... |
| Robert Gibbs | ... dential candidate, James B. Hunt Jr., 4-term Governor of North Carolina and | , Former White House Press Secretary, are among the most notable alumni wi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Damon Knight | ... ded in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. | and Kate Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 th ... |
| Dionisio Anzilotti | ... elected on the 16th. On the first vote, Rafael Altamira y Crevea of Spain, | of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, Ruy Barbosa of Brazil, Yorozu ... |
| Douglas Coupland | ... g), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; "McJob", from by | ; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita ... |
| Len Berman | ... tions produced several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, | , Sean McDonough, and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and ... |
| Gerard Meijer | ... Eenhoorn and Renate Verbaan have all officially been Feyenoord ambassadors. | is the current ambassador, and was appointed 'ambassador for life' on 19 J ... |
| George Harrison | # "Something" ( | ) – 3:0 |
| Wolcott Gibbs | ... t Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author | , and almost the entire Astor family |
| Khaled Abou El Fadl | ... e EPA). Anthony Amsterdam (professor at New York University School of Law), | (professor of law at UCLA School of Law), and Curtis Reitz, the Algernon S ... |
| Ibn al-Faqih | ... es CE. The legendary founder of Balanjar, according to the Arab chroniclers | and Abu al-Fida, was named Balanjar ibn Japheth |
| Georg Cantor | The first of these was the invention of transfinite arithmetic by | and its subsequent rejection by a number of prominent mathematicians inclu ... |
| William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manuel Quimper | In 1790, | of the Spanish Navy set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancou ... |
| Leopold Kronecker | ... by a number of prominent mathematicians including most famously his teacher | — a confirmed finitist |
| René Descartes | ... nds occupy a different category of beings from physical objects. Some, like | , have thought that this is so (this view is known as dualism, and functio ... |
| Vincent Canby | ... out of a not very good private joke". In his review for the New York Times, | wrote that Buckaroo Banzai "may well turn out to be a pilot film for other ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | After 2005's | , Bass launched "uBid For Hurricane Relief", a celebrity auction to benefi ... |
| Giovanni Luppis | The first European prototypes of a self-propelled torpedo were created by | , an Austrian naval officer from Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia), a port cit ... |
| Tim Sweeney | ... ting and even a limited form of texture filtering referred to by programmer | as an ordered "texture coordinate space" dither. Early pre-release version ... |
| Gottlob Frege | The second of these was | 's effort to reduce all of mathematics to a logical formulation via set th ... |
| William of Ockham | However, some philosophers follow | in holding that necessity and possibility are defined with respect to a gi ... |
| Pat Summerall | ... time, was broadcast in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer | and color commentator Tom Brookshier. The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Cen ... |
| Pierre Desceliers | ... tman Abrolhos. This island is unlabelled on most of the Dieppe maps, but on | ' 1550 map, it is labelled Arenes. In 1895, George Collingridge suggested ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... and the Vulture - and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea. | claimed it as the arrow with which Apollo exterminated the |
| Mike Tirico | ... sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, Sean McDonough, and | . Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio broadcaster for Cle ... |
| Alain Colmerauer | The language was first conceived by a group around | in Marseille, France, in the early 1970s and the first Prolog system was d ... |
| Ortelius, Abraham | ... ish Militants - Order of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium - Ordinance (Belgium) - | - Ostend - Ostend Company - Oudenaarde - Oudenburg - Oudergem / Auderghem ... |
| Richard Courant | ... in the 1870s. For almost one hundred years thereafter, mathematicians like | viewed infinitesimals as being naive and vague or meaningless |
| Brooks Atkinson | Despite Robeson's lengthy theater career, | , The New York Times theater critic from 1925 to 1960, included just a one ... |
| Ken Thompson | ... e UNIX operating system (also developed at Bell Laboratories by Ritchie and | ). Additionally, the AWK programming language was designed and implemented ... |
| Rashi | On the verse, "Love your fellow as yourself," the classic commentator | quotes from Torat Kohanim, an early Midrashic text regarding the famous di ... |
| Erasistratus | ... ather he believed there was a vital force that powered the human body. Like | he believed a vital force was absorbed through the lungs from the air |
| Eros | ... Aphrodite, there was no issue, unless Virgil was serious when he said that | was their child. Later authors might explain this statement when they say ... |
| Pausanias | ... arried Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to | , Amythaon is the father of Bias and Melampus. Their mother was Idomene, d ... |
| G. Evelyn Hutchinson | The niche concept was popularized by the zoologist | in 1957. Hutchinson wanted to know why there are so many different types o ... |
| Matt Stone | ... terest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon Trey Parker and | 's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa. Bakshi enlisted a team of writer ... |
| Bruce Herschensohn | ... ted States Senate in 1992, but the nomination went to the more conservative | , and the election to the Democrat Barbara Boxer. Bono and Herschensohn be ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... nan Doyle. In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the | tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Sc ... |
| Tori Spelling | ... in the 2008 spin-off series, 90210 along with former costars Jennie Garth, | , Ann Gillespie, and Joe E. Tata |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... ists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as | challenged the possibilities of individual agency and the coherence of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dave Kehr | ... ccessful in the theaters that showed it and developed a worldwide audience. | of The Chicago Reader saw it as "marred by cut-rate techniques and a shape ... |
| Nico | ... eed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker. For this record | was included, who would occasionally sing lead with the band at the instig ... |
| Joseph Paxton | ... 's estate at Chiswick to set up an experimental garden; in 1823 it employed | there. From 1827 the society held fêtes at the Chiswick garden, and from 1 ... |
| Matteo Ricci | ... ubts have been cast on Polo’s claims). The famous Roman Catholic missionary | travelled from Nanjing to Beijing on the canal at the end of 16th century |
| William Camden | ... ring as Moule in Harrison's Description of Britain of 1577. The antiquarian | uses the Latinized form Molis in the 1586 edition of Britannia and Michael ... |
| David Ansen | ... an eye-opening performance, another tribute to Reiner's flair with actors." | provided one of the rare negative reviews of the film for Newsweek. He cri ... |
| Brian Kernighan | ... language was designed and implemented by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and | of Bell Laboratories |
| John Stuart Mill | ... quences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and | . Utilitarianism was described by Mill as "the greatest happiness principl ... |
| Phil Hellmuth | ... eries of Poker Main Event Championship. Moreover, professional poker player | said during the June 28, 2007, episode of Poker After Dark that Tobey has ... |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | ... r, associated with beryl and juniper. Its astrological symbol was listed by | |
| Rick Perry | ... er by renaming the Texas CAP wing's TX-352 Squadron for him. Texas Governor | cited Kittinger's work, as did the Texas state senate with a special resol ... |
| Norman Foster | British architect | designed Tower Two, also known as 200 Greenwich Street. The building's dis ... |
| Galen | ... ncient cultures. A pure vitalistic doctrine, however, can be traced back to | of the second century, a physician who became a surgeon for gladiators at ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Cronkite | The program's ratings slipped late in the decade as CBS's | gained fame for his coverage of the space program, a field in which neithe ... |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | ... of the largest urban parks in the United States. It was designed in 1891 by | , the designer of New York City's Central Park |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... l and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form. According to | , "What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the thea ... |
| Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sean McDonough | ... ed several alumni in sports broadcasting, including Bob Costas, Len Berman, | , and Mike Tirico. Larry Hryb an employee at Microsoft and former radio br ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to | (The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Ancient Greeks grew cucum ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Ashe | ... orce. Celebrities with homes here have included Alex Haley, Bill Cosby, and | . Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langs ... |
| John Bassett Moore | ... e Council and Assembly on the first ballot taken. The second ballot elected | of the United States, and the sixth Didrik Nyholm of Denmark and Max Huber ... |
| 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 |
| Aristotle | Category came into use with | 's essay Categories, in which he discussed univocal and equivocal terms, p ... |
| Jean Piaget | ... of Lisp optimized for educational use. This led him to learn of the work of | , Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These furt ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the sense of "ascendant" and "observation of the ascendant" is in use since | (Tetrabiblos 33, 75) |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... e Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1969, then under the direction of | ("father" of musique concrète), proved hugely influential. Jarre was intro ... |
| Leopold Kronecker | In mathematics, the Kronecker delta or Kronecker's delta, named after | , is a function of two variables, usually integers, which is 1 if they are ... |
| Trey Parker | ... or adults, an interest stirred by discussions involving a series based upon | and Matt Stone's video Christmas card, Jesus vs. Santa. Bakshi enlisted a ... |
| Jerzy Łoś | ... are precise, clear, and meaningful, building upon work by Edwin Hewitt and | . According to Jerome Keisler, "Robinson solved a three hundred year old p ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... recent comic books have featured Jeremiah Arkham. Inspired by the works of | , and in particular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, the asylu ... |
| Eric S. Raymond | The Cathedral and the Bazaar (abbreviated CatB) is an essay by | on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux ke ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... d by Taliesin Architect Anthony Puttnam, based loosely on a 1930s design by | , a world-renowned architect and Wisconsin native who was born in Richland ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, | , Parmigianino and Titian. The most remarkable of his works are Mercury an ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... mers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and | , cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer. Frederic Tudor o ... |
| Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
| Hilbert | ... century, known as Smale's problems. This list was compiled in the spirit of | 's famous list of problems produced in 1900. In fact, Smale's list contain ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... al governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. | states that Interview |
| Mark Twain | ... to shape an emerging nation's culture through its sense of the ridiculous. | was a great American satirist: his novel Huckleberry Finn is set in the an ... |
| Alex Haley | ... to maintain its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included | , Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Hen ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and | . He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ... |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | ... Avenue retains its name along the eastern border). The park was designed by | and Calvert Vaux. The park offers extensive walking tracks, two ice-skatin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dennis Ritchie | ... the Bell Laboratories as part of the personal computing revolution. In 1970 | developed the compiled C programming language as a replacement for the int ... |
| John Dewey | ... with the pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and especially | , pragmatic ethics holds that moral correctness evolves similarly to scien ... |
| Jimmy Choo | ... nternational fashion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers | and Manolo Blahnik, and two Prada stores. The district also has banks that ... |
| Seymour Papert | In 1968, he met | and learned of the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp optimized ... |
| Joseph Kerman | ... was offended by "disconcerting vulgarities". More recently the musicologist | described Tosca as a "shabby little shocker", while the composer Benjamin ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Esquivel | ... ral colors. This was because he had to get many of his shoes custom made by | , since his height & shoe size often made it problematic for Stiles to buy ... |
| Yuko Shimizu | ... acter merchandise around gift-giving occasions. Hello Kitty was designed by | and was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters in 1974. The charac ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... ed his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and very well-funded | . Romney ran as a successful entrepreneur and Washington outsider with a s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | | , who had read Kant closely and who also had some knowledge of Aristotle, ... |
| Brooks Atkinson | When the musical returned to New York in 1949, The New York Times reviewer | described Carousel as "a conspicuously superior musical play ... Carousel, ... |
| Max von Laue | ... ndergone acceleration and deceleration, thus differentiating the two cases. | argued in 1913 that since the traveling twin must be in two separate inert ... |
| Giambattista Vico | ... on the methodological approach of Hobbes include those of Locke , Spinoza , | (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). David Hume made what he considered ... |
| Jeremy Clarkson | ... rms "Little Englanders". His critical targets also include celebrity chefs, | , Vanessa Feltz and, especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous criti ... |
| Duns Scotus | ... ed him from wholly devoting himself to his religion. However, after reading | in 1872, he saw that the two did not necessarily conflict. He continued to ... |
| Mewelde Moore | ... leans Saints), J.P. Losman (Buffalo Bills), Anthony Cannon (Detroit Lions), | (Pittsburgh Steelers), Matt Forté (Chicago Bears), and Roydell Williams (T ... |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... Orbit 18 edited by Damon Knight. Robinson gave the novella in rough form to | to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in ... |
| Ivo Opstelten | In 2008, the VVD chose a new party chairman, | , the outgoing mayor of Rotterdam. Mark Rutte announced at the celebration ... |
| Aristotle | ... nics, but it is by no means certain that he would have recognized the term. | , writing a generation later refers several times to Antisthenes and his f ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | In the 16th century, scientist and artist | compared metabolism to a burning candle. In 1747, Dr. James Lind, a physic ... |
| Donald Knuth | In Introduction to MMIX, | proposed that this unit be called a large kilobyte (abbreviated KKB). Othe ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... , who had been forced out of the Louisiana Superdome for the 2005 season by | , were operating out of San Antonio, Texas, and had to play most of their ... |
| John Lennon | James is mentioned in The Beatles' song "For You Blue": while | plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), George Harrison says, "Elmore J ... |
| Marcius D. Raymond | ... art, was written in 1903 by the owner and publisher of the Tarrytown Argus, | |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... c attention. This culminated at the Cronkite's Universe talk show hosted by | in New York in 1981, where Leakey and Johanson held a fierce debate on liv ... |
| Boethius | ... iis of Martianus Capella, although the term "quadrivium" was not used until | early in the sixth century. As Proclus wrote |
| Markos Moulitsas | The Hill published an op-ed piece by | of the liberal blog Daily Kos titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls. The co ... |
| 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 ... |
| George L. Kelling | ... indows theory was first introduced by social scientists James Q. Wilson and | , in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which appeared in the March 19 ... |
| Carsten Niebuhr | ... known as someone knowledgeable on Islamic coins. He was later approached by | to identify the coins which he brought with him from his travels. But Reis ... |
| Max Bill | In 1953, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and | founded the Ulm School of Design, (German: Hochschule für Gestaltung - HfG ... |
| 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 ... |
| Soichiro Honda | ... not use Honda power. Senna had a special relationship with company founder | and was beloved in Japan, where he achieved a near mythic status. For the ... |
| Proclus | ... erm "quadrivium" was not used until Boethius early in the sixth century. As | wrote |
| Dick Cheney | ... ers. Its graduates include Lynne Cheney, wife of former U.S. Vice President | , and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken S ... |
| Averroes | ... text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and | ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics w ... |
| Saruman | ... ives the translation: "Uglúk to the cesspool, sha! the dungfilth; the great | -fool, skai!". However, in a note published in the journal Vinyar Tengwar, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen. Of the three divisions of rhetoric discussed by | in his Rhetoric (forensic, deliberative, and epideictic), the Encomium can ... |
| Pausanias | ... ng the common articles of female use; they could apparently open and close. | describes a tomb near Triteia in Achaia decorated with a 4th-century BC pa ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... or Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 91%, based on 22 reviews. | , a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars out o ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, | , Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. M ... |
| Burkert, Walter | ... rences==*Broad, William J. , New York : Penguin, 2006. ISBN 1-59-420081-5.* | , Greek Religion 1985.* Connelly, Joan Breton, , Princeton University Pres ... |
| Hyrcanus II | ... asmonean line, thought a new era of independence had come. When Phasael and | set out on an embassy to the Parthians, the Parthians instead captured the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by Plato and | is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. Heraclitus state ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... hly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. | points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Todd McFarlane | In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by | to write a single issue of Spawn, a popular title at the newly created Ima ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader | and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Naz ... |
| George L. Kelling | ... y was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists James Q. Wilson and | . Since then it has been subject to great debate both within the social sc ... |
| Roger Ebert | Reviews were generally favorable. Film critic | gave the film 3 stars (out of 4) stating "Much depends on exactly what Emm ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... iversity of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, | , Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, it ... |
| Pliny | ... (rather than topazios) wasn't really known about before the classical era. | says that Topazos is a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "to ... |
| Ian Callum | ... ractised in Dumfries from 1825 to 1828 in partnership with William Maxwell. | is eminent in the world of motor engineer |
| Edith Wharton | ... England perhaps London, circa 1890, we see a man pedaling a penny-farthing. | 's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) opens with a description of a perform ... |
| 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 ... |
| George William Russell | There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: | 's Deirdre (1902), William Butler Yeats' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deir ... |
| Tony Shaw | The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by | , had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording ... |
| Constantin Carathéodory | ... nos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), Nicholas Negroponte, | , Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis ... |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ... ng von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, | , Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Fri ... |
| John Stow | ... ore than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. | , the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a fi ... |
| Descartes | ... n, as we are in thought by the laws of logic." This position is advanced by | . It has the theological advantage of making God prior to the laws of logi ... |
| René Descartes | ... calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians as Isaac Barrow and | . Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calculus and integral ca ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... n recent cinematic history". It received acclaim from many critics, such as | of the Chicago Sun-Times, who had given negative or mixed reviews to most ... |
| John George Kemeny | In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science | became president of Dartmouth. Kemeny oversaw several major changes at the ... |
| Ruy Barbosa | ... t, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, | and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washingt ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... considered a personal hero), as well as Charles Stanley, Pat Robertson, and | , whose Liberty University dedicated its Jesse Helms School of Government ... |
| Hyrcanus II | ... us IV and Alexander, were in their adulthood also executed by their father. | had been held by the Parthians since 40 BCE. For four years, until 36 BCE, ... |
| Josephus | ... ortion of which has been lost. We are enabled thus to contrast Tacitus with | , who warped his narrative to do honour to Titus. In his allusions to the ... |
| Rob Pike | ... stems by Peter Fraser. A University of Toronto team consisting of Tom Duff, | , Hugh Redelmeier, and David Tilbrook implemented a version of QED that ru ... |
| Sir John Sinclair | ... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted by | in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ... |
| Wormtongue | ... As a consequence of eliminating the Battle of Bywater, Saruman is killed by | much earlier (at the beginning of the extended edition of ) and the palant ... |
| Terry Wogan | ... rision of the song, including the usual sardonic words from BBC commentator | ("a nicely understated performance there") |
| Hiroshi Okamura | This variant was proved by | in 1947 |
| Ptolemy | ... works of cosmology from Constantinople, including Aristotle's De caelo and | 's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad |
| Roh Moo-hyun | ... rch 12, 2007. As a part of "Defense Reform 2020," which was proposed by the | Administration, the ROK Navy is required to reform the organizations under ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fred Trueman | ... s the Smelly Photocopier Woman, BBC Radio cricket legends Henry Blofeld and | as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hact ... |
| Leopold Kronecker | ... ity of Stuttgart) and then in 1877 went to Berlin where he was a student of | , Karl Weierstraß, and Ernst Kummer |
| Damon Knight | ... ella On the North Pole of Pluto in 1980 in the anthology Orbit 18 edited by | . Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and ... |
| Harold Hobson | ... ormed the title role in at least six productions. His Othello was called by | of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing: ".. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... merica's elderly jazz and blues musicians, including musicians who survived | |
| John Eaves | ... ek films, The Next Generation and . Zimmerman collaborated with illustrator | for many designs. Zimmerman's approach to realizing a vision of the future ... |
| Kung Te-cheng | ... Kung, a 75th-generation descendant of Confucius, greeted his relative, Duke | , who was also a descendant of Confucius, after Kung Te-cheng had fled to ... |
| David Axelrod | Rahm Emanuel worked for the Daley campaign as a fundraiser, | as campaign strategist, William Daley as chief strategist, and as a campai ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... arth is a sphere ("round"), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, | (276 BCE – 194 BCE) accurately estimated its circumference. In contrast to ... |
| George L. Kelling | ... ng Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by | and a co-author Catharine Coles, is based on the article but develops the ... |
| Pestalozzi | ... ational reform. While tutoring in Switzerland, Herbart met and came to know | , the German educator involved with issues of reform in the schools. Resig ... |
| Zheng He | ... prominent in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as | , Lan Yu and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and ... |
| Maurice Sendak | ... ngdom, and the other in Hardy's birthplace, Harlem, Georgia, United States. | showed three identical Oliver Hardy figures as bakers preparing cakes for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yuri Averbakh | ... the Interzonal, and a draw would have ensured a share of fourth place with | , with qualification possible via a playoff |
| Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
| John Harrison | ... h the expectation that accurate clocks would eventually become commonplace, | showed that his method was the way of the future. However the board, to it ... |
| Pausanias | ... first man who dared to leap ashore when the Greek fleet touched the Troad, | recalled, quoting "the author of the epic called the Cypria". An oracle ha ... |
| Susa Young Gates | ... honri Young, best-selling novelist Orson Scott Card, women's right activist | , NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and Richard Whitehead Young, U.S. ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... Corporation when the warehouses started to be converted into luxury flats. | moved his News International printing and publishing works into Wapping in ... |
| Max Robertson | ... rn in Paris and travelled the world with her BBC sports commentator husband | |
| John von Neumann | ... the brain as essentially a digital computer in disguise, as for example in | 's 1958 book, The Computer and the Brain. Over the years, though, accumula ... |
| Aristotle | ... iphate, most of the Greek works of cosmology from Constantinople, including | 's De caelo and Ptolemy's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the Hous ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... il the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, | , and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a l ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rick Perry | ... slature. Williamson's old friend and former legislative colleague, Governor | , appointed him to the Texas Transportation Commission, of which he became ... |
| Isaac Newton | It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and | starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ... |
| Cyril Wecht | ... the coroner labeled the death "reserved," Smith hired forensic pathologist | to perform a second autopsy |
| Aristotle | ... e elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by Democritus. | (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of Plato, promoted the conc ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... ob Larson; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music "the new pornography"; and | ; and others within the conservative religious establishment, who consider ... |
| Antoine Predock | ... om, the I.D.E.A Space gallery, and classrooms, among other rooms. Architect | designed the building with input from professors and students |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... rical, political, or other. A number of these are referred to and quoted by | , including a speech on Hellenic unity, a funeral oration for Athenians fa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... committee of 30 Florentine citizens that comprised many artists, including | and Sandro Botticelli, to decide on an appropriate site for David. While n ... |
| Grace Hopper | ... s in high demand during the war and the funds ($50,000 or more according to | ) could have been used to build additional computer equipment |
| Alexander von Humboldt | ... county derived its name from Humboldt Bay, which in turn is named the after | , a famous German naturalist. The first recorded entry of Humboldt Bay by ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... accidentally transported back in time to the 15th century; there they meet | and, upon realising which age they are in, travel to Spain to try to stop ... |
| Kantian | ... taphysician he starts from what he terms the higher scepticism of the Hume- | sphere of thought, the beginnings of which he discerns in Locke's perplexi ... |
| Alan Turing | ... l offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). | considers |
| John Henry Wigmore | ... ternational Court of Justice as an advance in the science that we pursue?", | said that the creation of the Court "should have given every lawyer a thri ... |
| Dick Enberg | The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with | handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, John ... |
| Steve Jobs | Before long, OpenDoc was scrapped, with | noting that they "put a bullet through [OpenDoc's] head", and most of the ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ew York Times said Spacey was at his "wittiest and most agile" to date, and | of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | "High Tech" architecture moved forward as | continued his experiments in geodesic domes while the George Pompidou Cent ... |
| Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
| Joe Cornish | ... voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Buxton and | as Loonquawl and Phouchg |
| Norman Bel Geddes | ... sure for the Mark I was designed by futuristic American industrial designer | . Aiken considered the elaborate case to be a waste of resources, since co ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... Red" China), and active defense of human rights. These nominations included | , Chester Crocker, John Louis, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were ... |
| Gary Spivey | ... (The Star Hotel Bed and Breakfast) is still standing today and is owned by | . In 1897 the Aberdeen and West End Railroad merged with the Asheboro and ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
| Howard K. Smith | ... med Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, | , and Larry LeSueur. The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for wh ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... nd Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach. He has also translated a | play into English. He appeared on the programme on BBC Four in 2012 called ... |
| Martin Davis | ... , Putnam has contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with | he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability pro ... |
| Kurt Gödel | ... ist position and David Hilbert the formalist position — see van Heijenoort. | offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). ... |
| Janet Maslin | ... arcasm and blunt talk" and the way he imbued Lester with "genuine feeling". | in The New York Times said Spacey was at his "wittiest and most agile" to ... |
| Stephen Colbert | On July 21, 2008, | on The Colbert Report made a comment about John McCain making a campaign s ... |
| Saul Kripke | ... eory regarding the mind-body problem. In philosophy of language, along with | and others, he developed the causal theory of reference, and formulated an ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
| Kechris | ... analytic sets. For more details see descriptive set theory and the book by | , especially Exercise (27.2) on page 209, Definition (22.9) on page 169, a ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
| Jim Pankiw | ... utside of caucus, and eventually joined the Tories, and the scandal-plagued | was rejected when he applied for readmission to the Alliance caucus |
| Chiang Wei-kuo | ... ejiang, with the courtesy name of Jiànfēng (建豐). He had an adopted brother, | . "Ching" literally means "longitude" while "kuo" means "nation"; in his b ... |
| Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | ... inage (Briefe über das arabische Münzwesen)" were posthumously published by | . He did it very eagerly with the hope to find a suitable bread job in Dre ... |
| Georg Cantor | ... breaks down when dealing with infinite sets. In the late nineteenth century | , Gottlob Frege, Richard Dedekind and others rejected the view of Galileo ... |
| Ptolemy | ... d by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by | of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest. I ... |
| David Hilbert | ... wentieth century L. E. J. Brouwer represented the intuitionist position and | the formalist position — see van Heijenoort. Kurt Gödel offered opinions r ... |
| William Morris | ... rspersed with songs—may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by | , an important literary influence on Tolkien |
| Ptolemy | ... 4), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), | (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). The city was the capita ... |
| Rob Pike | Bruce Ellis did the code and | did the design. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, demonstrating ... |
| Mark Halperin | One such allegation of misleading balance came from | , political director of ABC News. He stated in an internal e-mail message ... |
| Lord Foster of Thames Bank | ... Deacon's were replaced with the flagship Thomas Deacon Academy, designed by | which opened in September 2007 |
| Bruce Sterling | ... . In the keynote address to a computer security conference on June 8, 2004, | described the city as the "Capone-Chicago of cyber fraud" |
| Shigeru Miyamoto | Game designer | considered Space Invaders a game that revolutionized the video game indust ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Day | ... or two presidents' wives: Mrs. Jefferson Davis and later Mary Todd Lincoln. | was also a native; he was well known later at Milton, North Carolina, as a ... |
| John Weever | ... well as its judgment and invention. He gives the author as Robert Langland. | (1631) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan (1652). Buchanan ... |
| Gottlob Frege | ... en dealing with infinite sets. In the late nineteenth century Georg Cantor, | , Richard Dedekind and others rejected the view of Galileo (which derived ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | It was independently developed by | and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinites ... |
| Lytton Strachey | ... r as an entirely sympathetic character and draws much characterisation from | 's biography of her in Eminent Victorians. It was adapted as a film of the ... |
| Ibn Khurradadhbih | ... re with 3 strings, sounded by a horse tail hair bow. The Persian geographer | (d. 911) of the 9th century, in his lexicographical discussion of instrume ... |
| Edward Drinker Cope | ... two skulls were assigned to the preexisting species Laelaps incrassatus by | in 1892, although the name Laelaps was preoccupied by a genus of mite and ... |
| Patrick Head | ... igned and badly executed modifications. The responsibility of this falls on | , culpable of omitted control" |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... PCF's leading theoretician Roger Garaudy and the pre-eminent existentialist | —this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of Marx's thought, and the ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though | and others were consulted, it was Michelangelo, only twenty-six years old, ... |
| Ron Ben-Yishai | ... Marranos of Portugal" the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) sent reporter | to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice. Afte ... |
| Bosley Crowther | ... ense, the picture is concerned with a social message on civic complacency." | , film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, "Slowly, thr ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and | (s. v.). The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome, situated at the p ... |
| Cato the Elder | ... have ridiculed his fondness for old words and phrases (in which he imitated | ) as an affectation, but this very affectation and his rhetorical exaggera ... |
| John Kobal | ... ir feud and dysfunctional family relationships, though in an interview with | , Fontaine stated categorically that the so-called rivalry was a pure hoax ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... retained by officials in Biloxi, Mississippi, to provide drinking water to | victims and to establish water remediation needed in the aftermath of the ... |
| Aristotle | ... mesis or representation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of | . Goethe defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his i ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... ury. While Rimsky-Korsakov's style was based on those of Glinka, Balakirev, | and Franz Liszt, he "transmitted this style directly to two generations of ... |
| Yuri Averbakh | ... Leningrad, Spassky shared 1st–3rd places on 11½/19, with Mark Taimanov and | , but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champion. Spassky then ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
| Jeff Grubb | ... blished an expanded edition, entitled the Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game. | designed both editions, and Steve Winter wrote both editions. Both use the ... |
| Galen | ... icine provides a complete system of medicine according to the principles of | (and Hippocrates) |
| Max von Laue | ... ause "any change of velocity, or any acceleration has an absolute meaning". | (1911, 1913) elaborated on Langevin's explanation. Using Minkowski's space ... |
| Igor Bondarevsky | ... iners, from the volatile attacker Alexander Tolush to the calmer strategist | . This proved the key to his resurgence. He won his first of two USSR Cham ... |
| Geoffrey Jellicoe | ... iam Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by | |
| 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 ... |
| William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
| John Zerzan | ... of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in | . For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea ... |
| Jay Cocks | Scorsese was interested in doing a "romantic piece". His friend, | gave him the Wharton novel in 1980, suggesting that this should be the rom ... |
| Carl Correns | Gregor Mendel's work was re-discovered by Hugo de Vries and | in 1900. News of this reached William Bateson in England, who reported on ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... us Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer | , s. v. |
| John Selden | ... ded between 1610–1612, (known as the Arts End) and again in 1634–1637. When | died in 1654, he left the Bodleian his large collection of books and manus ... |
| James Berardinelli | | of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: "D ... |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
| Project Chanology | In response to this, Anonymous formulated | |
| Pinkerton National Detective Agency | ... 884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the | |
| Steve Winter | ... he Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game. Jeff Grubb designed both editions, and | wrote both editions. Both use the same game system |
| Benjamin Latrobe | ... f Latrobe. Barnes named the town for his best friend and college classmate, | , who was a civil engineer for the B&O Railroad. (His father, Benjamin Hen ... |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | ... (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanist | (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John ... |
| Kant's | ... the Gymnasium for six years, and showed interest in philosophy, logic, and | work involving the nature of knowledge obtained from experience with reali ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... w of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder, the well-known writer friend of | . During 1792, both attended some of Kant's lectures at the University of ... |
| Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... l of Silvia as "enchanting." Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic | wrote "[The film] stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most parti ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... f the creator. The theory of art as form has its roots in the philosophy of | , and was developed in the early twentieth century by Roger Fry and Clive ... |
| Janet Maslin | ... more than an overbudgeted, double-length episode of the television series." | of The New York Times said: "Generations is predictably flabby and impenet ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... uld keep the celebrity guests to a minimum on Wandering Spirit, only having | as a vocalist on his cover of Bill Withers' "Use Me" and bassist Flea from ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
| David Laing | A complete memoir and a full notice of all his writings will be found in | 's edition of the Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie (1637–1662), Bann ... |
| 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 ... |
| Avicenna | ... gians: for example, Alhazen and al-Biruni were mutakallimiin; the physician | was a hafiz; the physician Ibn al-Nafis was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; ... |
| Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
| Tacitus | On the whole, antiquity looked favourably on Sallust as an historian. | speaks highly of him (Annals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate t ... |
| Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | ... ol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under | , a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt th ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... 7 Resnais participated with six other directors, including Chris Marker and | , in a collective work about the Vietnam war, (Far from Vietnam) |
| 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 ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), | (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... to fit into society and unhappy with the identities he creates for himself. | , in his book on existentialism Existentialism is a Humanism, quoted Dosto ... |
| Gilbert Seldes | ... Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, Conrad Aiken, and | thought it was the best poetry being written in the English language while ... |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | ... peration of the Stars: There are two different types of magic, according to | 's Apology, completely opposite of each other. The first is γοητεια, Goëti ... |
| Rei Hino | ... er series, but are usually considered as separate. Later, she co-stars with | in a special short story titled Rei and Minako's Girls School Battle |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his first | novel, A Study in Scarlet, on Mormon history, mentioning Young by name. Wh ... |
| Pliny | ... yrus the Great (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to | 's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... l organizations and academics, notably including its former Chief Economist | , who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treas ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... option. A number of other thinkers have since refined this idea, including | , Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Popper, Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred M ... |
| John Frederick Lewis | ... r, by Turner, Varley, Cotman, David Cox, Peter de Wint, William Henry Hunt, | , Myles Birket Foster, Frederick Walker, Thomas Collier and many others. I ... |
| Keith Olbermann | ... rie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, | , New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington P ... |
| Moshe ben Nahman Gerondi | ... e of the most important Kabbalistic schools in Europe. The Rabbi of Girona, | (better known as Nahmanides or Ramban) was appointed Great Rabbi of Catalo ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... e Baconian method was further developed and promoted by English philosopher | . His 1843 book, A System of Logic, was an effort to shed further light on ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barry E. Jackson | ... s crew included character layout and design artist Louise Zingarelli, Vita, | , and Marcia Adams. Bakshi again used rotoscoping, in an attempt to captur ... |
| Steven W. Taylor | ... es, but deadlocked on the issue of sentencing him to death. Presiding Judge | then determined the sentence of 161 consecutive life terms without the pos ... |
| Shaw | Like | and Brecht, Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical w ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... hem minor, by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, | , and Georges Seurat (some of which can now be seen at the Fitzwilliam Mus ... |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | ... , nature, and Germanic myths. The later German Romanticism of, for example, | 's Der Sandmann (The Sandman), 1817, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff's ... |
| William of Ockham | ... ed in long theological debates with other noted figures of the age, such as | and |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... eon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who Arthur Conan Doyle has credited | as being loosely based on from Bell's observant manner. Doyle's father, ar ... |
| Maximilien Robespierre | French deists also included | and Rousseau. For a short period of time during the French Revolution the ... |
| Martino Martini | ... rigin of this word. The traditional theory, proposed in the 17th century by | , is that "China" is derived from "Qin" , the westernmost of the Chinese k ... |
| François Castaing | ... e modern understanding of the term. Developed under the leadership of AMC's | and marketed to urban families as a substitute for a traditional car (and ... |
| Ptolemy | It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer | , although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apo ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... have labeled evacuation from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the wake of | the New Orleans diaspora, since a significant number of evacuees have not ... |
| White House Chief of Staff | Mayor Daley is brother to William M. Daley, former | and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinto ... |
| Frua | ... controls and dashboards for the Australian market, where RHD is mandatory. | also proposed a concept car based on the SM, a front-wheel-drive car that ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... erty, and over the next few years ABC approached, or was approached, by GE, | , Litton Industries, GTE and ITT. ABC and ITT agreed to a merger in late 1 ... |
| Johannes Schöner | ... Nuremberg to visit the professor of mathematics at the Eigidien Oberschule | . In Nuremberg he also made the acquaintance of other mathematicians such ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Moore | ... The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris incorporated stylized re-enactments, and | 's Roger & Me placed far more interpretive control with the director. The ... |
| Pomponius Mela | ... De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28 | ;, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer Step ... |
| Norman Foster | ... Terminal 3, the world's 2nd largest airport terminal, designed by architect | |
| Immanuel Kant | ... history. This thought influenced the political (and aesthetic) thinking of | , Edmund Burke and others and led to a critical review of modernist politi ... |
| William Reid | Sir | (b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie - d. October 31, 1858, London, England), go ... |
| Fritz Grobba | ... the Kingdom of Iraq was found to be connected to the German Ambassador, Dr. | , Ibn Saud provided Grobba with refuge. It was reported that he had been " ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... e owners of the bunker began leasing space in early 2005. The aftermaths of | and Hurricane Rita prompted many companies along the Gulf of Mexico to fin ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... possible before the construction of the levee system, did not flood during | . The choice of the star and crescent symbol is a relic of the krewes, man ... |
| Dragon Magazine | ... rrata and partial revisions were released in the pages of TSR's publication | in issue #122 "The Ultimate Addenda to the Ultimate Powers Book", issue #1 ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by | in the 18th century |
| 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 ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | ... h, Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached | to write the dialogue but Raymond Chandler took over, then left over disag ... |
| Hideo Kojima | ... deo game industry; he was never interested in video games before seeing it. | also described it as the first video game that impressed him and got him i ... |
| Ptolemy | ... one of the 48 Greek constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Brecht | Like Shaw and | , Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical writings (W ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... truvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, | , Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Giambattista Vico | ... universally-applicable cyclic model of history — notably in the writings of | |
| 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 ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder | in 1973. Replica kit cars enable enthusiasts to possess a vehicle of a typ ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ty with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and | . Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, focused on e ... |
| 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 ... |
| Grigori Rasputin | ... control over the country. Her notorious friendship with the Russian mystic, | , was also an important factor in her life |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Piaget | ... orals, usually going through stages of different morals. Lawrence Kohlberg, | , and Elliot Turiel have cognitive-developmental approaches to moral devel ... |
| Ibn al-Nafis | ... iruni were mutakallimiin; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz; the physician | was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theolog ... |
| Rick Upchurch | ... ing yards and 10 touchdowns. On special teams, multi-talented wide receiver | led the NFL with 653 punt return yards, while also catching 12 passes for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pestalozzi | ... his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, Buffon, Lavater, | and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish gentry and was intere ... |
| Aristotle | ... nce in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like Euclid and | , who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments around his con ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by | |
| Immanuel Kant | ... int" or teleology, an Aristotelian entelechy, a scientific demonstration of | 's notion that the organism develops as if it has a purposeful intelligenc ... |
| Kenneth Turan | ... unoriginal, but said their detailed characterizations made them memorable. | of the said the actors coped "faultlessly" with what were difficult roles; ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... d a political scandal. With glamorous costumes and sets, a musical score by | , and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the title-role, it was seen as Resnais's most ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nearchus | ... was referred to by the Greeks as "Tylos", the centre of pearl trading, when | discovered it while serving under Alexander the Great. From the 3rd centur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hipparchus | ... een developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apollonius of Perga and | of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second century BC, almost t ... |
| 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' ... |
| Aldo Novarese | ... be supremely readable, just in a style that was fashionable. One example is | 's 1971 typeface named Stop, which was used in various science fiction mov ... |
| George Harrison | ... 9 November 2002 to pay tribute to Clapton's life-long friend, former Beatle | |
| Roger Ebert | ... ence unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment". | called Bakshi's effort a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, oc ... |
| Bruce Hoffman | Security analyst | wrote of the bombing in his book Inside Terrorism that |
| Richard Stallman | ... rnel development was a controversial one. Some, notably GNU Project founder | , expressed concern about proprietary tools being used on a flagship free ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21 | ;, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also ... |
| Roger Grimsby | For sixteen years starting in 1970, | and Bill Beutel were the faces of Eyewitness News. Grimsby came to channel ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Muir | ... prepared at the ACLU's direction in response to the blacklisting of actress | , described the unfair and unethical actions behind the blacklisting proce ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Strabo | ... rs and historians, including Herodotus (ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), | (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy ( ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... An die Nachgeborenen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of | . Mikis Theodorakis composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and C ... |
| Zheng He | ... ared in the "The Nautical Charts of Zheng He" written on the expeditions of | (Cheng Ho) in Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Yongle Emperor. In 15 c ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
| Benjamin Robins | English military engineer and mathematician | (1707–1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did so ... |
| Jared Diamond | | describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced s ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... leased on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from | , though the offer was ultimately rejected |
| James Carville | ... hko, who was a Visiting Artist from 1956–1957. Currently on the faculty are | , Nick Spitzer, and Melissa Harris-Perry. Several football alumni play in ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | The species was first officially described by Swedish botanist | in 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been id ... |
| Geoffrey Bourne | Bigfoot proponents Grover Krantz and | believe that Bigfoot could be a relict population of Gigantopithecus. Bour ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... nguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')." | , "[r]egarded as the father of modern linguistics" |
| Tacitus | ... Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11 | ;, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by ... |
| William Kent | ... of extravagance: the Marlboroughs' tomb in the Blenheim chapel, designed by | ; and the Doric Column of Victory in the park designed by Henry Herbert, 9 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ncient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and | ) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christian world, providing ... |
| Carsten Niebuhr | ... was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of Lessing, | , and many foreign scholars |
| Salvatore Ferragamo | ... istoric 13th-century private palace, owned since the 1920s by shoe-designer | ; as well as various others, including the Palazzo Borghese, the Palazzo d ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... age and social respect, enables her to bluntly explain to Enola's brother, | , why his sister is determined to defy her brothers' wish for her to confo ... |
| Voin | ... tic family with a long line of military and naval service—his older brother | , 22 years his senior, became a well-known navigator and explorer |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... the devil, and the black man acknowledges that he is Old Scratch. In 1932, | also used the figure of The Black Man in his tale "The Dreams in the Witch ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Guillaume Durand | ... and the celebration of the Eucharist. The first attribution was this was in | 's thirteenth-century Rationale Divinorum Officiorum |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... asury Department, and US and other developed country trade negotiators. See | , The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Glob ... |
| Colin Chapman | It was designed by Lotus founder | and has been considered the embodiment of the Lotus philosophy of performa ... |
| Pytheas | ... irst writer to use a form of the name was the Greek explorer and geographer | in the 4th century BC. Pytheas referred to Prettanike or Brettaniai, a gro ... |
| Strabo | ... ope as a geographical term came in use by Ancient Greek geographers such as | to refer to part of Thrace below the Balkan mountains. Later, under the Ro ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carl Peter Thunberg | ... liliiflora, and Magnolia coco and Magnolia figo. Soon after that, in 1794, | collected and described Magnolia obovata from Japan and at roughly the sam ... |
| Donald Knuth | CWEB is a computer programming system created by | and Silvio Levy as a follow up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | Theologians, such as | , discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. In the Divine Comedy ... |
| Matteo Ricci | As late as 1595, the first Jesuit missionary to China, | , recorded that the Chinese say: "The earth is flat an |
| Winckelmann | ... ycurgus, Leocralca (1834) and Oratores Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and | , a critical edition of Plato (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance ... |
| 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 ... |
| Laura Schlessinger | ... dia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. | , and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves |
| 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 ... |
| Kurt Hahn | ... grave of Baden. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, Salem's Jewish founder, | , fled persecution and founded Gordonstoun School in Scotland. After two t ... |
| Mark Halperin | ... retary Scott McClellan, there are some who contend that this is evidence of | being correct instead of biased. In his book, McClellan admits to lying to ... |
| Salo Flohr | ... hine was unlikely—and is sometimes attributed to Alekhine's alcoholism. But | , who was helping Euwe during the match, thought over-confidence was more ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
| El Lissitzky | ... ollective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivist artist | , Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. Despite this echo of the Russian Civ ... |
| Boethius | ... re four roads meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to | or Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadriviu ... |
| Oliver North | ... to travel secretly between Cyprus and Lebanon and his appearance with Capt. | , however, meant that he was compromised when the Irangate scandal broke. ... |
| Michael Heseltine | ... irect steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence | setting up Defence Secretariat 19 "to explain to the public the facts abou ... |
| Karl Rove | ... finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to | and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that ... |
| China Miéville | ... it, that our mechanical and industrial age is one of frank decadence" (see | 's introduction to "At the Mountains of Madness", Modern Library Classics, ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... was sent to Berlin, where he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under | . He visited Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed ma ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... reviews from mainstream critics, the film scored a 59, based on 36 reviews. | wrote: "M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' is the work of a born filmmaker, able ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Cheselden | Hunter studied under | at Chelsea Hospital and Percival Pott at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. After ... |
| David Langford | ... en brilliantly", but that his prose sometimes seemed uneven and artificial. | cited Vance's "engaging speculation", but concluded that the protagonist " ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... isco area included the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, designed by | ; Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley; the San Francisco International Airp ... |
| 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 ... |
| Neville Brody | ... s. The group's logo, also inspired by the Lissitzky poster, was designed by | |
| Tacitus | ... hat sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of Sallust and | could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost classical. Thoug ... |
| Ernst Mach | ... based on reinforcement, punishment, and extinction. Following the ideas of | , Skinner rejected Thorndike's mediating structures required by "satisfact ... |
| Nagendra Kumar Singh | ... ts from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research under the leadership of | . The paper was published in an India |
| Brit Hume | ... Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, | , Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Coll ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants." | |
| Howard Zinn | ... New England ancestor). Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author | , whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio ... |
| Twain | ... s in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, | , and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina ... |
| Alison Stewart | Partial List | , Ira Glass, Mary Louise Kelly, Tony Co |
| Roger Ebert's | ... one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of Gene Siskel and | "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under development. There are ... |
| James Bamford | ... rol and turned back in the direction of Port Said. Investigative journalist | points out that Liberty had only four .50 caliber machine guns mounted on ... |
| Joseph Paxton | ... l and Thomas Leverton Donaldson) for a brick building in the rundbogenstil. | intervened, presenting his own design. Impressed by the low bid for the co ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große’s interpretation of | ’s Natural History |
| Vesalius, Andreas | ... rk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verlooy, Jan-Baptist - | - Veurne - Vieille Montagne - Vink, Karel - Visa requirements for Belgian ... |
| 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 ... |
| William James Henderson | ... the absence of a disruptive vibrato from his singing. The scholarly critic | wrote in The Sun newspaper, for example, that Caruso "has a pure tenor voi ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer. | presented a theoretical basis for technological utopianism and set out to ... |
| David Langford | Hugo-winning science fiction critic | observed in a column: "(…The Handmaid's Tale, won the very first Arthur C. ... |
| Edmond Albius | ... d proved financially unworkable and was not deployed commercially. In 1841, | , a 12-year-old slave who lived on the French island of Réunion in the Ind ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... TAC-TIX); Nash's fellow players at first called the game Nash. According to | , some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as J ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... rtress) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance. | was his guest at Vigevano, as was Bramante, who is ascribed with the tall ... |
| Teucer | ... om the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by | |
| Peter Travers | ... and is ranked #1 on Roger's movie list for 1990, along with Gene Siskel and | , the film is widely considered one of the director's greatest achievement ... |
| John Bassett Moore | ... rles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President. Weiss died the following year, and | resigned; Max Huber was elected Vice-President on 12 September 1928 to suc ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... , news executives, novelists and high government officials. Among them were | , David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core me ... |
| Giovanni Paolo Panini | ... m include Maerten van Heemskerck, Pirro Ligorio, Canaletto, Claude Lorrain, | , Hubert Robert, J.M.W. Turner and many others |
| Murray Rothbard | ... rices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages. | considered the federal reserve as a public cartel of private banks |
| René Descartes | ... led anatomical study resumed, combined with the theoretical speculations of | and those who followed him. Descartes, like Galen, thought of the nervous ... |
| Niklaus Wirth | ... . The compiler itself was largely inspired by the "Tiny Pascal" compiler in | 's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", one of the most influential ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Agee | ... there is the Huston look". The "Huston look" was also noted by screenwriter | , who adds that this "look proceeds from Huston's sense of what is natural ... |
| Michael Moore | In 2005, it was reported that Bradbury was upset with filmmaker | for using the title Fahrenheit 9/11, which is an allusion to Bradbury's Fa ... |
| Bobby Jindal | ... 2007, however, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Representative | , polled a plurality of 40 percent in Tensas Parish. The parish gave a plu ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... ional (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by | ). News International had built and clandestinely equipped a new printing ... |
| Aristobulus II | ... n, Hyrcanus II, had scarcely reigned three months when his younger brother, | , rose in rebellion, whereupon Hyrcanus advanced against him at the head o ... |
| Borislav Ivkov | ... passky won at Belgrade 1964 with an undefeated 13/17, ahead of Korchnoi and | . He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as Nikolai Krogius won |
| Aristotle | ... 0), or 'New Method', and was supposed to replace the methods put forward in | 's Organon. This method was influential upon the development of scientific ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Behaim | ... a representation of the Earth since ancient times in the west till that of | in 1492. Additionally it could well be a representation of the entire 'wor ... |
| Dionisio Anzilotti | ... Upper Silesia. This year saw another set of elections; on 6 December, with | elected President and Charles Andre Weiss elected Vice-President. Weiss di ... |
| David Brinkley | ... , novelists and high government officials. Among them were Walter Cronkite, | , Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of Edward ... |
| Aristotle | ... ovement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of Plato and | with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory) ... |
| Edith Wharton | ... he wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of | 's novel Ethan Frome (1911) |
| Masahisa Fujita | ... e field. Another important graduate and faculty member of the department is | . The core curriculum of this department was microeconomics, input-output ... |
| Stephen Schiff | Jagger told | in a 1992 Vanity Fair profile: "I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... t Britain resolved that lingering issue and the British departed the forts. | saw the nearby British imperial presence as a threat to republicanism in t ... |
| Mary Landrieu | He is the father of U.S. Senator | and of current New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu |
| Proclus | ... f the writer. The fragment of a polemical treatise against the Neoplatonist | is now assigned to Nicolaus, archbishop of Methone in Peloponnesus (ft. 12 ... |
| Aristotle | The terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after | 's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... , Pascali's Island, Without a Clue (as Dr. Watson alongside Michael Caine's | ), Suspect Zero, Bugsy (nominated for Best Supporting Actor), Sneakers, Da ... |
| Daryl Gates | After Webb's death, Chief | of the Los Angeles Police Department announced that badge number 714 — Web ... |
| Aristotle | ... nt, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of Plato, | and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via Numenius as w ... |
| George Hudson | ... e first Coventry-born footballer to be capped by England), Clarrie Bourton, | , Bobby Gould, Willie Carr, Ian St. John, Dion Dublin, Stuart Pearce, Gerr ... |
| Gervase of Tilbury | ... a Icon (eikon) "true image" dates back to the "Otia Imperialia" (iii 25) of | (fl. 1211), who says: "Est ergo Veronica pictura Domini vera. |
| Onofrio Panvinio | ... ing a famine at Rome under his pontificate. The erudite Italian Augustinian | (1529–1568), in his Epitome pontificum Romanorum (Venice, 1557), attribute ... |
| Spencer Christian | ... street appeared on the "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers," and weatherman | later visited the town. After the hoopla died down, Flora lost their bid t ... |
| Stephen Colbert | Costello appeared in | 's television special . In the program, he was eaten by a bear, but later ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... ists, including bossa nova originator Antonio Carlos Jobim & late Apple CEO | , Diana Ross received a Grammy Special Merit Lifetime Achievement Award on ... |
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| Buckminster Fuller | ... ean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to | , whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified som ... |
| Pauline Kael | Film critic | , wrote a gushing review of the film in The New Yorker: "The way Saturday ... |
| Ptolemy | The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in | (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th centu ... |
| Walter Christaller | ... rich von Thünen and runs through both Wilhelm Launhardt and Alfred Weber to | and August Lösch |
| René Descartes | ... as human beings feel it traces back to the 17th-century French philosopher, | , who argued that animals do not experience pain and suffering because the ... |
| Lamar Hunt | ... alled the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup after billionaire sports franchise owner | , five times beginning in 1915, and for the last time in 1926 |
| 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 ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... tar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by | , a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales |
| 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 ... |
| Lancelot Brown | ... is a relatively small park straddling the River Aln which was landscaped by | ("Capability Brown") and Thomas Call in the 18th century; it is known loca ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | In 1986, | 's News International built a new £80m printing and publishing works in th ... |
| Jim Cramer | Commentator | has expressed concern about short selling and started a petition calling f ... |
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| Alfred H. Thiessen | ... all measurements) are called Thiessen polygons after American meteorologist | . In condensed matter physics, such tessellations are also known as Wigner ... |
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| Damon Knight | ... professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by | under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the ... |
| Al-Farabi | ... ted upon by Islamic philosophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil | , Avicenna, and Averroes. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated ... |
| Gene Siskel | Film critic | , who listed this as one of his favorite movies, praised the film: "One mi ... |
| Mike Selinker | ... ne, called the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game. This version, written by | , was published in the late 1990s as a card-based version of the Marvel ro ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... works of theorists such as the Frankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and | ; anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others suc ... |
| Roger Ebert | According to | , on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. T ... |
| Dennis James | ... eturned for his third appearance as a referee during the second Lang fight. | appeared as the announcer for the Rocky-Thunderlips match, while LeRoy Nei ... |
| Friedrich Thiersch | ... years he was a private tutor. From 1824 to 1829 he studied at Munich under | ; at Göttingen, under Georg Ludolf Dissen; at Königsberg, under Christian ... |
| Horace Mann | ... State University, an institution founded by the renowned education reformer | . It was the first institution in the country to admit people regardless o ... |
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| Francisco de Miranda | ... n the Venezuelan War of Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo | , Simón Bolívar (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of A ... |
| Pinkerton National Detective Agency | ... dward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the | and is still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations ... |
| Maynard James Keenan | ... f-titled album in 1995, with a guest appearance from former Tool band-mate, | |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... rake drums, flower pots, gongs, and more. In Europe, during the late 1940s, | coined the term musique concrète to refer to the peculiar nature of sounds ... |
| Jean Bourgain | ... mathematicians who were or are now permanent professors at the IHÉS include | , Alain Connes, Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Os ... |
| Charles François Antoine Morren | ... local species of Melipona bee. It was not until 1837 that Belgian botanist | discovered this fact and pioneered a method of artificially pollinating th ... |
| Galen | The Roman physician | also argued for the importance of the brain, and theorized in some depth a ... |
| Jeffrey Sachs | | demanded that the entire African debt (approximately $200 billion) be forg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hipparchus | ... s responded to this phenomenon of precession once it had been discovered by | around 130 BC. Today, some read Ptolemy as dropping the concept of a fixed ... |
| Oswald Jacoby | The Jacoby rule, named after | , allows gammons and backgammons to count for their respective double and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Avicenna | ... Islamic philosophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, | , and Averroes. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy fro ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
| Sir William Hamilton | ... vement in logic was prompted by a current debate on quantification, between | who supported the theory of "quantification of the predicate", and Boole's ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n once it had been discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Today, some read | as dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is r ... |
| Lafcadio Hearn | ... dhist monk U Dhammaloka (?Laurence Carroll?) in Burma, Buddhist sympathiser | in Japan, the Hindu nun Sister Sanghamitta (Margaret Noble) and the Theoso ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terry Chimes | ... making the cut were Paul Simonon, who tried out as a vocalist, and drummer | . Nicky Headon drummed with the band for a week, then quit |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... at the Young Vic Theatre in London celebrating the work of German dramatist | , where a series of newly-translated versions of some of his short plays w ... |
| Leonard Maltin | ... e lead role), he felt Kilmer had given the best interpretation. Film critic | (who heavily criticized the dark tone contained in Batman Returns) complim ... |
| John von Neumann | ... nother 5 bits — and so it was 16-bits. Nevertheless the small word size led | to conclude the machine would be worthless |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Morton | ... Americans, which ABC said was a record for a news show. She cooperated with | in his telling of her life and her side of the Clinton affair in Monica's ... |
| John Stuart Mill | Victimless crimes are in the harm principle of | , "victimless" from a position that considers the individual as the sole s ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... passed by the U.S. Congress 1806–1808, during the second term of President | . Britain and France were engaged in a major war; the U.S. wanted to remai ... |
| Newton | Following the classical dynamics of | and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ... |
| Richard Stallman | ... ge of software, having started in 1984, the author having collaborated with | , pre-GNU |
| Averroes | ... sophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and | . Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramat ... |
| Averroes | ... plished man who wrote a good Arabic style and who protected the philosopher | . His title of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... e Frogs, later updated to a modern version by Burt Shevelove (libretto) and | (music and lyrics) ("The time is the present. The place is ancient Greece. ... |
| Carsten Niebuhr | ... instability in the period led to a demographic collapse - German geographer | found in 1763 that Bahrain's 360 towns and villages had, through warfare a ... |
| Johann Heinrich von Thünen | ... ists to location theory. The early German hegemony more or less starts with | and runs through both Wilhelm Launhardt and Alfred Weber to Walter Christa ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Prize-winning economist | has also argued that the Act helped to create the crisis. An article in th ... |
| Strabo | ... eek navigators from the 6th century BC. They are provisionally described by | as a mixed race of Celts and Illyrians, who used Celtic weapons, tattooed ... |
| Pausanias | The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that | saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there dur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hyrcanus II | ... 76–67 BCE. She was the only regnant Jewish Queen. During her reign, her son | held the office of High Priest and was named her successor |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of | , when primitivism emerged it was influenced more directly by the works of ... |
| Euler | Following the classical dynamics of Newton and | , the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally ap ... |
| Peter Molyneux | Lionhead Studios is a British video game developer, formerly led by | . It was acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. Lionhead starte ... |
| Pausanias | ... pire it was quite obscured by the restored cities of Corinth and Patrae; in | ' age (A.D. 150) it was almost desolate. In Byzantine times it became a bi ... |
| Chrysippus | The Stoic | said that a single uncaused cause could destroy the universe (cosmos) |
| Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
| 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 ... |
| Lyndsay | ... ces of Middle Scots literature. It contains many works by Henryson, Dunbar, | , Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie |
| 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 ... |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | ... In the hands of Camillo Golgi, and especially of the Spanish neuroanatomist | , the new stain revealed hundreds of distinct types of neurons, each with ... |
| Maurice Wilkes | ... arts of the matrix to implement different instructions. The design inspired | to develop the concept of microprogramming |
| 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 ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... ments despite his claiming that his philosophical views ignore metaphysics. | criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre for projecting ... |
| Ben Lilly | ... dden commissioned Dunton to paint a full-length portrait of big-game hunter | . The portrait was exhibited by the National Academy of Design before bein ... |
| 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 |
| Mark Wallace | ... ns of dollars in revenue and spending using SWIFT, but not from using IVTS. | , president of UANI, praised the Senate Banking Committee |
| James Cook | ... English word "taboo" derives from this later meaning and dates from Captain | 's visit to Tonga in 1777 |
| Pauline Kael | ... ll called Khan the "greatest role of Montalbán's career". New Yorker critic | said Montalbán's performance as Khan "was the only validation he has ever ... |
| Thomas Browne | The English physician Sir | (1605–82) was one of the earliest scientists to adhere to the scientific e ... |
| Saruman | ... ce over it. According to Gandalf, it is beyond the skill of both Sauron and | to create the palantíri and that Sauron cannot make the palantíri "lie", o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry Beck | ... ast Finchley just south of the junction with the North Circular Road today. | , an engineering draftsman who created the present London Underground Tube ... |
| 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 ... |
| Galen | ... ology, such as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from | to Harvey. The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th cen ... |
| Bill Kaulitz | ... not limited to American artists alone with some people like German popstar | of the pop-rock band Tokio Hotel. In Asia, idols range from Japanese pop m ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... me authors identify the old settlement of Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by | , or with Flaviobriga, by Ptolemy. There are also ancient walls, discovere ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... d admit that they were, in fact, "bored with an exhausted Hollywood genre." | , he notes, was willing to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus apprec ... |
| Jacques Dubois | ... moved in 1533. Here he studied the theories of Galen under the auspices of | (Jacobus Sylvius) and Jean Fernel. It was during this time that he develop ... |
| Robert Froriep | ... 39 to 1843 on a scholarship. When he graduated in 1843, he went to serve as | 's assistant at the Charité Hospital. The campus where this hospital is lo ... |
| Billy Name | ... tal Lightyears Tracery for all performances since 1965), Angus MacLise, and | . In 1964 the ensemble comprised Young and Zazeela; John Cale and Tony Con ... |
| Norman Solomon | ... ost critiques combine elements of both strains. Journalist and media critic | reflects in Columbus Day: A Clash of Myth and History that many people cho ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... ons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed in part because he is "a big | fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" ("Pirate Je ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... hed, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released | , a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ... |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | While other notable people include Sir | Famous Engineer of the Industrial Revolution, was born in Portsmouth., Sir ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by Pliny the Elder, or with Flaviobriga, by | . There are also ancient walls, discovered below the Church of San Antón, ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... es of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. Ernest Renan and | are often thought to be early liberal nationalists. Liberal nationalists o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Billington | ... vourable notices. "If this is not great acting I don't know what is", wrote | in The Guardian. "It will astonish me if the performance is matched by any ... |
| Galen | ... niversity of Paris, where he moved in 1533. Here he studied the theories of | under the auspices of Jacques Dubois (Jacobus Sylvius) and Jean Fernel. It ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | The symbol may be used in less traditional ways. After | many New Orleanians of varying ages and backgrounds were tattooed with "on ... |
| Varro | ... was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to Numa Pompilius. | states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), who had ... |
| Alexander Jannaeus | ... t between them became wider when Pharisees demanded that the Hasmonean king | choose between being king and being High Priest. In response, the king ope ... |
| Carl-Gustaf Rossby | ... t calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for | and the SMHI meteorological agency, statistics for the telecommunications ... |
| Verlooy, Jan-Baptist | ... aeren - Verhofstadt, Dirk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - | - Vesalius, Andreas - Veurne - Vieille Montagne - Vink, Karel - Visa requi ... |
| O.W. Wilson | ... oduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers. | , a student of Vollmer, helped reduce corruption and introduce professiona ... |
| Martin Gardner | Not all accusations of bias are political. Science writer | has accused the entertainment media of anti-science bias. He claims that t ... |
| Howard Zinn | ... in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist | , who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activis ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians | and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supé ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... in notable classical and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, | and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of self-management, incl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry Reasoner | ... irst with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, | . He began making increasingly conservative commentaries, in particular ad ... |
| Camillo Golgi | ... bers, in which it is impossible to determine any structure. In the hands of | , and especially of the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the ... |
| Hayao Miyazaki | ... the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which ultimately went to | 's film, Spirited Away, which was also distributed by Walt Disney Pictures ... |
| 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 ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | In 1738 | published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of ga ... |
| William Gray | ... und." Mahlman did, however, admit that Lindzen was a "formidable opponent." | of Colorado State University basically agreed with Lindzen, describing him ... |
| Aaron | ... of whom came from the priestly descent of Amram, the father of the prophet | . The fact that, of all the priests, it was Zechariah who was given the du ... |
| John Zerzan | ... n responsibility and freedom brought by division of labour. Authors such as | and Derrick Jensen consider that modern technology is progressively depriv ... |
| J.D. Michaelis | ... n of the university and suffered from the hostility of men like Ruhnken and | , he was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of Les ... |
| Charles Osborne | ... ent", but still hails the work as "a triumph of pure theatre". Music critic | ascribes Toscas immense popularity with audiences to the taut effectivenes ... |
| Mike Shinoda | ... sful audition with Linkin Park, who were then called "Xero". Bennington and | , the band’s other vocalist, made significant progress together, but faile ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | In April 1945, | asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Chur ... |
| Al-Farabi | ... rther developed, most noticeably by Avicenna and his opponents. Al-Razi and | had provided methodology and knowledge in medicine and philosophy. Avicenn ... |
| Richard Roeper | ... ifah appeared in a romantic comedy/drama entitled Last Holiday. Film critic | stated that "this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for e ... |
| Saruman | ... ly, every character who attempted to look through a palantír was deceived-- | looked through the Orthanc stone, and saw what he thought was an unassaila ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | | might have consulted with a native speaker of Hawaiian in Berlin, Germany, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Rashi | ... d Chasidus). He is especially renowned for his insights on, and analysis of | 's Torah commentary. In halachic matters, he normally deferred to members ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gene Siskel | ... mob movie ever" and is ranked #1 on Roger's movie list for 1990, along with | and Peter Travers, the film is widely considered one of the director's gre ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... s of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were | (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1 ... |
| 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 |
| Christopher Null | ... s costume was specifically designed to display Montalbán's physique. Critic | called Khan the "greatest role of Montalbán's career". New Yorker critic P ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... en, gave a wooden performance as Bruce Wayne. Other critics though, such as | , had kind words for Kilmer. Batman creator Bob Kane said in a Cinescape i ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... he Age to remain competitive. By the 1980s a new competitor had appeared in | 's national daily The Australian. In 1999 David Syme and Co. became The Ag ... |
| Masaki Kajishima | , is a Japanese anime, light novel, and manga series created by | and Hiroki Hayashi |
| William Ernest Henley | | is known to most people by virtue of this single poem |
| Matthew Flinders | The strait was named after George Bass after he and | passed through it while circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land (now named Tasm ... |
| Cato the Elder | ... sea cabbage and wild cabbage, it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans | ;praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "It i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joel Fuhrman | ... ounts of food, the health of such methods is questionable, according to Dr. | . A true fast, he contends, consists of an intake solely of water, and can ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles François Antoine Morren | In 1836, botanist | was drinking coffee on a patio in Papantla (in Veracruz, Mexico) and notic ... |
| Ptolemy | ... an anciently recognized constellation, catalogued along with many others in | 's Almagest, but not historically referred to as a zodiac constellation |
| 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. ... |
| Alexander Jannaeus | ... elp it retain water). Coins found within this plaster date from the time of | (104—76 BC), while a separate collection of coins, dating from the time of ... |
| Mondino de Liuzzi | ... n to stir up more controversy, this time disproving not just Galen but also | and even Aristotle; all three had made assumptions about the functions and ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... ween those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as Anatole France, | and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards) ... |
| Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
| Dicaearchus | ... the words of Cicero), was ascribed to Aristoxenus (fr. 118-121 Wehrli) and | . This theory is comparable to the one offered by Simmias in Plato's Phaed ... |
| Kunio Okawara | ... into three movies. The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and | was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the titular giant ro ... |
| Rudolf Steiner | ... only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing." | , who collaborated in a complete edition of Arthur Schopenhauer's work, wr ... |
| Ron Powers | Pulitzer Prize winner | states in his Twain biography (Mark Twain: A Life) that "Huckleberry Finn ... |
| 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, ... |
| Joanna Russ | ... his sort were written in the 1970s; the most often studied examples include | 's The Female Man and Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World an ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, | , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
| 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 ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... s of making the notation more concise. A standard convention, instigated by | in the 18th century, is to use lower case letters from the beginning of th ... |
| Joel Fuhrman | ... nic fasting helps eliminate hypertension. Natural Hygienist doctors such as | continue to use this method |
| Leonhard Euler | ... sis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £300 to | for his (assumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to Richard D ... |
| William Ernest Henley | "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet | (1849–1903) |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
| Paul Mauser | ... r's weapon, and thus the Enfield is nowadays overshadowed by derivatives of | 's design as a target shooting arm. They did, however, continue to be used ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | McCarthyism declined in late 1954 after television journalist | and others publicly chastised McCarthy. The controversies over the Bill of ... |
| Aristotle | ... sy, this time disproving not just Galen but also Mondino de Liuzzi and even | ; all three had made assumptions about the functions and structure of the ... |
| Robert Opron | ... futuristic car was required'. Designed in-house by Citroën's chief designer | , the SM bears a vague family resemblance to the DS, especially in retaini ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hegelian | ... rancis Fukuyama argued that the world had reached the 'end of history' in a | sense |
| Eric Sevareid | ... ore members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, | , Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. The founding di ... |
| René Descartes | Influenced both by Galileo's new physics and Bacon, | argued soon after that mathematics and geometry provided a model of how sc ... |
| Grigori Rasputin | ... xandra increasingly turned to mystics and so-called holy men. One of these, | , appeared to have a cure for her son |
| John M. Wallace | ... two-dimensional (2-D) numerical model that had been developed by Holton and | . They showed that the QBO could be driven by vertically propagating gravi ... |
| Zuse | ... ame an expert about the first computers of the University of Ljubljana, the | Z-23 and its successor the IBM 1130. Later on he participated in the devel ... |
| Lindsay Anderson | ... fter some initial reluctance. The march was the subject of a documentary by | , . Thereafter, CND organised annual Easter marches starting at Aldermasto ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... tural movement, mainly through the public prominence of two French writers, | and Albert Camus, who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read jou ... |
| Pursh | Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva | ) is a small, low plant with a pink to white flower. It is the state flowe ... |
| Andrew Jackson Downing | During the early 1850s, architect and horticulturist | designed a landscape plan for the Mall. Over the next half century, federa ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... ank later claimed that the extermination of Jews was entirely controlled by | and the SS and that he, Frank, was unaware of the extermination camps in t ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | The county was severely damaged from | on August 28–29, 2005, causing catastrophic effects |
| Philoctetes | ... illed a relative of his stepmother Eriopis. In the Trojan War, he took over | ' army after Philoctetes was bitten by a snake and left on Lemnos because ... |
| Matteo Ricci | ... d by the overland route. By c. 1600, the Jesuits stationed in China, led by | , were pretty sure that it was, but others were not convinced yet. To chec ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | Even with the difficulties of the quota system | formed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mill | ... as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by | and Sidgwick. Since then, the term has become common in English-language e ... |
| Stephen A. Kent | ... nwashing the child to make sex abuse accusations against the other parent". | analyzes and summarizes the use of the brainwashing meme by non-sociologis ... |
| Daniel Moynihan | ... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senator | and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ... |
| Thomas E. Kurtz | ... IC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and | |
| E. F. Schumacher | Distributism is known to have had an influence on the economist | , a convert to Catholicism |
| 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 ... |
| Ibn Battuta | ... kingdom had converted to Islam. Marco Polo visited the island in 1292, and | visited twice during 1345–1346. Samudra was succeeded by the powerful Aceh ... |
| John G. Kemeny | ... from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors | and Thomas E. Kurtz |
| Avicenna | ... dence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as | and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued Aristotle's tradition of anal ... |
| Louis Comfort Tiffany | ... from lead came and copper foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of | |
| Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
| Steve Jobs | ... as the object of much speculation and hype after segments of a book quoting | and other notable IT visionaries espousing its society-revolutionizing pot ... |
| Torsten Hägerstrand | ... etition ; François Perroux's (1950) Economic Spaces: Theory and Application | ;'s (1953) Innovationsförloppet ur Korologisk Synpunkt; Edgar S. Dunn's (1 ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... s another factor. The 1930s also featured the arrival of renowned architect | . In 1938 he came to Lakeland at the request of Florida Southern College P ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779, | wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... n be produced by the free market. This differs from the version proposed by | , where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved i ... |
| Tacitus | ... on Lapponicum as "Fenn". The first known historical mention of Fenni was by | , about 98 CE. The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came ... |
| Vilna Gaon | ... dently to a same individual with both different qualities. The 18th-century | , for instance, while the head of Rabbinic opposition to the new Jewish my ... |
| Tory Christman | ... sgroup by Scientology management and staff; former Scientology staff member | has spoken at length about her involvement in these attacks. Lawyers repre ... |
| Galen | ... y these topics had been taught primarily from reading classic texts, mainly | , followed by an animal dissection by a barber-surgeon whose work was dire ... |
| Theophrastus | ... aped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated | as the next head of the Peripatetic school, a position which Aristoxenus h ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... rted the theory of "quantification of the predicate", and Boole's supporter | who advanced a version of De Morgan duality, as it is now called. Boole's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | In 2005, the county was the scene of the final landfall of the eye of | , and its communities and infrastructure suffered some of the most intense ... |
| Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi | ... reasoning are obligatory upon Jew and Gentile alike. The 14th century Rabbi | added the commandment of charity |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Evans | ... sulfur dioxide in 1784. Michael Faraday liquefied ammonia to cause cooling, | designed the first closed circuit refrigeration machine in 1805, Jacob Per ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met | , who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following t ... |
| Ibn Battuta | ... ulers encouraged. But even in the 14th century, the North African traveller | visiting Qatif around 1331, found it inhabited by Arabs whom he described ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | ... trical release and split into three movies. The characters were designed by | , and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... g, feeling human being incarnate — embodied — in a concrete world. Although | adopted the term "existentialism" for his own philosophy in the 1940s, Mar ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ecommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. Again, some critics of | see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dave Foley | ... arland Williams, Shaun Majumder, Tom Green, Jeremy Hotz, Angelo Tsarouchas, | , Jon Dore, Jay Sankey and Brent Butt all began doing stand-up at comedy c ... |
| Piet Hein | The game was invented by the Danish mathematician | , who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independen ... |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... ng at the State Department at the personal invitation of Secretary of State | , to wide acclaim. Most recently, the Morgan State University Choir perfor ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | After | , the head of Fox Studios and an Australian, saw the new Fox studios were ... |
| Stu Nahan | ... ion to the main cast several others had cameo appearances. Bill Baldwin and | returned as the fight commentators for the two Rocky-Lang fights. Veteran ... |
| Gordon Murray | ... ost fertile period of technical innovation came in the 1970s and 1980s when | became technical director. During 1976, the team introduced "carbon-carbon ... |
| Sheridan Morley | ... onstage, whispering "Come on, John darling, they won't boo me." Biographer | writes that while Gielgud never denied being homosexual, he always tried t ... |
| Brian Moore | ... tand, to be named the Brian Moore Stand after television sports commentator | , who was a well-known Gills fan, but the club's financial situation has n ... |
| Selena | ... inent guests included Shakira, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, | , Celia Cruz, Thalía, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesia ... |
| William Morris | ... ious materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. | opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills w ... |
| Pausanias | ... reds of votive statues remained, described by Pliny the Younger and seen by | |
| Haskell B. Curry | ... he untyped lambda calculus is called the Y combinator. It was discovered by | , and is defined as |
| Pausanias | ... erritory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia. The king-list given by | comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus. T ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with Eratosthenes' method. | (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught theologian of the Middle ... |
| Alfred North Whitehead | ... s: materialism (August Weismann), vitalism (Hans Driesch), and organicism ( | ). Sheldrake describes his own hypothesis as fitting within the third trad ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... ate 1950s and early 1960s following the "cognitive revolution" initiated by | 's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally. The origins ... |
| Alfred Wegener | ... eacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, meteorologist | , architect Michael Ventris, physicist Rainer Kühne |
| William F. Albright | ... the scanty evidence scholars vary widely on what kind of a god Melqart was. | in Archaeology and the Religion of Israel (Baltimore, 1953; pp. 81, 196) s ... |
| Ernő Goldfinger | ... cluding the book's eponymous villain, who was named after British architect | . Upon learning of the use of his name, Goldfinger threatened to sue over ... |
| Aristotle | ... Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued | 's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing commentaries on Aristotle ... |
| Will Shortz | ... stlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington, and | . Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in Kill Bill Vo ... |
| Averroes | ... the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and | , continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing comm ... |
| Marc Chagall | ... he following year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and | ) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspi ... |
| Otis Ferguson | The New Republic critic | wrote two short articles for the magazine, "Young Man with a Horn" (July 2 ... |
| Walter Christaller | Topically speaking, regional science took off in the wake of | 's book Die Zentralen Orte in Sűddeutschland (Verlag von Gustav Fischer, J ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... trian School economist, libertarian theorist and anarcho-capitalist founder | |
| 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 ... |
| Saruman | ... s Treebeard to carry them toward Isengard, because that is the "last place" | would look for them. When Treebeard gets close to the forest's edge, he se ... |
| Boethius | ... h century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred with his translation of | |
| Nicholas de Jongh | ... e 'Gielgud case' of 1953, above, was dramatised by critic turned playwright | in the play Plague Over England and performed at the Finborough, a small L ... |
| Henry Blofeld | ... Miriam Margolyes as the Smelly Photocopier Woman, BBC Radio cricket legends | and Fred Trueman as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie ... |
| Aristotle | ... us of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a pupil of | , whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies. According ... |
| Aristotle | ( , trans. Colburn) | also found cause to quote him |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Cesare Borgia briefly employed | as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503. Cesare and Leona ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Harrison Salisbury, several of the core members of | 's famed Murrow's Boys: Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hot ... |
| 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 ... |
| Proclus | ... of the Goddess from the Parthenon, a beautiful woman appeared in a dream to | , a devotee of Athena, and announced that the "Athenian Lady" wished to dw ... |
| 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 ... |
| Flohr | ... (1926), Capablanca (1931), and Spielmann (1935); and Euwe drew a match with | in 1932. His playing strength gradually increased, so that by 1932 he and ... |
| Gary Dornhoefer | ... son and the Flyers recorded their first winning season. An overtime goal by | in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota N ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... and refined by a number of writers, beginning with. William Stanley Jevons. | had worked on the logic of relations, and Charles Sanders Peirce integrate ... |
| 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 ... |
| William F. Albright | ... am was succeeded by his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. | has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. R. Thiele, following H. J. C ... |
| Borislav Ivkov | ... h Tal, Vasily Smyslov, and Bent Larsen, on 17/23, with all four, along with | and Lajos Portisch, thus qualifying for the newly created Candidates' Matc ... |
| Aristotle | ... enes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher | (384-322 BC), whose mentor was Plato, dates from the period of transition ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ), the many jousting scenes and the thin plot. However, notable film critic | gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that "Some will sa ... |
| Kant | ... erritorial morality aims at rules which are universal and absolute, such as | ’s ‘categorical imperative’ and Geisler's graded absolutism. Green relates ... |
| John Zerzan | ... of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in | . For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea ... |
| Julian Hatcher | ... lowback than as an adhesion-locked breech action. Some authorities, such as | , felt the Blish Lock as employed in the submachine gun did not accomplish ... |
| Giordano Bruno | ... cis Walsingham. In the same year, he made a visit to Oxford University with | , who subsequently dedicated two books to Sidney |
| Felix Kersten | ... ved a long-standing feud between Bernadotte and Himmler's personal masseur, | , who had played some role in facilitating Bernadotte's access to Himmler, ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... the earliest Christian scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with | ' method. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught ... |
| Jo Moore | ... ansport, was forced to resign because of the actions of his special adviser | , who instructed a departmental civil servant, Martin Sixsmith, that Septe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Anaximander | ... mentioned as his instructors Creophylus, Hermodamas of Samos, Bias, Thales, | , and Pherecydes of Syros. He is said too, to have been taught by a Delphi ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... test implies the theory of evolution is false. Moralists Jeremy Bentham and | both indicated the is–ought problem in order to identify their theories of ... |
| David Axelrod | ... -known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama | , former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and former chairma ... |
| Henri Lebesgue | ... essive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Émile Borel, | , Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main applications of ... |
| Franz Blei | ... erotic drawings however: 15 of his drawings were selected by Viennese poet | for his translation of Hellenistic satirist Lucian's Dialogues of the Cour ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | ... tanley Jevons. Augustus De Morgan had worked on the logic of relations, and | integrated his work with Boole's during the 1870s. Other significant figur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... was named Reich Interior Minister. Frick and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) | hoped to create a unified police force for all of Germany, but Göring on 3 ... |
| Bhob Stewart | ... ng and visual impact that he could now predict and use to dramatic effect." | of The Comics Journal mentioned to Gibbons in 1987, that the page layouts ... |
| 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 ... |
| Juan de la Cosa | ... nce of Basques including prominent figures such as the pilot and geographer | , nicknamed "El Vizcaino" (although some sources claim that reputable and ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | ... st somehow correspond to changes inside the brain. Theorists dating back to | argued that the most plausible explanation is that learning and memory are ... |
| Joseph Paxton | ... f the latest technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. Designed by | , the Great Exhibition building was long, with an interior height of . Bec ... |
| Michael Savage | ... y, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and | , as well as many local commentators, support Republican causes, while voc ... |
| Giulio Alfieri | ... with a small, lightweight engine in various forms, designed from scratch by | but capable of being assembled on existing V8 tooling. Because of this, th ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... tating: "Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told." | gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars, but questioned the value about making Jun ... |
| William Camden | In 1603 the antiquarian | published an edition of Asser's Life in which there appears a story of a c ... |
| Sparkman & Stephens | ... to establish and supply beachheads. It was designed as a wartime project by | , the famous yacht design firm who also designed the hull for the Ford GPA ... |
| Hayao Miyazaki | ... oving Castle was adapted as a Japanese animated movie in 2004, by filmmaker | . A version dubbed in English was released in the UK and US in 2005, with ... |
| Raymond Loewy | ... d Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, including | , announce plans to sell affordable prefabricated houses, called Leisurama ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven. Film critic | speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( ... |
| John Harrison | ... Board made many lesser awards, including some awards in total £5000 made to | before he received his main prize, an award of £3000 to the widow of Tobia ... |
| Aristotle | ... fl. 335 BC) of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of | . Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, hav ... |
| Paracelsus | ... nd's oldest university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, | , Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzs ... |
| Masaki Kajishima | The first OVA was titled Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki and was created by | . the series and associated novels, and the novels Shin Tenchi Muyo! Jurai ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under | 's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ernardino Ferrari and others, as well as tempera polyptych of the school of | |
| Green Arrow | The 2001 | story "Quiver" (written by Kevin Smith) and the final Supergirl story arc, ... |
| Josephus | ... 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian | (37–c. 100 CE), after Antiochus IV's successful invasion of Ptolemaic Egyp ... |
| Gianni Versace | ... at sort of image". For Buckaroo's look, the costume designer had him wear a | sports jacket and a Perry Ellis suit and tie. He also wears a recut Giorgi ... |
| László Moholy-Nagy | In 1932, Bauhaus artists | , Oskar Fischinger and Paul Arma experiment with modifying the physical co ... |
| Nathanael Herreshoff | ... ight also makes them faster than monohulls under equivalent conditions (see | 's "Amaryllis", also 1988 America's Cup) |
| Gunpei Yokoi | ... Duck Hunt. The game was supervised by Takehiro Izushi, and was produced by | |
| Galileo Galilei | ... Cesi (1585–1630) who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed | as its president. The current president is the microbiologist Werner Arber ... |
| Manuel P. Asensio | ... ndividual short sellers have been subject to criticism and even litigation. | , for example, engaged in a lengthy legal battle with the pharmaceutical m ... |
| Carl Schmitt | ... s and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by | , Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. Accor ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... ws like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, | 's Person to Person and on the shows of Jack Benny and Red Skelton, on whi ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... od gates. This system failed catastrophically, in numerous sections, during | , in the city proper and in eastern sections of the Metro Area, resulting ... |
| Stephen and Timothy Quay | In 1999, BBC producer Rodney Wilson asked Stockhausen to collaborate with | on a film for the fourth series of Sound on Film International. Although S ... |
| Pliny | ... Classical sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially | and Ptolemy) gives the following account |
| Rashi | ... ere allowed to burn during the day also; however, according to the Talmud ( | , Tractate Shabbat 22b), only the center lamp was left burning all day, in ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and | . Newton was even accused of introducing occult agencies into natural scie ... |
| Vernon Dixon | ... ection-Set Decoration (John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, | ) and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading ... |
| FACTNet | ... against Arnaldo Lerma (Virginia), Lawrence Wollersheim and Robert Penny of | (Colorado), and Dennis Erlich (California). Internationally, raids took pl ... |
| James Agee | ... Paramount Pictures. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. | , in his review for The Dark Mirror (1946), noted the change, and stated t ... |
| Zheng He | ... n the early Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of | 's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea ... |
| Haruhiko Mikimoto | ... the same years as Macross screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi and character designer | , where they had a Mobile Suit Gundam fan club called "Gunsight One", a na ... |
| 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 ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... rom 3 and T differ from 1. The argument is often of an anthropic character. | argued that 3-dimensional space was a consequence of the inverse square la ... |
| Louis Jolyon West | ... : Behavior, Experience, and Theory (1975), senior US government researchers | and Ronald K. Siegel explain how drug prohibition can be used for selectiv ... |
| Frank S. Nugent | | of The New York Times called it, "a grand adventure film, magnificently st ... |
| Matthäus Merian | ... the Hussites devastated Bayreuth and the town hall and churches were razed. | described this event in 1642 as follows:"In 1430 the Hussites from Bohemia ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steven Emerson | ... as threatened the United States through covert cells on US soil. Researcher | in 2006 alleged that the group had "an extensive infrastructure in the US ... |
| Aaron | ... y-Rheims Bible), is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of | , a prophet in , and the husband of Elisabeth who is the cousin of Mary th ... |
| William Haines | ... camera, and acting.". Also in 1927, she appeared alongside her good friend, | in "Spring Fever", it would be the first of three films in which they work ... |
| Sean McDonough | ... taff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, | , Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free ... |
| Dave McKean | ... initial creative team was writer Jamie Delano and artist John Ridgway, with | supplying distinctive painted and collage covers. Delano introduced a poli ... |
| Bobby Boyd | ... ague's New York Jets as 17-point favorites, with NFL icons like Pro Bowlers | (db), Mike Curtis (lb), John Mackey (te), Tom Matte (rb), Fred Miller (dl) ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is also recorded by | as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan court |
| Benedetto Bordone | ... first alleged that he was not of the family of La Scala, but was the son of | , an illuminator or schoolmaster of Verona; that he was educated at Padua, ... |
| Charles Bridgeman | ... hitect of the gardens at Chiswick appears to have been the King's gardener, | (1690–1738), who was believed to have worked on the gardens with Lord Burl ... |
| Cato the Elder | ... ng Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of | in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter met ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | In his 18th century work Systema Naturae, | coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but combined it with ... |
| Muhammad al-Idrisi | ... brew word, as string-like shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. | , wrote in 1154 that itriyya was manufactured and exported from Norman Sic ... |
| John Neumeier | The ballet Othello was choreographed by | to music by Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke, Naná Vasconcelos et al. and was p ... |
| John Zerzan | ... as been traced back through time, language, art, and symbolic culture – see | ). Agriculture introduced the concept of a surplus along with the conditio ... |
| Richard Keys | Disgraced former Sky Sports broadcaster | is also a Coventrian, a product of Whitley Abbey School |
| Tage Frid | Of course either saw can be used either way, and | has even sai |
| Robert Nozick | ... have criticized Objectivist ethics. In the essay "On the Randian Argument", | , while sympathetic to Rand's political conclusions, is particularly criti ... |
| Dick Cheney | ... r the District of Columbia (2005), a case concerning whether Vice President | could keep secret the membership of an advisory task force on energy polic ... |
| Ian Eagle | ... produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, | , Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed also hosted a free-format sho ... |
| Zoltán Ribli | ... orchnoi. At Reggio Emilia 1986, he tied for 2nd–5th places with 6/11 behind | . He swept Fernand Gobet 4–0 in a match at Fribourg 1987. He finished equa ... |
| Hegel | ... ates, and in particular countering arguments based on militarism. Following | 's exploration of the relationship between history and violence, antimilis ... |
| Samuel de Champlain | ... first known Europeans in the area were the French who arrived in 1615 when | launched an attack against the Onondagas with the aid of the Huron and Alg ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steve Meretzky | ... game, distributed by Infocom. It was designed by Adams and Infocom regular | and was one of Infocom's most successful games. As with many Infocom games ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... ds. The party benefited from the support of the proprietor of News Limited, | , who preferred Whitlam over McMahon. Labor was so dominant in the campaig ... |
| Ernest Gimson | ... cester in the 1890s in the Vulcan factory owned by Josiah Gimson, whose son | was an influential furniture designer and architect of the English |
| Rudolf Nureyev | ... nce companies around the world and notable interpreters of the Moor include | |
| James Berardinelli | ... point, Lynch had so wonderfully succeeded in creating genuine involvement." | also criticized it, saying: "Lynch cheats his audience, pulling the rug ou ... |
| 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. ... |
| Henry Corbin | ... ands, Shia faqih Nurullah Shushtari and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in addition to | , have maintained that he was most likely a Twelver Shia. More recently, h ... |
| Claude Allen | ... which he promised to lead "until the cows come home". In 1983, Helms hired | , an African-American, as his press secretary. Despite his publicly-aired ... |
| Ptolemy | ... long been considered the oldest city of Poland because it was mentioned by | in the 2nd century A.D., but the claim is now doubted by some (cf. Calisia ... |
| John Hyrcanus | ... eucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, | opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he ... |
| Terry Chimes | ... p's record label, CBS. In January 2003, the band—including original drummer | —were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by | in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Joha ... |
| Sartre | ... k, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and | . A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud and studied with ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jake Humphrey | ... n presenter, Sarah Cawood, who grew up in Maxey; BBC Formula One presenter, | ;, TV presenter and DJ Sir Jimmy Savile, football journalist and talkSPORT ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... man and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as | and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks d ... |
| Henri Maspero | | described six periods of the Vietnamese language |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... n Parrish. In criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's response to | , Senator Joseph Lieberman claimed that emergency workers under DHS chief ... |
| Thomas Bartholin | In Scandinavia | and Ole Worm, the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden ... |
| Pliny | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, | , Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally ... |
| Oral Roberts | ... aham. Many well-known televangelists began during this period, most notably | , Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Rober ... |
| Mark Twain | ... st doubt on the protagonist's version of events. Another influence might be | 's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... rt medium begins in the Renaissance. The German Northern Renaissance artist | (1471–1528) who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape wat ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... ing work bears the name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, | , or Gaius Julius Hyginus, what survives is either an ancient forgery or a ... |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay | ... g But My Own." Other nominees included Terry Atkinson, sculptor Tony Cragg, | , Milena Kalinovska and painting/printing artist John Walker. The prize wa ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... nutes later, a "CBS News Bulletin" slide suddenly came up on the screen and | gave the first report of the assassination |
| Colin Powell | ... to a straining of relations between the two nations. However, Schröder met | and a rapprochement was established after the Iraqi regime was overturned. ... |
| Alex Wallau | ... rs introduced their own game shows and the public grew tired of the format. | took over as president in 2000. Despite the repeated overexposure of Milli ... |
| Cato the Elder | ... which it had been roused by the presence of Hannibal. Others, most notably | , feared that if Carthage was not completely destroyed it would soon regai ... |
| Greg Graffin | ... d. (It was quoted in the 1989 song “No Control” by songwriter and professor | . |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian was born in Portsmouth, | author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kip ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... , he was apprenticed under Giovanni Francesco Rustici, a sculptor friend of | . Among his earliest works was a Saint Jerome in wax, made for Giuliano de ... |
| Richard Kirwan | Following criticism, especially the arguments from | who thought Hutton's ideas were atheistic and not logical, Hutton publishe ... |
| Kenneth Turan | ... tself fresh, observant, tough and genuinely moving." The Los Angeles Timess | praised Caro for her "willingness to let this story tell itself in its own ... |
| Oral Roberts | ... 91 languages and to date the largest coverage of any evangelistic program. | 's broadcast by 1957 reached 80% of the possible television audience throu ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... d as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for | , art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation ... |
| Green Arrow | ... s Matthew Cable). Morpheus also appears briefly during Kevin Smith's run on | in a flashback showing him in Alexander Burgess' basement, still imprisone ... |
| 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 ... |
| Posidonius | ... d to be the biblical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of | and Strabo. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologic ... |
| Buys Ballot | ... ing the colour of binary stars. The Doppler effect of sound was verified by | in 1845. In Doppler's time in Prague as a professor he published over 50 a ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | In the aftermath of | in New Orleans, Leary donated over a dozen boats to the New Orleans Fire D ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as | , and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ... |
| Alastair Campbell | ... rhaps the best-known person in the UK often described as a "spin doctor" is | , who was involved with Tony Blair's public relations between 1994 and 200 ... |
| Josephus | ... Simon, Seleucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes attacked Jerusalem. According to | , John Hyrcanus opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand t ... |
| S. T. Joshi | ... diploma (although he maintained for most of his life that he did graduate). | suggests in his biography of Lovecraft that a primary cause for this break ... |
| Aristotle's | ... BC), but only occurred in the fifth century. The standard account, found in | Athenian Constitution 22.3, attributes the establishment to Cleisthenes, a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | Early insights in the labour theory of value appear in | ´s Politics. He developed a "theory of the value of labour", holding that ... |
| Strabo | ... lical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of Posidonius and | . The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologically motiv ... |
| Peter Molyneux | ... in the area of AI, which adds considerably to their development schedules. | , who often refers to himself as either the lead designer or creative dire ... |
| 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 ... |
| Descartes | | was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mec ... |
| Noam Chomsky | Academic | argues that Drug laws are currently, and have historically, been used by t ... |
| Alan R. Moon | Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by | and published by Amigo Spiele in German and Rio Grande Games in English in ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ally intended for adults are now commonly thought of as works for children. | 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally intended for an adult aud ... |
| 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. ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... distinguishing himself as a soldier and as a captain. He studied art under | |
| Kurt Gödel | On its surface, GEB examines logician | , artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, discussing commo ... |
| Zheng He | ... and economically fortified. In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiral | had established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chi ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... as a reactionary it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as | , Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie and |
| Thomas Browne | ... "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in | 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 |
| John Hyrcanus | ... semi-independent Seleucid client states such as Judea to revolt. In 110 BCE | carried out the first military conquests of the newly independent Hasmonea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hugh MacColl | ... ructure on equivalent statements of a propositional calculus is credited to | (1877), in work surveyed 15 years later by Johnson. Surveys of these devel ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... l roles. Characters from other fictional works appear occasionally, notably | and some of the boys from Tom Brown's Schooldays |
| 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 ... |
| Franco Zeffirelli | ... rld class singers and is found in the repertoire of prominent opera houses. | 's 1986 film version of Verdi's opera starring Plácido Domingo as Othello ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
| Ray Houghton | ... istory in which all four teams finished with the same points. It began when | 's chip ensured that Ireland would gain revenge on Italy by reversing a 1– ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... omers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian Joseph Needham quotes | (78-139 AD) as saying |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... ited States in December 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with | at Taliesin West in Arizona, and at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. D ... |
| Alonzo Church | ... ceton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied under | |
| Aquinas | ... lic theology was well integrated with scientific knowledge from the time of | to the time of Galileo, and that too was a deliberate program. Critics sug ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... sition. He gave some thought to retirement for much of 2005, however, after | , he announced on January 17, 2006 that he would run for a fourth term |
| Joanna Russ | ... exts of this kind are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), | ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) an |
| Dick Bruna | ... emale rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist | . The original Dutch name, Nijntje, is a shortening of konijntje, "little ... |
| Vin Scully | ... again in 1956 – was inducted as a manager having never managed the Dodgers. | is permanently honored in the Hall's "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit as a resu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pausanias | ... e portion of the preceding layers, including the Troy of the Homeric Iliad. | , who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book Description of Greece ... |
| John Zerzan | ... griculture. Key theorists in the former category include Derrick Jensen and | while the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the latter, though the ... |
| Galen | ... d sheets of dough called lagana. In the 2nd century CE, the Greek physician | mentioned itrion, made of flour and water. The Jerusalem Talmud records th ... |
| Mark Twain | ... e life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science church, and | , one of her most famous critics. Kilmer wrote the screenplay, describing ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel de Champlain | ... ring a reconnaissance of the Bay of Fundy undertaken by French cartographer | . The day upon which Champlain sighted the mighty river was St. John The B ... |
| George Carlin | ... Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV", a comedy routine by American Comedian | . In the United States, although the use of the word is censored on broadc ... |
| Jehoiada | ... ld Testament sources, taking care to put into the mouth of Joad (the Second | ) only those prophetic utterances that are to be found in the Bible. Never ... |
| John Lennon | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of | , Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained ... |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... f social constructs in understanding gender. Notable texts of this kind are | 's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), O ... |
| Yan Xishan | ... of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and | . As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even extended his inf ... |
| Peter Molyneux | Leading up to several Lionhead Studio game releases | 's enthusiasm for talking openly about the development and design process ... |
| Paul Graham | Arc is a dialect of the Lisp programming language now under development by | and Robert Morris |
| Brian Kernighan | ... ve a Wang C/A/T phototypesetter owned by the Labs; it was later enhanced by | to support output to different equipment, such as laser printers and the l ... |
| Galileo | ... ntegrated with scientific knowledge from the time of Aquinas to the time of | , and that too was a deliberate program. Critics suggest that this also de ... |
| Isaac Luria | ... erstand the Talmud. Further, the father of the Lurianic School of Kabbalah, | (known as the Ari HaKadosh, or the Holy Lion) was not yet 40 years old whe ... |
| Ernst Schröder | ... 15 years later by Johnson. Surveys of these developments were published by | , Louis Couturat, and |
| 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 ... |
| Edwin B. Willis | ... ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color) (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, | , Arthur Krams), Best Cinematography (Color), Best Director (Charles Walte ... |
| Arthur Krams | ... tion-Set Decoration (Color) (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, | ), Best Cinematography (Color), Best Director (Charles Walters) and Best A ... |
| Herman Klein | ... , for instance, New York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, | , and George Bernard Shaw, castigated a succession of visiting Mediterrane ... |
| Peter Molyneux | ... and White 2 and Fable had features changed or lacking in the final product. | said the following on the issue |
| John Mair | ... ural history of the rock was written about almost five hundred years ago in | 's De Gestis Scotorum ("The deeds of the Scots") published in 1521. Today, ... |
| Motoko Ishii | ... the antenna. In the spring of 1987, Nihon Denpatō invited lighting designer | to visit the tower. Since its opening 30 years earlier, the tower's annual ... |
| 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 ... |
| John von Neumann | ... ing physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, | , Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cy ... |
| Jo Moore | ... s reference to this practice occurred when British Government press officer | used the phrase "It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to b ... |
| Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
| H. L. Mencken | ... Martin Gardner, a maxim regularly put into practice by the organization is | 's "one horse-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms." Skeptical Inquirer ha ... |
| Phog Allen | ... tar high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach | traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team. While ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... r "blessed happiness", described by the 13th-century philosopher-theologian | as a Beatific Vision of God's essence in the next life. Human complexities ... |
| Hector Berlioz | ... omposers Charles Gounod (she created the title role in his opera Sapho) and | (who initially had her in mind for the role of Dido in Les Troyens, but ch ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... ased on Richard Helms) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of | 's roman a clef The Company, in turn based on the Watergate scandal |
| Orion | ... myths associated with Scorpio almost invariably also contain a reference to | . According to one of these myths it is written that Orion boasted to godd ... |
| Antoine-Augustin Parmentier | ... I have just found a pearl in the dunghill of Normandy", he wrote his friend | . As a result Cuvier entered into correspondence with several leading natu ... |
| Ron Tauranac | The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and | , who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in ... |
| Rich Fields | ... m until shortly before his death in October 2003. Los Angeles meteorologist | took over as the announcer in April 2004, and stayed on until the end of s ... |
| Andrew Sarris | Film critic | considers it to be "Huston's best film", and the film that made Marilyn Mo ... |
| Gary Dornhoefer | ... , Bill Sutherland, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson, Lou Angotti, Leon Rochefort and | . Having purchased the minor-league Quebec Aces, the team had a distinctly ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... nsisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, | of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connec ... |
| Porphyry | ... ppers wrote the nominative form of the god's name as "Mithras". However, in | 's Greek text De Abstinentia («Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων»), there is a reference ... |
| John McCarthy | Paul Graham suggests | 's original Lisp to have been built wholly on a small set of "axioms", and ... |
| Marc Chagall | ... ins – his last original Broadway staging. The set, designed in the style of | 's paintings, was by Boris Aronson. A colorful logo for the production, al ... |
| Marv Albert | ... est known for its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, | , Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton ... |
| 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 ... |
| Galen | ... itation of the male, mapping the female body onto the male, as if, like the | ic view, it was incomplete. Furthermore, overemphasis of ejaculation may i ... |
| Aristotle | ... ocritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came to Athens and no one knew me." | placed him among the pre-Socratic natural philosophers |
| Thomas Browne | ... anz Bardon). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir | in his Religio Medici of 1643 wrote "Now besides these particular and divi ... |
| Grigori Rasputin | Baker also appeared in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra as | . He was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for his performance, one fo ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by | 's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ... |
| William Ernest Johnson | ... the 1870s. Other significant figures were Platon Sergeevich Poretskii, and | . The conception of a Boolean algebra structure on equivalent statements o ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... already overwhelmed with evacuees that had come from New Orleans because of | . Long lines at gas stations, shortages of supplies, food and fuel were wi ... |
| Philippe Starck | ... arehouse built in 1909 and completely redesigned in 2010 by French designer | into a multi-purpose venue that consist of a cinema multiplex, a fitness c ... |
| Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by | , first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in ... |
| Otis Ferguson | Less enthusiastic was | , who in his review for National Board of Review Magazine observed, "This ... |
| Dick Gregory | In 1969, the ACLU won a major victory for free speech, when it defended | after he was arrested for peacefully protesting against the mayor of Chica ... |
| Mike Tirico | ... its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, | , Sean McDonough, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Dick Stockton. Lou Reed al ... |
| Hilton Kramer | ... Félix Guattari, who calls it modernism's "last gasp". The neo-conservative | describes postmodernism as "a creation of modernism at the end of its teth ... |
| Orion | ... included tripods that walked to and from Mount Olympus. He gave to blinded | his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. In one version of the myth, Prometheus ... |
| Mark Twain | ... d about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, | wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: 'A few month ... |
| John Stow | ... me from Bale and Crowley in his preface to the various impressions. In 1580 | attributed Piers Plowman to "John Malvern," a name that surfaces again wit ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... featured tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and | , who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this record ... |
| Pete Seeger | ... ountry rock were associated with the rise of politicized folk music, led by | and others, especially at the Greenwich Village music scene in New York. F ... |
| Joseph Fourier | Taking his mathematical cues from the heat flow work of | (and his own religious and geological convictions), Thomson believed that ... |
| Levin Goldschmidt | ... ry entitled The History of Medieval Business Organisations; his advisor was | , a respected authority in commercial law. Two years later, Weber complete ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... . Brassai photographed many of his artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, | , Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers ... |
| John von Neumann | He knew well and was in conversation with | , Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregor ... |
| Marcel Breuer | ... haus school, and its leaders left Germany. Two of these, Walter Gropius and | , took positions at the Harvard GSD. Their iconoclastic focus on modern ar ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | Professor James Moriarty is the archenemy of | , a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | | wrote No Exit in 1944, an existentialist play originally published in Fren ... |
| Graham Norton | ... ring the 1990s, Wapping was home to American entertainer Cher. TV presenter | , currently (as of 2010) lives in the locality |
| Richard Garriott | The buyer was computer gaming entrepreneur and astronaut's son | (also known as Lord British), who stated in a 2001 interview with Computer ... |
| Giovanni Battista Ramusio | ... 1492. It is written in Raccolta delle Navigationi e Viaggi ( 1550–1556 ) of | that in June 1492, before Christopher Columbus leaves the South of Spain, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... slow pace of the peace process. In a 1977 interview with CBS News anchorman | , Sadat admitted under pointed questioning that he was open to a more cons ... |
| Joseph Kerman | ... missed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot—musicologist | famously called it a "shabby little shocker"—the power of its score and th ... |
| Strabo | ... , Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, | , Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Felix Leiter | ... t will be found and sent to Pinkertons, where his friend and ex-counterpart | now works |
| Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... on. One of Littlewood's most famous productions was the British première of | 's Mother Courage and Her Children (1955), which she directed and also sta ... |
| Félix Guattari | ... uch as Clement Greenberg, as well as radical opponents of modernism such as | , who calls it modernism's "last gasp". The neo-conservative Hilton Kramer ... |
| Michael A. Stackpole | ... quadron" (rather, the "Red Squadron" designation is used). The , written by | and published by Dark Horse Comics, were the first works of Star Wars lite ... |
| 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 |
| 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. ... |
| Jamie Oliver | ... owever, the method was found on some Danish farms by British celebrity chef | in a television programme for the UK's Channel 4 in 2009 |
| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | ... red years before the Stonewall Riots, the German homosexual rights advocate | introduced the idea of self-disclosure as a means of emancipation. Claimin ... |
| David Berman | ... ocument pictured here, and still distributed today, was typeset by Ottawa's | intentionally in Carl Dair's Cartier typeface: at the time the most promin ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | ... , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of | . He turned down offers to direct Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... the most influential proponents of this classical notion of patriotism was | |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Maltby, Jr. | Ain't Misbehavin is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and | , and music by various composers and lyricists. It is named after the song ... |
| Yoshitaka Amano | ... remixed soundtrack, added full motion video sequences, and art galleries of | 's illustrations. Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls is, like Final Fanta ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | In his short story, "The Secret Miracle", | describes how the protagonist, Jaromir Hladik, had translated the Sefer Ye ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... rkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of | and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdit ... |
| Megasthenes | ... s in 301 BC. In addition to this treaty, Seleucus dispatched an ambassador, | , to Chandragupta, and later Deimakos to his son Bindusara, at the Mauryan ... |
| Carl Ludwig Blume | ... family. Adelosa is a nomen dubium. No specimen exists and no one knows what | described as Adelosa in 1850 |
| John Brennan | ... ed at the White House by the Homeland Security Council, currently headed by | |
| Caroline Dormon | ... come under the management of the State of Louisiana in 2007. The naturalist | helped to lay out the park |
| Franco Columbu | In 1968, Schwarzenegger and fellow bodybuilder | started a bricklaying business. The business flourished thanks to the pair ... |
| Pausanias | ... the, was reported to be of the family of Noah. The 2nd-century AD traveller | , pausing at to enumerate four sibyls, mentions the "Palestinian Sibyl" wh ... |
| Matteo Ricci | ... 7–1318), the Korean official Choe Bu (1454–1504) and the Italian missionary | (1552–1610) |
| John Zerzan | ... de those critical of technology such as Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, and | ; the techno-positive Murray Bookchin; and others including Alan Carter |
| Dennis James | During his time as host, Barker missed one taping due to illness. | , then hosting the syndicated nighttime version of the show, filled in for ... |
| Turing | ... and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, | , Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contribution ... |
| Hyrcanus I | 6. | , 134–104 BC |
| Charles Colson | ... who became known as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, | , Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring ... |
| Ptolemy | ... are sometimes called Ptolemaic aspects since they were defined and used by | in the 1st Century, AD. These aspects are the conjunction (approx. 0-10°), ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Of minor interest is a passing reference to Mirandola by | , in the story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927). Mirandola is given ... |
| Rex Reed | ... ng Betty Hutton, Helen Hayes, James MacArthur, June Allyson, Liz Smith, and | witnessed abuse. Bette Davis supported Christina's version, saying that Ch ... |
| Aristobulus III | 14. | , 36 BCE (only as High Priest |
| Philoctetes | Paris was later killed by | using the enormous bow of Heracles |
| Bonnie Lowenthal | ... Edward Vincent, and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Rolling Hills Estates is located in California's 46th congres ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... elia, based on wartime Nazi activities. Created on order of Reichsführer-SS | , a Nazi ethnic German organisation called Selbstschutz carried out execut ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... luenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret ( | ), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war "return to order" m ... |
| Pausanias | The traveller | reported seeing a painting in the temple of Dionysus in Athens, which had ... |
| Alvar Aalto | ... ary. The last three mentioned buildings are by the famous Finnish architect | . Official home town of Santa Claus, Santa Claus Village and , is located ... |
| Varro | ... tius' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of | , 1st century BC) these ten sibyls were those in the following list. Of th ... |
| Von Neumann | ... ied heat flow and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. | , Turing, Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major cont ... |
| James Agee | ... ights has been praised for its mixture of comedy and sentimentality. Critic | , for example, wrote in Life magazine in 1949 that the final scene in City ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for | . At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ... |
| Regnier de Graaf | In the 17th century the Dutch anatomist | wrote an influential treatise on the reproductive organs Concerning the Ge ... |
| Robert L. Park | ... te declined, but gang fighting resulted in ten murders in a 36 hour period. | , research professor and former chair of the Physics Department at the Uni ... |
| Dave McKean | ... oyd, Leonardo Manco, and Sean Phillips. Notable cover artists have included | (who designed the first run of the series' covers), Tim Bradstreet (who de ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... xtraordinary females in movies." In a 2000 review for All About Eve, (1950) | noted, "Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her exc ... |
| Bosley Crowther | When the film was released, | , film critic for The New York Times, lauded the film and the casting, wri ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... o Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of | and Michelangelo |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... t the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Novalis' and | see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to Enlightenment rati ... |
| Actaeon | ... silent link in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), connecting the lustful | /Sweeney to the blind Teiresias and, through Sirius, to the Dog "that's fr ... |
| Michael Johns | ... Pakistan. Others included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, | and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resis ... |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | ... ry 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins. | was inaugurated as first president on February 22, 1876 |
| Randy Shughart | ... usly. The first two were earned by Delta Force snipers Sergeant First Class | and Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, who defended downed Black Hawk helicopter ... |
| Dick Cheney | ... y 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President | 's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again. Later i ... |
| Linnaeus | The Barn Swallow was described by | in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rec ... |
| Jacob Emden | The 18th-century Rabbi | proposed that Jesus, and Paul after him, intended to convert the Gentiles ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | ... hBDBSh NTB`R WNShRP or parasnu ra`abhtan shebad'vash nitba'er venisraf), by | , referring to the halachic question as to whether a fly landing in honey ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... school. It was here that he first encountered the works of Swiss modernist, | . His discovery of the drawings of the Palace of the Soviets in a foreign ... |
| Abraham Geiger | A typical story is reported by | , who formed Ettlinger's acquaintance as a student in 1829. At a school ex ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
| Rashi | The branches are often artistically depicted as semicircular, but | may be interpreted as saying they were straight, and Maimonides, according ... |
| Brandi Chastain | Michelle Akers, | , Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, ... |
| Michael Langone | ... njamin Beit-Hallahmi, Dr. Phillip Charles Lucas, Jean Duhaime, Mark Dunlop, | , and |
| Robert Greenwald | ... artistic works. A 1976 Broadway production, I Have a Dream, was directed by | and starred Billy Dee Williams as King. In spring of 2006, a stage play Pa ... |
| Victor Shestakov | ... s the basic concept that underlies all modern electronic digital computers. | at Moscow State University (1907–1987) proposed a theory of electric switc ... |
| Gust Avrakotos | ... ields to the Mujahideen, funneling them through Pakistan's ISI. CIA officer | later arranged for the Egyptian Ministry of Defense to set up production l ... |
| Aristotle | As a teenager, he was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of | , which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on th ... |
| Aristotle | ... be printed. In 1556 he printed his Dialogue on the De plantis attributed to | , and in 1557 his Exercitationes on Jerome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His o ... |
| Charles Wilkes | The United States Exploring Expedition under | visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, o ... |
| Seymour Cray | ... ere introduced in the 1960s. Early supercomputer architectures pioneered by | relied on compact innovative designs and local parallelism to achieve supe ... |
| Pliny the Elder | Much of what we know of Apelles is derived from | (Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the point ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like Nathaniel Hawthorne and | pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leading to modern assess ... |
| Peter Kropotkin | ... elated to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist | . Social ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its root ... |
| Val A. Browning | ... rstal (FN) in Liège, he died of heart failure in the design shop of his son | . Even the 9 mm self-loading pistol he was working on when he died had gre ... |
| Phil Irving | ... car project, and other off the shelf parts. Consulting and design engineer | (of Vincent Motorcycle fame) was the project engineer responsible for prod ... |
| Samuel R. Delany | ... of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, | , Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Ge ... |
| Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
| Maximilien Robespierre | ... . On July 27, 1794 (9 Thermidor year II in the French Republican Calendar), | 's Reign of Terror was brought to an end. The overthrow of Robespierre sig ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fourier | ... nsive formulation of classical mechanics and investigated light and optics. | founded a new branch of mathematics — infinite, periodic series — studied ... |
| Yishiha | ... d at present) as Kuye . There is some evidence that the Ming eunuch admiral | reached Sakhalin in 1413 during one of his expeditions to the lower Amur, ... |
| François Truffaut | The | film Day for Night is about the making of a fictitious movie called Meet P ... |
| Joseph Paxton | ... lic park as Herschel Park since 1949) are believed to have been designed by | |
| Menkheperre | ... foundations . Over thirty of the bricks were stamped with the cartouche of | , the pre-nomen of Thutmose III. A cemetery of sacred rams was discovered ... |
| Ole Worm | In Scandinavia Thomas Bartholin and | , the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden were the fir ... |
| A C Fox Davies | ... apparently originated in a carving of about 1534 outside Norwich Guildhall. | noted that "whether or not these figures were then intended for heraldic s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Moses ben Jacob Cordovero | ... i never doubted that Abraham was the author of the book. In Pardes Rimonim, | (Ramak) mentions a minority opinion that Rabbi Akiva authored it, and take ... |
| Alfonso X | ... nks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings Alfonso VIII and | , as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconquista |
| George L. Kelling | ... as another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by James Q. Wilson and | , who suggested that police should pay greater attention to minor "quality ... |
| Euler | The following infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to | and Weierstrass respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... ch as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her "all-time best performance". | wrote that much of Mankiewicz's vision of "the theater" was "nonsense" but ... |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, | , Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He l ... |
| Roger Ascham | ... where he was brought into contact with the foremost educators of the time, | and John Cheke, and acquired an unusual knowledge of Greek. He also acquir ... |
| Leibniz | ... tended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously with | ). He provided a comprehensive formulation of classical mechanics and inve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristobulus I | ... s wife succeed him as head of the government, with his eldest of five sons, | , becoming only the high-priest. Aristobulus was the first Hasmonean to ta ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... tist who would become the era's most recognized and peripatetic iconoclast, | , was completing a traditional academic training at which he excelled |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... until just before the outbreak of war. In late 1933 Keynes was persuaded by | to address President Roosevelt directly, which he did by letters and face ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Box | It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( | , Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon) and Best Costum ... |
| Aaron | ... he course of Abia", whose wife Elisabeth was also of the priestly family of | . The evangelist states that both the parents were righteous before God, s ... |
| Anaximander | ... cippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritus (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth. | (c. 550 BC) believed the Earth to be a short cylinder with a flat, circula ... |
| Dwight Chapin | ... uart Magruder, and other figures had already pled guilty. On April 5, 1974, | , the former Nixon appointments secretary, was convicted of lying to the g ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by | , which produced the largest storm surge ever recorded in the area, reachi ... |
| Charles Eastlake | ... me the busy center of Academy life. Among those who joined the academy were | , Richard Westmacott (the younger), William Bewick and Thomas Uwins. Perha ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... the Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as | . Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new International styl ... |
| Harold C. Schonberg | American music critic and journalist | wrote that the operas "open up a delightful new world, the world of the Ru ... |
| John Browning | ... mi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inventor | , and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Herstal, ... |
| Steve Wozniak | Some of these celebrities include: Apple co-founder | , writer and actor Wil Wheaton, and id Software technical director |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
| August Meitzen | ... arian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law, working with | . Having thus become a Privatdozent, Weber joined the University of Berlin ... |
| Aristotle | ... sidered the world to be flat, at least according to Aristotle. According to | , pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritu ... |
| Gary Gordon | ... Delta Force snipers Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sergeant | , who defended downed Black Hawk helicopter pilot Chief Warrant Officer Mi ... |
| João de Deus | ... passion for the helpless victims of frauds. Randi has also been critical of | (John of God), a self-proclaimed psychic surgeon who has received internat ... |
| Martin Gardner | Science writer | , and others, describe the topic of remote viewing as pseudoscience. Gardn ... |
| Gil Parrondo | ... r Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, | , Vernon Dixon) and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Actres ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tori Spelling | ... ering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, | |
| Richard Corliss | ... nd was written by Ben Hecht, a leading screenwriter. The film, notes critic | , while a serious gangster film, also "manages both to congratulate journa ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... dels of a school of art and a public library, or from little toy figures of | , poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiv ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | The Vicar of Bray is also referenced in the song Parlour Songs in the | musical, Sweeney Todd, although the song has been removed from more recent ... |
| 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 ... |
| Theophrastus | ... ticularly mentions the Egyptian mathematicians, whose knowledge he praises. | , too, spoke of him as a man who had seen many countries. During his trave ... |
| Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... s," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proceedings narrated by | as if they were a NASA moon mission. "[Spacesuit transmission from astrona ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... ad reached 3,000 "Jews and Partisans". On 1 August, after a meeting between | , Erich von Bach-Zelewski and Hinrich Lohse, the brigades received the fol ... |
| Uffe Ravnskov | The research of Ancel Keys has been criticized by | amongst others for having selection bias when supporting his conclusions. ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... chitectural education." Pei was also influenced by the work of US architect | . In 1938 he drove to Spring Green, Wisconsin, to visit Wright's famous Ta ... |
| Julie Foudy | ... randi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, | , Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Ove ... |
| Cecil Beaton | ... ncluding Terence Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, | , Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray tw ... |
| Swami Sahajanand Saraswati | ... later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like | wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toilin ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... e cars were deemed illegal before the following year's race, so Lotus chief | developed the car for use in Formula One and an updated 56B competed in ha ... |
| Richard Garriott | ... stated in a 2001 interview with Computer Games Magazine's Cindy Yans that: | has more recently confirmed that he is the owner of Lunokhod 2 |
| 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 ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
| Porphyry | ... egistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and | are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
| Wang Chong | ... al works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), | (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) questioned whether human nature was i ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... zi (c.1547–1632), Jean Lemaire (1598–1659), Francisque Millet (1642–79) and | (1452–1519). The Venetian window in this room is derived from the Queen's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Conrad Aiken | Eliot wrote to | on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ... |
| Tom Stevenson | ... ffing wines to those approaching the level of Chianti Classico. Wine expert | notes that these basic everyday-drinking Chiantis are at their peak drinki ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hiromichi Tanaka | ... d as the programmer for the game. Among the other developers were designers | , Akitoshi Kawazu and Koichi Ishii, as well as graphic designer Kazuko Shi ... |
| Roberto Burle Marx | ... in in the 1930s: a geometric wave. The Copacabana promenade was designed by | |
| Zenon Panoussis | ... nternationally, raids took place against Karin Spaink (The Netherlands) and | (Sweden). In addition to filing lawsuits against individuals, Scientology ... |
| Bosley Crowther | ... ived a generally favorable reception from influential New York Times critic | . Crowther said that "every point about prejudice which Miss Hobson had to ... |
| Manohla Dargis | ... Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs. Assessing his work in the two films, | of The New York Times wrote that Damon "does what few stars with his kind ... |
| 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 ... |
| Tacitus | ... dence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the 1st century by | (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occ ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | Ocean Springs was severely damaged on August 29, 2005, by | , which destroyed many buildings along the shoreline, including the Ocean ... |
| Hironobu Sakaguchi | is a fantasy role-playing video game created by | , developed and first published in Japan by Square (now Square Enix) in 19 ... |
| Galen | ... tory Aristotle remained as much a law to him as in poetics, and in medicine | , but he was not a slave to the text or the details of either. He thorough ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... s the location of the Dr. Alvin L. Miller House, a Usonian home designed by | |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... , a member of the SS, lampooned Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels | ;, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grou ... |
| Keith Olbermann | ... tates Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator | and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as "Hoot Smalley," a ... |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | In 1796, mathematician | promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... f a clear working proof of an old master print, like the two impressions of | 's Adam and Eve (1504, British Museum and Albertina, Vienna) which show th ... |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | ... of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Olmsted Brothers, the landscaping firm of | 's sons, Frederick Jr and John Charles. Since then, the boundaries of Lake ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... roir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met | , Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later ... |
| Dieudonné Saive | ... d on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by | at Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926, sev ... |
| Fernand Léger | ... 06 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, | , then in 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani. In Paris, ... |
| William F. Albright | ... dah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years. | has dated his reign to 915 – 913 BCE |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... g the factorial to non-integer arguments was apparently first considered by | and Christian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same ... |
| William Cumberland Cruikshank | ... ng water with chlorine were Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (in France) and | (in England), both around the year 1800 |
| Strabo | ... its having continued to subsist throughout the period of the Roman Empire. | speaks of it as one of the places on the north coast of Sicily which, in h ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... tian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by | . Euler gave two different definitions: the first was not his integral but ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... on Paul, but votes from Washington County were not counted because of snow. | ultimately won the state by a narrow margin |
| Tammy Bruce | ... ommitted suicide on April 7, 1982, following a break-up with her assistant, | |
| 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 ... |
| Maya Lin | The Memorial Wall, designed by | , is made up of two gabbro walls 246 feet 9 inches (75 m) long. The walls ... |
| Pomponius Mela | ... n 1823, but there has been no modern archeological work done on the island. | tells that Achilles is buried in the island named Achillea, between Borist ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ron Goulart | ... uary 9, 1954) and Mel Keefer (Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955). Comics historian | in his book The Funnies states the frequent turnover of artists on the str ... |
| Bosley Crowther | Film critic | wrote, "However, as we say, it's very snappy and quite intriguingly played ... |
| Pablo Picasso | In the twentieth century, | 's Guernica (1937) used arresting cubist techniques and stark monochromati ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... ember 30 of every year. The most notable hurricane in the Atlantic would be | in the 2005 season |
| Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
| Karin Spaink | ... , and Dennis Erlich (California). Internationally, raids took place against | (The Netherlands) and Zenon Panoussis (Sweden). In addition to filing laws ... |
| W. Edwards Deming | In his managerial and statistical writings, | placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ... |
| Akitoshi Kawazu | ... r for the game. Among the other developers were designers Hiromichi Tanaka, | and Koichi Ishii, as well as graphic designer Kazuko Shibuya and programme ... |
| Irvin D. Yalom | ... writers on techniques and theory of existentialist psychology in the USA is | . Yalom states tha |
| Prawitz | ... rated on by) an open predicate are called parameters by some authors (e.g., | , "Natural Deduction"; Paulson, "Designing a theorem prover"). Parameters ... |
| Rudolf Nureyev | ... ce Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, | , Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins (see photo) |
| Abbie Hoffman | The Universal Life Church was referenced by | in his 1970 book Steal This Book, which encouraged readers to request an o ... |
| John Ehrlichman | On April 30, Nixon asked for the resignation of H. R. Haldeman and | , two of his most influential aides, both of whom were indicted, convicted ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Other fictional settings from the stories of | |
| Mortimer J. Adler | ... what matters morally is simply being human. For example, noted philosopher | wrote, "Those who oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that ... |
| 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 ... |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | ... ch as Robert Robb and Matthew Continetti have used a formulation devised by | to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning tha ... |
| Ptolemy | ... 0s AD in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer | , as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward. It was named Deva ei ... |
| 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 ... |
| Georges Perec | ... ure potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, | , and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production. Th ... |
| Marcel Proust | ... earn the French language, he began teaching himself by reading the works of | . Living among the gathering of young artists in the Montparnasse quarter, ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... security matters. Dean would later testify he was ordered by top Nixon aide | to "" a briefcase full of surveillance equipment and other evidence found ... |
| Jay Cocks | ... ors Steven Spielberg, Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters | , Willard Huyck, and Gloria Katz |
| Leslie Halliwell | ... lt the film made no sense without the scene, and in later years film critic | described the missing 12 minutes as "vital. |
| Aristotle | ... of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, | , Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, ... |
| Frank Carlucci | ... ccessfully, opposed the nominations of Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan, and | . However, he did score a notable coup two years later, when he led a smal ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... . In Paris, Gris followed the lead of another friend and fellow countryman, | . Although he submitted darkly humorous illustrations to journals such as ... |
| Abbie Hoffman | Steal This Book is a book written by | . Written in 1970 and published in 1971 the book exemplified the counter-c ... |
| White House Counsel | ... whom were indicted, convicted and ultimately sentenced to prison. He fired | John Dean, who went on to testify before the Senate and became the key wit ... |
| Theophrastus | ... erome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on | ' De causis plantarum and Aristotle's History of Animals, he left in a mor ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams and | in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ... |
| Hierocles | ... eonia existed, according to Pliny the Elder (Natural History book v:30) and | |
| Dieudonné Saive | ... em. Both prototypes utilized the new staggered magazine design (by designer | ) to increase capacity without unduly increasing the pistol's grip size or ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... considers the possibility of an imperfect sphere, "shaped like a pinecone". | derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francisco de Miranda | ... the Spanish colonies in South America (to assist the Latin American patriot | ) his force was instead ordered to sail for Portugal, to take part in the ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hector Berlioz | "La Marseillaise" was arranged for soprano, chorus and orchestra by | in about 1830 |
| Hector Berlioz | ... or the French Prix de Rome prescribed that each candidate submit a cantata. | failed in three attempts before finally winning in 1830 with Sardanapale. ... |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, | , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, an ... |
| Steve Wozniak | ... ghly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by | , manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and introduced in 1977 w ... |
| Koichi Ishii | ... g the other developers were designers Hiromichi Tanaka, Akitoshi Kawazu and | , as well as graphic designer Kazuko Shibuya and programmers Kiyoshi Yoshi ... |
| Chomsky | | initially hoped to overcome the limitations of context-free grammars by ad ... |
| Nicolas Steno | The existence of angular unconformities had been noted by | and by French geologists including Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who interp ... |
| Nahmanides | ... overed the remains of what turned out to be the medieval yeshiva founded by | |
| Ptolemy's | ... o lived in the vicinity at that time. The town also appears as Mattiacum in | Geographia (2.10). The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Ge ... |
| Rob Pike | ... rom the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by | . It can use the sam command language. The design of the interface was inf ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... r airlines to form Air West in 1968, which was renamed Hughes Airwest after | purchased it in 1970 |
| Roger Ebert | In a 2004 review of the film, critic | wrote "Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... is unincorporated neighborhood is North San Pedro Road, which passes by the | -designed Marin County Civic Center. The road goes through China Camp Stat ... |
| Boucher | Groff Conklin described the novel as "a thoroughly delightful job". | and McComas praised it as "easily the most plausible, carefully detailed p ... |
| Jonathan Browning | ... erved a two-year mission in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. His father | , who was among the thousands of Mormon pioneers in the mass exodus from N ... |
| Aaron | ... unchanged since the wooden figurines (of Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Moses and | ) were placed on the front pews and the carved ceiling was installed in th ... |
| Sheldon Rampton | ... cy, and is the creation of Center director John Stauber and PR Watch editor | |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | Thus, in Racine the hamartia, which the thirteenth chapter of | ’s Poetics had declared a characteristic of tragedy, is not merely an acti ... |
| Tomohiro Nishikado | is an arcade video game designed by | , and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito i ... |
| Jancis Robinson | | notes that Chianti is sometimes called the "Bordeaux of Italy". The flexib ... |
| Peter Hitchens | ... mien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, | , Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. T ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... ther important work to the Western theatre tradition work is the Poetics by | (written around 335 BC). In this work Aristotle analyses tragedy. He consi ... |
| Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... n of the newspaper (in Spanish) is preserved and shown at the local Museum. | was one of the most prominent early Nacogdoches Anglo settlers. A veteran ... |
| Dashiell Hammett | For his first directing assignment, Huston chose | 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed ... |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | ... is powerful oratory reaching a nationwide audience of five million persons. | was another pioneering tent-revivalist who soon turned to radio to reach a ... |
| Alfred Wegener | ... way from each other, a phenomenon first observed as continental drift. When | first presented a hypothesis of continental drift in 1912, conservative ge ... |
| Frederick Brownell | ... ed to select the final design. An interim flag was designed by State Herald | for the 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, ... |
| Alexander Jannaeus | ... sephus was a descendant of the High Priest Jonathon. Jonathon may have been | , the High Priest and Hasmonean ruler who governed from 103 BC-76 BC. Born ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | | 's storm surge destroyed the Biloxi Bay Bridge, which connected Biloxi to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... The most noted of these was the Italian Ridolfo di Fioravante, nicknamed " | " because of his extraordinary knowledge, who built several cathedrals and ... |
| Picasso | ... artistic subjects in Gauguin (1950) and Guernica (1950), which examined the | painting based on the 1937 bombing of the town, and presented it to the ac ... |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... ct Israelis to do the same thing." On December 28, 2008, Secretary of State | said in a statement: "the United States strongly condemns the repeated roc ... |
| Giordano Bruno | In the sixteenth century the Italian philosopher | , an early supporter of the Copernican theory that the Earth and other pla ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rich Fields | ... mpanied by a series of announcers that included Johnny Olson, Rod Roddy and | , as well as a cast of long-running models known collectively as "Barker's ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... of FreeCell is Eight Off. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, | described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker that is ... |
| John Stauber | ... the Center for Media and Democracy, and is the creation of Center director | and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton |
| Pausanias | ... s, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke 2.7.8) gives the name Agelaus, and | (2.21.3) names Tyrsenus son of Heracles by "the Lydian woman. |
| Green Arrow | ... ther comic book titles, such as Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, | , Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and Shade, the Changing Man. He was ... |
| Thomas Simpson | ... became interested in the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by | , but George Alfred Barnard thinks he learned mathematics and probability ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. | , to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia ... |
| S. H. Foulkes | ... psychoanalysis of groups were then taken up and developed by others such as | , Rickman, Bridger, Main and Patrick De Mare. The entire group at Tavistoc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cosmas Indicopleustes | ... avels through the northern parts as if hidden by a wall". The Egyptian monk | (547) in his Topographia Christiana, where the Covenant Ark was meant to r ... |
| Alexei Panshin | The early Heinlein biographer and critic | , in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, took note of a controversia ... |
| Whittaker Chambers | ... amously remarked that he was "standing athwart history yelling 'stop!'" and | was convinced that capitalism was bound to fall to communism, though he wa ... |
| Galen | ... 304–258 BCE) were among the first to perform experiments on living animals. | , a physician in 2nd-century Rome, dissected pigs and goats, and is known ... |
| Christopher Hitchens | ... hat the troubled grandee came to disapprove of his own conduct." His friend | said: "The booze got to him in the end, and robbed him of his wit and char ... |
| Gustav Stickley's | ... manufacturer of traffic signals; and the Craftsman Workshops, the center of | handmade furniture empire |
| Giordano Bruno | Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, | , Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered ... |
| Cesare Cremonini | ... nd grammar. Later he studied medicine at Paris and Padua (where he attended | 's lessons), and became physician to Louis XIII |
| Lafcadio Hearn | ... s considerably smaller than the Heike biwa (平家琵琶) played by the biwa hōshi. | related in his book "Mimi-nashi Hoichi" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese g ... |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ... ophie of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and | and others, and without abandoning empiricism, sought in their work to unc ... |
| Alexander Dalrymple | The Royal Society suggested command be given to Scottish geographer | , whose acceptance was conditional on a brevet commission as a captain in ... |
| Paracelsus | ... 1571), and finally theoretical medicine (1580). While originally hostile to | , in his later career he took an interest in Paracelsian medical theory fo ... |
| Tacitus | ... refer to the area they invaded as Boihaemum, the earliest mention being in | ' Germania 28 (written at the end of the 1st century AD). The name appears ... |
| Aristotelian | ... during the 15th century, giving the Italian Renaissance a major boost. The | philosophical tradition was nearly unbroken in the Greek world for almost ... |
| Bernard Baruch | ... oosevelt, a "cash and carry" provision that had been devised by his advisor | was added: the President could permit the sale of materials and supplies t ... |
| Cornelius Lanczos | ... d has been criticized as cumbersome by some (the 20th-century mathematician | , for example, called it "void of any rationality" and would instead use z ... |
| Patrick De Mare | ... p and developed by others such as S. H. Foulkes, Rickman, Bridger, Main and | . The entire group at Tavistock had in fact been taken into the army, and ... |
| Akitoshi Kawazu | ... tion consoles. To evade that deal, Square held only 49% of the shares while | , head of Square's Product Development Division-2, held 51%. The formation ... |
| George Everest | In 1855 he married Mary Everest (niece of | ), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles |
| 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 ... |
| John Lennon | On 15 December 1969, Moon joined | 's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in Londo ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | In | 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers ... |
| Alfred Stieglitz | ... ired by Taos and each other. Among them were Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, | , author D. H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda von Richthofen. Artist Doroth ... |
| Peter Travers | In Rolling Stone, | observed, "Mulholland Drive makes movies feel alive again. This sinful ple ... |
| Seymour Cray | ... Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were designed primarily by | at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and later at Cray Research. While the s ... |
| Josephus | ... mmortal, while in the other the honours paid are such as are due to a hero. | records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following Menander the historian, concerning ... |
| Sid Meier | ... Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe. Even today, Dido appears in | 's strategy games Civilization II and Civilization V, as the female leader ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... ebris. The bridge ruins, capturing the breathtaking results of the force of | , had become a popular spot of photographers both professional and amateur ... |
| Aaron | ... g with his brother Dathan, joined Korah in the conspiracy against Moses and | . He and all the conspirators, with their families and possessions, were s ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... is or her experiences. Individuals are thus defined by their choices alone. | 's principle that existence precedes essence, as he explains in "Existenti ... |
| Galileo | ... s and quantum mechanics. Many mathematically inclined scientists, including | , were also musicians |
| John Stuart Mill | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as | and Catherine Helen Spence, Hare popularised the idea of proportional repr ... |
| Leibniz's | ... l external objects existing in the world as reals, which can be compared to | concept of monads |
| Charles Champlin | ... ee deleted scenes, an alternate ending, commentary about the restoration by | and Robert Gitt, and a photo documentary with narration by film historian ... |
| Augustin Bea | ... l both the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity led by Cardinal | and the Theological Commission (led by Cardinal ) introduced revised draft ... |
| Berlioz | ... being readily used in an ordinary funeral service; the requiems of Gossec, | , Verdi, and Dvořák are essentially dramatic concert oratorios. A counter- ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... uence (via her uncle George Everest) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as | and Charles Babbage |
| Julie Foudy | ... international play at the end of the tour; the others are longtime captain | and Joy Fawcett (Fawcett did not play due to back surgery after the Olympi ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... ition, in which the specific concept is defined as a measurable occurrence. | pointed out the dangers of believing that anything that could be given a n ... |
| Peggy Noonan | Hart has called herself a fan of | and Ronald Reagan. Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut |
| Isaac Newton | ... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of | 's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... g are found in the writings of the Greeks in the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE. | (Αριστοτέλης) (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus (304–258 BCE) were among the ... |
| Tim Smit | ... llis, lived in the area and was responsible for introducing record producer | to the gardens. He and a group of fellow enthusiasts decided to restore th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Irvin D. Yalom | The existentialist psychotherapist | has identified what he refers to as the four "givens" or ultimate concerns ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | The model which Conan Doyle himself mentions (through | ) in The Valley of Fear is the London arch-criminal of the 18th century, J ... |
| John Clute | ... ough not a best-selling author, Wolfe is highly regarded by critics Such as | ; his The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction writes: “Though neither the most ... |
| Maya Lin | ... on visitors each year. The Memorial Wall was designed by American architect | . The typesetting of the original 58,195 names on the wall was performed b ... |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | The University's viability depended on its first president, | , recruited from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman la ... |
| Saadia Gaon | The 10th century Rabbi | added tithes and levirate marriage. The 11th century Rav Nissim Gaon inclu ... |
| Seymour Cray | ... en a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC) were designed by | to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computationa ... |
| Igor Sikorsky | ... te aircraft, the F4U Corsair, and an official Connecticut Aviation Pioneer, | . The state officially recognizes aircraft designer Gustav Whitehead as "F ... |
| Francis Spellman | ... Murray was called to the Council in April, 1963 at the request of Cardinal | of New York (who was otherwise a theological conservative) to be a peritus ... |
| Cardinal Bea | Early in 1964 | notified Cardinal Cicognani, President of the Council's Coordinating Commi ... |
| George Boole | ... acHale, in his George Boole: his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggests | may have been a model for Moriarty |
| Nees von Esenbeck | ... r Clemens August of Bavaria. The first director of the Botanical Garden was | from 1818 to 1830. In May 2003 the world largest Titan arum, some 2.74 m h ... |
| Camillo Golgi | ... n most eukaryotic cells. It was identified in 1898 by the Italian physician | and named after him |
| Mark Twain | ... ttle Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in the | stories (1876 and 1885) once Aunt Polly's ineffectual tutelage is shaken o ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... uslim psychology and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | ... ding Lactantius, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and | considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan prophet who foresaw the ... |
| Stephen Holden | ... he English rock trio The Police (Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group)". | , music critic for The New York Times, said in his article Rock: British C ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... m “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.” | was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitl ... |
| Christopher J. Date | ... model which itself is a precursor to creating or enhancing a database (see | "An Introduction to Database Systems"). There are a number of different ap ... |
| Camillo Golgi | ... served in detail. The apparatus was discovered in 1898 by Italian physician | during an investigation of the nervous system. After first observing it un ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
| Emmy van Deurzen | ... of a European version of existentialist psychotherapy is the British-based | |
| Zheng He | ... y and a flourishing of the arts and culture. It was during this period that | led explorations throughout the world, possibly reaching America. During t ... |
| Erasistratus | ... in the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE. Aristotle (Αριστοτέλης) (384–322 BCE) and | (304–258 BCE) were among the first to perform experiments on living animal ... |
| Galileo | At the same time, the experimental tradition established by | and his followers persisted. The Royal Society and the French Academy of S ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rashi | ... so quickly. Jacob responded, "Because the LORD your God brought it to me." | , on says Isaac's suspicions were aroused even more, because Esau never us ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... h Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819), characterized rationalism, and in particular | 's "critical" philosophy in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum acco ... |
| Le Corbusier | Influenced from an early age by the Swiss modernist, | , Tange gained international recognition in 1949 when he won the competiti ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... g on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by | . Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase ... |
| Scott Reid | ... p by an unsympathetic media. One notable gaffe was Liberal Party strategist | 's suggestion that parents might buy beer and popcorn with the Conservativ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Newton | ... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, and | was himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ... |
| Pausanias | ... iodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, | , Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Dhuey | The Macintosh II was designed by hardware engineers | (computer) and Brian Berkeley (monitor). A basic system with 20 MB drive a ... |
| Michael Swanwick | ... g American writer regardless of genre. Award-winning science fiction author | has said: "Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive ... |
| Carla Fracci | ... are's play, Othello choreographed by John Butler to the music of Dvořák for | and the La Scala Ballet in 1976, and a version choreographed by Jean-Pierr ... |
| Robert Choulet | ... tive Engineering Societies, from 1975 to 1978. French aerodynamics engineer | (Ecole Centrale Paris) is Deutsch's most famous disciple |
| Karen Scavotto | # | , Olympic archer |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
| Descartes' | ... d and the way the world really is, skeptical scenarios such as this one (or | Evil demon) present a formidable challenge. Putnam, by arguing that such a ... |
| Aristotle | Around 330 BC, | maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Boyd | ... s share of sports stars including NFL placekicker Mac Percival, NFL All-Pro | , NFL Safety Melvin Bullitt, and NBA players Mookie Blaylock and Ricky Pie ... |
| Margaret Pomeranz | ... mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 79, based on 31 reviews. | and David Stratton of The Movie Show both gave the film four out of five s ... |
| François Truffaut | ... rançois and Andrej." This is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu, | , and Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Kant's | ... e world is not ontologically independent. The general idea is influenced by | idea of the dependence of our knowledge of the world on the "categories of ... |
| Carl Bernstein | ... ns. Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters Bob Woodward and | uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break-in, and attempts t ... |
| George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
| Ancel Keys | ... published in the July edition of 1972 in the Journal of Chronic Diseases by | , which found the BMI to be the best proxy for body fat percentage among r ... |
| Abiathar | ... angry with David, but once David had sought divination from the ephod that | possessed, he managed to persuade them to join him in a pursuit of the cap ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... hat he would visit China the following year. His National Security Advisor, | , had actually been in Beijing (unknown to Whitlam) at the same time as th ... |
| Tacitus | In his book Germania, | wrote that the ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohibition. He ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... rd, Flynt publishes a satirical parody ad where famous evangelical minister | (Richard Paul) "speaks about his first time", and tells of a sexual encoun ... |
| David Wilhelm | ... ential campaign manager and 2008 Biden presidential campaign senior advisor | presently resides in the city |
| Howard Hughes | ... s a lavish, large-scale biopic of eccentric aviation pioneer and film mogul | and would reunite Scorsese with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film received ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry A. Wallace | ... on the first ballot. Garner got only 61 votes out of 1,093. Roosevelt chose | to be the Vice Presidential running mate, instead of Garner |
| 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 ... |
| John Dean | ... b Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel | , that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party. ... |
| Steve Wozniak | Some of the more famous pranksters were | and Steve Jobs, founders of Apple Computer. On one occasion Wozniak dialed ... |
| Boris Becker | ... a hotel, several apartment buildings, an observatory, and a private marina. | , Oprah Winfrey, and Mel Brooks are among the celebrities with homes on th ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... plagiarism for verbatim copying without acknowledgment by Jacob Thomasius. | later called it "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias, or collections ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... Europe in the 1940s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers | , Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other schol ... |
| Kazuhiko Aoki | ... use it for a game project subtitled The Emergence of Excalibur, and led by | for the Famicom Disk System. According to early advertisements, the game w ... |
| Strabo | ... sternmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, near the eastern shore of the island ( | 3.5.2–3). Strabo notes (3.5.5–6) that the two bronze pillars within the te ... |
| Steve Jobs | Some of the more famous pranksters were Steve Wozniak and | , founders of Apple Computer. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City ... |
| 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 ... |
| Josephus | ... corded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born children." | , whose works give an important insight into 1st-century Judaism, wrote th ... |
| Gene Siskel | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from | and Roger Ebert on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News T ... |
| Aristotle | ... ocritus was nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher | . Plato is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... process clause. His chief rival on the issue (and on many other issues) was | , who advocated a substantive view of due process based on "natural law" - ... |
| Rex Reed | ... ating on Rotten Tomatoes), Mulholland Drive was not without its detractors. | of The New York Observer said it was the worst film he had seen in 2001, c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by | . Eratosthenes knew that in Syene, in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead ... |
| David Stratton | Margaret Pomeranz and | of The Movie Show both gave the film four out of five stars. Pomeranz said ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
| Porphyry | ... peratures in which plant life flourishes. However the ancient commentary by | did not understand the myth in this way and saw Persephone's descent as co ... |
| Friedrich Ratzel | | in The History of Mankind related in 1896 Māori belief that creation comme ... |
| Michael Swanwick | | published a critical monograph on Cabell's work, which argues for the cont ... |
| C.S. Peirce | ... med "idealized rational acceptability." The theory, which owes something to | , is that a belief is true if it would be accepted by anyone under ideal e ... |
| Henry A. Wallace | ... reeminent in the presidential campaign to elect Progressive Party candidate | , who had served as Vice-President under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wallace wa ... |
| Charles Collingwood | ... ury, several of the core members of Edward R. Murrow's famed Murrow's Boys: | , Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, and Larry LeSueur. ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... y the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by | who, on October 29, 1945, discussed his own existentialist position in a l ... |
| Walter A. Shewhart | In 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr. | proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
| Ivan Pavlov | ... ted the germ theory of medicine by inducing anthrax in sheep. In the 1890s, | famously used dogs to describe classical conditioning. Insulin was first i ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
| Jimmy Connors | ... d every summer by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as | , John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Ja ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 adaptation of | 's Watergate novel The Company, and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 Ford: ... |
| Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
| Ptolemy | ... m that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as Marinus of Tyre and | , who were contemporaries |
| Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
| Marinus of Tyre | ... or coordinate system that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as | and Ptolemy, who were contemporaries |
| Vincent Canby | The film earned mixed reviews from critics. | wrote "Not since Howard the Duck has there been a big-budget comedy with f ... |
| John McEnroe | ... by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, | , Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and ... |
| Wilhelm Gesenius | He studied theology at Heidelberg under H.E.G. Paulus, at Halle under | and at Göttingen under Ewald. Returning to Heidelberg he became Privatdoze ... |
| George Harrison | ... as held at Royal Albert Hall on November 29, 2002, the first anniversary of | 's passing |
| Oliver North | ... old different offices. For example, the Sliders find alternate Earths where | , Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were ... |
| Edmond Halley | In 1718, | discovered the proper motion of the hitherto presumed "fixed" stars after ... |
| White House Chief of Staff | ... ite House as an unpaid summer intern starting in July 1995 in the office of | , Leon Panetta. She moved to a paid position in the White House Office of ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Roger Ebert | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from Gene Siskel and | on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News Toronto claims it ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... une 2007 Lewis-Smith's company made a programme featuring an interview with | , funded by Murdoch's Sky1 channel: How TV Changed Football Forever (Guard ... |
| Gödel's | His book Forever Undecided popularizes | incompleteness theorems by phrasing them in terms of reasoners and their b ... |
| Ernő Goldfinger | ... Blackwell, (a cousin to Blanche Blackwell) was also a cousin by marriage to | and disliked him: it was Blackwell who reminded Fleming of the name. Flemi ... |
| Bertolt Brecht | ... in Günter Grass's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, | , shortly before both of them died in the summer of 1956. It is unclear if ... |
| Stephen Holden | In 1993, New York Times music critic | wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other America ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... y, based on the resulting happiness of such behavior. Utilitarians, such as | and Jeremy Bentham, advocated the greatest happiness principle as a guide ... |
| Dick Gregory | ... Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, | , MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins ... |
| Hironobu Sakaguchi | ... pany allegedly having been threatened with bankruptcy in 1987, main planner | explained that the title of the game stemmed from his personal situation; ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ibuted to it, but there's no disbelieving the grim evidence on the screen." | gave it (3.5 out of four stars) and called it "new and fresh and not shy o ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by Jean Cocteau, with design by | , choreography by Leonid Massine, and music by Eric Satie. The extra-music ... |
| Rashi | Talmud commentator | remarks on this that he does not know the other Commandments that are refe ... |
| J. Val Klump | The first person to reach the deep bottom of Lake Michigan was | , a scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Klump reached the ... |
| Kaoru Moriyama | ... com up until that point. Although Square solicited pre-orders for the game, | , a former Square employee, affirms that management canceled the ambitious ... |
| Charles Ricketts | ... ther close friends, Robert Sherard, Robert Ross, his literary executor; and | variously published biographies, reminiscences or correspondence. The firs ... |
| David MacMichael | | was an expert on counter-insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and Latin American ... |
| Bill Rose | ... y the largest explosive volcanic eruption within the last 25 million years. | and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University have deduced that t ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... next appeared, and bow. Rodgers' daughter Mary caught sight of her friend, | , across several rows; both had eyes wet with tears |
| Aristotle | ... c political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and | ("The Father of Political Science") (384–322 BC). These authors, in such w ... |
| Yoshinori Kitase | ... ater released in Europe as Mystic Quest. The game's scenario was written by | , based on a story idea by Koichi Ishii. Ishii designed all of the charact ... |
| Hyrcanus I | at:134 text: | , 134–10 |
| William F. Albright | ... who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten days. | dates the reign of Zedekiah to 597 – 587 BC, while E. R. Thiele to 597 – 5 ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... nated by the Vietnam War more than ever. Following evening news broadcaster | 's editorial report during the Tet Offensive that the war was unwinnable, ... |
| Humphry Repton | ... n Aylsham, is said to have danced in the Assembly Room attached to the inn. | (1752–1818), the landscape gardener who lived at nearby Sustead, is buried ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... a sterling cast, and a wonderful one from newcomer Keisha Castle- Hughes." | gave the film four out of four stars and said, "The genius of the movie is ... |
| 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 ... |
| Viktar Hanchar | ... sappearance and presumed murder of the leader of the Belarusian opposition, | (or Viktor Gonchar, in the Russian version) |
| John Selden | ... ked with the great heroes of classical learning. Before him there were only | , and, in a more restricted field, Thomas Gataker and Pearson. "Bentley in ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... entre for centuries, notably during the Renaissance with scientists such as | |
| 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 ... |
| Koichi Ishii | ... e game's scenario was written by Yoshinori Kitase, based on a story idea by | . Ishii designed all of the characters himself, while Kitase and Goro Ohas ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd. But by the 1st century AD, | was in a position to claim that everyone agrees on the spherical shape of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steve Jobs | ... project was begun by Dhuey and Berkeley without the knowledge of Apple head | (who opposed features like expansion slots). Initially referred to as "Lit ... |
| Michael Scott | ... tion about the historical employment of vibrato by classical vocalists, see | 's two-volume survey The Record of Singing (published by Duckworth, London ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... looked abroad for literary inspiration. Two French figures, existentialist | and novelist Gustave Flaubert, influenced both his technique and style. Sa ... |
| Mario Lopez | ... lso starred in the ABC Family Original Movie Holiday in Handcuffs, opposite | . The movie premiered on December 9, 2007, and was the highest rated progr ... |
| Galen | ... of vivisection, so did criticism and controversy. In 1655, the advocate of | ic physiology Edmund O'Meara said that "the miserable torture of vivisecti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Twain | ... y and the rest of the black community fled the town. This incident prompted | to write the essay The United States of Lyncherdom. A 2007 PBS documentary ... |
| William Haines | ... ted the name Crawford, saying it sounded like "crawfish". Her friend, actor | , quipped, "They might have called you 'Cranberry' and served you every Th ... |
| Richie Benaud | ... ber one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including | and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with refer ... |
| Ludwig Binswanger | ... closest associate for 20 years. Without awareness of the writings of Rank, | was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. A later fig ... |
| 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 ... |
| Konstantin Korovin | ... in Russia, painters such as Vasily Polenov, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, | and I. E. Grabar were known for painting en plein air. American Impression ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yoshitaka Amano | The game's characters and title logo were designed by | , and the scenario was written by freelance writer Kenji Terada, based on ... |
| Strabo | ... us, protector of the blacksmiths; he owned another two at Etna and Olympus. | also mentions Thermessa as sacred place of Hephaestus (ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου), but ... |
| Ron Tauranac | ... team. Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer | , the team won four drivers' and two constructors' world championships in ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | As a result of | in August 2005 and its damaging effects on New Orleans, most of the univer ... |
| Marcel Proust | He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France | mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... nal city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by | and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu ... |
| Dick Cheney | ... won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice President | is a Wyoming resident and represented the state in Congress from 1979 to 1 ... |
| Thomas Disch | When asked the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, | identified Isaac Asimov and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too ... |
| Michelle Malkin | The controversial conclusions drawn by Lowman were defended by pundit | in her book In Defense of Internment; The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in W ... |
| Alfred Stieglitz | ... the desert. In 1940, she bought her first home in New Mexico. Her husband, | , preferring to stay in New York, O'Keeffe spent much of the year with him ... |
| James Agee | ... the film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer | called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive moves I have ever ... |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | In the late 19th century, | had formulated a theory to predict whether a chemical reaction is spontane ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... Republican Party presidential primaries, McCain endorsed former 2008 rival | and campaigned for him, but compared the contest to a Greek tragedy due to ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Hamilton | ... ion towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir | (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Gree ... |
| Sean Hannity | ... conservative radio hosts, including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, | , Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... of the Court. The most prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices | and John Marshall Harlan II. Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourte ... |
| Jonathan Rigby | Both the stage and TV versions starred | (Horne), Robin Sebastian (Williams), Kate Brown (Marsden), Nigel Harrison ... |
| Agrippa von Nettesheim | ... ure of man" (OED). Authors whose usage predates Steiner's include occultist | , alchemist Thomas Vaughn (Anthroposophia Theomagica), and philosophers Im ... |
| Jim Courier | ... ollege. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, | , Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, ... |
| Claudius Ptolemaeus | ... e Nile one must travel to reach it. Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century | ' mammoth work Geographia, have been circling in Europe since the late 14t ... |
| Hermann Hupfeld | ... ung des Propheten Jesaias), which he dedicated to Heinrich Ewald, and which | (1796–1866), well known as a commentator on the Psalms (1855–1861), pronou ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... r tree and shrub damage. The 2005 Hurricane Season left a mark on the city. | passed directly over the city as a category one storm. In its wake, it lef ... |
| Theodore Sturgeon | | , reviewing a 1964 American edition for a genre audience, declared that "M ... |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | The political scientists Carl Friedrich and | were primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ... |
| Tony Cascarino | ... don Town. During this period the club produced future stars Steve Bruce and | , who was famously bought from non-league Crockenhill in exchange for a se ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... esisers of the 1970s with Oxygène 7–13, dedicated to his mentor at the GRM, | , who had died two years before. Eschewing digital techniques developed in ... |
| Pavel Polian | ... he Soviet archives have been accessible to researchers. The Russian scholar | in 2001 published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, , ... |
| David Gower | ... trous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which the England captain | had averaged 19 |
| Roger Ebert | ... ng and provocative story led by an excellent performance by Edward Norton." | gave the film three out of four stars, regarding it as "always interesting ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... s of thousands had already been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms. | 's speech at the Posen Conference of October 6, 1943, for the first time, ... |
| 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. ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, | , and John Locke. The original position figures prominently in his book, A ... |
| Gunnar Jarring | ... nwar Sadat. In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary | , declared that if Israel committed itself to "withdrawal of its armed for ... |
| Varro | ... ure in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin. | , Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical L ... |
| L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
| Neal Boortz | ... including national figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, | , Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... uter. On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as | (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... other rich men of the time, among them Harold McCormick, Samuel Insull and | , into Kane). Hearst used all his resources and influence in an unsuccessf ... |
| Forest Ray Moulton | ... 70 Ophiuchi system with a 36-year period around one of the stars. However, | published a paper proving that a three-body system with those orbital para ... |
| François Truffaut | ... red in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), an adaptation of Bradbury's novel directed by | |
| Roger Ebert | ... pisode." Time also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic. | did not like it. "The movie starts promisingly... a scene where Butch puts ... |
| Ray Houghton | ... ed Ian Rush); winger John Barnes from Watford; and Oxford United midfielder | . The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for alm ... |
| Bosley Crowther | ... had initially appealed to her had been cut. The film was later described by | as "interminable"; and he noted that "of all the miserable dilemmas in whi ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... ul J. and Ida Trier House, a private residence designed by famous architect | |
| Tomohiro Nishikado | Space Invaders was created by | , who spent a year designing the game and developing the necessary hardwar ... |
| Crates of Mallus | In the 2nd century BC, | devised a terrestrial sphere which divided the Earth into four continents, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... ved on the Trilateral Commission after being president, writing papers with | |
| Pliny | ... lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger. | tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour o ... |
| Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
| Vin Scully | | has called Dodgers games since 1950. His longtime partners were Jerry Dogg ... |
| D'Anville | ... ", which appeared on a 1733 map published in Paris by the French geographer | . In the late 19th century, many European cartographers further believed ( ... |
| Nasir Gebelli | ... ada, based on the story by Sakaguchi. Iranian-American freelance programmer | , who was living in Japan at the time, worked as the programmer for the ga ... |
| Saruman | ... ed with alterations. As a consequence of eliminating the Battle of Bywater, | is killed by Wormtongue much earlier (at the beginning of the extended edi ... |
| Brian Aldiss | A contemporary of | and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... ional figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, | , Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local co ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
| Frederick Brownell | ... nal design was adopted on 15 March 1994, derived from a design developed by | , who had also designed the Flag of Namibia. The proclamation of the new n ... |
| Adolphe Quetelet | ... e of body fat. It was devised between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath | during the course of developing "social physics". Body mass index is defin ... |
| Errett Bishop | Another generalization of the Stone–Weierstrass theorem is due to | . Bishop's theorem is as follows |
| 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 ... |
| Avicenna | ... isease-like mental states like anger, passion, hatred and depression, while | (980–1037 CE) diagnosed ḥuzn in a lovesick man if his pulse increased dras ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist | |
| 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 Nozick | In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, | argues that, while the original position may be the just starting point, a ... |
| Onofrio Panvinio | The 16th-century Italian historian | , commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, ... |
| Averroes | ... ert was received at Paris as an authority equal to Aristotle, Avicenna, and | , leading Bacon to proclaim that "never in the world [had] such monstrosit ... |
| Dick Cheney | Vice President | , former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, G ... |
| A. O. Scott | ... ell as some surreal scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative. | of The New York Times writes that while some might consider the plot an "o ... |
| Giorgio de Chirico | ... 1914. Next year Ernst visited Paul Klee in Munich and studied paintings by | , which left a deep impression on him. The same year, inspired partly by d ... |
| Aristotle | ... aro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and | , since he believed they both used different words to express the same con ... |
| 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 ... |
| Igor Sikorsky | ... hile practicing for the Reims Aviation Meet in France. The Wright Brothers, | , Captain Rene Fonac, and the famed duo of Clarence Chamberlain and Bert A ... |
| John Hyrcanus | at:110 text: | gains full independence~and begins conquests, 110 BCE |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example, | 's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... rizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Governor | (R-Massachusetts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while fo ... |
| René Descartes | ... ipotent would mean the omnipotent being is above logic. A view supported by | He issues this idea in his Meditations on First Philosophy |
| Al-Kindi | ... as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as | (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alfarabi) and Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of | 's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award |
| Dennis James | ... s contract forbade him from hosting two syndicated series at the same time, | was selected to host the nighttime version of The Price Is Right |
| Strabo | ... ea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: | speaks of it as a small harbor) north of the west end of the promontory. H ... |
| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | ... mbers of a third sex in Europe from at least the 1860s with the writings of | and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John ... |
| Stephen Colbert | ... satiric. Refer to the careful definition of satire that heads this article. | ’s television program, The Colbert Report, is instructive in the methods o ... |
| John Hunter | ... on . In 1770 Jenner became apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon | and others at |
| Al-Farabi | ... Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), | (Alfarabi) and Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī |
| Gregory Benford | A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and | , is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Michael Barrier | ... esult as a "typical 1967 limited-animation theatrical". Animation historian | called the film "an offensively bad picture, the kind that makes people wh ... |
| 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 |
| Rashi | | (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi) refers to Seth as the ancestor of Noah and hence t ... |
| François Truffaut | ... able directors known for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... orenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, | and Botticelli. Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers ... |
| Albertus Magnus | In the Opus Minus he criticizes his contemporaries Alexander of Hales and | who, he says, had not studied the philosophy of Aristotle but only acquire ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance. | commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of th ... |
| William Kent | ... eted in 1729 during the reign of George II and designed by Lord Burlington. | (1685–1748), who took a leading role in designing the gardens, created one ... |
| A. T. Still | ... the philosophy and system of alternative medical practice first proposed by | MD in 1874. Its practitioners are known as osteopaths |
| Mark Kermode | ... e writer Jo Nesbø's novel The Snowman. In an interview discussing Hugo with | and Simon Mayo on their BBC Podcast Scorsese mentioned that he is working ... |
| Moses Sofer | ... which lists it as one of the four steps involved in the circumcision rite. | (1762–1839) observed that the Talmud states that the rationale for this pa ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... forced to relocate to Oklahoma City's Ford Center for two seasons following | in 2005. In July 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics, owned by a group of Oklaho ... |
| Francis Spellman | ... s father insisted the wedding not be put off. They were married by Cardinal | on November 29, 1958, at St. Joseph's Church in Bronxville, New York. They ... |
| Dorothy Parker | ... s considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and | . Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influe ... |
| Avicenna | ... preachers. Albert was received at Paris as an authority equal to Aristotle, | , and Averroes, leading Bacon to proclaim that "never in the world [had] s ... |
| HP-35 | File:HP 35 Calculator.jpg|The first scientific hand-held calculator ( | ) is introduced |
| Sherlock Holmes | Baker also portrayed | in a four part BBC miniseries version of The Hound of the Baskervilles in ... |
| Lindsay Anderson | Davis appeared in the television film As Summers Die (1986) and | 's film The Whales of August (1987), in which she played the blind sister ... |
| Charles Stross | The novels Accelerando and Glasshouse by | have several uses of metric time, including kiloseconds, megaseconds, and ... |
| William of Ockham | ... another major schism of Christendom. The crisis of theology beginning with | in the 14th century was occurring in conjunction with the new burgher disc ... |
| Jean Mayer | The university experienced tremendous growth during the presidency of | (1976–1992). Mayer was, by all accounts, some combination of "charming, wi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Josephus | ... uscripts — the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, the first-century historian | , and the fourth century Septuagint manuscripts — all give his height as " ... |
| Jon Stewart | ... roducer Lorne Michaels was brought in to develop the new show and comedians | , Drew Carey, and Paul Provenza auditioned to host. Michaels suggested to ... |
| Glenn Curtiss | ... s in history. The Aero Club of America chose the area for the level plains. | brought the area to national attention in July 1909 with his second Scient ... |
| Tomiichi Murayama | ... t. Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister | , tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack ... |
| Saruman | ... know he had actually been in contact with Sauron himself). Denethor, unlike | , did not turn to wickedness, but his great efforts of will, regularly fig ... |
| Marcel Breuer | ... ign (GSD) and became friends with the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and | |
| the famous jurist | ... take no part in the conversation. If the character Ulpian is identical with | , the Deipnosophistae may have been written after his death in 228; but th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... n for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, | , Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick ... |
| Baron von Mueller | Giles' friend | raised a subscription so that a new expedition could be made. The services ... |
| Saul Bass | ... with the best talent of his day—film poster designers such as Bill Gold and | —and kept them busy with countless rounds of revision until he felt that t ... |
| Averroes | ... k and Roman ancient writers, while contemporaries cultural figures included | and the Jewish philosopher Maimonides |
| 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 ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... ould have an enormous impact on the sport of rugby league in the 1990s when | 's News Corporation sought worldwide broadcasting rights and refused to ta ... |
| Kim Newman | The Anno Dracula series by | —named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fan ... |
| William Harvey | William Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner | 's advice, very famous in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age o ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... be a viable career, and he focused on it. His self-esteem was enhanced when | , editor of the popular magazine, American Mercury, bought two of his stor ... |
| Christine Ladd-Franklin | ... graduate schools were opened to women by president Ira Remsen only in 1907. | was the first woman to earn a PhD at Hopkins, in mathematics in 1882. The ... |
| Alexander Jannaeus | at:103 shift: 15,-10 text: | , 103–7 |
| Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | ... part of Prussia, as the son of a mining official. He studied medicine under | at the University of Göttingen and graduated in 1866. He then served in th ... |
| Al-Kindi | ... ok entitled: "Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages", written by | (801–873 CE). In his book, Al-Kindi gave a detailed description of how to ... |
| Pinkerton National Detective Agency | ... Public organizations were supplemented by private contractors, notably the | , which was hired by individuals, businessmen, local governments and the f ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... esse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, | , 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among others. All of the public an ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... adition established by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician | . Where Descartes held that all motions should be explained with respect t ... |
| Alfred Stieglitz | ... r of avant-garde art of the time, such as the European modernists he saw at | 's "291" gallery and works by the Ashcan School, but, with a few exception ... |
| Simplicius | According to | , Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood ... |
| Fred Haslam | ... SimEarth (1990) and SimAnt (1991). He co-designed SimCity 2000 (1993) with | and in the meantime Maxis produced other "Sim" games. Wright's next game w ... |
| Le Corbusier | ... re, and spent his free time researching the emerging architects, especially | . After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... he old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by | |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... have lived after Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 AD), whom he mentions, and before | and Sopater (c. 500 AD), who quote him. His work makes no mention of Neopl ... |
| Archibald Menzies | | led a party from the Vancouver Expedition in the first successful ascent t ... |
| Bill Gold | ... erred to work with the best talent of his day—film poster designers such as | and Saul Bass—and kept them busy with countless rounds of revision until h ... |
| John Clute | ... s he was the most anthologized author alive) and much respected by critics. | wrote in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers ... |
| Oscar Baumann | ... n Kibo. The following year, Meyer planned another attempt with cartographer | , but the mission was aborted due to consequences of the Abushiri Revolt. ... |
| Don Burke | ... shows: Mike Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of Burke's Backyard with | , Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. Stuart ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aristobulus I | at:104 text: | , 104–10 |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... nomy under his control. (Some aspects of it had fallen under the control of | 's secret police, and remained so until the collapse of government. |
| 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 ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... he insurer refused to pay claims for the loss of their Mississippi homes in | . Lott and Taylor had pushed through federal legislation to investigate cl ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | Schneerson and | are related through Tzemach Tzedek, the third Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch |
| Henry Kissinger | ... professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State | predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... nofsky film The Fountain search for the Tree of Life to cure a brain tumor. | refers to the Fountain of Life in a short story in the book , in which the ... |
| E. Arnot Robertson | ... was well received by critics and made a profit of $2.2 million. The critic | observed that "only Bette Davis . . . could have combated so successfully ... |
| Alfred Stieglitz | ... portfolio, was published. In New Mexico, he was introduced to notables from | 's circle, including painter Georgia O'Keeffe, artist John Marin, and phot ... |
| Rex Hunt | ... e Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of Burke's Backyard with Don Burke, | 's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. Stuart Littlemore ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... t (MoMA), the Frick Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the | -designed Guggenheim Museum |
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| André Le Nôtre | ... n been favorably compared and contrasted ("the antithesis") to the œuvre of | , the French jardin à la française landscape architect. He became both "ri ... |
| William Kent | ... d his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the architect | employed to design new furnishings and decor including the Queen's Stairca ... |
| Trina Robbins | ... zi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, | & Steve Leialoha, Gary Gianni, Janine Johnston, Stan Sakai, Michael Kaluta ... |
| Statistical consultant | ... sciplines, including natural and social sciences, government, and business. | s are available to provide help for organizations and companies without di ... |
| Jerry Bails | ... ce and Strange Adventures. In 1953, he entered into correspondance with fan | , which initially focused on Bails' fondness for the Justice Society and A ... |
| Akira Toriyama | ... rick Bags, and Dragons. Many monsters in the series were designed by | |
| Filippo Pacini | ... xperiments. The bacterium had been previously isolated by Italian anatomist | in 1854, but his work had been ignored due to the predominance of the mias ... |
| François Truffaut | ... or the set design in his own productions. In his book-length interview with | , Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he wa ... |
| Rudolf Steiner | Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by | , postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible ... |
| Roberta Williams | ... listed Wright in its annual 'Game Gods' feature, alongside such notables as | and Peter Molyneux |
| 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 ... |
| Janet Maslin | ... Winona Ryder and Claire Danes. The film received favorable reviews. Critic | of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of t ... |
| Aristotle | ... e best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on | in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s a ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... e national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by | , to serve as Hughes' public-policy lobbyist in Washington. O'Brien was el ... |
| Aristobulus II | at:66 shift: 15,-7 text: | , 66–6 |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Twain | ... gon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book Tramps Abroad, writer | spoke of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: "Now comes a si ... |
| Nathaniel Branden | ... e first read Rand's works in their "formative years." Rand's former protégé | referred to Rand's "especially powerful appeal to the young," while Onkar ... |
| Bo Yang | ... nder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese writer | 's book Zhongguo Diwang Huanghou Qinwang Gongzhu Shixi Lu (中國帝王皇后親王公主世系錄) ... |
| Simplicius's | and | commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another. Aristotle o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Herschel Walker | ... upset at how top draft pick, defensive tackle Danny Noonan and running back | weren't being used enough |
| Leonhard Euler | ... academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, | , Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. ... |
| Yuko Shimizu | ... tional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by | . She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... al occurrence. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and | , rejected the story |
| John Arlott | ... cademics, journalists, writers, actors and musicians. Its sponsors included | , Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britt ... |
| Gordon Murray | ... . For the 1973 season, Ecclestone promoted the young South African engineer | to chief designer and moved Herbie Blash from the Formula Two programme to ... |
| Stephen Colbert | On July 21, 2008, | made a comment on The Colbert Report about John McCain making a campaign s ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward R. Murrow | ... ity, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down | 's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anch ... |
| James Paris Lee | ... lier Lee-Metford, a mechanically similar black powder rifle, which combined | 's rear-locking bolt system with a barrel featuring rifling designed by Wi ... |
| Hyrcanus II | at:67 text: | , 67–6 |
| 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 ... |
| Sam Newman | ... ckyard with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with | . Stuart Littlemore, who at the time was hosting the media commentary show ... |
| Andrew Wilkie | ... the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an ONA intelligence officer named | resigned from the agency, citing pressure from the Australian government t ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | ... name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by | ) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genu ... |
| Muhammad Yunus | ... President of the United States, Al Gore, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, | , author and columnist, William Safire, environmental justice advocate Maj ... |
| André Le Nôtre | ... ecognizable influence from Versailles, and was indeed laid out by pupils of | , Louis XIV's landscape gardener |
| 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 ... |
| Aristotle | ... egan by asking Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of | 's On the Heavens |
| Sartre | ... himself agree that it was ethical; the religious suspends the ethical), and | 's final words in are "All these questions, which refer us to a pure and n ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
| Colin Powell | ... thy. He also reveals that President George W. Bush, then–Secretary of State | , and other GOP leaders played a major role in ending his career as Senate ... |
| Peter Molyneux | ... annual 'Game Gods' feature, alongside such notables as Roberta Williams and | |
| Frederick Scott | The first black undergraduate was | who entered the school in 1945. In 1967 the first black students earned gr ... |
| Aristotle | ... , and metaphysics. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers, such as | , Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scienti ... |
| Oscar Loew | ... ested that peroxide's breakdown is caused by an unknown substance. In 1900, | was the first to give it the name catalase, and found its presence in many ... |
| Tacitus | ... he ideas and customs of other peoples, which often diverged from their own. | recorded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born childre ... |
| Dick Gregory | ... African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George Kirby, Bill Cosby and | began to cross over to white audiences during this time |
| Aristotle's | Some of Zeno's nine surviving paradoxes (preserved in | Physic |
| Pliny the Elder | ... via comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by ancient Roman naturalist | |
| Dave McKean | ... m Jones III, lettering by Todd Klein, colors by Daniel Vozzo, and covers by | |
| 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 ... |
| Rudolf Steiner | ... Stoltenberg. He was raised in the Waldorf Education system as formulated by | , and educated at the Oslo katedralskole and the University of Oslo. He li ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, and | . The main goals of his non-fiction works are to acknowledge the influence ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ancesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, | , and Titian. The same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelles ... |
| Giordano Bruno | ... published Clavis artis Lullianae. He published the Artificium perorandi of | in 1610; and in the same year the Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find ... |
| Yuji Horii | ... he few long-running video game series to have a stable key development team | ;(creator), Akira Toriyama (artist) and Koichi Sugiyama (composer). The or ... |
| Bill Stumpf | ... Aeron chair is a Herman Miller product designed in 1994 by Don Chadwick and | . It is an ergonomic chair regarded by many users as inherently very comfo ... |
| John von Neumann | ... the U.S. Navy had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of | . Atanasoff was put in charge of the project, and he asked Mauchly to help ... |
| Brook Taylor | British work, carried on by mathematicians such as | and Colin Maclaurin, fell behind Continental developments as the century p ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... sted that he write scholarly annotations to the responsa of Tzemach Tzedek. | also sought his annotations to various hasidic discourses. It was during t ... |
| George Harrison | ... is recording with another noise recording in 1969 entitled . Beatles member | also released a noise/musique concrète recording in 1969, titled Electroni ... |
| Virginia Lee Burton | ... t Newbury and its residents were the models for Popperville, the setting of | 's children's story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. The town hall wher ... |
| Averroes | ... at he believed to be the best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see | , Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 148 ... |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | ... ulation was already a standard practice but involved serious risks. In 1721 | had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, ... |
| Tacitus | ... hem, had their heads shaved at Paul's expense. Among the ancient Chatti, as | relates (Germania, 31), young men allowed their hair and beards to grow, a ... |
| Benjamin Bloom | | has suggested three domains of learning |
| Ptolemy | ... n Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of | (the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer) in about 140 AD provide possibl ... |
| Akira Toriyama | ... eo game series to have a stable key development team; Yuji Horii (creator), | (artist) and Koichi Sugiyama (composer). The original concepts, used since ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as | , earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as Al-Kindi ... |
| Shigeru Miyamoto | ... in collaboration with Disney Interactive), and (done under the guidance of | ) |
| Kenneth Wolstenholme | ... David Charles Manners, snooker player Jimmy White and football commentator | . Magnum Photographer Martin Parr was born in Epsom. Jimmy Page of Led Zep ... |
| Alan Shearer | ... tball for the first time since 1966. In 1992, Dalglish signed Southampton's | for a British record fee of £3.5 million. Despite a serious injury which r ... |
| Roger Ebert | Some critics and Hitchcock scholars, including Donald Spoto and | , agree that Vertigo represents the director's most personal and revealing ... |
| Charles Wilkes | The United States Exploring Expedition led by Lieutenant | was tasked with a vast survey of the Pacific Ocean starting in 1838. In Se ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
| Axel Erlandson | ... eatured a collection of exotic birds and animals, a restaurant, and cabins. | opened The Tree Circus in 1947, featuring trees grafted and trained in str ... |
| George Carlin | ... coming major stars based on stand-up comedy performances. Richard Pryor and | followed Lenny Bruce's acerbic style to become icons. Stand-up expanded fr ... |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | ... nions began to be displaced by vector analysis, which had been developed by | , Oliver Heaviside, and Hermann von Helmholtz. Vector analysis described t ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... Schneerson was assigned specific communal tasks by his father-in-law, Rabbi | , who also requested that he write scholarly annotations to the responsa o ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... lodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films." | is another admirer of the film |
| Aristotle | ... e Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find the common ground in the work of | , Raymond Lull, and Petrus Ramus. In 1612 Alsted edited the Explanatio of ... |
| Gustave Doré | ... e of the most notable illustrators of Paradise Lost included William Blake, | and Henry Fuseli (1799); however, the epic's illustrators also include, am ... |
| Aristotelian | ... unt &c. He poked fun at the arrogance of the work and Woodward's misguided, | insistence that what is theoretically attractive must be actually true. In ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... etts) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while former Governor | (R-Arkansas) finished third with 27.70 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
| Richard Maltby, Jr. | | | |
| Dave McKean | ... n Serious Earth is a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and painted by | . It was published by DC Comics in 1989. It made reference to the treatmen ... |
| 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, ... |
| Claude-Étienne Savary | ... tists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798–1799. | describes the complex rather detailed in his work of 1785; especially in l ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... hed at scientific academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as | , Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien- ... |
| Avicenna | ... eved to be the best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see Averroes, | ) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485. It was ... |
| Martin Gardner | According to | , at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between N ... |
| Don Chadwick | The Aeron chair is a Herman Miller product designed in 1994 by | and Bill Stumpf. It is an ergonomic chair regarded by many users as inhere ... |
| Aristotle | ... h remain extant — did circulate in antiquity. Critical ancient sources like | and Aristoxenus cast doubt on these writings. Ancient Pythagoreans usually ... |
| Oliver Evans | ... he 19th century, the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick, and the American, | began to construct higher pressure non-condensing steam engines, exhaustin ... |
| Will Wright | Maxis was founded in 1987 by | and Jeff Braun to help publish SimCity on home computers. Before then, the ... |
| William S. Burroughs | ... . Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, | , Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... erican writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, | , Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in ... |
| Mark Twain | ... abell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including | , Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. A ... |
| Alexander Nisbet | ... eant Campioun Schir William Wallace as a compatriot of William Wallace, and | recorded his tombstone in 1718, in the floor of the old kirk in North Berw ... |
| Aristotle | ... n, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of | . But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distinguished from the Al-Hawi (Continence) ... |
| Abraham ibn Ezra | ... w expressed by some classical Jewish authorities, such as Abraham ibn Daud, | , and Gersonides |
| Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
| Howard Zinn | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian | 's A People's History of the United States, published in 2003. Zinn had be ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken | 's "unshakable" geocentric system |
| Abbie Hoffman | The album title is a reference to | 's book Steal This Book, which is regarded as a classic example of counter ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Royce | ... nineteenth century; artist, Christopher Perkins – brother of Frank; and Sir | , 1st Baronet of Seaton, engineer and co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Physician ... |
| Dave McKean | Black Orchid, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by | , also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-winning graphic novel introduced ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year. | of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, in w ... |
| Howard Hughes | ... e to harass political enemies, and a $100,000 contribution from billionaire | . Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian Stanley Kutl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sarah Palin | Alaska Governor | was revealed as McCain's surprise choice for running mate on August 29, 20 ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | Artists using this technique include | |
| Will Wright | ... on-based, though none are considered traditional simulations. Maxis founder | likens them as "digital dollhouses." Maxis has also released games develop ... |
| William Kent | ... of Horace Walpole) "Apollo of the Arts", designed the villa with the aid of | (1685–1748), who took a leading role in designing the gardens. It became o ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... xus style of Ono as well as the musique concrète works of composers such as | and Pierre Henry |
| Stephen Colbert | ... as served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including | 's fictional persona, Michael Corleone of The Godfather, Meredith Grey of ... |
| Gersonides | ... assical Jewish authorities, such as Abraham ibn Daud, Abraham ibn Ezra, and | |
| François Truffaut | ... e MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. Hitchcock told French director | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... ism saw something of a return to the idea of a mere unchallengeable despot. | condoned extra-legal tyrannicide in the worst of circumstances |
| 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 ... |
| Alfred Wegener | Earlier theories (e.g. by | and Alexander du Toit) of continental drift were that continents "plowed" ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... st. In 1912 he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by | and post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profound ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... which embodies many of the educational and philosophical tenets espoused by | - and Maria and 's Practical Education: The History of Harry and Lucy (178 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ver was also sometimes referred to as McAllister's Town in its early years. | spent the night of April 12, 1776 at the Sign of the Horse, an inn owned b ... |
| Aristotle | ... Plato, as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for | . Although he was a product of the studia humanitatis, Pico was constituti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Strabo | ... ves, often giving them names such as "copro -" to memorialise their rescue. | considered it a peculiarity of the Egyptians that every child must be rear ... |
| Francis Ronalds | In 1816, | set up a primitive telegraph. He ran eight miles (13 km) of cable (encased ... |
| Larry Sabato | In his book A More Perfect Constitution, Professor | elaborated on this advantage of the Electoral College, arguing to "mend it ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... or center of Neoplatonism. He studied there under Luca Pacioli, a friend of | |
| Damascius | ... s are similar to those of the philosophic path. Late Neo-Platonists such as | explore the implications of this at length |
| Galen | ... t from that of his predecessor Rhazes, because he presented the doctrine of | , and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of ... |
| Jon Stewart | ... bert's success because he had made mention of him on his show. In response, | , host of The Daily Show, claimed that he was responsible for the success ... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
| 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. ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... mainstream media throughout the world covered the match. Secretary of State | spoke with Fischer urging him to play the match, and chess was at its apex ... |
| John W. Henry | ... minority stakeholder in the Boston Red Sox, a position acquired as part of | 's purchase of the famed baseball team. The Boston Globe and other The New ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... ng trips to New Orleans, were set to air in the fall of 2005, shortly after | struck. The episodes eventually aired in May and June 2006. Similarly, an ... |
| Valerie D'Orazio | ... h inks by Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Royal. The series was edited by | . Eric Powell created the painted cover art which appeared on both the ori ... |
| Anaximander | ... rom the lost doxography of Sotion. The biographies of the former begin with | , and end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins ... |
| Groff Conklin | | described the novel as "a thoroughly delightful job". Boucher and McComas ... |
| Carl Schmitt | ... hilosopher, Martin Heidegger and its most prominent constitutional scholar, | , spoke in favour of it, and Heidegger became the sponsor of a manifesto o ... |
| Pauline Kael | ... tics to be one of his best performances. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece | ;wrote that he "may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen ac ... |
| Andy Rooney | ... o a popular place for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blanding, including | and Sloan Wilson who went on to write the classic 1950s novel The Man in 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 ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... rejected by the leading theologians in the next century, chief of whom was | . He distinguished the supernatural gifts of Adam before the Fall from wha ... |
| Roger Ebert | ... am of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on Metacritic. The film led | to call Reiner "one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy", and sai ... |
| Porphyry | ... evidence from the mithraeum itself. He reminds us that the Platonic writer | wrote in the 3rd century AD that the cave-like temple Mithraea depicted "a ... |
| Pliny | ... coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; and | gives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colony ... |
| Yan Xishan | In 1930, when warlords Feng Yuxiang and | attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government, Zhang Xuel ... |
| P. Schuyler Miller | ... etailed picture of an interplanetary future we will encounter in any year". | cited the novel's "freshness and simplicity," characterizing it as "a life ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pablo Picasso | ... oward making a work of art was as important as the work of art itself. Like | 's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the ... |
| Hotman | ... whether indeed in the manner of Keckermann or of Alsted, 5) the Forensic of | , 6) the Jesuitic, and 7) the Socinian, differ mostly in respect to manner ... |
| Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira | Tuvalu was first sighted by Europeans in 1568 with the voyage of | from Spain who is understood to have sighted the island of Nui, which he n ... |
| Allen Boothroyd | The case was designed by industrial designer | of Cambridge Product Design Ltd |
| Uffa Fox | ... supervision. He was a keen yachtsman, striking up a friendship in 1949 with | in Cowes. He and the Queen regularly attended Cowes Week in HMY Britannia. ... |
| Themistius | ... his fellow tribesmen and forced to seek asylum on the Roman territory. Cf. | (oratio 15, 190-1), who likewise describes Athanaric as a supplicant and a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louis C. Tiffany | ... 3–1910) of Rochester, with stained-glass windows and interior decoration by | . It is the only complete, unaltered Tiffany chapel known to exist, althou ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... nt years, Alabama has been occasionally used as a hurricane shelter. During | , Alabama suffered damage which resulted in an eight-degree list to port, ... |
| Louis Duperrey | ... ands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Adam von Krusenstern, and French captain | , after a British captain named Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelag ... |
| Walter Cronkite | ... called "Unipressers" and were noted for their fiercely competitive streak. | , who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his covera ... |
| Rashi | According to | , this ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer bef ... |
| Richard Garriott | The term MMORPG was coined by | , the creator of Ultima Online, in 1997. Previous to this and related coin ... |
| Pliny | ... When Horace criticized Augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, | reports that the 6th century BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so c ... |
| Conrad Aiken | ... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with | , the American novelist |
| Colin Powell | ... Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General | was the speaker for Damascus High School's Class of 2000 commencement cere ... |
| Frederick Brownell | ... t had been used since 1928. The new national flag, designed by State Herald | , was chosen to represent the new democracy |
| Oliver North | In 1990 the ACLU defended Lieutenant Colonel | , whose conviction was tainted by coerced testimonya violation of his fift ... |
| Tom Shales | ... es Lon Grankhe called O'Brien "nervous, unprepared and generally geeky" and | wrote "As for O'Brien, the young man is a living collage of annoying nervo ... |
| Onias | ... r the office of High Priest, traditionalists with Hebrew/Aramaic names like | contested with Hellenizers with Greek names like Jason and Menelaus. Other ... |
| medicine | ... amous theorem, as well as discoveries in the field of music, astronomy, and | . But it was the religious element which made the profoundest impression u ... |
| Samuel de Champlain | ... rers and settlers frequently mentioned Passenger Pigeons in their writings. | in 1605 reported "countless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "inf ... |
| Aristotle | ... hemy (although he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of | and Theophrastus. He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of ... |
| 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 ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... nd Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, | , Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| Alex Haley | ... g them QB VII, and Rich Man, Poor Man. The most successful, Roots, based on | 's novel, became one of the biggest hits in television history. Combined w ... |
| Jean Piaget | ... itive development or the construction of human thought or mental processes. | was one of the more important and influential people in the field of Devel ... |
| 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 ... |
| Norman Bel Geddes | Futurama was an exhibit/ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by | that tried to show the world 20 years into the future (1959–1960). Sponsor ... |
| Humphrey Llwyd | The 1573 Additamentum to the atlas is notable for containing | 's Cambriae Typus, the first map to show Wales on its own |
| Bosley Crowther | ... d dual roles, as twins. The film received poor reviews and was described by | as "a distressingly empty piece"; but, with a profit of $2.5 million, it w ... |
| Marcel Riesz | ... rem from which the Hahn–Banach theorem can be derived was proved in 1923 by | |
| Jack Williamson | Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, | characterized Heinlein's story as "a dream of personal freedom" written wi ... |
| Pausanias | ... directly in cult anywhere in classical Greece, but at Lebadaea in Boeotia, | noted in the 2nd century AD that Europa was the epithet of Demeter— "Demet ... |
| 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 ... |
| Juan Ignacio Molina | According to | , the Dutch captain Joris van Spilbergen observed the use of chiliquenes ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... temps was created by the French Bureau of Longitude, with the mathematician | as secretary. The commission proposed making the standard hour the base un ... |
| David Brinkley | ... until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and | in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, anchored by John ... |
| Tori Spelling | In guest appearances, Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty and | reprised their roles as Kelly Taylor, Brenda Walsh and Donna Martin, respe ... |
| Bavarian Geographer | The | , an anonymous medieval document compiled in Regensburg in 830, contains a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... clude Carl Jung (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), | (who included it in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ccultation of Aldebaran. Copernicus later used this observation to disprove | 's model of lunar distance |
| Descartes | ... by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton. Where | held that all motions should be explained with respect to the immediate fo ... |
| Gríma Wormtongue | Later, | cast the stone down from Orthanc, where it was recovered by Peregrin Took ... |
| Anthony Boucher | Even the "avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man", | , writing for The New York Times appeared to enjoy Goldfinger, saying "the ... |
| Frank S. Nugent | When the film was first released | , the film critic of The New York Times praised the film and the acting, w ... |
| Steve Wozniak | ... orage and retrieval to replace cassettes. The Disk II interface, created by | , was regarded as an engineering masterpiece for its economy of electronic ... |
| Theophrastus | ... he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of Aristotle and | . He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of the mineral and ... |
| Galileo Galilei | Lyrical references in this passage include Scaramouche, the fandango, | , Figaro and Bismillah, as rival factions fight over the narrator's soul. ... |
| Duns Scotus | ... the Franciscans, though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as | and William of Ockham, eliminated the element of concupiscence |
| Averroes | ... uropean universities, and eclipse the names of Rhazes, Ali ibn al-Abbas and | . His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessor Rhaze ... |
| Bosley Crowther | ... in part on a single-spaced 11-page letter that Foreman wrote to film critic | in April 1952. In the letter, Foreman asserts that the film began as a fou ... |
| James Blish | Science-fiction writer and critic | , writing in 1957, shortly after publication, criticized the lack of chara ... |
| Nils Bejerot | ... st in the matter. The term "Stockholm syndrome" was coined by criminologist | . The actions of the police and other government officials, along with the ... |
| James Blish | ... his work was remarkably influential on later authors of fantastic fiction. | was a fan of Cabell's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of t ... |
| Chet Huntley | ... news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by | in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the ... |
| Horace Mann | ... ponents such as Rebecca Smith Pollard, some American educators, prominently | , argued that phonics should not be taught at all. This led to the commonl ... |
| Pablo Picasso | With Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, and | , Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galeri ... |
| faith healers | ... ts belonged to two different hierarchical Daoist religious societies led by | Zhang Jue (d. 184 CE) and Zhang Lu (d. 216 CE), respectively. Zhang Lu's r ... |
| Aristotle | ... leontology with his explanation of how the stoniness of fossils was caused. | previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Ibn Sina m ... |
| René Descartes | The French philosopher | was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy ... |
| Josephus | In the Antiquities of the Jews, | refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that hi ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with | , who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive ( ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles Peirce | ... o scientific theories about the universe. Popper's falsifiability resembles | 's nineteenth century fallibilism. In Of Clocks and Clouds (1966), Popper ... |
| E. H. Moore | ... a on F sends a to b. The second proof is actually the one which was used in | 's 1903 paper which (for the first time) classified all finite fields |
| 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 ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir | , Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ... |
| Rudolph Boysen | ... le berry that had been grown on the northern California farm of a man named | . Darrow enlisted the help of Walter Knott, a Southern California farmer w ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | ... Morris's interpretation of an interpretant, a term used in the semiotics of | , has been understood to be strictly psychological. Morris's system of sig ... |
| William of Ockham | ... , though the most prominent Franciscan theologians, such as Duns Scotus and | , eliminated the element of concupiscence |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... sm of Henry Corbin, Thelema, and even in fiction such as The Theologians by | in Labyrinths. According to Irenaeus, a certain sect known as the "Cainite ... |
| 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 ... |
| Will Wright | As The Sims became a steady success, | began to focus on Spore. After the spinoff of The Sims studio, it was Maxi ... |
| Oliver North | ... conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, Henry Ford, and | ; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, H. L. Mencken ... |
| Peter Popoff | ... money was used for Randi's comprehensive exposé of faith healers, including | , W.V. Grant and Ernest Angley. When Popoff was exposed, he was forced to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel R. Delany | ... dia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and | was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally libe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... nce of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks. The Egyptian astronomer | in his Geographia named the Malay Peninsula as Aurea Chersonesus (Golden P ... |
| Henri Poincaré | In 1905, | was the first to recognize that the transformation has the properties of a ... |
| Roh Moo-hyun | ... and South Korea have had many disputes. The former president of South Korea | rejected a conference with the Prime Minister of Japan following his visit ... |
| Dick Gregory | ... Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as | , H. L. Mencken, Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| Daniel Marot | ... ons, Sir James Thornhill and Jacques Rousseau; furnishings were designed by | |
| John Bradshaw Layfield | ... this type occurred at WWE No Mercy 2004 in which The Undertaker challenged | for the WWE Championship. It is said that The Undertaker created this matc ... |
| Yuji Horii | ... onally best-selling console role-playing video game (RPG) titles created by | and his studio, Armor Project. The series is published by Square Enix (for ... |
| Peter H. Hunt | ... 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was directed by Steve Binder and | |
| Aristotle | ... itings of 1260–1280 Bacon cited Secretum secretorum, which he attributed to | , far more than his contemporaries did. Often used as an argument for the ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... rnment while shortening their terms of service to the state. She encouraged | 's establishment of the University of Moscow and Ivan Shuvalov foundation ... |
| Aristotle | ... and functions of parts of the body are also covered. The Canon agrees with | (and disagrees with Hippocrates) that tuberculosis was contagious, a fact ... |
| Edmond Picard | Having gained his law degree, he became a trainee (1881–1884) with | , a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brusse ... |
| Selena | ... nd Far Between". Byrne worked with the "Queen of Tex-Mex", Tejano superstar | , writing, producing and singing a song ("God's Child (Baila Conmigo)"), i ... |
| James Veitch | The Veitch Memorial Medal, named after | , is awarded annually to persons of any nationality who have made an outst ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | In 1923 Rabbi Schneerson visited | for the first time. It was presumably at that time that he met Schneersohn ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... the Suda. The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, and occurs in | , and in a lemma to the Greek Anthology. He is also referred to as "Laerte ... |
| Roger Ebert | Despite positive reviews from some critics, including | , Joe Versus the Volcano was a box office flop. It has since attracted a c ... |
| Abraham Ortelius | ... of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by | and originally printed on May 20, 1570, in Antwerp, it consisted of a coll ... |
| Alan Shearer | ... ecord in 1996 by paying £15million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker | , one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. A host of other high p ... |
| Qasim Amin | In 1899, | , considered the "father" of Arab feminism, wrote The Liberation of Women, ... |
| Guido van Rossum | ... tors of Python, became part of the company in the year 2000. Python founder | left Zope Corp in 2003 |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... minated by Germans, but also because it explicitly acknowledges its debt to | (himself a composer, amongst other things) and, by so doing, establishes a ... |
| Kant | ... d Plato, both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted to | , though they differed on fundamental points. He sympathised with some of ... |
| William Morris | ... Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of | . He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school m ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... iter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host | , commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, ... |
| Aristobulus of Cassandreia | ... (so Onesicritus, Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (so | , Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos) |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ch of the Ohio. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, | stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
| 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 ... |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens ( | ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement cer ... |
| Virgil Exner | ... ing as a whole lost its frontrunner status in 1957 when Chrysler introduced | 's "Forward Look" designs. When compared side to side, Oldsmobile looked d ... |
| Jonathan Rigby | ... e for Horne and Kenneth Williams, the 21st century version was performed by | and Robin Sebastian. The show was recorded at the Radio Theatre, Broadcast ... |
| Paul Goldberger | ... other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic | to declare 1989 "the year of Pei" in The New York Times. It was also the y ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... dy the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the Renaissance astronomer | , it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on th ... |
| John Lahr | | wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title Orton hims ... |
| Amerigo Vespucci | ... en". Americus Vespucius is the Latinized version of the Florentine explorer | 's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus. Amerigen is explain ... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ... n the 1970s began as a continuation of styles created by such architects as | and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Early in the decade, several architects comp ... |
| Donald Knuth | In 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler with | and David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Soci ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... Starpeace and Onobox. At 16 Sean co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with | for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Sean had formed the band IMA (with S ... |
| Jonathan Rigby | ... one focused on Horne's frequent ghost-writer, Mollie Millest, and featured | as Horne |
| Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz | ... urik. In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists | and Adelbert von Chamisso, and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out o ... |
| H. P. Lovecraft | ... diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, | , Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
| Nico | ... about Edie Sedgwick at Warhol's request. "I'll Be Your Mirror", inspired by | , is a tender and affectionate song; in stark contrast to a song like "Her ... |
| Mark Twain | ... e Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included | , Charles Dickens and Christopher Marlowe |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Porco Rosso is one of the few films directed by | in which the historical and geographical settings are clearly defined and ... |
| Johann Joachim Winckelmann | ... he borrowed this nom de plume from the German city of Stendal in homage to | |
| Yoshitaka Amano | Warrior of Light, based on | 's design of the lead character, and Garland are the respective hero and v ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | ... is founded on a natural law argument informed by scripture and proposed by | , the traditional conservative Protestant view is based on an interpretati ... |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | ... continuation of styles created by such architects as Frank Lloyd Wright and | . Early in the decade, several architects competed to build the tallest bu ... |
| Gary Kleck | ... illiam F. Shughart. The book also received favorable reviews from academics | , Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell |
| Nate Burleson | ... ther contract offers, including a contract offered to Vikings wide receiver | by the Seahawks, which, with irony fully intended, was structured as a sev ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... in Indonesia after the December 2004 tsunami, and Truman provided aid after | later in 2005. The Reagan Carrier Strike Group performed humanitarian assi ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ls (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, | and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
| 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 ... |
| Porphyry | The philosopher | (3rd-4th century AD) gives an account of the origins of the Mysteries in h ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | After | , New Orleans attorney, political activist, and state government watchdog ... |
| Onesicritus | ... urce, Plutarch. He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so | , Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Indiana | Gene Davis. | |
| Vincent Canby | ... and Bakshi is certainly the most creative American animator since Disney." | of The New York Times ranked Heavy Traffic among his "Ten Best Films of 19 ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... a tiling of the plane with integral squares, each having a different size. | has published an extensive article written by about the early history of s ... |
| Fritz Leiber's | ... medy of Justice), features Jurgen, an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei. | Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Charles G. Finney's famo ... |
| Cecil Beaton | ... hah of Iran. It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, | photographed Jagger's naked buttocks, a photo that sold at Sotheby's aucti ... |
| George Barris | | built two automobiles for the show: "Munster Koach", a hot rod built on a ... |
| Pausanias | In | , Description of Greece, the first Sibyl at Delphi mentioned ("the former" ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former Governor of Massachusetts | in a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runners in the r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emerich de Vattel | ... is not a legal document at all, but a philosophical document influenced by | , Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and Samuel Pufendorf. Historian David Armitage ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | and | |
| Pierre Nicolas Gerdy | ... (1797–1851) at the Bicêtre. In 1844, he succeeded to become an intern with | (1797–1856), a great anatomist and surgeon. After two years with Gerdy, Br ... |
| Sadakichi Hartmann | ... thology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of | , and contemporary French-language translations |
| Vladimir Pokhilko | ... iet government, Pajitnov did not receive royalties. Pajitnov, together with | , moved to the United States in 1991 and later, in 1996, founded The Tetri ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | A famous allegorical engraving by | is entitled Melencolia I. This engraving portrays melancholia as the state ... |
| Josephus | ... , a Jewish client king of Rome. Ashkelon may have even been his birthplace. | states Ashkelon was not ceded to Herod the Great in 30 BC, yet he built mo ... |
| Lenny Kravitz | ... along with other "Handsome Men" including Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe and | . At the end of the skit Kimmel has a door slammed in his face by Damon st ... |
| Jim Henson | ... c music soundtracks for some early experimental films by Muppets impresario | |
| Valentin Friedland | A former pupil of an eminent German scholar and educationist | , Martin Helwig went on to study at the University of Wittenberg where as ... |
| Onesicritus | ... Plutarch also makes mention of when Alexander's secondary naval commander, | , was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimach ... |
| Joseph Paxton | The garden designer | (1803–1865), creator of the Crystal Palace, started his career in the gard ... |
| Saruman | ... in the Second Age at the southern end of the Misty Mountains. In T.A. 2759, | obtained the keys of Orthanc from Beren, the ruling Steward of Gondor, pos ... |
| Jonathan Rigby | Horne was played in the West End and in the film by | , who in 2008-9 reprised the role in a new show, devised this time by Barr ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... he existence of "speaking heads" involved Gerbert of Aurillac (d. 1003 AD), | (1198–1280), and Roger Bacon (1214–1294) |
| Hector Berlioz | ... ounterpoint and harmony classes with Anton Reicha, the teacher of Liszt and | , and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. It was with the greatest regret that ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | For Saint | (who also taught the Perfection of Christ) the "'Son of God' is God as kno ... |
| Ptol. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , Strab.; , | ) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Province of ... |
| James Blish | ... ny other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderson's The Big Rain, and | 's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involving terraforming of Mars include ... |
| Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn | ... ersohn. In January 1951, a year after the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi | , he assumed the leadership of the Lubavitch movement |
| Koren Robinson | ... l, Ted Brown, Dick Christy, Haywood Jeffires, Dr. Jerry Punch, Jim Ritcher, | and Dewayne Washington. Notable current players include Adrian Wilson of t ... |
| Kant | ... as a unity - as a single subject. Hume had offered the following proposal: | , Hegel and their successors sought to flesh out the process by which the ... |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... and enrolled at the American Theater Wing, working off Broadway, including | 's The Victors. He also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles on ... |
| John Rocque's | ... Latin mola (a mill) or is a back-formation from Molesey (Mul's island). In | 1768 map of Surrey, the name Moulsey River is used |
| Robert Adam | ... istic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, Tobias Smollett, | , William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably to the Scotti ... |
| Eric Sevareid | ... ublic television in 1964 and then in two one-hour conversations on CBS with | in the late 1960s |
| George Best | ... d, Banks was also involved in a notorious incident with Manchester United's | who, while playing against England for Northern Ireland, flicked the ball ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... liary cavalry unit. The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in | 's Naturalis Historia. They were famous for their recreation pools for Rom ... |
| Thomas Chippendale | ... Mannerist architecture, and applied to furniture designed, or inspired, by | |
| 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 ... |
| Amerigo Vespucci | ... y England. Pedro Álvares Cabral reached Brazil and claimed it for Portugal. | , working for Portugal in voyages from 1497 to 1513, established that Colu ... |
| Hironobu Sakaguchi | ... es were The Death Trap and its sequel , both designed by part-time employee | and released on the NEC PC-8801 |
| Strab. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , | ; , Ptol.) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Pro ... |
| John Mayer | ... e former Shea performer Roger Daltrey of The Who, Tony Bennett, Don Henley, | , John Mellencamp, Garth Brooks, and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. The concer ... |
| John Ehrlichman | # | (R) Counsel to Nixon, convicted of perjury |
| Joseph Paul Franklin | This book was dedicated to serial killer | , a longtime member of various racist groups who, like Hunters protagonist ... |
| wizard | ... tion of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the | Gandalf in the Rankin/Bass animated adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and T ... |
| François Leuret | ... ogist Philippe Ricord (1800–1889) at the Hôpital du Midi, then in 1843 with | (1797–1851) at the Bicêtre. In 1844, he succeeded to become an intern with ... |
| Hegel | Kant, | and their successors sought to flesh out the process by which the subject ... |
| Vadim Gerasimov | Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and | in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the We ... |
| James Cook | Captain | , in one of his voyages, sees some of the natives of the South Pacific Isl ... |
| John Rocque | ... 0–1765), the French painter Jacques Rigaud (1681–1754) and the cartographer | (1709–1762) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing th ... |
| Matthias Ringmann | ... troductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator | , states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling ... |
| Theophrastus | ... biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, | and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. ... |
| Pauline Kael | Championed by influential movie critic | , Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By no ... |
| 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 ... |
| Levi Yitzchak Schneerson | Schneerson was the eldest of three sons of | , an authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law who served as the rabbi of Yekat ... |
| Aristotle | ... ew Philocles took first prize at that competition. However, in his Poetics, | considered Oedipus the King to be the tragedy best matched his prescriptio ... |
| François Boucher | Image:The_Toilet_of_Venus,_by_François_Boucher.jpg| The Toilet of Venus, | , 175 |
| Giorgetto Giugiaro | ... DeLorean Safety Vehicle (DSV), with its bodyshell designed by Italdesign's | . The car entered into production as the DMC-12, but known simply as the D ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... d belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including | and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the ... |
| Jerry Falwell | ... AIDS has been portrayed by some small fringe sects such as Fred Phelps and | as a punishment by God against homosexuals. In the 20th century, theologia ... |
| Aristotle | ... ustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of Plato and | . At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... nd of one of Jarre's fellow-pupils at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of | , where Jarre had learned to use synthesizers, including the EMS VCS 3, wh ... |
| Aristotle | ... socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and | |
| 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. ... |
| Dorothy Parker | ... atire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, | and H. L. Mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in partic ... |
| 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 Carlin | ... th Robert Klein in 1975, and was instrumental in reaching larger audiences. | was a perennial favorite appeared in fourteen HBO comedy specials |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ience with a left-wing libertarian and anti-capitalist utopian vision since | 's 1974 novel, The Dispossessed |
| Jorge Luis Borges | ... evsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina Braschi, and | . The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-century French artists Hon ... |
| Jim Henson | ... s in films such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (both in conjunction with | 's Creature Shop). He collaborated with Terry Jones, who was a screenwrite ... |
| 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 ... |
| Horace Mann | ... school system. He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as | and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in ... |
| Gerardus Mercator | The Galápagos Islands first appeared on the maps, of | and Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570. The islands were named "Insulae de lo ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | | , in his 1940 work, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, describes a fictional worl ... |
| François Truffaut | ... he 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, especially critic-turned-director | . Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film wr ... |
| Kim Newman | ... d Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with | . Even though Gaiman thought he did a terrible job, the book's first editi ... |
| Stephen Sondheim | ... cene is almost entirely drawn from Molnár and is one extended musical piece | ;described it as "probably the single most important moment in the revolut ... |
| Ibn Battuta | By the time of the Moroccan traveller | 's appearance on the Somali coast in 1331, the city was at the zenith of i ... |
| Robert Benchley | ... atures Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and | , along with Edmund Gwenn |
| Jack Williamson | ... o naturally object to the process. The word itself was coined in fiction by | , but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderso ... |
| Aristotle | ... pt marked a significant departure from the concept of mimesis formulated by | in the 4th century BC, which was only concerned with "imitation of nature" ... |
| Chris Date | ... uent years, the most recent being the Sixth Normal Form (6NF) introduced by | , Hugh Darwen, and Nikos Lorentzos in 2002 |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, | and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by | , with a local storm surge of nearly and higher waves that engulfed Bayou ... |
| Pausanias | ... arents. Another account says her parents were Peiras and Styx (according to | , who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father). Echidna was a dr ... |
| Rashi | ... 1913. In 1977, he said of Vilenkin: “He taught me and my brothers Chumash, | and Talmud. He put me on my feet. He was an illustrious Jew...” When Schne ... |
| John Dewey | ... He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and | and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in th ... |
| Thomas Aquinas | | acknowledged difficulty in comprehending a deity's power. Aquinas wrote th ... |
| Aristotle | The philosopher | points out the ways in which tragedy differs from epic poetry |
| H. L. Mencken | ... er. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and | , used satire as their main weapon, and Mencken in particular is noted for ... |
| Roy McMurtry | ... d by the federal Attorney General Jean Chrétien, Ontario's justice minister | and Saskatchewan's justice minister Roy Romanow. Pressure from provincial ... |
| Fernand Léger | ... struments, including his music for Ballet Mécanique, originally written for | 's 1924 abstract film. This score involved multiple player pianos playing ... |
| Immanuel Kant | ... losophy of Plato and Aristotle. At the same time he studied the writings of | and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and began to apply ideas from the Greek phi ... |
| Ivan Betskoy | ... gan as Catherine's personal collection. At the instigation of her factotum, | , she wrote a manual for the education of young children, drawing from the ... |
| Chrysippus | ... e former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and | ; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. The Socratic ... |
| Abraham Ortelius | ... ty of Wittenberg, his map was later also republished in several versions of | 's pioneering world atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" |
| William of Tyre | The chronicler | reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century. The crusa ... |
| Yaqut al-Hamawi | Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian | wrote that it was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the ... |
| Dorothy Parker | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, John Howard Lawson, | , and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
| Tacitus | ... f this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by | ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself |
| Alexander von Humboldt | On August 15, 1801, the Prussian scientist | reached Fontibón where Mutis, and began his expedition to New Granada, Qui ... |
| Jacob Emden | According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on , Rabbi | (1697–1776) claimed |
| Mark Twain | ... sh Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as | and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics. Comedians of this era often ... |
| Kobelt | ... po stated. "The male penis cannot come in contact with the venous plexus of | (situated until the angle of the clitoris) or with the roots of the clitor ... |
| Bourdieu | Thinkers such as Althusser, Foucault or | theorize the subject as a social construction. According to Althusser, the ... |
| Colin Chapman | ... executives already doubted the ability of Lotus to handle this new project. | probably had similar views as he asked a high price for his contribution a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... hed on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists | and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to ... |
| Samuel de Champlain | ... ponsored by France; the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real in Newfoundland; and | (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed th ... |
| Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
| Aristotle | ... 6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. | accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 ... |
| Diane Sawyer | ... 20/20 special on poverty in America broadcast on January 26, 2007, in which | profiled the lives of three young children growing up in Camden. A follow- ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... atened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure. | , representing the Austrian School of economics, describes it this way |
| Baron Hill | ... ana's 9th congressional district and is represented in Congress by Democrat | . It is also part of Indiana Senate districts 47 and 48, and Indiana House ... |
| Eric Broadley | ... h, due to low gearing and so revving out on the mulsanne straight. However, | , Lola Cars' owner and chief designer, agreed on a short-term personal con ... |
| Robert Benchley | ... 1939 (the first was Rebecca) and had an unusually large number of writers: | , Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, ... |
| Josephus | ... s given in Menander of Ephesus's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in | 's Against Apion, i.18. Josephus ends his quotation of Menander with the s ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... s as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, | , Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists su ... |
| Jack Williamson | ... A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and | . His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma", which appeared i ... |
| Thomas Browne | ... Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir | , and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Ho ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... vel direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early | . (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, ... |
| Henry Kissinger | ... itch" and "clever fox" in his private communication with Secretary of State | (now released by the State Department). Indira signed the , resulting in p ... |
| Alex Tremulis | Ford styling consultant | (designer of the 1948 Tucker Sedan) mocked the 1958 Oldsmobile by drawing ... |
| Gustave Doré | ... the novel also inspired the 19th-century French artists Honoré Daumier and | |
| William Camden | Pedigrees, elaborated by Cecil himself with the help of | the antiquary, associated him with the Welsh Cecils or Sitsylts of Allt-Yr ... |
| Strabo | ... ' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both Herodotus and | give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one must travel ... |
| Edie Sedgwick | ... rhol's "Factory Superstars". "Femme Fatale" in particular was written about | at Warhol's request. "I'll Be Your Mirror", inspired by Nico, is a tender ... |
| Jean-Luc Godard | ... 973). In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, | , Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New ... |
| Eddie Albert | ... n career. It stars Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Carl Esmond, and | |
| Pablo Picasso | Emil Nolde, | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... nfluenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and | , to name a few |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mario Castoldi | ... ecords (such as the Macchi M.C.72 designed by the Italian airplane designer | ). One of the test pilots killed during the attempt to set the speed recor ... |
| Martin Waldseemüller | ... the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer | in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show the A ... |
| Amerigo Vespucci | The next recorded observation was in 1503–4 by | in a letter about his third voyage. In this letter he mentions "three Cano ... |
| Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology | In 2001, the | accepted female prostate as an accurate term for the Skene's gland found i ... |
| Fernand Léger | ... raphy of his film Anemic Cinema (1926), and personally manned the camera on | 's Ballet Mécanique (1924). Man Ray also appeared in René Clair's film Ent ... |
| Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... ng critically a wide range of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were | , Ray Hyman, James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resource ... |
| Abraham Ortelius | The Galápagos Islands first appeared on the maps, of Gerardus Mercator and | , in about 1570. The islands were named "Insulae de los Galopegos" (Island ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | ... y-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and | , and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a ... |
| Varro | ... wise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and | . But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to ... |
| Ursula Fleming | ... n Superintendent at the newly created Crichton. It is at the Crichton where | gained much of her education and experience |
| Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... r along the River Hermus, where a town called Maeonia existed, according to | (Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles |
| Kurt Hahn | In 1956, the Duke founded the Duke of Edinburgh's Award with | , in order to give young people "a sense of responsibility to themselves a ... |
| Andrew Wilkie | ... Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14.8 percent. Independent candidate | , an anti-pokies campaigner, was elected to the Australian House of Repres ... |
| Andrew Taylor Still | ... thy began in the United States in 1874. The term "osteopathy" was coined by | , MD, DO. Still was a physician and surgeon, Kansas state and territorial ... |
| Albrecht Dürer | ... his paintings has influenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, | and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander von Humboldt | The city is named for German naturalist | |
| Rashi | ... uently, at the twins' birth. According to the traditional counting cited by | , Isaac was 37 years old at the time of the Binding of Isaac, and news of ... |
| Robert Gates | ... tes by surprise. According to the future CIA Director and Defense Secretary | , he was briefing a US arms negotiator on the improbability of armed confl ... |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | The position taken by | , one of the foremost Renaissance magicians, is ambiguous. The character o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... 7) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the Lorentz transformation (so named by | ) as one under which Maxwell's equations were invariant. Poincaré (1900) a ... |
| Boris Johnson | ... g, the Mayor of Beijing handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London | , followed by a performance organized by the London Organising Committee o ... |
| Éric Rohmer | ... of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and | who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by making their own films, ... |
| Tim Russert | Network officials, concerned for the show's future, turned to | , the network's Washington bureau chief. He took over on December 8, 1991, ... |
| Alan Shearer | ... include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Nelson Mandela, Bobby Robson, | and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppings funfair, said to be the la ... |
| Maurice Wilks | In 1950, designer F.R. Bell and Chief Engineer | from British car manufacturers Rover unveiled the first car powered with a ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Hutton | ... s (Dinantian) age. The rock was first recognised as an igneous intrusion by | , while Hugh Miller visited in 1847 and wrote about the Rock's geology in ... |
| Groff Conklin | ... blished in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1945. It was anthologised by | in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... raneous newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials, and books. | for example wrote that the trances of Cayce did happen, but the informatio ... |
| W. V. Quine | In philosophy of mathematics, he and his mentor | developed the "Quine-Putnam indispensability thesis," an argument for the ... |
| Ivan Illich | ... ises and efficacy of compulsory schooling, including Deschooling Society by | , 1970 and No More Public School by Harold Bennet, 1972 |
| Gerald of Wales | ... earned", or educated at a university. His contemporary, the medieval writer | said of Walter that the Exchequer was his school |
| Pablo Picasso | ... cisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hopper, Käthe Kollwitz, | , Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyden, Carlos Alvarado Lang |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Porco Rosso, known in Japan as is the sixth anime film directed by | , produced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992. The story is about an It ... |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | ... estructuring and labor tension, Pittsburgh steelmaker George McMurtry hired | 's landscape architectural firm in 1895 to design Vandergrift as a model t ... |
| H. L. Mencken | ... ech activities to encompass censorship of art and literature. In that year, | deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned America ... |
| George R. Nelson | ... kland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, | ), Best Cinematography and Best Picture |
| Fioravanti | ... is a collaboration by Ferrari with Italian automobile coachbuilders such as | , Pininfarina, and Zagato to build custom cars using selected Ferrari mode ... |
| Bosley Crowther | | of the New York Times observed it "is not outstanding, either as a romance ... |
| Bob Mulholland | ... ve inch (165 cm) Wesson's chair before a negotiating session in his office. | also claimed Arnold was 5'10" (1.78 m) and that he wore risers in his boot ... |
| David Pleat | ... display in terms of discipline and spirit" and a "defensive masterplan" by | , Henry Winter wrote, "it can only be a matter of time before he [Dalglish ... |
| Konrad Zuse | ... special exhibition opened which featured the inventions of computer pioneer | , including a reproduction of the Z1 |
| Roger Ebert | ... ly the highest quality DVD that's ever been made". Chicago Sun-Times critic | describes the Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed ... |
| René Descartes | ... een subject and object corresponds to the distinction, in the philosophy of | , between thought and extension. Descartes believed that thought (subjecti ... |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer | wrote his short story There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contem ... |
| Kevin Faulk | ... f point for Zydeco musicians. NFL running back for the New England Patriots | maintains a residence in his home town Carencro |
| Aristotle | ... affiliated with the American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division. | scholar and Objectivist Allan Gotthelf, chairman of the Society, and his c ... |
| Louis Isidore Duperrey | Kiribati was named in French by captains Krusenstern and | "îles Gilbert", Gilbert Islands, after the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, ... |
| Jim Poynter | ... (Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero, | , George R. Nelson), Best Cinematography and Best Picture |
| James Paris Lee | ... he Lee-Enfield takes its name from the designer of the rifle's bolt system— | —and the factory in which it was designed—the Royal Small Arms Factory in ... |
| Hurricane Katrina | ... into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the state. Following | , the fleur-de-lis has been widely used in New Orleans as a symbol of gras ... |
| Vilna Gaon | The practice of practical kabbalah was banned by the | due to the decreasing spiritual sensitivity of later generations |
| Douglas Crimp | ... that was universally panned at the time as the only event that could bring | and Hilton Kramer together in a chorus of scorn. Postmodern art is noted f ... |
| Alcimus | ... sent the general Bacchides to Israel with a large army, in order to install | with the office of high priest (I Macc. 7:8, 9); Bacchides subdued Jerusal ... |
| William F. Albright | ... period of rivalry with Tibni is from the 27th year of Asa to the 31st year. | has dated his reign to 876 – 869 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates o ... |
| Stephen Colbert | ... episode of The Colbert Report aired on Jaffee's 85th birthday, and comedian | saluted the artist with a Fold-in birthday cake. The cake featured the sal ... |
| Oliver North | ... iega. After the Drug Enforcement Administration encountered opposition from | in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with ... |
| Gersonides | ... assidut). A few affirm self-limited omniscience (the theology elucidated by | in "The Wars of the Lord". |
| Howard M. Thompson | Jackson left Metagaming in 1980. By that time, | , the owner of Metagaming, was not happy with the TFT work done by Steve J ... |
| Mark Twain | ... ipment and the most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, | and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish sto ... |
| Polly Platt | ... ng their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director. With his wife | , he headed for Los Angeles, skipping out on the rent in the process. Inte ... |
| Pauline Kael | The movie was not universally liked, though | ;called it a "sickly whimsy" and referred to Mel Ferrer's "narcissistic, m ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bobby Jindal | ... Baton Rouge, also use the fleur-de-lis. On 9 July 2008, Louisiana governor | signed a bill into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the s ... |
| John Lennon | In a 1975 interview, | recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon ... |
| Eric Emerson | ... at an Exploding Plastic Inevitable performance) featured an image of actor | projected upside-down on the wall behind the band. Emerson threatened to s ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Another ad, featuring | drawing the Mona Lisa as she eats a Caramilk has won a Clio award |
| Constantin Carathéodory | ... ugust Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, | , Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Samson Raphael Hirsch |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... nalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, | , Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
| Ludwig Kaas | ... mocrats were physically removed. After meeting with Centre leader Monsignor | and other Centre Trade Union leaders daily and denying them a substantial ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | The genus name Glycine was originally introduced by | (1737) in his first edition of Genera Plantarum. The word glycine is deriv ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia. | , an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the fi ... |
| Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres | ... ting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait. Its first Lieutenant-Governor was | (1784–1787) and his successor was William Macarmick (1787). From 1799 to 1 ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Osca ... |
| W. Stewart Campbell | ... d), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, | , Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, George R. Nelson), Best Cinematography and ... |
| James Agee | ... whined". Some reviewers criticized Davis for the excess of her performance | ;wrote that she "demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic ... |
| Frederick Winslow Taylor | ... nt, had been pioneered by other engineers (most of whom are not famous, but | is one of the well-known ones), whose work would later be synthesized into ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bosley Crowther | ... rigo and Jo Berry in a 2005 compilation of Chick Flicks: Movies Women Love. | , reviewing the movie at its opening, had nothing but praise for the movie ... |
| Jack Telnack | ... ruction equipment components in the city of Wyandotte from 1946 until 2000. | , former Global Vice President of Design at the Ford Motor Company, lived ... |
| Danny Cohen | ... ly comes from Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of | in 1980. In 1726, Swift described tensions in Lilliput and Blefuscu: where ... |
| Tom Brokaw | ... ture). The former NBC Nightly News anchor and current special correspondent | hosted a special edition of Meet the Press dedicated to the life of Russer ... |
| Hilton Kramer | ... lly panned at the time as the only event that could bring Douglas Crimp and | together in a chorus of scorn. Postmodern art is noted for the way in whic ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... he ACLU were divided on the best tactics to use to promote civil liberties. | felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pinball Clemons | ... cause of his relationship with Argonauts head coach and former running back | , and the desire to "say goodbye to the CFL". According to the report, Flu ... |
| Gary Lineker | After the 1986 FIFA World Cup, English top scorer | was signed along with goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta, but the team could no ... |
| Tom Brokaw | Following Russert's death, | was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections. Brokaw ... |
| Karen Wynn Fonstad | ... ra Strachey's Journeys of Frodo is a plan of Minas Tirith. Pages 138&139 in | 's revised The Atlas of Middle-earth show a different plan of Minas Tirith ... |
| James Cook | ... y, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain | 's ship Endeavour in 1768 |
| Frank Abagnale | ... Frank Abagnale, Sr. in Catch Me If You Can. It is inspired by the story of | , Jr., a con artist who passed himself off as several identities and forge ... |
| François Truffaut | ... 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and | , were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's films as artistic wo ... |
| Marie Seton | ... tion with British socialists led him to visit the USSR. Robeson, Essie, and | embarked to the USSR on an invitation from Sergei Eisenstein in December 1 ... |
| Wilfrid Scott-Giles | ... y William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms. The royal lion was, according to | , "said to have been granted by Edward III". By the 19th century the city ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | In December 1952, he composed a Konkrete Etüde, realized in | 's Paris musique concrète studio. In March 1953, he moved to the NWDR stud ... |
| 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 ... |
| Matt Casamassina | ... a major role in legitimizing and popularizing the genre. According to IGN's | , Final Fantasys storyline had a deeper and more engaging story than the o ... |
| Steve Jobs | The next month, in October 1988, | visited Lotus to show them the new NeXT computer. When he saw Back Bay he ... |
| Ptolemy | During the Roman period, the geographer | noted that Sardinia was inhabited by the following peoples, from north to ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinrich Ernst Göring | ... January 1893 at the Marienbad sanatorium in Rosenheim, Bavaria. His father, | (31 October 1839–7 December 1913), a former cavalry officer, had been the ... |
| Pieter Oud | ... e Comité-Oud, a group of liberal members of the Labour Party (PvdA), led by | . The liberals within the PvdA were primarily members of the pre-war socia ... |
| Gerard Malanga | ... s" was written by Reed at Warhol's request (as stated in Victor Bockris and | 's Velvet Underground biography Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story). W ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Albrecht Dürer | Artists using this technique include | , Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hoppe ... |
| Porphyry | ... to, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, | , and Iamblichus for the biographical details. Aristotle had written a sep ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... eld universally valid characterizations of motion. The Tuscan mathematician | was the central figure in the shift to this perspective. As a mathematicia ... |
| Menachem Mendel Schneersohn | ... He was fifth in a direct paternal line to the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, | . In January 1951, a year after the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yose ... |
| William Camden | The antiquarian | (1551–1623) suggested that the name Cardiff may derive from "Caer-Didi" (" ... |
| d'Anville | ... liest known reference to the river was on a 1732 map by French cartographer | who labeled it the River of the Padoucas. A 1758 map referred to it as the ... |
| Dave McKean | ... te three graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long-time friend | : Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Trage ... |
| David Hilbert | ... he development of the structure theory of commutative rings in the works of | , Emmy Noether, and Emil Artin |
| Alcimus | Following the death of his puppet governor | , High Priest of Jerusalem, Bacchides felt secure enough to leave the coun ... |
| George Carlin | ... Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until | was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ccusations by a rival artist that Apelles took part in a conspiracy against | . This almost led to the artist's execution. "In the Renaissance the exemp ... |
| Franco Columbu | ... gain in top form, and won the title for the sixth consecutive time, beating | . After the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest, Schwarzenegger announced his retirem ... |
| Gerardus Mercator | ... tion with Ringmann, did not include it; however, usage was established when | applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance ... |
| 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 ... |
| Éric Rohmer | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially | , Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and pr ... |
| Melchisédech Thévenot | ... elled though the area. Protais' writing about their travel was published by | (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and Johann Mich ... |
| 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 |
| Michael E. Mann | ... ia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, seeking a broad range of documents from | , who was formerly an assistant professor there from 1999-2005. Mann, who ... |
| Thomas H. Jukes | ... ating a triplet coding, even though it is a five base physical interaction. | pointed out that the code constraints on the mRNA sequence required for th ... |
| Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī | ... d the development of algebra (Arabic: al-jabr) by the Persian mathematician | and other medieval Islamic mathematicians. Khwārizmī's "The Compendious Bo ... |
| Josephus | ... ta (Insurrectionary Synagogue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare | , B. J. ii.14, § 5; Jastrow, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most promin ... |
| Hayao Miyazaki | ... as originally planned as a short in-flight film for Japan Airlines based on | 's manga The Age of the Flying Boat, but grew into a feature-length film. ... |
| Legolas | ... ing, keeping watch over Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, | , Gimli, and Aragorn arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ussed by a number of twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including | and Noam Chomsky |
| Stephen Colbert | ... ht Zone-style TV show that airs in the year 3000] on "A Head in the Polls") | ;'s (in the DVD's second alternative ending); and The Simpsons (on the sea ... |
| Shen Kuo | ... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics, | (1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ... |
| J. L. Lagrange | ... for examination at Toulouse, he astounded his examiner by his knowledge of | |
| Gabe Kaplan | In 1982, | portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in which he performed on stage |
| Leonardo | ... hat she thought of the voice, she replied 'Ah! It is a ruin, but then so is | 's Last Supper |
| Félix Guattari | ... ing him a canonical American writer. French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and | made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short st ... |
| Adam Gopnik | ... rt of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and | 's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's ... |
| Brian Aldiss | Most of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting. | , another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... ecedents were thus upheld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by | and William O. Douglas. Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, es ... |
| Aulus Gellius | ... , Greek, and Latin languages were in contact with one another; according to | 17.17.1, Ennius referred to this heritage by saying he had "three hearts" ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... C (of grief, according to Cicero; Tusculan Disputations 3.31). According to | the craftsmen continued to work on the tomb after the death of their patro ... |
| Reuben Webster Millsaps | The college was founded by a Confederate veteran, Major | in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $50,000. Dr. William ... |
| Pete Seeger | ... Titled "An Evening With Salvador Allende", the concert featured Bob Dylan, | , Arlo Guthrie and Ochs |
| Herb Lubalin | In 1977, Zapf and his friends Aaron Burns and | founded a company called "Design Processing International, Inc." in New Yo ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and | |
| Colin Powell | ... nd financial body listed Martin along with United States Secretary of State | and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as top world leaders |
| Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
| Elliott Abrams | ... ubcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs hold hearings on Panama. Ignoring | 's request for a softer line towards Panama, Helms—a long-time Noriega cri ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... ime to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with Nixon's Chief of Staff, | . Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only ... |
| Lindsay Anderson | ... of the Victorian period. The school was the setting in 1968 for the classic | film . It also hosts the annual Cheltenham Cricket Festival, first staged ... |
| André Le Nôtre | ... homage to the fastidious geometry of the famous French landscape architect | (1613–1700). Pei also found the pyramid shape best suited for stable trans ... |
| Mary Quant | ... the war, Kangol berets were the height of fashion. In the 1960s, designers | and Pierre Cardin worked with the company, whose products graced the heads ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... ayers, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare and | plays |
| Damon Knight | At the other extreme, science fiction author and critic | wrote |
| James Blish | ... iction book Doctor Mirabilis, written in 1964 by the science fiction author | . This is the second book in Blish's quasi-religious trilogy After Such Kn ... |
| Robert S. Hartman | ... y out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by | 's Science of Value |
| Ian Freer | ... , "a rebel" and a "renaissance man", in the Hollywood film industry. Author | describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never af ... |
| 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 ... |
| Regnier de Graaf | ... ologically homologous to the female G-Spot, which was first hypothesized by | in 1672 where he observed that the secretions (female ejaculation) by the ... |
| Sherlock Holmes | John Gielgud played | for BBC radio in the 1950s, with Ralph Richardson as Watson. Gielgud's bro ... |
| Aristotle | From | Constitution of the Athenians |