* Raphael Lemkin ( 1900 – 1959 )-The Polish Lawyer Who Created the Concept of “ Genocide ”

The first world championship for curling was limited to men and was known as the " Scotch Cup ", held in Falkirk and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1959.

* 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled " There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom ", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

*< cite id = refMark1959 > W Markowitz ( 1959 ), " Variations in the Rotation of the Earth, Results Obtained with the Dual-Rate Moon Camera and Photograhic Zenith Tubes ", Astronomical Journal, vol. 64 ( 1959 ), pp. 106 – 113 .</ cite >

Also the 1959 film " Ben-Hur ", which starred Charlton Heston.

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.

Hans Hofmann, " The Gate ", 1959 – 1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

* In Tales to Astonish # 2 ( 1959 ) " My Job: To Catch a Martian ", a professor, who discovers an empty alien spacecraft, hires a private investigator to find the occupant when no one else will listen to him.

* In Tales to Astonish # 3 ( 1959 ) " I Discovered the Men From Mars ", a man from the year 1990 discovers a Martian space-craft while patrolling the coast on the lookout for communist spies.

", was issued in late 1959 on the ABC Paramount label.

Many objections to non-cognitivism based on the linguistic characteristics of what purport to be moral judgments were originally raised by Peter Glassen in " The Cognitivity of Moral Judgments ", published in Mind in January 1959, and in Glassen's follow-up article in the January 1963 issue of the same journal.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

In July 1959, he filed for " Semiconductor Device and Lead Structure ", a type of integrated circuit.

* " Lyford Grange Agnus Dei ", Global Net, banned Papal medallion, hidden in roof timbers for 400 years, found in 1959.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

The " British Amateur Radio Teletype Group ", BARTG, now known as the " British Amateur Teledata Group " was formed in June 1959.

Another explanation is that at a recording session in 1959 produced by Coxsone Dodd, double bassist Cluett Johnson instructed guitarist Ranglin to " play like ska, ska, ska ", although Ranglin has denied this, stating " Clue couldn't tell me what to play!

In 1959, the Legislature promoted the " Farm " and " Experiment Station " to the rank of " general campus ", creating, respectively, UC Davis and UC Riverside.

The song " Volare ", winner in 1959 by Domenico Modugno and performed in Italian, is the only foreign-language song to win this award.

Galbraith, " The literacy of the medieval English kings ", Proceedings of the British Academy, 21 ( 1935: 221 note 6 ); May McKisack, The Fourteenth Century ( Oxford History of England ) 1959: 2, reserves judgement

In 1959 Turner was charged with what he described as " interstate transportation of forged cheques and conspiracy ", and was forced to stand trial in St. Louis.

* Bulgarian — Goleminov, Marin: " Pierrot ", from Five Impressions ( 1959 ; piano ).

The 1959 models were marketed as " the Linear Look ", and also featured a bar-graph speedometer which showed a green indicator through, then changed to orange until, then was red above that until the highest speed read by the speedometer,.

Lucas presented the paper in 1959 to the Oxford Philosophical Society.

Reprinted in G. E. Moore, Philosophical Papers ( 1959 ).

* Gordon, Benjamin Lee, Medieval and Renaissance medicine, Philosophical Library, 1959

* Gordon, Benjamin Lee, Medieval and Renaissance medicine, Philosophical Library, 1959

Knuth was one of the founding editors of the Engineering and Science Review, which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959.

Science fiction studies has a long history dating back to the turn of the 20th century, but it was not until later that science fiction studies solidified as a discipline with the publication of the academic journals Extrapolation ( 1959 ), Foundation-The International Review of Science Fiction ( 1972 ), and Science Fiction Studies ( 1973 ), and the establishment of the oldest organizations devoted to the study of science fiction, the Science Fiction Research Association and the Science Fiction Foundation, in 1970.

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* Wormwood Review, a literary magazine published from 1959 to 1999

" English Historical Review 74 ( 1959 ): 577-89.

Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella " Goodbye, Columbus "— which first appeared in The Paris Review — and five short stories.

Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, who was called " Pres ", in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review, said: " As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right?

MIT Sloan Management Review, a leading academic journal focused on the management of innovation, has been published by the school since 1959.

* L. F. Gates, " The Decided Policy of William Lyon Mackenzie ", Canadian Historical Review 40 ( 1959 )

When the editor Paul Carroll published BIG TABLE Magazine ( Issue No. 1, Spring 1959 ) alongside former Chicago Review editor Irving Rosenthal, he was found guilty of sending obscene material through the U. S. mail for including " Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch ," a piece of writing the Judicial Officer for the United States Postal Service deemed " undisciplined prose, far more akin to the early work of experimental adolescents than to anything of literary merit " and initially judged it as non-mailable under the provisions of.

In a 1959 Paris Review interview, Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality.

John Crowe Ransom with Robie Macauley ( left ) at the The Kenyon Review in 1959.

He was the founding editor of the Kenyon Review, and continued as editor until his retirement in 1959.

* Funky Jazz Poems ( 1959 ) Rhino Review, New York.

" The Beginning of Parliamentary Reporting in Newspapers, 1768 – 1774 ," The English Historical Review ( Volume 74, Number 293, 1959 ): 623 – 636.

He was the poetry editor of Saturday Review from 1956 to 1972 and wrote the 1959 poetry textbook How Does A Poem Mean.

* Cadillac Eldorado 1959 Review.

Physical Review, 115, 503 ( 1959 ).

* Kramer, Fritz L. ( 1959 ) " A Note on Carl Ritter " Geographical Review 49: pp. 406 – 409

28 University of Cincinnati Law Review 401 ( 1959 ).

By 1957, the campaign had seen the release of around 2, 000 former inmates, the abolition of the Mental Health Act 1913 and the establishment of new Mental Health Review Tribunals and the Mental Health Act 1959.

* UltimateDisney. com: The Shaggy Dog ( 1959 ) DVD Review

*" The Stages of Economic Growth ", 1959, Econ History Review

* Breit, Harvey " Talk with Philip Wylie " New York Times Book Review ( July 3, 1959 )