In 1665, using an early microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells, a term he coined, in cork, and a short time later in living plant tissue.

* Robert A. Heinlein's short story " By His Bootstraps "

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

After the war, Fermi served for a short time on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, a scientific committee chaired by J. Robert Oppenheimer which advised the commission on nuclear matters and policy.

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

After a short time, Bullock resigned, and Dr. Robert Felkin took his place.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

* Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Mars as a setting for his novels and short stories, including:

Miyazaki based it on the young adult short stories of Robert Westall, who grew up in World War II England.

* Nehemiah Scudder, the fictional antagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's short novel If This Goes On —

The short cottage upright or pianino with vertical stringing, made popular by Robert Wornum around 1815, was built into the 20th century.

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

Pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard wrote extensively about his romanticized version of the Picts, especially in his short stories revolving around the fictional character Bran Mak Morn, but also in many other of his stories.

In the Forties he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled E poi venne il diluvio and another one titled La piccola fiammiferaia ( 1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl ), distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's Attack!

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I ( or EMH for short ), is a fictional character from the television series Star Trek: Voyager, played by actor Robert Picardo.

In college, he teamed up with his brother's roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods ( 1978 ), a 32-minute horror film which raised $ 375, 000, as well as the short comedic film It's Murder!

In Robert Bloch's 1956 short story " A Way Of Life ", science fiction fandom is the only institution to survive a nuclear holocaust and eventually becomes the basis for the reconstitution of civilization.

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

It is a short distance south of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant operated by Constellation Energy.

MD 2 serves as a north – south route located a short distance to the west of the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert and Anne Arundel counties and in the city of Baltimore in Maryland.

In the 1870s, James Calvert entered into a short lived partnership with another Belper chemist and druggist, William Peter Adshead, to form Calvert & Adshead.

* short bio from Notices of the American Mathematical Society

* An up-to-date short bio of Vertov

In the fashion of baseball cards, the back of each card contains a short bio written by Stephen Calt.

* A short bio on Ladnier

* Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Trio in d minor sound-bites and short bio

* Picture and short bio

* short Scortia bio

* Carl Goldmark String Quintet, Op. 9 and Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 33 Sound-bites and short bio

* Christian Sinding Piano Quintet, Op. 5 & Two Serenades for 2 Violins & Piano, Opp. 56 & 92 sound-bites & short bio on Edition Silvertrust

* Marty Leonard Chapel at Lena Pope Home Includes short bio and picture.

Kyan sent a photo of himself and a short bio he'd written to the producers.

* Guardian short bio

* Another short bio

* Xaver Scharwenka Piano Quartet Op. 37 & Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 45 sound-bites and short bio

* Lysenko String Quartet in d minor Sound-bites and short bio

* Appointed Secretary of the Treasury, in NYT on October 28, 1881, with short bio

* Another short bio

* Slava Raškaj short bio at the Croatian 19th century women painters collection

" " Instead of tailoring the music for short attention spans, we tried to make an album that holds up well to extensive listening ... kind of cinematic, where you notice new themes entering the frame each time you see the film ," Zuniga said in the band's record company bio.

* Transcript from parliament with his short bio

* Jan Jesenius and his family's short bio ( Hungarian )

* uefa. com short bio

* Othmar Schoeck String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 23-Sound-bites and short bio

* The-artists-org short bio, links