The nucleus for forming NASA was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), with its 7, 500 employees and Ames Research Center ( ARC ), Langley Research Center ( LaRC ), and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory ( later LRC, then Glenn RC ) becoming the initial operations of NASA.

Notable contributors have included Barry Michael Cooper, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Byron Coley, Kim France, Tad Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, Andy Greenwald, William T. Vollman, Will Hermes, Dave Itzkoff, David Bourgeois, John Leland, Bart Bull, Greil Marcus, Matt Groening, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Glenn O ' Brien, Norman Mailer, R. Meltzer, Karen Schoemer, Marilyn Manson, William S. Burroughs, Anton Corbijn, Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jon Dolan, Rob Tannenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Strawberry Saroyan, Paul Beahan ( founder of Manimal Vinyl ), Michael O ' Donoghue, Bönz Malone, Hari Kondabolu, Dan Ackerman, and Marc Spitz.

Calvinism became the theological system of the majority in Scotland ( see John Knox ), the Netherlands, with men such as William Ames, T J Frelinghuysen and Wilhelmus à Brakel and parts of Germany ( especially those adjacent to the Netherlands ) with the likes of Olevianus and his colleague Zacharias Ursinus.

During the 1960s and the 1970s, Massapequa School District had seven elementary schools ( Carman Road, East Lake, Birch Lane, Fairfield, Unqua, Hawthorn, Raymond J. Lockhart ), two junior high schools ( John P. McKenna and J. Lewis Ames, formerly Parkside ) and two high schools, Massapequa and Alfred G. Berner.

J. Lewis Ames Jr. High School is also no longer a middle school, but now the " Ames Campus " of Massapequa High School, which is where the ninth grade currently attends.

J. Lewis Ames Jr. High School is no longer a middle school, but a " 9th Grade Center ," the Ames Campus of Massapequa High School.

Ames was commended for his conduct at Malvern Hill by Col. Henry J.

* Draw 50 Famous Caricatures by Mort Drucker and Lee J. Ames.

There were hundreds of discount stores in operation, with their most successful period occurring during the mid-1960s in the U. S. with discount store chains such as Kmart, Ames, E. J. Korvette, Fisher's Big Wheel, Zayre, Bradlees, Caldor, Jamesway Howard Brothers Discount Stores, Kuhn's-Big K ( sold to Wal-Mart in 1981 ), TG & Y and Woolco ( closed in 1983, part sold to Wal-Mart ) among others.

In addition to books and periodicals, the library houses a film and audio collection, 24-hour computer lab, maps, sheet music, and special collections for Texas history and culture, John Tower, J. Frank Dobie, Jessie Daniel Ames, Herman Melville, Aaron Burr, Edward Blake, Thomas Bewick, and Australia.

* Callicott, J. Baird and Roger T. Ames, eds.

RealDOS is Shareware by Stephen J. Carden and Ken Ames.

In 1988, the Zayre department stores were sold to the parent company of the competing Ames chain, and Zayre's other businesses continued as the TJX Companies, which includes T. J. Maxx.

As of June 2011, the commission members are Chairman Elizabeth Ames Jones of San Antonio and Commissioners David J. Porter and Barry Smitherman.

In the television show Dallas, J. R. Ewing makes himself a prairie oyster after a long night out with Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr in the Season One Episode Bypass.

* Perilla: Botany, Uses and Genetic Resources ( David M. Brenner ( 1993 ), Journal Paper No. J .- 14769 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa.

* July 14 – 17: Comic-Con International ( San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California ) — 103, 000 attendees ; official guests: Lalo Alcatraz, Lee Ames, Sy Barry, Bob Bolling, Bruce Campbell, Nick Cardy, Greg Evans, Bob Fujitani, Pia Guerra, Ray Harryhausen, Phil Jimenez, Robert Jordan, David Lapham, Richard Morgan, Gary Panter, Eric Powell, Lou Scheimer, J. J. Sedelmeier, Dexter Taylor, Brian K. Vaughan, and James Warren

* 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player ( d. 1936 )

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

* 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U. S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

The Ames test is a biological assay to assess the mutagenic potential of chemical compounds.

The procedure is described in a series of papers from the early 1970s by Bruce Ames and his group at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Ames test uses several strains of the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium that carry mutations in genes involved in histidine synthesis i. e. it is an auxotrophic mutant, so that they require histidine for growth.

Translated by Roger T. Ames, Henry Rosemont.

He was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Ames Research Center, where he worked through 1951.

* Fisher Ames, U. S. Representative

Remote Agent ( remote intelligent self-repair software )( RAX ), developed at NASA Ames Research Center and JPL, was the first artificial intelligence control system to control a spacecraft without human supervision.

The title first gained nationwide recognition in 1877, when newspaper journalist Mary C. Ames referred to Lucy Webb Hayes as " the First Lady of the Land " while reporting on the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes.

* 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

Another example is CFD, a special variant of Fortran designed specifically for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, running at NASA's Ames Research Center.

His art teacher, Etta Budd, recognized Carver's talent for painting flowers and plants ; she encouraged him to study botany at Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames.

NASA's Ames Research Center managed the probe, which was built by Hughes Aircraft Company.

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University ( ISU or SciTech ), is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.

The " Skunk River Navy ", headed by Iowa State University Biology professor ' Admiral ' Jim Colbert, frequently contributes to cleaning and studying the ecology of the river near Ames, IA.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

Still of Allyson Ames and William Shatner, with English subtitles over the French subtitles of the sole film copy found in France.

Five years after the early Able space probe missions ended, NASA Ames Research Center used the Pioneer name for a new series of missions, initially aimed at the inner solar system, before the bold flyby missions to Jupiter and Saturn.

In October 2004, SGI built the supercomputer Columbia, which broke the world record for computer speed, for the NASA Ames Research Center.

He works for a while as a substitute teacher and comes to the town of Ames Crossing, where he meets a girl named Harriet Ames who is no taller than he is.

Ames graduated BA in 1598 and MA in 1601, and was chosen for a fellowship in Christ's College.

He quarrelled with Ames for disapproving of the surplice and other outward symbols.

" Episcopius was rebutted by Goodyear, who became a defender of Ames against the Remonstrants, and later provided Nethenus with material for his biography of Ames.

* April 19 – Fisher Ames, U. S. Congressman for Massachusetts ( d. 1808 )

Congressman Oakes Ames testified Garfield had purchased 10 shares of Crédit Mobiler stock for $ 1000, received accrued stock interest and $ 329 ( 33 per cent ) in dividends sometime between December 1867 and June 1868.

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

Ames also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace and unique partnerships benefiting NASA ’ s mission.

Ames is also a partner on the Mars Science Laboratory, a next generation Mars rover to explore for signs of organics and complex molecules.

The NASA Ames Research Center wind tunnels are known not only for their immense size, but also for their diverse characteristics that enable various kinds of scientific and engineering research.

for NASA overall, the substantial realignment in research priorities that followed the announcement of the Vision for Space Exploration in 2004 has led to a significant number of layoffs at Ames.

Also in 2008, it was announced that former Director Henry McDonald was a 60th Anniversary Class of the NASA Ames Hall of Fame for providing, "... exceptional leadership and keen technical insight to NASA Ames as the Center re-invented itself in the late 1990s.