Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

According to Douglas Cooper: The first true Cubist sculpture was Picasso's impressive Woman's Head, modeled in 1909-10, a counterpart in three dimensions to many similar analytical and faceted heads in his paintings at the time.

In 2004 Lumley appeared as the " Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head " in Dirk Maggs's long-awaited radio adaptation of the third book of the Douglas Adams series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Grand Union Camera Obscura, on Douglas Head on the Isle of Man

The studio was important in launching the careers of such artists as Lightnin ' Hopkins, Hillbilly Harry Choates, George Jones, Eddie Noack, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Roy Head, and Freddy Fender.

The early 1960s saw the beginnings of the psychedelic Texas rock era, particularly with the release of Sir Douglas Quintet ’ s hit song “ She ’ s About a Mover ”, and " Treat Her Right " by Roy Head and The Traits.

The Raad ny Foillan ( way of the gull ) long distance coastal footpath opened in 1986 runs along the coast in the village commencing at Port Jack where it connects with Douglas and running as far as Howstrake Head before continuing into the neighbouring parish of Lonan.

* Douglas W. Owsley, forensic anthropologist and Division Head of Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History

Other transport services now long since closed around the island's capital include the Falcon Cliff Lift, Cunningham's Camp Escalator, Douglas Head Funicular Railway and the Upper Douglas Cable Tramway.

Head writer Douglas Marland was taking the helm of General Hospital and wove a dramatic, ratings-climbing tale for the soap.

Graceland Alum and Defensive Coordinator Jeff Douglas was named the new Head Football Coach in May.

The Sankaty Head Caddy Camp, directed by Douglas Ellsworth, is the last remaining caddy camp in the United States and one of the last in the world.

It was laid in 1999 between Bispham, Blackpool, England, and Douglas Head on the Isle of Man, commencing commercial operations in November 2000.

Adrian Brown, Tim Sampson, Jonathon Joss, Charles Button, AIRO, Andrew Vasquez, Annie Humphrey, Apache Spirit, Apryl Allen, Arigon Starr, Arvel Bird, Atsiaktonkie, Bear Fox, Becky Thomas, Bill Miller, Billy Whitefox, Black Eagle, Blackfoot Confederacy, Black Lodge Singers, Black Thunder Singers, Blackfire, Bluedog, Bo Taylor, Bryan Akipa, Brule ', Buddy Red Bow, Buddy Big Mountain, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Buggin Malone, Burning Sky, CC Murdock, Carroll Medicine Crow, Casper Loma-da-wa, Cecil Gray & Red Dawn Blues Band, Charly Lowry, Chase Monchamp, Chase Manhattan, Chief Jim Billie, Cherokee National Children's Choir, Cheryl Bear, Clan / destine, Cody Blackbird, Cozad, Crystal Gayle, Dago Braves, Dark Water Rising, Delphine Tsinajinnie, Derek Miller, Digging Roots, Don Amero, Douglas Blue Feather, Dylan Jenet Collins, Eagle & Hawk, Edmund Bull, Eli Secody, Evren Ozan, Evren Ozan, Eyabay, Fara Palmer, Felipe Rose, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Frank Waln, Nake Nula Waun, Fredrick Whiteface, Gabriel Ayala, Gary Small, Gathering of Nations, Gilbert Begaye Sr, Golana, Graywolf Blues Band, Hank Williams, Harvey Arden, Indigenous, Indigo Girls, Injunity, Jeff Carpenter, Brad Clonch, JJ Kent, Jack Gladstone, Jana, Janelle Turtle, Janice Marie Johnson, Jan Michael Looking Wolf, Jay Begaye, Jay Nez, Jennifer Kreisberg, Jerry Alfred, Jim Boyd, Jim Pepper, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Lee Young, Jimmy Wolf, Joanne Shenandoah, John Trudell, Joseph FireCrow, Joseph M Marshall III, Josh Halverson, Joy Harjo, Judy Trejo, Kansas Begaye, Keith Bear, Keith Secola, Kelly Parker, Ken Quiet Hawk, Kevin Locke, Kevin Yazzie, Kitty Wells, Koljademo, Lakota Thunder, Laughing Woman & Eagle Wings, Lil Dre, Link Wray, Litefoot, Luis Capcha Vilchez, Marc Brown & The Blues Crew, Marlena Begaye, Mary Louise Defender Wilson, Mary Youngblood, Martha Redbone, Medicine Dream, Micki Free, Michael Bucher, Michael Jacobs, Michael Searching Bear, Midnite Express, Nake Nula Waun, Nakai, Eaton, Cilpman, Native Roots, Native Thunder, Neville Brothers, Nicole, NightShield, Nokie Edwards, Northern Cree, October Soul, Oshkii Giizhik Singers, Pamyua, Pima Express, Pipestone, PM Begay, Primeax & Mike, Pura Fe ', Qua ti Si, Radmilla Cody, RainSong, R. Carlos Nakai, R. Carlos Nakai Quartet, Randy McGinnis, Randy Wood, Red Bull, Red Earth, Red Feather Woman, Red Hawk, Rezawrecktion, Rezhogs, Rhonda Head, Rita Coolidge, Robbie Robertson, Robert Mirabal, Robert Tree Cody, Robert Tree, Tony Redhouse, Rubin Romero, Rollin Fox, Sacred Harmonies, Samantha Crain, Sayani, Segweh, Shadowyze, Shane Yellowbird, Sharon Burch, Shelley Morningsong, Silverbird, Skylar Wolf, Stan Summers, Stephen Butler, Stevie Salas, Stuart Snake & Paul Never Misses A Shot, The Blessed Blend, The Boyz, The Crow Girls, The Story Tellers, Thunderbird Sisters, Thunder Hawk Singers, Tiger Tiger, Tinesha Begaye, Tom Bee, Tommy Allsup, Tommy Wildcat, Tony Redhouse, Tracy Bone, Travis Harden, Tribal Live, Twice As Good, Victoria Blackie, Vince Fontaine, Yarina, Yolanda Martinez, Yvonne St Germaine, Wade Fernandez, Walela, Warfield Moose Jr, Wayquay, Will & Lil Jess, Wind Spirit Drum, Wolfsheart & Big City Indians, Bruce Cockburn, Ed Stasium, Jeff Ball, Jackson Browne, John Densmore, Michael Brant DeMaria, Neil Young, Raymond Boley, Scott August, Stefan Gelfas, Tom Wassinger,

On July 1, 2009, the Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Douglas M. North AA ' 58, President of Alaska Pacific University, to the position of Head of School of The Albany Academies, effective July 2010.

-- The granting of the Jan Masaryk award August 13 to Senator Paul Douglas is a bitter example of misleading minorities.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.

* In the 1956 epic film Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is played by Robert Douglas.

The current archbishop, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Douglas Williams, is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.

** Executive chairman – the chairman's post may also exist as an office separate from that of CEO, and it is considered an executive chairman if that titleholder wields influence over company operations, such as Steve Case of AOL Time Warner and Douglas Flint of HSBC.

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour ( born August 1, 1960 ), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.

Douglas Engelbart introduced the chorded keyset as a computer interface in 1968 at what is often called " The Mother of All Demos ".

Eric Pement urged Melton to adopt the label " Christian countercult ", and since the early 1990s the terms has entered into popular usage and is recognised by sociologists such as Douglas Cowan.

Douglas Carl Engelbart ( born January 30, 1925 ) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer.

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Douglas Richard Hofstadter ( born February 15, 1945 ) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter

Typical of these references is Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, which accords the paradox a prominent place in a discussion of self-reference.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is named for a fictional galactic encyclopedia that one of the main characters works for.

He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first " futuristicostume " ( designed and created by Myrtle R. Douglas ) and sparked fan costuming, the latest incarnation of which is cosplay.

The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is discussed in Douglas Adams ' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

* Hector is the name of the cyborg robot in the science fiction movie Saturn 3 ( 1980 ); actor Kirk Douglas mentions the Greek myth of Hector after a violent encounter with the robot.

HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

The island's largest town and administrative centre is Douglas, the population of which is 23 000, nearly a third of the entire population of the island.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

In the 1850s Chicago gained national political prominence as the home of Senator Stephen Douglas, the champion of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and " popular sovereignty " approach to the issue of the spread of slavery.

After returning home, Thomas worked on Under Milk Wood in Wales, before sending the original manuscript to the BBC's Douglas Cleverdon on 15 October 1953.

* Semper Mars ( 1998 ) by Ian Douglas depicts the Cydonia region of Mars as home to ancient alien ruins where mummified early humans are found in 2040.

Crowe also owns a house in the North Queensland city of Townsville: he purchased the $ 450, 000 home in the suburb of Douglas on 3 May 2008.

This happened in the majority opinion by Justice William O. Douglas in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 484 ( 1965 ) which cited the amendment as implying a belief that an individual's home should be free from agents of the state.

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

* James Douglas, Jr. bought an apartment in Paris for his friend Georges Clemenceau in 1926 to use as a retirement home.

The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current home rule municipality.

General Douglas MacArthur did not mean for Japanese women to give up their central role in the home as wives and mothers, but rather that they could now assume other roles simultaneously, such as that of worker.

Breckinridge lost to Douglas in Missouri and lost to Constitutional Union Party nominee John Bell in Virginia, Bell's home state of Tennessee, and even Breckinridge's own home state of Kentucky.

Dr Douglas Hyde Park, with a capacity of 30, 000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA ) venue in Ireland and is home to the Roscommon county footballers and Roscommon Gaels club.

Tolworth is the home of its own community arts centre: The CornerHOUSE ( Previously known as the Douglas Centre ).

Lincoln also gave a brief speech in Danville in 1858 while campaigning for U. S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas ; Lincoln gave the speech in his stocking feet while standing on the balcony at the home of Dr. William Fithian, a prominent local physician.

Douglas is home to the historic Gadsden Hotel, which opened in 1907.

* Thornton Wilder, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and novelist, once made Douglas his temporary home.

Wallingford is home to the Choate Rosemary Hall school ( which graduated John F. Kennedy, John Dos Passos, Glenn Close, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Douglas, Bill Simmons, Ivanka Trump, and Adlai Stevenson ).

Douglas is home to Heritage Station Museum which displays artifacts of the city's history.

The park is home to the George Sparks Reservoir, maintained by the Douglas County / Douglasville Water and Sewer Authority.

Lithia Springs is home to five schools operated by the Douglas County School System.

From 1949 until his death in 1981, New Roads was the home of Emmitt Douglas, who served as president of the Louisiana NAACP from 1966-1981.

It includes the Douglas State Forest and is home to Wallum Lake and Whitins Reservoir.

Douglas is also home to the SS Keewatin, a coal-fired steamship formerly of the Canadian Pacific Railway.