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Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).
* Vanishing Point: On Lomborg and Extinction, a criticism of Lomborg, from Edward O. Wilson
* The Creation: An Appeal To Save Life on Earth, a 2006 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson
* A conversation with Edward O. Wilson
Science 299: 1523-1524 ( concluding that evolutionary biology is not a religion in any sense but noting that several evolutionary biologists, such as Edward O. Wilson, in their roles as citizens concerned about getting the public to deal with reality, have made statements like " evolution is a myth that is now ready to take over Christianity ").
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* 4 May: Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O ' Hanrahan
Other seminal noir sleuths served larger institutions, such as Dana Andrews's police detective in Laura ( 1944 ), Edmond O ' Brien's insurance investigator in The Killers, and Edward G. Robinson's government agent in The Stranger ( 1946 ).
* 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
Union ( American Civil War ) | Union soldiers dead at Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg, photographed by Timothy H. O ' Sullivan, July 5 – 6, 1863Letter of David Wills ( Gettysburg ) | David Wills inviting Abraham Lincoln to make a few remarks, noting that Edward Everett would deliver the oration
Caltech graduate students Frank Malina, Weld Arnold, Apollo M. O. Smith, and Tsien Hsue-shen, along with Jack Parsons and Edward S. Forman, tested a small, alcohol-fueled motor to gather data for Malina's graduate thesis.
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* 1943 – Edward O ' Hare, American ace pilot ( b. 1914 )
He may have been fostered with a local family, as was the custom ( Barbour mentions his foster-brother ); it is suspected that his brother Edward was fostered with his second-cousin Domhnall O ' Neill.
While the term " sociobiology " can be traced to the 1940s, the concept didn't gain major recognition until 1975 with the publication of Edward O. Wilson's book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
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O Group was headed by physicist Lowell Wood, a protégé and friend of Edward Teller, the " father of the hydrogen bomb ".
In 1961 mathematician Edward O. Thorp, best known as " the father of the wearable computer " and Claude Shannon built the world's first wearable computer, a computerized timing card-counting device for blackjack The system was a concealed cigarette-pack sized analog computer designed to predict roulette wheels.
* February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first U. S. Navy WWII flying ace.

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Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.
More splenetic was Senator Edward Carmack of Tennessee, a Parker man.
Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, described him as `` a man whose spirit was stark drunk with blasphemies and insolence, a corrupter of the truth, a disturber of the peace wherever he comes ''.
The Graham Memorial would be the campus student union honoring the late and much beloved Edward Kidder Graham, who had been president when Tom entered the university.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
On the other hand, he did not want to offend Edward either, and he found himself in a very difficult position.
But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.
To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.
Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.
Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.
Edward Greville, born about 1565, had inherited Milcote on the execution of his father Lodowick for murder in 1589.
Sturley wrote to Quiney that Sir Edward `` gave his allowance and liking thereof, and affied unto us his best endeavour, so that his rights be preserved '', and that `` Sir Edward saith we shall not be at any fault for money for prosecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and lay it down for us for the time ''.
The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.
He suggested offering half to Sir Edward, fearing lest `` he shall thinke it to good for us and procure it for himselfe, as he served us the last time ''.
He asked Quiney to find out whether the money had been paid and, if not, to send to the lodging of Sir Edward and entreat him to pay what he owed.
Further letters in November mention that Sir Edward paid forty pounds.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.
Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).
Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

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