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Horace and Short
* July 2 – Horace Short, British aircraft designer ( d. 1917 )
In 1898, Horace Short patented a design for a loudspeaker driven by compressed air ; he then sold the rights to Charles Parsons, who was issued several additional British patents before 1910.
Four years later, Gaumont introduced the Elgéphone, a compressed-air amplification system based on the Auxetophone, developed by British inventors Horace Short and Charles Parsons.
The Short brothers, Horace, Eustace and Oswald, built aircraft at Battersea to be tested at the site ; later Moore-Brabazon, Professor Huntington, Charles S. Rolls and Cecil Grace all visited and used the flying club's services.
They manufactured the balloons at Hove, Sussex, in premises above the acoustic laboratory run by a third brother, Horace Short ( 2 July 1872 – 6 April 1917 ), for Thomas Edison's European agent, Col. Gouraud.
In 1908, on hearing reports from Aero Club members who had seen the Wright Brothers ' demonstrations of their aircraft at Le Mans in France, Oswald Short reportedly said to Eustace " This is the finish of ballooning: we must begin building aeroplanes at once, and we can't do that without Horace!
" Oswald succeeded in persuading Horace to leave his job with Parsons, and in November 1908 they registered their partnership under the name Short Brothers.
At the end of 1908, Horace started work on the two designs, and in early 1909 construction was started of McClean's aircraft, the Short No. 1 biplane.
* Horace, Eustace and Oswald Short founded Short Brothers, the first aircraft manufacturing company in England, in Battersea, London.
The Short brothers, Horace, Eustace and Oswald, built aircraft at Battersea to be tested at the site ; later Moore-Brabazon, Professor Huntington, Charles S. Rolls and Cecil Grace all visited and used the flying club's services.
Horace Camp sold the railroad to Charles W. French in 1903 and the name of the company changed to the Lake and River Railroad, a subsidiary of the Chicago Short Line Railway.

Horace and artwork
Jerry Dammers, with the assistance of Horace Panter and graphic designer John " Teflon " Sims, created artwork that was to become central to 2 Tone Records.
: Dave Manak and myself just finished up working on Spy vs. Spy, the comic strip, and in the past I did a strip with Paul Coker called Horace and Buggy, about smart-ass insects, and I did some writing and artwork for Bob Thaves ' Frank and Ernest.
Cover artwork for Horace Silver's The Cape Verdean Blues LP.

Horace and depiction
For example, the scandalous novel Vicaire des Ardennes ( 1822 ) – banned for its depiction of nearly-incestuous relations and, more egregiously, of a married priest – was attributed to a ' Horace de Saint-Aubin '.
Woody Haut suggests that Willeford's second novel, Pick-Up ( 1955 ), " combines David Goodis's romanticism, Horace McCoy's portrayal of alienated outcasts and Charles Jackson's depiction of life as a ' lost weekend.

Horace and by
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).
"-possibly imitated by Horace in an ode in the same meter ( C. 3. 12: Miserarum est neque amori dare ludum neque dulci ).
The proverbial phrase for it was coined by the Roman poet Horace in his Ars poetica:
After Zwicky's initial observations, the first indication that the mass to light ratio was anything other than unity came from measurements made by Horace Babcock.
Overall naval commander was now Colin Keppel with other boats commanded by Horace Hood and Walter Cowan who were to remain friends and colleagues.
David had his own pupils, about 40 to 50, and was commissioned by the government to paint " Horace defended by his Father ", but he soon decided, " Only in Rome can I paint Romans.
Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).
Let My People Go: The Song of the Contrabands " and arranged by Horace Waters.
Strawberry Hill House | Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the " Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic revival " style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole
The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.
On July 3, 1829, Horace Blackman, accompanied by Alexander Laverty, a land surveyor, and an Indian guide forded the Grand River and made camp for the night at what is now Trail and N. Jackson Street.
After two years of imprisonment, Davis was released on bail of $ 100, 000, which was posted by prominent citizens of both Northern and Southern states, including Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerrit Smith.
Horace Cannon drowned August 7, 1851 when Joseph was fifteen years old as he tried to reach a sick patient by crossing Sugar Creek.
They formed groups such as the Blue Lodges and were dubbed border ruffians, a term coined by opponent and abolitionist Horace Greeley.
The testimony of Horace and Maecenas's own literary tastes imply that he had profited by the highest education of his time.
Indeed Horace begins the first poem of his Odes ( Odes I. i ) by addressing his new patron.
A similar change between the earlier odes of Horace, in which he declares his epicurean indifference to affairs of state, and the great national odes of the third book has been ascribed by some to the same guidance.
His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.
This turris was probably the " molem propinquam nubibus arduis " (" the pile, among the clouds ") mentioned by Horace.
Marvell, in his Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland uses a regular form ( two four-foot lines followed by two three-foot lines ) modelled on Horace, while Cowley wrote " Pindarique " odes which had irregular patterns of line lengths and rhyme schemes, though they were iambic.
Odes were first developed by poets writing in ancient Greek, such as Pindar, and Latin, such as Horace.
There have been recent attempts to label the story as a hoax by the late Horace N. Minnis, of the Chattanooga Times.

Horace and Michael
In 1994, the Bulls lost Horace Grant, Bill Cartwright, and Scott Williams to free agency, and John Paxson to retirement, but picked up shooting guard Ron Harper, the seeming heir-apparent to Michael Jordan in Assistant Coach Tex Winter's triple-post offense, and small-forward Jud Buechler.
Brecker joined Horace Silver's band with his brother Michael, and together they eventually formed their own horn-dominated musical outfits, Dreams and The Brecker Brothers.
* Michael Byrne as Horace Greeley
Cohn is briefly mentioned in Michael Chabon's novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay as one of protagonist Stanley Konigsberg's classmates at the Horace Mann School.
Details such as Horace Grant's goggles are clearly visible, and Michael Jordan's " Air Reverse Layup " is animated with very high accuracy.
Eastman alumni include artists like singer Renée Fleming, author and journalist Michael Walsh, trumpeter Allen Vizzutti, Canadian Brass co-founder Charles Daellenbach, scholar Horace Clarence Boyer and composer Maria Schneider.
He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.
They had five children: Phyllis Jane Bond-McMillan, Horace Mann Bond II, Michael Julian Bond, ( an At-large member of Atlanta ’ s Council ), Jeffrey Alvin Bond and Julia " Cookie " Louise Bond.
In White's honor, in 1973, Cornell named two professorships after him: the first two Cornell faculty to become Horace White Professors were Michael Fisher and Jack Kiefer.
Awesome was the cousin of Hulk Hogan's nephew Michael Bollea who was better known for his stint in WCW under the name Horace Hogan.
Several Americans were on the album, pianist Horace Parlan, baritonist Sahib Shihab, trumpeter Tim Hagans and trombonist / vocalist Richard Boone along with trombonists Bjarne Thanning & Ture Larsen, trumpeter Lars Togeby, altoists Ole Thøger & Michael Hove, tenor saxophonist Bent Jædig and Jesper Lundgaard on bass.
Examples of Hollywood novels include The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg, The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald, After Many A Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley, Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert, The Deer Park by Norman Mailer, I Should Have Stayed Home by Horace McCoy, Michael Tolkin's The Player and The Return of the Player, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays.
He did so by drafting Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen, and trading for Bill Cartwright to join John Paxson and Michael Jordan under the tutelage of head coach Doug Collins.
Some fans and columnists have accused Reinsdorf of breaking up the championship Bulls team after their third straight title and sixth in eight years, claiming the Bulls could have competed for more titles with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and good support from the rest of the team that in the eight-year span included Dennis Rodman, Horace Grant, Toni Kukoc, Ron Harper, BJ Armstrong, and coach Phil Jackson.
This fourth entry in the Horace series is a platform game split into one-screen levels in the style of Manic Miner and was coded by Michael Ware of Proteus Developments.
* Michael Griffiths – Horace McMillan Q. C.
During this time, he befriended fellow student Michael Bollea, later known as Horace Hogan.
A second example is " The Dunk " in which New York Knicks ' player John Starks dunked over Michael Jordan and Horace Grant during Game 2 of the 1993 Eastern Conference Finals.

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