* The Geography of Nowhere: The rise and decline of America's man-made landscape ( ISBN 0-671-70774-4 ) by James Howard Kunstler

There are also three man-made reservoirs: Dalecarlia Reservoir, which crosses over the northwest border of the District from Maryland, McMillan Reservoir near Howard University, and Georgetown Reservoir upstream of Georgetown.

Examples of artificial pocket beaches include over 100 such systems on Chesapeake Bay in the United States, each consisting of several individual pocket beaches ; the Fisher Key, Florida project constructed on a dredge spoil island originally consisting of cobble dredge material ;, and the Fred Howard Park Beach that was constructed offshore of a muddy mangrove shoreline.

In 1922, a group of promoters created the " Pacific City Amusement Park " on about of land along the beach leased from the Howard family.

Sinatra and Ruth Koch, the wife of producer Howard Koch, were swimming at a beach when they were swept out to sea by the outgoing tide and nearly drowned.

To the west of the beach the Howard Park Association, under the sponsorship of the Congregational Church Society, laid out streets, uniquely named " Ways.

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.

This is a specific epoch in a fictional timeline created by Howard for many of the low fantasy tales of his artificial legendary.

Others were created by rewriting Howard stories which originally featured entirely different characters from entirely different milieus.

He is the author of " That Movie In Your Head ", about these efforts. In the 1970s, David Shepherd and Howard Jerome created the Improvisational Olympics, a format for competition based improv.

Howard created Conan the Barbarian, in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, a character whose pop-culture impact has been compared to such icons as Tarzan, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

With Conan and his other heroes, Howard created the genre now known as sword and sorcery, spawning a substantial number of imitators and giving him an influence in the fantasy field rivaled by few authors.

Voracious reading, along with a natural talent for prose writing and the encouragement of teachers, created in Howard an interest in becoming a professional writer.

Kevin Lofton, who does all the animation for the Howard Stern website, created a black-and-white animated video for the song.

Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded.

On the other side of the world in 1983, Howard Jacobs created several wakeboards by mounting windsurfing foot straps and partial hydroslide pads on some smaller surfboards that he had shaped ; by 1984, he was throwing backflips on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.

For example, in 2001, Sir David Howard was created a Grand Cordon, First Class, of the Order of Independence of Jordan following the state visit of King Abdullah II.

Monroe's 1946 to 1948 band, which featured banjo prodigy Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts ( also known as " Cedric Rainwater ")— sometimes called " the original bluegrass band "— created the definitive sound and instrumental configuration that remains a model to this day.

The one hereditary viscountcy Cromwell created ( making Charles Howard Viscount Howard of Morpeth and Baron Gilsland ) continues to this day.

In April 1661, Howard was created Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, and Baron Dacre of Gillesland.

For his support of Richard III's claim to the throne, John Howard, the son of Thomas Mowbray's elder daughter Margaret, was created 1st Duke of Norfolk in 1483, in the title's third creation.

When the character of Lazarus Long is introduced in Methuselah's Children, he is 213 years old, and the breeding experiment that created the Howard Families has proven to be a success, with most " Howards " enjoying a lifespan of approximately 150 years and changing identities periodically to conceal their long lifespans.

Howard was created by Don Rosa and used in two stories-" The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Raider of the Copper Hill " ( Uncle Scrooge # 288 ) and " Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies " ( Uncle Scrooge # 297 ).

* Cimmeria ( Conan ), a fictional country in the Conan the Barbarian stories created by Robert E. Howard

Stark County was created February 10, 1879, as a county within Dakota Territory from parts of Howard County and Williams County.

Chautauqua County was created by an act of the Kansas legislature on June 1, 1875 by the division of Howard County into Elk County ( the northern half ) and Chautauqua County ( the southern half ).

When Chayefsky created Howard Beale, could he have imagined Jerry Springer, Howard Stern, and the World Wrestling Federation?

Nancy Graves, Ronald Davis, Howard Hodgkin, Larry Poons, Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Alan Saret, Walter Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz and Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists who emerged during the era of late modernism that spawned the heyday of the art of the late 1960s.

The single featured Douglas's and Howard Kaylan's " Christmas Is My Time of Year " ( originally recorded by a 1960s supergroup, Christmas Spirit ), with a B-side of Irving Berlin's " White Christmas " ( Douglas released a remixed version of the single, with additional overdubbed instruments, in 1986 ).

In the 1960s Flatt and Scruggs often added a fifth part to the traditional quartet parts on gospel songs, the extra part being a high baritone ( doubling the baritone part sung in the normal range of that voice ; Howard Watts ' Cedric Rainwater providing the part ).

Howard Tate's recordings in the late 1960s for Verve Records, and later for Atlantic ( produced by Jerry Ragovoy ) are another notable body of work in the soul genre.

According to Jackson, some Howard officials had speculated that it disappeared during the Civil Rights student protests of the 1960s.

In 1992, Jet Magazine ran a story repeating that Howard University could not find it and allegations that it disappeared in the 1960s during the protests.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

Michael Omi and Howard Winant have argued in the their book Racial Formation in the United States: from the 1960s to the 1990s that ethnicity theory fails to grapple effectively with the meaning and material significance of race in the US and offer a theory of racial formation as an alternative view.

Lacey High was demolished in the early 1960s, and the Hazel Park High School was re-commissioned as Howard Beecher Junior High.

Howard was named as co-respondent in the high profile divorce case of 1960s model Sandra Paul, ( now Sandra Howard ).

Howard left behind just two Shakespeare performances, the first, recorded in the 1960s, was as Petruchio opposite Margaret Leighton's Kate in Caedmon Records ' complete recording of The Taming of the Shrew ; the second was in the title role of King Lear for the BBC World Service in 1986.

Later, the former Marine came to believe that " Gary Kirstein " had in reality been senior CIA officer and future Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt, and " Slim Brooks " to have been Jerry Milton Brooks, a member of the 1960s right-wing activist group, " The Minutemen ".

Nancy Graves, Ronald Davis, Howard Hodgkin, Larry Poons, Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Alan Saret, Walter Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz, Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists who emerged during the era of late modernism that spawned the heyday of the art of the late 1960s.

Ayres held a number of teaching posts through the 1960s and 1970s, becoming friends with painters such as Howard Hodgkin, Robyn Denny and Roger Hilton.

Some of the first climbing harnesses were devised in the UK in the early 1960s by Alan Waterhouse, Paul Seddon and Tony Howard who went on to form the Troll climbing equipment manufacturers.

In the 1960s and 1970s, she lived with her longtime husband William Ross Howard III ( whom she married in 1943 ), in the Baltimore suburb of Sudbrook Park.

Some notable current and retired jazz musicians in Hawaii include Gabe Baltazar ( saxophone ), Henry Allen ( guitar ), Adam Baron ( drums ), Vic Castellini ( Drums ), David Choy ( saxophone ), Rich Crandall ( piano ), Dan Del Negro ( keyboards ), Pierre Grill ( piano / keyboards / trombone ), Bruce Hamada ( bass ), DeShannon Higa ( trumpet ), Jim Howard ( piano ), Steve Jones ( bass ), John Kolivas ( bass ), Ryan Kunimura ( saxophone ), Noel Okimoto ( drums / percussion / vibes ), Michael Paulo ( reeds ), Rene Paulo ( acoustic grand piano ) was a forerunner of recording Hawaiian music in the jazz venue in the early 1960s and is one of Hawaii's legendary music greats, Robert Shinoda ( guitar ), Arex Ikehara ( bass ), Phil Bennett ( drums ), Aron Nelson ( piano ), Tennyson Stephens ( piano ), Dean Taba ( bass ), Betty Loo Taylor ( piano ), Tim Tsukiyama ( saxophone ) and Abe Lagrimas Jr. ( drums / ukulele / vibes ).

Founded by Howard Deering Johnson, it was the largest restaurant chain in the US throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with over 1, 000 company owned and franchised outlets.

Numerous actors, sports figures and former real-life cops who were familiar to audiences in the 1960s and 1970s made appearances on the series, including Andrew Stevens, Danny Bonaduce, Ed Asner, Eve McVeagh, David Janssen, Claude Akins, Robert Stack, Mike Connors, Stuart Whitman, Lenore Kasdorf, David Cassidy, John Saxon, Kurt Russell, Cameron Mitchell, Martin Milner, Vince Edwards, Robert Forster, William Shatner, Dean Stockwell, Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, George Maharis, Wayne Maunder, Howard Duff, Chad Everett, Don Meredith, Steve Lawrence, Gabe Kaplan, Robert Goulet, Sylvester Stallone, Joseph Campanella, Michael Cole ( 2 episodes ), Joe Garagiola, Stephen Mcnally and Eddie Egan.

The limited series, with artist Howard Chaykin, features the little-used character Phantom Eagle, a WWI pilot who originally appeared in Marvel Comics during the 1960s.

The controlling non-institutional shareholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad were, during the early 1960s, Henry Stryker Taylor, who was a part of the Jacob Bunn business dynasty of Illinois, and Howard Butcher III, a principal in the Philadelphia brokerage house of Butcher & Sherrerd ( later Butcher & Singer ).

In the 1990s he played a 1960s Fender Stratocaster and his Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion, using Fender Blues DeVille and Vox AC30 amplifiers.

A document that Howard Colvin found at Worcester College library in Oxford in the 1960s confirmed not only de Caus as the architect, but that the original plan for the south facade was to have been over twice the length of that built ; what we see today was intended to be only one of two identical wings linked by a central portico of six Corinthian columns.