The former astrologer, and scientist, Geoffrey Deans and psychologist Ivan Kelly conducted a large scale scientific test, involving more than one hundred cognitive, behavioral, physical and other variables, but found no support for astrology.

* Ivan Rodriguez ( 2003 ) — Despite only playing one season with the Marlins, he put up some the of the best offensive and defensive statistics by a Marlins catcher and was a key cog in the 2003 World Championship team.

Although signs of recovery have been seen in Grenada after the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Ivan and Emily, economic conditions remain difficult ; GDP is projected at a growth rate of only one percent for 2005.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, one of the world's most celebrated realists, wrote Faust ( 1856 ), Phantoms ( 1864 ), Song of the Triumphant Love ( 1881 ) and Clara Milich ( 1883 ).

With the war approaching Moscow, Eisenstein was one of many filmmakers evacuated to Alma-Ata, where he first considered the idea of making a film about Czar Ivan IV.

Virgil Ivan Grissom ( April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967 ), ( Lt Col, USAF ), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot.

* Navi ( Ivan backwards ), a star also named Gamma Cassiopeiae: Grissom and one of his flight crews had used the star to calibrate their equipment, wrote the name in logs as a joke and it eventually stuck.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

He served the Grand Duke as a diplomat ; one of his most important missions involved negotiations with Muscovy's Tsar Ivan the Terrible.

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

Heels such as Ivan Koloff and Stan Stasiak were used to transition the title from one babyface to another ; " Superstar " Billy Graham enjoyed a nine and a half month reign as a heel champion, as McMahon felt he would need this much time to build up Bob Backlund as championship material.

The order was ostensibly given because of borderline weather conditions in Washington, but according to First Lieutenant Ivan J. Potts who was on board, the order came because LeMay had one fewer general's stars and should not be seen to outperform his superior.

On one such outburst Tsar beat and unpremeditatedly killed his groomed and chosen heir Ivan Ivanovich.

By being crowned Tsar, Ivan was sending a message to the world and to Russia: he was now the one and only supreme ruler of the country, and his will was not to be questioned.

" The new title not only secured the throne, but it also granted Ivan a new dimension of power, one intimately tied to religion.

Ivan at once seized upon this as a recognition of his sovereignty, and when the Novgorodians repudiated the envoys ( indeed, one was killed at the veche and several others of the pro-Moscow faction were killed with him ) and swore openly in front of the Moscow ambassadors that they would turn to Lithuania again, he marched against them.

There was one semi-autonomous prince in Muscovy when Ivan acceded: Prince Mikhail Andreevich of Vereia, who had been awarded a Appanage by Basil II.

In 1487 Ivan reduced the khanate of Kazan, one of the offshoots of the Horde, to the condition of a vassal-state, though in his later years it broke away from his suzerainty.

His mother Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya was one of the daughters of Malyuta Skuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible.

In June 1744, following the Lopukhina Affair, they transferred him to Kholmogory on the White Sea, where Ivan, isolated from his family, and seeing no one other than his gaoler ( jailer ), remained for the next twelve years.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Back at the university he became one of Ivan Sutherland's students and part of the university's ARPA program, sharing classes with Fred Parke, James H. Clark, John Warnock and Alan Kay.

A statue of Ivan Pavlov and one of his dogs.

Lord Ivan Bongwater Solvenski was also one of the greatest Russian snipers he started his military service in 1905 he killed 104 people total in WW1 1914-1918

The protagonists are the historical figures Ivan Stepanovych Mazeppa ( c. 1640 – 1709 ) – the Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and Vasyl Leontiyovych Kochubey ( c. 1640 – 1708 ), a very prosperous Ukrainian nobleman and statesman.

He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike ( 1924 ), Battleship Potemkin ( 1925 ) and October ( 1927 ), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) and Ivan the Terrible ( 1944, 1958 ).

Out-of-place artifact ( OOPArt ) is a term coined by American naturalist and cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for an object of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context that could challenge conventional historical chronology.

Ivan Yefremov, on the contrary, arose to fame with his utopian views on future as well as on Ancient Greece in his historical novels.

Roughly from the reign of Tsar Boril and already in the time of Tsar Ivan Asen II the names Wallachia, Wallachians and Wallachian totally disappeared from all historical sources, connected with the Second Bulgarian Empire.

# historical reference to absolute monarchy, specifically united under Russia ’ s first Tsar, Ivan III ( 1462 – 1505 ), styled “ Albus Rex ” (“ White King ”); and

The Sunčanica is a historical opera composed by Boris Papandopulo, with a libretto by Marko Soljačić based on Ivan Gundulić's Osman and his son Šišmundo Gundulić, who continued Osman with the Sunčanica history.

* 1946 Иван Грозный ( 2 серия ) / Ivan The Terrible, Part II, directed by Sergei Eisenstein ( historical )

* Ivan the Terrible classic historical epic film part 1 ( 1944 ) and part 2 ( 1946 ) directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

* Monument to the Unknown Hero-dedicated to the unknown Serbian soldier from World War I ; sculptured by Ivan Meštrović in the form of mausoleum with 8 caryatides ( columns shaped like female figures, in this case each one representing a woman from a different historical region of Yugoslavia ), it was completed in 1938.

The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.

The conceiver of the idea to unite the other historical entities to stand opposed to Serbia, he worked with Croat Federalists doctors Ivan Lorković and Ante Trumbić for some time.

The Russian reading public was made aware of Anna's mock palace in 1835, when Ivan Lazhechnikov ( 1792 – 1869 ) described her escapade in The Ice House, one of the first historical novels in the language.

In order to provide a basis for the Bulgarian emigrant movement and create a historical record, Ivan Mihailov started writing his memoires from the 1950s to the 1970s, which the MPO ’ s Central Committee published in four large volumes.

Košutnjak gained a sort of historical notoriety as prince of Serbia, Mihailo Obrenović III was assassinated while walking in the park on June 10, 1868 ( May 29, Old Style ), and when Ivan Stambolić, Slobodan Milošević's political opponent was abducted from the park on August 25, 2000 and later assassinated.

December 8 In his toast at the gala-dinner offered by Ivan Ğašparovič, President of the Slovak Republic, László Sólyom underlined that " The peoples ' memory keeps the offences through generations and to avoid that these become prejudice and in order to ease them it is necessary to set them on the agenda to clear comprehensive historical processes and inherences, to eliminate taboo subjects and to show mutual empathy.

As with Mei's other Russian historical drama, The Maid of Pskov ( 1859 ), this play is set in the time of Ivan the Terrible.

Ivan Bohun is also well described in Bohun, a modern, historical novel about Polish-Cossack wars, written by Jacek Komuda.

Although there exist no historical sources which prove that he took active role in the defence of the country, in Bulgarian folklore Ivan Shishman is portrayed as a legendary and heroic ruler who desperately fought against the overwhelming Ottoman forces.

Soviet cinema played an important part in cultivating the leader's cult of personality: from 1937 and onward, in a gradual process, Stalin's reign was legitimized by depicting him as Vladimir Lenin's most devout follower and by positively presenting historical autocrats-like in Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible.

The historical setting, which provides many plot elements and prominent characters for the novels, is the incessant jockeying for position through treaties, alliances of convenience, political marriages, wars, and even piracy, among the English Tudors, the Holy Roman Empire of the Habsburgs, the French Valois, the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman the Magnificent, and their respective secular and religious allies, including the Stewarts of Scotland, the Knights of St. John, the corsairs of North Africa, and even Tsar Ivan the Terrible of Russia.

Tais of Athens () is a historical novel by Ivan Efremov written in 1972.