He appeared as Leap Day William, the embodiment of the fictional Leap Day national holiday, in the " Leap Day " episode of the sixth season of NBC's 30 Rock.

African-American theatre was relatively dormant, except for the 1858 play The Escape ; or, A Leap for Freedom by William Wells Brown, who was an ex-slave.

William Fox-Pitt, here clearing the Cottesmore Leap, has won Burghley six times to date, surpassing Mark Todd ( equestrian ) | Mark Todd and Ginny Leng with five wins each at Burghley.

* " Studying Sexual Subcultures: the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America ", in Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds., Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology.

: Lover's Leap ( 1996 ) TV episode as Tom Andrews

Koolhaas's next landmark publications were a product of his position as professor at Harvard University, in the design school's " Project on the City "; firstly the 720-page Mutations, followed by The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping ( 2002 ) and The Great Leap Forward ( 2002 ).

Former Chinese dissident and political prisoner, Minqi Li, a Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, has produced data showing that even the peak death rates during the Great Leap Forward were in fact quite typical in pre-Communist China.

Communist Party Meeting at Shandong University in 1959, during the Great Leap Forward

In addition, University of New Mexico football players participate in the famous “ Lobo Leap ”, where the players leap and celebrate with the fans following every game.

A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U. S. Economic Growth ( Yale University Press ; 2011 ) 387 pages ; argues that technological innovations in the 1930s laid the foundation for economic success in World War II and postwar

Her memoir is entitled Leap Days: Chronicles of a Midlife Move ( ISBN 0821258303 ) and was published on October 10, 2006 by Springboard Press.

* Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems ( Another Chicago Press, 1990 ; Jensen Daniels, 1999 )

In 2004 and 2007, Quantum Leap was ranked # 15 and # 19 on TV Guides " Top Cult Shows Ever ".

* Leap ( album ), a 2004 album by progressive jazz group Drop Trio

In 2004, Simon Fuller and 19 Entertainment backed the production of the 2nd 1 Giant Leap Film, TV Series and CD, " What About Me?

* The Great Climate Leap: A Climate Surprise Is Like a Heart Attack ( Seattle ; ClimateBooks, 2012 ), ISBN 978-1-4751-4934-0.

*" Leap In and Try Things "-Interview with Brian Kernighan – on " Harmony at Work Blog ", October 2009.

Holly was depicted in the Quantum Leap episode entitled " How the Tess Was Won " although his identity isn't revealed until the very end of the episode.

Cannibalism was proven to have occurred in China during the Great Leap Forward, when rural China was hit hard by drought and famine.

The economic and social plan known as the Great Leap Forward resulted in an estimated 45 million deaths.

* Baum, Richard D. "' Red and Expert ': The Politico-Ideological Foundations of China's Great Leap Forward ," Asian Survey, Vol.

Deng was instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s.

Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine killing millions of people.

For instance, Rummel only recently classified Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward as democide.

The transition to behavioral modernity has been characterized as a " Great Leap Forward ", or as the " Upper Palaeolithic Revolution ", because of the sudden appearance of distinctive signs of modern behavior in the archaeological record.

Accordingly, anyone born on a Leap Day legally turns 21 on February 28th, twenty-one years later.

In Greece it is considered unlucky to marry on Leap Day.

A Utah woman gave birth on a third consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set in the 1960s.

The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.

" What To Do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap ", Cosmos, Volume 5, No. 2, Summer 1992.

For many geocachers, Leap Day offers a unique opportunity to find a geocache.

This was more than double the 36, 696 accounts that logged a cache on Leap Day 2008.

Leap seconds are nowadays added to or subtracted from UTC to keep it within 0. 9 seconds of UT1.

In 1090 he reportedly threw a treacherous burgher named Conan Pilatus from the tower of Rouen ; the tower was known from then on as " Conan's Leap.

* Earliest day on which Saturday of Souls can fall, while February 27 ( or 28 during Leap Year ) is the latest ; observed 57 days before Easter.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

However, the Great Leap Forward led to a Korean imitation in 1958-1960 known as the Chollima ( Flying Horse ) Campaign.

OUs contributors included William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Gil J Wolman, François Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, John Furnival, Tom Phillips, and the Austrian sculptor, writer and Dada pioneer Raoul Hausmann.

His publication and design of the classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco to a fresh audience.

Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

By 4 January 1912, the last two four-man groups had reached 87 ° 34 ′ S. Scott announced his decision: five men ( Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans ) would go forward, the other three ( Teddy Evans, William Lashly and Tom Crean ) would return.

The prosecution team was led by Tom Stewart, district attorney for the 18th Circuit ( and future United States Senator ), and included, in addition to Herbert and Sue Hicks, Ben B. McKenzie and William Jennings Bryan.

* Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, stage play by William Moncrieff based on Pierce Egan's journal

The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded " The Second Threepenny Finale " under the title " What Keeps Mankind Alive?

In the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and what to Drink, author William Schmidt listed the Tom Collins as including :< u > Tom Collins Gin ( 1891 )</ u > The juice of half a lemon in a large glass, a bar-spoonful of sugar, a drink of Tom gin ; mix this well ; 2 lumps of ice, a bottle of plain soda. Mix well and serve.

Also in 1970, Sharp curated “ Body Works ,” an exhibition of video works by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California.

Back row: Dick Barlow ( umpire ), Tom Hayward, George Hirst, William Gunn ( cricketer ) | Billy Gunn, J. T.

The now defunct investment bank of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette had numerous talented people working there including people such as William Donaldson who served in the Nixon administration, as well as Ken Moelis, Bennett Goodman, Herald " Hal " Ritch, Joel Cohen, Safra A. Catz who became president of Oracle Corporation, Tom Dean, Larry Schloss, Michael Connelly, and others.

Career criminal Neil McCauley ( Robert De Niro ) and his crew — Chris Shiherlis ( Val Kilmer ), Michael Cheritto ( Tom Sizemore ), Trejo ( Danny Trejo ), and new member Waingro ( Kevin Gage )— perpetrate an armored car heist, stealing $ 1. 6 million in bearer bonds from money launderer Roger Van Zant ( William Fichtner ).

The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees including Thomas Freeman ( ships fireman ), Walter Parks ( clerk ), Tom Mundy, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay ( all boilermakers ), William Chapman, George Sage, and William Chamberlain and apprentice riveter Charlie Dove.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Despite Douglass's enthusiasm, an anonymous 1852 reviewer for William Lloyd Garrison's publication The Liberator suspected a racial double standard in the idealization of Uncle Tom:

Troughton was the first Doctor to have his face appear in the opening titles of the show, and one of six Doctor Who actors to play two roles in the same story when he appeared as Salamander in The Enemy Of The World ( the others being William Hartnell in The Chase and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, Tom Baker in Meglos, Peter Davison in Arc of Infinity, David Tennant in Journey's End, and Matt Smith in " The Rebel Flesh "/" The Almost People ").

In 2009 Oneworld Publications reissued Man at Leisure ( 1972 ), complete with the original introduction by William Burroughs, and in 2011 Oneworld Publications also re-released Cain's Book, with a foreword by Tom McCarthy.

The texts were written by various writers, among them William Dougherty, John Almquist, Richard Sklar, James Duncan Lawrence, Tom Mulvey and Richard McKenna.

Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa Collins ( née Bessant ), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins ( died 1988 ), an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, the Beatles and Tom Jones.

He was the film sales executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry.

The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.