According to Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd almost got banned from the Boston Garden after their 1977 performances because the band, unknown to the venue's owners, used pyrotechnics during their performance ( the exploding pig for " Pigs ( Three Different Ones )" and firework displays on " Sheep " and " Money ").

Ryan made a mistake in 2006 when he wrote a column promoting the Final Four matchup of Louisiana State University and George Mason University, and recommending fans tune to see two of the biggest players in college basketball, LSU's Glen Big Baby Davis ( a former Boston Celtic ) and George Mason's Jai Lewis.

A tune from Mason's Handbook for the Boston Academy

Other Chinese Associations affiliated with the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association located on Mott Street are Hoy Sing Ning Yung Association, Lin Sing Association, Chinese Merchants Association, Chinese Free Mason's, Kuomintang Eastern Region Office / Kuomintang of China in America ( New York ), Hok Shan Society, Chinese Aviation Development Association, Eng Suey Sun Association, Lee's Family Association, Yee Tung Association, Chew Lun Association, Soo Yuen Association, Leung Chung How Realty Corp., Hoy Yen Association, Hoy Ping Hong Hing Association, Jin Lan Association, Fung Loon Benevolent Association, Goon Shee Association, and Lum Sai Ho Association.

* From 1901 to 1924, the romantic novelist Marie Corelli, real name Minnie Mackay, daughter of Charles Mackay, made her home, with her companion Miss Vyver, at Mason's Croft, Church Street, Stratford.

Historic landmarks include Gunston Hall, George Mason's Home, Pohick Church with George Washington's box, Belvoir which was George Fairfax's home, the Market, and now Fort Belvoir Army Corps of Engineer base and Cranford Church.

In Paul Nicholas Mason's novel Battered Soles ( 2005 ), Lakefield is the site of a pilgrimage, begun in July 1997, which sees thousands of pilgrims from all over the world walk from Peterborough along the Rotary Greenway Trail to St. John's Anglican Church in the village.

US 360 turns northeast onto 18th Street at Mason's Hall to pass along the west edge of the Church Hill neighborhood.

* The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( published in hard copy and available as a fee site on line ) provides good coverage of Mason's life and work.

( One of the photographs in Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd appears to have been taken that day ( page 211 ); it is captioned: Syd Barrett at Abbey Road Studios, 5 June 1975 ).

Mason's arrangement was written as a setting for this hymn.

Under Mason's guidance, Compaq utilized its assets more efficiently instead of focusing just on income and profits, which increased Compaq's cash from $ 700 million to nearly $ 5 billion in one year.

* Jim Larranaga, Mason's head men's basketball coach from 1997-2011

Mason attempts to leave the prison, but Goodspeed manages to convince him to help him defuse the rockets, since Mason's daughter is at risk from the rockets.

Using Mason's knowledge of the prison, they quietly eliminate several small teams of marines and disable 12 of the 15 rockets, until Hummel threatens over the loudspeaker to execute a hostage if the remaining " Navy SEALs " do not surrender and return the guidance chips from the rockets.

The character of Monck Mason was not a real person, though he was based heavily on Thomas Monck Mason ; the story borrowed heavily from Mason's 1836 book Account of the Late Aeronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg.

On May 15, 1776, the Convention declared Virginia's independence from the British Empire and adopted George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was then included in a new constitution.

The Harpe Brothers who were allegedly America's first serial killers, were highwaymen, on the run from the law in Tennessee and Kentucky and briefly, joined Samuel Mason's gang at Cave-In-Rock.

River piracy continued on the lower Mississippi River, from the early 1800s to the mid 1830s ; these river pirates were mainly organized into large gangs similar to Samuel Mason's organization around Cave-In-Rock or smaller gangs under the operation of John A. Murrell.

Mason's widow, Clarissa Kaye, also known as Kaye-Mason, died on 21 July 1994 from cancer.

The earliest known travel way through present day Floyd County was the Trader's Path, running from east to west across the Roanoke River where Back Creek enters the river, by John Mason's, R. Poage's, the headwaters of Back Creek and southwest over Bent Mountain.

The area takes its name from Thomas Mason's 1795 wooden toll bridge built to supplant the existing ferry, carrying the King's Highway traffic across the Occoquan River.

Mason's creator Erle Stanley Gardner was to create and write the show, but a last-minute tiff between him and the CBS network caused Gardner to pull his support from the idea.

Jesse, as the new pool champion, is obliged to spend his afterlife defending his title, going from pool room to lonely pool room ( his next destination: Mason's Pool Hall, Sandusky, Ohio ), to play against challenger after challenger, just as Fats had to do until he finally lost.

* August 16: Cass wrote that Forsyth had threatened Mason's removal from office if the President's recommendations were not followed.

But Mason's grand vision of a Big Four American auto industry ended in October 1954 with his sudden death from a heart attack.

" Nevertheless, Romney continued with Mason's commitment to buy components from SPC.

After World War II, she appeared in Alexander Korda's An Ideal Husband ( 1947 ), from the Oscar Wilde play, but her remaining film appearances were in supporting roles, usually maternal, such as in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1951 ) and as the secretive mother ( of James Mason's character ) in Island in the Sun ( 1957 ).

Cover from Seeds of Murder, Mason's 1st bookBy 1927 he was getting ready to settle down and get married when a chance meeting with one of his college professors, John Gallishaw, encouraged him to take a stab at writing.

An example, from Mason's A History of the Sciences, illustrates multi-mode vibration via a piece of string.

This debate and disagreement resulted in Mason's expulsion and separation from the church.

Bishop Mason's preaching was very practical and his delivery was spontaneous, often moving from teaching to preaching to singing and praying all in one presentation.

Mason's Manual notes, " The courts, by a series of decisions, have explained away almost every essential feature of the privilege from arrest as it once existed ... A member of the legislature has no right to physically resist an officer attempting to make an arrest to the extent of assaulting such officer.

* Hugh Mason, from whose original shop in St. James's Market led directly to the founding of London's Fortnum and Mason's

* An aeroplane model referring to the crashing aeroplane used in the DVD Pulse at the end of " On the Run ", perhaps also David Gilmour's and Nick Mason's love for aviation and / or the song " Learning to Fly " or possibly the plane that killed Pink's father and symbolising his mother in " The Trial ", from The Wall

In 1992, Mason's new Prince William Institute began classes in a temporary site in Manassas, Virginia.

* Active open-source developer Justin Mason's blog on anti-patenting, bringing Halfbakery as example site.

In September 2006, it opened a second site at 25 – 26 Mason's Yard, off Duke Street, St. James's, home of the original White Cube gallery, on a plot previously occupied by an electricity sub-station.

Fife, and then in 1881 the first Professor of Geology at Mason's College, later the University of Birmingham, where he taught until his retirement.

Lewins also commissioned a bust of Constance which he presented to Mason's College and which is now sited in the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston Park Road.

* Robert Francis Martineau-JP, Secretary of the BMI, council member of Mason's College and then University of Birmingham, ( d 15 December 1909, age 78 ) ( plot 790 / I )