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* May 7-Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers an influential Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures, concerning a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, in the Senate House, University of Cambridge.
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Jerzy Kosiński (; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991 ), born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P. E. N.
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On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh.
* May 13 – R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist ( b. 1906 )
* May 21-Jackson Pearce, American novelist
* December 20 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and television dramatist
* May 29 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic ( d. 1981 )
* May 25 – Antônio de Alcântara Machado, Brazilian novelist ( died 1935 )
* May 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist ( born 1823 )
* May 19 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist ( b. 1869 )
* May 28 – Kálmán Mikszáth, Hungarian novelist ( b. 1847 )
** Louisa May Alcott, American novelist ( b. 1832 )
* May 24 – Henry Kingsley, English novelist ( b. 1830 )
* May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist ( b. 1878 )
* May 8 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist ( b. 1821 )
* May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist ( d. 1954 )
* May 1 – Joseph Heller, American novelist ( Catch-22 ) ( d. 1999 )
* May 9 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist
* May 5 – Matthew Kapelewski, Polish-American poet and novelist ( d. 1883 )
* May 1 – Marie Corelli, English novelist ( d. 1924 )
* May 22 – Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist ( b. 1767 )
* November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, the father of the novelist Louisa May Alcott ( d. 1888 )
May and C
President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.
* Draft ANSI C Standard ( ANSI X3J11 / 88-090 ) ( May 13, 1988 ), Third Public Review
* C Information Bulletin # 1 ( ANSI X3J11 / 93-007 ) ( May 27, 1992 )
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A second single, " C ' mon C ' mon ", also charted in the UK Top 20 and an album, Truthdare Doubledare, released in May 1986, peaked at Nº18.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.
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Dummer presented the idea to the public at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D. C. on 7 May 1952.
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Hoover maintained strong support in Congress until his death at his Washington, D. C., home on May 2, 1972, from a heart attack attributed to cardio-vascular disease.
In May 1981, the U. S. government closed the Libyan " people's bureau " ( embassy ) in Washington, D. C. and expelled the Libyan staff in response their conduct generally violating internationally accepted standards of diplomatic behavior.
In May 1943, C. B. Farrel of the Royal Observer Corps was supposedly distracted from his duties by a Nessie sighting.
Malta is member of C, CE, EBRD, ECE, EU ( member from 1 May 2004 ), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IFAD, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM ( observer ), ISO, ITU, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Sky At Night magazine released a copy of the 1977 archive programme on the cover of their May 2008 edition.
Bush describes the memex and other visions of " As We May Think " as projections of technology known in the 1930s and 1940s in the spirit of Jules Verne or Arthur C. Clarke's 1945 proposal to orbit geosynchronous satellites for global telecommunication.
In May 1945, Karl von Loesch, a civil servant in Foreign Office, gave this copy to British Lt. Col. R. C.
In May 1989, Arafat, in a statement later criticized by Edward Said as being beyond his authority, and properly a matter for the PNC, told a French TV interviewer " C ' est caduc ", meaning that it, the Charter, was null and void.
* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5 – 6, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8071-1873-7.
* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7 – 12, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8071-2136-3.
* Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13 – 25, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.
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