Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

* In the 1956 epic film Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is played by Robert Douglas.

*" Star man ": An article in the TLS by Robert Douglas Fairhurst, 20 June 2007

* People: Barry Boehm, Vint Cerf, Douglas Engelbart, Robert Fano, Anup K. Ghosh, James Hendler, Bob Kahn, JCR Licklider, John Poindexter, Larry Roberts, Robert Sproull, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, Gio Wiederhold.

The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.

In 1972, the same phenomenon was observed in helium-3, but at temperatures much closer to absolute zero, by American physicists Douglas D. Osheroff, David M. Lee, and Robert C. Richardson.

Douglas biographer Robert W. Johanssen described part of the speech:

Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas ( 1973 ) ISBN 0-19-501620-3

* Wiles, Gary J .; Worthington, David J .; Beck, Robert E. Jr .; Pratt, H. Douglas ; Aguon, Celestino F. & Pyle, Robert L. ( 2000 ): Noteworthy bird records for Micronesia, with a summary of raptor sightings in the Mariana Islands, 1988-1999.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

The airline British Caledonian, named a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 ( G-BHDI ) after Robert the Bruce.

The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.

Henty, a producer of the Boy's Own Paper fiction who wrote for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, The Black Douglas, and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction.

* Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer ( William Morrow and Company, New York, 1988 ) ISBN 1-58348-266-0

* Physics – David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson

** Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( d. 1608 )

President Garfield appointed several African-Americans to prominent positions: Frederick Douglas, recorder of deeds in Washington ; Robert Elliot, special agent to the U. S. Treasury ; John M. Langston, Haitian minister ; and Blanche K. Bruce, register to the U. S. Treasury.

Six candidates were nominated: Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, James Guthrie of Kentucky, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter of Virginia, Joseph Lane of Oregon, Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

They had four children: Hubert Humphrey III, Nancy, Robert, and Douglas.

Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle.

King Robert II of Scotland ( 1316 – 1390 ) had a hunting lodge in the area.

Astor's family owned Scottish estates in the area and a fellow Old Etonian Robert Fletcher had a property on the island.

These were both times he was in the area, and, by 1799, Coleridge was able to read Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer, a work which also drew on Purchas's work.

Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers, grew up in a three-room apartment in one of the city's housing projects, the Robert Taylor Homes, in a poorly constructed building, in an area with high levels of environmental pollutants and the largest concentration of poverty in America.

One of the most important applications of MNT would be medical nanorobotics or nanomedicine, an area pioneered by Robert Freitas in numerous books and papers.

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

in 1975 would lead Robert Metcalfe to use carrier sense multiple access ( CSMA ) protocols in the design of the now commonplace Ethernet local area network ( LAN ) technology.

This is reinforced for some by the alleged similarity of Locksley to the area of Loxley, South Yorkshire, in Sheffield, where in nearby Tideswell, which was the " Kings Larder " in the Royal Forest of the Peak, a record of the appearance of a " Robert de Lockesly " in court is found, dated 1245.

As " Robert " and its diminutives were amongst the most common of names at the time, and also since it was usual for men to adopt the name of their hometown (" De Lockesly " means simply, " Of from Lockesly "), the record could just as easily be referring to any man from the area named Robert.

It is again, however, equally likely that Nicolas, John, Robert and Thomas were simply members of a family which came from the area.

His influence has extended over a wide area of musicians, including Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan Wilson ( of Canned Heat ), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, and John Mooney.

Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer had spent much time in his youth in the New Mexico area, and suggested the Los Alamos Ranch School on the mesa.

 He made another major contribution to the field in his 1979 paper, joint with his student Robert A. Reckhow, " The Relative Efficiency of Propositional Proof Systems ", in which they formalized the notions of p-simulation and efficient propositional proof system, which started an area now called propositional proof complexity.

In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed a large territory, including the Chicago area, for France.

Work on the relationship of the number of species to area and its application in the study of island biogeography was pioneered by E. O. Wilson and Robert MacArthur.

Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History, stated that historical attempts to combat urban sprawl have failed, and that the high population density of Los Angeles, currently the most dense urban area in the United States, " lies at the root of many of the woes experienced by L. A.

Early in the match, Arsenal midfielder Robert Pirès played a low pass from the left flank to Bergkamp in the edge of the opponent area with his back to goal.

Poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, and Robert Southey, as well as painter J. M. W. Turner, were among those who visited the area.

* Robert Garrow, serial killer in the Syracuse area in the 1970s.

The rebellion is remembered in the names of schools, streets, pubs and a walking route in the Norwich and Wymondham area, including the Robert Kett Junior School in Wymondham, Dussindale Primary School in Norwich, the Robert Kett pub in Wymondham and Kett's Tavern in Norwich, and in a folk band, Lewis Garland and Kett's Rebellion, and a beer, Kett's Rebellion, by Woodforde's Brewery in Norwich.

The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names translates this as " muddy valley by a ridge "; the fūl-element, which meant " foul " or " muddy " was used in the earliest known reference to the area, in a charter by Robert de Lacey, around the year 1200, as used in the Middle English spelling fulebachope.

Douglas's absence from his power base in the Lothians and the Scottish marches encouraged Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Sir David Fleming of Biggar, both firm supporters of Robert III, to take full advantage to become the principal political force in the area.