Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).

This position has been championed by David M W Powers, Elizabeth Bates, Catherine Snow, Anat Ninio, Brian MacWhinney, Michael Tomasello, Michael Ramscar, William O ' Grady, and others.

Other popular fictional works that use the concept of virtual reality include William Gibson's Neuromancer which defined the concept of cyberspace, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants, in which programmer Jerzy Rugby uses VR for robot design and testing.

* September 3 – William W. Snow, American politician ( b. 1812 )

** William W. Snow, American politician ( d. 1886 )

* The Tale of William Mariner and The Snow Queen ( 1982 )

William Snow Harris is credited with the invention of this instrument, which was further improved by Lord Kelvin.

Born in Leicester to Ada and William Snow ( a church organist and choirmaster ), Charles was the second of four boys ( his brothers being Harold, Eric and Philip Snow ).

It was founded in 1878 by Erastus Snow and William Jordan Flake, Mormon pioneers and colonizers.

Johnson was born William Julius " Judy " Johnson in Snow Hill, Maryland on October 26, 1900.

* William W. Snow House, Fourth Street & Terrace Avenue

* Snow Camp Outdoor Theater which tells some of the story of the aftermath of the battle through the play The Sword of Peace by William Hardy.

John William Snow ( born August 2, 1939 ) was the CEO of CSX Corporation, and served as the 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury under U. S. President George W. Bush.

By 1866, eight years after the death of John Snow, William Farr publicly acknowledged that the miasma theory on the transmission of cholera was wrong, by his statistics ' justification on the death rate.

McKennitt is compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations, using literary works as sources of lyrics and springboards for interpretation such as " The Lady of Shalott " by Lord Tennyson, " Prospero's Speech " ( the final soliloquy in William Shakespeare's The Tempest ), " Snow " by Archibald Lampman, " Dark Night of the Soul " by St. John of the Cross, Dante's Inferno, William Blake's " Lullaby ", Yeats ' " The Stolen Child ", " The English Ladye and the Knight " by Sir Walter Scott and " The Highwayman " by Alfred Noyes.

* William Fiennes, The Snow Geese

Sir William Snow Harris ( 1 April 1791 – 22 January 1867 ) was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships.

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* Copley Medal: William Snow Harris

Smith had only been home for a short while when he was called to accompany Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow, William W. Cluff and Alma T. Smith on a second mission to the Sandwich Islands to correct the problems caused by Walter M. Gibson.

The well-known historian of physics, C. P. Snow, says about him, " If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom.

Memoir, with foreword by C. P. Snow.

* 1905 – C. P. Snow, British writer ( d. 1980 )

Attributed to P. F. Strawson is the performative theory of truth which holds that to say "' Snow is white ' is true " is to perform the speech act of signaling one's agreement with the claim that snow is white ( much like nodding one's head in agreement ).

In Texas and Points West: Papers in Honor of John A. Hedrick and Carol P. Hedrick, edited by Regge N. Wiseman, Thomas C. O ’ Laughlin, and Cordelia T. Snow, pp. 117 – 134.

* Richard Aldington by C. P. Snow

There was a concern ( illustrated in C. P. Snow ’ s Strangers and Brothers series of novels ) that technical and scientific expertise was mushrooming, to a point at which the " good all-rounder " culture of the administrative civil servant with a classics or other arts degree could no longer properly engage with it: as late as 1963, for example, the Treasury had just 19 trained economists.

He was an avid cricket fan and befriended the young C. P. Snow who was one also.

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* May 29-Pamela Hansford Johnson, poet, novelist and critic, and wife of C. P. Snow ( died 1981 )

* October 15-C. P. Snow, novelist ( died 1980 )

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* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. P. Snow, The New Men and The Masters

* Homecomings, a 1956 novel by C. P. Snow in the Strangers and Brothers series

* October 15-C. P. Snow ( died 1980 ), physicist and novelist

* 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.

** Donald P. Bellisario took over as primary executive producer after the pilot installment, " Don't Eat The Snow In Hawai ' i. "

When not breeding they form large flocks of over 1000 individuals which are sometimes known to include Snow Buntings ( P. nivalis ), Lapland Longspurs ( C. lapponicus ), and Horned Larks ( E. alpestris ), as well as other rosy-finch species.

The Two Cultures is the title of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow.