Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s, A Canticle For Leibowitz ( 1959 ) finds men, after the great atomic disaster, stumbling back to their previous level of civilization and another catastrophe ; ;

During the year 1959, we granted 354 Fellowships ; ;

Sales of TV sets at retail ran ahead of the like months of 1959 through July ; ;

For the year as a whole, retail sales of TV sets probably came to 5.8 million against 5.7 million in 1959 ; ;

Both home and auto radios were in excellent demand, with retail sales of home sets ahead of 1959 in every month of the first eleven ; ;

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

Johan Cruijff played at Ajax between 1959 – 73 and 1981 – 83, winning 3 European Cups ; his # 14 is the only squad number Ajax has ever retired.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

The surviving children ( all daughters ) were ; Ḍiyá ' iyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( mother of Shoghi Effendi ) ( d. 1951 ) Túbá < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( 1880 – 1959 ) Rúḥá < u > Kh </ u > ánum and Munavvar < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( d. 1971 ).

In 1959 he scored a hat-trick as England demolished the US 8 – 1 ; and his second England hat-trick came in 1961 in an 8 – 0 thrashing of Mexico.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

From 1956 to 1958, a pitcher was not allowed to win the award on more than one occasion ; this rule was eliminated in 1959.

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

Day was ranked the biggest box office star for four years ( 1960 ; 1962 – 1964 ) and ranked in the top 10 for 10 years ( 1951 – 1952 ; 1959 – 1966 ).

Using launch systems presently available, we are developing satellites to scout the world's weather ; ;

at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast twenty miles west of the Nice airport ; ;

As the three cardinal doctrines of Judaism, Abba Mari accentuates: ( 1 ) That of the recognition of God's existence and of His absolute sovereignty, eternity, unity, and incorporeality, as taught in revelation, especially in the Decalogue ; ( 2 ) that of the world's creation by Him out of nothing, as evidenced particularly by the Sabbath ; ( 3 ) that of the special providence of God, as manifested in the Biblical miracles.

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.

Banda was the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, spices used as flavourings, medicines, preserving agents, that were at the time highly valued in European markets ; sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices.

For instance, nearly all Australian languages lack fricatives ; a large percentage of the world's languages, for example Mandarin Chinese, lack voiced stops as phonemes such as,, and.

The South Side is home to the University of Chicago ( UC ), ranked one of the world's top ten universities ; and the Museum of Science and Industry.

* wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life ;

For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation ; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

The role of satellites in point-to-point voice and data communications has largely been supplanted by fiber optics ; in 2006, 99 % of the world's long-distance voice and data traffic was carried over optical-fiber.

strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes ; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993.

The European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ; ) is the world's foremost alliance of public service media entities, comprising 74 Active Members in 56 countries and 37 Associate Members from a further 22 countries.

In 2009 graffiti artist " Scape " published " GRAFF ; the Art & Technique of Graffiti ", the world's first book dedicated to displaying the full techniques of creating graffiti art.

The campaign is focused on slowing, and eventually ending, the world's consumption of oil ; with activist activities taking place against companies that pursue oil drilling as a venture.

Any one language has only a subset of the aspectual distinctions attested in the world's languages, and some languages ( such as Standard German ; see below ) do not have aspects.

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press, but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels ; only H. V. Morton was allowed on the scene, and his vivid descriptions helped to cement Carter's reputation with the British public.

He began withdrawing American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti ; he also proposed an arms embargo on Latin America and a one-third reduction of the world's naval power, which was called the Hoover Plan.

People became urbanized and lived in city-states, including Jericho ; those were some of the world's earliest known cities.

A senior surgeon in the war, Billings built two of the world's most important libraries, Library of the Surgeon General's Office ( now the National Library of Medicine and the New York Public Library ; he also figured out how to mechanically analyze data by turning it into numbers and punching onto the computer punch card as developed by his student Herman Hollerith.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

He had taken out first papers for American citizenship ; ;

`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

She describes, first, the imaginary reaction of a foreigner puzzled by this `` unseasonable exultation '' ; ;

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

Baker moved first ; ;

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;