In the anime, Minako is given a slightly different backstory, having spent some of her time as Sailor V in England, where she met a young Interpol officer named Katarina who taught her English and acted as a big sister, and a young man called Alan, with whom she fell in love.

The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts, first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India ; Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington, himself a Wellesley born in Dublin to the Earl of Mornington, a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Dublin ; and in the 20th century Alan Brooke and Harold Alexander ( see also Irish military diaspora ).

BBC News correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in The Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, spent many years in Lochgoilhead in his youth.

Starting in 2008, " The Other Europeans " project, funded by several EU cultural institutions, spent a year doing intensive field research in Moldavia under the leadership of Alan Bern and scholar Zev Feldman.

While on tour in Barcelona in May 2000, Oasis were forced to cancel a gig when drummer Alan White's arm seized up, and the band spent the night drinking instead.

" If one believes that the trust fund assets are worthless ," argued former Representative Bill Archer, then similar reasoning implies that “ Americans who have bought EE savings bonds should go home and burn them because they ’ re worthless because the money has already been spent .” At a Senate hearing in July 2001, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was asked whether the trust fund investments are “ real ” or merely an accounting device.

While on tour in Barcelona in 2000, Oasis were forced to cancel a gig when Alan White's arm seized up, and the band spent the night drinking instead.

* In 1982, composer Alan Hovhaness, who spent much of his childhood in New Hampshire, composed Lake Winnipesaukee, Op.

Others who have spent time at NPL include Harry Huskey, a computer pioneer ; Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern digital computing who was largely responsible for the early ACE computer design ; Robert Watson-Watt, generally considered the inventor of radar, Oswald Kubaschewski, the father of computational materials thermodynamics and the numerical analyst James Wilkinson.

In 1934, the American composer Alan Hovhaness ( 1911 – 2000 ), who spent time with his maternal family members ( specifically the family of the Reverend Walter Scott, his grandfather ) in Pittsfield during his youth, wrote a fantasy for cello and piano entitled Legend of the Sunkook Valley ( Op.

In 1995, Blackburn became league champions, having spent millions of pounds on players like Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton.

He and Alan recorded Spanish ballads and vaquero songs on the Rio Grande border and spent weeks among French-speaking Cajuns in southern Louisiana.

All four of John ’ s children assisted with his folksong research and with the daily operations of the Archive: Shirley, who performed songs taught to her by her mother ; John Jr., who encouraged his father's association with the Library ; Alan Lomax who accompanied John on field trips and who from 1937 – 42 served as the Archive ’ s first paid ( though very nominally ) employee as Assistant in Charge ; and Bess, who spent her weekends and school vacations copying song texts and doing comparative song research.

Alan is out the millions of pounds he spent on the yacht and the various bribes, but consoles himself by pushing the still-crated Maxwell into the ocean.

Another graphic novel called Tank Girl: Apocalypse, in which TG becomes pregnant, also appeared in ' 96, written by Alan Grant after he spent several hours alone in the pitch-dark bowels of an actual tank, experiencing sensory deprivation.

In the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, the character Evey Hammond describes her childhood, spent on Shooter's Hill.

In January 1940, the British cryptanalyst Alan Turing spent several days at PC Bruno conferring with his Polish colleagues.

Responding to a 1986 report on 3 year capital expenditures projected at almost $ 35 billion, VP of finance F. Alan Smith ( no relation ) opined that the sum could be spent on purchasing both Toyota and Nissan resulting in a bump in market share overnight and openly questioned whether the proposed capital expenditures would pay the same dividends ; they did not.

* The novelist Alan Garner, who spent much of his childhood there and used it as the principal scene of his fantasy classics The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath.

McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the daughter of Jean ( née Morris ) and Alan McTeer, and spent her childhood in York.

* Alan Knott, Kent and England cricketer, spent his childhood in Swanley.

* Alan Shepard-astronaut, spent a summer at Proctor building a boat, walked on the moon

An injury to club captain Alan Hansen meant that Whelan spent much of the 1988 – 89 season as captain of Liverpool, a role he relished as the club progressed to another challenge for a " double ".

After studying for a master ’ s degree at the University of British Columbia he received his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge in 1980 ( supervisor: Professor Sir Alan R. Battersby FRS ) and then spent a post-doctoral period at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

The most notable Christadelphian attempts to find a continuity of those with doctrinal similarities since that point have been geographer Alan Eyre's two books The Protesters ( 1975 ) and Brethren in Christ ( 1982 ) in which he shows that many individual Christadelphian doctrines had been previously believed.

The club has produced many English greats including Johnny Haynes, George Cohen, Bobby Robson, Rodney Marsh and Alan Mullery.

Alan Stivell's Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique ( perhaps the best-seller harp album in the world ), using mainly the bronze strung harp, and his tours, have brought the instrument into the ears and the love of many people.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, including a notable 1974 Hovis advert, " Bike Round " ( featuring New World Symphony ), filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Alan Saffron alleged that his father made payments of between A $ 5000 and $ 10, 000 per week to both men over many years, that Askin and Allan both visited Saffron's office on several occasions, that Allan also visited the Saffron family home, and that Abe Saffron paid for an all-expenses overseas trip for Allan and a young female ' friend '.

One of many distinguished students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory.

Squeak incorporates many of the elements Alan Kay proposed in the Dynabook concept, which he formulated in the 1960s.

The film features many stars, including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne and Natalie Portman.

* The George Alan Connor Esperanto Collection at the University of Oregon includes many titles, catalogued in its bibliographic guide, Catalog of the George Alan Connor Esperanto Collection ( 1978 ).

In the 15th century it was promoted by Alanus de Rupe ( aka Alain de la Roche or Saint Alan of the Rock ), a learned Dominican priest and theologian, who established the " 15 rosary promises " and started many rosary confraternities.

Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.

Among the many scientists who have contributed to the development of these techniques are Jeremy Cook, Heinrich Roder, Harry Gray, Martin Gruebele, Brian Dyer, William Eaton, Sheena Radford, Chris Dobson, Alan Fersht, Bengt Nölting and Lars Konermann.

Historian Alan Stewart suggests that many of the phenomena now seen as peculiarly Jacobean can be identified more closely with Anne's patronage than with James, who " fell asleep during some of England's most celebrated plays ".

" In a 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times, " Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liars ' Club ?," Joseph D. McNamara, then chief of police of San Jose, said " Not many people took defense attorney Alan M. Dershowitz seriously when he charged that Los Angeles cops are taught to lie at the birth of their careers at the Police Academy.

He was a " devotee " of the works of many performers, including Alan Arkin and Barbara Harris and directors Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

In Swamp Thing # 33, Alan Moore attempted to reconcile the two versions of Swamp Thing with the revelation that there have been many previous incarnations of Swamp Thing prior to the death and " rebirth " of the Alec Holland incarnation.

Among Schnabel's many piano pupils were Clifford Curzon, Rudolf Firkušný, Adrian Aeschbacher, Lili Kraus, Leon Fleisher, Carlo Zecchi, Claude Frank, Leonard Shure, Alan Bush, Nancy Weir, Konrad Wolff, Jascha Spivakovsky, Eunice Norton, Henry Jolles, Maria Curcio, Noel Mewton-Wood and radio personality Karl Haas.

* The Wild Hunt appears frequently in modern fantasy fiction, as in Alan Garner ( in The Moon of Gomrath ), Peter Beagle ( in Tamsin ), Penelope Lively in The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, Uladzimir Karatkievich ( in The Wild Hunt of King Stakh ), Susan Cooper in The Dark is Rising, Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Raymond E. Feist's ' Faerie Tale ', Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( as the Dead Men of Dunharrow ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Novel Child of the Hunt ), Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia cicle and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, among many others.

The spelling " Alan Smithee " became the standard, and the Internet Movie Database lists about two dozen feature films and many more television features and series episodes credited to this name.

French and Saunders began to establish themselves in what was referred to as the " underground comedy " scene, along with many other prolific actors and comedians like Alan Rickman and Miranda Richardson, people whom they would go on to work with for the next twenty-plus years.

Another form that interested him throughout his life was poetry ; the biographer Peter Alexander includes many of these poems in his biography of Alan Paton.