* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ), who greatly expanded the size and quality of the Navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

He created popular magazines about the navy, arranged for Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which argued the importance of naval forces, to be translated into German and serialised in newspapers, arranged rallies in support and invited politicians and industrialists to naval reviews.

However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to ' designate the area between Arabia and India '.

* 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( d. 1914 )

* Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer ( 1906 ).

Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.

At a time when industrialisation was reaping major advances in naval technology, one American strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, almost single-handedly brought the field of naval strategy up to date.

* Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. Rear Admiral, geopolitician and historian

The Navy was modernized in the 1880s, and by the 1890s had adopted the naval power strategy of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan -- as indeed did every major navy.

Influenced by the American geostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, Ratzel wrote of aspirations for German naval reach, agreeing that sea power was self-sustaining, as the profit from trade would pay for the merchant marine, unlike land power.

Alfred Thayer Mahan, a frequent commentator on world naval strategic and diplomatic affairs, believed that national greatness was inextricably associated with the sea, with its commercial usage in peace and its control in war.

Mackinder's doctrine of geopolitics involved concepts diametrically opposed to the notion of Alfred Thayer Mahan about the significance of navies ( he coined the term sea power ) in world conflict.

Ostensibly based upon the geopolitical theory of American naval officer Alfred Thayer Mahan, and British geographer Halford J. Mackinder, German geopolitik adds older German ideas.

* Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

The United States possessed more naval power and, more significantly, Alfred Thayer Mahan's theories were needed to secure the growing influence of the United States in Latin America.

* Alfred Thayer Mahan-The Influence of Sea Power upon History

Alfred Thayer Mahan ( September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914 ) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called " the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Alfred Thayer Mahan was born in West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan ( a professor at the United States Military Academy ) and Mary Helena Mahan.

Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 3 vol 1975 ) v. 1.

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer.

Nicholas J. Spykman could be considered as a disciple and critic of both geostrategists Alfred Mahan, and Halford Mackinder.

Alfred T. Mahan as a Captain

Mahan's name became a household word in the German navy, as Kaiser William II ordered his officers to read Mahan, and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ) used Mahan's reputation to finance a powerful surface fleet.

* Alfred Nobel – Man behind the Prizes

" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) with James Stewart.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).

* 1885 – Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The " Fuller Brush Man " ( d. 1973 )

* Most notably, the rights to four Paramount films directed by Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window ( 1954 ), The Trouble With Harry ( 1956 ), The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ), and Vertigo ( 1958 ) were owned by the director himself.

After Pulp Fiction was completed, he then directed Episode Four of Four Rooms, " The Man from Hollywood ", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode that starred Steve McQueen.

For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

The director also cites Alfred Hitchcock ’ s The Wrong Man and Jack Hazan ’ s A Bigger Splash as inspiration for his camerawork in the movie.

Psychologist Lloyd Humphreys, then editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Psychology and Psychological Bulletin, wrote that The Mismeasure of Man was " science fiction " and " political propaganda ", and that Gould had misrepresented the views of Alfred Binet, Godfrey Thomson, and Lewis Terman.

Grizzly Man, directed by Herzog, won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

It is from Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which Day co-stars with James Stewart.

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.

Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), Sabotage ( 1937 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) Alfred Hitchcock film about a family trying to save their child and a politician from an organization of assassins being hunted by MI6.

Fonda worked with Alfred Hitchcock in 1956, playing a man falsely accused of robbery in The Wrong Man ; the unusual semi-documentary work of Hitchcock's was based on an actual incident and partly filmed on location.

Alfred the Great: the Man Who Made England ( 2005 )

" Founded by the poet Alfred Kreymborg and the artist Man Ray, this group included Walter Conrad Arensberg, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore and Marcel Duchamp.

* Alfred Young Man ( b. 1948 ), educator, writer, curator, artist

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

Alfred Hitchcock remade his 1934 black and white The Man Who Knew Too Much in color in 1956.

Grantwood was an artist's colony established in 1913 by Man Ray, Alfred Kreymborg and Samuel Halpert and became known as the " Others " group of artists.

In addition to stage plays, Williams wrote a number of film screenplays, working with Alfred Hitchcock ( on The Man Who Knew Too Much ), Carol Reed and other directors.