Alfred Möller was also a biologist, who researched fungi, and made a classic elucidation of the underground gardens of leaf-cutter ants.

* At the October 16, 2008 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, then, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked that he was from Krypton, saying " Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.

Several zoologists ( notably Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace, among others ) note rumors of snakes beyond 30 or 40 feet long, but in each case note that their direct observations were limited to snakes of approximately 20 feet in length.

Despite rumors she had retired, Naldi began work on several films, including Alfred Hitchcock's second directorial effort, 1926's The Mountain Eagle.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and General Semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) — a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S. I. Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.

He wrote at least 100 plays for the Grand Guignol and collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theater's frequently recurring themes.

French psychologist Alfred Binet, together with psychologists Victor Henri and Théodore Simon, after about 15 years of development, published the Binet-Simon test in 1905, which focused on verbal abilities.

* 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

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.

When French police arrested Abu Daoud, one of the chief organizers of the Munich massacre, and inquired about extraditing him to Germany, Germany's justice secretary Alfred Seidl recommended that Germany should not take any action, causing the French to release Abu Daoud and the Assad regime to shelter him until he died at a Damascus hospital in 2010.

Alfred Kühn wrote about centrioles as division organelles, although he stated that, for Vahlkampfias, the alternative ' organelle ' or ' product of structural build-up ' had not yet been decided, without explaining the difference between the alternatives.

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

Thomas Nast's passion for drawing was apparent from an early age, and he was enrolled for about a year of study with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

Alfred responded effectively and was able with little fighting to bring about their withdrawal in 877.

Alfred was reduced to taking refuge with a small band of followers in the marshes of the Somerset Levels, but after a few months he was able to gather an army and defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington, bringing about their final withdrawal from Wessex to settle in East Anglia.

The grand coalition headed by Alfred Gusenbauer collapsed in the early summer of 2008 over disagreements about the country's EU policy.

* 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.

As part of the disagreement about whether natural selection alone was sufficient to explain speciation, George Romanes coined the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocated by Alfred Russel Wallace and August Weismann with its heavy dependence on natural selection.

Alfred Nobel is also quoted as when talking about his invention of dynamite that “ My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions.

He abandoned this idea after being criticised in Welsh newspapers for bringing about the defeat of the Liberal Party in the 1895 election and when, at a meeting in Newport on 16 January 1896, the South Wales Liberal Federation, led by David Alfred Thomas and Robert Bird moved that he be not heard.

She may have been the daughter or sister of Ealdorman Wulfhere, who forfeited his lands charged with deserting King Alfred for the Danes in about 878.

In 853, Æthelwulf sent his son Alfred, a child of about four years, to Rome.

In 855, about a year after his wife Osburga's death, Æthelwulf followed Alfred to Rome.

Together with the war-time plans of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz to start building capital ships with diesel engines in order to expand the range of German warships, Trotha influenced Raeder into thinking about deep operations into the Atlantic as a way of forcing the British to break up their fleet.

* Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes – Ra's al Ghul, Bane, Killer Croc, Alfred Pennyworth, Penguin

He received the Thurman Bane award and the Wright Brothers Medal, as well as the Alfred Noble Prize ( as a joint award from seven societies ) for his work developing a thermal ice protection system for aircraft.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

Alfred strongly believed in the superiority of breech-loaders, on account of improved accuracy and speed, but this view did not win general acceptance among military officers, who remained loyal to tried-and-true muzzle-loaded bronze cannon.

One of Sigmund Freud's earlier associates, Alfred Adler, did agree with Freud that early childhood experiences are important to development, and believed birth order may influence personality development.

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.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

Alfred Hitchcock's films were strongly believed to have been extensively storyboarded to the finest detail by the majority of commentators over the years, although later research indicates that this was exaggerated for publicity purposes.

The historian William of Malmesbury, writing in the 12th century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred with his translation of Boethius.

The North Choir Aisle contains two tombs, believed to be the tombs of King Æthelbald of Wessex and his brother King Ethelbert of Wessex, elder brothers to Alfred the Great.

The term Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was often used interchangeably with and as a synonym for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle by detractors ( such as Einstein and the physicist Alfred Landé ) who believed in determinism and saw the common features of the Bohr-Heisenberg theories as a threat.

Alfred de Vigny developed what is believed to have been stomach cancer in his early sixties.

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.

The Malvern Hills, Alfred Watkins believed a ley line passes along their ridge.

Lyngstad believed that her father, Alfred Haase, had died during the war on his way back to Germany as his ship was reported to have sunk.

Alfred Russel Wallace believed qualitative novelties could arise through the process of spiritual evolution, in particular the phenomena of life and mind, Wallace attributed these novelties to a supernatural agency.

Alfred Lichtwark, then director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg believed " the only good portraiture in any medium was being done by amateurs photographers, who had the economic freedom and time to experiment.

Alfred Adler believed that the individual ( an integrated whole expressed through a self-consistent unity of thinking, feeling, and action, moving toward an unconscious, fictional final goal ), must be understood within the larger wholes of society, from the groups to which he belongs ( starting with his face-to-face relationships ), to the larger whole of mankind.

Alfred Loisy believed that the original form of John here was similar to that recounted in the Codex Sinaiticus, and was intended to point to the Virgin Mary as the sole visitor, while later copyists substituted Mary Magdalene so that the gospel according to John matched accounts given in the other gospels more closely.

In fact, probably because early famous countertenors were altos ( like Alfred Deller ), it was believed for a long time that countertenors can only be altos ( and later, mezzo countertenors, like David Daniels or Jochen Kowalski were recognized ).

Alfred was then a boy of four and the wedding is believed to have been held on the site of St. Andrew's church.

The origin of the town's name is uncertain, though it is believed that the name derives from a derivation of the name Aelfere, Aelfereton translates as the farm belonging to Aelfere or even of King Alfred.

He compared this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where he believed there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.

For the 1894 Paris – Rouen Rally, Alfred Vacheron equipped his with a steering wheel, believed to be one of the earliest employments of the principle.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the " co-discoverer " of evolution by natural selection, believed that the human mind was too complex to have evolved gradually, and began over time to subscribe to a theory of evolution that took more from Spiritualism than it did the natural world.