On 17 November 1834, the British amateur astronomer the Reverend Thomas John Hussey reported a conversation he had had with French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to George Biddell Airy, the British Astronomer Royal.

Charles Cros, a French poet and amateur scientist, is the first person known to have made the conceptual leaps from recording sound as a traced line to the theoretical possibility of reproducing the sound from the tracing and then to a definite method for accomplishing the reproduction.

* March 26 – A French amateur astronomer claims to have noticed a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury – later named Vulcan.

In December 1859, Le Verrier received a letter from a French physician and amateur astronomer called Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, who claimed to have seen a transit of the hypothetical planet earlier in the year.

Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean " training ") is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as " the highest expression of horse training ", where " horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a series of predetermined movements " Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games.

Atwood was a renowned amateur chess-player and among other opponents played games against the famous French player Philidor, who was regarded as the unofficial world champion.

Samuel L. French was also an amateur historian — he wrote a book about the Army of the Potomac, and in 1915 published Reminiscences of Plymouth, his homage to the antebellum years of his hometown.

An international 2. 1 kHz allocation, the 2200-meter band ( 135. 7 kHz to 137. 8 kHz ), is available to amateur radio operators in several countries in Europe, New Zealand, Canada and French overseas dependencies.

Gustave Le Bon ( 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931 ) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist.

He made his first appearance for a French national selection playing for the French amateur side on 26 September 1973.

As an 18-year-old amateur in 1977, McEnroe won the mixed doubles at the French Open with Mary Carillo, and then made it through the qualifying tournament and into the main draw at Wimbledon, where he lost in the semifinals to Jimmy Connors in four sets.

In April 1863, the Victory was discovered by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, who sent it to Paris in the same year.

All of the French possessions share the prefix F. Further divisions that are used by amateur stations are:

French geologist and amateur archaeologist Madeleine Colani excavated inside the cave in the early 1930 and found archaeological material to support a centralized crematorium theory.

Alfred d ' Orsay, known as the comte d ' Orsay ( Count of Orsay ) ( Alfred Guillaume Gabriel ; 4 September 1801 – 4 August 1852 ) was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion in the early-to mid-19th century.

* Attempting to explain Mercury's solar orbit, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier proposes the existence of a hypothetical planet, Vulcan, inside its orbit and amateur astronomer Edmond Modeste Lescarbault claims to have observed it during March.

Other notable tournaments that year were the Queen's Club tournament ( the Graebner-Okker final cancelled due to rain which also delayed the first matches in Wimbledon ) and the greatest pro tournaments where all the NTL and WCT pros could compete ( but without amateur or registered players ) as the U. S. Pro ( outside Boston, on grass ), the French Pro ( coming back to Roland Garros after the 5-edition interlude at Coubertin ), the Jack Kramer Tournament of Champions at Wembley in November and perhaps the Madison Square Garden Pro in December with the four best pros of each organisation.

Bad defeats followed against some of the upcoming 1967 amateur players ( Roche twice on grass at the US Pro and at Wimbledon Open, Newcombe on clay at the French Pro and Okker on grass at the U. S. Open ) but his end of the year was better.

After a short time as manager of French clubs, he joined the local amateur club AS Facture-Biganos Boïen as a player in 2009, aged 45.

After a short time as manager of French clubs, he joined the local amateur club AS Facture-Biganos Boïen as a player in 2009, aged 45.

Cole, a Long Beach real estate investor, long-time music lover, and amateur pianist, died in 2004.

Garroway, an amateur drummer and inveterate music lover, lent his name to a series of recordings of jazz, classical, and pop music released in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Her lover, Shimamura, comments that, “ the publishing gentleman would be happy if he knew he had a real geisha — not just an ordinary amateur — practicing from his scores way off here in the mountains .”

Bertie Peers was a lover and explorer of the great outdoors, a fine amateur scientist and a dedicated naturalist but his enthusiasm eventually cost him his life, when he was fatally struck by a puff adder.

A keen amateur naturalist, clay pigeon shot and fisherman, he is also a wine lover addicted to Bach and Beethoven, and an enthusiastic but untrained cook.

He was an avid amateur drummer and jazz lover who held jam sessions in his home.

Enzo Ferrari wasn't initially interested in the idea of producing road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari ( literally " Ferrari Stable ", and usually used to mean " Team Ferrari ", it is correctly pronounced ) in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

She was a complete " amateur ", meaning that she did not have any professional crime-fighting skills as did the two doctors.

A digipeater is a blend meaning " digital repeater ", particularly used in amateur radio.

Beginning in the early 1950s, the Sunday strip included a frame devoted to a page from the " Crimestoppers ' Textbook ", a series of handy illustrated hints for the amateur crime-fighter.

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

Kaze to Ki no Uta was groundbreaking in its depictions of " openly sexual relationships ", spurring the development of the Boys Love genre in shōjo manga, and the development of sexually explicit amateur comics.

The Q code is a standardized collection of three-letter message encodings, also known as a brevity code, all of which start with the letter " Q ", initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication, and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio.

Slavisa Pesci, " an information technologist and amateur scholar ", superimposed Leonardo da Vinci's version of The Last Supper with its mirror image ( with both images of Jesus lined up ) and claimed that the resultant picture has a Templar knight on the far left, a woman in orange holding a swaddled baby in her arms to the left of Christ, and the Holy Grail in the form of a chalice in front of Christ.

The committee consists of Hockey Hall of Fame members, hockey personnel and media personalities associated with the game ; the membership is representative of " areas throughout the world where hockey is popular ", and includes at least one member who is knowledgeable about international hockey and one member who is knowledgeable about amateur hockey.

The work was of " outstanding importance ", being released at a time when the few archaeologists across Europe were amateur and were focused purely on studying the archaeology of their locality ; The Dawn was a rare example of a book that looked at the larger picture across an entire continent.

One short studio session was made for Riverside ( only released later by its subsidiary Jazzland in 1961 ) and a larger group recording featuring Coltrane was split between that album and Monk's Music ; an amateur tape from the Five Spot ( not the original residency, but a later September 1958 reunion with Coltrane sitting in for Johnny Griffin ) was issued on Blue Note in 1993 ; and a recording of the quartet performing at a Carnegie Hall concert on November 29, previously " rumoured to exist ", was recorded in high fidelity by Voice of America, rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in 2005 and released by Blue Note.

Nicknamed " Matinee Idol ", Czyz was a member of the United States amateur boxing team whose other members died in the LOT Polish Airlines plane crash in Poland in 1980.

* Biggerstaff Park in Dallas is the venue of the " Shelby Hamfest ", a gathering of amateur radio operators.

Burlington, himself a talented amateur architect and ( in the words of Horace Walpole ) " Apollo of the Arts ", designed the villa with the aid of William Kent ( 1685 – 1748 ), who took a leading role in designing the gardens.

Wilson agreed that the joins in the material appeared " seamless " to the amateur reader, but found the plot in the main " rather feeble "; he noted Paton Walsh's attempt to parody Sayers ' style, "... the really corking snobbery, the sub-Wodehousian banter, and the conceited swapping of obvious quotations ", but judged it a failure.

The motorized amateur cameras powered by clockwork ( spring ) motors were first made in 1934, and ended with a special limited edition collector's model, " Star Classic ", in 1996.

Only the third tallest on his team, but called " easily the No. 1 player in college basketball today ", " the best amateur basketball player in the United States ", and " The White Oscar Robertson ", he scored 41 points in a 80 – 78 loss to Michigan, then led Princeton to the Final Four after defeating heavy favorite Providence by 40 points.

Chuvalo finished his amateur career with a 16-0-0 record, all by KO within four rounds. Nicknamed " Boom Boom ", Chuvalo turned professional in 1956, knocking out four opponents in one night to win a heavyweight tournament held by former world's champion Jack Dempsey at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on April 26, 1956.