Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.

Most of the controversy surrounded Marc Rich and allegations that Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, accepted payments in return for influencing the president's decision-making regarding the pardons.

He showed an issue of the magazine to director and screenwriter Marc Allégret who offered Bardot the opportunity to audition for " Les lauriers sont coupés " thereafter.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

Fellini and Ruggero Maccari, also on the staff of Marc ’ Aurelio, began writing radio sketches and gags for films.

Marc Platt's novels Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible and Lungbarrow, provide a detailed backstory for the civilisation seen in the main series.

Holmium ( Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm ) was discovered by Marc Delafontaine and Jacques-Louis Soret in 1878 who noticed the aberrant spectrographic absorption bands of the then-unknown element ( they called it " Element X ").

Inspired by Colossal Cave, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling created what was to become the first Infocom game, Zork, in 1977 at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Ivens was, however, known for his anti-fascist and other propaganda films, including The Spanish Earth, for the Spanish loyalists, co-written with Ernest Hemingway and music by Marc Blitzstein and Virgil Thomson.

These men included soldiers who would become infamous in England for their uncivilised behaviour, including Falkes de Breauté, Geard d ' Athies, Engelard de Cigongé and Philip Marc.

Learn Klingon a beginners language course for the Earth based Klingon by eurotalk and translated by Jonathan Brown ( a. k. a. qe ' San ) and Marc Okrand.

Netscape Navigator was based on the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen, a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a student at the University of Illinois.

" Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, criticised Singer's appointment to the Princeton Faculty in a banquet speech at the organisation's national convention in July 2001, claiming that Singer's support for euthanizing disabled babies could lead to disabled older children and adults being valued less as well.

Research by the French historian Marc Bloch in medieval French agricultural history showed the existence of names for two different ploughs, " the ard ( araire ) was wheeless and had to be dragged across the fields, while the turnplough ( charrue ) was mounted on wheels ".

( hosted by Alex Trebek ), Name That Tune ( hosted by Bob Goen ), and two versions of The Joker's Wild ( one for adults hosted by Wink Martindale and one for kids hosted by Marc Summers ).

This was the pioneering work of Marc Fumaroli who, building on the work of classicist and Neo-Latinist Alain Michel and French scholars such as Roger Zuber, published his famed Age de l ' Eloquence ( 1980 ), was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was eventually elevated to a chair in rhetoric at the prestigious College de France.

Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.

* 8 p. m. EDT: Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, a tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks.

She soon stumbles upon a suitable victim: Marc ( Shatner ), a young soldier, who with his sister Arndis ( Ann Atmar ) comes to the sacred water in order to heal his battle-wounds.

Marc Anthony gave the island to Cleopatra VII of Egypt and her sister Arsinoe IV, but it became a Roman province again after his defeat at the Battle of Actium ( 31 BC ) in 30 BC.

" The review continued by citing many ways in which children could extract more from the series, for example by encouraging kids to write stories based on their own families ( in much the same way Arthur was first realised ) or by Kim Brown, Marc Brown ’ s sister, teaching kids to draw Arthur while on tour.

The film stars Christopher Eccleston as the revenge-obsessed Vindice, with Derek Jacobi as the evil Duke, Eddie Izzard as his lecherous son Lussurioso, Diana Quick as the Duchess, Andrew Schofield as Vindice's brother Carlo ( a version of the play's Hippolito ), Carla Henry as his virtuous sister Castiza, and Marc Warren and Justin Salinger as the Duchess's sons Supervacuo and Ambitioso.

It included interviews with her husband Richard, son Marc, daughter Maya ( Maya Rudolph ), sister Sandra Riperton, and many others who worked with Riperton.

In 1890 he married Sophie Raffalovich, sister of the poet Marc André Sebastian Raffalovich and the economist Arthur Raffalovich, and daughter of the Russian Jewish banker, Hermann Raffalowich, domiciled in Paris.

Peri's sister, Patti Jo Wynne, and her step-siblings by her mother's second marriage, Marc and April Gilpin, also are actors.

Metacritic was launched in January 2001 by Marc Doyle, along with his sister Julie Doyle Roberts and a classmate from the University of Southern California law school, Jason Dietz.

On 22 July that year his 70 year old mother ( the dowager Duchess Françoise de Noailles ), his wife ( the Duchess Anne-Louise-Henriette ), their eldest daughter Louise ( the Viscomte d ' Ayen virtue of marriage to her cousin Marc Antoine de Noaille ), and their second daughter, Adrienne de la Fayette, were condemned to the guillotine ; Adrienne was spared at the last moment ( possibly due to American intervention-there is debate ) only after her grandmother, mother, and sister were beheaded within her sight.

Dandelion and the sister publishing company Biscuit were named after Peel's hamsters at the suggestion of his then flatmate Marc Bolan.

He is the oldest of three children: his brother, Marc, was born in 1965, and his sister, Janice, was born in 1966.

Benjamin Hawes was husband to Sophia Macnamara Brunel ( 1802 – 1878 ); daughter of the famous engineer Marc Isambard Brunel and sister to Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

After familiarizing himself with the cause and the circumstances of his Serbian fame, now mostly unemployed 48-year-old Stewart, along with a filmmaker friend Marc Vespi and his sister Liza, decided to attempt to make a documentary on the subject titled Slaughter Nick for President.

magazine, writers Brett D. Rogers and Fred Patten, author Carl Gustav Horn, academic Marc Hairston, and Tamu Townsend, writer and sister of publisher Emru Townsend.

Matt moves to the United Kingdom to live with his sister Shannon ( Claire Forlani ), her husband Steve Dunham ( Marc Warren ) and their young son, Ben ( James Allison ).

The company created a sister imprint, Cease and Desist in 2000 to release some albums orphaned by the collapse of Marc Costanzo of Len's Four Ways to Rock record label.

The song features Marc Anthony's daughter, Ariana — portrayed as the little sister to the DJ character —, singing along with the music as the DJ is at work.

In his 1982 book The Twilight Zone Companion, Marc Scott Zicree also makes this same claim, couching it terms of a definitive statement.

Upon conviction, raises his middle fingers to the court, and makes a statement implying Polly's father, Marc, was her molester.

2929 Productions, headed by Marc Butan, makes movies with budgets of $ 10 to $ 40 million.

* Baby Jeffrey-He would usually introduces Marc at the beginning of each episode and always makes a mess.

" Marc L. Hill of PopMatters called The Lost Tapes " a necessary addition to the collection of any hip-hop fan " and found it to be " masterfully arranged ", writing that it " maintains a cohesiveness that almost makes you forget that you are not listening to a studio album.