Perhaps more importantly, numerous other well-known conservative Christian leaders as well as many conservative pastors have accepted Martin's definition of a cult as well as his understanding of the groups to which he gave that label.

* In the 2004 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( Viking Adult, ISBN 0-670-03337-5 ), Jared Diamond suggests that Sir Martin's hopes of worldwide cooperation in avoiding extinction scenarios may be in vain.

The expression " cult apologist " was used in a different manner than its current usage by the evangelical Christian countercult movement writer Walter Martin in 1955, in Martin's Christian handbook The Rise of the Cults.

Barnhouse wrote the foreword to The Christian Science Myth, and his support for Martin's ministry was crucial in legitimating countercult apologetics to the wider church constituency.

Both at the time of Martin's death and then in the immediate years to follow, several staff researchers associated with CRI began to emerge as authors of various countercult apologetics books.

Martin's electric guitars were not popular and the company has since continued to concentrate on the manufacture of a wide range of high quality acoustics.

Thomas ' funeral, which Brinnin did not attend, took place at St Martin's Church in Laugharne on 24 November.

' This is Miss Missouri Martin's way of saying she sees no diamond on Miss Billy Perry ’ s finger.

Sitch has claimed that none of the characters were directly based on a single person, and indeed the character of Moore was a combination of well-known characteristics of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant.

The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical, and was centered on country music and rural Southern culture.

It then enjoyed a renaissance after the jokes became a regular part of the badinage on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

* List of talks on Martin's website

The next, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes, was released on April 1, 2009, and focuses on living with type 1 diabetes ( St. Martin's Press ; ISBN 0-312-37631-6 ).

She also made appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Man from U. N. C. L. E., and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Virginian and starred in television specials.

Adopting a new name, the group played its first gig as the Sex Pistols on November 6, 1975, at St. Martin's School of Art and soon attracted a small but ardent following.

Martin was elected pope at the Council of Constance on St. Martin's Day, 11 November 1417, by a conclave consisting of twenty-three cardinals and thirty delegates of the council.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

In parts of Flanders and some parts of the Netherlands and most areas of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, children go to houses with home made beet lanterns or with paper lanterns ( which can hold a candle or electronic light ), singing songs about St. Martin on St. Martin's Day ( the 11th of November ), in return for treats.

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

* January 22 – Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.

* Mayer, Henry All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery St. Martin's Press, 1998.

The 8th century St Martin's Cross on Iona There are no written accounts of pre-Christian Dál Riata, the earliest records coming from the chroniclers of Iona and Irish monasteries.

The St. Martin's Cross on Iona is the best-preserved high cross, probably inspired by Northumbrian free-standing crosses, such as the Ruthwell Cross, although a similar cross exists in Ireland ( Ahenny, County Tipperary ).

The music venue the Astoria was located here, as is one of the sites of St Martin's Arts College, as well as the music shops on Denmark Street ( known as Britain's Tin Pan Alley ).

* Busker Alley ( Off-Broadway, 2006, one-performance benefit concert ), Sherman Brothers musical based on the 1938 movie St. Martin's Lane, directed by Tony Walton

Jones moved to the United States in 1974 on the advice of his accountant to avoid Britain's newly introduced 83 % marginal top rate of tax, buying Dean Martin's former mansion in the East Gate Old Bel Air in Los Angeles.

Also, in this film, although clueless, Martin's Clouseau does not seem entirely incompetent, being able to locate the Pink Panther diamond and solve the case on his own through his knowledge of such obscure facts as a Russian army rule that all members must know the location of a specific part of the brain or a clear knowledge of Chinese.

Martin's and Lovestone's tactics, however, only succeeded in unifying all of the disparate groups in the leadership of the union at that time into a single coalition opposed to Martin and, unintentionally, enhancing the reputation of CP members within the union.

Sharp shared this remarkable domicile with some remarkable people, including Eric Clapton ( who moved in not long after Sharp did ), Germaine Greer, filmmaker Philippe Mora, artist Tim Whidborne, prominent London " identity " David Litvinoff ( later an adviser on the production of Nicolas Roeg's Performance ), writer Anthony Haden-Guest ( author of The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night ) and Martin's friend Robert Whitaker, photographer of choice for many leading rock groups on the scene, including The Beatles.

The earliest pictorial representation of Tyers ' Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, is the " Vauxhall fan " ( 1736 ), an etching printed in blue designed to be pasted to a fan ; it shows the earliest groups of pavilions, in a sober classical taste, but the interiors of the supper boxes were painted by members of Hogarth's St. Martin's Lane Academy, prominent among them Francis Hayman.

During Martin's lifetime a variety of conflicts erupted between himself and various leaders of religious groups, but especially with Mormons.

With the ‘ Dot Com ’ boom of the 1990s, telematic artists including Roy Ascott began to develop greater significance as theatre groups like George Coates Performance Works and Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre established partnerships with software and hardware companies encouraged by the technology boom. In Australia in the early 1990s Julie Martin's Virtual Reality Theatre presented works at the Sydney Opera House, featuring the first hybrid human digital avatars, in 1996 " A Midsummer Nights Dream featured Augmented Reality Stage sets designed and produced by her company.

Nick Makin, Martin's solicitor, said: " It is appalling that the family of someone who has a criminal record for burglary and assault should attempt to claim any damages of criminal injury when he was shot while burgling the dwelling of an innocent person ...

Lyam chooses to reveal Martin's birthright on the eve of his selection and coronation, threatening to throw the Kingdom into turmoil and potential civil war, but Martin relinquishes his claim, making Lyam the rightful king and ending any possibility of dispute.

Martin's claim, however, was not successful.

Jarmusch denied the charges and stated in response that Martin's claim has " absolutely no merit ".

On September 28, 2007, a Los Angeles federal court jury rejected Martin's claim that Jarmusch and Focus Films stole the screenplay from Martin.

This " witness " to the female Pope is likely to be based upon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it.

Little is known about what happened in Rome after Pope Martin's departure, but it was typical in those days for the Holy See to be governed by the archpriest and archdeacon.

Steve Martin's rendition of Clouseau in the 2006 film is considered to be a rebooting of the character.

Comparisons can be drawn between Round the Horne and the American sketch comedy television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1968 – 1973 ).

* In Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon ( 1991 ), Steve Martin's character, an action movie producer who experiences a revelation after being mugged, temporarily decides to make high-quality " life drama " movies, but soon returns to the action genre when he decides that violence is life and should be welcomed and watched.

Wise decided that Martin's segments would be filmed at half hour intervals, so Martin would not face discomfort.

After landing in Milan, Martin's scheduled helicopter trip to Sanremo had to be postponed due to poor weather conditions.

" Pamela Green, who went on to be a famous glamour model of the 1950s and ' 60s, remembers him at St. Martin's School of Art, as “ very thin with a skin so white it almost had a greenish tinge ”.

In 1854 Charles Canning, the Postmaster General, set up a committee at the Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand to investigate how London could best be divided for the purposes of directing mail.

Martin replaced Randall and the film turned out to be the beginning of Martin's spectacular comeback.

The final ( 1973 – 74 ) season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement.

A stunning blonde, Jeanne could sometimes be spotted in Martin's audience while he was still married to Betty.

After St Martin's, he gave up his ambition to be a painter and took jobs in silk-screen printing works and commercial art studios.

* September 9-NBC airs what will prove to be the pilot of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ; which would have its actual series premiere on January 22, 1968.

On January 5, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin's office confirmed that McKenna would be the 21st Ambassador to the United States.

The Ambleside campus of the University of Cumbria, formerly St. Martin's College and Charlotte Mason College, can be found at the northern end of the town ; courses held at the campus include teacher training, leisure and outdoor studies.

During this period St. Martin's came to be the principal church ( or minster ) of Utrecht, see of the bishop.

However, it seems to be one of a number of nearby streets and places that have been named for the land-owning family including Cranbourn Street and the Salisbury pub on St Martin's Lane.

A complete list of Billy Martin's fights can be found in The Baseball Maniac's Almanac, 2nd Edition by Bert Randolph Sugar.

The 1569 church order in Pomerania states that the Reformation was to be observed on St. Martin's Day, which falls on November 11.

Although Martin's true identity remains a mystery, Sting ( who played Martin in the film production ) has said that he believes him to be the Devil.

He has always been very choosy about his daughter's friends, and as he cannot remember Pattie ever mentioning Martin's name, he does not want her to be left alone with what might well be a complete stranger.

) Kline's Gordon invents more ridiculous, humor-related, and implausible contraptions than those created by Martin's Gordon in the television series, which made some effort to be reasonably feasible.