The Government of Canada Digital Collections website describes Atkinson as " a ‘ radical ’ in the best sense of that term ….

Atkinson analyzes Malory ’ s motives for writing about the Holy Grail quest.

The hat-check girl, Mildred Atkinson played by Martha Stewart, states that adding bitters to ginger ale is called a “ Horse ’ s Neck ”.

 Atkinson ’ s Internet service provider was contacted and explained that he was not sending it from his own account but hiding behind a number of other slave or zombie computers, making identification difficult.

Characteristic of the Castle ’ s history, Atkinson ’ s plans were never completed, due to lack of funds, and the castle ’ s transformation was partially finished according to Henry Kendall ’ s design during the 1830s.

After earning his bachelor ’ s degree at the University of Chicago and his Ph. D. in experimental psychology and mathematics at Indiana University, Atkinson joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1956.

During Atkinson ’ s tenure at NSF, skeptics in both Congress and the media mounted frequent attacks on government funding for basic research as little more than subsidizing idle curiosity about trivial topics at the taxpayers ’ expense.

Atkinson became the University of California ’ s seventeenth president in October 1995.

UC Merced, the University ’ s first new campus in forty years, was founded during Atkinson ’ s presidency.

Atkinson ’ s most important task as president, however, flowed from the July 1995 decision by the UC Board of Regents to eliminate racial preferences in admission.

Students, he argued, should be tested on what they had actually achieved academically, not on the basis of “ ill-defined notions of aptitude .” Atkinson ’ s challenge inaugurated a national debate on the relative merits of aptitude versus achievement tests and ultimately led to a major revision of the SAT I.

with Rowan Atkinson, which is currently playing at London ’ s Drury Lane Theatre.

Atkinson ’ s appointment, however, was not met with universal approval by his profession.

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In December 1992, he decided to replace Tomkins as boss with the more experienced Ron Atkinson who ’ d left Aston Villa to take over.

Baring actively fought off the far-reaching proposals of Lord North and Charles James Fox, believing that ‘ India is not a colony and God forbid that it ever should be ’ ( Barings archives, Northbrook MSS, N4. 5 ), but he worked with an old friend from the period of his apprenticeship and now a fellow director, Richard Atkinson, to modify and facilitate the acceptance of Pitt's India Act.

Introduced in its fourth iteration, Blackadder Goes Forth, Captain Kevin Darling is main character Captain Edmund Blackadder ( Rowan Atkinson )' s intellectual peer and bitter rival ; while Blackadder reluctantly serves in World War I trenches, Darling is safely stationed some distance from the front line.

In his review for the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote: "... It is exciting ; it is enjoyable and it is decent ... Jerry Bock has set ... a bouncy score ... s the writer of lyrics, Sheldon Harnick is in an unfailingly humorous frame of mind ... nder Mr. Abbott's invincible stage direction, the whole show comes alive with gusto ... he cast could not be more winning or in better voice.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

Atkinson has a rich history, dating back to the American Revolution.

Other historic buildings, such the Atkinson Historical Society and Library, Rockwell School ( current police station ), and many more, grace this southern New Hampshire town with their rich historical value and education of the history of the area.

The history and natural history of Fort Atkinson and the surrounding area are presented at the Hoard Historical Museum and National Dairy Shrine Museum.

In Myrtos is a small museum, dedicated to the local history, which features a scale model of Fornou Korifi created by John Atkinson, a British potter resident in the village who is the current Museum Curator.

The year actually started quite brightly when the Royals handed the Hampton Roads Piranhas their first home loss in franchise history, 1-0 off an injury-time goal from striker David Atkinson.

In March 1989, Sheffield Wednesday manager Ron Atkinson had a bid of £ 200, 000 accepted by Manchester United, and he offered Strachan a contract paying more money than anyone in the club's history.

Other presenters in the station's history include Dale Collins, Sally Atkinson, Matt Vaughan, Ben Weston, Tom Lowe, Ian Timms, Ben Williams, Jon Hands, Helen Sweetland, Wayne Nolan, Ben Stone, Marie Greenwood

He won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942 – 1943, which was followed by the second volume in what Atkinson calls his " Liberation trilogy ", The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943 – 1944.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, a dual-store memory model set forth by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, memories can reside in the short-term “ buffer ” for a limited time while they are simultaneously strengthening their associations in long-term memory.

* Keeping Mum ( 2005 ) a Niall Johnson film-In which Vicar Walter Goodfellow ( Rowan Atkinson ) after being informed of the Song of Solomon's sexual nature by stepmother Grace ( Maggie Smith ) realises that he can love his wife as much as he loves God.

These are typically in some effigy shape such as the Panther Intaglio Effigy Mound, which can be seen in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where it is the last remaining intaglio mound in the state.

Note that in the referenced Gray and Atkinson paper, they hold that their methods can not be called " glottochronology ", by incorrectly confining this term to its original method.

So unflinching was the portrait that critic Brooks Atkinson famously asked in his review " Although it is expertly done, how can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

The film's comic influence has extended well beyond France and can be found as recently as 2007 in the Rowan Atkinson comic vehicle Mr Bean's Holiday.

Due to the unique crankshaft design of the Atkinson, its expansion ratio can differ from its compression ratio and, with a power stroke longer than its compression stroke, the engine can achieve greater thermal efficiency than a traditional piston engine.

While Atkinson's original design is no more than a historical curiosity, many modern engines use unconventional valve timing to produce the effect of a shorter compression stroke / longer power stroke, thus realizing the fuel economy improvements the Atkinson cycle can provide.

The Atkinson cycle can be used in a rotary engine.

These electric motors can be used independently of, or in combination with, the Atkinson cycle engine, to provide the most efficient means of producing the desired power.

The Theil index can be transformed into an Atkinson index, which has a range between 0 and 1 ( 0 % and 100 %), where 0 indicates perfect equality and 1 ( 100 %) indicates maximum inequality.

* In the 1999 comedy Blackadder: Back & Forth, Lord Blackadder ( Rowan Atkinson ) subjects Baldrick ( Tony Robinson ) to dunking in a toilet so that he can experience a near-death life review to recover details neither of them can remember.

The hat-check girl, Mildred Atkinson ( Martha Stewart ), is engrossed in reading it and asks if she can finish, since she only has a few pages left.

Alfred Atkinson VC ( 6 February 1874 – 21 February 1900 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

It is possible for a cellphone company to turn on some cellphones when the user is unaware and use the microphone to listen in on you, and according to James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance specialist cited in the same source, " Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones " since many phones ' software can be used " as-is ", or modified, to enable transmission without user awareness and the user can be located within a small distance using signal triangulation and now using built in GPS features for newer models.