* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

The Gamow factor was used in the decade that followed by Atkinson and Houtermans and later by Gamow himself and Edward Teller to derive the rate at which nuclear reactions would proceed at the high temperatures believed to exist in stellar interiors.

Atkinson himself has acknowledged that Bean " has a slightly alien aspect to him ".

Atkinson provided the voice for Bean, and all of the animated Bean actions are taken from Atkinson himself.

The character of Johnny English himself is based on a similar character called Richard Latham who was played by Atkinson in a series of British television advertisements for Barclaycard.

He's just finished his sixth year playing " The Tall Guy ", a straight man in a two-man, long-running comedy revue starring ( and dominated by ) Ron Anderson ( Rowan Atkinson, playing a role based on himself ).

McMenemy was linked with the vacant Manchester United manager's job at the end of the 1980-81 season, but he ruled himself out of the running and the job went to Ron Atkinson instead.

After he was exposed as a spammer in 2003, Shane Atkinson found himself at the receiving end of a barrage of public outrage and proclaimed that he would give up spamming.

Before running for office himself, Maves worked as a legislative assistant to federal MP Ken Atkinson, who represented St. Catharines from 1988 to 1993.

However, it was through local government that Atkinson made a name for himself in the political arena.

She was born Eleanor Stackhouse in Rensselaer, Indiana, and later married Francis Blake Atkinson, himself also an author.

However, Atkinson and his team were denied the chance of another European Cup Winners Cup campaign as the Heysel disaster at the European Cup final that year, resulted in an indefinite ban on all English clubs in European competitions ( ultimately lasting five years ).

This was eventually denied by a spokeswoman for the show, who told Digital Spy :" There are no current plans for Gemma Atkinson to return to Hollyoaks in the foreseeable future.

He is unintentionally killed by Edmund, the titular " Blackadder " ( Rowan Atkinson ), when Edmund thinks he is trying to steal his horse.

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.

On 24 August 2011, Marcus Atkinson, a local Loch Ness boat skipper, photographed a sonar image of a long 5 ft wide unidentified object which was apparently following his boat for two minutes at a depth of 75 ft. Atkinson ruled out the possibility of any small fish or seal being what he believed to be the Loch Ness Monster.

Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.

The Raiders and their fans were often known to counter these accusations against Atkinson and Jack Tatum by pointing out the physical way that Pittsburgh cornerback Mel Blount covered Oakland's speedy split end Cliff Branch.

Reynolds, who was eager for a war to drive the Indians out of the state, responded as Atkinson had hoped: he called for militia volunteers to assemble at Beardstown by April 22 to begin a thirty-day enlistment.

Reynolds wanted to send out a scouting force, but the cautious Whiteside insisted on waiting for Atkinson.

" The play opened in February 1935 and Garfield was singled out by critic Brooks Atkinson for having a " splendid sense of character development.

Archaeologist Richard Atkinson once demonstrated this by taking the positions of telephone boxes and pointing out the existence of " telephone box leys ".

As it turned out, Atkinson's act at the festival was a test platform for the Mr. Bean character and Atkinson wanted to see how the silent character's physical comedy would fare on an international stage with a non-English speaking audience.

News broke out in March 2005 that a second Bean film, Mr. Bean's Holiday was in development, with Atkinson returning in the title role.

The 1990 – 91 season was the only one out of sixteen in a row that Wednesday spent in a lower division, but the season is best remembered by fans for Wednesday's swift return to the top flight under the management of Ron Atkinson and their League Cup victory over Manchester United to win their first major trophy for over 50 years.

She was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work.

Atkinson did leave Robson out of the FA Cup semi-final defeat against Ipswich Town, but recalled him for the latter stages of the league campaign as Albion qualified for the UEFA Cup.

When fighting broke out in Taranaki between Māori and the settlers, Atkinson helped to organise a number of volunteer units to fight the Māori.

In another account, Atkinson points out a " legend " that Kol was founded by the Dor tribe of Rajputs in 372 A. D.

Third, a simplified Atkinson – Shiffrin model is found to predict exact relationships between the recall probabilities of the initial items which do not seem to be borne out by the Murdock data.

The 1991 election was a close election with Soorley just edging out the then Lord Mayor of Brisbane Sally Anne Atkinson through the preferences of Drew Hutton, the Australian Greens candidate.

United had finished eighth in the season before Atkinson's appointment, and Atkinson had actually missed out of the chance of overseeing a UEFA Cup campaign by departing from Albion and taking over at United.

The 1986 – 87 season opened disastrously with three successive defeats, and despite a minor upturn in September and October which included a 5 – 1 home win over Southampton in the league, the pressure on Atkinson remained immense and the board finally ran out of patience on 6 November 1986 when he was dismissed as manager two days after a 4 – 1 exit at the hands of Southampton in the League Cup.

Ron Atkinson brought out a warts-and-all autobiography upon the airing of Wife Swap – 60 Minutes with Ron Atkinson, upon which he talks about his controversial comments and his football career.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times thought it offered one of Berlin's " most enchanting scores: fresh, light, and beguiling, and fitted to lyrics that fall out of it with grace and humor ", and the New York Post called Merman " indescribably soul-satisfying ", " a comedienne of rare skill ", and " one of the joys of the world.

It is understood Atkinson settled out of court.

Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.

Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student at the University of Washington.

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.

The Atkinson cycle engine was one of the first attempts at variable compression.

Since the compression ratio is the ratio between dynamic and static volumes of the combustion chamber the Atkinson cycle's method of increasing the length of the powerstroke compared to the intake stroke ultimately altered the compression ratio at different stages of the cycle.

Formation of the first unit did not commence until early April 1863, with 100 men being sought at New Plymouth under Captain Atkinson.

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Notable authors who contributed at one time or another include Kingsley Amis, Alex Atkinson, John Betjeman, Willard R. Espy, A. P.

SOAP was designed as an object-access protocol in 1998 by Dave Winer, Don Box, Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein for Microsoft, where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein were working at the time.

Brooks Atkinson for the New York Times wrote, " Although Miss Leigh and Mr. Olivier are handsome young people they hardly act their parts at all.

By use of variable engine strokes from a complex crankshaft, Atkinson was able to increase the efficiency of his engine, at the cost of some power, over traditional Otto-cycle engines.

** The English Roman Catholic priest, Thomas Atkinson ( born c. 1546 ) is hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, at age 70 ( he is beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 22, 1987 ).

It was used at Atkinson Morley Hospital London in the 1990s and also at Massachusetts General Hospital.

* 2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 – 1943 by Rick Atkinson

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was performed during Amnesty International concerts ( by members of Monty Python — once including Rowan Atkinson in place of Python member Eric Idle ), as well as during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and recordings.

Along their return to Fort Atkinson at the Council Bluff in Nebraska, the commission had successful negotiations with the Ota, the Pawnee and the Omaha.

Atkinson-Wood studied fine art at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson.

An abridged version opened on Broadway on 26 February 1964 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with Emlyn Williams as Pius XII and Jeremy Brett as Father Fontana.