Some early legends of the existence of " speaking heads " involved Gerbert of Aurillac ( d. 1003 AD ), Albertus Magnus ( 1198 – 1280 ), and Roger Bacon ( 1214 – 1294 ).

He then travelled to England to arrange the English publication of his book by Sampson Low, speaking at the Oxford ( and Cambridge ) Union after which his thesis " Resolved, that the works of William Shakespeare were composed by Francis Bacon " was put to an unsuccessful vote.

The New York Times correctly noted Bacon's opposition to the project, but it was incorrect in saying that " in opposing the skyscraper One Liberty Place, Mr. Bacon refused to attend the tower's 1986 groundbreaking and stopped speaking to his friend Willard G. Rouse III, who built it.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

As late as the eighteenth-century some juries still declared the law rather than the fact, but already before the end of the seventeenth century Sir Matthew Hale explained modern common law adjudication procedure and acknowledged Bacon as the inventor of the process of discovering unwritten laws from the evidences of their applications.

" To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named " Ren McCormick " and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day.

Earlier observations had been made by Roger Bacon who recognized the visible spectrum in a glass of water, four centuries before Newton discovered that prisms could disassemble and reassemble white light.

He accepted the mastership of the college 24 January 1559 on the death of Dr Bacon, and held it till about a month before his own death.

Bacon had earlier been promised a commission before he retired to his estate if he could only be on " good " behavior for two weeks.

His father, William Breton, a London merchant who had made a considerable fortune, died in 1559, and the widow ( née Elizabeth Bacon ) married the poet George Gascoigne before her sons had attained their majority.

A Thousand Years was admired by Bacon, who in a letter to a friend a month before he died, wrote about the experience of seeing the work at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

Joel Smith Bacon, stayed two years ( 1830 – 1832 ) fighting court cases to release funding for the college before leaving out of frustration.

These include over the years: Helinand of Froidmont ( before 1229 ), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines ( before 1241 ), Vincent of Beauvais ( 1250s ), Roger Bacon ( ca.

Heggessey appeared on-screen in a specially-recorded one-minute address to viewers shown directly before the first episode of Blue Peter to be screened following Bacon's sacking, on 19 October 1998, to explain to young viewers why Bacon had been dismissed, claiming that he had " not only let himself and the team on Blue Peter down, but he has also let all of you down badly.

The Order of Australia is not awarded posthumously, but Bacon had been nominated before his death.

Shortly before Tripp was scheduled to appear before the grand jury in the Lewinsky investigation, in March 1998, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Kenneth Bacon, and his deputy, Clifford Bernath, leaked to reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine, Tripp ’ s answer to the arrest question on her security clearance form.

Bacon started his career as a Linux journalist before moving on in 2006 to work for OpenAdvtantage to help move organizations to Open Source solutions.

But this format only lasted for a couple of months, and the show reverted to its original format for what would be the final months, with Bacon and Byram as the main presenters before it last aired on 29 March 2002.

Former Bacon Vice-Mayor Aurelio Destacamento, joined by former Sorsogon councilors Antonio C. Detera, Azel Diesta and Telo Mella fought before the two local legislative chambers, for the approval of appropriation ordinances providing budget for the holding of its plebiscite.

Guitarist Cliff Cultreri, who was replaced by guitarist Michael Lawrence for the Manifestival before returning, and second drummer Bill Bacon joined them for a Spring 1979 tour of the USA in an old school bus playing most of Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy.

Just a month and a half before the 1908 Olympic Games in London, Bacon ran in Philadelphia setting a new unofficial world record of 55. 8 in the 400 metre hurdles.

After 1858, he lectured before the Lowell Institute on the English metaphysicians and philosophers from Francis Bacon to Sir William Hamilton.

Bacon grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and went to St Peter's CE Primary School on Bellamy Road, then Wellow House Prep School before moving to the independent school Worksop College.

His journey is doomed from the outset, with Del Griffith ( John Candy ) interfering first by leaving his trunk by the side of the road causing Neal to trip when racing an uncredited character ( Kevin Bacon ) for a cab, then moments later again by inadvertently snatching the taxi cab that Neal had bought from an attorney just before.

Where else in the literature before Bacon does one come across a stripped-down natural-historical programme of such enormous scope and scrupulous precision, and designed to serve as the basis for a complete reconstruction of human knowledge which would generate new, vastly productive sciences through a form of eliminative induction supported by various other procedures including deduction?

2009: Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance as Michael Strobl

In 2009, he appeared opposite Kevin Bacon in Taking Chance, the HBO production about the returning home of a young man named Chance Phelps, a United States Marine, who was killed in Iraq.

The sudden death of his father in February 1579 prompted Bacon to return to England.

Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

* February 20 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician ( b. 1509 )

Leonard Bacon ( February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881 ) was an American Congregational preacher and writer.

Sir Nicholas Bacon ( 28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579 ) was an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

Delia Bacon ( February 2, 1811 – September 2, 1859 ) was an American writer of plays and short stories, a sister of the Congregational minister Leonard Bacon.

Custer married Elizabeth Clift Bacon ( 1842 – 1933 ) ( whom he first saw when he was ten years old ) on February 9, 1864.

In February 2011, the acquisition of 195 new works was announced, including paintings from Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon.

On the other hand, in a minor variation, Sir Francis Bacon wrote the phrase " separa et impera " in a letter to James I of 15 February 1615.

In February 1783, the government of Jamaica commissioned John Bacon, a renowned British sculptor, to create a statue of Admiral Lord Rodney, as an expression of their appreciation.

* February 9-Donald Cameron becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Roger Bacon

In February 2007 Bacon was alleged to be the politician with the highest expenditure on taxi and car hire during the previous year, a claim which he disputed and referred to the National Audit Office.

In February 2007 Bacon was alleged to be the politician with the highest expenditure on taxi and car hire during the previous year, a claim which he disputed and referred to the National Audit Office.

On Friday 13 February 2004, Bacon received the diagnosis that he was suffering from inoperable lung cancer.

On 23 February 2004, Bacon subsequently announced that he would take a four week leave of absence from his role of Premier so that he could explore treatment options.

Henry Bacon ( November 28, 1866 – February 17, 1924 ) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. ( built 1915 – 1922 ), which was his final project.

" It first aired on SNL's February 9, 1991 episode hosted by Kevin Bacon.

The Bacon Baronetcy, of Gillingham in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 7 February 1662 for Nicholas Bacon.

When Butler broke with established vice-regal convention against public comment on domestic and international affairs, the Premier ( Paul Lennon, who had replaced Jim Bacon in February 2004 ), specifically requested him to refrain from doing so.

Wilford Bacon Hoggatt ( September 11, 1865 – February 26, 1938 ) was an American naval officer and businessman who served as the sixth Governor of the District of Alaska.

Mark Reeves Bacon ( February 29, 1852 – August 20, 1941 ) was a lawyer and politician from the U. S. state of Michigan.

* 23 February – Tasmanian Premier Jim Bacon resigns after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, handing power to his deputy, Paul Lennon.