* In Terry Bisson's Voyage to the Red Planet ( 1990 ), the first expedition to Mars is organized by a Hollywood producer so he can film a science fiction movie on location.

Marshal Ney's right-hand division under Marchand drove part of the Russian left into the river at Sortlack, while Bisson's division advanced on the left.

* Mr. Wilkinson's Widows ( adapted from Alexandre Bisson's Feu Toupinel, March 23, 1891, National Theatre, Washington, D. C .)

This carbine ( under $140, about $15 more for a deluxe grade ) has an 18-1/2-inch barrel and was obviously inspired by the popularity of last year's Model 760 pump with a short-barrel.

The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.

The popularity of CCD imaging among amateurs has led to large numbers of web sites being written by individuals about their images and equipment.

Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

" Amazing Grace " saw a resurgence in popularity in the U. S. during the 1960s and has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th century, occasionally appearing on popular music charts.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

His music today has regained some modest popularity via recordings.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written.

The popularity of Internet cafés has fallen in recent years, as most users prefer to access the Internet from home or work.

This benefit has contributed to its popularity in cryptographic software.

An extension that has gained significant popularity since 2003 is Satisfiability modulo theories ( SMT ) that can enrich CNF formulas with linear constraints, arrays, all-different constraints, uninterpreted functions, etc.

Maland has identified it as triggering Chaplin's decline in popularity, and writes, " Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from the star image of Charles Spencer Chaplin.

Recently the use of recycled materials as concrete ingredients has been gaining popularity because of increasingly stringent environmental legislation.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Mandarin instruction is gaining popularity in schools in the USA, and has become an increasingly popular subject of study amongst the young in the Western world, as in the UK.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

Vermicomposting has gained popularity in both these industrial and domestic settings because, as compared to conventional composting, it provides a way to compost organic materials more quickly ( as defined by a higher rate of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio increase ) and to attain products that have lower salinity levels that are therefore more beneficial to plant mediums.

The popularity of the chupacabras has resulted in it being featured in several types of media.

The popularity of curry houses in Britain has encouraged a number of publications aiming to show how the curry house cuisine, as opposed to authentic Indian cuisine, can be recreated at home.

Ditka's success and popularity in Chicago has led him to land analyst roles on various American football pregame shows.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

Cheerleading's increasing popularity in recent decades has made it a prominent feature in high-school themed movies and television shows.

The popularity of websites that allow members to upload their own movies for others to view has created a growing community of amateur computer animators.

The half an hour journey to the centre of Edinburgh helped build on the existing popularity of the village, though it put the steamers out of business.

Although most users did not purchase the registered version, over one million copies have been sold, and the popularity helped the sales of later games in the Doom series that were not released as shareware.

Such proceedings without doubt rather helped to wreck his popularity in the cultural establishment.

Freeman credits the popularity of an astronomer with the same last name as having inadvertently helped to spark his interest in science.

The optional interlacing feature, which stores image scan lines out of order in such a fashion that even a partially downloaded image was somewhat recognizable, also helped GIF's popularity, as a user could abort the download if it was not what was required.

The Hammond organ was widely used in United States military chapels and post theaters during the Second World War, and returning soldiers ' familiarity with the instrument may have helped contribute to its popularity in the post-war period.

The popularity of pršut has helped it spread to other regions of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other surrounding countries.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

Cheap and plentiful pamphlets as well as the growing popularity of scientific lectures as entertainment also helped spread phrenology to the masses.

The storyline drew the soap its highest ever viewing figures of 18 million, and helped massively with the revamp of the series which became a success and Emmerdale grew in popularity.

Two events helped to increase whisky's popularity: first, a new production process was introduced in 1831 called Coffey or Patent Still ( see in section below ); the whisky produced with this process was less intense and smoother.

His popularity as governor, and Indiana's status as a critical swing state, helped him secure the Democratic vice presidential nomination on a ticket with Wilson in 1912 and win the subsequent general election.

Vegemite's rise to popularity was helped by the marketing campaigns written by J. Walter Thompson advertising that began in 1954, using groups of smiling, attractive healthy children singing a catchy jingle entitled " We're happy little Vegemites ".

In 1763 he spoke against the unpopular tax on cider, imposed by his brother-in-law, George Grenville, and his opposition, though unsuccessful in the House, helped to keep alive his popularity with the country, which cordially hated the excise and all connected with it.

Follow ups, You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars as well as their associated singles including " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here Right Now " and " Weapon of Choice " helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.

Radio exposure also helped maintain popularity.

As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a chart battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed " The Battle of Britpop ".

Beginning in the early 14th century, the popularity of the seven deadly sins as a theme among European artists of the time eventually helped to ingrain them in many areas of Catholic culture and Catholic consciousness in general throughout the world.

Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.

It was this popularity that helped maintain peace in England throughout Edward's long reign.

Japanese marketing firms helped create this popularity, resulting in an enormous array of advertisements, products, and clothing marked with English phrases that seem amusing or bizarre to those proficient in English.

The initial Boba Fett toy, more than Fett's actual film appearance, might be responsible for the character's popularity ; Henry Jenkins suggests children's play helped the character " take on a life of its own.

This helped its popularity and once again they became an institution.

Various appearances by the Schoener outfit on German television made the German public aware of Sting's unusual high-pitched voice, and helped pave the way for the Police's later popularity.

This advantageous feature helped cement the 8051's popularity in industrial control applications because it reduced code size by as much as 30 %.