The production of plutonium and neptunium by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons was predicted in 1940 by two teams working independently: Egon Bretscher and Norman Feather at the Cavendish and Edwin M. McMillan and Philip Abelson at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

The breakthrough with plutonium was at the Cavendish Laboratory by Egon Bretscher and Norman Feather.

The early laboratory had several specialist divisions: Chemistry ( initially headed by Egon Bretscher, later by Robert Spence ), General Physics ( H. W. B.

Skinner ), Nuclear Physics ( initially headed by Otto Frisch, later E. Bretscher ), Reactor Physics ( John Dunworth ), Theoretical Physics ( Klaus Fuchs, later Brian Flowers ), Isotopes ( Henry Seligmann ) and Engineering ( Harold Tongue, later Robert Jackson ).

In 1948, after he obtained British citizenship, he was invited by John Cockcroft to contribute to the British atomic bomb project at AERE, Harwell where he joined the Nuclear Physics Division under Egon Bretscher.

The process by which a ka became an akh was not automatic upon death ; it involved a 70-day journey through the duat, or Otherworld, which led to judgment before Wesir ( Gr. Osiris ), Lord of the Dead where the ka ’ s heart would be weighed on a scale against the Feather of Ma ’ at ( representing Truth ).

At the same time, another town was developing on the eastern bank of the Feather River, the beginnings of what later would become Marysville.

Steamboats from San Francisco, carrying miners and supplies, navigated up the Sacramento River, then the Feather River to Marysville where they would unload their passengers and cargo.

In the early days of the series, Tiny Tov " would travel back through time riding his Magic Feather.

Also in 1978, Tim Curry would issue a cover of the Rough Trade song " Birds of a Feather ".

This line-up would record a handful of new tracks for the 1985 greatest hits compilation Birds of a Feather, and their final full scale tour took place in 1986, although they continued to perform occasional concert dates in Toronto until 1988.

This would be his second time acting with Johnson, the first being in 2004's " Feather Boy ".

" Kenton reportedly felt that Feather had created a great ill feeling toward him by African-American musicians, and no matter how apologetic Feather would be, much of that " prejudice-in-reverse " would remain.

Quirke announced on 16 May 2011 that she would be leaving Emmerdale at Christmas 2011, and that a touring version of Birds of a Feather would start in spring 2012.

His great grandson John Black Feather said " Back then, they had burials at sea, they did ask his wife if she wanted to take him home and she figured that as soon as they hit the water they would throw him overboard, so that's why they left him here.

( For example, Pliny would say ' Egg feather bird oeuf tit ' in place of ' I've never heard of it ', or ' Feather me wingers ' in place of ' Shiver me timbers '.

During that inaugural season, the corps was already developing traditions ; prior to the final contest, Gail Royer held the first “ Green Feather Ceremony ” for the corps ' " ageouts " who were marching their last show, and a two page mimeographed newsletter was the first issue of what would become the " Vanguardian " which continues to this day as the " eVanguardian ".

In December 2011, it was confirmed that Joseph would reunite with fellow Birds of a Feather cast members, Linda Robson and Pauline Quirk, for a theatre adaption of the series.

The band would return to this song during the Light as a Feather sessions later in 1972, when they made four attempts with it ; though the song did not make it to the album, all the takes appeared on the expanded edition of Light as a Feather.

Wrykyn School would appear again in The White Feather ( 1907 ), and as the setting of the first half of Mike ( 1909 ); it would be mentioned occasionally in later Wodehouse works.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

Writer and critic Leonard Feather offers an extreme view: he once said that " scat singing — with only a couple exceptions — should be banned ".

In the Duat, the Egyptian underworld, the hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against her single " Feather of Ma ' at ", symbolically representing the concept of Maat, in the Hall of Two Truths.

However, Dr. Feather stated in the same documentary that an iron pin – long claimed to be a nail from the crucifixion, hammered into the blade and set off by tiny brass crosses – is " consistent " in length and shape with a 1st century A. D. Roman nail.

Roc's Feather and the Power Bracelet are special cases, as, while the two are in both games, the former can only be upgraded in Oracle of Seasons while the latter only in Oracle of Ages.

Further information on the Livery can be found on their web site www. upholders. co. uk and in its history " Feather Bedds and Flock Bedds " by John Houston.

The word " bonnet " for male headgear was generally replaced in English by cap before 1700, except in Scotland, where it remains in use, now especially for military headgear, like the Feather bonnet ( not to be confused with those worn by Native Americans, for which " bonnet " was also used ), Glengarry, Kilmarnock and Balmoral.

Feather Safety Razor Co. Ltd. of Osaka, Japan makes a razor with the same form as a traditional straight, but featuring a disposable blade that can be installed through an injector-type system.

Påfuglefjeren ( 1922, " The Peacock Feather ") which is inspired by a journey to China, is deeper and more sombre, especially the poem Henrettelsen (" The Execution ") that is depicting a man's intense powers of observation just before he is beheaded, which can be considered a modernist manifesto.

The Muses appear to be somewhat clueless about their predecessor muses: Feather has been able to state only 5 or 6 offhand.

The sisters then went their own way, recording first under the name Birds of a Feather, and then as The Chanter Sisters, and it is under the latter that they enjoyed their only UK Singles Chart hit when " Sideshow " ( not to be confused with the much bigger hit for Barry Biggs with the same title later the same year ) entered the chart in July 1976 reaching number 43.

* Fudge gets a myna bird he names Uncle Feather and then decides that he wants to be one when he grows up.

According to jazz critic Leonard Feather, who rode with Holiday in a taxi to Young's funeral, she said after the services, " I'll be the next one to go.

The ISTD syllabus considers the fourth step that aligns the man with the lady into a normal dance position to be part of the Feather Step variation, while the IDTA syllabus does not.

Double-edge razors are currently readily available and are manufactured by Merkur in Germany, Edwin Jagger in Great Britain, Kiwishaver in New Zealand, Parker in India, Feather in Japan, Hart Steel and Weber Razor in the United States and Weishi in China.

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

The best known song to come out of the series was " Four Feather Falls ", sung in some episodes by Michael Holliday in the style of Bing Crosby.

Proverbs have been the inspiration for titles of books: The Bigger they Come by Erle Stanley Gardner and Birds of a Feather ( several books with this title ).

The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) as an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF Living Documents " Birds of a Feather " session in 1992.

The flood waters were exacerbated by the sediments washed down by the millions of tons by hydraulic mining, which filled the beds of the Sacramento, Feather and American rivers up to in Sacramento and also covered thousands of acres of Central Valley lands.

Mayall was the star of The New Statesman ( 1987 – 92 ), a series created by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, whose biggest success, Birds of a Feather ( 1989 – 98 ), also deviated from British practice in being scripted by a team of writers.

* Maxine Sullivan, A Tribute to Andy Razaf, 1956, produced by Leonard Feather, re-issued in 2006 as My Memories of You with two additional non-Razaf tracks.

Some lie in state with the royals at the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna Ala. Feather cloak and wear are among the oldest of Hawaiian regalias: Nāhiʻenaʻena's Paū, the 180 feather skirt of Nāhiʻenaʻena and later the funeral attire for the dead monarch while lying in state ; Kamehameha's Cloak, the war-cloak of Kamehameha I made entirely of the golden-yellow feathers of the now-extinct mamo, which was used to drape the throne of the King when it wasn't being worn ; Kiwalao's Cloak, aka the Queen's Cloak, the cloak won by Kamehameha during his battle with Kiwalao, and used to drape the throne of the Queen ; and Liloa's Kaei, the feather belt of Liloa, the 14th century King of Hawaii.

Butte County is watered by the Feather River and the Sacramento River.

The county is drained by the Feather River and Butte Creek.

Bordered by the Sacramento River on the west and the Feather River on the east, Sutter County has of levees.

The county was named after the Yuba River by Captain John Sutter for the Native American village Yubu, Yupu or Juba near the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers.

These canyons are formed by the west branch of the Feather River to the east, and Butte Creek to the west.

However, debris loosed by hydraulic mining above Marysville raised the riverbeds of both the Feather and the Yuba Rivers and rendered the city vulnerable to flooding during winter storms and spring run-offs.

The city is bordered on the south and east by the Yuba River and the west by the Feather River, with the two rivers converging just southwest of the city.

Amenities include a OHV MotoCross Course, Soccer Fields used by the Yuba Sutter Youth Soccer League, a nature area and Feather River Pavilion, a picnicking area known as Lion ’ s Grove, a boat ramp, softball fields, and a BMX track.