The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

There is a debate in the historiography, because Hooker lived too early, Halifax did not belong to any party, Hume was not involved in politics, and Burke was a Whig.

Edmund Burke was the private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and official pamphleteer to the Rockingham branch of the Whig Party.

Latin conservatism was less pragmatic and more reactionary than the conservatism of Burke.

Burke was a Whig, while the term Tory is given to the later Conservative Party.

However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.

Other thinkers, like the conservative Edmund Burke, maintained that the Revolution was the product of a few conspiratorial individuals who brainwashed the masses into subverting the old order — a claim rooted in the belief that the revolutionaries had no legitimate complaints.

Burke argued the sublime was a source of awe or fear brought about by strong emotions such as terror or mental pain.

Burke argued that the sublime was the more preferred to the two.

* Diana, Princess of Wales, noblewoman, her mother, Frances Burke Roche was a descendant of the Earls of Fermoy

In 2002, a one-tenth hour bill was introduced, partly due to the encouragement and funding from Alternatives Federal Credit Union and feedback from retailers who complained about the awkwardness of only having larger denominations to work with ; the bills bear the signatures of both HOURS President Steve Burke and the president of AFCU.

It was around this time as the musician's popularity increased that he acquired the nickname, " Soul Brother No. 1 ", after failing to win the title " King of Soul " from Solomon Burke during a Chicago gig two years prior.

He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann.

but I have only one ye now, and hardly that .’ I was really quite touched ". On 5 November Reynolds, fearing he may not have an opportunity to write a will, wrote a memorandum intended to be his last will and testament, with Edmund Burke, Edmond Malone and Philip Metcalfe named as executors.

Burke was present on the night Reynolds died, and he was moved within hours to write a eulogy of Reynolds:

When Rousseau subsequently became celebrated as a theorist of education and child-rearing, his abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for ad hominem attacks.

This general view of the unexcavated Buddhist stupa near Baramulla, with two figures standing on the summit, and another at the base with measuring scales, was taken by John Burke in 1868.

Burke was one of the biggest supporters of the American Revolution.

* Kenneth Burke was a rhetorical theorist, philosopher, and poet.

His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, ( 1923 – 1974 ) was a nurse.

As noted above, Edmund Burke in his speech to the electors of Bristol classically analysed their operation in Britain and the rights and duties of an elected representative.

The elected Common Pleas Court include: Judge Nadine Allen, Judge Kim Wilson Burke, Judge Ethna M. Cooper, Judge Pat DeWine, Judge Dennis S. Helmick

Businessman Kevin Burke was elected the city ’ s Mayor in 2003 and vowed to make cleaning up the city ’ s image and notorious smell one of his administration ’ s top priorities.

Duke Bennett was elected Mayor in late 2007, but Bennett's election was subsequently challenged by the losing incumbent, Kevin Burke, based on an alleged violation of the " Little Hatch Act " by Bennett ( the violation of which would have made Bennett ineligible for office ).

Former Mayor Burke filed suit, and following a bench trial, the trial court rejected Burke's challenge and declared Bennett elected as the qualified candidate who received the highest number of votes.

Burke Fairchild was elected the town's first chairman.

Despite entering the race long after his primary opponent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Westly's campaign picked up considerable momentum, receiving endorsements from such figures as Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Congressmembers Grace Napolitano, Diane Watson, and Brad Sherman, State Senators Carole Migden, Martha Escutia, and Nell Soto, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, Assembly Members Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Rudy Bermudez, and Nicole Parra, former Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, the majority of the Los Angeles City Council, and other elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

Burke was first elected to Parliament as the Labour MP for Rangiora in the 1972 elections.

In the 1978 elections, Burke was elected as the Labour MP for the West Coast electorate.

After Labor's win at the 2007 federal election, Burke was elected as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.

She was elected as Western Australian State President of the Australian Labor Party in November 2005, defeating Sarah Burke in a tight contest.

* Orange County: Nathaniel Rochester, elected county clerk, seat declared vacant November 15, 1777 ; Thomas Burke elected to replace Rochester, took office December 1, 1777

* Burke County: Ephraim McLaine, elected, but no evidence of service ; Charles McLean took office August 13, 1778

* Orange County: John Butler, named county record taker, seat declared vacant April 27, 1778 ; Thomas Burke elected to replace Butler, took office August 8, resigned August 18 when elected to Continental Congress ; Mark Patterson elected to replace Burke, took office January 20, 1779

After serving in various capacities in the law offices of the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and the state of Ohio, Burke was elected Mayor of Cleveland in 1945.

The next season, Burke was elected into the NHL All-Star Game, becoming the first rookie goaltender to play in the All-Star game.

In October 2004 Burke moved from state to federal parliament on being elected to the federal seat of Watson, New South Wales.

He was subsequently elected to Seanad Éireann, but was re-elected to the 28th Dáil at the Dublin North by-election on 11 March 1998, following the resignation of Fianna Fáil TD Ray Burke.

* Séamus Burke ( 1893 – 1967 ), Irish politician and Minister for Local Government 1923 to 1927 in the Government of the 4th Dáil