I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

In 2003, Ackerman said, " I aim at hitting 100 and becoming the George Burns of science fiction ".

During World War I, bandleader James Reese Europe played a jazz version of " La Marseillaise ", which can be heard on Part 2 of the Ken Burns TV documentary Jazz.

** The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror – Robert I. Burns, S. J., ed.

According to the Ken Burns ' documentary series, Baseball, one of Mathewson's last words were to his wife: Now Jane, I want you to go outside and have yourself a good cry.

According to his biographer, Burns insisted, " I will defend my title against all comers, none barred.

Louis-Dreyfus at the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, May 2010In 2007, Louis-Dreyfus reprised her role as Gloria on The Simpsons, which she had first originated in the 2001 episode " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", in the episode " I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ".

) In March 1953, " The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show " joined I Love Lucy as part of the CBS Monday night prime-time line-up.

With " I Love Lucy " ending its six-year run on CBS in the spring of 1957, the television network wanted to renew the Burns and Allen series, but by this time, Gracie had grown tired of the grind.

When asked by George Burns in 1948 at how many children he planned to adopt, he answered: " I ’ d like to adopt as many children as I have windows in my house.

" In 1997 Burke recalled: " When I did it for Jerry Wexler and Bert Burns ( sic ), they told me that song would never make it.

Such critics include: Herald-News reporter Cal Deal ; Larry Elder ; Thomas Clough ; Barbara Burns, the daughter of victim Hazel Tanis ; George Kimball of The Irish Times ; Milan Simonich of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ; Lona Manning ; The New York Times reporter Robert Lipsyte ; Paul Mulshine of The Newark Star-Ledger ; and Jack Newfield of the New York Post, who stated, " I knew Rubin Carter, attended his fights, covered his retrial and I didn't see much reality on the screen.

Metalcore features many popular Christian bands, including such crossover bands such as Underoath, As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Norma Jean, Haste the Day, The Devil Wears Prada, Disciple and Demon Hunter.

When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?

On July 18, 2010, bassist Bobby Burns posted following message on his Twitter profile: " To all the fans ... SOULFLY and I have decided to part ways.

* I am sitting in a room ( 1969 ) by Alvin Lucier real-time realization by Christopher Burns ( 2000 )

* Burns, Robert E. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

* Honorable Arnold I. Burns, New York, New York

* I Canadian Corps ( Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns )

While this is seen by Halevi nonetheless as evidence of Samarkand first harnessing waterpower in the production of paper, he concedes that it is not known if waterpower was applied to papermaking elsewhere across the Islamic world at the time ; Robert I. Burns remains altogether sceptical given the isolated occurrence of the reference and the prevalence of manual labour in Islamic papermaking elsewhere.

Burns remained proud of his working class roots, declaring to the Commons in a speech in 1901: " I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman ".

Sashimi was In, Samuel Burns had suggested, because it was too far Out to stay Out, even if it was a little pretentious.

He had also stood his ground in a protest against the trial of Anthony Burns.

In the documentary television series Baseball ( 1994 ), directed by Ken Burns, Costas indicated that he had a very poor relationship with his father, but did not go into specifics.

The first Burns club, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns.

He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A & E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

When Burns noticed a print illustrating the poem " The Justice of the Peace " and asked who had written the poem, only Scott knew that it was by John Langhorne, and was thanked by Burns.

The lead role of Sally was given to Marilyn Burns, who had appeared previously on stage and served on the film commission board at UT Austin while studying there.

The vaudevillians and musicians who were huge after the war were the same stars who had been huge in the 30s: Benny, Crosby, Burns and Allen, Edgar Bergen all had been on the radio almost as long as there had been network radio.

One source states the idea for the show may have come from a conversation producer Leonard Freeman had with Hawaii's then-Governor John A. Burns.

He had ` official ' homes and ` unofficial homes'all over Salford, Weaste and other inner-city Manchester districts where he lived with Mary Burns under false names to confuse the police.

Burns and other recent historians argue that the infantry were the vast majority of the Gothic force, and that the battle had little effect on the relationship between infantry and cavalry.

Burns shows that the Gothic army's cavalry arm was actually fairly small, that Valens would actually have had more cavalry and that while the role of Fritigern's cavalry was critical to his victory, the battle was a mainly infantry versus infantry affair.

In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA ’ s support for China ’ s population program “ facilitates ( its ) government ’ s coercive abortion program ”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.

In the episode " Burns ' Heir ", Hans is mistaken for Bart and accidentally " de-programmed " ( Homer and Marge had hired a cult de-programmer, hoping to convince Bart to move out of Mr. Burns ' mansion and back in with them ), apparently leading him to believe he is the son of Homer and Marge.

When it was proven that he had not, Smithers seemingly forgave Burns and demanded that the culprit be brought to justice, offering a reward for the capture of the perpetrator.

Al Jean, who thinks of Smithers as being a " Burns-sexual ", felt that had Mr. Burns been a woman, then Smithers would not be gay.

The " Fight of the Century " earned Johnson $ 65, 000 and silenced the critics, who had belittled Johnson's previous victory over Tommy Burns as " empty ," claiming that Burns was a false champion since Jeffries had retired undefeated.

Burns was so loved and respected by her fellow suffragists that the woman in the cell across from her held her hands above her head and stood in the same position.

The book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide commented that the episode was " an odd one ," with " a lot of good moments ," and went on to state that it was " a nice twist to see Burns determined to be loved.

This embarrasses the unpopular Mr. Burns, who asks Homer to help him be loved by all.

Following this disaster, Homer then cheers up Burns by pointing out that being loved means you have to be nice to people everyday but being hated means you do not have to do anything.

George Burns revealed in his memoir Gracie: A Love Story ( 1988 ) that he and his wife and performing partner Gracie Allen loved Jack Benny, but merely tolerated Mary, whom they disliked.