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* Burr ( 1973 ) by Gore Vidal
In 1973, Burr starred in one-hour television drama, Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John.
The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.
* Harold Saxton Burr ( 1889 – 1973 ), American anatomist
Noah is also a minor character in Gore Vidal's 1973 novel Burr.

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), but this plan was reportedly scrapped because Raymond Burr expressed displeasure at the idea, taking the idea of Godzilla as a nuclear metaphor seriously.
Among the green leafy vegetables that are usually eaten raw in the meal or as a side dish in Thailand, the most important are: Phak bung ( morning-glory ), hōrapha ( Thai basil ), bai bua bok ( Asian pennywort ), phak kachēt ( water mimosa ), phak kat khao ( Chinese cabbage ), kra thin Thai ( ipil-ipil ), phak phai ( Praew leaves ), phak kayang ( Rice Paddy Herb ), phak chī farang ( Eryngium foetidum ), phak tiu ( Cratoxylum formosum ), phak " phaai " ( Yellow Burr Head ) and kalampī ( cabbage ).
Margaret Burr ( 1728 – 1797 ), the artist's wife, c. early 1770s
Under the system in place at the time ( Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 ), the electors could not differentiate between their two candidates, so the plan had been for one elector to vote for Thomas Jefferson but not for Aaron Burr, thus putting Burr in second place.
The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).
The first HCI application of Fitts's law was by Card, English, and Burr ( 1978 ), who used the index of performance ( IP ), defined as, to compare performance of different input devices, with the mouse coming out on top.

Burr and by
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
( c ) Ligeantia localis, by operation of law, when a friendly alien enters the country, because so long as they are in the country they are within the Sovereign's protection, therefore they owe the Sovereign a local obedience or allegiance ( R v Cowle ( 1759 ) 2 Burr 834 ; Low v Routledge ( 1865 ) 1 Ch App 42 ; Re Johnson, Roberts v Attorney-General 1 Ch 821 ; Tingley v Muller 2 Ch 144 ; Rodriguez v Speyer AC 59 ; Johnstone v Pedlar 2 AC 262 ; R v Tucker ( 1694 ) Show Parl Cas 186 ; R v Keyn ( 1876 ) 2 Ex D 63 ; Re Stepney Election Petn, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 );
* Alphonse and Gaston, French duo in a comic strip created by Frederick Burr Opper
In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.
* 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children ’ s magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay, George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper.
The closing narration ( spoken by Raymond Burr ) is as follows:
He later remembered the arrival of the family's first television as " the biggest event of his adolescence ," having been heavily influenced by radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the early television puppets of Burr Tillstrom ( on Kukla, Fran, and Ollie ) and Bil and Cora Baird.
Precedent for the privilege arose early in the 19th century when Thomas Jefferson refused to release military documents in the treason trial of Aaron Burr and again in 1876 in Totten v. United States, when the Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by a former Union spy.
* February 17 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
Seizing an opportunity to deny Jefferson the presidency, most Federalists voted for Burr, giving Burr six of the eight states controlled by Federalists.
During the contest, Hamilton recommended to Federalists that they support Jefferson because he was " by far not so dangerous a man " as Burr ; in short, he would much rather have someone with wrong principles than someone devoid of any.
" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.
The first open designation of which essay belonged to whom was provided by Hamilton, who in the days before his ultimately fatal gun duel with Aaron Burr provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number.
In 1903 the 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was given as a gift to the White House ; it was decorated by the artists Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Maria Oakey Dewing under the supervision of the head of Steinway's Art Piano Department, Joseph Burr Tiffany.
With future Vice-President Aaron Burr in his charge, Putnam was fooled in October 1777 by a feint executed by British troops under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton, making way for Clinton's capture of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton.

Burr and Gore
Gore Vidal's novels about American history, including Burr and 1876, included iconoclastic and cynical insights about the nature of political processes and American history.
* The bulk of Gore Vidal's novels have historical settings, including Burr, which has gained a wider readership than any biography of Aaron Burr.
* Burr ( novel ), book about Aaron Burr by Gore Vidal
* Gore VidalBurr
* Wilkinson is the " hero " of Keith Thompson's Scoundrel !-- a satirical novel in the tradition of Gore Vidal's Burr and George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, which purports to be Wilkinson's " secret " memoirs ( which Thompson claims to have just discovered ).
Burr Gore Steers ( born October 8, 1965 ) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director ; notable films include Igby Goes Down ( 2002 ) and Charlie St.
Steers ' great-grandfather, Thomas Gore, served as Oklahoma's first Democratic senator, from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937, while his great-great-grandfather, Oliver Burr Jennings, was a founder of Standard Oil.

Burr and Vidal
Burr is the first in a series of novels in which Vidal follows generations of a fictional family through the history of the United States.
Vidal builds up to this historic crisis through the activities of a mixed cast of historical and fictional characters, some of the latter having previously appeared in Burr, or having descended from characters in that novel.

Burr and is
* 1807 – In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.
* February 19 – In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is tried for conspiracy and acquitted.
* September 1 – Former U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
* July 11 – Alexander Hamilton is shot during a duel with Aaron Burr and dies the next day.
The producers of the show allowed Burr to try for the title role and when Gardner, who was present at the audition, saw him he declared, " He is Perry Mason.
One journal for librarians published a writer's opinion that " asking persons without cataloging experience to design automated catalogs ... is as practical as asking Raymond Burr to pole vault.
" The land is still in production and is known as the Raymond Burr Vineyards.

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