It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Carpenter said, " The whole feeling of the nation was one of real cynicism about the President.

I wrote the screenplay and no studio wanted to make it " because, according to Carpenter, " it was too violent, too scary, too weird.

Carpenter refused to cast Bronson on the grounds that he was too old, and because he worried that he could lose directorial control over the picture with an experienced actor.

Initially, the second film that he was going to make to finish the contract was The Philadelphia Experiment, but because of script-writing problems, Carpenter rejected it in favor of this project.

However, Carpenter felt that something was missing and recalls, " This was basically a straight action film.

Carpenter was interested in creating two distinct looks for the movie.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

For example, in Corkery v Carpenter ( 1950 ), a man was found guilty of being drunk in charge of a carriage, although in fact he only had a bicycle.

) A friend of Edward Carpenter, Ellis was one of the first sexologists who did not regard homosexuality as a disease, immoral, or a crime.

In a 2010 Total Film poll, it was again selected as the greatest horror film ; the judging panel included veteran horror directors such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and George A. Romero.

The first patent for AC bias was filed by W. L. Carlson and Glenn L. Carpenter in 1921, eventually resulting in.

An old tradition, which involves the legend of Habib the Carpenter, mentions that John was one of the three disciples sent to Antioch to preach to the people there.

* Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster on 2 September 1780.

An interesting observation by Carpenter in 1978 was that some banksias had a stronger odour at night possibly to attract mammal pollinators.

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In the United States, there was one remaining active Shaker community, at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, which as of January 2011 has only five members: Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr ( and two other brothers ).

* Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USN ( born 1925 ), flew 24 May 1962

John Howard Carpenter ( born January 16, 1948 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer.

Its claim to partial fame is that director John Carpenter was born here when his mother was visiting her sister.

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* David Aaron Carpenter, violist, ( born 1986 )

* David Carpenter ( historian ) ( born 1947 ), British historian

* David Carpenter ( writer ) ( born 1941 ), Canadian novelist

* David Carpenter ( baseball, born 1985 ), baseball player

* David Carpenter ( baseball, born 1987 ), baseball player

Carpenter was born, died, and lived practically all of his life, in the city of Oxford.

Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri.

Malcolm Scott Carpenter ( born May 1, 1925 ) is an American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut.

Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan (; born December 20, 1933 ) is an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002.

Karen Carpenter was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Agnes Reuwer Tatum and Harold Bertram Carpenter.

* Richard Carpenter ( musician ) ( born 1946 ), American musician and composer, formerly one half of the Carpenters

* Richard Carpenter ( footballer ) ( born 1972 ), English football player

Robert C. Carpenter ( born 18 June 1924 ) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly.

Carpenter was born in Franklin, North Carolina and graduated from Franklin High School in 1942.

Mary Chapin Carpenter ( born February 21, 1958 ) is an American folk and country music singer, songwriter and musician.

Carpenter was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Chapin Carpenter Jr., a Life Magazine executive, and Mary Bowie Robertson.

Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter.

Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.

The film's setting proved to be a potential problem for Carpenter, who needed to create a decaying, semi-destroyed version of New York City on only a shoe-string budget.

When it came to shooting in New York City, Carpenter managed to persuade federal officials to grant access to Liberty Island.

Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: " After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York.

New Line Cinema ( one-time video distributor of the original ) acquired the rights to the film from co-rights holder StudioCanal, who will control the European rights, and Carpenter, who will serve as an executive producer and said, " Snake is one of my fondest creations.

* Rob Carpenter, NFL player New York Giants, Houston Oilers

Carpenter immediately followed The Fog with the science-fiction adventure Escape from New York ( 1981 ), which quickly picked up large cult and mainstream audiences as well as critical acclaim.

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

# Realign Fort Totten, NY, by disestablishing the HQ 77th Regional Readiness Command and establishing a Sustainment Brigade at Fort Dix, NJ., while at the same time Closing Carpenter USARC, Poughkeepsie, New York, McDonald USARC, Jamaica, New York, Fort Tilden USARC, Far Rockaway, New York, and Muller USARC, Bronx, New York, and relocate the units to a new Armed Forces Reserve Center at Fort Totten, NY.

* Ed Carpenter, former member of the band Brand New Sin

On February 13, 2007 a New Mexico State Court found Sandia Corporation liable for $ 4. 7 million in damages for the firing of a former network security analyst, Shawn Carpenter.

Other British advocates of the simple life included Edward Carpenter, William Morris, and the members of " The Fellowship of the New Life ".

Named for Bryn Mawr ’ s late professor of Classical Archaeology, the Rhys Carpenter Library was designed by Henry Myerberg of New York and opened in 1997.

Many of them were associated with The Fellowship of the New Life, such as Olive Schreiner and Edward Carpenter.

As early as 1959, Phillies owner Bob Carpenter proposed building a new ballpark for the Phillies on adjacent to the Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

* Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, dies at 58, New York Times, 19 January 2005

Carpenter also later set the location for his 1994 film In the Mouth of Madness in the fictional New England town of Hobbs End, a reference to Quatermass and the Pit.

In his review for the New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film a " surprisingly cheesy horror film to come from Mr. Carpenter, a director whose work is usually far more efficient and inventive.

Born in Boulder, Colorado, Carpenter moved to New York City with his parents Marion Scott Carpenter and Florence Noxon Carpenter for the first two years of his life.