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.

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.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was approached to appear as Buffy in Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s one hundredth episode, but declined, so the character of Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ) was used instead.

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 ).

Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ( née Carter ) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor.

According to Carpenter, the producers singled out " songs like ' I Am a Town ' and ' John Doe No. 24 ,' songs that are story songs, very character driven, as the key that made them want to see if this was something I was interested in.

When approached about creating a third Halloween film, original Halloween writers John Carpenter and Debra Hill were reluctant to pledge commitment.

Carpenter earned international recognition and a Writers Guild award for creating cult children's TV series.

Carpenter also contributed to the speeches of President Johnson, particularly in the field of humor by creating the White House Humor Group.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

The genus is present in most layers of the Niobrarra Formation except for the upper two ; in 2003, Kenneth Carpenter surveyed the distribution and dating of fossils in this formation, demonstrating that Pteranodon sternbergi existed there from 88 to 85 million years ago, while P. longiceps existed between 86 and 84. 5 million years ago.

" Carpenter also predicted: " Most notably there is the issue posed by two persistent regional secession movements: the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.

In season two ( 1997-8 ), Xander begins a turbulent and ambiguous relationship with popular girl Cordelia Chase ( Carpenter ) after they are thrown together in several life-or-death situations.

He was sent to Bristol to the private academy of Dr. Lant Carpenter, under whom he studied for two years.

The two elementary schools located in the community are Carpenter and Crescent Lake.

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.

After failing to regain mobility in his arm after two surgical interventions ( in 1964 and 1967 ), Carpenter was ruled ineligible for spaceflight.

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le Corbusier in the United States, and one of only two in the Americas ( the other is the Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina ).

It then had probably two hundred and fifty people, of whom I recall Don Abel Stearns, John Temple, Captain Alexander Bell, William Wolfskill, Lemuel Carpenter, David W. Alexander ; also of Mexicans, Pio Pico ( governor ), Don Juan Bandini, and others ".

Scoggins landed recurring or short-term roles on TV series in the 1980s and 1990s, including Cat Grant in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Amanda Carpenter on Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, Elizabeth Lochley on Babylon 5 and its two spin-offs Crusade and Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, Cassandra on Highlander: The Series, Marie-Diane on The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, and Anita Smithfield in two Dallas TV movies ( Dallas: JR Returns and Dallas: War of the Ewings ).

As Carpenter and Prichard write in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ( Oxford, 1995 ), " with all the expansions and contractions over the past two centuries ( this includes a long history of abridgments, condensations, Christianizing, and Disney products ), Wyss's original narrative has long since been obscured.

Carpenter, Executive Officer Hansen, and two crewmen make the perilous journey through an Arctic storm on foot, taking with them as many supplies as they can.

We meet the four-or five-year-old Sybil Carpenter (“ She was wearing … a two piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not be needing for another nine or ten years.

The race was ordered to be rerun in lanes two days later without Carpenter ; however, the other two U. S. runners refused to race, so, though reluctant, Halswelle ran the race by himself to win the gold in a time of 50. 2 s. It is the only occasion in Olympic history where the final was a walkover.

Once again Zambrano gained the victory, this time pitching six shutout innings before leaving with tightness in his back A final start against the rivals was completed on September 18 as a rematch with Carpenter, with similar results as Zambrano pitched a complete game, giving up two earned runs and gaining the victory, his third of the season against the Cardinals.

Entertainment Weekly gave the DVD a " B +" rating and wrote, " The highlight of this two disc set – which also features deleted scenes, an extended ending, trailers, and a 1986 featurette – is the pitch perfect Russell and Carpenter commentary, which delves into Fox's marketing mishaps, Chinese history, and how Russell's son did in his hockey game ".

The PCHA created a new team in Seattle and stocked it with the Torontos ' two leading scorers in Wilson and Foyston, their goaltender, Hap Holmes, and two other key members of the Toronto team in Jack Walker and Eddie Carpenter.