In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

Armstrong managed to demonstrate the advantages of FM radio despite Carson's skepticism in a now-famous paper on FM in the Proceedings of the IRE in 1936, which was reprinted in the August 1984 issue of Proceedings of the IEEE.

Carson's first child, a daughter named Adeline, was born in 1837.

From the conservation movement at the beginning of the 20th century, then with concern in the sixties about chemical pesticides, the ecological movement was born with Murray Bookchin's Our Synthetic Environment and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

By tradition and by Carson's own public statements, the impetus for Silent Spring was a letter written in January 1958 by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins, to The Boston Herald, describing the death of numerous birds around her property resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes, a copy of which Huckins sent to Carson.

Almost all of The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and the first ten years hosted by his successor Johnny Carson were taped over by the network, which is why Carson's late 1960s shows looked muddy compared to his competitor Dick Cavett on ABC ; NBC was using the Tonight Show tapes repeatedly.

Gobel was a guest on various TV programs, including The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Bing Crosby Show, and Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show.

As Carson's gun misfired, the warrior drew to shoot a poison arrow ; however, Frémont, seeing that Carson was in danger, trampled the warrior with his horse.

After his morning show on NBC got cancelled in October 1980 after only 18 weeks on the air, David Letterman was still held in sufficient regard by the network brass ( especially NBC president Fred Silverman ) that upon hearing the 33-year-old comedian is being courted by a syndication company, NBC gave him a $ 20, 000 per week deal to sit out a year and guest-host a few times on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

Letterman was also specifically asked by Carson's show not to replicate any of their signature pieces like " Stump the Band " or " Carnac the Magnificent ".

Letterman, who had hoped to get the hosting job of The Tonight Show following Johnny Carson's retirement, moved to CBS in 1993, when the job was given to Jay Leno.

Piru was also used in the scene in A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) starring Judy Garland and James Mason where Jack Carson's character, Libby, finds them after they are married.

An oft-quoted case is that of DDT, an example of a widely used ( and maybe misused ) pesticide, which was brought to public attention by Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.

Therefore, Jack Carson's final line was not only a very topical one, it was one of the rare times a current president was actually mentioned during a Twilight Zone episode.

His first book, Our Synthetic Environment, was published under the pseudonym Lewis Herber in 1962, a few months before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Carson's mother was Isabella Lambert, the daughter of Captain Peter Lambert, part of an old Anglo-Irish family, the Lamberts of Castle Ellen, County Galway.

She worked for several PR companies, was a copywriter for Elektra Records, and worked for Johnny Carson's publicist.

Her most influential work was the book The Everglades: River of Grass ( 1947 ), which redefined the popular conception of the Everglades as a treasured river instead of a worthless swamp ; its impact has been compared to that of Rachel Carson's influential book Silent Spring ( 1962 ).

David Letterman not only wanted to move into that earlier time slot from his late night spot after The Tonight Show, but was also considered by many as the natural successor ( despite Leno having been Carson's permanent guest host for several years ).

Leno explained that he did not want to see a repeat of the hard feelings and controversy that occurred when he was given the show over David Letterman following Carson's retirement.

Before pesticide use began in the 1940s ( Refer to Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, chapter 4 ), the gnat was so abundant around the lake in the summer that large piles of dead gnats appeared beneath streetlights, looking like dirty snow.

In 1952, he won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Sea Around Us, which was based on Rachel Carson's best-selling book of the same name.

Carson's Law was noted for its quality scripts and period production values, however although the programme was very popular in Melbourne where the series was based and filmed, it did not succeed in Sydney.

Lindsey Carson's death reduced the Carson family to a desperate poverty, forcing young Kit Carson to drop out of school to work on the family farm, as well as to engage in hunting.

In the Battle of Adobe Walls, the Indian force led by Dohäsan made several assaults on Carson's forces which were supported by two mountain howitzers.

" This view of Carson's actions may be taken from General James Carleton ’ s orders to Carson on October 12, 1862, concerning the Mescalero Apaches: " All Indian men of that tribe are to be killed whenever and wherever you can find them: the women and children will not be harmed, but you will take them prisoners and feed them at Ft. Stanton until you receive other instructions ".

Burr refused to appear as Carson's guest from then on and told Us Weekly years later: " I have been asked a number of times to do his show and I won't do it.

continued to tour extensively, appearing three times on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, and also on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show.

In fact, most ground rules and restrictions on what Letterman could or couldn't do didn't come from the network, but from Carson's production company.

Lindsey Carson's death reduced the Carson family to a desperate poverty, forcing young Kit to drop out of school to work on the family farm, as well as engage in hunting.

Contestants from the contest have appeared on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show and the Late Show with David Letterman.

* December 17 – Tiny Tim gets married on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show.

The show premiered on December 31, 2003 and in addition to hosting, he also has his very own timer named after him called " Carson's Countdown ".

He became a familiar face on television, appearing on such variety programs as Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, Steve Allen, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, and Mike Douglas shows.

* Johnny Carson's many shticks include his role as " Carnac the Magnificent ", an Indian fortune teller who could divine answers to questions sealed in envelopes and " kept in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on the front porch of Funk & Wagnalls since noon today ".

Thanks to Steve Allen, he began appearing on Johnny Carson's and David Letterman's shows in 1982.

He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992.

The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny Carson's retirement as host of the program.

Carson's rule originates from John Renshaw Carson's 1922 paper.

In order to conceal his project from those who would use Chip or Dr. Carson's skills for sinister purposes, Dr. Carson passes off Chip as a student at a junior high school and claims he is his son.

In 1956 she became a regular on Johnny Carson's CBS-network comedy-variety show from California.

However, interestingly, the song " Little Suicides ", from Pure showed the same sparse sound, production, and strong yet quiet vocals ( albeit less electronic ) that would influence Carson's solo work.

The wide variety of guests, combined with Cavett's literate and intelligent approach to comedy, appealed to a significant enough number of viewers to keep the show running for several years despite the competition from Carson's show.

The use of low angles forced the lighting to be modified in order to prevent the scene from looking " like a hotel lobby ", in Carson's words.

Carson's family were of Italian descent, with his grandmother hailing from Sicily.

The show consisted of 30 minutes of non-stop stand-up comedy from several comedians in each show, became a ratings hit in the United Kingdom and helped establish Carson's performing career.

One of Carson's most well known characters, Carnac was a " mystic from the east " who could psychically " divine " unseen answers to unknown questions.

Roderick T. Long criticizes Carson's claim that full private property rights do not stem from the concept of self-ownership, and presents an argument that if one accepts self-ownership, as Carson does, then non-Lockean proviso homesteading rights must be accepted.

Kevin A. Carson's Studies in Mutualist Political Economy helped to stimulate the growth of new-style mutualism, articulating a version of the labor theory of value incorporating ideas drawn from Austrian economics.

The revolutionary element in Carson's work was her extrapolation from single-organism effects to effects at the whole ecosystem and the " balance of nature "