Characterizing it as the " central event " in the life of a slave between the American Revolution and the Civil War, Berlin wrote that whether they were uprooted themselves or simply lived in fear that they or their families would be involuntarily moved, " the massive deportation traumatized black people, both slave and free.

Characterizing them as “ imaginary ” is as inaccurate as characterizing them as “ malingering ”.

* Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought * Characterizing a Fogbank: What Is Postmodernism, and Why Do I Take Such a Dim View of it?

Characterizing inter-universe wormholes is more difficult.

Characterizing the Roerich Pact, space pilot A. A. Leonov wrote:

Characterizing low viscous materials come at a disadvantage of short time responses that are limited by inertia.

* Characterizing a statement as " ridiculous " or " absurd " without saying specifically that it is not true ; reductio ad ridiculum fallacy or appeal to ridicule.

Characterizing the accuracy of test scores is perhaps the central issue in psychometric theory and is a chief difference between IRT and CTT.

Search Interfaces on the Web: Querying and Characterizing.

Characterizing her mother's previous work inking and painting cels for Fleischer, Bergman said it was a mechanical task, but it piqued her mother's interest in animation that was shared with Bergman years later by watching Saturday morning cartoon shows with her.

Characterizing and compensating for these is a major part of meter design.

Characterizing cross-reactivity, specificity and mapping epitopes.

Characterizing and understanding the structure and the evolution of spatial networks is crucial for many different fields ranging from urbanism to epidemiology.

Characterizing the Range and Habitat of Dwarf Wedgemussels in the “ Middle Macrosite ” of the Upper Connecticut River.

In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names: " Moe, Larry, and Curly " or " Moe, Larry, and Shemp ," among other lineups.

Moe is cast as " Moe Hailstone ", an Adolf Hitler-like character, with Curly playing a Hermann Göring character ( replete with medals ), and Larry a Ribbentrop-type ambassador.

Moe quickly signed movie and burlesque comic Joe DeRita for the " third Stooge " role ; DeRita adopted first a crew cut and then a completely shaven hairstyle and became " Curly Joe " because of his resemblance to the original Curly Howard ( also to make it easier to distinguish him from Joe Besser, the earlier Stooge called Joe ). The Three Stooges with Curly Joe DeRita filling the role of the third stooge.

A promotional picture taken after Larry Fine's death in 1975 features a very ill Moe Howard ( who died shortly thereafter ) flanked by Curly Joe DeRita to the left and Emil Sitka to the right. Plans were in the works for longtime foil Emil Sitka to replace Larry as the " Middle Stooge " in 1971, but nothing ever came of that idea other than the proposed publicity still reproduced here.

Struggling boxing manager Moe is having lunch with several associates when he notices their shy waiter ( Curly ) goes insane whenever he hears the song " Pop Goes the Weasel ".

* This film features a rare scene in which Moe smacks someone other than one of his two pals ; as several people begin to rub Curly down after a rather painful round of boxing and accidentally pull Moe into it, he slaps one of them in the back of the head.

Peter James ( who was sometimes billed as Bobby Pinkus ) and Paul " Mousie " Garner were former members of Ted Healy's vaudeville act and had replaced Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard as Healy's " stooges " in the 1930s.

* Lt. Rick ' Curly ' Moe ( a Three Stooges reference )

After Larry Fine, Moe Howard and Curly Howard left his act in 1934, Healy appeared in a succession of films for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and MGM.

At the time of Healy's death, the Stooges ( consisting of Moe, Larry, and Curly ) were at Grand Central Terminal in New York City preparing to leave for a personal appearance in Boston.

in a cameo appearance ( the only Three Stooges film to contain all three Howard brothers ; Moe, Curly, and Shemp ), he soon suffered a series of strokes which led to his death on January 18, 1952.

Ever the businessman, Moe Howard put together a new Stooges act, with burlesque and screen comic Joe DeRita ( dubbed " Curly-Joe " because of his resemblance to Curly Howard ) as the new " third Stooge.

In his 1984 review of the show, Miami Herald sports writer, Bob Rubin praised Giannoulas ' contribution to the series writing, " The Chicken may be the most gifted physical comic since Curly, Larry and Moe.

Beginning in 1933, the team made 206 short films, and several features, with their most prolific period featuring the characters of Larry, Moe and Curly.

In many of the Stooge shorts, Fine did more reacting than acting, staying in the background and providing the voice of reason between the extreme characterizations of Moe and Curly.

* In a 2004 New Yorker feature on the Farrelly Brothers's attempt to write a script for a new Three Stooges movie, Peter Farrelly offered his theory of Stooge appreciation: “ Growing up, first you watched Curly, then Moe, and then your eyes got to Larry.

Five to fourteen, Curly ; fourteen to twenty-one, Moe.

He was an older brother of both Moe Howard and Curly Howard as well as the " third stooge " in the early years of the act.

Shemp reluctantly replaced Curly in Columbia's popular Stooge shorts, knowing that Moe and Larry would be out of work if he refused.

In the 1963 movie " Three Stooges Go Around the World ", Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe circle the globe with Phileas Fogg III and his girlfriend.

" He added that " It ’ s nice to see a focus on Moe for once, but the tale itself fails to really ignite.

Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was recruited by Nelson Rockefeller ( the coordinator of the U. S. Office of Inter-American Affairs ) and then by the OSS in 1943 because of his language skills.

As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?

According to Moe Howard's autobiography, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness.

Animator Mark Kirkland said that he usually lets pass through production off-model drawings of Moe because the character is so ugly that no one will notice.

In the episode " Moe n ' Joe ", Janice confronts Tony about his treatment of Bobby, and Tony refuses to say what the siblings both knew: Tony blames Bobby ( and Janice, to some extent ) for his near-fatal shooting by Uncle Junior, because Bobby should have been watching Junior but Janice made him pass the task on to Tony.

Moe Howard's autobiography states that Shemp died on November 23, 1955 and most subsequent accounts point to that date because of Moe's book.

Called the Sphas because the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association bought the players uniforms, the team featured many eastern U. S. top college graduates, including Harry Litwack ( IJSHOF honoree ), Cy Kasselman, Davey Banks, Moe Goldman ( ABL MVP 1937-38 ), Shikey Gotthofer, Mendy Snyder, Irv Torgoff, Red Wolfe, Max Posnack, Gil Fitch, Jerry Fleishman and many others.

* In the Three Stooges show on TV, Larry says that a slap from Moe did not hurt him because it landed on his paralyzed side.

At Moe's Tavern, Moe informs Homer and his friends that one of them must be a designated driver ( because they are responsible for the majority of accidents in the city ), and Barney loses the choosing draw.

Though this image is subject to copyright, I, Moe Epsilon, believe its use is covered by the U. S. fair use laws because:

The threesome arrive in Aruba, where the miserable Moe attempts to drown himself because of his loss, only to be stopped by Marge and Homer.

Moe was picked to rescue the children, because the writers thought it was funny.

After Kearney, Dolph and Jimbo whack the machine because it said they were gay, it malfunctions and advises Moe to tell his date that " her rump's as big as the Queen's, and twice as fragrant ".

Moe's original design includes a missing tooth, but Weinstein and Oakley felt that it did not " look right " because Moe was such a prominent character in the episode.

Stron, because of his haircut, has to endure being compared endlessly to Moe Howard of the Three Stooges.

Word of mouth spreads, and Moe sees his business boom because of the drink.

Originally, there was more to the subplot featuring Moe and Colette, but it was cut because the writers felt it did not work.

While at Moe's Tavern ( after a botched attempt at fixing his home water heater ), Homer notices that Moe is depressed because he can't get a date.