Curious as to his “ namesake ” Post Office, on Feb. 16th Mr. Merna wrote a letter to Kenneth L. Bergstrom, then the Postmaster of Merna, Nebraska 68856, inquiring how the town got its name " Merna.

Curious to know how Guan Yu looked like, Hu Ban stole a glance at Guan.

Curious as to how audiences would react to their film, they persuaded exhibitor Kim Jorgenson to show it before one of his regularly scheduled movies.

*( 2004 ) Curious minds: how a child becomes a scientist ( edited by John Brockman ), New York: Pantheon Books.

Autodesk software also played a role in the visual effects of Alice in Wonderland, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Inception, Iron Man 2, King Kong, Gladiator, Titanic and other films.

After the Harry Potter films, Heyman is attached to film adaptations of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, directed by Steve Kloves, and Paddington Bear.

Starting in 1980, she also began to collaborate with Alan Shalleck on a series of short films featuring Curious George and more than two dozen additional books.

Curious mobs of sightseers began to invade Harris ’ land.

A third series of books, the Curious George " New Adventures ," began to appear in 1998 and continues to the present.

Curious Macintosh users immediately began poking through iTunes ' resource fork, where they discovered numerous strings and other resources that indicated iTunes was a re-engineered SoundJam MP.

There is also a Curious George video game that was released on February 2, 2006, published by Namco and developed by Monkey Bar Games, a division of Vicious Cycle Software.

Papers read at their meetings are preserved in Cotton's collections, and were printed by Thomas Hearne in 1720 under the title A Collection of Curious Discourses, a second edition appearing in 1771.

The show's ratings decline is popularly attributed to Episode # 14 of Season 3, " I Am Curious … Maddie ", which infamously had Maddie and David consummate their relationship after two and a half years of romantic tension.

1350 ); Guy of Warwick, a poem ( written in 1617 and licensed, but not printed ) by John Lane, the manuscript of which ( in the British Library ) contains a sonnet by John Milton, father of the poet ; The Famous Historie of Guy, Earl of Warwick ( c. 1607 ) by Samuel Rowlands ; The Booke of the moste Victoryous Prince Guy of Warwicke ( William Copland, London, n. d .); other editions by J. Cawood and C. Bates ; chapbooks and ballads of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievements and Curious Events of Guy, Earl of Warwick, a tragedy ( 1661 ) which may possibly be identical with a play on the subject written by John Day and Thomas Dekker, and entered at Stationers ' Hall on 15 January 1618 / 19 ; three verse fragments are printed by Hales and F. J. Furnivall in their edition of the Percy Folio MS. vol.

Curious, the two landed their craft and investigated the man-shaped planet.

PBS airs commercials for their animated series Curious George with the chorus playing in the background.

Curious to hear the Sirens ' songs but mindful of the danger, Odysseus orders his men to stop their ears with beeswax and ties himself to the mast of the ship.

The album spawned their most well known single, " Curious ", which reached No. 34 on Canada's RPM Singles chart and No. 8 on Canada's Alternative chart.

He is best known as the director of the films 491 ( 1964 ), I Am Curious ( Yellow ) ( in Swedish, " Jag är nyfiken-gul ") ( 1967 ), and I Am Curious ( Blue ) (" Jag är nyfiken-blå ") ( 1968 ), which stretched the boundaries of acceptability of what could then be shown on film, deliberately treating their subjects in a provocative and explicit manner.

Curious about their train, he is almost caught by the humans, but hides by adopting the train's form as his alternate mode.

A movie preview for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button uses a brief selection from one of their songs, but they do not appear in the film's final soundtrack.

In 1974 Griffith took an opportunity to interview surviving IRA members from the 1916 Easter Rebellion: Maire Comerford, Joseph Sweeney, Sean Kavanagh, John O ' Sullivan, Brigid Thornton, Sean Harling, Martin Walton, David Nelligan ( or Neligan ) and Tom Barry are all interviewed at the ends of their lives in a programme titled Curious Journey.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ), the band released their two latest albums, The Curious Sofa and Fireworks in 2000 and 2001, respectively.

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Curious as to what made it work, he built a crude model of it in wood, and filed a piece of steel until he succeeded in making a metal pickup for the thread, enabling the crude machine to take stitches.

Parson Mason Locke Weems mentions the first citation of this legend in his 1850 book, The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen.

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers ( pp. 145 – 147 ).

The wineskins episode near the end of the interpolated tale " The Curious Impertinent " in chapter 35 of the first part of Don Quixote is a clear reference to Apuleius, and recent scholarship suggests that the moral philosophy and the basic trajectory of Apuleius's novel are fundamental to Cervantes's program.

Written by Himself and now published for the Information of the Curious in all Nations.

* Lawrence Durrell, The Curious History of Pope Joan.

* William Shepard Walsh, A Handy Book of Curious Information, J.

On December 2, 2009, REO Speedwagon released an online video game, Find Your Own Way Home, produced by digital design agency, Curious Sense.

536 Puzzles and Curious Problems.

It appeared on the 2009 EP " Blips Don't Lie " and the subsequent singles compilation I Am Curious: Microfilm 2006-2010.

Vilgot Sjöman's film I Am Curious ( Yellow ), also created an international uproar, but it was very popular in the United States.

Early money used by people is referred to as " Odd and Curious ", but the use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency ( e. g., cigarettes in prison ).

In 2008, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band classic " Ostrich Walk ", written by Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields, in a performance by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, was included on the soundtrack to the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Other regular features included The Magic Drawing Board and the Captain's " Reading Stories " sessions, which introduced kids to stories such as Curious George, Make Way for Ducklings, Stone Soup, and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.

Curious, Johnny hides behind a nearby tree to spy on the group of people sitting around the fire.

* The Case of the Curious Bride ( 1935 ), with Warren William and Claire Dodd as Della Street.

Margret Elizabeth Rey ( May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996 ), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was ( with her husband H. A. Rey ), the co-author and illustrator of children's books, the most famous of which are the Curious George series.

The result, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him.

Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George.

Curious George was an instant success, and the Reys were commissioned to write more adventures of the mischievous monkey and his friend, the Man with the Yellow Hat.