* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

The comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the romances of Clara Bow, to cite just a few examples, made these performers ’ faces well-known on every continent.

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

" In a report accompanying the bill, Douglas ’ s committee wrote that the Utah and New Mexico acts:

Douglas met privately with Dixon and in the end, despite his misgivings on Northern reaction, agreed to accept Dixon ’ s arguments.

Douglas ’ committee met later that night.

Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce ’ s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.

Pierce was persuaded to support repeal, and, at Douglas ’ insistence, Pierce provided a written draft asserting that the Missouri Compromise had been made inoperative by the principles of the Compromise of 1850.

* Photo of the Fish and Chip Brigade in 1980 in Douglas ’ office ; Bassett, Douglas, Lange and Moore

On January 7, 1931, Summerall ’ s successor, General Douglas MacArthur, confidentially reopened work on a new design, involving the Washington Commission of Fine Arts.

* In Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, the various chapters are separated by dialogues between Achilles and the tortoise, inspired by Lewis Carroll ’ s works.

Douglas Irwin ’ s 1998 paper examines the validity of the opposite tariff hypotheses posed by the Republicans and Democrats in 1890.

Sir Robert Douglas ’ s Peerage of Scotland.

In 1980, he published an " Alternative Budget " that attacked what Douglas called the Muldoon government ’ s “ tinkering ” with the economy.

Douglas became increasingly frustrated by what he saw as the Labour Party ’ s reluctance to deal with fundamental issues of economic policy.

One of those who persuaded him to stay was Labour ’ s deputy leader David Lange who offered to make Douglas Minister of Finance if Lange was prime minister after the 1984 election.

After Labour ’ s narrow loss in the 1981 election, Douglas found a growing audience in the parliamentary party for his view that Labour ’ s established approach to economic policy was deficient.

Douglas ’ s case for a radical approach was strengthened by the belief among many of his parliamentary colleagues that the economy ’ s deep-seated problems could only be solved by extensive restructuring.

At the end of 1983 there was a marked change in Douglas ’ s thinking.

Douglas characterised the policy package as restrained and responsible, and an appropriate response to the country ’ s economic difficulties.

The key element of Douglas ’ s economic thinking was implemented after Labour won the 1984 election but before it was formally sworn into office.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

The unmanned DC-X technology demonstrator, originally developed by McDonnell Douglas for the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) program office, was an attempt to build a vehicle that could lead to an SSTO vehicle.

Neither this nor an attempt to woo help from General Douglas MacArthur, the American supreme commander in occupied Japan, yielded meetings.

In an attempt to gain the regency of Scotland, Crichton sought to overthrow the power of the Earls of Douglas, the principal noble family in the kingdom.

The first successful attempt to circumnavigate the planet Earth by air occurred in 1924, flown by aviators of the U. S. Army Air Service in a quartet of Douglas World Cruiser biplanes.

He claimed to have defeated an attempt at vote fraud by Republicans by ordering the delay of a train that was carrying men to vote illegally in another county, enabling Douglas to win the county.

As such it was, according to Douglas, an attempt to ameliorate the pro-and anti-Treaty split.

It was only after Douglas nearly died during a diabetic coma that he decided to attempt a return to the sport.

In an attempt to draw Edward away from Berwick, Douglas entered England on 11 July, the last day of Seton's truce.

Any attempt by Douglas to by-pass the hill and march directly on Berwick would have been quickly overwhelmed.

Galland replied that he feared Douglas would attempt to escape and they would have to give chase and shoot at each other again, and declined the request.

Shortly after the Japanese Army invaded the country in December 1941, the combined US and Filipino forces were being gradually overrun and General Douglas MacArthur moved his troops to the Bataan Peninsula in an attempt to hold out until a relief force could be sent from the US.

* In 2006, following a successful protest lasting over one year, tree sitters in Cathedral Grove ( also known as MacMillan Provincial Park ), British Columbia, halted the removal of a number of old growth Douglas Fir trees which were scheduled to be to taken down in an attempt to calm traffic and improve the parking facilities.

Floyd Bennett Field's most storied flight was probably that of Douglas " Wrong Way " Corrigan who, in 1938, after repeatedly being denied permission by the authorities to attempt a non-stop flight to Ireland, " accidentally " crossed the Atlantic in a second-hand surplus aircraft on a flight registered to go to California.

*-sank May 24 due to unsuccessful defusing attempt of unexploded bombs from Douglas A-4B Skyhawks († 2 )-Fatal Damage

In an attempt to rescue his younger friend, another key Tic-Toc scientist, Dr. Douglas Phillips ( Robert Colbert ), enters the Time Tunnel as well, carrying a newspaper describing the sinking to occur.

" The paper paradigm was created by many individuals and organisations, such as Douglas Engelbart, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer, and was an attempt to make computers more user-friendly by making them resemble the common workplace of the time ( with papers, folders, and a desktop ).

After Labour's re-election in 1987, Cullen was made Associate Minister of Finance ( an attempt by Lange to provide an anti-reform counterbalance to the radical Douglas ) and Minister of Social Welfare ( an attempt to limit the impact of the reforms in that area ).

General Douglas MacArthur declared all places of prostitution off limits in an attempt to counter the spread of sexually transmitted diseases on March 25, 1946 as by then more than a quarter of all American GIs in the Japanese occupation forces had a sexually transmitted disease.

* June 25 – Westbound from Rangoon to Akyab, the United States Army Air Service flight of Douglas World Cruisers attempting the first aerial circumnavigation of the world unknowingly flies over the Vickers Vulture II amphibian of the Royal Air Force team of MacLaren, Plenderleith, and Andrews, which is sheltering in a coastal bay in Burma while eastbound from Akyab to Rangoon during its own attempt at a circumnavigation.

* April 14 – After aborting its first landing attempt at Jersey Airport on Jersey in the Channel Islands due to low cloud cover, British United Airways Flight 1030X, a Douglas C-47B operated by the British United Airways affiliate British United ( C. I.

* March 4 – Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, a Douglas DC-8, strikes the approach lights and a seawall during a night landing attempt in poor visibility at Tokyo International Airport in Japan and crashes on the runway, killing 64 of the 72 people on board.

The regiment fought with distinction, under Douglas, until he was killed in a skirmish near Douai in 1645, in attempt to take the city from the Habsburgs.