* 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

Douglas Engelbart introduced the chorded keyset as a computer interface in 1968 at what is often called " The Mother of All Demos ".

* Bardini, Thierry, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing ( 2000 ), Chapters 2 & 3, ISBN 0-8047-3723-1, ISBN 0-8047-3871-8

Douglas Carl Engelbart ( born January 30, 1925 ) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer.

Engelbart retired from McDonnell Douglas in 1986, determined to pursue his work free from commercial pressure.

The most complete coverage of Engelbart's bootstrapping ideas can be found in Boosting Our Collective IQ, by Douglas C. Engelbart, 1995.

Other books on Engelbart and his laboratory include Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing by Thierry Bardini and The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart, by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart.

Moves to impeach sitting justices have occurred more recently ( for example, William O. Douglas was the subject of hearings twice, once in 1953 and again in 1970 ), but they did not reach a vote in the House.

Larger cargo airlines tend to use new or recently built aircraft to carry their freight, but many use older aircraft, like the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Douglas DC-8, DC-10, MD-11, Boeing 747, and the Ilyushin Il-76.

Fife, with his powerful Douglas ally together with those loyal to the king ensured at the December 1388 council meeting that the lieutenancy of Scotland would pass from Carrick ( who had recently been badly injured from a horse-kick ) to Fife.

* 1899: Gordon Douglas is ordained in Myanmar ; until recently thought to be the first Westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.

This engine arrangement survives into the 21st century on numerous twin engined Douglas DC-9 derivatives plus newer short haul and range turbofan powered regional aircraft such as the " regional jet airliners " built by Bombardier, Embraer and, until recently, Fokker.

Scripted by Foreman, it was tailored to fit the talents of Kirk Douglas, an ex-wrestler who had recently become an actor.

Her role has recently been fictionalized by the British novelist Douglas Galbraith in his novel King Henry.

On the Board of NeWest Press ( Edmonton ) since 1981, she is the founder and editor of The Writer as Critic series, which includes, among others, Douglas Barbour's Lyric / Anti-lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Frank Davey's Canadian Literary Power, Daphne Marlatt's Readings from the Labyrinth, Fred Wah's Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, Phyllis Webb's Nothing But Brush Strokes, and, most recently, Di Brandt's So This Is the World & Here I Am in It.

* Douglas Head is home to the Grand Union Camera Obscura which has recently undergone restoration and is open to the public during the summer months.

Until recently, Douglas and his wife, Merrie, lived at Rathvinden House in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland.

In 2007, he appeared as a government agent in dangerous territory in the action thriller The Kingdom and most recently voiced the character Douglas in the film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book, Where the Wild Things Are ( 2009 ).

More recently, the 2002 work by U. S. Army historian Douglas Nash, Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, January – February 1944, took issue with Soviet claims that Korsun was another Stalingrad.

Among Scottish-based units, a kilt of grey Clan Douglas tartan was initially authorised, but the recently approved official RAF tartan is now authorised.

Robert Douglas Houghton ( born 30 October 1947 ), commonly known as either Bob Houghton or Bobby Houghton, is an English football manager and former player, Houghton was most recently the head coach of India.

Douglas Jehl of the " New York Times " reported that Charles A. Duelfer, chief weapons inspector in Iraq, reported that as recently as three months before the March 2003 invasion, " a branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service known as M14, the directorate for special operations, oversaw a highly secretive enterprise known as the Challenge Project, involving explosives ... trained Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Yemeni, Lebanese, Egyptian and Sudanese operatives in counterterrorism, explosives, marksmanship and foreign operations at its facilities at Salman Pak, near Baghdad.

Another is Douglas Levere's project, " New York Changing ", has recently been published.

They were Bill Mosher and Joe Douglas, career criminals who had recently been released from jail.

More recently, the oak / madrone forest is being succeeded by specimens of large Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) as in the image above.

Dennis W. Dickson ( Mayo Clinic ), Mark Cohen ( Case Western Reserve University ), Richard Prayson ( Cleveland Clinic ), Douglas C. Miller ( University of Missouri ; until recently at NYU ), John Trojanowski ( University of Pennsylvania ), Roger McLendon ( Duke University ) and John Donahue ( Brown University ).

After the feud with Steamboat and Douglas ended, the Blonds were programmed with the recently reformed Four Horsemen, who at the time consisted of Ric Flair, Paul Roma, and Ole and Arn Anderson.

The 1929 part-talkie version, titled The Iron Mask, was the first talking picture starring Douglas Fairbanks, though until recently it was usually shown in a silent version.

The grief was almost too much for Lisa to bear but she received a great deal of support and love from her former mother-in-law Nancy Hughes, as well as from a new man in her life, Grant Colman ( James Douglas ), an attorney who had recently joined Chris Hughes ' law firm.

1930's Fox and Tiger Moths, 1930's Rapide, Short Solent 1940s double decked flying boat, from New Zealand's first International Airline TEAL, a Short Sunderland marine patrol flying boat, De Havilland Mosquito wooden fighter bomber, a restored 1940s Avro Lancaster bomber, Douglas DC-3 Dakota through to a De Havilland Vampire 1950s jet fighter and most recently former RNZAF Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and Aermacchi MB-339CB advanced jet trainers.

The investigation was prompted by a 276-page complaint filed by Douglas W. Doerting, the assistant personnel director for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

In 1897, a Christian missionary, Henry Martyn Clarke, filed a lawsuit of attempted murder against Ahmad at the court of District Magistrate Captain William Douglas in the city of Ludhiana.

In 1916, Pickford met actor Douglas Fairbanks, Pickford filed for a divorce from Moore, and Pickford and Fairbanks married in 1920.

His father filed suit against Swissair and Boeing, which a year earlier had acquired McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturer of the MD-11 aircraft that crashed.

On June 10, 1993, actress Donna Douglas and her partner Curt Wilson in Associated Artists Entertainment, INC., filed a $ 200 million lawsuit against Disney, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, their production companies, and Creative Artists Agency claiming the film was plagiarized from a book A Nun in the Closet owned by the partners.

Justice William O. Douglas filed a partial dissent, but voted with the court regarding Yoder's case.

* The most publicized romance of its day officially came to an end as Mary Pickford filed for divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr ..

The EHV was initially formed with two Douglas C-47 Skytrain and three MH. 1521M Broussard aircraft.

Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit, Exodus, and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus.

After achieving independence from Portugal in 1974, the Força Aérea de Guine-Bissau or FAGB was formed with former Portuguese Douglas C-47's, North American T-6s, two Dornier Do-27s and two Aloutte III's.

* 2001 — Joseph Costello ( Douglas Adams was originally scheduled to speak but died two days before the ceremony )

HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

There are two mountainous areas divided by a central valley which runs between Douglas and Peel.

Joe soon had a younger brother, Douglas, and two younger sisters, Marilyn and Leonie.

He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later.

* 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O ' Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.

While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.

On 8 August 1969, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation received a contract for the conversion of two existing S-IVB stages to the Orbital Workshop configuration.

They are the second of only two fathers and sons to earn the Medal of Honor, the first being Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and his son Douglas.

The Roosevelts thus became one of only two father-son pairs to receive this honor ( the other pair being Arthur and Douglas MacArthur ).

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

The Fredericton campus features two sites of national historic importance, both designated as National Historic Sites of Canada: the 1827 Sir Howard Douglas Hall ( Arts Building ) and the 1851 William Brydone Jack Observatory.

Rather than taking up parochial duties in a parish, he became tutor to two sons of Hugh Douglas of Longniddry.

Scripps wound up giving the agency away to two inexperienced businessmen, Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler, originally associated with two better-known partners, who soon departed.

On 30 April 1908, two Bengali youths, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, threw a bomb on a carriage at Muzzafarpur, in order to kill the Chief Presidency Majistrate Douglas Kingsford of Calcutta fame, but erroneously killed some women travelling in it.

In addition to the five Douglas Theatres venues in Omaha, two more are opening, including Midtown Crossing Theatres, located on 32nd and Farnam Streets by the Mutual of Omaha Building.