The book received mixed reviews, many reviewers pointing out that, while Jones ' writing was humorous, it compared poorly to Douglas Adams ' style, focusing more on slapstick and camp than Adams ' other work.

Assessing the novel's legacy, philosopher Douglas Den Uyl described The Fountainhead as relatively neglected compared to her later novel, Atlas Shrugged, and said, " our problem is to find those topics that arise clearly with The Fountainhead and yet do not force us to read it simply through the eyes of Atlas Shrugged.

Douglas was mentioned in the Michael Moore documentary Sicko, which compared the health care system in the United States with that of Canada and other countries.

He compared the handwriting of the five leading " suspects " ( Duncan-Sandys ; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; John Cohane, an American businessman ; Peter Combe, a former press officer at the Savoy Hotel ; and Sigismund von Braun, brother of the German scientist Wernher von Braun ) with the captions written on the photographs.

The greatly increased seating capacities of the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, compared to the propeller-driven DC-6 and DC-7, prompted the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve the consolidation of commercial airline service at TPA in the early 1960s.

Lincoln used a number of colorful phrases in the debates, such as when he said that one argument by Douglas made a horse chestnut into a chestnut horse, and compared an evasion by Douglas to the sepia cloud from a cuttlefish.

Fabliau is often compared to the later short story ; Douglas Bush, longtime professor at Harvard University, called it " a short story broader than it is long.

Douglas Lain ( born 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee ) is a fiction writer who has been compared to Philip K. Dick and Pamela Zoline.

In fact, the D. H. 86 had approached the limits to which traditional " plywood and canvas " aircraft construction could be taken, and was obsolete compared to all-aluminium stressed-skin aircraft like the Boeing 247 and the Douglas DC-1 that were already flying before it was even designed ( and the immortal Douglas DC-3 had its first flight just four days after the forced-landing of VH-USW ).

It was one of the world's last long-range scheduled international flying boat services and had been operated by the Solent Aranui, which had survived replacement by Douglas DC-6 and Lockheed Electra landplanes by several years, compared to her contemporaries.

For the forcefulness of his initiatives to change the culture at Nissan, Ghosn has been compared with General Douglas MacArthur ( the chief of staff of the US Army who radically changed Japan's political and economic structure during the post-World War II occupation ).

One of the more commonly cited thesis papers was written by Koji Nakae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose June 2005 master's thesis compared Ghosn to US General Douglas MacArthur in restructuring Japanese society after World War II.

In time Swayze's almost manic style seemed frivolous compared to his CBS rival Douglas Edwards with the News who Swayze once out-rated but whose anchor sounded sober and no-nonsense.

One month before the dedication of the park, a former editor from The Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled The Everglades: River of Grass.

Ground was broken for the initial Douglas Aircraft facility in November 1940, with dedication in October 1941.

Regardless of her dedication to the preservation of the Everglades, Douglas admitted the time she spent actually there was sporadic, driving there for occasional picnics.

* ‘ A Description of May from Gawin Douglas ’ ( modernised ), by F. Fawkes, 1752 ; with poetic dedication to William Dixon of Loversal, a Yorkshire friend.

Guests including Jimmy Fallon, Michael Bublé, Don Rickles, Josh Groban, Joe Biden, Robert DeNiro, Joan Rivers, David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Michael Douglas, Donald Trump, Bret Michaels, Lou Holtz, Liam Neeson, and Tony Bennett returned for one last sit-down with Philbin and Ripa, sharing recollections of the times they've shared on Live!

Jim McLeod ( Kirk Douglas ) is sharing a romantic moment with his wife Mary ( Eleanor Parker ), and they discuss the children they are planning to have.

Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the anchor desk with Forrest Sawyer ( July to December 1985 and January to September 1987 ) and later Douglas Edwards and Charles Osgood, until leaving to anchor NBC News at Sunrise in 1990.

In a gesture of reconciliation, Wilde did the work himself but dedicated Douglas as the translator rather than having them sharing their names on the title-page.

Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.

The appearance of these spacecraft would later be subconsciously expressed in the design of the Douglas DC-8, the only difference being that " the DC8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't ".

The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.

This difference was intended by Douglas to permit the Anti-treaty faction a say in the final proposed constitution before its submission to the British Government.

The difference between the terms of commodification ( Marxist political theory ) and commoditization ( business theory ) was highlighted by Douglas Rushkoff.

" Christopher Douglas believes that the difference between Jardine and Chapman in captaincy style made it harder for the press to accept Jardine.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

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

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

A further fibre optic cable, known as BT-MT1 was laid in October 1990 between Millom in Cumbria and Douglas, a distance of.

It was laid in 1999 between Blackpool and Douglas as part of the Isle of Man to England Interconnector which connects the Manx electricity system to the UK's National Grid.

* 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.

* 1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.

By now an enemy alien, he was moved between various internment camps in Scotland and England before ending up spending a year and a half in Douglas Camp, Isle of Man.

Steven Best and Douglas Kellner identify Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns as part of the transitional phase, influenced by Marcel Duchamp, between modernism and postmodernism.

Douglas Haldeman similarly argues for a client's right to access to therapy if requested from a fully informed position: " For some, religious identity is so important that it is more realistic to consider changing sexual orientation than abandoning one's religion of origin ... and if there are those who seek to resolve the conflict between sexual orientation and spirituality with conversion therapy, they must not be discouraged.

* 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.

* January 31 – Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California, are among the 8 persons killed following a mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet, in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, US.

** A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U. S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

Trails throughout the area are included in comprehensive plans for the city of Omaha, the Omaha metropolitan area, Douglas County, and long-distance coordinated plans between the municipalities of southeast Nebraska.

* The Drange-Wilson Debate A written debate between skeptic Theodore Drange and Christian Douglas Wilson.

Douglas Guthrie distinguishes between guanxi and guanxixue (, the ' art ' or ' knowledge ' of guanxi ), as the former is considered in the modern Chinese society as common inter-personal ties that reflect the Chinese nature, while the latter represents the manipulation and corruption brought about by a selfish and sometimes illegal utilization of guanxi.

Meanwhile, working independently, a team led by Douglas Engelbart ( with Jeff Rulifson as chief programmer ) was the first to implement the hyperlink concept for scrolling within a single document ( 1966 ), and soon after for connecting between paragraphs within separate documents ( 1968 ), with NLS.

" In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail previously reported by many, the significance of this sighting was enhanced by Douglas ' reports of intercepts of radio transmissions: " Air-to-air communications ... were between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign " Dragnet 51 " from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, and two unknown aircraft using the call signs " Darkstar November " and " Darkstar Mike ".

This kind of pangram arose from some verbal horseplay between Douglas Hofstadter, Rudy Kousbroek ( a Dutch linguist and essayist ) and Lee Sallows ( a British electronics engineer ).

* A written debate on Sola scriptura between Douglas Jones and Gerald Matatics from Antithesis Magazine

In 1431, before the September uprising, the king had arrested two of his nephews, John Kennedy of Carrick and Archibald, Earl of Douglas possibly as a result of a conflict between John and his uncle, Thomas Kennedy in which Douglas may have become involved.