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In 1857 John Sheepshanks gifted 233 paintings, mainly by contemporary British artists, and a similar number of drawings to the museum with the intention of forming a ' A National Gallery of British Art ', a role since taken on by Tate Britain ; artists represented are William Blake, James Barry, Henry Fuseli, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir David Wilkie, William Mulready, William Powell Frith, Millais and Hippolyte Delaroche.
Actors known for their early support of SAG ( besides the founders ) include Edward Arnold, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O ' Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, and Robert Young.
For example, the 200-inch Hale Telescope saw first light January 26, 1949, targeting NGC 2261 under the direction of American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.
This led to a further re-flowering-in the Depression and war years between 1930 and 1955-and this can be seen in the work of: artists such as John Piper ; John Tunnard, David Jones ; Graham Sutherland ; John Craxton ; John Minton ; Stanley Spencer ; Eric Ravilious ; Robin Tanner ; Bettina Shaw-Lawrence ; writers such as John Cowper Powys ; J. R. R. Tolkien ; Mervyn Peake ; C. S. Lewis ; Arthur Machen ; T. H. White ; Dylan Thomas ; Geoffrey Grigson ; and Herbert Read ; film-makers such as Humphrey Jennings ; Powell and Pressburger ( e. g.: A Canterbury Tale, 1944 and Gone to Earth, 1950 ); and photographers such as Edwin Smith ; Roger Mayne ; and John Deakin.
The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, perhaps the most important observer of the 20th century, was given the honor of being the first astronomer to use the telescope.
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1993 ) starring Robert Powell as " John Jasper ".
* Edwin Powell 2002.

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In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the distances to far away galaxies were generally proportional to their redshifts — an idea originally suggested by Lemaître in 1927.
In 1929, Edwin Hubble provided an observational basis for Lemaître's theory.
* 1924 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
Wilson telescope, Edwin Hubble was able to resolve the outer parts of some spiral nebulae as collections of individual stars and identified some Cepheid variables, thus allowing him to estimate the distance to the nebulae: they were far too distant to be part of the Milky Way.
" The other scientists on the " American Scientists " sheet include biochemist Gerty Cori, chemist Linus Pauling and astronomer Edwin Hubble.
* 1949 The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope ( until BTA-6 is built in 1976 ).
The term " The Local Group " was introduced by Edwin Hubble in Chapter VI of his book The Realm of the Nebulae ( Hubble 1936, pp. 124 151 ).
The primary source of verification of this expansion was provided by Edwin Hubble who demonstrated that all galaxies and distant astronomical objects were moving away from us (" Hubble's law ") as predicted by a universal expansion.
* 1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer ( d. 1953 )
The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula before galaxies were discovered by Edwin Hubble.
Slipher and Edwin Hubble continued to collect the spectra from many diffuse nebulae, finding 29 that showed emission spectra and 33 had the continuous spectra of star light.
File: Edwin Hubble with pipe. jpg | Edwin Hubble ( 1889-1953 ): discovered of the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way and galactic red shift, found that the loss in frequency — the redshift — observed in the spectra of light from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth: Hubble's law
Subsequently, Edwin Hubble discovered an approximate relationship between the redshifts of such " nebulae " ( now known to be galaxies in their own right ) and the distances to them with the formulation of his eponymous Hubble's law.
( At that time, nebula was the generic term for any visually extended or diffuse astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way, until galaxies were confirmed as extragalactic systems by Edwin Hubble in 1924.
* January 3 Albert Einstein begins doing research at the California Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble.
* December 30 Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.
* November 20 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer ( d. 1953 )
The expansion of the universe discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1929 confirmed this prediction.
However, soon after Einstein developed his static theory, observations by Edwin Hubble indicated that the universe appears to be expanding ; this was consistent with a cosmological solution to the original general-relativity equations that had been found by the mathematician Friedmann.
Although widely attributed to Edwin Hubble, the law was first derived from the General Relativity equations by Georges Lemaître in a 1927 article where he proposed that the Universe is expanding and suggested an estimated value of the rate of expansion, now called the Hubble constant .< ref >

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Finally, on November 13, 1966, Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin became the first to successfully work in space without tiring, on the Gemini 12 last flight.
It was in Hanover on November 9, 1938 that the synagogue, designed in 1870 by Edwin Oppler in neo-romantic style, was burnt by the Nazis.
On November 25, 1864, Booth performed for the only time with his two brothers, Edwin and Junius, in a single engagement production of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.
* November 25 Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William C. Durant and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ) and in 1912 R. S. McLaughlin GEO of General Motors in Canada.
* 1864: Junius, Jr., Edwin and John Wilkes Booth ( later the assassin of U. S. president Abraham Lincoln ) made their only appearance onstage together in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar on 25 November 1864, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
On November 21, 1987, Chávez moved up to the lightweight division and faced WBA Lightweight Champion Edwin Rosario.
The bullet-riddled corpses of three teenaged Na Fianna scouts Edwin Hughes ( 17 ), Joseph Rogers ( 16 ) and Brendan Holohan ( 16 ) were found at The Quarries, Naas Road, Clondalkin, on 28 November 1922.
The village of Curtiss was platted November 17, 1882, having been surveyed by Edwin Parks.
She was married on 10 April 1958 to Marie Karl Josef Erdmann Jakob Edwin Lazarus Andreas Alois, Count Henckel of Donnersmarck, who was born on November 7, 1928.
Edwin Laurentine Drake ( March 29, 1819 November 9, 1880 ), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States.
Edwin Harold " Teddy " Flack ( 5 November 1873 10 January 1935 ) was an Australian athlete and tennis player.
Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC ( 24 January 1908 26 November 1987 ) was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s.
* Special guest Edwin Newman ( November 3, 1984 )
The Whalers franchise was born in November 1971 when the World Hockey Association awarded a franchise to New England businessmen Howard Baldwin, John Coburn, W. Godfrey Wood and William Edwin Barnes, to begin play in Boston.
The song was officially adopted as the national anthem of Ceylon on November 22, 1951, by a committee headed by Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne.
George McAfee " Mac " McCune ( June 16, 1908 November 5, 1948 ) was co-developer, with Edwin O. Reischauer, of the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean.
Albert Edwin Condon ( November 16, 1905 August 4, 1973 ), better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader.
On November 3, 1911 Chevrolet cofounded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with Durant ( by now ousted from General Motors ) and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ).
Edwin Thanhouser ( November 11, 1865 March 21, 1956 ) was an actor, businessman, and film producer, most notable as a founder of the Thanhouser Company, along with his wife Gertrude Thanhouser and brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan.
* November 3-In a rematch of their 1983 bout, José Luis Ramírez avenges his defeat against Edwin Rosario, knocking him out in four rounds to win the WBC world Lightweight title in San Juan.
Edwin Thomas Booth ( November 13, 1833 June 7, 1893 ) was a famous 19th century American actor who toured throughout America and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays.
Meredith Vieira was born in East Providence, Rhode Island, to Mary Louisa Elsie Rosa Silveira Vieira ( née Costa ) ( October 28, 1904 November 5, 2004 ) and Dr. Edwin Vieira ( May 15, 1904 February 1987 ), both first-generation Portuguese Americans.

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