In 1850 James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory, noted that he had " lost " a star he had observed, GR1719k, which Lt. Matthew Maury, the superintendent of the Observatory, claimed was evidence that it must be a new planet.

Historically, the tallest individual is claimed to be the Ferguson Tree, at, found in the Watts River region of Victoria in 1871 or 1872.

Kunstler and Kuby argued they would have no problem finding 12 unbiased jurors, and claimed Ferguson had already been publicly attacked in the press by government and police officials.

In November 1994, Ferguson's lawyers claimed prison guards taunted him with claims that the election of Governor George Pataki, a death penalty supporter, meant Ferguson would be executed if found guilty.

Ferguson's lawyers claimed prison guards showed him the headlines of newspaper stories about Pataki and claimed Ferguson was " headed for electrocution sometime soon ".

Ferguson claimed a police officer who escorted him from the Nassau County Jail said to him, " You realize someone else, in fact, was actually responsible for the shooting.

Ferguson claimed in the letters that he was not insane, and rejected Kunstler's and Kuby's " black rage " defense.

In his 1999 autobiography Managing My Life, Alex Ferguson claimed that Cantona had informed him of his decision to retire from playing within 24 hours of United's European exit, though the decision was not made public for almost a month afterwards.

In his 1999 autobiography, Ferguson claimed that Gascoigne was wooed into signing for Tottenham after they bought a house for his impoverished family.

After this, speculation began that Van Gaal would succeed Alex Ferguson at Manchester United once Ferguson claimed he would retire that year.

It was also claimed that United manager Alex Ferguson would be prepared to invest his own money in the Red Knights ' bid, but Ferguson dismissed these reports as " absolute rubbish ".

Manager Sir Alex Ferguson claimed, " He came in yesterday, says he was fit, wanted to train, trained, and wanted to play.

On 6 August, Alex Ferguson claimed Carrick would be out for two weeks with an ankle injury and would miss England's friendly against Hungary the following Wednesday.

The silent film stars Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Mabel Van Buren, Ethel Wales and May Giraci.

According to a 2001 interview with The Telegraph, Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson said that his son Darren, who was at tryouts for Eredivisie rival Heerenveen at the time, begged his father, " You've got to sign Van Nistelrooy right away, he's fantastic.

" Ferguson sent team representatives to PSV's next league game and signed Van Nistelrooy the next day.

Van Nistelrooy was benched for the League Cup Final against Wigan Athletic, fuelling speculation of a rift between him and coach Alex Ferguson, which Van Nistelrooy denied.

On 15 July 2006, Ferguson confirmed that Van Nistelrooy wanted to leave Manchester United and Real Madrid announced two weeks later that he had signed a three-year contract after being purchased for € 24 million.

The following 2001-02 season saw Cole face competition from new signing Ruud van Nistelrooy as well as Dwight Yorke, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and also Paul Scholes for places up front, with Ferguson adopting a more conservative approach especially in European games by playing Scholes behind Van Nistelrooy with Roy Keane and Juan Sebastian Veron in a 3 man midfield.

According to Van Gaal Ferguson decided against retiring and the deal fell through.

On 23 December 2010, British press reported that Sir Alex Ferguson had confirmed Van der Sar would retire at the end of the 2010 – 11 Premier League season.

In the build up to the 2006 – 07 season, Ferguson was quoted saying that he planned to replace the departing Van Nistelrooy ( signed by Real Madrid ) by returning Smith to his natural position of centre-forward: " We are going to convert Alan Smith back into being a forward.

Van Dough, with the help of Ferguson, plots to blow up the plane ( a Douglas DC-3 christened the Billion Dollar One ) carrying the Rich family to England by disguising a bomb among the presents that they were to give to Queen Elizabeth II.

Hiding in his lab, located in the basement of Rich Manor, Keenbean listens in on Van Dough and Ferguson playing pool.

Held at gunpoint, Van Dough forces the Rich family elders to the Rich vault, while Ferguson and his men take Richie and his friends to the molecular reorganizer.

Cadbury finally manages to disarm Ferguson and manages to keep the Rich family safe, while Van Dough hangs upside down for dear life, after Cadbury fires at him.

Later, Richie plays baseball with his new friends for the United Tool team on Rich Manor's yard ( with Cadbury as team coach and Keenbean as umpire ) and hits a home run that's picked up by Van Dough, who's doing gardening with Ferguson as work release.

Owners of the team over the years have included Public Utilities Commission director Bill Farquharson, Clare Van Horne, ex-Major League Baseball player Frank Colman ( 1955 – 1959 ), jeweller Ted Dilts, sportswriter / author Bob Ferguson ( 1963 – 64 ), Ted Earley, George Hall, Arden Eddie ( 1976-February, 2004 ) and the current co-owners of Scott Dart and Roop Chanderdat.

His resources are infinite, he is a step ahead of most coaches out there, including Ferguson and Van Gaal.

`` Also, that Mr. Ferguson was here.

At that moment, Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was about.

Ferguson, working at the Fort Qu ' Appelle Sanatorium in Saskatchewan, was among the pioneers in developing the practice of vaccination against tuberculosis.

Reliever Tim Stoddard ( 10 – 6 3. 82, 7 saves ) was acquired the same day for a minor leaguer ; veteran pitcher Ferguson Jenkins was released.

Another notable honorable mention was given to the two men who attempted to burgle the home of footballer Duncan Ferguson ( who had four convictions for assault and had served six months in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison ) in 2001, with one burglar requiring three days ' hospitalization after being confronted by the player.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

He and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed what he called a ' science of man ', which was expressed historically in works by authors including James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behave in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awareness of the determining forces of modernity.

Sir George Ferguson Bowen was governor from 1879 to 1883.

Ferguson was subsequently knighted for his services to football.

Homer Lenoir Ferguson was a manager when Hopkins died, and assumed the presidency the following July.

As a result of this method, care must be taken in the interpretation of Ferguson's three factors, as factor analysis will output an abstract ' factor ' whether an objectively real factor exists or not .< reF > SAS ( R ) 3. 11 Users Guide, Multivariate Analysis: Factor Analysis Although replication of the Nationalism factor was inconsistent, the finding of Religionism and Humanitarianism had a number of replications by Ferguson and others.

Indeed, Stevens's definition of measurement was put forward in response to the British Ferguson Committee, whose chair, A. Ferguson, was a physicist.

On one occasion when Askin was supposed to drive a new Holden from the factory assembly line during a visit, Askin arranged for his driver, Russ Ferguson, to be hidden on the car floor working the controls while Askin held the wheel.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Rookie of the Year, Billy Martin was named Manager of the Year, Jeff Burroughs won American League MVP, and Ferguson Jenkins was named the Comeback Player of the Year after winning 25 games, a club record to this day.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

However, probably the most important work on polynomial curves and sculptured surface was done by Pierre Bézier ( Renault ), Paul de Casteljau ( Citroen ), Steven Anson Coons ( MIT, Ford ), James Ferguson ( Boeing ), Carl de Boor ( GM ), Birkhoff ( GM ) and Garibedian ( GM ) in the 1960s and W. Gordon ( GM ) and R. Riesenfeld in the 1970s.

Financial historian Niall Ferguson writes that what made the Great Depression truly ' great ' was the European banking crisis of 1931.

" For his talent there were no conservatories to get stuffy in, no high-trumpet didoes to be learned doggedly, note-perfect as written ," Ferguson wrote, " because in his chosen form the only writing of any account was traced in the close shouting air of Royal Gardens, Grand Pavilions, honkeytonks, etc.