Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

Fred Espanak of NASA lists 50 phases of the moon within year 0, showing that it is a full year, not an instant in time.

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.

* He appears as both historical figure and vampire in the novel " A matter of taste " which is a book in The Dracula Sequence by Fred Saberhagen.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

Siegfried Fred Singer ( born September 27, 1924 ) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Fred is spectacularly calm in the face of almost any danger and completely lacking in prejudice when interacting with aliens.

Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).

Fred Shapiro thinks that " the common theory that ' hacker ' originally was a benign term and the malicious connotations of the word were a later perversion is untrue.

Scholars and observers who do not believe that Islam is a political ideology include Fred Halliday, John Esposito and Muslim intellectuals like Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.

Jacksonville's 62 points and 55-point margin are the second most ever in NFL playoff history, and Fred Taylor's 90-yard run in the first quarter is the longest ever in an NFL playoff game.

She is one of the few dancers or actresses who has danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev.

The Handy Board robotics controller by Fred Martin is based on the 68HC11.

* 1971 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot ' in First Nation is severely beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers ; he dies two days later.

His daughter Isabel was married to noted photographer Fred Eberstadt, and his granddaughter, Fernanda Eberstadt, is an acclaimed author.

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

* In the Get Fred variation, the game starts with a hand size that is the largest possible number of cards ( but no greater than 9 ), reducing down to 1 card.

Ralph Merkle is the grandnephew of baseball star Fred Merkle, the son of Theodore Charles Merkle, director of Project Pluto and the brother of Judith Merkle Riley, a historical writer.

Other sociologists of religion such as Fred Kniss have asserted that sectarianism is best described with regard to what a sect is in tension with.

At its " typical Hollywood opening " it was said, " bright lights will flood the sky, bands will blare, and the theatre will be officially presented to Mayor Fred Borgwordt of the town of Homewood.

Although the typical musical of the time was usually written around the talents of a specific performer, such as Ethel Merman or Fred Astaire, no stars were used in the production.

An early scene of Fred leaving work for home via the London Underground is very reminiscent of Chaplin and highly dissimilar to typical Hitchcock staging.

Some marketplace locations are early examples of Fred Meyer in its typical mall format, being the anchor store in a small Fred Meyer shopping center.

A typical Fred Meyer store is always hiring, depending on employees retiring, getting promoted, quitting, or being terminated.

Starting in 1950 with director William Berke ’ s Mark of the Gorilla, Katzman proved himself a master of all genres, with such films as Lew Landers ’ Tyrant of the Sea ( 1950 ), a rapidly paced swashbuckler ; Spencer Gordon Bennet ’ s Cody of the Pony Express ( 1950 ), an elegiac western chapter-play ; the near-documentary State Penitentiary ( Lew Landers, 1950 ); the rousing action serial Pirates of the High Seas ( Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1950 ); Chain Gang ( Lew Landers, 1950 ), a hard-boiled exposé of the prison system reminiscent of Mervyn LeRoy ’ s 1932 classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ; A Yank in Korea ( Landers, 1951 ), covering the then-escalating conflict ), Richard Quine ’ s wartime drama Purple Heart Diary ( 1951 ); Last Train from Bombay ( Fred F. Sears, 1952 ), an exotic thriller ; Sears ' The 49th Man, an essay in Cold War atomic paranoia ; two Arabian Nights films, Prisoners of the Casbah and The Saracen Blade ( William Castle, 1954 ) and Castle ’ s The Iron Glove ( 1954 ), which starred Robert Stack in a Technicolor swashbuckler, done in typical Katzman fashion.

The earliest commercials ( produced by Post's ad agency D ' Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles with cooperation from Hanna-Barbera ) featured the animated Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble ( as voiced by Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, respectively ) interacting cheerfully with live-action children, eating the cereal around a typical household breakfast table ; others showed Fred and Barney enjoying the cereal with their wives around their Bedrock breakfast table or in other locales and situations in Bedrock.

Machinery Company, Limited, his wife Anna Marie ( née Kalbfleisch of Stratford, Ontario ) and their sons Emil H., Fred W. and George H. The Kischels lived in the home for decades, attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church and often engaged in typical pastimes of the day such as croquet on the lawn of the back garden.

Fred appears in a 2007 GEICO Insurance commercial which spoofs the money-saving methods of a blue-collar working man and how he and wife, Wilma, were able to afford a necklace " with huge rocks.

In several ways, Riley was a prototype for later blue-collar sitcom protagonists such as blustery, get-rich-quick schemer Ralph Kramden and his animated stone-age counterpart Fred Flintstone ; blustery bigot Archie Bunker ; benign, bighearted Dan Conner ; and King of Queens Doug Heffernan.

Titchmarsh was born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of Bessie ( née Hardisty ), a textile mill worker, and Alan Fred Titchmarsh, Sr., a plumber.

A retired railroad postal worker and beekeeper, Fred married Flora Mooers in 1910, the year their first child was born.

Fred was the oldest retired railway postal worker ever and the oldest registered beekeeper ever, among other honors and records.

* The case of Sacco and Vanzetti in cartoons from the Daily worker by Fred Ellis Chicago: Daily Worker, 1927

The year after Fred's first wife Sybil died, Fred became romantically involved with Kathleen Gutteridge ( Elizabeth Rider ), a young worker in the Elliotts ' old shop.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.

Assistant Prosecutor Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending against Pohl.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

* Tony Shalhoub as Fred Kwan, the actor who played Tech Sgt.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.

* Bob Fosse, a noted jazz choreographer who created a new form of jazz dance that was inspired by Fred Astaire and the burlesque and vaudeville styles.

Fred Allen's December 30, 1936 radio broadcast included a humorous wrapup of the year's least important events, including a supposed interview with the man who " invented a negative craze " on April 1st: " Ramrod Dank ... the first man to coin a Knock Knock.

She had built a life with her husband Gerald Frederick " Fred " Peterson ( who was a doctor ) and three daughters from Zimbabwe to Saint Paul, Minnesota, having assumed the alias Sara Jane Olson ; the surname chosen being one of the most common names in Minnesota due to the large decent of Scandinavian-Americans.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

* Get Fred / Oy Vey scoring: A player who makes the exact number of tricks receives that number of points plus 10.

According to Fred Siegel, the group of militants began to be accepted, if not always admired, by " guilt-ridden liberals ", who saw its panache as a countercultural critique of West Germany's " boring bourgeois life " and who resented their nation's association with the American war in Vietnam.

The Nashville Sound was developed by producers Atkins, Owen Bradley — who worked closely with Patsy Cline — Sam Phillips, and Fred Foster.

This episode was originally written with the intention of being an episode of the live-action original series during the third season, but this was vetoed by Fred Freiberger who wanted serious sci-fi episodes instead, stressing that Star Trek is not a comedy.

Some of the blues artists who most prominently used the slide include gospel singer Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Robert Johnson as well as Casey Bill Weldon of the Memphis Jug Band.

In 1992, the Padres lineup featured the " Four Tops ," who as the name implies occupied the top four slots in the Padres batting order most of the time: Tony Fernández, Tony Gwynn, Gary Sheffield, and Fred McGriff.

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d ( 1956 ) starring Peter Sellers was the first attempt to translate Goons humour to TV ; it was followed by A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred, both made during 1956 and directed by Richard Lester, who went on to work with The Beatles.