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.

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.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Of course, those found in Viz are absurd, such as a breakfast plate depicting Princess Diana's face in the middle of a fried egg, " No. 22 Shit Street " ( which was a diorama of a dilapidated council house complete with rabid dog, youthful vandals and a " gently rusting " washing machine in the front yard ), and " Little Ted West ", a teddy bear dressed to look like serial killer Fred West.

The actual quote Fred recites is ' When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high Romance ....'.

Locally the movement's activists were led by Fred Shuttlesworth, a fiery preacher who became legendary for his fearlessness in the face of violence, notably a string of racially motivated bombings that earned Birmingham the derisive nickname " Bombingham ".

The greatest horseshoe pitching legend emanating from the clay courts of Dimondale tells how Fred Smith Jr. would have his brother Norman place his chin atop an opposing stake while Fred would proceed to pitch ringers that would clang just inches below Norman's smiling face.

One night, after the two have sex, Fred sees Renée's face as that of a pale old man.

There, Fred meets a Mystery Man ( Robert Blake ), wearing all black clothing who looks like the face Fred had seen on Renée some nights before, and he tells Fred that he is at his house right now.

The face of Raggedy Ann is a color-reversed minstrel mask, and Raggedy Ann's creator, Johnny Gruelle, designed the doll in part with the antics of blackface star Fred Stone in mind.

The two frequently trade insults, usually instigated by Fred ( he often contorts his face upon Esther's entrance and uses disparaging and colorful metaphors to describe her ), whereas Esther generally retorts " WATCH it, sucka ", attacks Fred with her purse, and refers to Fred as " you old heathen ".

Walking by the ocean, Mary recalls the occasion of her suicide attempt -- she had returned from having a face lift to learn that Fred was in Reno with a girl.

Team member Fred Spoor described the face as " incredibly flat ", with a straight line from the eye socket to the incisor tooth.

As Fred examines it, a hole opens in the cover and a breath of wind blows into her face.

Fred Gee had gone from being an unlikeable loser to an outright buffoon, getting the sack from The Rovers from owner Billy Walker after punching him in the face, unable to see that Walker had goaded him into it so he could fire him without having to pay him any redundancy.

Fred Greaves VC ( 16 May 1890 – 11 June 1973 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Frederick William Owen Potts VC ( 18 December 1892 – 3 November 1943 ), more commonly known as Fred Potts, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He works for Dunstable helping to compile the Dunstable family history, but is poorly treated by the Duke, who suspects him of going on " toots ", and hits him in the face with a well-thrown egg when he hears him singing on the lawn outside his rooms, and also has him help steal Emsworth's prize pig Empress of Blandings, a task which sorely tries Baxter's nerve ; he is later slipped a Mickey Finn by Uncle Fred.

It only took another four years for Mountain Ash to claim their first full international to represent Wales while still playing for the club, when Fred Miller was chosen to face Ireland in the 1896 Home Nations Championship.

He usually leaps onto his master just as work-weary Fred arrives home — invariably knocking him down, yapping happily, energetically licking his face while his master would prefer to, if not is downright anxious to, eat dinner with his family and proceed with the evening's activities, if any.

Fred Wang was a business school graduate, " but by almost any definition ," wrote Charles C. Kenney, " unsuited for the job in which his father had placed him.

Modern analysis by Professor Fred E. C. Culick and Henry R. Rex ( 1985 ) has demonstrated that the 1903 Wright Flyer was so unstable as to be almost unmanageable by anyone but the Wrights, who had trained themselves in the 1902 glider.

After being in love with her for almost two seasons, Wesley finally gets together with Fred in the subsequent episode " Smile Time ", only to watch her die in the next episode when she is taken over by the ancient demon Illyria.

Upon seeing the death of Fred, she becomes devastated, and is pushed to the edge when Bellatrix Lestrange almost strikes Ginny with the Killing Curse.

And, although he almost constantly shouts and irritates the people around him, Fred proves to be a friendly person ; often going out of his way to help someone.

The Cotton Club was the first privately financed major motion picture, paid for almost entirely by brothers Fred and Ed Doumani of Las Vegas.

Fred, whose younger life is often visited in flashbacks, appears to have once been almost exactly like Davan in terms of sarcastic depth, although he has long since burned out into general sullenness.

Following the arrest, Fred, deemed a " menace to His Majesty's fighting forces " ( almost certainly because of the topless sailor who had been travelling with him at the time of the accident ), was banned from attending the Royal Tournament, an annual military tattoo ; he returned each year and each year successfully evaded discovery.

In the last season of the 1970s television series Sanford and Son, Fred Sanford made a reference to menudo in almost every episode.

With partner Alan Goodman their company, Fred / Alan Inc. in New York, devised a catalog and strategy that immediately increased sales almost tenfold and put the company on a solid footing for the first time.

On June 4, 2006, the State Chairman Frank MacKay started dis-enrollment hearings against Fred Newman, Lenora Fulani, and almost 140 of their followers, in order to seize control of the New York City county organizations.

White spent much of the season playing with the hulking Hal Gill, giving rise to the nickname of " Barney and Fred " due to the almost full foot in height Gill has on White, as well as the massive weight difference.

Businesses in Bedrock include bowling alleys, pool halls ( including Boulder Dan's, which Fred and Barney almost bought ), health clubs, hotels, supermarkets ( including Safestone's ), one catering service — Cobblestone Caterers ( as the owner proclaimed, " we're the only caterer in town!

Some in the NAACP thought Marshall was being too enthusiastic, fearing that the Southern judge, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, who would almost certainly oppose overruling Plessy, could destroy their case.

After almost two decades, during which she worked sporadically only in television, Masina appeared in Fellini's Ginger and Fred ( 1986 ).

Massie's role in the 1882 Ashes Test at The Oval was almost as pivotal in deciding the result as Fred Spofforth's celebrated performance with the ball.

Unfortunately, Chisholm was not up to the politics of the Chief's office, especially in facing off with Fred " Big Daddy " Gardiner, who engineered almost single-handedly the formation of Metropolitan Toronto in the 1950s.

Months later, the cavern they were buried in was unearthed by Vipers, and they learned that almost all of the victims, including Fred, had died as a result of botulism.

The Manitoba Labour Party ran a single candidate: Fred Dixon, who was almost elected in Winnipeg Centre with unofficial support from the Liberal Party.

The form book was almost thrown out the window at Fred Taylor Park also as Team Wellington came within seconds of defeating Waitakere United in the other semi-final.