Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.

IBM approached Digital Research in 1980, at Bill Gates ' suggestion, to negotiate the purchase of a forthcoming version of CP / M called CP / M-86 for the IBM PC.

French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key " one of his masterpieces.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was called " evasive and nonresponsive " by a source present at a session in which Gates was questioned on his deposition.

The collection of works attributed to Bodhidharma is called " The Six Gates of Shaoshi Collection " ( 少室六門集 Shǎoshì liùmén jí ) Tripitaka Vol.

Another separate continent to the east of Middle-earth was the relatively small Land of the Sun, so called because when the world was flat the Gates of the Sun were near there, and it would be scorched.

In its sequel, Drakan: The Ancients ' Gates, there is a similar weapon called the " Mournbringer.

North and east of Cilicia lie the rugged Taurus Mountains that separate it from the high central plateau of Anatolia, which are pierced by a narrow gorge, called in Antiquity the Cilician Gates.

She directed a short film in New York, I Love You, a romantic-drama anthology of love stories set in New York and a 12-minute movie on AIDS awareness ( funded by The Gates Foundation ) called Migration.

Roads in this lakeside area have decorative posts on the corner of streets intersecting Lake Shore Drive and are called " Gates ", such as " Gate 7 ".

In September, 1872, Asenath M. Rogers, Roberts ’ wife, surveyed and platted eleven acres and called it Gates.

Hudson B. Blackman then platted a tract of land adjoining Gates, and called it Reese, in honor of the railroad superintendent.

With the railroad station at the east end of town being called Reese, the post office of Gates at the west end eventually merged in, and the entire village and surrounding area became known as Reese.

The town of Gates in Monroe County, New York was once also called Northampton.

In 1808 the town was subdivided and the part still called Northampton was renamed the Town of Gates and incorporated on April 1, 1813 in honor of General Horatio Gates.

The village has also been called " Victory Mills ," likely owing its name to the large ( now defunct ) factory / mill ( Saratoga Victory Manufacturing Company, 1846 ) centrally located on the primary road through town, Gates Avenue.

The city has been called an " architectural museum ," because the downtown features numerous well-preserved historic structures, such as the 1741 Golden Plough Tavern, the 1751 General Horatio Gates House, the 1766 York Meetinghouse, the 1863 Billmeyer House, the 1888 York Central Market, and the 1907 Moorish Revival Temple Beth Israel.

A new Computing and Information Science building called Gates Hall is now under construction on the Cornell campus.

A smaller station called Wilnecote railway station which is just on the Cross Country Route serves the suburbs of Wilnecote and Two Gates.

They inspire Maedhros to build an alliance of free peoples called the Union of Maedhros that he intends will take the war to the Gates of Angband.

This was done via his " special friends " ( as he called them ), Sir John Gates and Lord Thomas Darcy.

In recent years, business leaders such as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates have called for more emphasis on science education, saying the United States risks losing its economic edge.

The Beautiful Gates are sometimes called the Royal Doors, but that name more properly belongs to the central doors connecting the narthex, or porch, to the nave.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

* Giving Pledge, pledge by Gates, Buffett and others to donate to charity at least half of their wealth

The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, " The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ", could not survive translation to the theatre.

The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

The concluding episodes of the fourth season, " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End ", reveal that Davros was thought to have died during the first year of the Time War, when his command ship " flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child " at the Gates of Elysium, despite the Doctor's failed efforts to save him.

The Vilna Gaon wrote an extensive commentary on the Sefer Yetzira, Kol HaTor, in which it is said that he had tried to create a Golem to fight the power of evil at the Gates of Jerusalem.

" A Career Spent in Gates ' Shadow — Computer Pioneer Dies at 52 ", Seattle Times, July 14, 1994.

Other common theories as to the initials ' origins include " Graphics and Windows ", " Gates, William " ( Microsoft's president at the time ), or " Gates-Whitten " ( the two main designers of the program ).

In 1908's The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, in Chapter 7, " The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ", Ratty and Mole meet a mystical horned being, powerful, fearsome and kind.

Knowledge Systems Laboratory ( KSL ) is an artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, located at the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.

Life at the campus feels like a feudalistic society, with Bill Gates as the lord, and the employees the serfs.

Gates came in many forms, from the simple stone buttress and timber blocks described by Avery in his work "' Stoning and Fire ' at hill fort entrances of southern Britain ” ( Avery, Michael, World Archeology, Vol.

* Bill Gates deposition video at Microsoft on August 27, 1998 ( Windows Media, Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis formats )

A partial pre-alpha version of the client was demonstrated once at Comdex where a bemused Bill Gates stopped by the booth.

The Rolling Stones responded to Sgt Pepper later in the year with Their Satanic Majesties Request, and Pink Floyd produced what is usually seen as their best psychedelic work The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

One of Europe's largest hydroelectric stations is located at the Iron Gates, where the Danube surges through the Carpathian gorges.

Gates McFadden was reluctant to accept the role of Dr. Crusher because of her commitment to appear in the play The Matchmaker at the La Jolla Playhouse.

In the first military campaign c. March – May 101, Trajan launched a victorious attack into the Dacian Kingdom crossing to the northern bank of the Danube River and defeating the Dacian army at Tapae ( see Second Battle of Tapae ) near the Iron Gates of Transylvania.

In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.

A rifle of the famous sniper Vasily Zaytsev ( popularized in Western media in the film Enemy at the Gates ) is also on display.