From 1890 to 1952, Kenton was home to the Kenton Hardware Company, manufacturers of locks, cast-iron toys, and the very popular Gene Autry toy cap guns.

This upsets the local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett ( Gene Hackman ), a former gunfighter and now an obsessive keeper of the peace who does not allow guns or criminals in his town.

Gene lets his business instincts shine through when he notices that the tribe is using obsolete and unreliable guns, managing to convince the tribe to spare their lives in exchange for better weapons.

Gene guns are so far mostly applied for plant cells.

Disliking guns, and considering himself a businessman, he leaves the more violent aspects of the business to his contact Gene ( Colm Meaney ).

* Outlaw Star: The characters Gene Starwind and Ronald MacDougall both use magical guns known as " Casters ".

Many cap guns were named after or endorsed by leading matinee idols like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, Dale Evans, Marshal Matt Dillon, or any of countless others.

ASU faculty have included former CNN host Aaron Brown, meta-analysis developer Gene V. Glass, feminist and author Gloria Feldt, and Pulitzer Prize winner and The Ants author Bert Hölldobler.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

With his quick wits and the assistance of drunken gunslinger Jim ( Gene Wilder ), also known as " The Waco Kid " (" I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille "), Bart works to overcome the townsfolk's hostile reception.

Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.

Gene knockout studies in mice have confirmed this, though other animals are likely to regulate the expression of these genes in distinct ways.

Author Gene Smith wrote that Booth's acting may not have been as precise as his brother Edwin's, but his strikingly handsome appearance enthralled women.

Lynch claimed to have conceived his theory totally independently of any contact with academics in the cultural evolutionary sphere, and apparently was not even aware of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene until his book was very close to publication.

The Morlocks have recently joined the terrorist organization Gene Nation.

Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared in American popular music, such as Robbie Robertson ( The Band ), Rita Coolidge, Wayne Newton, Gene Clark, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Blackfoot, Tori Amos, Redbone, and CocoRosie.

The most prolific have included Don Pardo, Johnny Olson, John Harlan, Jay Stewart, Gene Wood and Johnny Gilbert.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

In an interview with Gene Roddenberry in a 1991 edition of ' The Humanist ' magazine, he implied that it might also have had its roots in his belief that Christian Missionaries were interfering with other cultures.

* The Name of the Game: A 1971 episode of the series is entitled L. A. 2017. Notable as the first feature-length piece directed by Steven Spielberg, the episode features Gene Barry as a magazine publisher transported to a dystopian Los Angeles in 2017, where the residents have been driven underground by pollution.

The earliest reference to Vulcan names following a set pattern dates back to a May 3, 1966 memo from TOS producer Robert H. Justman to Gene Roddenberry ( later reprinted in the book The Making of Star Trek ) in which Justman recommended that all Vulcan names begin with " SP " and end with " K ", and have exactly five letters.

" Many notable rock bassists have been influenced by John Paul Jones, including John Deacon, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris, Flea, Gene Simmons, and Krist Novoselic.

Writing in the 1960s, the historian Gene Weltfish drew from earlier work of Wissler and Spinden to suggest that the sacrificial practice might have been transferred in the early 16th century from the Aztec of present-day Mexico.

Taylor, Gene Eugene ( of Adam Again ), Derri Daugherty ( of The Choir ), and Michael Roe ( of The 77s ) have released several eclectic albums of traditional American music ( country, folk, blues, rock ) over the last decade.

McGuinn, Clark and Hillman's second release was to have been a full group effort entitled " City ", but a combination of Clark's unreliability and his dissatisfaction with their musical direction ( mostly regarding Ron and Howard Albert's production ) resulted in the billing change on their next LP " City " to " Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, featuring Gene Clark ".

Blue Gene systems have led for several years the Top500 and Green500 rankings of the most powerful and most power efficient supercomputers, respectively.

Blue Gene systems have also consistently scored top positions in the Graph500 list.

Aside from the obvious — Keith Moon, John Bonham, Ian Paice — I would have to say Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, any of the jazz greats — Gene Krupa, those people.

Since the early 1920s, 150 movies and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here, including Tom Mix films, Hopalong Cassidy films, The Gene Autry Show, and The Lone Ranger.

* Gene therapy vectors ( such as viruses ) can be PEG-coated to shield them from inactivation by the immune system and to de-target them from organs where they may build up and have a toxic effect.

Gene McKay, a news anchor and radio personality for WIS, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, came up with the idea to have a festival based on Okra.

Such golfers have included Fred McLeod, Jock Hutchinson, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved.

Credit for organizing the backbone about 1983 is commonly attributed to Gene " Spaf " Spafford, although it is also claimed by Mark Horton.

In, veterans Boudreau, Keltner, and Joe Gordon had career offensive seasons, while newcomers Doby and Gene Bearden also had standout seasons.

* Gene therapy also plays a major role in the plot of the James Bond movie Die Another Day, where a scientist has developed a means of altering peoples ' entire appearances through the use of DNA samples acquired from others-generally homeless people that would not be missed-that are subsequently injected into the bone marrow, the resulting transformation apparently depriving the subjects of the ability to sleep.

:* Gene coupling with other loci ( also see crossing over )

During the filming of The Left Hand of God ( 1955 ), he noticed his co-star Gene Tierney having a hard time remembering her lines and also behaving oddly.

It was a spin-off of the British reality show Gene Simmons ' Rock School, which also aired on VH1.

Weaver also announced that General Manager Gene Smith had been given a three year extension of his contract.

The celebration of Americana starred Frankenheimer regular Lancaster, reuniting him with From Here to Eternity co-star Deborah Kerr, and it also featured Gene Hackman.

A demon, or hellhound, in the form of Jim Keats, also existed in this Limbo world, attempting to lead the dead police officers away from Gene Hunt and ultimately to Hell.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

Star Trek: The Animated Series ( originally known as simply Star Trek, but also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek ) is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s.

Burton also commented that he was anxious about his role, because he feared that ST: TNG was going to flop: " At the beginning, you know, there was a lot of conversation in the press at what a bad idea this was I thought that since Gene was involved we had a real good shot of making a good show that would carry on in that tradition of Star Trek.

The Raiders also had an outstanding offensive line led by 2 future Hall of Famers, tackle Art Shell and guard Gene Upshaw.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

* June 26 – Gene Stack, first American major league baseball player to be drafted during WWII and also the first to die in service ( b. 1920 )

* M * A * S * H ( 1972 – 1983 ) ( TV ) ( also Co-Creator, with Gene Reynolds )

* Gene expression programming ( GEP ) also uses populations of computer programs.

Hoffman finally had a chance to work with Gene Hackman in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury ( also 2003 ), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

The newsgroup also follows various internet " mad scientists " and " crackpots " such as Archimedes Plutonium, Kurt Stocklmeir, and Time Cube inventor Gene Ray with a mixture of mockery and appreciation for the unintended humor they produce.

Ford also co-starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy-Western The Frisco Kid ( 1979 ), playing a bank robber with a heart of gold.

*" The Gathering of the Texas Herd "-early development of Texas Longhorn breed by Graves Peeler, Sid Richardson, Gene Autry, J. Frank Dobie, there are also many important and relative historical library references.