György Schöpflin ( also known as George Schöpflin ) ( born on 24 November 1939 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian academic and politician.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

* 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, George Benson, among others, and joined The Rolling Stones as a guest on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing " Who Do You Love?

However, quite a few cartoonists ( e. g.: George Herriman and Charles Schulz, among others ) have done their strips almost completely by themselves ; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

Newspaper syndicates have also distributed single-panel gag cartoons by Mel Calman, Bill Holman, Gary Larson, George Lichty, Fred Neher and others.

Foreign policy themes were expressed considerably in George Washington's farewell address ; these included among other things, observing good faith and justice towards all nations and cultivating peace and harmony with all, excluding both " inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others ", " steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ", and advocating trade with all nations.

van Vogt, Jerry Pournelle, Robert Bloch, George Clayton Johnson, and others, as well as many visiting writers and speakers.

Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist.

) Assistant Church Historian, Andrew Jenson, also reported that the alphabet was produced by a committee composed of Orson Pratt, Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, George D. Watt, Robert L. Campbell, and others.

* 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1, 000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.

I Vitelloni inspired European directors Juan Antonio Bardem, Marco Ferreri, and Lina Wertmuller and had an influence on Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1973 ), George Lucas's American Graffiti ( 1974 ), Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire ( 1985 ), and Barry Levinson's Diner ( 1987 ), among many others.

On June 17, 2006, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted George Lucas and three others.

Some, like Michael Ayrton, called him " Gloomy George ," but others developed the idea that he was a " secular saint.

The few Spaniards who remained in Gibraltar in August 1704 were augmented by others who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, possibly some two hundred in all, mostly Catalans.

George Rapp's daughter and others lived for a time at the Shaker settlement in West Union, Indiana, where the Shakers helped a number of Harmonites learn the English language.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first father and son to each serve as president ( the others being George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush ).

Chord-melody is often played with a plectrum ( see Tal Farlow, George Benson and others ); whereas fingerstyle, as practised by Joe Pass, George van Eps, Ted Greene, Lenny Breau or hybrid picking as practised by Ed Bickert and others allows for a more complex, polyphonic approach to unaccompanied soloing.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

In Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life, not just in language, but also in thought and action.

Alexander Vasiliev and George Vernadsky, among others, argue that Sarkel was built to defend a vital portage between the Don and the Volga from the Rus ' Khaganate.

" However, he is also notorious for having electrocuted a number of dogs in 1888, both by direct and alternating current, in an attempt to argue that the former ( which he had a vested business interest in promoting ) was safer than the latter ( favored by his rival George Westinghouse ).

Author Bill Cherry proposed George Roy Clough as the first to invite listeners to argue politics on a call-in radio show at KLUF, his station in Galveston, Texas, as a way to bring his own political views into listeners ' homes.

Others stress his continued high administrative ability, and argue that many of the major reforms popularly associated with Lloyd George as " the man who won the war " as actually having been implemented by Asquith.

Both siblings were gifted debaters on the issues of religious philosophy and it was George whom Henry chose in 1531 to argue the case for royal supremacy over the Church, before the Church's advisory body, Convocation.

Jefferson continued to argue for cessation of the tribute, with rising support from George Washington and others.

MacDonald repeatedly emphasizes that he does not argue that all Jews in all circumstances display the traits he identifies ; for example, his Understanding Jewish Influence argues that neoconservatism is a Jewish intellectual movement, while in the 2000 US Presidential Election about 80 % of the Jewish vote went to Vice President Al Gore, who was campaigning against George W. Bush whose campaign was heavily staffed with and influenced by neoconservatives.

The optimists ( such as the early modern philosophers George Berkeley and David Hume ) typically argue that philosophy has not made much progress because philosophers have historically used methods that are unsystematic, obscure, confused, or otherwise unsuccessful ; but, citing the example of the revolutionary achievements in the natural sciences during the scientific revolution, they argue that philosophers could enjoy the same sort of progress, rather than endlessly recapitulating the same obscure debates, if only philosophers can find an appropriate paradigm and a clear method for their work.

George Dei, Karumanchery, et alia, in their book Playing the Race Card argue that the term itself is a rhetorical device used in an effort to devalue and minimize claims of racism.

The extensive scientific studies of George Bonanno argue that the Kübler-Ross stages of grief do not exist.

President George W. Bush often referred to the Act and its findings to argue that the Clinton Administration supported regime change in Iraq and further that it believed that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction.

Ruth Lowbury, executive director of the Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health in London ( UK ) and George R. Kinghorn, clinical director for communicable diseases at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield ( UK ), argue that for the above and related reasons ( such as the potential risks of prosecution of HIV / AIDS affected people ) may dissuade them from warning present or ex-partners about, " criminal prosecutions for HIV transmission threaten public health ".

George, Molly's husband, gives him a golden opportunity, but he and Clive argue furiously about the moral responsibility of the act.

Wachs went to Sacramento in January 1984 to unsuccessfully argue with state prison authorities that Dan White, the San Francisco supervisor who had killed gay leader Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, should be moved out of Los Angeles County, where he had been paroled after serving five years in prison for the killings.

And although many scholars consider late Marx less of a humanist than the Marx who wrote pre-Das Kapital, as his later works are rather bereft of references to this alienation, others ( for example David McLellan, Robert C. Tucker, George Brenkert ) argue that the notion of alienation remains a part of Marx's philosophy.

The Sikh sowars of the Frontier Force cavalry, led by Captain Arthur Sandeman of The Central India Horse ( 21st King George V's Own Horse ), charged in the old style with sabres and most were killed.

* George Carlin comedian, ranked second greatest of all time by Comedy Central.

In April 2007 former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released his memoir titled At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.

The treaty was eventually signed as an initiative of US president ( and former Director of Central Intelligence ) George H. W. Bush in 1989.

They lived at 88 Central Park West in New York City and had two sons named Thomas and George.

George Tenet, then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), later described intelligence reports of his meeting with Al Qaeda as “ frustratingly vague .” He, however, told the FIA intelligence officials in very clear terms that he had nothing to do with the Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization and he was only working on humanitarian issues like food, health and education.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

This time Lenin had a majority with him on the Central Committee and the Soviet government sent George V. Chichern and Lev Karakhan to head a new delegation to the peace conference with instructions to sign this proposal.

One of the most high profile decisions in recent years by one of the Councils was a decision by the Mission Council of the South Central Jurisdiction which in March 2007 approved a 99-year lease of at Southern Methodist University for the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

* January 4 – George Tenet, former American Central Intelligence Agency director

Besides a brief appearance of the brothers in Japan around 1994, and George making a guest-appearance in the 1990s on a concert in Japan ( including a released double-CD ) of the Graham Central Station, the duo launched an expanded US tour in 2002 which got positive, wide exposure.

* First Cemetery of Athens-Cemetery in Central Athens, including the graves of many famous Greek politicians and celebrities like Melina Mercouri, Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou, George Seferis, Manos Hadjidakis.

Then President George Bush signed a presidential finding directing the Central Intelligence Agency to create conditions for Hussein's removal in May 1991.

* George Murray, who was once sent to Central America and told to " find a lost city ", which he promptly did.

Three areas, Kings Cross, the area around Central railway station, and the section of George Street between Liverpool and Market streets, were hotspots for assaults.

) and the Chief of the Central Security Service at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.

* George Fraser Kerr, VC, MC & Bar, MM ( 1895 – 1929 ), CAPT, 3rd battalion ( Toronto ) Central Ontario Regiment, CEF.

* George Washington Council, 1937 – 1999-Merged with Thomas A. Edison Council to form present day Central New Jersey Council.

* Thomas A. Edison Council, 1969 – 1999-Merged with George Washington Council to form present day Central New Jersey Council.

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