Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it " contain institutionalized mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and liberties of the citizenry, including those that may be in the minority.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

A current definition for self awareness, proposed in the 1970s by Gordon Gallup, is known as the mirror test.

The history of this newspaper rivalry and the raid appearance of comic strips in most major American newspapers is discussed by Ian Gordon.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.

Although the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has its tomb just a few yards away from its Golgotha, there is no particular reason to regard this close juxtaposition as a necessity ; however, Gordon followed this principle, concluding that his site for Golgotha must also be the approximate location for Jesus ' burial, identifying a nearby tomb, now called the Garden Tomb, as the location for the event.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo ( b. 1983 ).

Gordon Banks, OBE ( born 30 December 1937 ) is a retired English football goalkeeper.

Lineker is now honorary vice-president of Leicester City, along with former players Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton.

The current Governor is Professor Marie Bashir, who has served since 1 March 2001 ; Labor Premier Bob Carr recommended her to replace former Justice Gordon Samuels.

However, according to Gordon Wakefield, " To translate ' hesychasm ' as ' quietism ', while perhaps etymologically defensible, is historically and theologically misleading.

The International Standard Book Number ( ISBN ) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering ( SBN ) code created by Gordon Foster, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W. H. Smith and others in 1965.

Asturias ( Leyenda ) in particular is heard most often on the guitar, as are Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Cataluña, Cordoba and the Tango in D. Gordon Crosskey and Cuban-born guitarist Manuel Barrueco have both made solo guitar arrangements of six of the eight-movement Suite espanola.

* 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean ( she is a passenger ; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic ).

The historian Gordon S. Wood says that Lance Banning, as in his Sacred Fire of Liberty ( 1995 ), is the " only present-day scholar to maintain that Madison did not change his views in the 1790s.

The novel " Dragon under the Hill " by former newsreader Gordon Honeycombe is set on Holy Island

* The almost closing relationship of Bruce Wayne and Commissioner James Gordon.

Keith Gordon Irwin, in The Romance of Writing, p. 125, says " The Italian libbra ( from the old Latin word libra, ' balance ') represented a weight almost exactly equal to the avoirdupois pound of England.

The new prison was almost finished when it was stormed by a mob during the Gordon riots in June 1780.

The ashes, along with those of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper as well as almost two hundred others, were launched on the SpaceLoft XL rocket, on April 28, 2007, when the rocket briefly entered outer space in a four-minute suborbital flight before parachuting to earth, as planned, with the ashes still inside.

On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy, who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington, west London, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house ; the bomb exploded killing a noted cancer researcher, Gordon Hamilton-Fairley.

Gordon Campbell became the seventh premier in ten years, and the first Liberal premier in almost 50 years.

During the " talk " era the station, between 1993 and 1996, tried to launch a hot talk format on the station, acquiring J. R. Gach from WGR as the afternoon drive show and established syndicated hot talkers The Howard Stern Show ( by this time now almost exclusively on the FM dial ), G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Schlessinger, The Fabulous Sports Babe, Tom Leykis and ( briefly, before Gach's arrival ) Don and Mike.

Besieged by the Mahdi's forces, Gordon organized a city-wide defence lasting almost a year that gained him the admiration of the British public, though not the government, which had not wished to become involved ( as Gordon had known before setting out ).

The first of several key Turtles singles co-written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, " Happy Together ", seemed almost a parody of itself, and had already been rejected by countless performers.

Strachey based Gordon ’ s story on his diaries and letters to give an account of a strong individual almost at odds with the world.

The Gildersleeve character, played by Harold Peary, became series broadcasting's first successful spin-off hit ; that plus the onset of World War II ( which cost Fibber McGee & Molly their Mayor LaTrivia, when Gale Gordon went into the Coast Guard in early 1942, and " The Old Timer " Bill Thompson was drafted almost a year later ) nabbed nearly every other remaining male voice.

( See also: Flutie effect ) Nine years later almost to the day ( November 20, 1993 ), the Eagles went into South Bend and defeated top-ranked Notre Dame 41 – 39 on a 41-yard field goal by David Gordon as time expired.

The solo was built to weave in and out of the arrangement and continued to be played by every saxophone player who followed Jacquet in the band, notably Arnett Cobb and Dexter Gordon, who achieved almost as much fame as Jacquet in playing it.

Lee had to avoid being outnumbered almost 4 to 1 by these arriving forces and he asked Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon for advice.

His real name, Gordon Sims, is almost never used and he maintains an aura of mystery.

The film depicted West and Gordon as competitive rivals almost to the point of a mutual dislike and distrust of one another.

Gordon disliked Russian service, complaining of the corruption and venality of Russian officials, which left Gordon in his own words " almost at wits end with vexation ".

By the 1970s the artwork on Gottlieb games was almost always by Gordon Morison, and the company had begun designing their games with longer 3-inch flippers, now the industry standard.

During his career, pro wrestling commentator Gordon Solie used the soo-play pronunciation ( as has the AWA's Rod Trongard and Terry Taylor ), but almost all other pro wrestling talent pronounces it sue-plex ; this suggests the two names define the same kind of move.

It is almost certain that Gordon tried to sell the Priory in 1895.

In 1976-77 almost all Reprise acts, including Fleetwood Mac, Gordon Lightfoot, Ry Cooder and Michael Franks were transferred to Warner Bros, leaving only Neil Young ( who refused to move ) and founder Frank Sinatra.

Critics say the film covered almost the same ground as the far superior monster movie Them !, and it is clear that Gordon merely wanted to " cash in " on giant bug craze rather than come up with a story that was fresh and creative.

" Producer-director Bert I. Gordon said he did not care whether reviews were bad ; what mattered was whether people went to see the film: " The movie audience these days consists almost entirely of teenagers.