The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

Though the British rewarded John Harrison for his marine chronometer in 1773, chronometers remained very expensive and the lunar distance method continued to be used for decades.

The term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.

U. S. president William Henry Harrison was treated with opium in 1841, and in the American Civil War, the Union Army used 2. 8 million ounces of opium tincture and powder and about 500, 000 opium pills.

Harrison used this guitar on the song " If I Needed Someone " and during The Beatles ' 1966 tours.

" " Wilbury " was a slang term first used by Harrison during the recording of Cloud Nine with Jeff Lynne.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

In particular, at the Newcastle City Hall he used the Harrison & Harrison pipe organ for the introductory section of Pictures at an Exhibition.

Medals made after this time used other designs, and the practice continued through the administration of Benjamin Harrison.

Others included " Mean Mr. Mustard " and " Polythene Pam " ( both of which would be used for the medley on Abbey Road ); " Child of Nature " ( recorded with drastically different lyrics as " Jealous Guy " for Lennon's Imagine ); " Etcetera " ( a McCartney composition ); " The Long and Winding Road " ( completed in 1969 for the Let It Be LP ); " Something " ( which ended up on Abbey Road ); and " Sour Milk Sea " ( which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist Jackie Lomax for his first LP, Is This What You Want ).

After 1903 it became a recreational hall to commemorate Dr John Harrison ( who was a physician in Roscommon town ’ s workhouse, during the famine of the 1840s ) it was used as a dance hall, cinema and theatre before it was sold to the Bank of Ireland in 1972.

Harrison used Benjamin Truman ’ s fort as his headquarters.

Harrison became interested in Indian classical music, bought a sitar and used it to record the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )".

The balance that he used, made by a craftsman named Harrison, was the first of the precision balances of the 18th century, and as accurate as Lavoisier's ( which has been estimated to measure one part in 400, 000 ).

The episode would be used to good account in later stories of the bell ; in 1893, former President Benjamin Harrison, speaking as the bell passed through Indianapolis, stated, " This old bell was made in England, but it had to be re-cast in America before it was attuned to proclaim the right of self-government and the equal rights of men.

He took over the collection of basic slag ( a waste product of steelworks used as fertiliser ) when local company Harrison Ivinson went out of business, and purchased two Ford Thames Trader trucks which were also painted in his favourite colours with his logo on the doors.

* Lou Harrison, who incorporated styles and instruments from many world cultures in his music, used Esperanto titles and / or texts in several of his works, most notably La Koro-Sutro ( 1973 ).

Master clockmaker John Harrison used lignum vitae in the bearings and gears of his pendulum clocks and his first three marine chronometers ( all of which were large clocks rather than watches ), since the wood is self-lubricating.

Besides the records by Harrison or artists he produced, the studio was also used by Shakespear's Sister to record their 1992 album Hormonally Yours.

George Harrison had previously used the title for a song on his 1973 album Living in the Material World.

The sheng has been used in the works of a few non-Chinese composers, including Lou Harrison, Tim Risher, Daniel Bjarnason, Brad Catler, and Christopher Adler.

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Otis moved to Philadelphia and enlisted the talents of Joseph Harrison to help construct a prototype.

This storm as well as the war would also inspire ex-Beatle George Harrison and Bengali musician Ravi Shankar to organize The Concert for Bangladesh, the prototype benefit concert, to raise money for aid, in 1971.

Following Harrison, the marine timekeeper was reinvented yet again by John Arnold who while basing his design on Harrison's most important principles, at the same time simplified it enough for him to produce equally accurate but far less costly marine chronometers in quantity from around 1783.

In 1730 Harrison created a description and drawings for a proposed marine clock to compete for the Longitude Prize and went to London seeking financial assistance.

He must have been impressed by Harrison, for Graham personally loaned Harrison money to build a model of his marine clock.

John Harrison, a self-educated English clockmaker then invented the marine chronometer, a key piece in solving the problem of accurately establishing longitude at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel.

* 1737-John Harrison presents the first stable marine chronometer, thereby allowing for precise longitude determination while at sea

The first practical caged-roller bearing was invented in the mid-1740s by horologist John Harrison for his H3 marine timekeeper.

John Harrison invented the marine chronometer, a key piece in solving the problem of accurately establishing longitude at sea, thus revolutionizing and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel.

An example is the Royal Greenwich Observatory, which is also the source of the Prime Meridian ( longitude 0 ° 0 ' 0 "), and the home of the first marine timekeepers accurate enough to determine longitude ( made by John Harrison ).

* John Harrison receives the Longitude prize for his invention of the first marine chronometer.

* John Harrison presents the first stable marine chronometer, thereby allowing for precise longitude determination while at sea.

Around 1730, George loaned approximately £ 200 to John Harrison so that he could start work on his marine timekeeper known later as H1.

* Harrison Number Five, a 1773 marine chronometer designed by John Harrison

* Richard John Harrison ( 1920 – 1999 ), British anatomist and marine biologist

The grasshopper escapement was invented by John Harrison who used it in his regulator clocks, and also in the first three of his marine timekeepers, H1-H3.

The first successful marine chronometers, H4 and H5, made by John Harrison in 1759 and 1770, used verge escapements with diamond pallets.

Thomas Alexander Harrison ( January 17, 1853, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 13, 1930 ), was an American marine painter who spent much of his career in France.

* Harrison Number Two, an 18th century marine chronometer built by John Harrison