The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

# ( Tie ) Defensive tackle Randy White and defensive end Harvey Martin – Super Bowl XII – Super Bowl XII marked the first time that two players won MVP honors.

Son of the Sun was a success and Rosa ’ s very first professional comic story was nominated for a Harvey Award “ Best Story of the Year ”.

" Gary Sheffield and Bryan Harvey represented the Marlins as the club's first All-Star Game selections, and Sheffield homered in the Marlins first All-Star Game at-bat.

In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors becoming the first openly gay man in the United States elected to public office.

Connick is the first cousin of Jefferson Parish District Attorney, Paul Connick, and State Representative, Patrick Connick, of Harvey, also of Jefferson Parish.

In 2006, Harvey Mudd was also named one of the " new Ivy leagues " by Kaplan and Newsweek, while the mathematics department won the first American Mathematical Society Award for Exemplary Program.

Mendelevium ( for Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, surname commonly transliterated into Latin script as Mendeleev, Mendeleyev, Mendeléef, or even Mendelejeff, and first name sometimes transliterated as Dmitry or Dmitriy ) was first synthesized by Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg, Gregory R. Choppin, Bernard G. Harvey, and Stanley G. Thompson ( team leader ) in early 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was the first to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins that had eluded William Harvey.

Written almost entirely by Harvey Kurtzman, the first issue also featured illustrations by Kurtzman himself, along with Wally Wood, Will Elder, Jack Davis and John Severin.

The current on-line edition of the OED ( Draft Revision September 2008 ) gives as first occurrence in English a work by Gideon Harvey ( 1636 / 7-1702 ): Archelogia philosophica nova ; or, New principles of Philosophy.

For the first and only time, two players won Super Bowl MVP honors: defensive tackle Randy White and defensive end Harvey Martin.

Meanwhile, the Bills first defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 37 – 14, avenging a 33 – 6 Monday night loss during the regular season in which the Chiefs gained over 247 rushing yards, with running backs Harvey Williams and Christian Okoye recording over 100 rushing yards each.

** San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U. S.

* May 23 – Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in 1863, as the first African American to have been awarded this medal.

In the first season the narrator was usually voiced by John Lovelady, but Jerry Nelson performed the role in both the Harvey Korman and Rita Moreno episodes, before taking over the role permanently from the Phyllis Diller episode.

In his last address to the General Assembly on January 9, 1963, ahead of the peaceful admission of the first Black student Harvey Gantt to Clemson University, Hollings declared: " As we meet, South Carolina is running out of courts ... this General Assembly must make clear South Carolina's choice, a government of laws rather than a government of men ... This should be done with dignity.

This voyage – the first after his return from Padua – lasted three years, taking Harvey through the countries of France and Spain during the Mantuan War and Plague.

After the first chapter, which simply outlines past ideas and accepted rules regarding the heart and lungs, Harvey moves on to a fundamental premise to his treatise, stating that it was extremely important to study the heart when it was active in order to truly comprehend its true movement ; a task which even he found of great difficulty, as he says:

Through Harvey, Edmund Spenser found employment at Leicester House on the Strand, the Earl's palatial town house, where he wrote his first works of poetry.

His first play, a burlesque, Les romanesques was produced on 21 May 1894 at the Théâtre Français ; it would be adapted in 1960 by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt into the long-running American musical The Fantasticks.

Under Harvey, the club qualified for European competition for the first time after a good run in the 1967 – 68 season and the following year won the 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final, triumphing 6 – 2 over two legs against Hungary's Újpest in the final.

L. Ron Hubbard is widely believed to have used the theory in his creation of Dianetics and later to have incorporated it into Scientology, and acknowledges this in several texts ; the first of these two movements in turn introduced general semantics to a wider audience in the early 1950s, including popular science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt, personal growth theorist Harvey Jackins and his movement Re-evaluation Counseling and movements like Gestalt therapy.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

In the film, Laura has only just arrived at Dr. Lynn's flat when the owner returns, and is immediately led out by Dr. Harvey via the fire escape.

The railroad arrived in the area in November 1868, and Harvey Booth opened a saloon / restaurant in a tent near what is now Front Street.

The following month, British Captain Augustus Harvey, in command of the HMS Viper, arrived in the area and battled with the Mi ’ kmaq.

* Dr. Montague ( Harvey Korman ): Charles Montague was set to take over the Institute before Dr. Thorndyke arrived, and has trouble hiding his jealousy.

Even before the Miami Trio arrived, the 1974 Southmen found two durable running backs in J. J. Jennings and John Harvey, and they finished with the league's best record at 17-3.

After Batman rescued the two criminals and returned them to the police, Killer Croc went after Harvey Bullock until Batman arrived.

Harvey ended unbeaten on 73 and the Australians arrived at Wimbledon on time.

Harvey brought the part-time leg spin of Bob Simpson into the attack when Ray Illingworth had just arrived at the crease, and moved himself into the leg slip position.

Niccolai Manucci wrote: “ The date of flight ( of Shuja from Dacca ) was June 5, 1660 and arrived in Arakan on August 26, 1660 .” Harvey noted that Shuja came to Arakan as Sanda Thudhamma promised to provide him some of his famous ships to take him to Mecca for pilgrimage.

Twelve hours after Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered by Ruby, the FBI arrived in Edna to interview Barr.

Once at the front, the initial group of twenty-five was sent to the front at Monte Oscuro, within sight of Zaragoza, some 12 miles to the south west, where they joined by a number of others who had arrived at the front a few weeks earlier, including Eric Blair, not yet using his pen name George Orwell ; an Australian, Harvey Buttonshaw ; US Revolutionary Workers League member Wolf Kupinski ; and Bob Williams, a Welshman married to a Spanish woman who joined up with his brother-in-law, Ramon.

In 1953, Canada Dry offered a " premium giveaway " with a case of its ginger ale — one minibook in a trilogy series of Terry and the Pirates strips by Wunder printed by Harvey Comics.

Opened in 1821 and named after Sir John Harvey, Deputy Adjutant General in Canada during the War of 1812.

* Harold Gibson ( Geology )-Recipient of 1992 William Harvey Gross Medal of the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada

For a time in the UK, " a Harvey ( Smith )" became a way of describing the insulting version of the V sign, much as " the word of Cambronne " is used in France, or " the Trudeau salute " is used to describe the one-fingered salute in Canada.

Harvey played minor league hockey in Oxford Park, Notre Dame de Grace in his native Montreal, Quebec, Canada, then began his professional career with the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Senior Hockey League where he played from 1945 to 1947, helping them win the Allan Cup.

The government of Canada honoured Doug Harvey in 2000 with his image placed on a Canadian postage stamp.

* William Harvey Murray ( born 1916 ), former political figure in British Columbia, Canada

A Criterion Collection region 1 DVD was released in November 2006 in the United States and Canada, which includes an alternate ending which Kieślowski did at the request of Harvey Weinstein of Miramax for the American release.

Conservative Quebec federalists have created a new Quebec Conservative Party under the leadership of former Conservative Party of Canada MP Luc Harvey.

Two of those prior owners, Norm Namerow ( who owned the track through his publishing company, CanTrack, until his death ) and Harvey Hudes, have both been inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame for their contribution to the sport in Canada.

Galway-Cavendish and Harvey is a township in the rural, mostly wooded northern section of Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.

Jeff Harvey ( born 1957 in Toronto, Canada ) is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Multitrophic Interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and formerly an associate editor of Nature.

Harvey Smith ( born November 6, 1936 ) is a politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Harvey then went to play in Canada with the Vancouver Whitecaps.

In 1953, Canada Dry offered a " premium giveaway " with a case of its ginger ale — one minibook in a trilogy series of Terry and the Pirates strips by Wunder, printed by Harvey Comics.

He may also have believed that his opponents were militia but was comparatively new to command in Canada and relied on information from Lieutenant Colonel John Harvey, the Deputy Adjutant General for the forces in Upper Canada, that even the United States regulars were of poor quality.

Harvey Bostrom ( born February 11, 1946 in St. Boniface, Manitoba ) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Harvey Norman Murray Patterson ( born September 12, 1924 ) is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada.

* In 1994, the Atlantic Canada Chamber of Commerce awarded Coady the Harvey Webber Award in recognition of her outstanding service in strengthening the Chamber movement in Atlantic Canada.

Schreiber's career in Canada is reviewed in the 2001 book by Stevie Cameron and Harvey Cashore, The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal.

André Harvey, PC ( born September 16, 1941 ) is a consultant, politician and former teacher in Quebec, Canada.

When Paul Martin succeeded Chrétien as prime minister in late 2003, he moved Harvey to the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources with special emphasis on Development of Value-Added Industries and named him to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.