What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

A lot of people were still thinking about Jack Nicklaus, the spectacular young amateur, who had a 70 ; ;

Ironically, it soon became apparent that it had been Lascoe, an old pro ... who had made her feel like an amateur.

Elsie's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom.

In 1993, Michael Wisher, the original Davros, with Peter Miles, who had played his confederate, Nyder, reprised the role in an unlicensed one-off amateur stage production, The Trial of Davros.

By introducing the high standards of Boasian anthropology, Sapir did incite antagonism from those amateur ethnologists who felt that they had contributed important work.

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

Rossini had been a well-known gourmand and an excellent amateur chef his entire life, but he indulged these two passions fully once he retired from composing, and today there are a number of dishes with the appendage " alla Rossini " to their names that were either created by or specifically for him.

Since the early 1940s, Kingman Reef has had very little human contact, though amateur radio operators from around the world have occasionally visited the reef to put it " on the air " in what is known as a DX-pedition.

On 17 November 1834, the British amateur astronomer the Reverend Thomas John Hussey reported a conversation he had had with French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to George Biddell Airy, the British Astronomer Royal.

Finns charged that the Swedish officials had used devious tricks in their campaign against Nurmi's amateur status, and ceased all athletic relations with Sweden.

But the reputation he had during his lifetime belies this idea: his academic peers at Yale University considered the " amateur " Whorf to be the best man available to take over Sapir's graduate seminar in Native American linguistics while Sapir was on sabbatical in 1937 – 38.

As a result, by the mid-1990s, amateur use of actual Teletype machines had waned, though a core of " purists " still operate on equipment originally manufactured in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a testament to the workmanship and durability of this equipment.

He married Helena Cookes ( an amateur botanical illustrator, and erstwhile patient of his ) in 1772 ; they had three children ( the first, Helena was born in 1775 but died a few days later, William was born in 1776, and Charlotte in 1778 ).

He played for MCC on an expenses only basis but any hopes that the premier club had of keeping him firmly within the amateur ranks would soon be disappointed for his services were much in demand.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

This had an important influence on amateur theatre in general.

This competition was initially contested by mostly amateur teams but by the end of the 19th century it was dominated by professional teams that were mostly members of the Football League that had been founded in 1888 and expanded during the 1890s.

By the early 1920s, several formats had successfully split the amateur home movies market away from 35 mm: 28 mm ( 1. 1 in ) ( 1912 ), 9. 5 mm ( 0. 37 in ) ( 1922 ), 16 mm ( 0. 63 in ) ( 1923 ), and Pathe Rural, a 17. 5 mm format designed for safety film ( 1926 ).

In 1880, Philip Weilbach, secretary and librarian at the Art Academy in Copenhagen, and like Luke Howard, an amateur meteorologist, proposed and had accepted by the International Meteorological Committee ( IMC ) the designation of a new free-convective vertical genus type, cumulonimbus, which would be distinct from cumulus and nimbus and identifiable by its appearance and ability to produce thunder.

Commercial systems started appearing in the United States in 1970, after the FCC had legalized the use of SSTV for advanced level amateur radio operators in 1968.

Both Group C and GTP had secondary categories, respectively Group C2 and Camel Lights, for less powerful cars, targeting entries by small specialist constructors or serious amateur teams.

All Greek cities had a gymnasium, a courtyard for jumping, running, and wrestling.

* Another of these enemies was Cercyon, king at the holy site of Eleusis, who challenged passers-by to a wrestling match and, when he had beaten them, killed them.

Extreme Championship Wrestling Professional wrestler The Sandman had a finishing maneuver called the White Russian Legsweep, a portmanteau of the drink and the standard wrestling maneuver.

Instead of challenging her suitors in wrestling, Pétis de La Croix had her confront them with three riddles.

A few years earlier, around 1920, professional wrestler Joseph Raymond " Toots " Mondt had created a new challenge of professional wrestling that he called Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling to make the entertainment more appealing to spectators.

At the time, pro wrestling consisted primarily of mat grappling ; and while the sport had flourished a decade earlier under Frank Gotch, the fans had since grown tired of the painfully deliberate pace of the bouts.

He had long since recognized that professional wrestling was more about entertainment than actual sport.

The concept of a wrestling supercard was nothing new in North America ; the NWA had been running Starrcade a few years prior to WrestleMania, and even the elder McMahon had marketed large Shea Stadium cards viewable in closed-circuit locations.

The introduction of Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC in mid-1985 marked the first time that professional wrestling had been broadcast on network television since the 1950s.

He repaid the honor Admetus had done to him by wrestling with Thanatos until the god agreed to release Alcestis, then led her back into the mortal world.

The new rules had a three-minute limit on rounds, required gloves, and forbade grappling and wrestling.

The same dream recurred and Ka-Ha-Si fought a giant the next day, who had been beating all the men of his tribe in wrestling matches.

The school volleyball team has been to the state tournament every year since its creation and the wrestling team has had multiple regional champions.

From high up he could peer into the spirit world and he noticed that several divinities had gathered for a fantastic wrestling match!

Mio has appeared in the boy's basketball state finals twice, girls basketball once, football once, and has had several state qualifiers in track and wrestling.

Timberlane Regional High School has had noticeable success in music, theatrical performance, wrestling, cheerleading and field hockey.

Lewistown had an excellent wrestling program, with the 2006 squad finishing 8th in the state.

After defeating Lee in a few matches, Louis discovered he had a heart ailment and retired from wrestling competition.

Monty Python's Flying Circus had a series of recurring sketches in which the members of the Batley Ladies Townswomen's Guild would present famous plays or musicals, or reenact various historical battles, simply by charging at each other, swinging purses and wrestling in the mud.

Another scenario was that Brody was upset with the promoters ( Brody had a contentious history with wrestling promoters for much of his career ) and decided to embarrass the promotion by being uncooperative in the match.

The event featured a card headlined by a highly anticipated championship grudge match between then-current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz and former UFC Superfight Champion Ken Shamrock, who had previously defected to professional wrestling in the WWE before returning to MMA.

Weightlifting and wrestling had been dropped since the 1896 Summer Olympics, while 13 new sports were added.

Bonaduce had his second professional wrestling match at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's April pay-per-view event Lockdown against Eric Young, in which he lost.