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This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.
Charlton turned professional in 1920 and first entered the Football League in 1921.
Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league.
His success on the football field led to several football scholarship offers, which he turned down to pursue a career in professional baseball.
He turned professional in May 1952, at the age of 17 ( the youngest possible age legally ) and made his debut at 18.
Offered a professional contract as a ballplayer, he turned it down, stating that he preferred to play for the love of the game.
However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.
The team later turned professional through 1875, becoming a charter member of the National League in 1876, but were expelled from the N. L.
With so much personal chaos and professional uncertainty, the members turned to faith to try to steady their lives.
The move was made under unfortunate circumstances – as it turned out that Davis had leukemia, and died without ever playing a down in professional football.
In 1885 the club turned professional, and in 1886 they reached the FA Cup final for the first time, losing 2 – 0 to Blackburn Rovers in a replay.
He gave up his insurance job to enroll in Preston repertory theatre and turned professional as an actor at the comparatively late age of 27.
It has a large following among professional comedians such as Armando Iannucci, who turned down opportunities to work on it, preferring to remain a listener .</ li ></ ul >
At the age of seven, he began caddying at The Homestead in Hot Springs ; he worked as an assistant pro at The Homestead at 19, and turned professional in 1934.
Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).
The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they turned professional.
Usually known as " Savoy Lindy Hoppers " occasionally they turned professional, such as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and performed in Broadway and Hollywood productions.
Sampras turned professional in 1988, at the age of 16, and finished the year ranked world number 97 after starting the year at world number 893.
When his involvement with hypnosis waned as a result of failure to establish professional acceptance, he turned to the study of development spurred on by the birth of his two daughters, Marguerite and Armande ( born in 1885 and 1887, respectively ), calling Armande a subjectivist and Marguerite an objectivist, and developing the concepts of introspection and externospection in an anticipation of Carl Jung's psychological types. Ellenberger, p. 702-3 In the 21 year period following his shift in career interests, Binet " published more than 200 books, articles, and reviews in what now would be called experimental, developmental, educational, social, and differential psychology " ( Siegler, 1992 ).
The team turned professional in 1894 and joined the Southern League which was founded in the same year.
Nagurski turned professional to play for the Chicago Bears from 1930 to 1937.
Although Cagney turned out to be Warner's greatest prize, he was also the studio executive's biggest professional challenge.
Escobar turned professional on September 1, 1930, in a fight card organized at the Victory Garden gym in San Juan.
Since Escobar turned professional while he was still legally a minor, his father had to sign the unbinding agreement.
From 1948-1950, the former professional football player George Doherty coached at Stamps High School and turned a winless team into two district championships and a second-place finish statewide.

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Gore Creatures began in 1961 and continues today as the prozine ( turned webzine ) Midnight Marquee.
* 1961 – Joel Otto, American ice hockey player turned coach
West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.
In 1961 Szasz gave testimony before a United States Senate committee in which he argued that the use of mental hospitals to incarcerate people defined as insane violated the general assumptions of patient-and-doctor relationships and turned the doctor into a warden and a keeper of a prison.
Following the Great Leap Forward ( 1958 – 1961 ), Mao was highly criticized within the CCP, and turned to Jiang, among others, to support himself and persecute his enemies.
The ratio of Viet Cong to government soldiers jumped from one to 10 in 1961 to one to five a year later. The alleged 1966 martyrdom of Viet Cong soldier Nguyễn Văn Bé is much celebrated in Vietnam, despite the fact that he later turned up alive.
* Whittaker Chambers ( 1901 – 1961 ), Time magazine editor and former Communist turned anti-Communist activist, was raised in Lynbrook and lived here as an adult.
The bone business turned into a safari business in 1961.
Amrep Corporation purchased 55, 000 acres ( 220 km² ) in 1961 and turned the land into a housing development called " Rio Rancho Estates " with the first families moving in the early 1960s, most of whom were New Yorkers.
In 1961, Whitman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a child molester in The Mark, a role many other better known actors turned down.
Many sources give his year of birth as 1884, but in an article published in the October 1961 issue of Cavalier magazine, he stated that he had turned 78 that year.
Thus, in 1961, he retired from his position as Saskatchewan's premier and turned over the job to Woodrow Lloyd, taking leadership of the federal New Democratic Party.
After winning two U. S. Amateurs in 1959 and 1961, and challenging for the 1960 U. S. Open, Nicklaus turned professional toward the end of 1961.
While Nicklaus officially turned professional in late 1961, he debated heavily the idea of remaining an amateur in order to further emulate his idol, Bobby Jones.
In 1961, Berwin Novelties introduced a home version of the character that included an Oswald body, creative pencils to draw the eyes and nose and a " magic mirror " that automatically turned a reflection upside down.
As it turned out, a new arena in Pittsburgh wouldn't be built until the Pittsburgh Civic Arena opened in 1961.
After being turned down for the Air Force Academy he entered the University of California, Berkeley as a freshman in 1961, paying $ 67 per semester.
The base was decommissioned in 1961, though the Navy held on to the property until 1971, when it was turned over to the town of Hingham.
In the Dominican Republic it was promoted by Rafael Trujillo, the dictator from the 1930 to 1961, who turned it into the country's national music and dance style.
The old Instituto Científico Literario Autónomo de Hidalgo was converted to the Universidad Autónoma del Estado in 1961, which would become one of the impetuses to the growth of the city in the following years, as it turned out a better-educated and more technical workforce in areas such as law, engineering, business and medicine.
The Decca Mobile Airfield Radar Van ( 1106 ) released in January 1959 featured a revolving radar scanner which turned by means of a ridged wheel, and the Bedford Military Ambulance ( 414 ) was issued in January 1961.
His 1961 statistics turned out to be career highs which he rarely approached again – in later years, he never reached 100 runs or 100 RBI, and never batted above. 283.
Among his works are the ballets The Little Hump-backed Horse ( 1955 ), Carmen Suite ( 1967 ), based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet ( the project had been turned down by both Shostakovich and Khachaturian ), Anna Karenina ( 1971, on the novel by Leo Tolstoy ), and Lady with a Lapdog ( 1985 ); the operas Not Only Love ( 1961 ), and Dead Souls ( 1976, after Nikolai Gogol's novel ); piano concertos, symphonies, chamber and piano music and other works.
Northrup reportedly turned down offers from the Chicago Bears and the New York Titans and signed with the Tigers in 1961.

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