Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.

There was a host of dark horses.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

The initial concept was known as AppleBus, envisioning a system controlled by the host Macintosh polling " dumb " devices in a fashion similar to the modern Universal Serial Bus.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.

An International Council ( IC ) was set up to discuss and decide major issues regarding the WSF, while the local organizing committee in the host city is responsible for the practical preparations of the event.

He was interviewed live on Person to Person on November 27, 1959 by host Charles Collingwood.

In August 1967 Capp was the narrator and host of an ABC network special called Do Blondes Have More Fun?

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito had pushed the development of military industries in the republic with the result that Bosnia and Herzegovina was saddled with a host of industrial firms with little commercial potential.

The Bastarnae host was still en route through Thrace, where it became embroiled in hostilities with the locals, who were unable ( or unwilling ) to provide them with sufficient food at affordable prices as they marched through.

Driven off by Roman forces, the coalition host moved overland into Thracia, where finally it was crushed by emperor Claudius II ( r. 268-70 ) at Naissus ( 269 ).

Probably the book was written in Jerusalem, where he witnessed the invasion of Sennacherib and the destruction of his host ( 2 Kings 19: 35 ).

He was then able to reassemble the Cossack host, which was able to present a substantial army to confront the Poles at Bila Tserkva.

He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

Tavistock was chosen as the host city because it was the home of Eckhardt Wettlaufer, the maker of the earliest known board.

Charles was the main host and presided over the arena in which teams of amateur engineers battled their home-made radio-controlled robots against each other, and against the house robots.

After blotting out most of the saline around the sections, a drop of Af was layered over each of the sections, allowed to react for 30 minutes, and then washed with PBS for 15 - 30 minutes.

New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 ( total of 18 performances ) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show " Live at Lincoln Center " on November 7, 1990.

She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".

" Jerome Robbins, in his PBS American Experience biography, claimed that he was forced to capitulate to the House Un-American Activities Committee, identifying eight Communist sympathizers and disgracing himself among his fellow artists, allegedly because Sullivan threatened to reveal Robbins's homosexuality to the public.

Former ELO member Tandy rejoined the band a short time afterwards for two television live performances: VH1 Storytellers and a PBS concert shot at CBS Television City, later titled Zoom Tour Live, that was released on DVD.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

In America, Frontline was shown as either Behind the Frontline on cable or as Breaking News on PBS ( which already has a news series entitled Frontline ).

In a year of recognition, he was also nominated for an Emmy for Best Performance in a Variety Special for his PBS special Swingin ' Out Live, which was also released as a video.

A music DVD Harry Connick Jr. — " Only You " in Concert was released in March 2004, after it had first aired as a Great Performances special on PBS.

In the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles ( 1976 ), he was portrayed by David Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover and Mark Winkworth.

In 2003, Brown participated in the PBS American Masters television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, which was directed by Jeremy Marre.

that Dick Clark recently purchased the rights to the TAMI film and re-inserted the Beach Boys ' numbers-This TAMI resurrection was used as a PBS fundraiser and the DVD is available from the PBS website.

He was also the Host of the 230th July 4, 2006 of the PBS July 4 " A Capitol Fourth " Celebrations in Washington, D. C. in which he sang, danced, and played tuned drums.

As a PBS American Experience documentary noted, Pickford's relationship with her children was tense.

The Friedmans worked on this project for the next three years, and during 1980, the ten-part series, titled Free to Choose, was broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ).

Early episodes of Dark Shadows were rerun on PBS stations in the early 1970s after the show's cancellation, and the entire series ( except the single missing episode ) was rerun on the SciFi Channel in the 1990s.

Gould was featured prominently as a guest in Ken Burns's PBS documentary Baseball, as well as PBS's highly produced Evolution series.

This idea was subsequently popularized by physicist Arnon Dar, and described in the show Death Star on PBS Nova.

* In 1984, Twelve Years a Slave was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

The concert was telecast on the PBS " Great Performances " show during November 2010, and the DVD of the performance was released on November 16, 2010.