" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

* 1921 – Hugh Downs, American television host

* February 14 – Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist ( 20-20 )

Pilots were shot at the studio for Hugh Downs ' Foresome ( Stage 2 ) and Jack Cassidy's McMasters of Sweetwater ( Stage 3 and western street ).

* Hugh Downs – a retired broadcaster, television host, producer, and author

* Veteran broadcaster Hugh Downs was a student at Bluffton University and later began his broadcasting career at WLOK, the predecessor of the present-day WIMA ( AM ) in nearby Lima.

The first iteration of this program fared badly, and resulted in the firing of the original hosts, with Hugh Downs chosen as the new anchor beginning the second week of the program.

* Nothing by Chance ( 1975 ) – a documentary produced and narrated by Hugh Downs about the biplanes that barnstormed across America during the 1920s

With network executives perceiving the instability of this arrangement as a factor in Nightly News losing audience share to the CBS Evening News, NBC discontinued the rotation, and McGee eventually took over for Hugh Downs as host of The Today Show.

Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters in Midtown Manhattan, on the August 5, 1967 cover of TV Guide

* Hugh Downs ( 1962 – 1971 )

" Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

Unlike his predecessors on Tonight ( i. e. McMahon with Carson, Hugh Downs with Jack Paar ), Hall did not serve as a sidekick for Leno during his tenure on Leno's incarnation of The Tonight Show.

The chairman of the society's Board of Governors is former ABC-TV 20 / 20 host and news anchor Hugh Downs.

Her career dates back to the 50s, and her current prominence at ABC is largely due to celebrity interviews, with a long running co-anchorship on 20 / 20 with Hugh Downs and, later, John Stossel until 2004, and her overlapping morning infotainment show The View.

As a result of the scathing reviews, serious and drastic changes were made immediately: Hayes and Hughes were fired ( as was original executive producer Bob Shanks ), and a then semi-retired Hugh Downs was recruited to take on the role of sole host on the following week's program.

In 1984, she became Hugh Downs ' equal, thus reuniting a duo which had already anchored together on NBC's Today from 1964 to 1971.

From left to right, Charles Gibson, Sam Donaldson, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, and Connie Chung

* Hugh Downs ( 1978 – 1999 )

Von Braun was the NSI's first president, but shortly became chairman, with journalist and former ABC-TV 20 / 20 host Hugh Downs as president.

When von Braun died in June 1977, Hugh Downs became Chairman of the Board and, after a time, Ben Bova assumed the presidency.

The books included New Mind New Body, with a foreword from Hugh Downs, and Stress and the Art of Biofeedback.

Garroway, Studs Terkel, and Hugh Downs all hosted relaxed, garrulous, extemporaneous shows in that city in the early 1950s.

An old Army friend, who was an executive with NBC, asked James to audition for a new game show, Concentration, hosted by Hugh Downs, which needed an announcer.

A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

In the series, E. Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales ( the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a complete fop and idiot ).

Blackadder is joined by his batman Private S. Baldrick ( Tony Robinson ) and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George ( Hugh Laurie ).

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.

The Capetian dynasty (), also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line.

The dynastic surname now used to describe Hugh Capet's family prior to his election as King of France is " Robertians " or " Robertines.

Only in the time before Hugh Capet took the crown for himself and after the reign of Charles X is the term necessary to identify which.

However, since primogeniture and the Salic Law provided for the succession of the French throne for most of French history, here is a list of all the predecessors of the French monarchy, all the French kings from Hugh until Charles, and all the Legitimist pretenders thereafter.

It is important to note that historians class the predecessors of Hugh Capet as Robertians, not Capetians.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

This pattern was formulated by Hugh Rank and is a simple tool designed to teach some basic patterns of persuasion used in political propaganda and commercial advertising.

The town's oldest building is the Maguire's stone castle, built by Hugh the Hospitable who died in 1428.

The original relative state formulation is due to Hugh Everett in 1957.

Although several versions of many-worlds have been proposed since Hugh Everett's original work, they all contain one key idea: the equations of physics that model the time evolution of systems without embedded observers are sufficient for modelling systems which do contain observers ; in particular there is no observation-triggered wave function collapse which the Copenhagen interpretation proposes.

Many-worlds is often referred to as a theory, rather than just an interpretation, by those who propose that many-worlds can make testable predictions ( such as David Deutsch ) or is falsifiable ( such as Everett ) or by those who propose that all the other, non-MW interpretations, are inconsistent, illogical or unscientific in their handling of measurements ; Hugh Everett argued that his formulation was a metatheory, since it made statements about other interpretations of quantum theory ; that it was the " only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

The film follows the adventures of a group of friends through the eyes of Charles ( Hugh Grant ), a debonair but faux pas-prone Englishman, who is smitten with Carrie, an attractive American ( Andie MacDowell ), whom Charles repeatedly meets at weddings and at a funeral.

* Hugh Tabbagh is the editor of videos, who is almost always seen editing in the audio-visual room whilst sitting, smoking cigarettes and coughing wildly.

Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king, is not a well documented figure, his greatest achievement being certainly to survive as king and defeating the Carolingian claimant, thus allowing him to establish what would become one of Europe's most powerful house of kings.

The tuning of the gravikord is an extended version of the " G " major / " E " minor tuning system of the Hugh Tracey kalimba while its overall physical structure is derived from the African kora.

Fresh water is supplied to London from Ware, using the New River built by Hugh Myddleton and opened in 1613.