But the study of these curves was first developed in 1959 by mathematician Paul de Casteljau using de Casteljau's algorithm, a numerically stable method to evaluate Bézier curves.

Some of the most successful examples of these Biblical and historical spectaculars include The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), The Vikings ( 1958 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ) and El Cid ( 1961 ).

Enumerative graph theory then rose from the results of Cayley and the fundamental results published by Pólya between 1935 and 1937 and the generalization of these by De Bruijn in 1959.

Classical examples of exceptions to this rule include native mercury, which crystallizes at-39 ° C, and water ice, which is solid only below 0 ° C ; as these two minerals were described prior to 1959, they were grandfathered by the International Mineralogical Association ( IMA ).

NASA announced the selection of seven of these – known as the Mercury Seven – as astronauts on 9 April 1959, though only six of the seven flew Mercury missions, after Slayton was grounded due to a heart condition.

The first of these was the Příbram meteorite, which fell in Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Republic ) in 1959.

In 1959, Coxeter published his finding that these works were extraordinarily accurate: " Escher got it absolutely right to the millimeter.

Although the show returned for the 1958 – 1959 season ( 5: 30 to 6: 00 pm ET ), these programs were repeats from the first two seasons, re-cut into a half-hour format.

) The remainder of the field is set by two separate qualifying races ( these were from 1959 – 1967 ; from 1969 – 2004 ; and, with two-lap overtime if necessary, beginning in 2005 ( These races were not held in 1968 because of rain ).

Previously the entire Basidiomycota were called Basidiomycetes, an invalid class level name coined in 1959 as a counterpart to the Ascomycetes, when neither of these taxa were recognized as phyla.

Many of these draw more directly on the 1939 MGM Technicolor film version of the novel, a now-classic of popular culture shown annually on American television from 1959 to 1991, and shown several times a year every year beginning in 1999.

With these improvements, the route was used on a more regular basis although in total, it would only be used around 20 times between 1931 and 1959 when the last droving run was completed.

A later statute, the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, passed in 1959, tightened these restrictions on secondary boycotts still further.

For testing, some of these mechanisms were installed during 1959 in weapons stationed in Europe.

The first of these was the Pribram meteorite, which fell in Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Republic ) in 1959.

Because of these changes, Motor Trend magazine picked the entire Pontiac line as 1959 Car of the Year.

One serious clash occurred between these groups, later in 1959.

The county's distillery business thrived in these decades, led by Maclin H. Davis's Cascade Distillery, founded in 1882 and now known as George Dickell Distilleries, which opened in 1959.

The first published of these letters, in the August 1959 issue of Action Comics (# 255 ), was written by an eleven-year-old from Garland, Texas named Dave Mitchell, who would go on to become a well-known Miami radio personality.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, a series of qualitative reviews of these studies ( e. g., Bird, 1940 ; Stogdill, 1948 ; Mann, 1959 ) prompted researchers to take a drastically different view of the driving forces behind leadership.

She was to have further hits with " I Don't Know " in 1959 and " Don't Deceive Me " in 1960, although these were more successful on the R & B chart than on the pop chart.

From 1956 intermediate landings took place at Hamar Airport, Stafsberg and Notodden Airport, Tuven, but these only lasted until 1959.

Following these first tests certain modifications were found to be needed and test flights were not completed until December 1959.

In 1953, Allen Gant, Sr., of Glen Raven Knitting Mills developed a commercial equivalent to these hose that he named " Panti-Legs ", but these were not brought to the open market until about 1959.

The Summary Report On Desegregation Progress In Education In The Middle-South Region, 1959 - 1960 '' clearly shows two pieces of information.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

A 17-year-old Bob Dylan attended the January 31, 1959, show, two nights before Holly's death.

Following a two year campaign by women to change their circumstances, in 1959 Cayman received its first written constitution which, for the first time, allowed women to vote.

His efforts were unsuccessful and the two campuses were established in 1959.

In the late fifties Johnny Cash recorded songs for his first two concept albums, Songs of Our Soil and Ride This Train, in which were released in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

Kaye starred in two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies ( 1959 ) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

Masaki Kobayashi made two of the three films which would collectively become known as The Human Condition Trilogy: No Greater Love ( 1958 ), and The Road To Eternity ( 1959 ).

In 1959 he married Marike Willemse, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

Hefner remade himself as a bon viveur and man about town, a lifestyle he promoted in his magazine and two TV shows he hosted, Playboy's Penthouse ( 1959 – 1960 ) and Playboy After Dark ( 1969 – 1970 ).

Following the two championships in 1958 and 1959, the Colts did not return to the NFL Championship for four seasons and saw a transition from head coach Ewbank to a young Don Shula in 1963.

Some scholars take the term kenning broadly to include any noun-substitute consisting of two or more elements, including merely descriptive epithets ( such as Old Norse grand viðar “ bane of wood ” = “ fire ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36 )), while others would restrict it to metaphorical instances ( such as Old Norse sól húsanna “ sun of the houses ” = “ fire ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36 )), specifically those where “ he base-word identifies the referent with something which it is not, except in a specially conceived relation which the poet imagines between it and the sense of the limiting element '” ( Brodeur ( 1959 ) pp. 248 – 253 ).

Following Eleanor's divorce, the two married in January 1959.

It ran from 1959 through 1963 with two goals: putting a human in orbit around the Earth, and doing it before the Soviet Union, as part of the early space race.

In 1959, two black-owned record labels, one of which would become hugely successful, made their debut: Sam Cooke's Sar, and Berry Gordy's Motown Records.

Brook Benton was at the top of the R & B charts in 1959 and 1960 with one # 1 and two # 2 hits.

Morton again led the opposition to the ballot at the 21 March 1959 election, which resulted in an overall gain of three seats but the loss of two seats to Labor.

During three recording sessions in 1958 and 1959, Orbison and Melson recorded seven songs at RCA Nashville, with Atkins producing, but only two songs were judged worthy of release by RCA ; Wesley Rose maneuvered Orbison into the sights of producer Fred Foster at Monument Records.

The two nations established diplomatic relations on January 4, 1959 and have since become strongly close global allies.