Brood rearing habitats of sharp-tailed grouse have many characteristics including: shrubby vegetation for concealment, short vegetation nearby for feeding, and high amounts of forbs present ( Hamerstrom 1963 ; Kohn 1976 ; Manske and Barker 1987 ; Roersma 2001 ; Goddard et al.

The Brattleboro Dawn Dance started in 1976, and continues to run semiannually.

The 8086 project started in May 1976 and was originally intended as a temporary substitute for the ambitious and delayed iAPX 432 project.

In 1975, Tarasconi, from the Department of Ob-Gyn of the University of Passo Fundo Medical School ( Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil ), started his experience with organ resection by laparoscopy ( Salpingectomy ), first reported in the Third AAGL Meeting, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, November 1976 and later published in The Journal of Reproductive Medicine in 1981.

This design marked a major change in direction for Porsche ( started with the introduction of the Porsche 924 in 1976 ), whose cars had until then used only rear-or mid-mounted air-cooled flat engines with four or six cylinders.

A year later, in early 1976, Hell quit The Heartbreakers and started Richard Hell & the Voidoids with Robert Quine, Ivan Julian and Marc Bell.

Many companies started to manufacture trucks ( axles ) specially designed for skateboarding, reached in 1976 by Tracker Trucks.

Skateboarders, most notably Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and the Z-Boys ( so-called because of their local Zephyr surf shop ) started to skate the vertical walls of swimming pools that were left empty in the 1976 California drought.

The regular season started one week earlier than usual in order to avoid having playoff games on Christmas Day, which fell on a Saturday in 1976.

Supposedly, with cousin Vance, Coy had previously lived on the Duke farm until 1976, before the series had started.

After the brutal snow drought of 1976 which nearly wiped out the embryonic ski and lodging industry, the town started to rebound economically.

Shortly after Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping started the capitalist reforms of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1978 beginning the radical change of Mao's ideology in the PRC.

JVC started selling the HR-3300 in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan on October 31, 1976.

Dethroned, the heyday of the Broad Street Bullies started to come to an end, as prior to the 1976 – 77 season, tough-guy Dave Schultz was traded to the Los Angeles Kings.

After the relatively stable years 1976 – 78, fiscal deficits started to climb again and the external debt trebled in three years.

The phenomenon known as Blazermania started during the 1976 – 77 season, when the team would post its first winning record, make its first playoff appearance — and capture its only NBA title, defeating the heavily-favored Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Finals ; the team has been wildly popular in Portland since that time.

In 1976, Shaath started Team International as one of the first large Multi Arab Consulting Companies.

Under Lawrie McMenemy's management, Saints started to rebuild in Division 2, capturing players such as Peter Osgood, Jim McCalliog, Jim Steele and Peter Rodrigues ( captain ) and what many people feel was the team's greatest moment ( to date ) came in 1976, when they reached the FA Cup Final, playing Manchester United at Wembley, and surprised all observers by beating much-fancied United 1 – 0 thanks to a goal from Bobby Stokes.

Development started in 1976 at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University and it was headed by Dr. Martin Richards.

The organizational papers were modified in 1933, allowing the school to accept older students, and again in 1951 to change the name of the school from the “ Hershey Industrial School ” to the “ Milton Hershey School .” In 1968, the school was racially integrated, although it wasn ’ t until 1970 that the organizational papers allowed that, and another modification 1976 allowed female students, who started arriving in 1977.

In 1976 Lenat started teaching at Carnegie Mellon and commenced his work on Eurisko, but returned to Stanford in a teaching role in 1978.

Caballero started skating in 1976 at the age of 12.

* Eric Wilkinson, ( 1976 –), poet / musician who wrote Black Through A Distortion Pedal ( San Francisco Bay Press ) and started indie, social theoretical hip-hop band, The Dialectics, noted for their EP " Bicycle: A Transportation Communique ," which advocates bicycle riding as a form of social justice.

She was employed with Eunice Police Department ( 2008-2011 ) where her father first started his Law Enforcement career back in 1973 & she is now employed with Oakdale Police Department in Oakdale, LA ( 2011-Present ) also where her father was employed as well in 1976.

Stover's Black Oracle partner Bill George published his own short-lived zine The Late Show ( 1974 – 1976 ; with co-editor Martin Falck ), and later became editor of the Cinefantastique prozine spinoff Femme Fatales.

During February 1976, the Montoneros sent assistance to the hard-pressed Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez fighting in Tucumán province, in the form of a company of their elite " Jungle Troops ", while the ERP backed them up with a company of their own guerrillas from Cordoba.

They finally moved into their own dedicated state-of-the-art stadium in 1976, when they moved into Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Since their move to New Jersey in 1976, fans from each state have claimed the team as their own.

Atari later released a version under its own brand in 1976.

In the summer of 1976, Gordon starred in the leading role of her own play, Ho!

Saturday Night Live produced two famous sketches parodying the Original Series, " The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise " in 1976 and William Shatner's own " Get a life " sketch in 1986 ( which parodied the show's " trekkie " followers ).

The islands have had their own government headed by a chief minister, the first of whom was James Alexander George Smith McCartney, since August 1976.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

Tork claimed later that he had not been asked, although a Christmas single ( credited to Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork ) was produced by Chip Douglas and released on his own label in 1976.

Tharp choreographed Push Comes To Shove for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976 ; in 1986 she created In The Upper Room for her own company.

The best ratings this version of Match Game saw were in the 1975 – 1976 season when it drew a 12. 5 rating with a 15 share, higher numbers than that of some prime-time series ; this was due in part to the fact that it had been paired with The Price Is Right, a hit in its own right, during this time.

In 1976, another digital audio tape format was developed by Soundstream, using 1 inch ( 25. 4 mm ) wide reel-to-reel tape loaded on an instrumentation recorder manufactured by Honeywell acting as a transport, which in turn was connected to outboard digital audio encoding and decoding hardware of Soundstream's own design.

* The dismantling of the collective rate making machinery among railroads begun in 1976 was reaffirmed, with railroads not allowed to agree as to rates they, respectively, could perform on their own systems, and were not allowed to participate in the determination of the rates on traffic in which they did not effectively participate.

" Lê promised the Vietnamese people in 1976 that each family would own a radio set, refrigerator and TV within ten years ; he seemed to believe he could easily integrate the South Vietnamese consumer society with industrial North Vietnam.

In 1975 Norman recorded In Another Land, the third album in his trilogy, which was released in 1976 through his own Solid Rock label and distributed through Word Records, making it " the first of his albums to be released on a Christian label ".

Rockwell International — who second-sourced the 6502, along with Synertek — released their own evaluation board in 1976, the AIM 65.

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 10, Denver Broncos ( 5 own, 5 opponents ) vs. Buffalo Bills, December 13, 1964 ; Pittsburgh Steelers ( 5 / 5 ) vs. Houston Oilers, December 9, 1973 ; Washington Redskins ( 2 / 8 ) vs. St. Louis Cardinals, October 25, 1976

After Britten ’ s own death in 1976, the artistic direction of the Festival was shared ; many world-class musicians joined the artistic team, including at various times Philip Ledger, Colin Graham, Steuart Bedford, Mstislav Rostropovich, Murray Perahia, Simon Rattle, John Shirley-Quirk and Oliver Knussen.

* In 1976, Peachtree City got its own telephone exchange ( 487 ).

Since 1976 Hodgkins has been served by the Pleasantview Fire Protection District which had its own humble beginnings with one engine in 1946 and has grown into a top-notch organization since then.

The quartet has been performing since 1976, with each child joining the group as he developed his own paths.

The group went on their own after the end of a tour in 1976 going on to have significant amount of solo success, especially Nona Hendryx, who followed an idiosyncratic muse into her own solo career, which often bordered on the avant-garde and Patti LaBelle, who's enjoyed a very successful Grammy-winning solo career.