West ( 1967 ) for Alcidamas ' invention of the contest of Homer and Hesiod, N. J. Richardson ( 1981 ) against

* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, a 1981 biographical film focusing on a young girl's drug addiction in West Berlin, featured Bowie in a cameo appearance as himself at a concert in Germany.

:* Edward M. West ( UK ): 1981 – 1985.

* 1981 – Emily West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* Levtzion, Nehemia, and John Hopkins: Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, Cambridge 1981.

Following the Greater London Council election in 1981, the incoming Labour administration simplified fares in Greater London by introducing four new bus fare zones and two central London Underground zones, named City and West End, where flat fares applied for the first time.

Slavery is still said to exist in Mauritania, some 100 years after slavery officially ended in the West and since it was officially abolished in the country in 1981.

In 1981, Franks returned to West Germany where he commanded 2nd Battalion, 78th Field Artillery for three years.

It represents the life work of John Ehn ( 1897 – 1981 ), a self-taught artist who wished to pass on a sense of the Old West, derived from personal experiences, myths, and tall tales.

This musical premiered in London's West End in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982, and went on to become the longest-running Broadway show in history, until it was beaten by another Andrew Lloyd Webber show, The Phantom of the Opera.

In 1957, Jewel acquired Eisner Food Stores, located in downstate Illinois and west central Indiana ( Lafayette, West Lafayette, Indiana ), and in 1981, the Eisner stores were converted to the Jewel name.

Jackson won five consecutive American League West divisional pennants, three consecutive American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles as a member of the Oakland Athletics ( he did not play in the 1972 World Series due to injury ) from 1971 to 1975 ; four American League East divisional pennants, three American League pennants and two consecutive World Series titles with the Yankees from 1977 to 1981 ; and two American League West divisional pennants with the California Angels in 1982 and 1986.

The Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust was set up in 1975 and acquired the freehold of both East and West Cemeteries by 1981, since when they have had responsibility for the maintenance of the location.

After some time it closed again until the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk purchased it in 1981.

West Side Lumber Company Shay No. 7, inside the old millyard at Tuolumne, 1981.

On October 2, 1980, Waterloo announced a Sister Cities partnership ( officially recognized April 1981 ) with Porta Westfalica in ( then ) West Germany.

By 1981 Prestel International was available in nine countries, and a number of countries, including Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland and West Germany were developing their own national systems closely based on Prestel.

West ( 1900 – 1981 ), department store retailer opened first store in Mansfield before relocating to Minden

In 1981, West Caldwell became a township to take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies.

* Adele Astaire ( 1896 – 1981 ), Fred Astaire's elder sister, dancer and entertainer in vaudeville, on Broadway and the West End

* Square Tavern ( 1742 )-also known as " The Square Inn " and John West House "- the childhood site of famous American painter Benjamin West, restored in 1981 and again in 2008, located at the corner of Newtown Street ( Rt.

Longtime NBA player Detlef Schrempf attended Centralia High School as an exchange student from the former West Germany ( 1980 – 1981 ), starring in basketball

After winning Miss Pacific Coast in 1981, she gave up pageant life.

In December 1981, additional laws were enacted clarifying permissible military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies and the Coast Guard, especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States.

* Macnair, Peter L .; Hoover, Alan L .; Neary, Kevin ( 1981 ) The Legacy – Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art

The rap scene started in 1981, when Duffy Hooks launched the first West Coast rap label Rappers Rapp Records, inspired by Sugar Hill Records in New York.

1981 would also bring the Rappers Rapp Group, a West Coast version of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.

A & R manager Frank Neilson was able to score a major top ten hit in March 1981 for the label with " Do The Hucklebuck " by Coast to Coast as well as signing Ian Dury and Billy Fury to the company.

From 1981 ( Marcus Allen ) to 2002 ( Carson Palmer ), not a single Pacific-10 Conference or other West Coast player won the Heisman Trophy, although two from the Rocky Mountains did, Brigham Young's Ty Detmer in 1990, and Colorado's Rashaan Salaam in 1994.

After leaving NASA and the Air Force, he held a number of positions in international and U. S. businesses, and became owner and president of Gulf Coast Coors in 1981.

The prototype APT-P pushed the speed record further to 261 km / h ( 162. 2 mph ) in December 1979, but when put into service on 7 December 1981, it failed and was withdrawn days later, resuming only from 1980 to 1986 on the West Coast Main Line.

Until 1981, several college football conferences, including the Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) and Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ), held conference signing days on the second Saturday in December to have recruits sign conference letters-of-intent.

It was first published in 1981 in the Sunshine Coast Daily.

After spending several years performing in playhouses all along the West Coast, Combs moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and landed his first role in the 1981 feature film, Honky Tonk Freeway, in which he played an unnamed drive-in teller.

One of the oldest low-minor league hockey teams, the Nailers began play in 1981 in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League as the Carolina Thunderbirds based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Following the base's closure, the nascent Canadian Coast Guard College was located in some of the now-unused RCN facilities and used the base's jetties ; a custom-built CCGC opened on an adjacent property in 1981.

Graham Colton ( born November 6, 1981 ) is an American Singer / Songwriter from Oklahoma City, OK. His most recent album Pacific Coast Eyes Vol.

The weaponry included Texas Cookin ' ( 1976 ), Guy Clark ( 1978 ), The South Coast of Texas ( 1981 ), Better Days ( 1983 ), Old Friends ( 1989 ), Boats to Build ( 1992 ), Dublin Blues ( 1995 ), Keepers-a Live Recording ( 1997 ), Cold Dog Soup ( 1999 ) and The Dark ( 2002 ).

The United States Coast Guard created its own Achievement Medal in 1967 ; however, the United States Army and U. S. Air Force issued their own versions of the award with the Army Achievement Medal in 1981 and Air Force Achievement Medal in 1980.

Dr. Prabhakaran Paleri was commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1969, and permanently seconded to the Coast Guard in 1981.

In 1981 the new missionary diocese of Bo was inaugurated and four new Dioceses of Cape Coast, Koforidua, Sekondi and Sunyani / Tamale were formed.

* 1981: Michael Stanley – North Coast

The walk started in Bangor on March 1, 1981 and reached the East Coast in time to winter it out in Boston, before flying to Europe in March 1982.

Chief Dan George, OC ( July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981 ) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.