Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

* 1953 – J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure ( 1953 ), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur.

With the publication of his first book in 1953, The Silent World, he correctly predicted the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises.

* Classics Illustrated No. 112, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( October 1953 ), is based on John C. Abbott's 1873 book ; the comic book went through nine printings between 1953 and 1969.

Also in 1953, Elisabeth Schneider dedicated her book to analysing the various aspects of the poem, including the various sound techniques.

In 1999, his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations ( 1953 ) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy by the Baruch Poll, standing out as "... the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations ".

Meher Baba began dictating his major book about the purpose of creation, God Speaks, in Dehradun, August 1953.

* 1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist

* 1953 – Mindy Newell, American comic book writer

However the neurophysiologist William Grey Walter in his book The Living Brain ( 1953 ) wrote that electrical ' brain-waves ' are too weak to explain telepathy.

However his book The Eddie Chapman Story was eventually published in 1953.

** Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator ( d. 1953 )

The most controversial such reference occurred during a 1935 lecture which was published in 1953 as part of the book Introduction to Metaphysics.

This was followed in 1953 by illustrations for a book by Jeanne Cappe about two very similar rabbits.

Quoting Harold S. Black's 1953 book Modulation Theory, in the section Nyquist Interval of the opening chapter Historical Background:

* 1953: Arts Council of Great Britain Prize for the best first book of poems for Poems

Richard Armour's book It All Started With Columbus ( 1953, revised 1961 ) treats the history of the United States, from 1492 to the JFK presidency, in a manner that owes a great deal to Sellar and Yeatman (" Ferdinand and Isabella refused to believe the world was round, even when Columbus showed them an egg ").

Some of his work only saw the light of day in the 20th century ; his book Architecture, essai sur l ' art (" Essay on the Art of Architecture ), arguing for an emotionally committed Neoclassicism, was only published in 1953.

His book Complex Analysis ( 1953 ) is the classic text on the subject and is almost certainly referenced in any more recent text which makes heavy use of complex analysis.

* The Oak Island Enigma A History and Inquiry Into The Origin of The Money Pit – Penn Leary 1953

The Oak Street School, built in 1953 housed primary grades and one kindergarten class meets in the Baptist Church.

* Barre Volunteer Fire Company – A Volunteer Fire Department located on 4709 Oak Orchard Rd with a loud 1953 Federal Enterprises Single Tone Low Pitched 10-Horsepower Single Phased Siren that is mounted on top of a red tower.

The city was plagued by insufficient water throughout its life and finally in 1953 during a long period of drought, water from Oak Creek Lake at Blackwell was piped in.

* 1953 CDF Fire Station with 1. 6 acres ( 6500 m² ) proposed NW of Live Oak Grove ( 30 yrs )

After repeated collapses, the tunnel was finally abandoned in 1917 leaving a short stretch navigable between Selly Oak and a brick works at California until 1953, after which it was drained and filled in.

Charles Ergen was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on March 1, 1953.

Stephen Shortridge ( born October 23, 1953 ; Red Oak, Iowa ) is an American actor.

Overall he had spent twenty years in broadcasting: he began with WEXL in Royal Oak, Michigan, in 1947 then on to Kansas City, Missouri in 1953 where he worked for KUDL ( where he adopted the nickname " The Bald Kid In The Third Row ", apparently a description made by a parent upon spotting him among many rows of new-borns in a hospital shortly after his birth ) and then WHB ( restyling himself as " The Curly-headed Kid In The Third Row "; he was not, in reality, bald ) where he pioneered the Top-40 format.

Richard White ( born August 4, 1953, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ) is an American actor, opera singer and voice actor.

* 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.

The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin reported, in 1953, that Italians working at the World War I era shipyard in Philadelphia, known as Hog Island where emergency shipping was produced for the war effort, introduced the sandwich, by putting various meats, cheeses, and lettuce between two slices of bread.

* 1953 – U. S. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

In 1953 a 24-channel TDM was placed in commercial operation by RCA Communications to send audio information between RCA's facility at Broad Street, New York and their transmitting station at Rocky Point and the receiving station at Riverhead, Long Island, New York.

The flooded Canvey Island sea front, amusements and residential areas in 1953.

Little Fugitive is a 1953 film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin ( as " Ray Ashley "), Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, that tells the story of a child alone at Coney Island.

On October 4, 1953 he was sent to Bikini Island in the Marshall Islands.

Since 1953 Breezy has been serving the Blackstone Valley as well as the rest of Massachusetts and neighboring states Rhode Island and Connecticut With three three hundred foot waterslides, free parking, game rooms, snack bar, certified lifeguards, and picnic tables, Breezy Picnic Grounds & Waterslides sits off the edge of the Whitin Reservoir.

* Russell Johnson, actor, including It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) and This Island Earth ( 1955 ); best known to audiences as " The Professor " on Gilligan's Island TV series

* Bandit Island ( 1953 )

* The Girls of Pleasure Island ( 1953 )

The discovery of a complete skeleton from Sakhalin Island in 1941, however, showed that they possessed four legs, with bones as stout as a hippopotamus ', and justified the creation of a new order for the desmostylians, described by Roy H. Reinhart in 1953.

H. G. Wells novels The Invisible Man, Things to Come and The Island of Doctor Moreau were all adapted into films during his lifetime while The War of the Worlds was updated in 1953 and again in 2005, adapted to film at least four times altogether.

Peter Brown ( born July 11, 1953, Blue Island, Illinois, United States ) is an American artist, songwriter and record producer.

A Manx Shearwater breeding on Copeland Island, Northern Ireland, is currently ( 2003 / 2004 ) the oldest known wild bird in the world: ringed as an adult ( at least 5 years old ) in July 1953, it was retrapped in July 2003, at least 55 years old.

In 1953, the National Scout Jamboree was held on Irvine Ranch land in the area of what is now Fashion Island Shopping Center.

The designations remained intact for over two decades, but across the Arthur Kill in Staten Island, New York State Route 439 was assigned onto the Goethals Bridge, and when the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering occurred on January 1, 1953, the highway was redesignated as NJ 439 to match up at the state line.

White Island is privately owned and was declared a private scenic reserve in 1953 and is subject to the provision of the Reserves Act 1977.

In February 1953, she wrote one of her last poems, " Farewell in Welfare Island ".

The Government of Canada was amenable to the deal, and expanding the Island Airport, and installed an air traffic control system in 1953, but no comprehensive agreement was yet made.

A Manx Shearwater breeding on Copeland Island, Northern Ireland, was as of 2003 / 2004 the oldest known living wild bird in the world: ringed as an adult ( at least 5 years old ) in July 1953, it was retrapped in July 2003, at least 55 years old.