The Man from Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished -- and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse it up.

He was a prominent contributor to the ABA book Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association.

He was also the father of Pepin the Short and grandfather of Charlemagne.

They then developed an intermediate-power cartridge round, which was accomplished by reducing the power and the length of the standard 7. 92x57 Mauser rifle cartridge to create the 7. 92x33 Kurz ( Short ) cartridge.

The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

A Short Account of Scots Divines, by him, was printed at Edinburgh in 1833, edited by James Maidment.

Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.

In 1643 there appeared Ivan Uzhevych's Grammatica sclavonica and, in 1762, the Short Introduction to English Grammar of Robert Lowth was also published.

In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.

One of the sons of Sir Morris Abbot called George was also an MP in the Short Parliament.

In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a successful run, opposite Martin Short, in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks ' The Producers.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

The story was reprinted a decade later in Groff Conklin's anthology, Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels ( Dell, 1960 ), followed by MacLean's collection, The Diploids ( Avon, 1962 ).

His grandfather was Pepin the Short.

His short " Wrestling Swordfish " was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.

In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth ( with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard ), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

He encouraged the deposition of the last Merovingian king of the Franks, Childeric III, and it was with his sanction that Boniface crowned Pepin the Short as King of the Franks at Soissons in 752.

This curtailed work on their first heavy bomber design, the Supermarine B. 12 / 36 which was replaced by the Short Stirling.

The latter was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short Subject.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

Range was a vital detail.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

Mount Eisenhower was named in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

The United States Census Bureau estimates that in 2005 the population of the City of Fort Collins was 128, 026, the population of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area was 271, 927 ( 163rd most populous MSA ), and the population of the Front Range Urban Corridor was 4, 013, 055.

The roadway across the pass was completed in 1982, and has superseded the unpaved Mintaka and Kilik Passes as the primary passage across the Karakoram Range.

Range was not key criteria for these tasks and it was not always viable for the Heer to move heavy artillery over recently captured territory to bombard fortifications or support ground forces when faster dive-bombers could do the job more quickly.

The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as " Township 4 North Range 2 West " in February 1827 in what was then dense forest.

( The original Range Rover was continued under the name ' Range Rover Classic ' until 1995 )

From 1942 onwards Kalashnikov was assigned to the Central Scientific-developmental Firing Range for Rifle Firearms of the Chief Artillery Directorate of RKKA.

Launched on November 1, 1961, however, the rocket was destroyed by the Range Safety Officer after 44 seconds of flight.

Mariner 1 ( designated Mariner R-1 ) was launched on July 22, 1962, but was destroyed approximately 5 minutes after liftoff by the Air Force Range Safety Officer when its malfunctioning Atlas-Agena rocket went off course.

Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to the Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8: 05 a. m. ( IST ).

A B-52G launched last XGAM-87A missile down the Atlantic Missile Range a day after the program was cancelled.

The Extended Range Interceptor ( ERINT ) program was part of SDI's Theater Missile Defense Program and was an extension of the Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment ( FLAGE ), which included developing hit-to-kill technology and demonstrating the guidance accuracy of a small, agile, radar-homing vehicle.

`` Until this Hungarian Committee matter came up, Bang-Jensen was a fine and devoted individual.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.

It was getting so that we, the Committee, were being tried.

As far as I'm concerned, it was a separate matter from the general Committee study of Bang-Jensen's conduct.

This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Recently the secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation was interviewed on the air.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

They had the unspoken support of President-elect Kennedy, whose own legislative program was menaced by the Rules Committee bottleneck.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

US House Resolution 106 was introduced on January 30, 2007 later referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

As chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense, Johnson continued his relentless opposition to spending, especially when the capital city was the beneficiary ; he argued it was egregious to expect citizens in other states to fund the infrastructure of another locality, regardless of the fact it was the seat of government.

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.