Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

Some of the turning points included the use of the term " Black Power " by Kwame Toure ( Stokely Carmichael ) and the release of James Brown's song " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ".

* James Hal Cone ( born 1938 ), an advocate of Black liberation theology

" The Sign of the Southern Cross " is a song by Black Sabbath written in 1981 which was sung by Ronnie James Dio.

Black had mixed the Jungle Book's " King of the Swingers " with the break from James Brown's " Funky Drummer ".

Examples are the Matthew Reilly books Temple and Hell Island, the James Rollins books Sandstorm, Map of Bones, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key and Black Order, and the video game series Metal Gear Solid, as well as the video games Infamous, Vanquish, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

* 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.

The focus of the Scottish Enlightenment ranged from intellectual and economic matters to the specifically scientific as in the work of William Cullen, physician and chemist, James Anderson, an agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket ( 1874 ), Detroit Institute of Arts

* 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf ) ( d. 2010 )

* 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James )

* 1959 – James Lomenzo, American musician ( Megadeth, White Lion and Black Label Society )

C. L. R. James also used the term to refer to revolutionaries during the Haitian Revolution in his book The Black Jacobins.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

* 2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist ( b. 1924 )

Hay and Ham hired new bandmates to tour behind the record, including jazz / fusion bassist Jeremy Alsop, progressive rock drummer Mark Kennedy ( ex Ayers Rock ), and guitarist James Black, who respectively play on seven, eight and one of the ten tracks on Two Hearts.

* James Black – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

In May 1607, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed sailed through Chesapeake Bay and thirty miles up the James River to a parcel of densely wooded, swamp land.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

* Barlett, Donald P. and Steele, James B .; " Monsanto's Harvest of Fear ", Vanity Fair May 2008

* Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

On the February 20, 2011, episode of Top Gear, James May had Bovril in an urn inside a Claas Dominator combine harvester in Norway, which was converted into a snow plough.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

In May 1997, Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders, and President Clinton, during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

* In the first episode of the second series of James May's Man Lab, James May and Oz Clarke were demonstrating map-reading skills by pretending to escape from Dartmoor prison and cross Dartmoor to their escape car ( although they had to start their escape from outside the prison grounds as they were not allowed permission inside the prison ).

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

* 12 May: James Connolly and Sean MacDiarmada

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

However, in May 2012 Judge James Taylor ruled that while Price had lived in Coleman's home after their marriage ended, their relationship at the time of his death failed to meet Utah ’ s standard for a common-law marriage.

The 4th edition of Gamma World ( ISBN 1-56076-401-5 ) was a 192-page softcover book, written by Bruce Nesmith and James M. Ward, published in May 1992 by TSR.

In May 1686, James decided to obtain from the English courts of the common law a ruling which affirmed his power to dispense with Acts of Parliament.

William's envoy Everhard van Weede Dijkvelt visited England between February and May 1687, instructed to persuade James to help contain French aggression.

Prime Minister Percival James Patterson visited Cuba at the end of May 1997.

James Joseph Brown ( May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

* 1963 – James May, English television presenter

James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.