`` Don't think Linda couldn't have got John back any time, if she'd tried '', Mousie Gordon, who had been Mousie Chandler, said between bites of a chicken sandwich at a luncheon table at Le Mont.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, archaeologists like V. Gordon Childe and later John Hamilton regarded them as castles where local landowners held sway over a subject population.

Examples include Geena Davis, Morley Safer, Ashley Judd, Gordon Elliott, former Major League pitcher Bill Lee, and astronaut John Grunsfeld calling from the Space Shuttle.

Most of the writers whom he had developed at Ace went with him to DAW: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, Philip K. Dick, John Brunner, A. Bertram Chandler, Kenneth Bulmer, Gordon R. Dickson, A. E. van Vogt, and Jack Vance.

The Gordon family descends from John Gordon, who fought as a Royalist against the Covenanters in the Civil War.

Sir John Gordon ( d. c. 1395 ) of Strathbogie, ancestor of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, was the brother of Elizabeth Gordon.

* Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet ( 1610 – 1644 )

* Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1632 – 1665 )

* John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1847 – 1934 )

* Alastair Ninian John Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1920 – 2002 )

Max matter-of-factly informs Nan Gordon ( Deirdre O ' Connell ), the wife of his friend and business partner, that her husband Jeff ( John de Lancie ) died in the crash.

* John de Lancie as Jeff Gordon

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

Lucy Jr. married John Hardcastle in Derby in 1792 and their daughter, Mary, married Francis Boott, the physician.

He did not stand for re-election in 1792, and was a presidential elector for John Adams in the 1796 election.

* 1723 – John Burgoyne, British general ( d. 1792 )

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

* 1747 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander ( d. 1792 )

* 1792 – John Linnell, English painter ( d. 1882 )

* John Brown ( Kentucky ) ( 1757 – 1837 ), U. S. representative ( VA, 1789 – 1792 ) and U. S. senator ( KY, 1793 – 1805 ); member of Continental Congress from Virginia

* 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman ( d. 1792 )

This settlement was different from the Freetown settlement and colony founded in 1792 by Lt. John Clarkson and the Nova Scotian Settlers under the auspices of the Sierra Leone Company

While in Revolutionary Paris in 1792, the 22-year-old Wordsworth made the acquaintance of the mysterious traveller John " Walking " Stewart ( 1747 – 1822 ), who was nearing the end of a thirty-years ' peregrination from Madras, India, through Persia and Arabia, across Africa and all of Europe, and up through the fledgling United States.

* May 11 – John Herschel, English astronomer ( b. 1792 )

* September 4 – John Pascoe Fawkner, Australian pioneer, settler and politician, Melbourne, Victoria ( b. 1792 )

* May 28 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1792 )

* February 24 – John Burgoyne, British general ( d. 1792 )

* July 6 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain ( d. 1792 )

* June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer ( d. 1792 )

* November 3 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman ( d. 1792 )

* May 25 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1792 )

His mother, Anne Becher ( 1792 – 1864 ) was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary ( writer ) for the East India Company.

Anne Becher, born 1792, was " one of the reigning beauties of the day ," and a daughter of John Harmon Becher ( Collector of the South 24 Parganas district d. Calcutta, 1800 ), of an old Bengal civilian family " noted for the tenderness of its women.

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS ( 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871 )

J. C. Calhoun's wife since 1811, Floride Calhoun, ( 1792 – 1866 ), was the daughter of South Carolina United States Senator and lawyer John E. Colhoun, ( 1750 – 1802 ).

The city of Freetown was founded in 1792 by Abolitionist John Clarkson as a land for freed African American slaves, called the Nova Scotian who had fought on the side with British during the American Revolutionary War.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )