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Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).
Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.
Julian Simon ( 1932 – 1998 ) is the American economist.
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Julian L. Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous scientific wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990.
As a result, in October 1990, Paul Ehrlich mailed Julian Simon a check for $ 576. 07 to settle the wager in Simon's favor.
In 1980, Julian Simon repeatedly challenged environmental scientists to bet against him on trends in prices of commodities, asserting that humanity would never run out of anything ... Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time ...
Julian Simon won because the price of three of the five metals went down in nominal terms and all five of the metals fell in price in inflation-adjusted terms, with both tin and tungsten falling by more than half.
* Wired Magazine article on Julian Simon as Doomslayer and the wager
Schneider has accused people, including Julian Simon, of deliberately taking this quote out of context in order to misrepresent his views.
On 13 December 2000, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new radio adaptation directed by Howard Davies starring Geraldine McEwan as " Lady Bracknell ", Simon Russell Beale as " Jack Worthing ", Julian Wadham as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Geoffrey Palmer as " Rev.
** Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author ( b. 1932 )
* February 12 – Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author ( d. 1998 )
NASM was originally written by Simon Tatham with assistance from Julian Hall, and is currently maintained by a small team led by H. Peter Anvin.
The argument as stated by commentators Julian Lincoln Simon states that if these global-scale ecological effects exist, human ingenuity will find ways of adapting to them.
* Collecting Autographs by Herman M. Darvick, Julian Messner, a Simon & Schuster Division of Gulf & Western Corporation, 1981, 96 pages.
Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985 directed by James Ivory and starring Maggie Smith as " Charlotte Bartlett ", Helena Bonham Carter as " Lucy Honeychurch ", Judi Dench as " Eleanor Lavish ", Denholm Elliott as " Mr. Emerson ", Julian Sands as " George Emerson ," Daniel Day-Lewis as " Cecil Vyse " and Simon Callow as " The Reverend Mr. Beebe ".
* Eric Gregory Award: Graham Mort, Adam Thorpe, Pippa Little, James Harpur, Simon North, Julian May
In the first round, he and Knowles upset US Open champions Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle in three sets.
On 28 May 2008, Klaus gave the keynote address at an annual dinner hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market advocacy group in Washington, D. C., and received its Julian L. Simon Memorial Award.
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His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists.
He also used lesser known writers, such as Fulgentius, Julian of Eclanum, Tyconius, and Prosperius.
The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler ( BBC News at Five ), Sophie Long ( mainly weekday afternoons ), Rachel Schofield ( Monday mornings ), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker ( Friday afternoons ), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters.
Thelma Barlow, who played Derek's wife Mavis, was angered by the sacking of her co-star and resigned, while the production team also lost some of its key writers when Barry Hill, Adele Rose and Julian Roach all resigned.
The astronomers describe their system as also being a " Julian date " system.
Their starting point in determining the date of Orthodox Easter is also 21 March, but according to the Julian reckoning, which currently corresponds to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar.
In the Aeneid ( published circa 17 BC ), Vergil claims the descent of Augustus Caesar's Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus.
Stilicho was absent in Raetia in the latter months of 401, when Alaric, who was also the eastern empire's magister militum in Illyricum, suddenly marched with a large army to the Julian Alps and entered Italy.
While at Athens, he developed a close friendship with his fellow student Basil of Caesarea and also made the acquaintance of Flavius Claudius Julianus, who would later become the emperor known as Julian the Apostate.
Claudius was a Claudian through his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, and also possessed a blood connection to the Julian branch of the Imperial Family through his mother, Antonia Minor.
On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar his feast day is September 22 also ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 22 currently falls on October 5 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).
While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.
While he ceded much of the authority of the imperial government to the cities, Julian also took more direct control himself.
It had also been used in the past as a staging place for amassing troops, a purpose which Julian intended to follow.
Ammianus states that Julian longed for revenge on the Persians and that a certain desire for combat and glory also played a role in his decision to go to war.
Julian Lennon is also the producer of the documentary called WhaleDreamers about an aboriginal tribe in Australia and its special relationship to whales.
As the kingdom was by now a relatively unimportant state, the Mongols paid little attention to it, but there were a few skirmishes in 1260: the forces of Julian of Sidon killed the nephew of Kitbuqa, who responded by sacking Sidon, and John II of Beirut was also captured by the Mongols during another raid.
Lorenz was also a friend and student of renowned biologist Sir Julian Huxley ( grandson of " Darwin's bulldog ", Thomas Henry Huxley ).
* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.
Eight of the twelve biggest Eastern Orthodox Churches which have adopted the Revised Julian calendar – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, and Turkey – also celebrate 1 January as the New Year.
Julian Barnes also was an employee ; he was said to dislike the work.
There were also autographs by band members from Depeche Mode, Tool, the Fray, Judas Priest, Pearl Jam and more, as well as signatures from Ricky, Julian and Bubbles from " Trailer Park Boys: The Movie " on a rare Epiphone guitar.
The Revised Julian calendar, also known as the Rectified Julian calendar, or, less formally, New calendar, is a calendar, originated in 1923, which effectively discontinued the 340 years of divergence between the naming of dates sanctioned by those Eastern Orthodox churches adopting it and the Gregorian calendar that has come to predominate worldwide.

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