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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 ...
* 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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In the meantime, Julian had won some victories against the Alemanni tribe, who had once again invaded Roman Gaul.
It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ( Julian Fellowes ) plus six more nominations, including two for Altman, as Best Director and Best Picture.
* Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. September 2, 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.
* His recording of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor with Julian Lloyd Webber won the 1987 BRIT Award for Best British Classical Recording ( BBC Music Magazine named this recording " the finest version ever recorded ").
Julian impressed the Emperor with his skills as a parachutist, landing within a few feet of his throne during one ceremony, a feat that won him Ethiopian citizenship and a position in the nation's airforce.
Julian Barnes ( 1946 -) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, while three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
At an October convention, Getty won a second ballot victory against Minister of Municipal Affairs Julian Koziak and former legislator Ron Ghitter.
It has been won by cellists including Rohan de Saram ( 1955 ), Jacqueline du Pré ( 1956 ), Robert Cohen ( 1967 – 1971 ), Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Steven Isserlis, Raphael Wallfisch and Julian Lloyd Webber.
Many Spanish children grew up believing the war was fought against foreigners ,-the painter Julian Grau Santos ; " it was instilled in me and I always believed that Spain had won the war against foreign enemies of our historic greatness.
Gonzalez followed that victory up with five more wins, including a 12-round unanimous decision over Julian Letterlough on February 2, 2001, that won him the regional NABO light heavyweight title-and propelled him into the No. 1 contender's position in several sanctioning bodies ' ratings.
The original author of Valgrind is Julian Seward, who in 2006 won a Google-O ' Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.
His prominent roles included originating the character of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical play in history, Chuck Baxter in the original production of Promises, Promises ( for which he won a Tony Award ), Julian Marsh in 42nd Street and Billy Flynn in the original production of Chicago.
Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. 2 September 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.
He appeared in two FIFA World Cup tournaments, and won two MLS Cup titles with D. C. United, and was the second American footballer to appear in the final of a major English tournament since Julian Sturgis in 1876.
He re-appeared in the 2009 Davis Cup match against Austria in which he won in the doubles match together with Philipp Kohlschreiber against Julian Knowle and Alexander Peya in 4 sets 6 – 3 7 – 6 ( 6 ) 3 – 6 6 – 4.
In the Dominican Winter Baseball league, Stan won two batting titles back to back years and was named the all-time center fielder for the Aguilas Cibaenas, teaming up with his father Julian Javier, who was named the all time second baseman for the same team.
Julian L. McPhillips won many counties in the southern part of the state, but Susan Parker won the most counties.
His son Julian Royds Gribble won the Victoria Cross in the First World War, but was killed in action in 1918 ; the current village hall was constructed as a gift the village, in memory of him.
At the front, Senna won ahead of Berger, Lehto, Martini, Mika Häkkinen and Julian Bailey.
Its inaugural editorial team included editor Chris Anderson, Software Editor Bob Wade, freelance writer Steve Cooke ( who joined the staff from the recently-folded Personal Computer Games ), and reviewers Gary Penn and Julian Rignall, who won their jobs after having placed as finalists at a video game competition.
The film, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Sam Waterston as Schanberg, Haing S. Ngor as Pran, Julian Sands as Jon Swain, and John Malkovich as Al Rockoff.
He won the award Europe's Actor in the International Monodrama Festival in Oteševo, Republic of Macedonia for his performance of " The Dream " by Julian Barnes in 2003.
Julian won the general election, defeating Mary Pynenburg of the Liberal Party of Canada by just 329 votes.

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