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While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.
This ruled out classification as an asteroid, and they decided this was the ninth planet that Lowell had predicted.
* Mike Lowell ( 1999 – 2005 ) — Lowell a native of Coral Gables, FL had successful years in Florida and established himself as one of the elite third baseman in the league.
In the 20th century, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, and Gale Wilhelm wrote popular works that had same-sex relationships or gender transformations as themes.
In 1929 the observatory's director, Vesto Melvin Slipher, summarily handed the job of locating the planet to Clyde Tombaugh, a 22-year-old Kansas farm boy who had only just arrived at the Lowell Observatory after Slipher had been impressed by a sample of his astronomical drawings.
" The object lay just six degrees from one of two locations for Planet X Lowell had suggested ; thus it seemed he had at last been vindicated.
To the observatory's disappointment and surprise, Pluto showed no visible disc ; it appeared as a point, no different from a star, and, at only 15th magnitude, was six times dimmer than Lowell had predicted, which meant it was either very small, or very dark.
When Lawrence of Arabia was first announced, Lawrence's biographer Lowell Thomas offered producer Spiegel and screenwriters Bolt and Wilson a large amount of research material he had produced on Lawrence during and after his time with him in the Arab Revolt.
Sinologists Lowell Dittmer and Chen Ruoxi point out that the Chinese language had historically been defined by subtlety, delicacy, moderation, and honesty, as well as the “ cultivation of a refined and elegant literary style .” This changed during the Cultural Revolution.
However, only three of them, Haseltine, Lowell, and Mason had studied at the college before dropping out in 1994 to move to Nashville, while Odmark still received an honorary degree, despite having attended university in New York.
Two years later, the specially-designed Clark telescope that Lowell had ordered was installed.
Since Chinese Americans were already nearly half the student population, the consent decree had the effect of requiring competitive Lowell high school to apply much higher academic admission standards for Chinese American students than other students.
The result was the Imagist Anthology 1930, edited by Aldington and including all the contributors to the four earlier anthologies with the exception of Lowell, who had died, Cannell, who had disappeared, and Pound, who declined.
Incorporated in 1902, by 1910 its population swelled to 9, 019 and it sported a constellation of suburbs, including Warren, Lowell, and San Jose, some of which had been founded on their own ( ultimately less successful ) mines.
As of the 2010 census Lowell had a population of 7, 327.
The money had been found in a 45-pound sealed canvas mail bag by local farmer Lowell Elliott while working in his soybean farm.
By 1868, it had surpassed Lowell as the leading textile city in America with over 500, 000 spindles.
The Water Power Association members: Abbott Lawrence, Edmund Bartlett, Thomas Hopkinson of Lowell, John Nesmith and Daniel Saunders, who had purchased control of Peter's Falls on the Merrimack River and hence controlled Bodwell's Falls the site of the present Great Stone Dam.
The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation.
By the 1850s, Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States.

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Writer James Russell Lowell referred to Alcott in his poem " Studies for Two Heads " as " an angel with clipped wings ".
Pavano, Benitez, Mike Lowell and Miguel Cabrera each enjoyed All-Star seasons, with Cabrera belting 33 homers ( second-most ever in a season by a Marlin ) while driving in 112 runs.
While Cabrera, Willis, and several others posted very good first-half numbers, Lowell was one of the least productive regular major-league starters, and Leiter went 3 – 7 with an ERA of 6. 64 before being traded to the New York Yankees on July 15 for a player to be named later.
Burnett was mentioned in possible trades with the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers, with many rumors also including Lowell or Encarnacion.
In his tenure with the Marlins, Lowell was a three time All-Star and won a Silver Slugger and Gold Glove.
His engagement for the Lowell Institute lectures precipitated the establishment of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University in 1847 with him as its head.
Avant-garde composer David Tudor created a piece, Reunion ( 1968 ), written jointly with Lowell Cross, that features a chess game in which each move triggers a lighting effect or projection.
At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.
The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.
In 1894, with the help of William Pickering, Percival Lowell, a wealthy Bostonian, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Lowell himself, despite his close association with Pickering, dismissed Planet O out of hand, saying, " This planet is very properly designated " O ", it is nothing at all.
In 1925, the observatory obtained glass discs for a new 13-inch wide-field telescope to continue the search, constructed with funds from George Lowell, Percival's brother.
In a meeting with Teller and Lowell Wood, a critic noted that the Soviets could easily defeat the system by attacking the satellite, whose only defense was to destroy itself.
In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".
The “ Videoviews ” series consists of Sharps ’ dialogues with Bruce Nauman ( 1970 ), Joseph Beuys ( 1972 ), Vito Acconci ( 1973 ), Chris Burden ( 1973 ), Lowell Darling ( 1974 ), and Dennis Oppenheim ( 1974 ).
The prints also influenced early Modernist poetry in many important ways, with Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Amy Lowell allowing them strongly to influence their imagery and aesthetic sentiments.
* Jackson Bentley – Based on famed American journalist Lowell Thomas, who helped make Lawrence famous with accounts of his bravery.
Akiko recorded her debut album, Japanese Girl, primarily in Los Angeles with Lowell George and Little Feat.
In 1966 he was nominated for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry in succession to Robert Graves ; with some misgivings he agreed to stand and was elected by a large majority over the other candidate, Robert Lowell.
The discovery that a hormone can influence phosphoinositide metabolism was made by Mabel R. Hokin ( 1924 – 2003 ) and her then husband Lowell E. Hokin in 1953, when they discovered that radioactive < sup > 32 </ sup > P phosphate was incorporated into the phosphatidylinositol of pancreas slices when stimulated with acetylcholine.
In Massachusetts, the Lowell Courier published its opinion that, with women's equality, " the lords must wash the dishes, scour up, be put to the tub, handle the broom, darn stockings.

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