It is the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell.

Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County ( Lowell is the other ).

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

As railroads overtook canals for transportation, canal systems were modified and developed into hydropower systems ; the history of Lowell, Massachusetts is a classic example of commercial development and industrialization, built upon the availability of water power.

Lowell, Massachusetts, utilising of canals and ten thousand horsepower delivered by the Merrimack River, is considered by some to be a major contributor to the success of the American Industrial Revolution.

The Pelvic Pain Urgency / Frequency ( PUF ) Patient Survey, created by C. Lowell Parsons, is a short questionnaire that will help physicians identify if pelvic pain could be coming from the bladder.

There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

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.

Lowell is buried on Mars Hill near his observatory.

The full history of the subject is described in Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge's Origin of Polar Coordinates.

The screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz, is based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts.

Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare and Walgreens, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U. S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station and Northern Arizona University.

* At Harvard College, Lowell House's annual spring formal is named Bacchanalia.

* 1990 — Wolfgang Krätschmer, Lowell Lamb, Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, and Donald Huffman discovered that Buckminsterfullerene can be separated from soot because it is soluble in benzene.

The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the century, notably Percival Lowell mentioned in the novel.

Dr. Lowell Stone (" Buster ") is quoted in interstitial material in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and referenced as Chief Surgeon at Ceres General.

The generic description of the Martian met by Lowell is similar to the description of the Martians depicted in Stranger in a Strange Land and Red Planet.

Dobro is a registered trademark now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar. 1928 Dobro style 37 tenor guitar from Lowell Levinger's collection

Discovery Channel is also funding the construction of the Discovery Channel Telescope, in partnership with Lowell Observatory.

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

The current trustee of Lowell Observatory is William Lowell Putnam III, grandnephew of founder Percival Lowell and son of long-time trustee Roger Putnam.

First settled by Europeans in the 17th century, East Chelmsford ( later renamed Lowell in honor of the founders ' deceased business partner ) became an important manufacturing center along the Merrimack River in the early 1820s.

Morris was born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States ; an important early mentor and playing partner was the legendary but little-recorded pianist Lowell Davidson.

He was also the father of Samuel ( 1801 ) who was a business partner with his brother William, and Luther Lawrence ( 1778 – 1839 ) who was Mayor of Lowell, MA 1838 – 39.

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.

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.

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.

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.