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.

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.

* Robert Lowell, poet ; buried in Stark Cemetery

Ames is buried in the Hildreth family cemetery — the family of his mother-in-law, Sarah Hildreth Butler — behind the main cemetery ( also known as Hildreth Cemetery ) on Hildreth Street in Lowell.

Allen was born in Lowell, Massachusetts to Otis and Louisa ( Bixby ) Allen and died at his Rolfe Street home " The Terraces " in Lowell and is buried in Lowell Cemetery.

He is buried in his wife's family cemetery, behind the main Hildreth Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Francis died at the on September 18, 1892, age of 77, and is buried at Lowell Cemetery under a massive pillar of cut granite stones, symbolizing the stones used to make the canals.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

He started out on the ukulele, later moving on to the fiddle, but traded his brother Lowell an old pistol and some chores for a guitar when he was nine.

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.

While on a trip to England in 1810, Newburyport merchant Francis Cabot Lowell was allowed to tour the British textile factories, but not take notes.

Men in Black ( 1997 ), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as Agent K and Agent J, was based on Lowell Cunningham's comic book about a secret organization that monitors and suppresses alien activity on Earth – The Men in Black from Aircel Comics.

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.

Critics of the government charge that the government indicted Milken's brother Lowell in order to put pressure on Milken to settle, a tactic condemned as unethical by some legal scholars.

Tombaugh decided to image the entire zodiac, rather than focus on those regions suggested by Lowell.

Shortly after its discovery in 1930, Armin O. Leuschner disputed Pluto's status, suggesting that its dimness and high orbital eccentricity made it more similar to an asteroid or comet ; " The Lowell result confirms the possible high eccentricity announced by us on April 5.

Percival Lawrence Lowell ( March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916 ) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.

Books by Percival Lowell on the Orient include Chosön: The Land of the Morning Calm ( 1886, Boston ), Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan ( 1891 ) and Occult Japan, or the Way of the Gods ( 1894 ); the latter from his third and final trip to the region.

Slipher first reports on his measurement in the inaugural volume of the Lowell Observatory Bulletin.

* Short Bibliography on Thucydides Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University

Based on this and other evidence, the idea that Mars was inhabited by intelligent life was put forward by a number of prominent scientists around the turn of the century, notably American astronomer Percival Lowell.

* 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.

Among Dewey's neighbors on Quaker Hill were the famous reporter and radio broadcaster Lowell Thomas, the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, and the legendary CBS News journalist Edward R. Murrow.