Among the most fervent supporters of the artificial-canal hypothesis was the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who spent much of his life trying to prove the existence of intelligent life on the red planet.

Primarily, however, Lowell spent his time abroad studying languages, particularly German, which he found difficult.

Lowell spent part of the 1880s delivering various speeches, and his last published works were mostly collections of essays, including Political Essays, and a collection of his poems Heartsease and Rue in 1888.

Born around 1619, Wonalancet spent most of his time with his tribe in the area known as " Augumtoocooke ", which is now modern-day greater Lowell, Massachusetts.

Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835.

He spent his entire career at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he was promoted to assistant director in 1915, acting director from 1916, and finally director from 1926 until his retirement in 1952.

Fluent in English, he spent 1949 – 51 in England, 1951 – 57 in Australia, the latter at Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1957 – 58 at Lowell Observatory in Arizona and 1958 – 60 at Harvard.

He wed Catherine Emma Cate of Vermont on June 10, 1924, and it is said that they spent their honeymoon in Flagstaff, Arizona while Coblentz was at the Lowell Observatory measuring planetary temperatures.

Lowell was born in Huntington, New York and spent much of her childhood traveling with her father, James Lowell, who was a geologist.

Having spent much of his youth in England, Lowell was undoubtedly familiar with the Royal Institution – an entity that sponsored basic scientific research and popular lectures and demonstrations.

He spent the 1910 season as a player – manager for the minor league Lowell Tigers, leading the team to a 65 – 57 record, good for fourth ( out of eight teams ) in the New England League.

UMass Lowell has spent 5 million dollars to renovate the arena since its acquisition.

After serving as an assistant coach at Canisius College in 1987 and Fordham University in 1988, Van Gundy was named head coach at UMass Lowell and spent four seasons there, where he compiled a record of 54-60 and coached Leo Parent, whom Van Gundy called " the best Division 2 player in the nation.

Born in San Jose, California, Coleman graduated from Lowell High School, then spent his entire playing career with the New York Yankees.

In a case of art imitating life, Lowell requested to leave the show in order to spend more time with her daughter, as she felt that time being spent filming the drama was causing her to " miss her childhood ".

Her death left Lowell depressed and reclusive for six months, despite the birth of his son Walter by the end of the year.

In the last few months of his life, Lowell struggled with gout, sciatica in his left leg, and chronic nausea ; by the summer of 1891, doctors believed that Lowell had cancer in his kidneys, liver, and lungs.

In an interview for The Paris Review, Lowell stated that he went to Sears, Roebuck to purchase the " pup tent " that he set up on Tate's lawn and lived in for two months.

Lowell was a conscientious objector during World War II and served several months at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

A few months before Turner's death in 1930, the Lowell Observatory announced the discovery of a new minor planet, and an eleven-year-old Oxford schoolgirl, Venetia Burney, proposed the name Pluto for it to her grandfather Falconer Madan, who was retired from the Bodleian Library, Madan passed the name to Turner, who cabled it to colleagues at the Lowell Observatory in the United States.

On February 19, 1999, Lowell was diagnosed with testicular cancer, causing him to miss nearly two months of the 1999 season while he underwent treatment for the disease.

On August 3 after coming back from nearly 2 months on the disabled list, Lowell stepped into the batters box to a standing ovation at Fenway Park and hit a 2 run home run on the first pitch.

In the 1965 edition of Ariel, Ted Hughes changed Plath's chosen selection and arrangement by dropping twelve poems, adding twelve composed a few months later, and shifting the poems ' ordering, in addition to including an introduction by the poet Robert Lowell.

Although he received a basketball scholarship to Lowell State ( now UMass Lowell ), he only attended the school for three months after which he returned home to help support his mother and siblings.

The term " Watergate Seven " was coined a few months later, in April 1973, by American lawyer, politician, and political commentator Ed Koch, who, in response to U. S. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr .' s indicating that one of the men in Watergate bugging case had been ordered in the spring of 1972 to keep certain Senators and Representatives under surveillance, posted a sign on the door of his United States Congress office saying, ' These premises were surveilled by the Watergate Seven.

In the early months of 1834 textile sales were slow and profits were not up to standard to provide sufficient wages for the women mill workers of Lowell, Massachusetts.

After a heart attack forced Edward Frayne into inactivity, the couple sold the paper to Lowell Jessen of Holtville, just two months before Pearl Harbor.

Lowell graduated as the valedictorian from Harvard College in 1854, and worked in an iron mill in Trenton, New Jersey, for a few months in 1855.

In the closing credits, it is revealed that 6 months after filming, Boo Boo is still in Lowell with a $ 200 a day crack habit, Dicky was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison ( he was paroled in 1999 ), and Brenda died of a drug overdose on October 25 1995.

The Economic and Scientific Section ( ESS ) group was also tasked with improving Japanese management skills and Edgar McVoy was instrumental in bringing Lowell Mellen to Japan to properly install the Training Within Industry ( TWI ) programs in 1951.

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.

* 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 ).

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.

Lowell is buried on Mars Hill near his observatory.

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.

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

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.