Fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him " the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America ", suggesting – rhetorically – that he occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink.

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.

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.

* 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 ).

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.

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.

* Jackson Bentley – Based on famed American journalist Lowell Thomas, who helped make Lawrence famous with accounts of his bravery.

For example, the 19th century Lowell Mill Girls, who, without any reported knowledge of European marxism or anarchism, condemned the " degradation and subordination " of the newly emerging industrial system, and the " new spirit of the age: gain wealth, forgetting all but self ", maintaining that " those who work in the mills should own them.

* Lowell Thomas ( 1892 – 1981 ), newsman, radio and newsreel host best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia

He hired experienced staffers such as Lowell Murray, Duncan Edmonds, and William Neville, who shaped his policies and ran his office efficiently.

Dukakis's father Panos ( 1896 – 1979 ) was a Greek immigrant from Adramyttion ( Edremit ), in Turkey, which was then the Ottoman Empire, who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1912, and graduated from Harvard Medical School twelve years later, subsequently working as an obstetrician.

Lowell Observatory hosts 85, 000 visitors per year at their Steele Visitors Center who take guided daytime tours and view various wonders of the night sky through the Clark Telescope and other telescopes.

Lowell was a wealthy heiress from Boston who loved Keats and cigars.

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.

Others reportedly holding stock in the company were Dr. Harvey Knight, of Lowell, Mass., who later opened a sanitarium and hotel, C. A.

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.

In the late 18th and to the mid-19th centuries Middleton was a vacation town to those who lived in areas such as Lawrence and Lowell.

Until recently, this position was held by Bernard F. Lynch, who has left to become the city manager of Lowell.

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.

* Lowell Poetry Network-A network of area poets and appreciators of poetry who host readings, receptions, and open mics.

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.

" 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.

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.

By the 1850s, Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States.

Senator Lowell Murray wrote in 2003: " The Crown has become irrelevant to most Canadian's understanding of our system of Government ," which he attributed to the " fault of successive generations of politicians, of an educational system that has never given the institution due study, and of past vice-regal incumbents themselves.

" While his series was still in progress, Lowell was offered the Smith Professorship of Modern Languages at Harvard, a post vacated by Longfellow, at an annual salary of $ 1, 200, though he never applied for it.

Lowell had intended never to remarry after the death of his wife Maria White.

Queen Victoria commented that she had never seen an ambassador who " created so much interest and won so much regard as Mr. Lowell.

Lowell referred to these fourteen-line poems as sonnets although they sometimes failed to incorporate regular meter and never incorporated rhyme ( both of which are defining features of the sonnet form ); however, some of Lowell's sonnets ( particularly the ones in Notebook 1967-1968 ) were written in blank verse with a definitive pentameter.

Now, when I ’ m out in society I make it a point never to talk shop, and Lowell ’ s peculiarity mortified me.

Senator Borah saw a lack of patriotism: " There are a vast number of people supporting the league of nations who never let an opportunity go by of belittling ... everything that is truly American: and Dr. Lowell is one of them.

Harding as president disappointed proponents of the League, but Lowell never regretted his decision to endorse him.

In 2004, he signed as a free agent by the Carolina Hurricanes but never played for them, he played for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League, where he had 9 points and 183 penalty minutes in 56 games.

At this point, the only other male in the group, Dr. Lowell, announces that he never had a vasectomy and is the only one now with whom Lakshmi can conceive a child.

Richard Eberhart was an early mentor of Lowell, despite Lowell having never taken a class with him ; their relationship continued during Lowell's time at Harvard University.