The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

According to Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Lucas ’ s theory has been subjected to many criticisms, but has remained essentially unshaken .”

During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

Lucas has since adopted two more children: Katie, born in 1988, and Jett, born in 1993.

All three of his children have appeared in the three Star Wars prequels, as has Lucas himself.

Lucas has said that he is a fan of Seth MacFarlane's hit TV show Family Guy.

The suicide of Lucretia has been an enduring subject for visual artists, including Titian, Rembrandt, Dürer, Raphael, Botticelli, Jörg Breu the Elder, Johannes Moreelse, Artemisia Gentileschi, Damià Campeny, Eduardo Rosales, Lucas Cranach the Elder and others.

Particularly in the wake of the Lucas critique, much of modern macroeconomic theory has been built upon ' microfoundations '— i. e. based upon basic assumptions about micro-level behavior.

" George Lucas, however, has denied a connection, saying: " In the 1977 film, I was working very hard to create something different that wasn't fashion, so I went with a kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look, which is what that is.

" Although Tom Bissell asserts that no one knows why Boba Fett has become so popular, nor cares why, both Lucas and Bulloch cite Fett's mysterious nature as reasons for his popularity.

Indiana travels to Mozambique to aid Dr. Clare Clarke ( a Katharine Hepburn type, according to Lucas ) who has found a 200-year-old pygmy.

Science fiction has often featured planets of binary or ternary stars as a setting, for example George Lucas ' Tatooine from Star Wars, and one notable story, Nightfall, even takes this to a six-star system.

The effects crew assembled by Lucas and Dykstra was dubbed Industrial Light and Magic, and since 1977 has spearheaded most effects innovations.

Lucas is quoted as saying that he chose Christensen because he " needed an actor who has that presence of the dark side " that was essential to solidify the story that Lucas was trying to tell: The tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker and the rise of Darth Vader.

Lucas originally envisioned an American actor for the role of Qui-Gon, but ultimately cast Liam Neeson, who is Northern Irish, because he considered Neeson to have great skills and presence, describing him as a " master actor, who the other actors will look up to, who has got the qualities of strength that the character demands.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

The models of Muth and Lucas ( and the strongest version of the efficient-market hypothesis ) assume that at any specific time, a market or the economy has only one equilibrium ( which was determined ahead of time ), so that people form their expectations around this unique equilibrium.

George Lucas's Star Wars films use many elements of a Western, and Lucas has said he intended for Star Wars to revitalize cinematic mythology, a part the Western once held.

Taylor congratulated Lucas and pledged his support for her campaign.

David, Lucas, and Carl give chase to save her.

Looking for Lucas at the local planing mill, she meets Byron Bunch, who falls in love with Lena but scrupulously tries to give her a chance with Joe Brown.

On the 2010 television program Times Talk, New York Times columnist David Carr asked Carrie Fisher about the special ; she said that she made George Lucas give her a copy of the special in exchange for recording DVD commentary for the Star Wars films.

Lucas also bequeathed his collection of 4, 000 books ( including Galileo's Dialogo of 1632 ) to the University Library at Cambridge, along with enough land to give an income of £ 100 a year, which was to be used to fund a professorship of " mathematick " ( now the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics ).

A related issue is that ACE models which start from strategies instead of preferences may remain vulnerable to the Lucas critique: a changed policy regime should generally give rise to changed strategies.

After a reunion with former bandmembers in 2005, leadguitarist Graham Lee and drummer Ian Lucas decided to give The Scorpions another try.

( Christopher Shand ) and Chooch ( Lucas Blondhelm ), who give him a wedgie in front of everyone at the waterfront.

When conversing with certain non-player characters ( NPCs ), there is oftentimes a " Suspicion " meter, which is affected by the player's choices, indicating how suspicious the character Lucas is conversing with is becoming, e. g. failing to give convincing answers when being interrogated by police.

Eventually, Lucas is able to convince Carla that he is innocent, explaining to her that both the Oracle and the AIs are seeking the Indigo Child, a young girl who possesses a secret that will give great power to whoever hears it.

Naomi quickly ends things with Lucas but he refuses to give up and confides in Ric and Tony.

In a tight and compelling match a young Leicester side triumphed 22 – 17, with a try from Lucas González Amorosino and 17 points from scrum half Ben Youngs.

He spent the following year and a half at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, where he engaged in writing his three great books, his dictations keeping three scribes busy night and day ; there the young monk, Lucas ( afterwards Archbishop of Cosenza ), who acted as his secretary, was amazed to see so famous and eloquent a man wearing such rags, and the wonderful devotion with which he preached and said Mass.

Four and a half years after Hurricane Stan, Tropical Storm Agatha ( 2010 ) dropped even more rainfall causing extensive damages to the region resulting in dozens of deaths between San Lucas Toliman and San Antonio Palopó.

From 2002 till 2004, Carragher was hit by two serious injuries, firstly missing the 2002 FIFA World Cup for an operation on his troublesome knee and later due to a broken leg in the first half of the 2003 – 04 season after a tackle by Blackburn's Lucas Neill at Ewood Park in the Reds ' fifth game of the season.

Jérôme d ' Ambrosio got his Virgin Racing drive a few days before Christmas 2010, the Yorkshire team deposed Lucas di Grassi for the driver who often drove in Friday Practice sessions throughout the season's second half.

Lucas played a total of forty-three games for the Trojans, and finished his college career with 255 tackles ( thirty-six for losses ), twenty-five quarterback hurries, and eleven and a half sacks.

After being treated for approximately half hours at Staples Center, Lucas was rushed to nearby California Hospital Medical Center, where he died at 1: 28pm PDT.

Approximately half an hour after the game vs. the Dragons concluded, Lucas ' death was confirmed by Avengers ' team physician, Luga Podesta, " During the game today, Al Lucas suffered a presumed spinal cord injury and was brought to California Hospital where all attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques ( 1890 – 1961 ) was a Jewish philanthropist of Portuguese origins, concentrating his work in the East End of London during the first half of the 20th century.

The horribly altered version of Raiders comes to life as a deadly supernatural entity and fires lightning bolts at all but the whole group watching, gruesomely killing half of the audience and Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola with it.

Lucas Oil Stadium has a retractable roof designed by Uni-Systems that, like the Veltins-Arena, divides lengthwise into two retractable panels, with each half sliding down the sloping roof of the stadium into the open position.