In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

It was Maurice Fréchet who, in 1906, had distilled the essence of the Bolzano – Weierstrass property and coined the term compactness to refer to this general phenomenon.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

* 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.

On the way back to Shannon, the head of the Children's Fund, Maurice Pate, had the seat next to Danny Kaye and spoke at length to him about the need for recognition for the Fund.

The influence of Intolerance produced a few other films that combined a number of similar stories having similar themes, such as Maurice Tourneur's Woman ( 1918 ), but the box-office failure of Intolerance ensured that these later films had simpler structures.

A key piece of experimentally-derived information came from X-ray diffraction images that had been obtained by Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and their research student, Raymond Gosling.

To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.

The design of the Eiffel Tower was originated by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who had discussed ideas for a centrepiece for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.

The Brundtland Commission provided the momentum for the 1992 Earth Summit / UNCED, that was headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission.

They had assumed the latter, who named the island Maurits Eylandt ( or Mauritius ) after Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, would report their discovery to the States General.

The plane, a mono-engine biplane, christened Maurice, had come by boat.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

Because it had not accepted the Augsburg Interim ( 1548 ), the city, by the emperor's commands, was besieged ( 1550 – 1551 ) by Maurice, Elector of Saxony, but it retained its independence.

In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb was brought in to remove the open roof, put in a flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above.

In 1618, Descartes was engaged in the army of Maurice of Nassau in the Dutch Republic, but as a truce had been established between Holland and Spain, Descartes used his spare time to study mathematics.

He also had some public support for his staying on in the War Cabinet for the duration, which was strongly backed by Sir Maurice Hankey, former WW1 Colonel and member of both WW1 & WW2 War Cabinets.

Maurice Keen provides a brief summary and useful critique of the once-popular view that Robin Hood had mythological origins, while ( unlike some ) refraining from utterly and finally dismissing it.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

One admirer of Salisbury, Maurice Cowling largely agrees with the critics and says Salisbury found the democracy born of the 1867 and 1884 Reform Acts as " perhaps less objectionable than he had expected — succeeding, through his public persona, in mitigating some part of its nastiness.

As the situation returned to normal, Simon Maurice, judging that Bonzi had become unsafe, decided to transfer the French military station to Yamoussoukro, where the French Administration built a pyramid to the memory of Kouassi N ' Go, Chief of the Akoué.

Melanchthon on his way to Trent at Dresden saw the military preparations of Maurice of Saxony, and after proceeding as far as Nuremberg, returned to Wittenberg in March 1552, for Maurice had turned against the emperor.

Project Mogul was conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing who had earlier researched the deep sound channel in the oceans and theorized that a similar sound channel existed in the upper atmosphere: a certain height where the air pressure and temperature result in minimal speed of sound, so that sound waves would propagate and stay in that channel due to refraction.

Phocas's rule was welcomed at first by many because he lowered taxes, which had been high during the reign of Maurice.

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

* March – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat to get through the impregnable defences.

This composition, best known through an orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel, was written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann.

Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE ( 22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012 ) was a singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry.

Conolly's son Maurice Marcus McCausland ( 1872-1938 ) lived through both the best and worst of times at Drenagh as in 1902, through the Irish Land Acts, the Government compulsorily purchased 75 % of the estate.

Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group ; at the time, however, they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

Other translations include those of Paul Béesau ( 1868 ), Gaston Pérot ( 1902, in verse ), Nata Minor ( received the Prix Nelly Sachs, given to the best translation into French of poetry ), Roger Legras, Maurice Colin, Michel Bayat and Jean-Louis Backès ( does not preserve the stanzas ).

He is best remembered as a farceur, for the books Le nez d ' un notaire ( 1862 ); Le roi des montagnes ( 1856 ); L ' homme à l ' oreille cassée ( 1862 ); Trente et quarante ( 1858 ); Le cas de M. Guérin ( 1862 ; see Georges Maurice de Guérin ).

Those who knew Maurice best were deeply impressed with the spirituality of his character.

His competitor in the event, which consisted of a single bout of foil fencing to three touches, was one of the best fencers in the world, the Frenchman Jean Maurice Perronet.

He and Maurice are best friends, though their relationship was strained at one time by their mutual romantic interest in the much younger Shelly Tambo.

* Maurice " Twister " Rodriguez ( Ulises Cuadra ): Otto's best friend, a " daredevil " on wheels, aspiring " videographer ," and known for exhibiting a notable lack of intelligence, " Twister " does not like being called by his real name.

Even though the motto of the Collège is " Docet Omnia ," Latin for " It teaches everything ," its goal can be best summed up by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phrase: " Not preconceived notions, but the idea of free thought " which is inscribed in golden letters above the main hall of the Collège building.

Known by his wartime nickname " Guy ," following his specialized training, Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, the SOE commander, wrote in his file that Biéler was the best student SOE had.

Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, who had been with the Second Armored Division at Saint-Lô, was now the commander of the Third Armored and he may have been the best tank commander of the war.

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916 ) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages.

" According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, Ta Prohm was singled out because it was " one of the most imposing and the one which had best merged with the jungle, but not yet to the point of becoming a part of it ".

The title sequences of Saul Bass and Maurice Binder are among the best examples of this.

Jeanette Anna MacDonald ( June 18, 1903January 14, 1965 ) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier ( Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow ) and Nelson Eddy ( Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime ).

Langmann is best known for her long-running collaborations with her brother Claude Berri, Maurice Pialat, and Philippe Garrel.

* Maurice Burchell was best known as CBWT's first station announcer and news reader in the 1950s.

As NHL President, Campbell is perhaps best remembered for suspending Montreal Canadiens superstar Maurice Richard for the remaining three games of the 1955 regular season and for the entirety of the playoffs.

As NHL President, Campbell is perhaps best remembered for suspending Montreal Canadiens superstar Maurice " Rocket " Richard for the remaining three games of the 1955 regular season and for the entirety of the playoffs.

As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his television roles as Private Maurice " Smoke " Williams on the 2005 FX drama Over There, his recurring role as rapper Kern Little on The Shield, and as the title character in the 2006 Spike action-horror-drama Blade: The Series.