or even old Byron Nelson, whose excellent 71 made one wonder if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf.

Nelson, who had been wounded in the battle, was proclaimed a hero across Europe and was subsequently made Baron Nelson.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

The fleet was under the command of Captain Thomas Troubridge, and had been sent by Earl St. Vincent to reinforce Nelson with orders that he was to pursue and intercept the Toulon convoy.

Although he now had enough ships to challenge the French fleet, Nelson suffered two great disadvantages: he had no intelligence regarding the destination of the French, and no frigates to scout ahead of his force.

On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.

Nelson had missed the French by less than a day, the scouts of the French fleet arriving off Alexandria in the evening of 29 June.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

" Shortly afterwards, Nelson paused to speak with the brig HMS Mutine, whose commander Lieutenant Thomas Hardy had seized some maritime pilots from a small Alexandrine vessel.

Historian Joseph Allen recounts that on one occasion Nelson, whose eyesight was still suffering following his wound, offered toothpicks to an officer who had lost his teeth and then passed a snuff-box to an officer whose nose had been torn off, causing much embarrassment.

Although Nelson had previously been castigated in the press for failing to intercept the French fleet, rumours of the battle had begun to arrive in Britain from the continent in late September and the news Capel brought was greeted with celebrations right across the country.

Within four days Nelson had been elevated to Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, a title with which he was privately dissatisfied, believing his actions deserved better reward.

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

Historian Edward Ingram has noted that if Nelson had successfully intercepted Bonaparte at sea as ordered, the ensuing battle could have annihilated both the French fleet and the transports.

In 1961, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill that formally created the City University of New York to integrate these institutions, and a new graduate school, together into a coordinate system of higher education for the city, and by 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY.

" He had brought Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Connie Smith, Bobby Bare, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed and John Hartford to the label in the 1960s and inspired and helped countless others.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.

Ted Nelson ( who had also originated the words " hypertext " and " hypermedia ") coined the term " transclusion " in his 1982 book, Literary Machines.

However, according to Nelson, the concept of transclusion had already formed part of his 1965 description of hypertext ; he also interprets the notion of " trails " in Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay As We May Think as describing transclusion rather than hyperlinks.

In 1997, the ITP Nelson Dictionary of the Canadian English Language was another product, but has not been updated since.

The website has also been described by Jimmy Fallon on the Opie and Anthony radio show, on Chelsea Handler's TV show Chelsea Lately, Michael J. Nelson from Rifftrax. com during the Rifftrax for Avatar Rifftrax and by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

While some tenets of hacker ethic were described in other texts like Computer Lib / Dream Machines ( 1974 ) by Theodor Nelson, Levy appears to have been the first to document both the philosophy and the founders of the philosophy.

Since then, there have been many great names in samba, such as Ismael Silva, Cartola, Ary Barroso, Noel Rosa, Ataulfo Alves, Wilson Batista, Geraldo Pereira, Zé Kéti, Candeia, Ciro Monteiro, Nelson Cavaquinho, Elton Medeiros, Paulinho da Viola, Martinho da Vila, and many others.

[...] When the Prime Minister met Nelson Mandela in Namibia, Mandela knew about Vanuatu because it has always been among the countries in the region that have most clearly spoken out on the problem of apartheid ".

Despite being on her husband's arm when he was released in 1990, the first time the two had been seen in public for nearly thirty years, the Mandelas ' 38-year marriage ended when they separated in April 1992 after it was revealed that she had been unfaithful to Nelson during his imprisonment.

In 1783, the French had landed a force on Grand Turk which a British force of 100 men, under then-Captain Horatio Nelson, had been unable to dislodge, but which was soon withdrawn.

When asked if he would be re-recording some of Dan Nelson ’ s vocals he stated " That is what they want to do, and it ’ s been a conflict for me, to be quite frank, simply because I kind of felt like I wasn ’ t part of the creation of it.

" However, Janet Nelson thought that his reign has been under-appreciated in modern scholarship, and that he laid the foundations for Alfred's success, finding new as well as traditional answers, and coping more effectively with Scandinavian attacks than most contemporary rulers.

Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first President of Namibia watched by Nelson Mandela ( who had been released from prison shortly beforehand ) and representatives from 147 countries, including 20 heads of state.

Unaware of the size of his opponent's fleet — in the fog, Nelson had not been able to count them — Jervis's squadron immediately sailed to intercept.

Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and their wide-ranging musical influences, including country music, Mariachi, rock, funk, Iranian folk music and hip-hop.

The term HyperText was coined by Ted Nelson who in turn was inspired by Vannevar Bush's microfilm-based " memex ".

Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.

Bergen continued performing until his death in 1978, and his popularity inspired many other famous ventriloquists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, Jeff Dunham, Shari Lewis, Willie Tyler and Jay Johnson.

The classic example is Vannevar Bush's July 1945 essay " As We May Think ", which inspired Douglas Engelbart and later Ted Nelson to develop the modern workstation and hypertext technology.

The name " Horatio " was inspired by the character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and chosen also because of its association with contemporary figures such as Nelson.

It was created by a committee of students ( mostly from University of Pennsylvania ), professionals, leaders of grass roots organizations and businessmen concerned about the environment and inspired by Nelson ’ s call for a national environmental teach-in.

* The John Frusciante song " Ricky " was inspired by Ricky Nelson.

Like William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus that has inspired such people as Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated, If — is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism, regarded as a traditional British virtue.

It is said that the album sound concept is inspired by the sound of Serge Gainsbourg's album Histoire de Melody Nelson.

* Furniture Design inspired Pretzel Chair designed in 1952 by George Nelson.

* Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western movie directed by Ralph Nelson and inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre.

Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western movie directed by Ralph Nelson and inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory.

* 1997: Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson, and Alex Tizon, The Seattle Times, for their investigation of widespread corruption and inequities in the federally sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms.

In 2009, inspired by Willie Nelson's tribute album to Lefty Frizzell To Lefty From Willie, Houck crafted a tribute album to Nelson himself entitled, To Willie which was released through Dead Oceans.

Many of the 12 tracks focused on dark themes, but there were also lighter songs such as " One With the Sun " ( inspired by a conversation she had with Willie Nelson ).

Perhaps inspired by his own lonely childhood, he and Nelson collaborated on educational, open-minded children's music.

She said in an interview with The Brown Bookshelf that one of the most important poems she has written was Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom: " Those inspired words came together with Kadir Nelson ’ s soulful paintings and Ellice Lee ’ s brilliant art direction in a perfect publishing storm.

The " pavement journey " format was inspired by the music video for the Massive Attack song " Unfinished Sympathy ", in which Shara Nelson sings while walking through a Los Angeles neighbourhood.

The concept stands in contrast to the conventional concept of " steady-state " in economics and is inspired by evolutionary insights in modern economic theory such as put forward by Nelson and Winter's book of 1982.

Second, it is an exploration and analysis of political and moral philosophy relevant to, inspired by, and grounded in the TRC ( see President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu ).

Gandhi's deep commitment and disciplined belief in non-violent civil disobedience as a way to oppose tyranny, oppression and injustice has inspired many subsequent political figures, including Martin Luther King Jr. of the United States, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko of South Africa, Lech Wałęsa of Poland and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar.

The foundation was inspired and established by Dr. Nelson Mandela over a decade ago with the help of some of the world's most famous athletes, among them Dan Marino, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Nadia Comaneci, & Gale Sayers.