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Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.
Perhaps this was reality and Dale Nelson, the actor, was delusion ; ;
The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.
The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.
A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.
As Bonaparte's fleet crossed the Mediterranean, it was pursued by a British force under Nelson, sent from the British fleet in the Tagus, to establish the purpose of the French expedition and defeat it.
Nelson, who had been wounded in the battle, was proclaimed a hero across Europe and was subsequently made Baron Nelson.
This squadron, consisting of three ships of the line and three frigates, was entrusted to Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson.
On 7 June, following hasty repairs to his flagship, Nelson was joined off Toulon by a fleet of ten ships of the line and a fourth rate ship.
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.
On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.
" By 24 July his fleet was resupplied and, having determined that the French must be somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean, Nelson sailed again in the direction of Morea.
On 28 July at Coron, intelligence was finally obtained describing the French attack on Egypt and Nelson turned south across the Mediterranean.
Although initially disappointed that the main French fleet was not at Alexandria, Nelson knew from the presence of the transports that they must be nearby.
To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.
As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.
At approximately 20: 30, Nelson was struck over his blinded right eye by an iron splinter fired in a langrage shot from Spartiate.
Nelson collapsed into the arms of Captain Edward Berry and was carried below.
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.

Nelson and highly
Mark Nelson, frustrated over many cranks trying to claim having invented a magic compression algorithm appearing in comp. compression, has constructed a 415, 241 byte binary file () of highly entropic content, and issued a public challenge of $ 100 to anyone to write a program that, together with its input, would be smaller than his provided binary data yet be able to reconstitute (" decompress ") it without error.
Billboard described the album as " lots of instrumental work, with particularly fine piano by Bobbie Nelson, and the usual highly stylized Willie Nelson vocals ".
In addition, prototypical sixth man Don Nelson had a highly successful coaching career and joined his mentor Auerbach as one of 10 Greatest Coaches in NBA history.
Greenblatt, along with Tom Knight and Stewart Nelson, co-wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System, a highly influential timesharing operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 used at MIT.
Zackie Achmat, whom The New Yorker calls " the most important dissident in the country since Nelson Mandela ", joined with a group of ten other activists to found the group after anti-apartheid gay rights activist Simon Nkoli died from AIDS even as highly active antiretroviral therapy was available to wealthy South Africans.
Chris Nelson of The New York Times reported that by the 1990s, " rtists like Madonna and Janet Jackson set new standards for showmanship, with concerts that included not only elaborate costumes and precision-timed pyrotechnics but also highly athletic dancing.
Although audiences declined dramatically, a new generation of DJs, including specialists such as Steve Lamacq ( indie rock ), Tim Westwood ( hip-hop ), Chris Goldfinger ( ragga / dancehall ) and Trevor Nelson ( R & B ), emerged and became highly popular with a younger audience, who were now catered for in a way they had not been previously.
In South Africa, the list was headed by Nelson Mandela, a predictable and highly popular choice, given his global stature as a statesman and symbol of post-apartheid liberation and reconciliation.
Nelson had served in a USMC elite Force Recon unit during WWII and based the SWAT concept on the Recon units, believing that a small squad of highly trained police officers armed with special weapons would be more effective in a riotous situation than a massive police response.
However monocropping itself is highly chemical-and energy-intensive, as studies by Nelson ( 2006 ) indicate.

Nelson and experienced
* Benetton began the season with two experienced Brazilian drivers: Roberto Moreno and triple world champion Nelson Piquet.
Nelson brought in many experienced and popular session players, including rock and roll pianist Merill Moore and the then unknown Buck Owens.
For example, Dr. Lu Moss Nelson recounts some odd behaviors that patients experienced after having their corpus callosum severed:
Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Nelson and choreographer Jonathan Lucas, who had choreographed for The Milton Berle Show, were both experienced with musical material on television.
Horatio Nelson had acquired a poor opinion of Spanish seamen when he visited the port of Cádiz on his way to the Mediterranean, which is not surprising as the Spanish mercantile marine was so small that only about 10 per cent of the muster role of Spanish warships were filled with experienced seamen.
After the completion of BC Hydro ’ s newly constructed natural gas power plant to provide electricity to the region, Fort Nelson experienced true growth.
Due to major increases and improvements to the oil and gas industry in the Horn River Basin, the town of Fort Nelson has experienced substantial growth in recent years.
David Nelson Godfrey Mitton ( 27 February 1939 – 16 May 2008 ) was a British television producer and director, and an experienced model maker and author, best known for directing and producing the children's television shows Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Tugs .< ref >

Nelson and officer
* 1824 – William " Bull " Nelson, American navy officer ( d. 1862 )
In another episode, it is revealed that both Martin and Nelson went to space camp, and that Nelson was a loyal officer to Martin.
On 30 March Nelson, and his second-in-command, Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, accompanied by Captain Domett and the commanding officer of the troops, sailed in the hired lugger Lark to reconnoiter the Danish defenses at Copenhagen.
Nelson was jailed twice in connection with incidents perpetrated by the Rooks, and escaped punishment after sucker-punching a police officer only through the intervention of his father.
* Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth ( 1747 – 1817 ), accomplished Royal Naval officer who served under Nelson.
A British warship, the HMS Agamemnon, sights Le Hasard, and a young officer, Horatio Nelson ( Olaf Fjord ), asks his captain if he might be allowed to shoot at the enemy vessel and sink it.
In 1782 Hood introduced Nelson to the future King William, Duke of Clarence who was then a serving naval officer in New York.
The plan, which he laid to attack the French fleet near Golfe-Juan in June, may possibly have served to some extent as an inspiration, if not as a model, to Nelson ( who has been recorded as saying that Hood was " the greatest sea officer I ever knew ") for the Battle of the Nile, but the wind was unfavourable, and the attack could not be carried out.
Lt. Lewis Roatley, the son of the landlord of the Castle Hotel, served as a Royal Marines officer with Admiral Lord Nelson aboard in the Battle of Trafalgar.
In the robbery, which netted around $ 49, 000 ( figures differ slightly ), Nelson severely wounded motorcycle policeman Hale Keith with a burst of sub-machinegun fire as the officer was arriving at the scene.
White's presence at Port Hudson is supported by a secondhand account of a postwar dinner conversation he had with Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, a Union veteran of Port Hudson, and another recounted by Admiral George Dewey ( then a Federal naval officer at Port Hudson ), in both of which White mentioned his presence during the siege.
During this time of convalescence, on September 29, 1862, Davis got into an argument with his superior officer, Maj. Gen. William " Bull " Nelson, in the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky.
* John Pollard ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1787-1868 ), credited with killing the Frenchman who shot Nelson
Charles Preston Nelson ( 5 February 1877-16 November 1935 ) was an officer of the United States Navy.
Hubert Joly became Carlson's president and chief executive officer in 2008, and Nelson continues to serve as chairman of the board.
However, Nelson made the mistake of trying to catch the same train that was transporting members of the Winnipeg police, and was recaptured and arrested again the next morning by an officer from the Crystal City, Manitoba police department.
On 1 September 1914 at Néry, France, Sergeant Nelson helped to bring the guns into action-with an officer ( Edward Kinder Bradbury ) and a warrant officer ( George Thomas Dorrell )-under heavy fire and in spite of being severely wounded.
The crew of the sinking Ethel & Millie then abandoned their battered boat and were hauled aboard the German submarine, where the Nelson survivors last saw them standing in line being addressed by a German officer.
John Nelson was an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department who is considered to be the founding father of the SWAT special forces.
** General Sir Richard Nelson Gale ( 1896 – 1982 ), British WW I and WW II officer, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe

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