Others, including Edward Murphy's surviving son Robert Murphy, deny Nichols ' account ( which is supported by Hill, both interviewed by Spark ), and claim that the phrase did originate with Edward Murphy.

According to astrophysicist and UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, the Montauk Experiment stories seem to have originated with the account of Preston Nichols, who claimed to have recovered repressed memories of his own involvement.

Nichols testified that Peltier said, “ The mother fucker was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway .” Bernie Nichols-Lafferty gave the same account of Peltier ’ s statement.

* 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered.

At these very high vacuums the effect of photon radiation pressure on the vanes can be observed in very sensitive apparatus ( see Nichols radiometer ) but this is insufficient to cause rotation.

The actual pressure exerted by light is far too small to move these vanes, but can be measured with devices such as the Nichols radiometer.

Multrees Walk, adjacent to the St. James Centre, is a recent addition to the city centre, hosting brands such as Louis Vuitton, Emporio Armani, Mulberry and Calvin Klein, with Harvey Nichols anchoring the development.

* 2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

Nichols explained that the communique " is not directly concerned with child abuse at all, but with the misuse of the confessional.

Terry Nichols is currently incarcerated at the Federal Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado.

Wallace and Gromit were used to promote a Harvey Nichols store that opened in Bristol ( where Aardman is based ) in 2008.

* August 31 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered.

The pressure is very feeble, but can be detected by allowing the radiation to fall upon a delicately poised vane of reflective metal in a Nichols radiometer ( this should not be confused with the Crookes radiometer, whose characteristic motion is not caused by radiation pressure but by impacting gas molecules ).

The Graduate is an album of songs from the soundtrack of Mike Nichols ' movie The Graduate, featuring many songs from the folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.

Nichols recalled an event that occurred in 1949 at Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc, California that, according to him, is the origination of Murphy's law, and first publicly recounted by USAF Col. John Paul Stapp.

Hill and Nichols believe Murphy was unwilling to take the responsibility for the device's initial failure ( by itself a blip of no large significance ) and is to be doubly damned for not allowing the MX981 team time to validate the sensor's operability and for trying to blame an underling when doing so in the embarrassing aftermath.

Even so, the ratio of flux he reported for the two stars is consistent with the modern value, so George Rieke gives Nichols credit for the first detection of a star other than our own in the infrared.

The earliest winner alive is Mike Nichols, who won in 1968, making him the only pre-1970s best director winner left.

The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of " The Stage to Lordsburg ", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Dudley Nichols of " The Stage to Lordsburg ," a short story by Ernest Haycox.

Martha's Vineyard has also been or is home to a number of artists and musicians, including Evan Dando, Tim " Johnny Vegas " Burton of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Livingston Taylor, Ben Taylor, Huey Taylor ( musician / hotelier ), Kate Taylor, Alex Taylor, Tom Rush, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Willy Mason, Unbusted, Mike Nichols, Gordon Healy, Kahoots, Slim-Bob Berosh and Timo Elliott.

On a May 18, 2009 appearance on The View, Ventura asked Elisabeth Hasselbeck if waterboarding is acceptable, why were the Oklahoma City bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, not waterboarded.

Exacerbating matters further, he is strongly attracted to one of his co-stars, lovely, soft-spoken Julie Nichols ( Jessica Lange ), a single mother in an unhealthy relationship with the show's amoral, sexist director, Ron Carlisle ( Dabney Coleman ).

" The director, Mike Nichols, replied, " My dear, everyone is scared of George C.

Arthur Bloch, in the first volume ( 1977 ) of his Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go WRONG series, prints a letter that he received from George E. Nichols, a quality assurance manager with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

Bertram Fields ( March 31, 1929 ) is an American lawyer famous for his work in the field of entertainment law ; he has represented many of the leading studios, as well as individual celebrities including Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Warren Beatty, James Cameron, Mike Nichols, Joel Silver, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Mario Puzo, and John Travolta.

In 1855, free love advocate Mary Gove Nichols ( 1810 – 1884 ) described marriage as the " annihilation of woman ," explaining that women were considered to be men's property in law and public sentiment, making it possible for tyrannical men to deprive their wives of all freedom.

After a federal trial in 1997, Nichols was convicted of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter for killing federal law enforcement personnel.

They acquitted Nichols on the charges of first degree ( premeditated ) murder, but convicted him on the lesser charge of involuntary ( unintentional ) manslaughter in the deaths of the federal law enforcement officers.

Desson Howe in the Washington Post wrote: " The movie-a reunion of Carnal Knowledge alums Nicholson, director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno-works beautifully when it's rooted in reality, when the Werewolf Thing functions as a multiple metaphor for unleashed-id sexuality and the law of the corporate jungle.

Nichols was spared multiple death sentences when the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision, as required by Georgia law, to recommend the death penalty.

" Public Enemy ", an episode of the crime drama television program The Glades first broadcast July 15, 2012, depicted the sovereign citizen movement as a mixture of fraudulent promoters and sincere believers, whose proclivity for violence ( Terry Nichols ' links to the movement are explicitly mentioned ) and for harassment by means of fraudulent legal motions intimidate professional law enforcement officers and civil service functionaries.

Her big break came in 1953 when she replaced the emigrating Joy Nichols on the hit Muir and Norden radio comedy Take It From Here, co-starring Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley.

Robinson won the first five rounds according to The New York Times Joseph C. Nichols, before Zivic came back to land several punches to Robinson's head in the sixth and seventh rounds.

She came down with polio ( misdiagnosed at first as spinal meningitis ) in 1942, and Nichols quit a gig playing with Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and left the music business to work in the wartime shipyards.

The original Five Pennies band consisted of Nichols on cornet, Mole on trombone, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto sax, Eddie Lang on guitar, Arthur Schutt on piano and Vic Berton ( who came up with the name for the group ) on drums, but over time the personnel changed and expanded dramatically.

Mix had been visiting Pima County Sheriff Ed Nichols in Tucson, and had stopped at The Oracle Junction Inn, a popular gambling and drinking establishment, where he had called and spoken with his agent, when he came upon construction barriers at a bridge previously washed away by a flash flood.

Dudley Nichols ( April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960 ) was an American screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936.

What little is known about Nichols ' early life is that he came from a middle class family.

Hill said that Nichols ' mental illness manifesting itself in an addiction to video games in which he came to believe he was a real superhero.

Ultimately the cost to the state of Nichols ' publicly funded defense came to at least $ 1. 8 million.

The defense was trying to use this as a foundation to show how Nichols mentally came apart when she broke up with him.

Almost all of the early models used either roll caps or circular disks of caps, but in 1950 Nichols Industries came out with a large model called the Stallion 45, which had a revolving cylinder into which individual bullets were loaded, which each had two parts.