that the amplitude of the variation was considerably less than the amplitude of the variation in the infrared emission as measured by Pettit and Nicholson ( 1930 ) and Pettit ( 1935 ) ; ;

That water could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis.

Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert " Nick " Nicholson from March to June, then by Pinky Lee until November.

The known Spanish manuscript was lost in the 18th or 19th centuries ; however, an 18th-century copy of it was discovered in the 1970s in the University of Sydney's Fisher Library among the books of Charles Nicholson, labelled in English " Transcribed from ms. in possession of the Revd Mr Edm.

Nicholson, however, had also defended against an explanation that the word " Hoosier " was applied to Indiana because it referred to uncouth country folk.

* In 1980, the film The Shining was released, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson.

The Nicholson Garden was added to improve the aesthetics of this area.

In 1931, Nicholson and Mayall calculated its mass, based on its supposed effect on the gas giants, as roughly that of the Earth, while in 1949, measurements of Pluto's diameter led to the conclusion that it was midway in size between Mercury and Mars and that its mass was most probably about 0. 1 Earth mass.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Soon after arrival in Australia, he was appointed Curator of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney.

" It was presented to him by Jack Nicholson.

Boehm's work was inspired by an 1831 concert in London given by soloist Charles Nicholson who, with his father in the 1820s, had introduced a flute constructed with larger tone holes than were used in previous designs.

The first crystal-controlled oscillator, using a crystal of Rochelle salt, was built in 1917 and patented in 1918 by Alexander M. Nicholson at Bell Telephone Laboratories, although his priority was disputed by Walter Guyton Cady.

* Ken Kesey's famed fictional character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest who was, in the movie, played by Jack Nicholson.

In 1895 economist Joseph Shield Nicholson wrote that credit expansion and contraction was in fact the expansion and contractions of representative money.

It was used in Antonioni's film The Passenger as a backdrop for the first meeting between Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.

Margaret Rutherford was born in 1892 in Balham, the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his second wife Florence, née Nicholson.

She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.

In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.

O ' Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the life of John Reed.

In the same interview, Nicholson also revealed that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy and that the third film was to be set in 1968 and deal in some way with Howard Hughes.

Huxley's internationalist and conservation interests also led him, with Victor Stolan, Sir Peter Scott, Max Nicholson and Guy Mountfort, to set up the WWF ( World Wide Fund for Nature under its former name of the World Wildlife Fund ).

Ashby let Nicholson look through the camera's viewfinder as a shot was being set up so he knew the parameters of a given scene and how much freedom he had within the frame.

It was defined from principles set down by architect Peter Nicholson in the 18th century.

The many period piece films set in the 1930s and 1940s are led by Roman Polanski's classic Chinatown ( 1974 ) starring Jack Nicholson and its belated sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), which Nicholson also directed.

But no matter what they try — deliberately flubbing their lines, pointing out to other characters that they're really just actors making a film, complaining to Nicholson and Rafelson who are on the set but not part of the film, smashing through the painted paper walls, walking off the set and into the street, physically attacking other actors for no reason, and making everyone they encounter mad at them — they discover that their every word and deed was predetermined to the finest detail by the script of the movie they're in and the director directing it.

Together they enjoyed comfortable victories over Austria and Northern Ireland to set up a semi-final clash with the Australian pair of Paul Nicholson and Simon Whitlock.

At the larger ‘ public school ’ at Kabete all the detached classrooms and houses were designed and built with connecting colonnades, in which respect I followed the excellent example set by States President Jefferson in his beautiful University of Virginia .” The use of colonnades accords with advice given to Baker by T. E. Lawrence, who regarded the tropical sun as " an enemy " and told him “ All pavements should be covered over with light vaulting .” The foundation stone was laid by Sir Edward Grigg on 24 September 1929, and the Prince of Wales School was opened in 1931-( the original idea for the name of the school was Kabete Boys Secondary School, but the first headmaster, Captain Bertram W. L. Nicholson, thought this to be too clumsy and therefore the name of The Prince of Wales School was suggested and eventually adopted ).

The Crowd Roars is loosely based on the play The Barker: A Play of Carnival Life by Kenyon Nicholson.

The movie was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholson.

It has subsequently been adapted by Nicholson as a stage play and then as a cinema film.

In 1993, the play was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Richard Attenborough with a screenplay by Nicholson, co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, winning Oscar nominations for both Nicholson and Winger.

As a result of this meeting, Barrie used a drawing by Nicholson as the base for a poster for the play Peter Pan ; his father William designed some of the sets and costumes.

" Actor Mel Welles was scheduled to play a character named " Draco Cardala ", Jonathan Haze was scheduled to play " Archie Aroma ," and Jack Nicholson would have played a character named " Jocko ".

Eight baseball players who played at Washington College have gone on to play in the Major Leagues, including two-time National League home run leader and four-time All-Star " Swish " Nicholson.

* Shadowlands, a 1985 play by William Nicholson about C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham

* Shadowlands ( film ), a 1993 adaptation of the William Nicholson play

In the DVD commentary, Romanek says that Jack Nicholson was first approached to play the lead character.

* 1990: Shadowlands adapted by William Nicholson from a play Surprised By Joy by Brian Sibley and Norman Stone

But superb play from forward Al Nicholson and goalie Bob Perreault helped the Seals win the final three games of their first-round playoff series against Portland.

The novel was adapted into a play in 1963 and a film, starring Jack Nicholson and winning five Academy Awards, in 1975.

In 1998 Nicholson earned a surprise call up to play his one and only Test against England in Melbourne.