On a whim, Russell Ohl of Bell Laboratories decided to try a cat's whisker.

On a sort of drunken whim, two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri ( Richard Warwick ) and Prince Felix Yusupov ( Martin Potter ), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in December, 1916.

On November 4, 1990, Bonaduce met second wife Gretchen Hillmer on a blind date and, on a whim, Bonaduce married Hillmer the same day.

On a whim, Ray marries socialite Blanche Williams ( Uma Thurman ).

On a whim, Sonderegger booked a trip to Thailand to find out more.

The group began as something of a whim — it was a one-time gathering of friends to provide backing to model and would-be singer Bebe Buell who wanted to record a cover of the 1972 T. Rex song " Get It On ( Bang A Gong )".

On a whim, she takes a job as a magistrate in the small seaside town of Pearl Bay, where she once went for a holiday with her family during happier times.

On a whim, Neddy decides to get home by swimming across all the pools in the county, and starts off enthusiastically and full of youthful energy.

On a whim, they decide to forego the visit to Uncle Tyrone and get on the plane to Miami as a second honeymoon.

On a whim, after George and Marion die, he buys George ’ s flashy sports car.

On a whim, Moist von Lipwig named her as one of the gods responsible for his " miraculous " recovery of a large sum of buried money that he had in fact himself buried: since belief is what empowers Discworld gods, she benefited tremendously from the resulting surge of believers.

On a whim, we also bought lamé fabric and turned them into leggings, and the gold and silver took off .".

On a whim, Naylor whistled and the dog rushed forward, lapping Naylor's face.

On a whim, Harry decides to " kidnap " his son Hilliard.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

On 18 February a " confession " was extorted from Alexei which implicated most of his friends, and he then publicly renounced the succession to the throne in favour of the baby grand-duke Peter Petrovich.

On his return from a business trip from Yemen, he was informed by friends that in his absence Muhammad had declared himself the Messenger of God, and proclaimed a new religion.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

On 17 March 2007 the band played a live show at their rehearsal studio in front of around fifty fans, friends and family.

On the return of the Beagle ( October 1836 ) Lyell invited Darwin to dinner and from then on they were close friends.

On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.

On that night the three men were together, and they remembered the days when they had been friends and a great research team.

On Purim it is a tradition to masquerade in costumes and to give Mishloakh Manot ( gifts of food and drink ) to friends, as well as Matanot La ' evyonim ( gifts to the poor and the needy ).

On 7 July, Bruce and his friends made terms with Edward by a treaty called the Capitulation of Irvine.

On board the ship, Dr. Crusher is good friends with all of the senior staff.

On a trip to the Lake District with old college friends he met Charlotte Genevieve Charpentier ( or Carpenter ), daughter of Jean Charpentier of Lyon in France, and ward of Lord Downshire in Cumberland.

On June 1, 1843, Truth changed her name to Sojourner Truth and told her friends, " The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

On that day, both Sherman and Wilkins had recorded that cold weather had delayed their jobs, they both had witnessed that someone's skin had peeled off their finger, they both recorded that they had drunk alcohol with friends and witnessed boxes of cigars being brought and both recorded that they had experienced a toothache.

On September 10, 2001, O ' Neill told two of his friends, " We're due.

On 26 February 1956, Hughes and his friends held a party to launch St. Botolph's Review, which had a single issue.

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph, known as " Crete " to friends, and a former star Greek pupil of Garfield's.

On April 12, 1912 at the age of 90 she died in Glen Echo, Maryland with her friends by her side.

On the same English Literature course was Robert Graves, and the two were close friends during their time at Oxford together, but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left in 1920 to take up a literary career, at first acting as assistant to Middleton Murry on the Athenaeum magazine.

On 25 September 1998, a city square in Hollywood was named Carmen Miranda Square in a ceremony headed by longtime honorary mayor of Hollywood, Johnny Grant, who was also one of the singer's personal friends dating back to World War II.

On 21 September 1578 Leicester secretly married Lady Essex at his country house at Wanstead, with only a handful of relatives and friends present.

On his first day at the École Normale Supérieure, Derrida met Louis Althusser, with whom he became friends.

On 28 November, Doug Nielsen, Nielsen's nephew, announced to the CJOB radio station that Nielsen had died in his sleep, due to complications from pneumonia, around 5: 30 pm EST, surrounded by family and friends.

On 20 March 1913, while travelling with a group of friends to Peking, Song Jiaoren was shot twice at close range by a lone gunman, Ying Kuicheng, at a Shanghai railway station.

He encouraged Darwin to publish, and following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, Lyell finally offered a tepid endorsement of evolution in the tenth edition of Principles.

On 3 September 2008, however, publisher Harper Collins issued a public apology for its book " The Daring Book for Girls " which openly encouraged girls to play the instrument.

On 4 December he was shocked that Cecil, who had encouraged him to undertake the Danvers suit on the Crown's behalf, had now withdrawn his support for it.

On 2 June 1793, Paris sections — encouraged by the enragés (" enraged ones ") Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert – took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.

Bonewits encouraged charity programs to help Neopagan seniors, and in January 2006 was the keynote speaker at the Conference On Current Pagan Studies at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.

On the one-year anniversary, she encouraged parents to instead read to their children, and perhaps light a candle in memoriam, saying, " Don't let your children see the images, especially on September 11, when you know it'll probably be on television again and again — the plane hitting the building or the buildings falling.

On 2 June 1793, Paris sections – encouraged by the enragés Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert – took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.

After Blaise Pascal encouraged him to do so, Huygens wrote the first book on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae (" On Reasoning in Games of Chance "), which he had published at 5: 56 pm on April 10, 1657.

On a limited scale, reports by the National Board for Prices and Incomes encouraged incentive payments schemes to be development in local government and elsewhere.

On 14 March 1622, while playing with her ladies, Anne fell on a staircase and suffered her second miscarriage, for which Louis blamed her and was angry with Madame de Luynes for having encouraged the queen in what was seen as negligence.

On November 2, 1920, after two black men ( July Perry and Moses Norman ) attempted to vote and encouraged other blacks to vote, the entire black population of the town was violently attacked.

On behalf of the Inquisition people were encouraged to report suspects of witchcraft and heresy.

On May 27 – 31, 2010 a campground outside of Cameron hosted the Burning Flipside festival which brought over 2400 campers through Cameron who were encouraged to contribute to the Milam County economy by purchasing provisions within Cameron.

On 27 January 2005, following her attendance at the ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she created friction by referring to the way some Protestant children in Northern Ireland had been raised to hate Catholics, just as European children " for generations, for centuries " were encouraged to hate Jews.

On her Facebook page, any time the subject is brought up, she repeatedly comments that The Queen of the Damned film is not something she can understand or embrace, that she encouraged them not to do the film and that it hurt her to see her work " mutilated " the way it was.

On arriving in England in 1660, he had encouraged the government to continue Rupert's own exploration of the Gambia in an attempt to find gold, leading to Robert Holmes's expedition the following year.

On October 2, 2004, Nickelodeon launched an annual event to mark the conclusion of its six-month long " Let's Just Play " campaign launched that same year called the Worldwide Day of Play, designed to influence kids to get active and participate in outdoor activities ; schools and educational organizations are also encouraged to host events to promote activity among children.

On his return to England he was charged in Parliament with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke, who was encouraged by Sir Philip Francis, whom Hastings had wounded during a duel in India.

On the conservative side, Burke argued that this understanding encouraged caution and avoidance of radical change.

On one hand the introduction of the Nativity scene encouraged the tender image of Jesus, while on the other hand Francis of Assisi himself had a deep attachment to the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross and was said to have recevieved the Stigmata as an expression of that love.

On June 15, 1932, the new government lifted the ban on the SA and the SS, who were secretly encouraged to indulge in as much violence as possible.

On the day of the festival, all the elementary and middle schools in the city are off, and the students and pupils are encouraged to participate in one of the sports and art competitions including those in kendo, judo, and shodo, or one of the parades, including the one re-enacting the victory of the forty-seven ronin and another one exhibiting the cultural features of the Edo period, such as sankin kotai.

On the other hand, the struggle between Protestant factions injured the advancement of their mutual interests, and Bucer, encouraged by Philip, was accordingly occupied in the attempt to bring Protestants together on a common religious platform, the result being the Wittenberg Concord.

On the other hand many people encouraged others in discussions and then media to fill the Jedi religion prior 2011 census ( as a form of protest against range, overall cost and obligatory filling of the census ), which is probably the cause.

On seeing the unkempt Odysseus in this state, the maids run away, but Nausikaa, encouraged by Athena, stands her ground and talks to him.