Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

I noticed that he was in Unit 12 and that he had registered under the name of Oscar L. Palmer and wife, giving a San Francisco address.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the " Oscar ".

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.

The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C. W.

This design-based analysis was discussed and developed by Francis J. Anscombe at Rothamsted Experimental Station and by Oscar Kempthorne at Iowa State University.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, ( September 8, 801 – February 3, 865, in Bremen ) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.

There was praise for Diana Rigg's performance, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick received an Oscar for his work on the score.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

He suggested the Irish Feast of Bricriu as a source for Beowulf — a theory that was soon denied by Oscar Olson.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar.

He was nominated five times ( see below ) for the Academy Award as a director, and once as a producer, but never received an Oscar.

The world's first commercial broadcast automation audio compression system was developed by Oscar Bonello, an Engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* Oscar ( Irish mythology ), the warrior son of Oisín and Niamh

Hammerstein was born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein in New York City, the son of Alice ( née Nimmo ) and William Hammerstein.

At about the age of ten, around the time of his parents ' divorce, Sondheim became friends with James Hammerstein, son of the lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.

* December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V as king of Sweden.

Bernadotte and Désirée had only one son, Oscar I of Sweden and Norway.

Eugène's son Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married into the Russian Imperial family, was granted the style of Imperial Highness and founded the Russian line of the Beauharnais family, while Eugene ` s daughter Joséphine, married King Oscar I of Sweden, the son of Napoléon's one-time fiancée, Désirée Clary.

# Princess Joséphine Maximiliane Eugénie Napoléonne de Beauharnais ( 1807 – 1876 ) became the Queen Consort to King Oscar I of Sweden, himself the son of Napoleon's old love, Désirée Clary.

Oscar initially proposes marriage between his son Leo and Regina's daughter Alexandra-first cousins-as a means of getting Horace's money, but Horace and Alexandra are repulsed by the suggestion.

Lord Alfred " Bosie " Douglas, the third son, was the close friend and lover of the famous author and poet Oscar Wilde.

In March 1895, angered by the apparent ongoing homosexual relationship between author Oscar Wilde and his son Alfred, Queensberry publicly called Wilde a " posing somdomite " ( sic ).

He was the son of Count Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg ( formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland ) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila.

He had to be threatened by his son Oisín and grandson Oscar to play fair, but too late: Diarmuid had died.

* Oscar, son of Oisín

fr: Oscar du meilleur mixage de son

He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

Gustaf V was born in Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County, the son of Prince Oscar and Princess Sofia.

* Douglas-Kolfall, the branch descending from Oscar, youngest son of the High Marshal Ludvig.

Voiced by Tommy Davidson, Oscar is the overprotective father of Penny, Bebe, and Cece, and is the son of Suga Mama.

Nilsson was survived by his third wife, Una ( née O ' Keeffe ), and their six children ( Annie, Beau, Ben, Kief, Olivia, Oscar ), his son Zachary Nine Nilsson from his marriage to Diane Clatworthy, and one grandson ( Caleb ).

Charles XIV's son, Oscar I of Sweden, married Josephine of Leuchtenberg, granddaughter of Napoleon's first wife, the Empress Josephine.

Sophia's marriage to Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Östergötland, second son of the reigning king, was considered to be the first in the Royal House that was not completely arranged.

She supported her son Eugén, who wanted to study art in Paris ( 1886 ), and her son Oscar when he wanted to marry the noble lady-in-waiting Ebba Munck af Fulkila ( 1888 ).