In 1951, the SCCA National Sports Car Championship was formed from existing marquee events around the nation, including Watkins Glen, Pebble Beach, and Elkhart Lake.

The introduction to " Take a Pebble " included chords and arpeggios played by pressing down on keys, to raise the dampers from the strings, and playing the strings inside the piano as one might play the autoharp.

Pebble bed reactors need fire-prevention features to keep the graphite of the pebbles from burning in the presence of air although the flammability of the pebbles is disputed.

Pebble bed reactors are also capable of using fuel pebbles made from different fuels in the same basic design of reactor ( though perhaps not at the same time ).

The name is derived from popel ( pebble ) and tun ( hamlet, farm ), and means " Pebble Farm ", due to the gravel bed upon which the village was built.

The name is derived from popel ( pebble ) and tun ( hamlet, farm ) and means " Pebble Farm " because of the gravel bed upon which the village was built.

In the U. S. Open at Pebble Beach again under severe scoring conditions, Nicklaus struck a one-iron on the 218-yard par-three 17th hole during the final round into a stiff, gusty ocean breeze that hit the flagstick and ended up three inches from the cup.

Two singles from the album, " Wonderland " and " Fly ", were performed on the BBC1 lunchtime programme Pebble Mill At One in November 1992, after Tzuke had performed a concert tour of smaller venues in October and November.

Pebble tools are among the earliest known man-made artifacts, dating from the Palaeolithic period of human history.

Chief among the scenic attractions is the Lone Cypress Tree (), a salt-pruned Monterey cypress ( macrocarpa ) tree which is the official symbol of Pebble Beach and a frequent fixture of television broadcasts from this area.

* Dabbs Greer, who appeared in " Superman on Earth ", the premiere episode, as a man falling from a dirigible ; as a man falsely convicted of murder in " Five Minutes to Doom "; and in the dual roles of Mr. Pebble / Dan Dobey in " The Superman Silver Mine ";

Until 2004, BBC WM broadcast from the Pebble Mill studios, in Edgbaston.

The main objections to this plan were threefold: 1 ) Carcass Island, being in the west of the archipelago, was nearest to continental Argentine bases ; 2 ) its proximity to the airbase on Pebble Island ; and 3 ) its remoteness from Stanley, as it was furthest from the main objectives, and West Falkland was ultimately bypassed in the war.

* Special report published by Pebble Bed Modular Reactor ( Pty ) Ltd of South Africa on the High Temperature Reactor Conference ( HTR ) that was held from 28 September to 1 October 2008 in Washington D. C.

The track was built in 1957 at a cost of $ 1. 5 million raised from local businesses and individuals on part of the US Army's Fort Ord ( a maneuver area and field artillery target range ) after the nearby Pebble Beach Road Races were abandoned for being too dangerous.

Pebble Mill at One, an afternoon talk show, ran for many years from the 1973 to 1986 on BBC1, with several long-standing presenters, including Alan Titchmarsh, and raised the profile of the Pebble Mill studios almost to the status of a national institution.

Pebble Mill at One ran from 1972 until 1986, was then one of few daytime magazine programmes, hence its popularity at the time.

According to the inquiry into its loss, the ship sank " 10 miles " north of Pebble Island in May 1982 The co-ordinates of the sinking are 51 03. 6S, 59 42. 2W and this is about from the nearest point on Pebble Island.

In the early 1990s, Pebble Mill's Technical Resources Department decided that, following London, Manchester and Cardiff's change to CCD cameras and also at the urging of producer John King, an upgrade from the old Link 125 tube cameras was needed.

In the late 1960s to the early 1990s Pebble Mill also had a fleet of ' Links ' vehicles that were used to relay vision signals from OBs back to Comms Centre before being redistributed to London.

The last Archers programme from Pebble Mill was on 13 September 2004.

Some other points of interest include: the county museum, Lake Alice, George B. Wright Park, Pebble Lake Golf Course, and Veteran's Memorial Park.

When already a cardinal, the future pope shared the ownership of " The Pebble " with a student friend of his, who later donated it to the museum.

Originally called Pebble Beach Pines Golf Club, the course was renamed to Spyglass Hill by Samuel F. B. Morse, the founder of Pebble Beach Company, after the place in Treasure Island, since his friend Robert Louis Stevenson had taken inspiration for his novel from the local area.

There is a reference back to the events of Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky: we learn that the restoration of Earth's soil was indeed attempted but was abandoned.

The radioactive-Earth theme was begun in Pebble in the Sky, which is set thousands of years earlier.

The first time it was acknowledged in novel form was in Pebble in the Sky.

This precept was maintained in the pages of his later novel Pebble in the Sky, wherein Imperial archaeologist Bel Arvardan refers to ancient human strata discovered in the Sirius sector dating back " some 50, 000 years ".

Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation series, making R. Daneel Olivaw appear again twenty thousand years later in the age of the Galactic Empire, in sequels and prequels to the original Foundation trilogy ; and in the final book of the Robots series — Robots and Empire — we learn how the worlds that later formed the Empire were settled, and how Earth became radioactive ( which was first mentioned in Pebble in the Sky ).

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented ; it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

Edmondson admitted on a 1995 appearance on Pebble Mill at One that the original name for the show was " My Bottom ," with the intention of frustrating any continuity announcers introducing the show.

Bluth and his partner Gary Goldman pulled out of 1995's The Pebble and the Penguin before it was completed due to disagreements with its distributor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

He had already included a kind of time-travel in his 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, though there it was a one-way trip.

Until mid-2004, Doctors was filmed at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

The Pebble Mill foyer was used as a street frontage and sets such as the police station and The Lether Bar used other areas of the studio complex alongside the Riverside surgery.

His first broadcast job was to read a " Morning Story " for BBC Pebble Mill Talks producer David Shute.

The car was shown at Pebble Beach Concours d ' Elegance in 2003.

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented, and it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

In Before the Golden Age, Asimov wrote that Pebble in the Sky was influenced by the short story " Proxima Centauri " by Murray Leinster.