Abbot was son or grandson ( it is not clear which ) of Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, East Yorkshire and his mother ( or grandmother ) was of the ancient house of Pickering.

Lowell himself, despite his close association with Pickering, dismissed Planet O out of hand, saying, " This planet is very properly designated " O ", it is nothing at all.

Ian Pickering is a lyricist / songwriter currently writing and recording with the band Polaroid Kiss with Brandun Reed whose debut album ' Weakness of the Beautiful Souls ' is due for release in 2011.

I must have shown that I was not only puzzled but crestfallen, at this exception to what looked like a very pretty rule of stellar characteristics ; but Pickering smiled upon me, and said: " It is just these exceptions that lead to an advance in our knowledge ", and so the white dwarfs entered the realm of study!

Coleman's association with these verbal slips is so strong that he is often given erroneous credit for the earliest example specifically referenced as a Colemanball ; in fact the broadcaster responsible was fellow BBC commentator Ron Pickering.

When Sandra Pickering, one of the students, belatedly submits some chapters from the novel she is writing, Helen immediately recognizes one of the male characters as having been modelled on her late husband Martin.

As Helen herself has based a character in her novel The Eye of the Storm on Martin, she is about to accuse Sandra Pickering of plagiarism when, to her dismay, she finds out that the girl used to work for the BBC some years ago, that she knew Martin, and that she actually had an affair with him.

Along with Broadkill and Pickering beaches, this area is officially designated as a horseshoe crab sanctuary.

Pickering is a city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.

Pickering is located at ( 40. 450541 ,-94. 841966 ).

The railway is the second-longest standard gauge heritage line in the United Kingdom and runs across the North York Moors from Pickering via Levisham, Newton Dale, Goathland and terminating at Grosmont.

The railway is formed from the middle section of the former Whitby, Pickering and Malton line which was closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts.

* Pickering railway station is the current terminus of the railway and serves the busy market town of Pickering.

* Farwath railway station was a small railway halt located between both Pickering and Levisham, however the halt is currently closed and demolished.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin is most widely known as the first woman elected into Congress.

In 1815 Abraham Pickering, whom the City of Pickerington is named after, donated a plot of land to be used for

* The Works of Thomas De Quincey, 21 vols ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000 – 2003 ) is the most up to date and scholarly edition

However, he is forced to work as a technical manual writer for Pickering Industries, the fifth largest company in America, to pay the bills.

Pickering ( 2011 population 88, 721 ) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region.

This has caused confusion, as one of the population centres of the original township, Pickering Village, is now found in Ajax, along with its eponymous secondary school.

Gerald Pickering is the current Chief of the Department.

" Unbeknown to Pickering, four of the photographic plates taken in the search for " Planet O " by astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 captured images of Pluto, though this was only recognised years later.

The Council itself became less and less functional, and it only narrowly avoided dissolution by appointing two popular local figures, Joseph Romney and Pickering.

Under-Secretary of State Thomas Pickering claimed to have sufficient evidence against Sudan, including contacts between officials at Al-Shifa plant and Iraqi chemical weapons experts, with the Iraq chemical weapons program the only one identified with using EMPTA for VX production.

With only two other generals in favor of a constitutional solution to the political crisis, Generals Mario Sepúlveda Squella and Guillermo Pickering ( both in key troop command positions ), also presented their resignations in a show of support.

Rainier Scenic Railroad A 99 ton West Fork Logging Heisler # 91 is operational, a 70 ton Hillcrest Lumber Climax # 10 is operational, a 95 ton Pickering Lumber Shay # 11 is awaiting boiler work, and a 75 ton Rayonier Company Willamette # 2 is operational and is the only Willamette operating

Bill Pickering, keen to support authentic science in his home country, was Patron of New Zealand's only school-based research group, the Nexus Research Group, from 1999 until his death in 2004.

The relocation plan had only been unveiled some 18 months before the new stadium was opened-chairman Lionel Pickering had originally planned to boost Derby's stadium capacity by rebuilding it with a 26, 000-seat capacity.

Sansom missed only a handful of England matches between 1980 and 1988, with only the odd rest given to him in friendly matches so that coaches Ron Greenwood and then Bobby Robson could check on potential replacements ( Derek Statham, Alan Kennedy, Nick Pickering ) in the event of Sansom suffering from either serious injury or chronic loss of form.

The First Amendment only protects employees from government employers albeit only when speaking publicly outside their official duties in the public interest Pickering v. Board of Ed.

* Toronto ( former Pickering Township only ): ( 905 )- 509

This is achieved by only sending one or two men into the hots on ropes ( now much more common because of Pickering ) and even sending only three men to the hots in the middle ( now that the maximum loss of ground is one post, and bearing in mind that the hot is already two posts forward, because a side playing New Winkies does not often break the rules in attack ; if they break the rules in defence there is no hot because a behind will usually be awarded ).

After one year the Celtic Warriors region was closed down by David Moffett and WRU Chairman David Pickering leaving Wales with only four regions.

He not only played bass for 52nd Street, but was also session guitarist alongside his brother Barry Johnson ( former bass player with Sweet Sensation ) in Mike Pickering ’ s upcoming band Quando Quango.

Bush ’ s appointment of Pickering as United States Ambassador to the United Nations was approved almost unanimously in the United State Senate in 1989 with no dissentions and only one abstention.

In 2008, Pickering signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League, but was released on July 13 after batting only. 265.

But until 1986 the club was a financial disaster, the crowds only started to grow when the resident DJs ( Pickering, Park and Da Silva ) started to play House music.

He stood for office again in the provincial election of 1999 for the redistributed riding of Pickering — Ajax — Uxbridge, but received only 2, 814 votes — and again lost to Janet Ecker by almost 20, 000 votes.

The seminar participants read only living authors ( such as Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Ian Hacking, Andrew Pickering, Sandra Harding, etc.

Proud as a typical Spaniard should be, and mingling and infusion of vanity with his pride ; irascible, headstrong, indiscreet as was possible for a diplomatist, and afraid of no prince or president ; young, able, quick, and aggressive ; devoted to his King and country ; a flighty and dangerous friend, but a most troublesome enemy ; always in difficulties, but in spite of fantastic outbursts always respectable ,— Yrujo needed only the contrast of characters such as those of Pickering or Madison to make him the most entertaining figure in Washington politics.

The name lives on in only three company names connected to Harry's family: the two engineering firms of Accles & Shelvoke, Shelvoke Ltd ( Dennis Shelvoke / Dennis Eagle ) and Shelvoke Pickering and Janney, a firm of chartered accounts in Cannock, Staffordshire.