In 1872, after a scientist discovered a European snail ( Helix aspersa ) living on a small mountain, Rufus King Porter the founder of what is now unincorporated Spring Valley, California named the peak Mt.

Fearing a lynch mob, the sheriff hid Porter in the basement of a local theatre, but he was discovered and dragged upstairs to the stage by an angry crowd.

In 1833 Beersheba Porter Cain discovered a chalybeate spring.

Dunn was indirectly responsible for Ruth's famous nickname, with Ruth's teammates referring to him as " Dunn's $ 10, 000 Babe " for the price he drew, and in addition to Grove, discovered other quality major leaguers such as Jack Bentley, Ernie Shore, George Earnshaw, Dick Porter and Tommy Thomas.

Notable scientists who have worked there include Sir Humphry Davy ( who discovered sodium and potassium ), Michael Faraday, James Dewar, Sir William and Sir Lawrence Bragg ( who won the Nobel prize for their work on x-ray diffraction ), Max Perutz, John Kendrew, Antony Hewish and George Porter.

Porter and colleagues discovered that individuals who experience back pain and other symptoms are likely to have smaller spinal canals than those who are asymptomatic.

It was first discovered in 1953 in the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine in Pinal County, Arizona by Percy W. Porter, a mining engineer who handpicked a 401. 5-mg sample.

Szirmai made headlines in 1965, when he discovered 100 unpublished songs Porter had written, 1924-1955, in Porter's nine room apartment in the Waldorf Towers shortly after Porter's death.

It seems the first settlement at Meekatharra occurred in 1894 and that, in May 1896, after the prospectors Meehan, Porter and Soich discovered gold, miners moved to the new settlement from the other East Murchison fields and mining grew rapidly in scale and sophistication.

In 2003, whilst attempting to gather information about possible wrong-doings by the board of Redbus Interhouse, Stanford discovered and exposed more than £ 34m of assets of Dame Shirley Porter This resulted directly in her repaying £ 12m to Westminster Council.

All this is simple enough, but in telling the story Porter did two important things that had not been done before.

Other important practitioners of the form include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, and the more experimental Donald Barthelme.

He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenburg, Ray Johnson, Bern Porter, leading Fluxus members George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Ken Friedman, and others.

An important extension to Porter was found in the work of Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff of Yale School of Management in the mid-1990s.

Porter Alexander is best known as an artilleryman who played a prominent role in many of the important battles of the war.

She also went on several camping trips with friends, visiting important sites in the Southwest, and in 1961, she and others, including photographers Eliot Porter and Todd Webb, went on a rafting trip down the Colorado River about Glen Canyon, Utah.

He appeared with his father and grandfather in the documentary " Rising from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter " crediting his family with passing down important values which he passed down to his sons as well.

The square, formerly flanked by cattle yards that used the Porter rail head to transport their beef throughout the US, was an important center for commerce and light industry as early as the late 18th century.

When Bush put Porter Goss in charge of the agency, Pavitt reportedly opposed the internal reorganizations announced by Goss, on the ground that they might " do damage to a strategic effort that has produced excellent work on terrorism and a variety of other important issues.

In his liner notes for Home to Oblivion, he calls Elliott Smith " the most important songwriter since Cole Porter ," although admitting he was unaware of Smith's music until his apparent suicide in 2003.

He associated her with writers such as Patrick White and Hal Porter who wrote " poetic prose ... an important but by no means popular dimension to Australian fiction ".

It is important to take note that the Porter ’ s five forces model are not just for businesses, but can also be applied to a country to help gain insight into creating a competitive advantage in the global market.

Among the most important, pre-1995 monographs are: Abroad ( 1980 ) by Paul Fussell, an exploration of British interwar travel writing as escapism ; Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Minds ( 1990 ) by Marianna Torgovnick, an inquiry into the primitivist presentation of foreign cultures ; Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing ( 1991 ) by Dennis Porter, a close look at the psychological correlatives of travel ; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women ’ s Travel Writing by Sara Mills, an inquiry into the intersection of gender and colonialism during the 19th century ; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation ( 1992 ), Mary Louise Pratt's influential study of Victorian travel writing ’ s dissemination of a colonial mind-set ; and Belated Travelers ( 1994 ), an analysis of colonial anxiety by Ali Behdad.

The covered methods and techniques to obtain this information are Porter ’ s five forces model, risk analysis, marketing intelligence, and marketing decision support systems. Porter ’ s five forces analysis is useful for software since it highlights many important factors that will be discussed in customer and competitor analysis such as switching costs, brand equity, product differentiation, and price of total purchase.

John Arthur Porter ( November 12, 1921 – June 15, 1979 ) was one of Canada's most important sociologists during the period from 1950 to the late 1970s.

He joined the school at a particularly important ferment: while the university had abandoned its social democratic and Fabian roots, its professors and students were heavily influenced by a liberal reformism which, in the words of one commentator, was “ a widely shared belief that the irrationality of war and suffering could be eliminated by the judicious application of humane rationality specifically manifested in the form of a generous and intelligent welfare state .” Reflecting upon his time as the LSE Porter notes that he was most animated by “ a concern for ethical principles in social life .”

In this regard, it is interesting to study the writings of Michael Porter, in order to see how Marx's original intent relates to modern competitive business practice, and how it might be elaborated on ( see further the important studies by Willi Semmler and Christian Bidard ).

His important amateur titles included the Porter Cup, the Sunnehanna Amateur, and the Western Amateur.

To date, the three-component conceptual model has been regarded as the leading model for organizational commitment because it ties together three aspects of earlier commitment research ( Becker, 1960 ; Buchanan, 1974 ; Kanter, 1968 ; Mathieu & Zajac, 1990 ; Mowday, Porter, & Steers, 1982 ; Salancik, 1977 ; Weiner, 1982 ; Weiner & Vardi, 1980 ).

Porter showed them how to make Newtonian reflectors, teaching all the aspects of mirror making including grinding, polishing, and testing their own mirrors, and designing and constructing telescope mounts.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

In 1899, Edison hired Edwin Stanton Porter and soon put him in charge of his New York motion picture studio.

In 1919, Porter moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and made her living ghost writing, writing children's stories and doing publicity work for a motion picture company.

Porter entered motion picture work in 1896, the first year movies were commercially projected on large screens in the United States.

In 1909 Porter, in an attempt to resist the new industrial system born out of the popularity of nickelodeons, left Edison and joined with others in organizing Rex, an independent motion picture company.

Porter remains an enigmatic figure in motion picture history.

The credits for the piece are concept / direction Alvy Ray Smith, animation John Lasseter, technical lead Bill Reeves, technical contributions by Tom Duff ( who designed the animation program called “ md ”, short for " motion doctor "), Eben Ostby, Rob Cook, Loren Carpenter, Ed Catmull, David Salesin, Tom Porter, and Sam Leffler, filming by David DiFrancesco, Tom Noggle, and Don Conway, and computer logistics by Craig Good.

Porter would later submit for analysis and it was then that Fred A. Hildebrand suggested that the sample was a new mineral after taking a powder x-ray picture.

This picture of H. K. Porter is from the front cover of a church program for his funeral.

Jameson was connected with Porter when fingerprints taken during his 1993 arrest were matched against Porter's fingerprints in an FBI database after a police officer saw his picture as Poet of the Month on ChicagoPoetry. com.

A picture of Tracy Porter and a knight whilst on her holiday to Germany.