Our knowledge about the geology of the Qattara Depression was greatly extended by Ralph Alger Bagnold, a British military commander and explorer, through numerous journeys in the 1920s and 1930s.

Following the early trailblazing work of Grove Karl Gilbert around the turn of the 20th century, a group of natural scientists, geologists and hydraulic engineers including Ralph Alger Bagnold, John Hack, Luna Leopold, Thomas Maddock and Arthur Strahler began to research the form of landscape elements such as rivers and hillslopes by taking systematic, direct, quantitative measurements of aspects of them and investigating the scaling of these measurements.

Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, ( 3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990 ) was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II.

In 1915, Ralph Bagnold followed in his father's footsteps and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers.

Ralph Bagnold became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944 and, on 7 June 1944 he retired from the army permanently with the honorary rank of Brigadier and returned to his scientific interests.

* Biography of Ralph Bagnold ( 1896-1990 ).

* Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS, 1896-1990.

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ( 1941 ) is a science book, written by Ralph A. Bagnold.

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Clayton had collaboratad extensively with Ralph Bagnold in the preparation and mapping associated with Bagnold's pre-war exploration trips.

* Libyan Sands, Travel in a Dead World about the travels of R. A. Bagnold by Ralph Alger Bagnold

* Ralph Alger Bagnold ( 1896 – 1990 ) was born here.

The soldier / physicist Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold was an early pioneer of the physics of granular matter and whose book " The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes " remains an important reference to this day.

The Long Range Desert Group was formed under Major Ralph A. Bagnold and soon Italian movements far behind the lines were being reported by sky-wave radio links.

In 1930 an expedition headed by Ralph Alger Bagnold followed the same route.

Her brother Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) during World War II, a precursor of the SAS.

Notable twentieth-century explorers Ralph Bagnold of Britain, and the Hungarian László ( Ladislaus ) Almásy led an expedition to search for Zerzura from 1929-1930 using Ford Model-T trucks.

She is owned by Ralph H. Kroening, Milwaukee, Wis., who, according to the railbirds, can feel justly proud of her.

Inheriting a more mature Mantle, who now has seen the sights on and off Broadway, Ralph Houk quietly bestowed, no pun intended, the mantle of authority on Mickey.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

Gabriele and Teresa had nine children: Alphonse " Scarface Al " Capone, James Capone ( also known as Richard Two-Gun Hart ), Raffaele Capone ( also known as Ralph " Bottles " Capone, who took charge of his brother's beverage industry ), Salvatore " Frank " Capone, John Capone, Albert Capone, Matthew Capone, Rose Capone, and Mafalda Capone ( who married John J. Maritote ).

The other was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow, who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis ( BBN ) and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ).

Earnhardt was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on April 29, 1951, to Martha Coleman and Ralph Lee Earnhardt, who was then one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina.

My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.

Later composers who wrote chamber works for this quintet include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Colin Matthews, Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and John Woolrich.

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

Further Homo erectus fossils of a similar age were found at Sangiran in the 1930 ` s by the anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, who in the same time period also uncovered fossils at Ngandong alongside more advanced tools, re-dated in 2011 to between 550, 000 and 143, 000 years old.

His pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, Mikhail Baryshnikov ( who had hoped to play Cagney on Broadway ), actor Ralph Bellamy, and Miloš Forman.

Setting aside Peary's claim, the first confirmed surface conquest of the North Pole was that of Ralph Plaisted, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean Luc Bombardier, who traveled over the ice by snowmobile and arrived on April 19, 1968.

In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality.

An asymmetric-key cryptosystem was published in 1976 by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman who, influenced by Ralph Merkle's work on public-key distribution, disclosed a method of public-key agreement.

His work inspired the New England Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who declared in 1843 that, in reading Proclus, " I am filled with hilarity & spring, my heart dances, my sight is quickened, I behold shining relations between all beings, and am impelled to write and almost to sing.

Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still editor and publisher, and music critic, Ralph J. Gleason.

Dr. Cudworth died in 1624 when young Ralph was about 7, and his mother then married John Stoughton, who succeeded Dr. Cudworth as rector of Aller until 1632 and gave the boy a good home education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 ) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

According to Ralph of Coggeshall Henry the Young King was the instigator of rebellion against Henry II ; he wanted to reign independently over at least part of the territory his father had promised him, and to break away from his dependence on Henry II, who controlled the purse strings.

The offensive line, anchored by all-pro tackle Rayfield Wright, Pro Bowlers John Niland and Ralph Neely, and future hall of famer Forrest Gregg, was also a primary reason for their success on offense ( Neely had broken his leg in November in a dirt-bike accident, and was replaced first by Gregg and then by Tony Liscio, who came out of retirement.

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

That night after supper I went back over to 48 Spruce Street -- Ralph and I at that time were living at 168 Chestnut -- and Ralph went with me.

Sweyn murdered his cousin Beorn and went again into exile, and Edward's nephew, Ralph was given Beorn's earldom, but the following year Sweyn's father was able to secure his reinstatement.

Grant fought hard to get out of the film during its shooting, since McCarey seemed to be improvising as he went along, and Grant even wanted to switch roles with co-star Ralph Bellamy.

He went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1923 where he studied Mathematics, later gaining a PhD in 1929 under Ralph H. Fowler.

Instead, while the title of Earl of Westmorland and several manors were passed to Ralph, the bulk of his rich estate went to his wife, Joan Beaufort.

The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 at the hands of animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career.

He was initially cast in the hit television series Good Times, but the role went to Ralph Carter.

From Boston, Fitch went on to coach the Rockets where he led a team featuring Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson to the 1986 NBA Finals where they were defeated once again by Bird's Celtics, 4 games to 2, for the NBA championship.

These included Ralph St John Ainslie, a music teacher and caricaturist ; E. P. Lemarchand, whose sister eventually married Arthur Fowler ; Bernard Tower, who went on to become headmaster at Lancing ; and George Coulton, who was to write the first biography of Fowler.

When the Hospitallers were in turn dissolved in 1542, the manor went to Sir Ralph Sadleir.

In her role as the prime minister's spouse, she went to the memorial of the victim of the W. R. Myers High School shooting in 1999, along with Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, Opposition Leader Preston Manning, and the Attorney General of Canada Anne McLellan.

They went on to produce a seven-song demo at Elephant Studios in London and subsequently expanded to a sextet, adding Colvin Mayers ( keyboards ) and Ralph Cade ( whose contribution was mainly theatrical, involving manic dancing and posturing with a saxophone which he didn't know how to play ).

Other regular characters include Fenton Fuscus, a bat who went to high school and university with Lindesfarne, to whom he is now married ; Fiona Fennec, a half-red, half-Fennec fox vixen who is Rudy's girlfriend ; George Fennec, Fiona's father who is in a relationship with Danielle ; and Ralph Dewclaw, Kell's brother who was originally hostile to Kevin, but now accepts the rabbit as family after several unsuccessful hunting attempts.

* In the season 6 part II episode " Remember When ", Paulie recalls to Tony how he, Tony, Ralph Cifaretto, and Pussy all went out to dinner at a steakhouse after Tony performed his first murder.

Gay went on to write songs for revues by The Crazy Gang, and for star artists like Gracie Fields, Flanagan and Allen and George Formby, as well as penning popular World War II songs such as " Run Rabbit Run " ( with lyrics by Ralph Butler ).

Ralph Fiennes was approached for the role that eventually went to Jeremy Northam.

In 1975 the firm merged with Kansas City architect firm HNTB and went on to design stadiums including Giants Stadium, RCA Dome, Sports Authority Field at Mile High, and Ralph Wilson Stadium.

The SmartAsk tournament was described by Ralph Benmergui, the show's executive producer, on TSN's Off The Record as being " Reach for the Top on acid ," although in practice this largely involved crude humour, especially as the show went on and ratings sagged.

After Grantray-Lawrence went bankrupt, the second and third seasons were produced at a dramatically reduced budget by Krantz Films under Ralph Bakshi.

It was next created for Sir Ralph de Greystock in 1321, and went into abeyance in 1569, after passing into the Dacre family.

Ralph Denyer went on to co-write " The Guitar Handbook " with Isaac Guillory.