In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

Sharp and Grove developed receiverless wireless voice transmission technologies for the Advanced Research Projects Agency at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in 1973.

Lowell Sherman, the original director, developed pneumonia and died early in the filming of Becky Sharp.

The PP8 used a Sharp engine identical to an existing Sharp copier, using a 6800 based controller jointly developed by Sharp and Centronics.

Later that year, Sharp developed a forty inch ( 100 cm ) TFT LCD screen, the world's largest at the time.

Originally developed for the Apple Macintosh, it was later adapted by Brøderbund for the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II ( leaked version ), Amstrad CPC, Family Computer, Sharp X68000, NEC PC-9801 and DOS operating systems.

It was developed by Merck, Sharp & Dohme in the 1980s from the Oka strain virus isolated and attenuated by Michiaki Takahashi and colleagues in the 1970s.

This version of the game, which was developed by SPS and published by Sharp, features several enhancements to the Famicom original, such as displaying three enemy characters on-screen instead of just two, slightly more colorful graphics, an expanded game world, and new items and special techniques for the player ( including some that were only used by certain enemy characters in the Famicom version, such as the headbutt and the whirlwind kick ).

Sharp differences had developed within the Socialist League majority during the 1984-85 miners ' strike.

Extended Vector Animation ( EVA ) is a web-based vector graphic file format developed by Sharp Corporation in 1996.

In recent years, the club has developed a reputation for developing promising young strikers, having sold Billy Sharp, Martin Paterson and Gary Hooper on for seven-figure sums.

Sharp developed the camera with the following features.

The X68k ran an operating system developed for Sharp by Hudson Soft, called Human68k, which features commands very similar to those in MS-DOS ( typed in English ).

CarMax is a used car auto superstore concept developed in 1991 at Circuit City by Austin Ligon, then Circuit City Sr. VP Planning, and Rick Sharp, then Circuit City CEO.

The format was originally developed by JVC and supported by Sony, Canon and Sharp.

The Young Tradition's final concert was at Cecil Sharp House in October 1969, after which they split up, with Bellamy wanting to concentrate on traditional English music, whilst the other members had developed interests in mediaeval music.

During the 8-bit era, Bokosuka Wars, a computer game developed by Koji Sumii for the Sharp X1 in 1983 and ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) by ASCII in 1985, was responsible for laying the foundations for the tactical RPG genre, or " simulation RPG " genre as it is known in Japan, with its blend of role-playing and strategy game elements.

It was developed in the late 1950s by the Sharpstown expansion west of the Southwest Freeway by Frank Sharp.

Zoomer was a market failure along with similar products developed by Hewlett-Packard, Sharp, and Toshiba.

Beyer began work with Sharp, Roberts and Company in Manchester, manufacturers of textile machinery, as a junior draughtsman and developed a lifelong friendship with Richard Roberts.

After Masters developed the script's groundwork, Alan Sharp was hired to work on characters and dialogue.

is a platform video game developed by Konami released for the Sharp X68000 home computer in 1993.

In the early 20th century, ECD was revived in England by Cecil Sharp, who also was known for collecting folksongs.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

The first major revival of English Country Dance, one of the major types of Regency dance, was by Englishman Cecil Sharp in the early 20th century.

Epic versions of the mythology by 19th century Haida storyteller-poets Skaay and Ghandl have been translated by Robert Bringhurst, whose Story as Sharp as a Knife, a collection of their works, won the Governor General's Award.

Spencer is named after Thomas Sharp Spencer ( d. 1794 ), a long hunter who passed through the Van Buren County area in the mid-18th century.

Sharp criticism of the sourcing of Boece's history was voiced in the sixteenth century by Humphrey Lhuyd and John Twyne.

It recovered after the Restoration in 1660 but was in steep decline after agricultural and industrial revolutions by the 19th century, when collectors like Cecil Sharp recorded the practice, particularly from versions of dance he found in the Cotswolds.

When the first revival was at its height in the first decade of the 20th century, George Gardiner and Alice Gillington both collected songs in Hampshire, Lucy Broadwood in Surrey, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, Alfred Williams in Oxfordshire and Berkshire and Cecil Sharp in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent.

* Of the town fortifications torn down in the 19th century, all that has been left standing is the Spitzer Turm (“ Sharp Tower ”, a prison tower with a dungeon ), the Stumpfer Turm (“ Blunt Tower ”, the powder tower ), the Hexenturm (“ Witches ’ Tower ”, in which in 1602 and 1603 eleven women fell victim to the rife witchhunt madness in Electoral Mainz ) and a small remnant of the formerly 2 km-long town wall on Grabenstraße.

By the early twentieth century, the tradition was beginning to die out, but was revived by the interest generated after Cecil Sharp published notations for five of the traditional village dances in his book, The Sword Dances of Northern England.

Cecil James Sharp ( 22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924 ) was the founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them.

Cecil Sharp is, I believe, the most important English folk song collector of the century.

It was a landmark in the battle against the African slave trade of the eighteenth century, and inspired abolitionists such as Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson, leading to the foundation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787.

Recent acquisitions, either through purchase or donation, include works by Salvador Dalí, Mark Dion, Andrew Moore ’ s photographs from Robert Moses and the Modern City, a collection of 20th century photographs from the 1964 World ’ s Fair Kodak Pavilion, crime scene photographs from the Daily New Archive 1920 ’ s-1960 ’ s, and nearly 1000 drawings by the court reporter and political cartoonist, William Sharp.

Berkshire towards the end of the seventeenth century and a direct descendant of Edmund's was Richard Sharp ( politician ), once hailed as possibly being the most popular man in Georgian London.

Dances from The Dancing Master were re-published in arrangements by Cecil Sharp in the early 20th century, and in these reconstructed forms remain popular among dancers today.

It was proposed by Beatrice Hahn, Paul Sharp, and colleagues that " epidemic emergence of HIV most likely reflects changes in population structure and behaviour in Africa during the 20th century and perhaps medical interventions that provided the opportunity for rapid human-to-human spread of the virus ".

The diamond trade in London reached its zenith in the late 18th century, spurred by the East India Company's links with India, the prime source, and this probably encouraged William Sharp to become a dealer.

However, Frederick Wilkins ( son of the first 1847 partner ) had retained the connections with Mexican and South American mines that James Sharp had fostered half a century earlier.