Sharp also noted that orders given to Maddox to stay eight miles ( 13 km ) off the North Vietnamese coast put the ship in international waters, as North Vietnam claimed only a five-mile ( 8 km ) nautical limit as its territory ( or off of its off-shore islands ).

It explored his work on gas warfare during the First World War and the strain it put on his wife Clara ( Lesley Sharp ), concluding with her suicide and its cover-up by the authorities.

Despite his involvement with Factory was brief, Sharp was an associate for a short while of Martin Hannett and wrote a book called Who Killed Martin Hannett which unfortunately upset Martin's surviving relatives owing to the large amount of untruths and fiction Sharp put into the book.

Additional gifts from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Arthur Ross Foundation will be put towards the restoration of the Alpine Garden and the creation of a Winter Walk, respectively.

In a bad tempered match, Jones had put in a late tackle against striker Graeme Sharp flooring him, and Ratcliffe steamed forward to challenge Jones aggressively.

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 ).

would be sensible of it, I have done both him and Dr. Halley a great kindness ," he wrote to his assistant Abraham Sharp.

He was coached by the long-time great Frewsburg High School coach Tom Sharp.

Hopkins also had great success during the remainder of the decade with the romantic screwball comedy The Richest Girl in the World ( 1934 ), the historical drama Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Barbary Coast ( 1935 ), These Three ( 1936 ) ( the first of four films with director William Wyler ) and The Old Maid ( 1939 ).

Bartholomew Sharp, who partly burned and looted in 1680, and Edward Davis, who set fire to the convent of Santo Domingo 1686, causing great fear among the population, forcing the defense of the city in 1700.

Curiously enough, the greatest of all the Victorian cycle engineers, Professor Archibald Sharp, was against shaft drive ; in his classic 1896 book " Bicycles and Tricycles ", he writes " The Fearnhead Gear .... if bevel-wheels could be accurately and cheaply cut by machinery, it is possible that gears of this description might supplant, to a great extent, the chain-drive gear ; but the fact that the teeth of the bevel-wheels cannot be accurately milled is a serious obstacle to their practical success ".

In Psychomania ( 1971 ), Sharp creates a visual fugue by riffing on the great themes of the counter-culture era: bikers, standing stones and ritual magic.

Indeed, many ex-Everton players including striking partners Andy Gray and Graeme Sharp, cite Harvey's promotion to first team coach as the main reason for the team's reversal of fortune and the great success that followed.

* John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica is published posthumously in a version containing Flamsteed's revisions, thanks largely to the efforts of his widow, Margaret, and former assistants Abraham Sharp and Joseph Crosthwaite.

Sharp is best known for his untiring efforts for the abolition of slavery, although he was involved in many other causes, fired by a dislike of any social or legal injustice.

During the years of the First World War, Sharp found it difficult to support himself through his customary efforts at lecturing and writing, and decided to make an extended visit to the United States.

Sharp's painting Snow Job was an expression of his feelings about this matter, and if it had not been for the efforts of Sharp and his friends and supporters, Sydney might have lost an important part of its character.

Sharp, tetrahedral sphalerite crystals with minor associated chalcopyrite from the Idarado Mine, Telluride, Ouray District, Colorado, USA ( size: 2. 3 × 2. 3 × 1. 2 cm )

* Sharp MZ-700: blue keys F1 to F5 in a horizontal row across the top left side of the keyboard, the keys are vertically half the size of ordinary keys and twice the width ; there's also a dedicated ' slot ' for changeable key legend overlays ( paper / plastic ) above the function key row.

Appearing in the Sharp " EL-801 " in 1972, the transistors in the logic cells of CMOS ICs only used any appreciable power when they changed state.

With this low power consumption came the possibility of using solar cells as the power source, realised around 1978 by such calculators as the Royal Solar 1, Sharp EL-8026, and Teal Photon.

In June 2009, Marlboro Township Municipal Utilities Authority ( MTMUA ) deployed a 900 kW solar power array from Sharp that will enable the MTMUA to meet nearly 40 % of its electricity needs with emissions-free solar-generated power.

Gene Sharp, an American professor of political science, believes that power depends ultimately on its bases.

For Sharp, political power, the power of any state-regardless of its particular structural organization-ultimately derives from the subjects of the state.

Certain models like the JVC RC-M90 and the Sharp GF-777 were known as the boombox kings, having the power to drown out other ghetto blasters and were used in music battles.

Not all Zaurus models came from Sharp with universal ( 100 / 110 / 240V ) power supplies ( the Zaurus takes a regulated 5V / 1A supply ), so either an additional or an exchanged power adaptor would be needed, and not all exporters provide this by default.

For Sharp, political power, the power of any state — regardless of its particular structural organization — ultimately derives from the subjects of the state.

Like many others, Sharp accepted the supremacy of Parliament as an institution, but did not believe that this power was without restraint, and thought that Parliament could not repeal Magna Carta.

They then quickly got the attention of talent scout Wayne Sharp ( who had worked with the power pop group ' Candy ').

However, they drew the attention of Wayne Sharp, a musical talent agent who had mostly worked in jazz although he had also worked with the mid-1980s power pop group Candy.

The power ballad was released in September 1988 in Sweden as a single from their album Look Sharp !, and was written by Per Gessle and Mats M. P.

In 1988 and in 1991, on the Look Sharp Tour and the Join the Joyride Tour respectively, in its original, power ballad style, and on all the following tours in an acoustic, unplugged form.

At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne ( to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age ) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious / boastful but rich civil servant fresh from the East India Company.

The sport did not return to the town until 1970, when it was introduced to Derwent Park by local entrepreneur Paul Sharp and Ian Thomas who is the present team manager ( 2009 ).

In September 1993, Sharp introduced the PI-3000, the first in the Zaurus line of PDAs, as a follow-on to Sharp's earlier Wizard line of PDAs ( the Wizard also influenced Apple's Newton ).

In 1996 Sharp introduced the Sharp Zaurus ZR-5800.

Sharp introduced a very different device from the clamshells in the form of the SL-6000 in early 2004 ; the SL-6000L ( Wi-Fi only, no Bluetooth ) was sold in North America, the last and only device since the 5xxx series to be officially sold outside Japan.

In 2003, Sony, JVC, Canon and Sharp introduced HDV, perceived as the first truly affordable HD video format due to its utilization of inexpensive MiniDV cassettes.

The Sharp Aquos line of televisions has introduced Quattron technology, which augments the usual RGB pixel components with a yellow subpixel.

In 1988, Sharp Corporation introduced the first commercial LCD television, a 14 " model.

In 1919 Blunt introduced Walton to Cecil Sharp, who watched Walton's performances and published detailed descriptions in his Morris Book.

It was introduced as the Ever-Ready Sharp Pencil.

In the mid-1980s, Sharp introduced the C1 NES TV which was capable of playing NES and Famicom games and the first one to also have a TV tuner.