By 1906 Shepard had become a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, as well as an illustration for Punch.

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

It also included a NASA Exhibit that included models and mockups of various satellites, as well as the Project Mercury capsule that had carried Alan Shepard into space.

* October 10, 1906: Cleveland, Ohio Harry Smith shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Mary Shepard at South Euclid School after she had rejected him.

Bert Shepard, a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators who had lost his leg in WWII, was also born in Dana.

By the early 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a land development project known as the " Shepard Point Land Company " which purchased of land on the eastern tip of the peninsula bordering the Newport River known then as " Shepards Point " which is the present day location of Morehead City, North Carolina.

Day married Evelina Shepard ( b. 1811 ) in 1831, and had four children: Henry ( b. 1832 ), Mary Ely Day ( 1833 – 38 ), Benjamin Henry Day, Jr. ( b. 1838 ), the inventor of Ben-Day dots, and Clarence Shephard Day ( 1844-1927 ), a stockbroker ( and father of author Clarence Shephard, Jr .).

He had brought precut lengths of plastic clothesline and told Shepard to tie up Hartnell, before he tied her up.

The killer checked, and tightened Hartnell's bonds after discovering Shepard had bound Hartnell's hands loosely.

By the time the court was ready to open, Shepard had 300 men protecting the Springfield courthouse.

Shepard withdrew his force, which had grown to some 800 men ( to the Regulators ' 1, 200 ), to the federal armory, which was then only rumored to be the target of seizure by the activists.

General Shepard had however, pursuant to orders from Governor Bowdoin, taken possession of the armory and used its arsenal to arm a force of some 1, 200 militia.

They had three children: Earl ( 1786 ), Mary ( 1788 ) and Patience ( 1790 ), as well as Susanna Baker Shepard, an adopted orphan.

At the Sculpture Centre, he met American artist Tim Shepard who had been invited to use studio space there, and the two became friends.

With the tapes from the first sessions, Shepard set about getting Ayers to complete the album in the UK, where by now word had spread, and a host of musicians started gravitating to the studio.

Shepard ’ s had become such a necessary part of legal research, that citation checking is still informally referred to as “ Shepardizing .”

Gene Shepard ( Tim Robbins ) is a corrupt cop who cheats on his wife, Sherri ( Madeleine Stowe ), and seems oblivious to the fact that his wife long ago had discovered his secret — and just does not care.

On December 7, 2009, ABC Family announced that Leighton had been cast in the TV series Pretty Little Liars, a TV adaptation of a book of the same name by Sara Shepard.

Chaikin had a close working relationship with Sam Shepard and together they wrote the plays Tongues and Savage / Love, both of which premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre.

Chapman is the daughter of retired United States Air Force general Leland C. Shepard Jr., Chapman has had a long career in both movies and television, as well as her most recent stage work both as an actress and director of many well-received theatrical productions.

Aside from the seven-minute Chipmunk segments, in which Bagdasarian's David Seville was portrayed as a hapless bachelor who managed and mentored the three singing rodents, the show also had segments featuring a character called Clyde Crashcup ( voiced by Shepard Menken impersonating Richard Haydn's Edwin Carp character ).

In early drafts of the script, John Ryder had been described as skeletal in nature and so actors like David Bowie, Sting, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, and Terence Stamp were mentioned.

( The best-known version of the song had been recorded originally by Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky in 1953.

Captain Shepard had already died and was not elevated to the rank.

Shepard predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time.

Shepard wrote two autobiographies: Drawn from Memory ( 1957 ) and Drawn From Life ( 1962 ).

* 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

Shepard was born in Casper, Wyoming, the first of two sons born to Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard.

Shepard first ordered warning shots fired over the approaching Shaysites ' heads, and then ordered two cannons to fire grape shot at Shays's men.

The added attention resulted in mainstream media also reporting the Dirkhising case in relation to the coverage of the Shepard case, with many attempting to explain why the two were handled differently by the media, and perhaps received differently by readers.

While both victims died as the result of assaults by two men, Dirkhising was a minor and the victim of a sex crime, while Shepard, an adult, was murdered as part of a hate crime.

While homosexuality has been cited as an issue in both cases, the circumstances were different and in contrast: Shepard was an openly gay man who was attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising was raped by two men who were described as " lovers " in a police affidavit.

Also the sexualities of the victims and attackers differed somewhat with Shepard being an openly gay man attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising's attackers were lovers and presumed to be gay.

Many of the articles justified the lack of coverage, citing that the death did not justify national attention ; initial reports failed to mention that the two perpetrators were gay, whereas the Shepard reports identified Shepard as gay and the crimes as hate crimes from the beginning.

In a November 4, 1999, Time magazine article, Jonathan Gregg opined that accusations of liberal media bias were not justified because the two cases varied with the Dirkhising murder offering " no lessons ," whereas the Shepard murder " touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons.

While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the command module " Kitty Hawk ".

The group came into the national spotlight in 1998, when it was featured on CNN for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two men because of his homosexuality.

The most publicized incident was the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming after two young men kidnapped, tortured, and murdered him in 1998.

One notable trek was the Transglobe Expedition he undertook between 1979 and 1982 when he and two fellow members of 21 SAS, Oliver Shepard and Charles R. Burton, journeyed around the world on its polar axis, using surface transport only.

He dropped out after two years, however, and returned to Rochester, where he married his first wife, Anne Shepard, in 1909.

Despite the extensive medical evaluation, two of the seven ( Shepard and Slayton ) were soon grounded for undiagnosed medical conditions and sat out the entirety of Project Gemini and most of the Apollo program ( and Mercury as well, in Slayton's case ) supervising the active astronauts.

His extant writings are three sermons — two preached at the annual election of the artillery company in 1672 and 1676, and the third at the election of representatives in 1673 — and a monody in English verse ( Cambridge, 1677 ) on the death of Thomas Shepard, minister of the church in Charlestown.

" Shepard received two Emmy Award nominations for songs he composed for the PBS television show Between the Lions ( 2007 ).

William Shepard Walsh attributes this verse featuring two multiple-word rhymes for orange to W. W. Skeat.