Shepard had 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 ".

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

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.

Named after Roger Shepard, it is a sound consisting of a superposition of tones separated by octaves.

Spectrum view of ascending Shepard tones ( linear frequency scale )

Figure 1: Shepard tones forming a Shepard scale, illustrated in a music sequencer | sequencer

Jean-Claude Risset subsequently created a version of the scale where the tones glide continuously, and it is appropriately called the continuous Risset scale or Shepard – Risset glissando.

A sequentially played pair of Shepard tones separated by an interval of a tritone ( half an octave ) produces the tritone paradox.

* Barber pole phaser is an analog synthesizer specially designed to create Shepard tones, an Auditory illusion.

The tritone paradox is an auditory illusion in which a sequentially played pair of Shepard tones separated by an interval of a tritone, or half octave, is heard as ascending by some people and as descending by others.

At the end, Alan Shepard, who was head of the astronaut office, asked the fourteen to rank their fellow astronauts in the order they would want to fly with them in space.

Dodie Shepard designed new red and black uniforms for Chancellor Gorkon and his staff, as it was judged that it would be unseemly for the chancellor to wear common warrior garb.

Having connected wires to it, Shepard would occasionally move the creature, which would typically send the already-skittish viewers fleeing the display.

On December 31, 2011, MTV confirmed that the series would be revived in 2012, and that a different celebrity guest host would be featured each episode, so far the guests have included ; Justin Bieber, Bam Margera, Hayden Panettiere, Tyler, the Creator, Lucy Hale, Nick Cannon, Dax Shepard, Miley Cyrus, Heather Morris, Kellan Lutz, and Mac Miller.

* In 1998 after the kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, the major American news networks would occasionally mention that the student's parents lived in Dhahran and worked for Saudi Aramco.

This sparks a campaign for equal rights for sexual minorities and helps to pass the Matthew Shepard Act, which would criminalize discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, or disability.

Shepard and Metzler proposed that if we decomposed and then mentally re-imaged the objects into basic mathematical propositions, as the then-dominant view of cognition " as a serial digital computer " assumed, then it would be expected that the time it took to determine whether the object was the same or not would be independent of how much the object was rotated.

According to Shepard and Metzler, if Pylyshyn were correct, then the amount of time it took to identify the object as the same object would not depend on the degree of rotation of the object.

It was planned as a three-day extended mission, to launch in late 1963 ; the spacecraft, Freedom 7-II, would have been flown by Alan Shepard, a veteran of the suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 mission in 1961.

He threatened to veto the Matthew Shepard Act, which would have included sexual orientation in hate crimes.

These included Christopher admitting to having been beaten by ex-girlfriend Noelle ( and reading a note from her in which she promises never to hurt him again if Titus would be hers forever ); admitting that he loves his violent, manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic mother ; and explaining how Matthew Shepard was murdered because of his sexual orientation.

Shepard would later cover the tour in an offhand journal titled The Rolling Thunder Logbook.

Inspired by classic English illustrators such as E H Shepard, Tenniel Arthur Rackham, Ambrus chose to make his way to England, recognising that it would be a good place to continue his study of illustration.

Stopped by Wernher von Braun from going, Alan Shepard had volunteered to take the flight, and would have become the first man to travel into outer space.

Shepard would reach space, though not orbit, on May 5.

Where did he come from ?’" Shepard also would talk about why he cast Gammon, saying: " You ’ re probably aware of the notorious father figures in my plays, alcoholic Midwesterners who leave their families and get lost in the Southwestern desert.

Senator Shepard later claimed that his bill's toll increase was a mistake, and that he would present an updated bill the second week of April 2006.