Shepard then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before settling in Denver, Colorado.

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.

The first manned space flights were made in early 1961, first by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and then by American astronaut Alan Shepard.

Their mere announcement spelled the end, as Shepard was then forced to admit that the Hodag was a hoax.

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.

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

In the early 1880s, he helped his close friend Edward Morse Shepard organize the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brooklyn, took a part in the 1892 presidential campaign on behalf of Grover Cleveland, supported the Gold Democrats against William Jennings Bryan in 1896, then switched to more moderate monetary reform as a member of the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Convention in 1897.

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.

Shepard and Metzler ’ s experiment consisted of showing a group of subjects a 2-D line drawing of a 3-D object, and then that same object at some rotation.

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.

The mission was to be flown by Alan Shepard, the backup pilot for MA-9, then in preparation, and previously the pilot of the MR-3 suborbital mission in 1961.

The film also features interviews with Helms ' foes and fans, community activists, novelists Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, openly gay Carrboro mayor Mike Nelson, and people in the street, including a brief interview with Matthew Shepard, then a student at Catawba College.

In Chris O ' Dell's 2009 autobiography Miss O ' Dell she details an affair she had with married playwright Sam Shepard and states that Shepard then cheated on her with Joni Mitchell.

For the next five years Woodruff was virtually the sole director of Shepard's work, staging the American premiere of Curse of the Starving Class at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978, the world premieres of Buried Child ( 1978 ) and True West ( 1980 ) at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and then in New York, and the touring productions of Tongues and Savage / Love, which Shepard co-authored with the performer Joseph Chaikin.

" He later tells NCIS Director Jenny Shepard that he is working on his fourth boat, and that he named one of the previous boats after his ( then current ) wife when he finished it, then burned it after their divorce.

Exposed, Chip threatened her with a knife ; she promptly subdued him, hog-tied him with duct tape, and insisted on being allowed to work alone from then on, something Jenny Shepard agreed to.

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.

In the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space and the second person following Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union who flew one month earlier.

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. ( November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998 ) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council.

His adopted son, Kevin Shepard, attended Selleck's alma mater, the University of Southern California, and became an All-American in 1990.

In January 1974, he became Chief of the Astronaut Office after the retirement of Alan Shepard.

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

Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell eventually became the fifth and sixth, respectively, on the Apollo 14 mission.

He was a principal figure among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather ( who became his son-in-law ), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard and John Norton, who wrote his first biography.

Lucius Shepard has won several awards for his science fiction: in 1985 he won John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, followed in 1986 with a best novella Nebula Award for his story " R & R ", which later became part of his 1987 novel Life During Wartime.

His brother, Shepard Alonzo Mount ( 1804 – 1868 ), also an artist, best known as a portrait painter, became a National Academician in 1842.

* May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.

Shepard also purchased a second Boston station, WAAB, which became an affiliate of the Mutual Radio Network in 1935.

The very first single he produced, " Seven Lonely Days ", became a Billboard Top-20 Country single for Jean Shepard in 1969.

Fell and Burritt Hamilton donated additional land, and the combined property, which became known as Leila Arboretum, was designed and developed by T. Clifton Shepard between 1924 and 1930.

Stickler's early independent films include the shorts Queen Mercy and the documentary Andre the Giant has a Posse, the first documentary to discover graphic artist Shepard Fairey ( OBEY / GIANT ).

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast ( Dean Jones, Barbara Barrie, George Coe, Teri Rolston, John Cunningham & Beth Howland ) for Company

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), John De Main ( conductor ), Donnie Albert, Carol Brice, Clamma Dale & the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer & lyricist ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast with Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou for Sweeney Todd

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & various artists for Ain't Misbehavin '

** Robert Brittan, Judd Woldin ( composers ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast ( Virginia Capers, Joe Morton, Ernestine Jackson, Robert Jackson, Deborah Allen & Helen Martin ) for Raisin

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

** Stephen Sondheim ( composer & lyricist ), Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original cast for Sunday in the Park with George

* In the film Big Fat Liar, the story producer Marty Wolf ( a notorious and proud liar himself ) steals from student Jason Shepard, tells of a character whose lies become out of control to the point where each lie he tells causes him to grow in size.

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), Walter Berry, Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl & the Paris National Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), Walter Berry, Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl, Choeur Nationale de Paris & the Orchestra of Paris National Opera for Berg: Wozzeck

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ) & the original 1986 cast for Follies in Concert

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), John De Main ( conductor ), Donnie Ray Albert, Carol Brice, Clamma Dale & the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), Walter Berry, Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl & the Paris National Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ) & the New York Philharmonic for Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), Walter Berry, Ingeborg Lasser, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl, Choeur Nationale de Paris & the Orchestra of Paris National Opera for Berg: Wozzeck

Thomas Z. Shepard is a prolific record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim.

: For the record producer, see Thomas Z. Shepard