Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

He wrote music for theater, such as plays written by Sam Shepard, presented at La Mama E. T. C.

In response to Nickel and Dimed, Adam Shepard undertook a project that he later wrote about in his book Scratch Beginnings: Me, $ 25, and the Search for the American Dream.

Jonathan Gregg wrote in Time, " Matthew Shepard died not because of an all-too-common sex crime, but because of prejudice.

Shepard recounted meeting Teenage Fanclub at a Go-Betweens party and hearing their passion for Ayers ' music, and wrote a letter to singer, guitarist Norman Blake.

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.

In 1960, New York Times reviewer Richard F. Shepard wrote, " He does not crash into the home with the false jollity and thunderous witticisms of a backslapper.

Shepard then became an independent producer, wrote, narrated and produced The WQXR / MCA Classics Listener's Guide ( 1988 ; music appreciation recordings ) and has lectured on musical theatre and classical music.

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.

Following Chaikin's stroke, several writers, including Jean-Claude van Itallie, Susan Yankowitz, and Sam Shepard, wrote plays specifically for Chaikin to perform and direct, most notably The War in Heaven which was directed by Steven Kent.

* 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 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 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.

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.

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.

In his autobiography, Drawn From Memory, E. H. Shepard said the fire could be seen from Highgate Hill, and some days later when he and his friend Cyril were allowed to visit Westbourne Grove, that, " The long front of the shop was a sorry sight with part of the wall fallen and the rest blackened.

Reporters from The Charlotte Observer, led by Charles Shepard, investigated and published a series of articles regarding the PTL organization's finances.

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

Fox News does produce some news coverage carried by the broadcast network, usually separate from the coverage aired on the cable channel, as Fox Report and Studio B anchor Shepard Smith anchors most primetime news presentations on the Fox network, especially during political news events ( which are anchored by Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel ).

* Wilco's song " Born Alone " from their 2011 album The Whole Love ends with a descending Shepard glissando.

* Gorillaz ' song " Dare " from their 2005 album Demon Days begins with a rapid, rising Shepard glissando.

* The Shepard Tone from Wikipedia in easier to access format

Shepard served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 – July 1969 ( approximately the period of his grounding ), and from June 1971 – August 1, 1974 ( from his last flight, to his retirement ).

Shepard began his naval career after graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1944, and served on the destroyer USS Cogswell while it was deployed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The number of trobairitz varies between sources: there were twenty or twenty-one named trobairitz, plus an additional poetess known only as Domna H. There are several anonymous texts ascribed to women ; the total number of trobairitz texts varies from twenty-three ( Schultz-Gora ), twenty-five ( Bec ), thirty-six ( Bruckner, White, and Shepard ), and forty-six ( Rieger ).

The tour, sponsored by Logo, the MTV Networks channel targeting gay audiences, provided information to fans who attended, as well as purple wristbands with the slogan " Erase Hate " from The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

* Louis C. Shepard, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient from Ashtabula County, buried in Lakeview cemetery, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio.

During that time, Shepard attended The American School In Switzerland ( TASIS ), from which he graduated in May 1995.

Elementary-aged students from the city and adjoining nearby areas attend Alan Shepard Elementary.

* Louis C. Shepard, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient from Ashtabula County, buried in Lakeview cemetery, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio

It took 22 years until the first settlers arrived in the area: Ebenezer Sanborn coming from nearby Corinth, founding the " Bradford farm ", and Joseph Thurber from New Hampshire, founding the " Shepard farm ".

The Stevenson family, who settled in the Gorge in the 1800s from Missouri, founded the town of Stevenson on the old Shepard donation land claim.

What differentiates Ham's mission from all the other primate flights to this point is that he was not merely a passenger, and the results from his test flight led directly to the mission Alan Shepard made on May 5, 1961 aboard Freedom 7.

When the exhibit opened at a gallery on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus on September 15, 2005, university chancellor Bruce Shepard directed the removal of Brandtner's work from the gallery.

Thereafter, when NASA announced its search for a second group of astronauts, the Mercury Alan Shepard, who knew Conrad from their time as naval aviators and test pilots, approached Conrad and persuaded him to reapply.

In 2008, Keaton starred alongside Dax Shepard and Liv Tyler in Vince Di Meglio's dramedy Smother, playing the overbearing mother of an unemployed therapist, who decides to move in with him and his girlfriend following the split from her husband, played by Ken Howard.