The Man from Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished -- and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse it up.

He was a prominent contributor to the ABA book Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association.

He was also the father of Pepin the Short and grandfather of Charlemagne.

They then developed an intermediate-power cartridge round, which was accomplished by reducing the power and the length of the standard 7. 92x57 Mauser rifle cartridge to create the 7. 92x33 Kurz ( Short ) cartridge.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

A Short Account of Scots Divines, by him, was printed at Edinburgh in 1833, edited by James Maidment.

Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.

In 1643 there appeared Ivan Uzhevych's Grammatica sclavonica and, in 1762, the Short Introduction to English Grammar of Robert Lowth was also published.

In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.

One of the sons of Sir Morris Abbot called George was also an MP in the Short Parliament.

In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a successful run, opposite Martin Short, in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks ' The Producers.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

The story was reprinted a decade later in Groff Conklin's anthology, Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels ( Dell, 1960 ), followed by MacLean's collection, The Diploids ( Avon, 1962 ).

His grandfather was Pepin the Short.

His short " Wrestling Swordfish " was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.

In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth ( with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard ), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

He encouraged the deposition of the last Merovingian king of the Franks, Childeric III, and it was with his sanction that Boniface crowned Pepin the Short as King of the Franks at Soissons in 752.

This curtailed work on their first heavy bomber design, the Supermarine B. 12 / 36 which was replaced by the Short Stirling.

The latter was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short Subject.

Thomas Jefferson ( then the Secretary of State ) instructed the U. S. chargé d ' affaires in Paris ( William Short ) to contract with a local engraver to make the medals, since the first was to go to the Marquis de la Luzerne, the former French minister.

The Pearl Harbor Board report, released after the war, traced the entire military and diplomatic history prior to the attack finding much fault along the way, critical of break downs in communications between Secretary of State Cordell Hull, George C. Marshall and a failure of appropriate action by Hawaiian Department commander, Walter C. Short.

Froude's observations on Africa were presented in a Report to the Secretary of State and a series of lectures for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, both of which were adapted into essays for inclusion in Froude's essay collection Short Studies on Great Subjects.

After the 1997 UK general election the Overseas Development Administration was given full departmental status as the Department for International Development, with Short as the first cabinet-level Secretary of State for International Development.

When Amos was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

Baroness Amos was made International Development Secretary after the incumbent, Clare Short, resigned from the post in the run-up to the US and UK 2003 invasion of Iraq.

* Truman administration – Jonathan W. Daniels, a newspaper man who was in the Franklin Roosevelt administration in multiple agencies and on various boards just prior to becoming Press Secretary ; Charlie Ross, a journalist who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 ; Early ; Joseph Short, a newspaper man ; and Roger Tubby, a reporter and editor turned Democratic National Committee spokesman before becoming White House Press Secretary.

It was over the latter purchase that then British International Development Secretary Clare Short expressed public outrage, resulting in her becoming known as ' Mama Radar ' in the Tanzanian press.

He never held high office, serving as an opposition whip then as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clare Short at the Department for International Development.

Turnbull became involved in controversy when on 28 February 2004 he wrote a formal letter admonishing ex-minister Clare Short for making media statements alleging that British intelligence had intercepted communications from ( amongst others ) Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan.

Eventually cajoling his colleagues into a more moderate line he avoided a head on collision with Edward Short the Labour Education Secretary and proceeded with those schemes for secondary reorganisation that he regarded as well founded.

The riots followed a £ 10 million aid offer by International Development Secretary Claire Short, prompting the resignation of Bertrand Osborne, then Chief Minister of Montserrat after allegations of being too pro-British and not demanding a better offer.

In 1998, a group of UK companies, NGOs and trade union organisations, with the backing of the then Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short, launched a radical approach to protecting workers ' rights in global supply chains.

* 2003-British Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short, resigning over Government policy on Iraq.

They consist of the Tengkolok Diraja ( Royal Head Dress ), the Queen's Gendik Diraja ( Royal Tiara ), the Keris Panjang Diraja ( Royal Long Kris or Keris of State ), the Kris Pendek Diraja ( Royal Short Keris ), the Cogan Alam dan Cogan Agama ( Sceptre of the Universe and Sceptre of Religion ), the Cokmar ( Maces ), the Pedang Keris Panjang dan Sundang ( Royal sword, long Keris and sword Keris ), the Payung Ubur-ubur Kuning dan Tombak Berambu ( Yellow-fringed umbrella and tassled lances ), and the Pending Diraja ( Royal Waist Buckle ).

* E L Short, former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature

* Short Springs State Natural Area

The film went on to win Best Family Short at the 2009 Garden State Film Festival.

* E L Short ( born 1925 ) is a farmer, rancher, and businessman in Tahoka who served in both houses of the Texas State Legislature.

Image: Hyrum-Lake-Park-Trail. JPG | Short trail in Hyrum State Park

His most recent work is You and the State: A Short Introduction to Political Philosophy.

* Jonathan Swift-A Short View of the State of Ireland

* Joseph Williamson, History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine ; Loring, Short & Harmon, publishers ; Portland, Maine 1877

* Short bio @ the Department of Psychology, Moscow State University

* New York State Canals: A Short History, by Daniel Larkin at https :// www. canals. org / store / New-York-State-Canals-A-Short-History-P109C29. aspx

* Short Hooker biography from Middle Tennessee State University site

Many well known entities in Columbus started under his leadership, such as Short North, Polaris Fashion Place, Port Columbus Airport Expansion, I670, and the tearing down of the " Ohio State Pen " which led to the current location of the Arena District.

It was co-authored by California State Assemblyman Frank Lanterman ( R ) and California State Senators Nicholas C. Petris ( D ) and Alan Short ( D ), and signed into law in 1967 by Governor Ronald Reagan.

* Short Line ( bus company ), also known as ShortLine, a bus operator in New York State, United States

Michigan State University Press brought out her previously unpublished second novel, Between the Flowers, in 1999, and The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow in 2005.

* Linda H. Short, ( 1984 ), former South Carolina State Senator

* Jungblut, L. A Short Bhili Grammar of Jhabua State and Adjoining Territories.