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.

Short passages of recitative are, however, sometimes used in operetta, especially as an introduction to a song.

Short pangrams in English are more difficult to come up with and tend to use uncommon words because the English language uses some letters ( especially vowels ) much more frequently than others.

In 1552, the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas published his famous Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ( A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ), an account of the abuses that accompanied the colonization of New Spain, and especially the island of Hispaniola ( now home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti ).

Quality Pinot noir has been grown in Ontario for some time in the Niagara Peninsula and especially the Niagara-on-the-Lake and Short Hills Bench wine regions, as well as in Prince Edward County and on the north shore of Lake Erie.

Short stretch compression bandages are good for protecting wounds on one's hands, especially on one's fingers.

Short comedies were especially popular, and typically came in a serial or series ( such as the Our Gang movies, or the many outings of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character ).

As portrayed in the book " The Big Short " of Michael Lewis, Lipmann in the mid of the CDO and MBS frenzy was orchestrating presentations to investors, demonstrating his bearish view of the market, offering them the idea to start buying CDS, especially to AIG in order to profit from the forthcoming collapse.

* A. N. Wilson: London: A Short History ( 2004 ) ( especially Chapters 12-15 about post-war London and after ).

Short cooperative activities were especially unlikely to be recorded in field notes.

When Bishop Short arrived in 1847, Holy Trinity assumed many of the functions of a cathedral, and was-until other congregations ( especially Christ Church, North Adelaide ) were established-the place of worship for the Governors, many of the colony ’ s prominent families and the military.

Ron Short, a muscular roofing contractor who was born without collarbones because of cleidocranial dysostosis and so could collapse his shoulders to work in cramped corners, arrived at the site and offered to go down the shaft ; they accepted his offer, but did not use it.

Short rotation cameras usually offer few shutter speeds and have poor focusing ability.

Waitzkin's book was praised by Grandmaster Nigel Short, as well as chess journalist Edward Winter, who called it " a delightful book " in which " the topics treated with an acuity and grace that offer the reviewer something quotable on almost every page.

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.

Olympic was the first in the industry to offer AR15 style firearms in 9x19mm and. 45 ACP, 10mm, 7. 62x39, and the Winchester Super Short Magnum cartridges.

However, others claim that Short Ram Intakes ( SRIs ) or similar Warm Air Intakes ( WAIs ) offer benefits over Cold Air Intakes ( CAIs ) which include better MPG due to a more complete burning of fuel.