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.

As the Senators general manager, Short was forced to make many questionable trades to lower the debt and acquire amounts of the much-needed revenue.

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.

The poor camp conditions and an imminent winter disaster under the supervision of indian agent James Short forced a large group of men, women, children, and elderly to set out without provisions for the 130 miles back to their home in the Concow Valley.

The Short Sunderland was forced to continue as the main operational type until the end of 1946.

He was forced to call the Short Parliament primarily to obtain money to finance his military struggle with Scotland in the Bishops ' Wars.

Central focus is on the political motivations and partisanship during the war years which delayed public disclosure of the details surrounding this attack, and forced the decision not to court martial Kimmel or Short.

In July 1932 he published A Short Treatise on Chinese Song and Dance, in which he criticised the Drama Society's president, Li Jinhui, as a result of which he was forced to leave the society.

He was forced to change his name from " La Parka " to " L. A. Park " ( Short for La Auténtica Park ; " The Original Park ") in early 2003 when Asistencia Asesoría y Administración ( AAA ) owner Antonio Peña asserted his copyright claims to the La Parka character, barring Tapia from using the name as he promoted his own La Parka.

There he first becomes a mechanic and then is forced to become a burglar in a gang called the Short Tails.

The Short Ear workers are forced to build an even bigger statue in an impossibly short amount of time.

By the end of the season, Short had issued an ultimatum: unless someone was willing to buy the Senators for $ 12 million ( in comparison, the New York Yankees were sold in 1973 for $ 8. 8 million ), he would not proceed to renew the stadium lease and move the team elsewhere.

After Vandergriff offered a multi-million dollar down payment, Short decided make the move to Arlington.

During the 1960 offseason, the Lakers became the NBA's first West Coast team when owner Bob Short decided to move the team to Los Angeles.

The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film ( Comedy ) in 1932.

However, in 1996, Short was moved to the Overseas Development portfolio, a move which she saw as a demotion.

When Minneapolis Lakers owner Bob Short was permitted to move the Lakers to Los Angeles, Saperstein reacted by convincing National Alliance of Basketball Leagues ( NABL ) team owner Paul Cohen ( Tuck Tapers ) and Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) National Champion Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner to take the top NABL and AAU teams and players and form a rival league.

Players in Short Season leagues are a mixture of newly signed draftees and second-year pros who weren't ready to move on, or for whom there was not space at a higher level to move up.

On the subject, Short has stated in numerous interviews that, while he was thrilled by the opportunity, the idea of having to move his family from their Los Angeles home to New York for a year was less than ideal and ultimately proved a deal-breaker.

Alternatively Black can meet 6. d4 with 6 ... exd4, when White can try 7. Qb3, a move often favoured by Nigel Short.

In May 1640, Northumberland was one of only two members of a subcommittee of the Privy Council who opposed the dissolution of the Short Parliament, a move that confirmed his break with Wentworth ( whom Charles had recently named Earl of Strafford ) and earned him the displeasure of the king.

Said Short of the move: Radjabov plays very imaginatively ... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the waters to throw you off track.

The move 2. Nc3 has been played at high-level grandmaster chess ( Gelfand and Short have played it ) but only rarely.

When family moved to Calicut in 2008 Zainul Abideen followed soon after to continue his industry career in the Calicut producing for artists such as Rodhan Ashraf On a visit home to Alleppey he became engaged once more with his Islamic faith and decided to move away from a career as a scriptwriter of Short films with a strong Muslim religious influence.

The pilots would hold each other and then physically transform their joint bodies in a metallic plate locking itself on the Gakeen ( Short for " Gathering Keen ") robot's frame thus enabling the super robot to move and fight.