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.

* A Short Commentary on Kant's " Critique of Pure Reason " ( London 1938 )

* O ' Halloran's Luck and Other Short Stories, 1944

These were A Story Short, The Luck Child, The Soldier and Death and Sapsorrow.

* 2006 – Luck / La suerte ( Short film.

The video, directed by Lavie and Yuval and Merav Nathan, uses stop motion and has achieved great success with over 15 million views, also earning a 2010 Grammy Award nomination for " Best Short Form Music Video ".

Altman directed Short Cuts ( 1993 ), an ambitious adaptation of several short stories by Raymond Carver, which portrayed the lives of various citizens of Los Angeles over the course of several days.

) The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short.

The movie was artfully directed by famed still photographer Gjon Mili, edited by former MGM film editor Norman Granz, with lighting and photography directed by Robert Burks ( his first credit in this field ), and released by Warner Bros. Producer Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Short Subject, One-reel.

He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ), Wild Wild West ( 1999 ), The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ), Conspiracy ( TV ) ( 2001 ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ), Warm Springs ( TV ) ( 2005 ), Valkyrie ( 2008 ), Wallander ( TV series ) ( 2008 – present ), and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ); and directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) ( also starring ), Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) ( also starring ), The Magic Flute ( 2006 ), Sleuth ( 2007 ), and the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ).

In 1994, Astin directed and co-produced ( with his wife, Christine Astin ) the short film Kangaroo Court, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.

The film " The Johnstown Flood ", written and directed by Charles Guggenheim, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject in 1989.

* Short films based on the story include a 1969 Zagreb Film production, Maska crvene smrti, and a 2006 Tarantula production directed by Jacques Donjean, Le Masque de la Mort rouge.

* Red Duckies ( 2006 ): Short film directed by Luke Seomore & Joseph Bull, featuring a voice-over from Simon Fisher Turner commissioned by Dazed & Confused ( magazine ) for World Aids Day 2006.

* Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela ( 2004 ) directed by Nick Day and Maurizio Benazzo.

Both Vic Morrow and Reza Badiyi were close friends of the director Robert Altman, who later directed Leigh in two movies, Short Cuts ( 1993 ) and Kansas City ( 1996 ).

In addition, she became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One ( 1976 ), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited.

A claymation version of the story was produced and directed by Will Vinton in 1978 and was nominated for an Academy Award Nomination for Short Subject Animation.

In 2002, Trevor Ferguson's first play, Long, Long, Short, Long was produced by infinitheatre ( directed Guy Sprung ) in Montreal and has become the first English play in history to be nominated by l ' académie québécoise du theatre for a Masque award for best text.

It starred Kathryn Long as Carly Beth, Kathryn Short as Sabrina, and was directed by Timothy Bond.

Webb directed the documentary Surfing Thru which debuted at Cannes and won Best Documentary Short at The Santa Cruz Film Festival and The Other Venice Film Festival.

In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

In 1977, Piñero's play Short Eyes was turned into a film directed by Robert M. Young.

In 2010, Quinn premiered his one-man show " Colin Quinn Long Story Short " on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre, directed by Jerry Seinfeld.

More recently, Davis starred as himself in sitcom Life's Too Short, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

In fall 2009, Robert Lepage directed The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, an operatic staging of short works by Stravinsky blending hand shadow puppetry, Kabuki theatre, Chinese opera and Vietnamese water puppetry.

The first, Blood Ties, was directed by Steve Cantor, debuted at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short.