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.

For this final season, the cast consisted solely of Flaherty, Levy, Martin, and Short, although Candy, Thomas, and O ' Hara all made guest appearances.

Walter Campbell Short ( March 30, 1880 – March 9, 1949 ) was a major general in the United States Army and the U. S. military commander responsible for the defense of U. S. military installations in Hawaii at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Clausen, like most, also ignores what actions Kimmel, Short, and Admiral Claude C. Bloch ( Commander, Fourteenth Naval District, responsible for naval facilities in Hawaii ) actually took.

In addition, AEMO is responsible for national transmission planning and the establishment of a Short Term Trading Market for gas.

Too Short was also one of the first rap artists to promote and sell records independently, started first by Mac Dre, who was born in Oakland and moved to Vallejo, and is one of the pioneers responsible for the birth of Northern California's independent hip hop scene, leading other artists to pursue success in the music industry without the assistance of a major record company.

During the Second World War, Pobjoy ran a section of Rotol Airscrews of Gloucester, England, and was responsible for the design and development of an airborne generator, intended for use on the Short Shetland flying boat.

* An accessible primer for the literary aspect of critical theory is Jonathan Culler's Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction ISBN 0-19-285383-X

Jones ' animated short film The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics won the 1965 Oscar for Best Animated Short.

Short term enlistments were abandoned and the Dragoons joined for three years, or " the war ".

The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit " Blue Jean ", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, " Jazzin ' for Blue Jean ".

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

The London Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-affiliated festival which takes place in January every year and is dedicated to finding and showcasing the work of new UK talent, including specific screenings for low budget work.

Finland, 2005: won the 2005 New York Short Film Festival Jury Award for Best Screenplay.

Short distances and the extensive network of motorways and railways make airplanes uncompetitive for travel within Germany.

* GPS – Short for Global Positioning System, also occasionally refers to the receiver itself.

* GPSr – Short for GPS receiver.

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

* Short biography, bibliography, and links on digitized sources in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

For the first time in twenty years since she lost to her sister Susan, Polgár lost her first classical game to a female player as Women's World champion Hou Yifan won their individual game and tied for first before losing the playoff to Nigel Short.

* Short for Spanish jugar, meaning play.

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story " Gold Coast " for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ( Houghton Mifflin ).