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During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.
Skinner, Key, and Beanes were not allowed to return to their own sloop because they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore.
On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.
Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.
At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.
Because Key and Skinner had heard details of the plans for the attack on Baltimore, they were held captive until after the battle, first aboard HMS Surprise and later back on HMS Minden.
Key figures were Ernest M. Skinner ( 1866-1960 ), Arthur Hudson Marks ( 1875-1939 ), Joseph Whiteford, and G. Donald Harrison ( 1889-1956 ).

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Many of the stories were created by Mills and co-writer Tony Skinner, including Accident Man, an assassin who makes his hits look like accidents.
These ideas were embraced by a number of different writers Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit and Cass Sunstein.
At twilight on September 16, he and Skinner were released in Baltimore.
Several Bronze Age round barrows were opened by John Skinner in the 18th century.
Skinner in particular is renowned for his provocative methodological essays, which were and are widely read by philosophers and practitioners of other humanistic disciplines, and did much to give prominence to the practice of intellectual history.
Traynor had ordered Skinner to destroy the apparatus the scientists at the base were working on, and he is eager to learn from Skinner if he succeeded in the task.
The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).
B. F. Skinner, like Thorndike, put animals in boxes and observed them to see what they were able to learn.
Thomas Skinner had established a trading base in Asia while there were few restrictions on trade there ; later, however, the base was seized by the British East India Company, which had been granted a monopoly.
For the Board of Ordnance, the brothers were the main contractor at Fort George, a large modern fort near Inverness designed by military engineer Colonel Skinner.
The Hudson Knife factory and The Skinner and Steenman sideboard factory were two of the earliest businesses.
Several of the early Labour Party stalwarts were Australian-born: Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage, Bob Semple, Paddy Webb, Bill Parry and later Clarence Skinner, Mabel Howard and Hugh Watt.
* 1966 Waldenwoods conference is held in Hartland, Michigan, comprising 83 adults and 4 children, coordinated through the Breiland list ( a list of interested people who wrote to Skinner and were referred to Jim Breiland ).
Starting in the 1940s, initiated by B. F. Skinner at Harvard University, the keys were mounted vertically behind a small circular hole about the height of a pigeon's beak in the front wall of an operant conditioning chamber.
Twin Oaks ' founders were inspired by the utopian novel Walden Two by B. F. Skinner.
So he presided at the trial of John Claydon, Skinner and citizen of London, who after five years imprisonment at various times had made public abjuration before the late archbishop, Arundel, but now was found in possession of a book in English called The Lanterne of Light, which contained the heinous heresy that the principal cause of the persecution of Christians was the illegal retention by priests of the goods of this world, and that archbishops and bishops were the special seats of Antichrist.
The theories that Skinner opposed often relied on mediating mechanisms and structures — such as a mechanism for memory as a part of the mind — which were not measurable or observable.
* On 8 December 2005, when referring to the economic record of the Conservatives in the 1980s, making the remark, " The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of the Tories ", a reference to allegations originally published in the Sunday Mirror of cocaine use by the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne ( though, in the Commons, Skinner referred to the News of the World ).
During this time there was considerable progress in understanding simple associations ; notably, around 1930 the differences between Thorndike ’ s instrumental ( or operant ) conditioning and Pavlov ’ s classical ( or Pavlovian ) conditioning were clarified, first by Miller and Kanorski, and then by B. F. Skinner.
Skinner is amused with Shaun's belief that he must study and work in a highly intelligent environment in order to become successful, pointing out that many famous authors such as James Joyce and William Faulkner grew up in places that were not intellectually stimulating, but still became great writers.
* Two grandsons were Lt. General William Skinner and his brother Loyalist General Cortlandt Skinner.

Skinner and there
" At the time of my school Elkland was a mere hamlet, not even a four corners, as there was no street from Skinner ’ s store to the river.
Although apparently healthy infants sometimes culture positive for Candida and other organisms without exhibiting any symptoms, there does seem to be a positive correlation between the severity of the diaper rash noted and the likelihood of secondary involvement ( Ferrazzini et al., 2003 ; Gupta & Skinner, 2004 ; Wolf et al., 2001 ).
According to Bandura, there are two categories of motives-positive reinforcements, Promised reinforcements and Vicarious reinforcements and negative punishment, Promised punishment and vicarious punishment both of which are based on traditional behaviorism such as BF Skinner ’ s Operant Conditioning and Pavlov ’ s Classical Conditioning.
Collins took on the pseudonym Frank Skinner when the actors ' union Equity told him there was already someone of the same name on their books ( their rules do not permit two members with identical names ).
The laboratory had been moved there without Pickard or Apperson's knowledge by the government's informant, Gordon Todd Skinner.
When Pickard arrived back in town and learned that Skinner had moved the lab there, they immediately began preparations to move it.
Clutching a Yorkshire Terrier dog in one hand and a glass of Guinness in the other, she was the life and soul of the party ; Julia saw that there was much comic mileage to be gained from such a character, and as a result Ethel Mae Skinner was born.
Realizing there is no other way out of the crippling strike other than disposing of Lisa, Skinner has her transferred to a school for the " Academically Gifted and Troublesome ".
His business in Skinner Street rooted him to Whitby and the Eskdale valley but, by photographing the ordinary people that he knew well, he built up a most complete and revealing picture of a late Victorian town, and the people who lived and worked there.
Foucault then briefly touches on B F Skinner ; ( the founder of radical behaviorism ), and Robert Castel but unfortunately it is very brief however, in Foucault's defence, he himself does admit ' there is little literature ' available in France on these techniques, however, to be critical, Foucault did belong to the most prestigious academic institutions in Europe ( Collège de France ) with unprecedented access to many journals in France and it would be unlikely that they would be unavailable to him.
During Don Weeks and the WGY Morning News ( weekdays 5: 30-9: 00 AM ), this format is altered in that there are also local news updates at: 20 and: 50 past the hour, sports updates at: 15 and: 45, and " Traffic and Weather on the Eights " to go along with the normal news updates anchored by Chuck Custer and Ali Skinner.
In the post-script scene, Skinner asks Alcatraaz if there was any place in the rapping world for a " forty-something elementary school administrator.
Their season would only go downhill from there, with Skinner grabbing only two top 5's and a 8th place finish in points.
He later moved to Islington, living there for several years, but continued to maintain his surgery in Albert Square, renting the premises upstairs to the elderly widow Ethel Skinner ( Gretchen Franklin ) and the barman Lofty Holloway ( Tom Watt ), although there are an array of other tenants.
Eventually, anyone who stands in front of the statue collapses, writhes and has his or her own personal vision of Heaven: Principal Skinner tells of being in a perfect elementary school where no one is late, the teacher's lounge is spacious, and Bart is not there to bother him ; Disco Stu dances with Frank Sinatra ( whose appearance at the disco is actually his version of Hell ) at a discothèque version of Heaven, where Tony Manero is forced into an eternal wait in line ; and Comic Book Guy ( dressed as Mr. Spock ) saves Captain Kirk from his malfunctioning chair aboard the Starship Enterprise and is offered make-out sessions with Uhura from the original Star Trek series, Catwoman from the 1960s Batman TV show, and Agent 99 from Get Smart.
Similar to other Organs of Skinner design, it is simply there and can be easily overlooked.
Originally the settlement was called Skinner Pond, however it was changed to Skinners Pond in 1966 ; note that there is no apostrophe in the name.
Skinner decides that he needs to do something to win Edna back, so he follows them there.
After Skinner returned to his house, he became trapped beneath tons of old newspapers in his garage, and was stuck there for over a week, until he was able to escape.

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