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Stephenson and recently
Lance Stephenson, a 6 – 5, " 395 "- pound junior guard from Lincoln who is the No. 4 overall player in the class of 2009 recently contacted Self about his interest in Kansas.
His son Robert had recently returned from a stint working in South America and resumed as managing director of Robert Stephenson and Company.
The program is notable for featuring three Hec Crighton Trophy winners, most recently being current Hamilton Tiger-Cats player, Daryl Stephenson, when he won the award in 2006.

Stephenson and launched
* was the former Robert Stephenson, an iron steam-powered ship purchased on the stocks and launched in 1854.

Stephenson and campaign
He made his debut under Clem Stephenson in the 1932 – 33 campaign, and scored his first First Division goal on 7 January, in a 1 – 0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
* Paul Stephenson, ' John Cinnamus, John II Comnenus and the Hungarian campaign of 1127-1129 ', Byzantion 66 ( 1996 ), 177-87

Stephenson and for
Advisors for the `` national champion '' company were John K. Morgan, William H. Baker, Leonard Breuer and William F. Stephenson, all of Georgia-Pacific Corp..
* In the Neal Stephenson novel The Diamond Age, ubiquitous molecular nanotechology is described to make use of " rod logic " similar to that imagined by Babbage's design for the Analytical Engine.
& Stephenson, F. R. " Historical values of the Earth's clock error ΔT and the calculation of eclipses " ( pdf, 862 KB ), Journal for the History of Astronomy 35 ( 2004 ) 327 – 336.
Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).
*< cite id = morrste2004 > L V Morrison, F R Stephenson ( 2004 ), " Historical values of the Earth's clock error ΔT and the calculation of eclipses ", Journal for the History of Astronomy ( ISSN 0021-8286 ), vol.
Locomotive constructed in 1816 by Stephenson for the Killingworth Colliery
Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway, and named Blücher after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
The gauge that Stephenson chose for the line was, and this subsequently came to be adopted as the standard gauge for railways, not only in Britain, but also throughout the world.
Stephenson became famous, and was offered the position of chief engineer for a wide variety of other railways.
He had by this time settled into semi-retirement, supervising his mining interests in Derbyshire-tunnelling work for the North Midland Railway had revealed unworked coal seams, and Stephenson put much of his money into their exploitation.
George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Chesterfield Museum in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, has a gallery of Stephenson memorabilia, including the straight thick glass tubes that he invented for the purpose of growing straight cucumbers.
* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.
Neal Town Stephenson ( born October 31, 1959 ) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
The Big U went out of print until 2001, when Stephenson allowed it to be republished after realizing that this book that he considered inferior to his others was being sold at inflated prices for used copies because of its scarcity and collectors ' value.
On the suggestion of Canadian / British spymaster William Stephenson, the senior British intelligence officer in the western hemisphere, Roosevelt requested that William J. Donovan draft a plan for an intelligence service.
The English railway pioneer George Stephenson spent much of his early engineering career working for the coal mines of County Durham.
George Stephenson used the 4 ft 8½ in gauge ( with a belated extra of free movement to reduce binding on curves ) for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, authorised in 1826 and opened 30 September 1830.
One reason for the Dolphins ' rushing success was the blocking of their offensive line, led by future hall of fame center Dwight Stephenson, along with Pro Bowlers Bob Kuechenberg and Ed Newman.
Stephenson has expressed sympathy for the idea that human consciousness involves quantum effects, as suggested by Roger Penrose.
Some years later, whilst travelling back to the Caribbean, the ship on which Arabella and royal emissary Lord Willoughby ( Henry Stephenson ) are travelling is captured by Blood's treacherous partner, Captain Levasseur ( Basil Rathbone ) and the two personages held for ransom.
It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson that became the template for most steam engines in the following 150 years.
Stephenson designed Rocket for the Rainhill trials, and the specific rules of that contest.

Stephenson and fantasy
* In the 2011 Neal Stephenson novel Reamde, Skeletor is the nickname of hack fantasy author Devin Skraelin, who had been notably obese, but later became obsessive about walking on a treadmill while writing.

Stephenson and game
In this book, Stephenson returns with a thriller set in the present with a plot that involves a medley of game developers, Chinese cyber-criminals, Russian mafia, and other stranger inhabitants of the new global village.
By the end of the game, even the Mets fans were cheering Bunning's effort ; he had only reached a three-ball count on two batters, and retired shortstop Charley Smith on a pop-out, and pinch-hitters George Altman and John Stephenson on strikeouts, to complete the perfect game.
The club was founded in 1947 and has proved a great conveyor belt for players into the profesional game, including some of the great players of the past in Mick Stevenson, Nigel Stephenson David Ward.
As with the team, it took Stephenson some time to adapt to the Canadian game, but he was eventually successful.
The game featured former Dolphin and Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino, plus Mark Duper, Mercury Morris, Dwight Stephenson, A. J.
Stephenson reprised his role of Luke from Wacky Races in the Wacky Races video game.
* JARVIS appears in the Iron Man video game voiced by Gillon Stephenson.
His final bowling spell for his county, in the Championship game against Essex, was a disastrous 5-0-37-0 as Graham Gooch and John Stephenson ran riot.
Read's uncle ( by marriage ) Heathfield Stephenson had a long career with Surrey, and his brother Frederick Read also played one first-class game for the county.

Stephenson and .
Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.
may be inclined to assign to the nameless inventor of the principle of limited liability, as applied to trading corporations, a place of honour with Watt and Stephenson, and other pioneers of the Industrial Revolution.
* Stephenson, F. R.
* Stephenson, F. R. & Morrison, L. V.
The first published discovery to receive subsequent confirmation was made in 1988 by the Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G. A. H. Walker, and Stephenson Yang.
*< cite id = stemorr84 > F R Stephenson, L V Morrison ( 1984 ), " Long-term changes in the rotation of the earth – 700 B. C.
*< cite id = stemorr95 > F R Stephenson, L V Morrison ( 1995 ), " Long-Term Fluctuations in the Earth's Rotation: 700 BC to AD 1990 ", Royal Society ( London ), Philosophical Transactions, Series A ( ISSN 0080-4614 ), vol. 351 ( 1995 ), # 1695, pp. 165 – 202 .</ cite >
* Medieval Feudalism, by Carl Stephenson.
George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.
His rail gauge of, sometimes called " Stephenson gauge ", is the world's standard gauge.

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