He was a participant in one of the all-time great literary hoaxes, I, Libertine ( Ballantine Books, 1956 ), along with Jean Shepherd, Ian Ballantine and Theodore Sturgeon, incorporating several hidden jokes and references into his cover painting for that book.

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

The last of the regular Sturgeon attack boats, L. Mendel Rivers was decommissioned in 2001, and Parche, a highly modified Sturgeon, was decommissioned in 2004.

According to Philip Klass ( William Tenn ), Sturgeon made this remark in about 1951, at a talk at New York University at which Tenn was present.

The statement was subsequently included in a talk Sturgeon gave at a session of the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia, held over the Labor Day weekend of 1953.

The first commutator-type direct current electric motor capable of turning machinery was invented by the British scientist William Sturgeon in 1832.

Sturgeon displayed its power by showing that although it only weighed seven ounces ( roughly 200 grams ), it could lift nine pounds ( roughly 4 kilos ) when the current of a single-cell battery was applied.

“ D ” Company was represented by Sturgeon and Green Hall men and those from northern Jackson County.

After Mr. Sturgeon died in July 2005, Mrs. Lemons-Sturgeon decided it was time to retire.

When U. S. 63 was re-routed in the mid-1960s Highway 22 was truncated to its current end at U. S. 63 near Sturgeon, MO.

It was established by Samuel Sturgeon in 1765.

By the end of the eighteenth century, the Sturgeon property was owned by Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel Timothy Green.

His mill was completed on Sturgeon Creek in 1829.

The latest victory for the SNP was in the 2007 Scottish parliamentary elections, when Nicola Sturgeon became the MSP for the constituency.

Regular team was Connelly Sturgeon Curran, Dick Chisholm Caughey, Gilshan Burke McDonald Reid and Boylan. and Nicky House, Johnstone Burgh are a Scottish football club based in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and play in Central Division Two of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region.

The induction coil was invented by the Irish scientist and Catholic priest Nicholas Callan in 1836 at the St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and improved by William Sturgeon and Charles Grafton Page.

Stockbridge is known as " The Sturgeon Center of the World ," and was named after the Stockbridge Indians after they moved here from Stockbridge, New York, in the 1830s.

Work was started on the electric power line from Green Bay, WI to Sturgeon Bay, WI in 1920.

The R-39 Rif ( NATO reporting name: SS-N-20 Sturgeon ; bilateral arms control designation: RSM-52 ) was a submarine-launched ballistic missile ( SLBM ) that served with the Soviet Navy from its introduction in 1983 until 1991, after which it served with the Russian Navy until 2004.

The British cryptanalysts of Bletchley Park codenamed the German teleprinter ciphers Fish, with individual cipher-systems being given further codenames: just as the T52 was called Sturgeon, the Lorenz machine was codenamed Tunny.

Several distinct systems were used, principally the Lorenz SZ 40 / 42 ( code-named Tunny ) and Geheimfernschreiber ( code-named Sturgeon ).

( Also used to good effect by Theodore Sturgeon in his short story " Crate ".

Sturgeon is the common name used for some 26 species of fish in the family Acipenseridae, including the genera Acipenser, Huso, Scaphirhynchus and Pseudoscaphirhynchus.

Sturgeon is sometimes used more exclusively to refer to the species in the two best-known genera, Acipenser and Huso.

Sturgeon used to migrate as far as Hillsdale County, Michigan, and Sturgeon Lake near Colon, Michigan still bears the name of this mighty fish.

Sturgeon ( based on the Spartan ) and Salamander ( based on the Scorpion ) are visually modified vehicles used to represent opposing forces in training exercises at the British Army Training Unit Suffield.

The Short Sturgeon used 2 Merlin 140s with contra-rotating propellers.

So captains used Death's Door often until the Sturgeon Bay ship canal was completed in 1878.

It included works by Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, T. S. Stribling, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ambrose Bierce, and H. G. Wells.

Lake Sturgeon were abundant in 1860 and had been driven to near extinction by 1960.

Among the most respected awards for science fiction are the Hugo Award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society at Worldcon ; the Nebula Award, presented by SFWA and voted on by the community of authors ; and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction.

" It is derived from quotations by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author: while Sturgeon coined another adage that he termed " Sturgeon's law ", it is his " revelation " that is usually referred to by that term.

" ( short story ), a short story by Theodore Sturgeon

In 1838, his first scientific papers on electricity were contributed to Annals of Electricity, the scientific journal founded and operated by Davies's colleague William Sturgeon.

The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri.

The original 40 families of the parish began their own Congregational church and were allowed by Norwalk to hire a minister ( Robert Sturgeon, who also became the town's first schoolmaster ), open schools and build roads.

The town is located on Sanctuary Bay, approximately three miles north of Sturgeon Point Light Station with its own dock served by passenger ships.

Escanaba is also served by low-power translator stations of WNMU translator W296AX from Marquette, MI ( at 96. 5 FM ), WPFF translator W254AG from Sturgeon Bay, WI ( at 98. 7 FM ), and WHWL translator W261AI from Marquette, MI ( at 100. 1 FM ).

The central portion is drained by the Ford River, and the south by the Sturgeon River.

The cover painting by Frank Kelly Freas includes hidden images and inside jokes: The sign on the tavern, Fish & Staff, has a shepherd's staff and an image of a sturgeon, referencing both Sturgeon and Shepherd.

Sturgeon Creek, along Navassa's southern limits, is a tributary of Brunswick River and supports the same uncommon natural community type of Tidal Freshwater Marsh.

The eastern terminus of the Ice Age Trail lies at Potawatomi State Park, which is along Wisconsin's Door Peninsula off of Sturgeon Bay.

In North America, they range along the Atlantic coast from the Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland, including the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, as well as along the West Coast in major rivers from California to British Columbia and Sturgeon Lake, Alberta.

Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X ( 1950 – 51 ), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

She was active in the SNP Youth Wing along with figures such as Nicola Sturgeon and Fiona Hyslop.

All schools ( except Community, Sturgeon and Madison ) formed the new Mid-Missouri Conference along with North Callaway and Tipton high schools.

* Chinese Sturgeon Aquarium – Yangtze River Exploration ( 中華鱘館-長江足跡 ) – Houses rare Chinese sturgeon along with other native species of the Yangtze River in an educational exhibit on this fragile ecosystem.

He therefore sought out a new mission site more suitable for agriculture, and in 1861 a settlement was established along the Sturgeon River at Saint Albert, Rupert's Land.