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The Minnow was named in reference to Newton Minow, chairman of the U. S. FCC, who was most famous for describing television as " a vast wasteland ".
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The PDP-10 product line cancellation was announced in 1983, including cancelling the on-going Jupiter project to produce a new high-end PDP-10 processor ( despite that project being in good shape at the time of the cancellation ) and the Minnow project to produce a desktop PDP-10, which may then have been at the prototyping stage.
The fourth Minnow was built on the CBS Studios set in the second season.
This was followed by an edition of Sara Coleridge's letters to Thomas Poole, Minnow among Tritons ( 1934 ), which Potter edited from the original manuscripts in the British Museum.
The S. S. Minnow of the 1964 – 1967 television show Gilligan's Island was sarcastically named after him to express displeasure with his assessment of the quality of television.
Great Shelford was home to children's author Philippa Pearce, who renamed it " Great Barley " ( with the neighbouring village of Little Shelford becoming " Little Barley ", and Cambridge itself becoming " Castleford " and losing its university ) in her books, most notably Minnow on the Say ( 1955 ).
Ella Minnow Pea was selected as Borders ' Book of the Year.
Ella Minnow Pea was a " Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers and a Borders Original Voices pick ( and a finalist for Original Voices Book of the Year ), but it ranked second on the Top Ten BookSense 76 Picklist.
The S. S. Minnow II was a successor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue From Gilligan's Island.
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Also located downtown are the Round Oak Restaurant, Philo's Pub, The Wounded Minnow Saloon ( named as an homage to the Heddon heritage ), Wood Fire Italian Trattoria ( featuring live jazz and blues three nights per week ), and Saylor's Pizza, which bills itself as " Home of the $ 5 Pizza ".
The S. S. Minnow used in the opening of the second and third season color episodes, previously named the Bluejacket, now resides at Schooner Cove Marina on the east side of Vancouver Island, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia.
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* Minnow, Martha and Jody Freeman ( 2009 ), Government By Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy, Harvard U. P.
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* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.
* Ella Minnow Pea is a book by Mark Dunn where certain letters become unusable throughout the novel.
The novel Ella Minnow Pea depicts a fictional country set off of the South Carolina coast that idealizes the " Quick Brown Fox " pangram and its inventor.
The two-man crew of the charter boat S. S. Minnow and five passengers on a " three-hour tour " from Honolulu run into a tropical storm and are shipwrecked on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
* Bob Denver as First Mate Gilligan the bumbling, naive, accident-prone crewman ( affectionately known as " Little Buddy " by " The Skipper ") of the S. S. Minnow.
In the first season, Ginger often wore gowns that looked as if they were tailored from S. S. Minnow tarpaulins or similar ersatz cloth ( some had the name of the vessel stenciled on them ).
After the opening theme song and opening credits end, the pilot proper begins with the seven castaways waking up on the beached SS Minnow and continues with them performing various tasks including exploring the island, attempting to fix the transmitter, building huts, and finding food.
The rock jetties at the entrance of Newport Bay can be seen during the opening theme during the line " A 3-Hour Tour " as the Minnow heads out to sea.
Four different boats played the part of the S. S. Minnow.
As the Minnow is leaving the harbor and heading out to sea, an American flag flying at half staff can be seen briefly in the background.
Children's author Philippa Pearce, who lived in Great Shelford until her death in December 2006, featured the Cam in her books, most notably Minnow on the Say.
Other species include Barbel, Roach, Dace, Rudd, Minnow, Perch, Chub, Bream and Tench.
Minnow is a general term used to refer to small freshwater and saltwater fish, especially those used as bait fish or for fishing bait.
The drop in the Top Minnow population can be linked to the introduction of the Common Mosquitofish.
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The S. S. Minnow is a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island.
It is equipped with an old life preserver with " S. S. Minnow " on it, as well as other show items.
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These names are used in a number of her books, most famously Minnow on the Say ( 1955 ) and Tom's Midnight Garden ( 1958 )
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* the Piketop winnow ( Belonesox belizanus ) are confused for the northern pike, ( Esox lucius ), also called " Minnow " for the little size.
However, incidents within the show have at different times implied the Minnow has either a gasoline engine, as in an episode where the Professor is trying to make spark plugs for the engine out of sea shells, or a diesel engine, as in a scene where, after the castaways use home-made glue to repair the boat, all its boards spring off, revealing what appears to be such an engine.
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Ella Minnow Pea focuses on this theme when considering, " We slowly conclude that without language, without culture -- the two are inextricably bound -- existence is at stake ".
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The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.
Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.
Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.
But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.
Others carried extra clips for the Browning Automatic Rifle, which was in the hands of a little Mexican named Martinez.
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.
She was awarded the Professional Handlers' Ass'ns' Leonard Brumby, Sr. Memorial Trophy ( named for the founder-originator of the Junior Classes.
The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.
The omelet named for Ernest Arbogast, the Palace's chef, was even more in demand.
Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.
There was a fellow named Blatz over Smithtown way.
The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.
He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.
Asked who this was, she named Harrington.
The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.
The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.
In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.
Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.
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