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Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.
In 1984, Norman E. Rosenthal, a psychiatrist and NIMH researcher, pioneered seasonal affective disorder, coined the term SAD, and began studying the use of light therapy as a treatment.
After getting acquainted with Chester and his friends, Ted is asked to take part in a challenge: Chester's friend Norman ( Paul Calderón ) has bet he can light his Zippo cigarette lighter ten times in a row.
On March 11, 2002, Norman performed " America the Beautiful " at a memorial service unveiling two monumental columns of light at the site of the former World Trade Center, as a memorial for the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City.
Contemporaries from the alternative comedy scene who also appeared included Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Helen Lederer, Gareth Hale, Norman Pace, Arthur Smith ( the first milkman to be murdered ), Mel Smith playing the fictional head of light entertainment at the BBC ' Jumbo Whiffy ', Chris Barrie, Lee Cornes, Andy de la Tour, John Bird and Harry Enfield.
A village of farming and associated light industry, situated in the valley of the Bresle River of the Norman Pays de Bray in Normandy on the border with Picardie.
* Norman ( light blue )
In that wild and brutal fight, Rear Admiral Norman Scott was killed in action when his flagship, the light cruiser, was fatally damaged by gunfire, possibly from the heavy cruiser, as well as an enemy torpedo.
Because the Normans deposed the Anglo-Saxon episcopate, replacing them with Norman bishops, of which Osmund was one, and in light of the similarities between the liturgy in Rouen and that of Sarum, it appears the Normans imposed their French liturgical books as well.
True night games were very difficult to play in Norman because of the amount of portable lighting needed to illuminate the field adequately for spectators to see the players, much less the light required for television.
With the successful outcome of the court case against the NCAA, more late afternoon and night games were scheduled in Norman and television schedules changed during the season, requiring large portable light trucks to take up space on campus while waiting for the next televised game.
* Orthodox Judaism in light of several questions ( Hebrew ), Rabbi Dr Norman Lamm, daat. ac. il
Also important were the Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield, who moved from a relatively light vocal group into much more serious material with " Cloud Nine " ( 1968 ), " Runaway Child, Running Wild " ( 1969 ) and " Psychedelic Shack " ( 1969 ).
The scarce historical information available about Ħal Tartarni gives some ray of light on the periods when we were under the Norman, Byzantine, Angevine and Aragonese rule.
The dream of creating a visual music comparable to auditory music found its fulfillment in animated abstract films by artists such as Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye and Norman McLaren ; but long before them, many people built instruments, usually called ' color organs ,' that would display modulated colored light in some kind of fluid fashion comparable to music.
The emission line is caused by an element's giving out light, and British astronomer Norman Lockyer concludes that it is an element unknown on Earth.

Norman and infantry
Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.
Apart from the missile troops, the Norman infantry were probably protected by mail armour and armed with spear, sword and shield, like their English counterparts.
The Norman bowmen, cavalry and infantry cooperated to deny the English the initiative and gave the homogeneous English army few tactical options except defence.
While serving as an instructor at West Point, Moore taught then-Cadet Norman Schwarzkopf, who called Moore one of his " heroes ," and cites Moore as the reason he chose the infantry branch upon graduation.
Notably, Henry ordered much of his force of knights to dismount, as he did himself: unusual for Norman battle tactics, infantry played a decisive role.
Instead, William arranged for the Saxon infantry to be trained up by Norman cavalry in anti-cavalry tactics.
All charges were repulsed with heavy casualties until the Saxon infantry, thinking the Normans were retreating, broke its formation to follow them and were routed by Norman cavalry.
The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the 1066 Norman amphibious invasion of England with a force of some 8, 000 infantry and heavy cavalry.
William the Conqueror used a feigned retreat during the Battle of Hastings to lure much of Harold's infantry from their advantageous defenses on higher ground, at which point they were annihilated by a charge of William's Norman cavalry.

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( Norman Mailer ), but no one can deny that the screen crackles with electricity whenever he is on it.
A favorite is Norman Norell, however.
This is not to say that the only explanation of the present infatuation with Norman Vincent Peale's `` cult of reassurance '' or the other types of a purely cultural Christianity is the ever-present need for a demythologized gospel.
"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).
Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.
That this is due in some degree to accident is clear from the character of the words, and from the fact that several reappear and are common after the Norman Conquest.
The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.
Indeed it can be argued the country has never been independent since there is an arguable legitimate succession of states, systems and entities from the Norman Conquest, 1066.
In one archaic usage, " common law " is used to refer to certain customs in England dating to before the Norman conquest and before there was any consistent law to be applied.
Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.
An example is the cult status of British comedic actor Norman Wisdom's films in Albania.
* With O < sub > h </ sub > symmetry, it is a rectified cube or rectified octahedron ( Norman Johnson )
When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.
* The draugr is also one of the inspirations behind " Serpent's Mound " by Ceri Norman.
One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.
Officially, the original story is credited to Graham Baker and Andrew Bennison, while the screenplay was written by Seton Miller and Norman Z. McLeod.
Janssen is jointly credited with detecting the element along with Norman Lockyer during the solar eclipse of 1868, and Lockyer was the first to propose that the line was due to a new element, which he named.
The European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) prevalent in modern Britain is assumed to have been introduced from the continent after the Norman invasion of 1066.
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman G. Finkelstein that argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.
*" It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There " -- World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein as He Fights for Tenure ( Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim speak in support of Norman Finkelstein's scholarship and " The Holocaust Industry " specifically.
It is thought that the Norman encampment was on the town ’ s outskirts, where there was open ground ; a new town was already being built in the valley to the east.
One theory claims that the name " haggis " is derived from Norman French.

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