* 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

The later-named Kingsbridge carried Boston Post Road, connecting southern Westchester County ( which became The Bronx ) with Marble Hill, once part of Manhattan island, but still today part of Manhattan borough.

NERVA rockets would be used for nuclear " tugs " designed to take payloads from Low Earth Orbit to larger orbits as a component of the later-named Space Transportation System, resupply several space stations in various orbits around the Earth and Moon, and support a permanent lunar base.

By 1893 he had achieved the post of Assistant Mechanical Engineer to Wilson Worsdell who was then the Locomotive Superintendent.

In 1910 he became Chief Mechanical Engineer on Wilson Worsdell's retirement ( The title of the post had changed from Locomotive Superintendent in 1902 ).

The collection includes works by visionary artists Ho Baron, Nek Chand, Ted Gordon, Clyde Jones, Leo Sewell, Vollis Simpson and Ben Wilson as well as over 40 pieces from the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre of London.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

Carnegie's empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.

Wilson Company, New York.

In his lifetime, Henry Wilson only produced four sets of bronze doors, St Mary's Church, Nottingham, the chapel at Welbeck Abbey, the Salada Tea Company in Boston and these for the cathedral.

of the American Fur Company, outfitted an expedition ( known as the Astor Expedition or Astorians ) under Wilson Price Hunt to find a possible overland supply route and trapping territory for fur trading posts.

James Wilson Rouse ( April 26, 1914-April 9, 1996 ), founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist.

* Flem-Ath, Rand, and Colin Wilson ; The Atlantis Blueprint, 2000, Time Warner, Little, Brown and Company

In the mid 1970s, Lauper performed as a vocalist with various cover bands ( such as Doc West and Flyer, who still perform under the names Gap Wilson Band and Red, White and Blues Band ), in the New York metropolitan area, singing hits by bands such as Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company.

* Biography from Who's Who in British History ( 1998 ), H. W. Wilson Company.

Previous commissioners include Republicans Mary Walker, who was forced to resign after using millions of public dollars to benefit her family business ; Scott Croswell, the owner of Croswell Bus Company ; and Archie Wilson, who resigned after illegal drug use and relations with a prostitute in northern Kentucky.

Wilson: " The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct ", W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-0-393-33868-3

On his twelfth approach he contacted Halsey W. Wilson, the founder and president of the publishing company H. W. Wilson Company.

H. W. Wilson Company then received numerous letters requesting the book.

The town's first general store operated in a boxcar, soon followed by Keiser Supply and a Lee Wilson & Company gin.

Abandoned Lee Wilson and Company warehouse, 2010

In 1895, Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard and James W. Wilson of the Howard-Wilson Publishing Company of Chicago acquired rights to present Fair Oaks community, then primarily covered by citrus farms, from California Senator Frederick K. Cox and businessman Crawford W. Clarke.

* Allen B. Wilson and Nathaniel Wheeler started their Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company here.

In 1871, W. C. Wilson of Webster City opened a coal mine in Lehigh and formed the Crooked Creek Railroad and Coal Company.

A long-time center of the city's job opportunity was the Wilson & Company meat packing plant, later known as Farmstead and Farmland.

But in 1897 President William McKinley, a personal friend of Thomas Wilson Bradley of the U. S. Knife Company, pushed through the Dingley Tariff that restored the status quo ante.

* H. W. Wilson, founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, a publisher, lived in the Croton Heights section of Yorktown

Samuel Wallis and James Wilson a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Supreme Court appointee of George Washington became involved with Theophilus Cazenove and the Holland Land Company.

It has controversially been argued by some evolutionary scientists such as E. O. Wilson that natural selection can act at the level of non-kin groups to produce adaptations that benefit a non-kin group even if these adaptions are detrimental at the individual level.

He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C. and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The radiation, first observed in 1965 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, has a perfect thermal black-body spectrum.

* The Fatal Fury game series has two capoeira fighters, Richard Meyer and Bob Wilson, master and student.

New characters were introduced, such as Terry Duckworth ( Nigel Pivaro ), Curly Watts ( Kevin Kennedy ), Martin Platt ( Sean Wilson ), Reg Holdsworth ( Ken Morley ) and the McDonald family ; one of whom, Simon Gregson, started on the show as Steve McDonald a week after his 15th birthday, and has been in the programme ever since.

Although it has a unified theme in its emotional content, the writers ( Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ) have said repeatedly that it was not necessarily intended to be a narrative.

However, Brian Wilson has stated that the idea of the record being a " concept album " is mainly within the way the album was produced and structured.

According to Bryan Wilson, functionally the definition of a " fellowship " within Christadelphian history has been mutual or unilateral exclusion of groupings of ecclesias from the breaking of bread.

A study of German dominatrices by Andrew Wilson has noted the trend for dominatrices choosing names aimed at creating and maintaining an atmosphere in which class, femininity and mystery are key elements of their self-constructed identity.

Writing in Cosmos, journalist Wilson da Silva reacted to Greenpeace's destruction of a genetically modified wheat crop in Ginninderra as another sign that the organization has " lost its way " and had degenerated into a " sad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity ".

Brian Wilson has cited Berry as having a direct impact on his own growth as a record producer.

Kalhana's metrical chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, called the Rajatarangini, has been pronounced by Professor H. H. Wilson to be the only Sanskrit composition yet discovered to which the appellation " history " can with any propriety be applied.

Kid Rock has influenced such artist and groups as Uncle Kracker, Paradime, Ty Stone, Jocaine and 75 North, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Jason Aldean, & The Young Brothers.

Lutenistic practice has reached considerable heights in recent years, thanks to a growing number of world-class lutenists: Robert Barto, Eduardo Egüez, Edin Karamazov, Nigel North, Christopher Wilson, Luca Pianca, Pascal Monteilhet, Lex van Sante, Ariel Abramovich, Evangelina Mascardi, Luciano Contini, Hopkinson Smith, Yasunori Imamura, Paul O ' Dette, Jozef van Wissem et alii.

Passcard has been claimed to be the first reward scheme or discount card, created around by Gary Wilson in 1981 and later known as Passkey.

This has often been cited, not least by Wilson himself, as the main reason London Records ' 1992 offer to buy the ailing label fell through.

This in turn has supported palaeogeographic theories such as the Wilson cycle.

While he doubts this is so, he nonetheless states: “ In his unrelated state, man has a natural right to his property, to his character, to liberty, and to safety .” James Wilson asks whether “ the primary and principal object in the institution of government … was … to acquire new rights by human establishment?

His influence has extended over a wide area of musicians, including Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan Wilson ( of Canned Heat ), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, and John Mooney.

Classical Comics, a UK publisher creating graphic novel adaptations of classical literature, has produced a full colour paperback Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd ( 176 pages, November 2010, Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-79-2, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-80-8, forthcoming ) with script adaptation by Sean M. Wilson, linework by Declan Shalvey ; colouring by Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson and lettering by Jim Campbell.

Stephen McEveety will lead the production team and author N. D. Wilson has been tapped to write the script.

Jefferson's procedure was followed by future Presidents until Woodrow Wilson reverted to the former procedure of personally addressing Congress, which has continued.

On 3 October, the independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson, voted with the Opposition in the House of Representatives to reject Fadden ’ s budget and the government fell -- to date, the last time a sitting government has been defeated in the House.

Wilson was annoyed that Princeton was not living up to its potential, complaining " There's a little college down in Kentucky which in 60 years has graduated more men who have acquired prominence and fame than has Princeton in her 150 years.