A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Between 1948 and 1957 there were 15 hijackings worldwide, an average of a little more than one per year.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

In January 1957, the team left its winter training facility at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California for a ten year period.

In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36, 000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24, 000 paid tuition of up to $ 300 a year — the equivalent of $ 2, 411. 98 in 2011.

He sold the rights to Wham-O on January 23, 1957 ( his 37th birthday ), and the following year, Morrison was awarded U. S. Design Patent D183, 626 for his flying disc.

Industrial production doubled from 1950 to 1957, and gross national product grew at a rate of 9 or 10 % per year, providing the engine for economic growth of all of Western Europe.

degree in geology from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and then spent a year for graduate studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

In 1957, he won the NL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Award, while that same year, the Braves won the World Series.

By March 1957, a full year after the release of " Please, Please, Please ", most members of the Famous Flames had left the group after the group's new manager, Universal Attractions Agency Chief Ben Bart, insisted that the group's billing be " James Brown and The Famous Flames ".

In 1993, the club won its first league title since 1967, and a year later, for the first time since 1957, it won a second consecutive title – alongside the FA Cup – to complete the first " Double " in the club's history.

Robert Burchfield was hired in 1957 to edit the second supplement ; Onions, who turned 84 that year, was still able to make some contributions as well.

From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards ( often arranged quite different from the original ), her own compositions, and material from young artists.

The name was chosen in an internal contest in 1957, the year of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

Year 1957 ( MCMLVII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

After appearing in The Young in Heart with Paulette Goddard the following year, she left the film industry for nearly twenty years at the age of 32 in order to travel with her husband Adrian, returning one last time in 1957 as Pat Boone's mother in Bernadine.

The wettest year was 1957 with and the driest year was 1994 with.

Only one of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, got the chance to graduate ; after the 1957 – 58 school year was over, the Little Rock school system decided to shut public schools completely rather than continue to integrate.

In 1957, this small port town was chosen to be the capital of the new country, and an ambitious building program was begun to increase its population to 15, 000, starting a year later.

Hopkins fell seriously ill during 1957, and was eventually replaced by Frank Pace later that year.

At the 1957 Worldcon it received the Hugo Award for Best Novel ( his first ) of the previous year.

The year 1957 also coincided with an acute shortage of mathematicians in the US.

He served only about a year before being exchanged for Rudolph Abel, a high-ranking KGB spy, who had been apprehended in the United States in 1957.

The record time for the race since 1957, the year in which the track was set at its current length of 1¼ miles, is 2: 01 4 / 5 set by Kinghaven Farms Izvestia in 1990.

The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 " the year of Pei " in The New York Times.

As one of the highest-scoring students, Atta was admitted into the very selective architecture program during his senior year.

Entry to all courses at first year is open, although entry to second year in some programmes ( e. g. law, criminology, creative writing, architecture ) is restricted.

By the year 400 Greek philosophy, art, literature and architecture had spread far and wide, with the numerous independent Greek colonies that had sprung up throughout the lands of the eastern Mediterranean.

This table contains specifications for certain SPARC processors: frequency ( megahertz ), architecture version, release year, number of threads ( threads per core multiplied by the number of cores ), fabrication process ( micrometers ), number of transistors ( millions ), die size ( square millimetres ), number of I / O pins, dissipated power ( watts ), voltage, and cache sizes — data, instruction, L2 and L3 ( kibibytes ).

The jury, each year consisting of five to nine " experts ... recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture ", deliberate early the following year before announcing the winner in spring.

Farrand's campus designs were based on three concepts: plants that bloomed throughout the academic year, emphasizing architecture as well as hiding flaws, and using upright and climbing plants so that the small spaces between buildings would not seem reduced in scale.

Many sources have testified that he taught for decades the philosophy of Avicenna in Nishapur where Khayyám was born and buried and where his mausoleum today remains a masterpiece of Iranian architecture visited by many people every year.

Thanks much in part to its unique half-timbered architecture, Solvang has become a major California tourist attraction, with over one million visitors per year.

Its graduate program in architecture accepts about 15 students each year, and it accepts about 4 – 5 doctoral students, focusing on subjects such as architectural theory and philosophy, bio-climate and energy conscious design, morphology, computer application, person-environment relations, housing, architectural history, and urban design.

During 1907, the school established a four year professional curriculum in architecture through the College of Technology, growing eventually into the Tulane School of Architecture.

Every year, WMF presents the Hadrian Award to international leaders who have advanced the preservation of world art and architecture at its annual benefit dinner.

By the year 1070 the Seljuks emerged as the dominant political force in the Muslim world after they liberated Baghdad and defeated the Byzanties at Manzikert, during the rule of Malik Shah the Seljuks excelled in architecture at the same time in Syria, the atabegs ( governors of Seljuk princes ) assumed power.

He spent his final year at The New School studying fashion, but nonetheless graduated with a degree in architecture.

Their affair was over — until August, when Josephine contacted Crosby and they rekindled the affair as her husband became a first year graduate student of architecture at Harvard.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1915 and did graduate work in architecture and interior design before joining the diplomatic corps in the following year.

* Architect – Typically holds 1, undergraduate 3 year degree in architecture + 1, post-graduate 2 year degree ( DipArch or BArch ) in architecture plus 24 months experience within the industry.

Early Christian art and architecture is the art produced by Christians or under Christian patronage from about the year 100 to about the year 500.

The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to " the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.