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.

Mildred tries to cover up Montag's actions by claiming that, once a year, firemen bring home one book and read it aloud as a form of mocking past literature.

Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology / medicine, literature, and peace, but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research.

After being asked to leave due to neglecting to take any journalism courses – Jarmusch favored literature and art history – he transferred to Columbia University the following year, with the intention of becoming a poet.

Each year links to its corresponding " in literature " article, except for poetry and poetry criticism, which link to corresponding " in poetry " articles.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

( In technical literature, this symbol means the average number of complete years of life remaining, excluding fractions of a year.

Receiving his gymnasium diploma from the Lyceum of Kuopio in 1959, he then studied philosophy and literature at Dartmouth College for one year.

" Concurrently with these exceptions, Jehovah's Witnesses in their literature and assemblies have taught their leadership was personally chosen by Jesus Christ in 1919 ( a prophetic year in JW eschatology ) and that they are " God's sole channel on earth ", and " Jehovah's spirit directed organization ".

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

The following year seven professorships were created ; anatomy, zoology, engineering, history, law, logic & mental philosophy, and modern literature.

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.

The year 383 denotes a significant point in Welsh history, remembered in literature and considered to be the foundation point of several medieval royal dynasties.

The same year saw him enter into a so-called " joint venture " with Hodder & Stoughton to help with the publication of children's literature and medical books.

A range of annual incidence rates have been reported in the literature: 15, 24, and 25-53 ( all rates per 100, 000 population per year ).

This list links each year of publication with its corresponding " in poetry " article, for poetry, or " in literature " article for other works ):

The year 1905, when Norway was free from the union with Sweden, marks a new period in the history of Norwegian literature.

Once again being arrested for printing illegal literature, after a year of custody, Kostrikov moved to the Caucasus, where he stayed until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.

The Mishnah and the Tosefta ( compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200 ) are the earliest extant works of rabbinic literature, expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as well as ethical teachings.

During the post-war decades only a handful of books of any literary merit were published each year in Canada, and Canadian literature was viewed as an appendage to British and American writing.

She went on to study law at Kiev University, leaving a year later to study literature in St Petersburg.

These puzzles usually have no symmetry in the grid and instead often rely on a common theme ( literature, music, nature, geography, events a special year etc.

The Prix Goncourt (,, The Goncourt Prize ) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of " the best and most imaginative prose work of the year ".

It was not till his eightieth year that he made his first acquaintance with Greek literature, though some think after examining his writings that he may have had a knowledge of Greek works for much of his life.

Large numbers of new species are published in the scientific literature each year.

Every year on 23 April, the anniversary of Cervantes ' death, the city of Alcalá hosts the ceremony awarding the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious award for lifetime achievement in literature.