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.

Here I was accompanied by Mrs. Okamoto ( Fumio's mother ), her son, Mr. Washizu ( a prospective student with whom I have been corresponding for more than a year ), and Mr. Nishima, one of the science teachers.

The significance of soft-bodied preservation, and the range of organisms he recognised as new to science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924.

A keen interest in science, especially botany and lepidopterology, led him to enter the Honours Science program the University of Toronto in 1963, but he switched to Honors English Language and Literature later in his first year.

But when competing science museums opened in other cities, the number of visitors to the Evoluon declined every year.

* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.

Following his retirement, Hayek spent a year as a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he continued work on Law, Legislation and Liberty, teaching a graduate seminar by the same name and another on the philosophy of social science.

That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

The undergraduate focus of HMC means that, unlike many larger science and engineering institutions, undergraduates at HMC get unique access to research positions over the summer and during the school year.

The exploitation of human clones for dangerous and undesirable work was examined in the 2009 British science fiction film Moon, where the protagonist discovers that he is simply one clone out of many that maintain a mining camp on the moon during the duration of a three year lifespan.

Thacker also noted that Milloy was receiving almost $ 100, 000 a year in consulting fees from Philip Morris while he criticized the evidence regarding the hazards of second-hand smoke as " junk science ".

Financial problems again forced him to work for a living and in the summer of 1874 he became science master at Cheltenham College, a public school, earning £ 400 per year.

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is given in her honor each year for a work of science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender ; funds for the award are raised in part by bake sales

He initially attended Warrnambool High School ( now Warrnambool College ) ( where a science wing is named in his honour ), then completed his final year of schooling at Melbourne High School.

The lab has an open house once a year on a Saturday and Sunday in May or June, when the public is invited to tour the facilities and see live demonstrations of JPL science and technology.

In the 2010 – 2011 academic year, 1, 161 bachelor of science ( abbreviated SB ) degrees were granted, the only type of undergraduate degree MIT now awards.

The Science Requirement, generally completed during freshman year as prerequisites for classes in science and engineering majors, comprises two semesters of physics, two semesters of calculus, one semester of chemistry, and one semester of biology.

He exhibited a talent for mathematics and science while in high school and took the Grinnell College freshman physics course in his senior year.

One is awarded every year by Carnegie Mellon University to individuals who have " notably advanced the field of science.

In 2011, the university also participated in the bidding for applied science campus in New York City but finally abandoned the project at the end of the year.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( sometimes abbreviated to ST: DS9 or DS9 ) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the 24th century from the year 2369 through 2375.

Between one and four science fiction conventions are held each year in Sweden, among them Swecon, the annual national Swedish con.

SF writer Cory Doctorow calls science fiction " perhaps the most social of all literary genres ", and states, " Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.

The Scientific American 50 award was started in 2002 to recognize contributions to science and technology during the magazine's previous year.

* Climate science – In 2010, the German Climate Computing Centre ( DKRZ ) was generating 10, 000 TB of data per year, from a supercomputer with a 20 TB memory and 7, 000 TB disk space.

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 ( except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II ).