Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false.

James Thorne Smith, Jr. ( March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934 ) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.

The possibility of traversable wormholes in general relativity was first demonstrated by Kip Thorne and his graduate student Mike Morris in a 1988 paper.

A subset called Micro-Planner was implemented by Gerry Sussman, Eugene Charniak and Terry Winograd Charniak, and Winograd 1971 and was used in Winograd's natural-language understanding program SHRDLU, Eugene Charniak's story understanding work, Thorne McCarty's work on legal reasoning, and some other projects.

The last was rapist Douglas Thorne, on April 20, 1962.

Crapper was born in Thorne, Yorkshire, in 1836 ; the exact date is unknown, but he was baptised on 28 September 1836.

Cygnus X-1 was the subject of a friendly scientific wager between physicists Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne in 1974, with Hawking betting that it was not a black hole.

The series won a Prix Italia award in Italy, several BAFTA awards in England and several Emmy Awards in the U. S., and was adapted by Ian Thorne into the 1972 film Henry VIII and his Six Wives.

A new cut between broad cut and the figure of eight locks, which included two large locks, and a new large lock beside the old one at Thorne were opened in 1838, but little more was done, despite the Rochdale Canal pressing for longer locks.

According to producer Mike Thorne in his Stereo Society web site, " the title track was originally written and sung by Aimee as if to a woman ....

Overage forward Stephon Thorne was named the 10th captain in Battalion history prior to the 2010-11 season while youngster Jacob Riley took over the starting goaltender job along with Swiss import Dennis Saikkonen.

He is known as the soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish, German ( when he fought the Soviets in World War II ) and American ( where he was known as Larry Thorne ) when he served in U. S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.

Larry Thorne, christened " Lauri Allan Törni " at birth, was born in Viipuri, Finland, to a ship captain.

With their support, Private Thorne was soon on his way into Special Forces.

Shortly after his disappearance Thorne was promoted to the rank of Major.

In the book The Green Berets by Robin Moore, the " Sven Kornie " main character in the first chapter was based on Larry Thorne.

In the 2004 TV programme Suuret Suomalaiset (" Great Finns "), Larry Thorne was voted the 52nd greatest Finn of all time.

His thesis advisor was relativist Kip Thorne.

J. R. Thorne and Marie-Claire Uhart noted King's error by pointing out that the supposedly deleted passage does not appear in most extant manuscripts of the poem and was in all likelihood not in Crowley's source texts.

The score for the series was composed by Ken Thorne.

Student housing is located in three areas: the Medary complex located in the northwest corner of campus, consisting of traditional residence halls, Hansen, Waneta and Wecota Annex, and apartment-style living at Meadows North and Meadows South ; the Grove complex near the Student Union, consisting of traditional residence halls, Brown, Mathews and Pierson, as well as a newer ( 2010 ) variation on the theme of traditional residence halls in Spencer, Thorne and Abbott ( also called the Jackrabbit Village ); and the Larson complex on the east side of campus, consisting of traditional halls Binnewies and Young and suite living at Caldwell Hall.

Gary Thorne, Bill Clement, and John Davidson mentioned all of these when they called the Stanley Cup Finals.

As a tool to be used in both enterprises, astrophysics and theoretical physics, Thorne has developed an unusual approach, called the " Membrane Paradigm ", to the theory of black holes and used it to clarify the " Blandford-Znajek " mechanism by which black holes may power some quasars and active galactic nuclei.

With fans and players on both sides reading the news headline, it then became a feat comparable to Babe Ruth's called shot and Joe Namath's Super Bowl III guarantee, and backed it up by scoring a natural hat trick in the third period on an empty net goal with ESPN commentator Gary Thorne boasting, " Do you believe it?!

Thorne is a Viking warrior originally called Thornevald that is sent to slay a vampire-witch that has been killing villagers and stealing their eyes.

" and Adam Sweeting for The Arts Desk called him " authentic as the phlegmatic, low-key Thorne.

Thorne called Herrscher and asked if there was some small building they could demolish with a bulldozer, to begin to " break ground " for the Becket building.

Years later, a man called Dr. Thorne treats an ailing or wounded Apache ( often alleged to be a chieftain ) and is rewarded with a trip to a rich gold mine.

One part of the village is called Pluckley Thorne.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

Mushroom Records signed the band and the band booked into Platinum Studios with producer Alan Thorne at the end of 1986.

In 1988, Morris, Thorne and Yurtsever worked out explicitly how to convert a wormhole traversing space into one traversing time.

" Similar to Thorne, this group of decorated Finnish wartime officers had emigrated to the United States and were inducted into the US Army under the Lodge Act.

Having an on-again-off-again marriage to Thorne Forrester, whom she eventually lost to Brooke, Macy went abroad into hiding with her father Adam.

In June 2006, Steven Spielberg announced he would direct a scientifically accurate film about " a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension ", from a treatment by Kip Thorne and producer Lynda Obst.

Thorne ( 1994 ) relates that this approach to studying black holes was prompted by the realisation by Hanni, Ruffini, Wald and Cohen in the early 1970s that since an electrically charged pellet dropped into a black hole should still appear to a distant outsider to be remaining just outside the event horizon, if its image persists, its electrical fieldlines ought to persist too, and ought to point to the location of the " frozen " image ( 1994, pp. 406 ).

Maharet does not slay Thorne but turns him into a vampire and keeps him as her companion.

Garrett was born in the town of Thorne near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, into a musical family.

In Doctor Thorne Trollope describes the way in which the county, formerly represented by a single Member of Parliament was split into two parliamentary seats, the more rural East Barsetshire, which includes Barchester, and the more commercial West Barsetshire, by the Reform Act 1832.

After talking with his father who is kidnapped while on the phone with Jet, Jet is digitized by Ma3a, Alan's AI computer system, to aid her against Thorne, an executive from fCon improperly digitized into the computer who is now a virus throughout the system.

* Oleg Madrczyk ( tried to turn Sydney into Julia Thorne ; later killed by Sydney )

* The Animated Series version of Hugo is featured in Issues 34 through 36 of The Batman Adventures ( the last issues ), in which it was shown that Rupert Thorne had attempted to bribe Strange into rebuilding his blackmail machine for him, and when Hugo refused, Thorne had Hugo's son Daniel killed on New Year's Eve.

In an essay published by LNS on March 1, 1969, Thorne Dreyer and Victoria Smith wrote that the news service " was an attempt at a new kind of journalism -- developing a more personalistic style of reporting, questioning bourgeois conceptions of ' objectivity ' and reevaluating established notions about the nature of news ..." They pointed out that LNS " provided coverage of events to which most papers would have otherwise had no access, and ... put these events into a context, helping new papers in their attempts to develop a political analysis ...

First breaking into the soap opera genre in 1997 as Tiffany Thorne on Sunset Beach, Frantz left the show later that year for her role as the villainess turned sympathetic heroine Amber on The Bold and the Beautiful.

In boundary changes which took effect at the 2010 election, Sprotbrough was moved to Doncaster North, while in the east the town of Thorne was moved from Doncaster North into Don Valley.

Rooker is determined to find out how Darkman has his superior strength, and enlists the aid of Dr. Bridget Thorne ( Darlanne Fluegel ), a new character retroactively put into Darkman's origin as one of the doctors who first treated Westlake's body after he was burnt in the first movie.

Mario and the Magician was adapted into an English language opera by librettist J. D. McClatchy and composer Francis Thorne.

Thorne is introduced as a corrupt politician being blackmailed by Doctor Phosphorus into turning the city against Batman.

Thorne first appears in the two-part episode " Two-Face, in which he was responsible for district attorney Harvey Dent's transformation into the arch-criminal Two-Face.

Enraged, Dent " switches " into his alternate, violent personality and chases Thorne into a nearby chemical processing plant, where an explosion permanently disfigures the left side of Dent's body and leaves his evil personality in permanent control.