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.

They escape, committing one supreme act of sabotage and revenge before Dendarii Captain Bel Thorne manages to negotiate a ransom.

Lamb has, like many Thorne Smith heroes, a shrewish ( and in this case adulterous ) wife who at one point tries to murder him ( at the time he is a goldfish ).

The scene in which Tim, trapped in his wife's body, exacts an icy revenge on the unfortunate interloper is one of the unforgettable moments of Thorne Smith's peculiar humor.

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

The Novikov self-consistency principle and Kip S. Thorne expresses one view on how backwards time travel could be possible without a danger of paradoxes.

" In 1874, however, one James Thorne wrote that the inhabitants of Yeading were " always found civil ".

Thorne rapidly excelled at academics early in life, becoming one of the youngest full professors in the history of the California Institute of Technology.

Among a handful of physicists, Thorne is considered one of the world ’ s authorities on gravitational waves.

As one observer later put it: " Hyndman and Cunningham Graham, Thorne and Clynes had sought peace while it endured, but now that war had come, well, Socialists and Trade Unionists, like other people had got to see it through.

She is married to Austin Thorne ( her third husband ), and has one daughter, Danelle ( from her second marriage ).

For instance, in the period of " new unionism " in UK working class history in 1889, and despite the often desperate conditions of working-class people of the time, Will Thorne, leader of the gas workers in the East End of London, and one time follower of Marxist ideas, successfully won a reduction of hours from 12 hours to 8 hours, on the basis of a successful vote to strike and mass meetings preparatory to the strike.

During their marriage, Thorne began showing signs of depression and later wrote that she had at one time contemplated suicide.

In 1986, Meo was one of five players under Barry Hearn's management ( along with Davis, Terry Griffiths, Willie Thorne and Dennis Taylor ) who appeared on " Snooker Loopy ", a hit single about the game recorded by Chas & Dave.

Despite this, and a strong performance in beating John Dunning 10 – 4 in round one, Spencer could not take advantage of the more open draw and his form fell away badly after holding Willie Thorne to 3 – 3 in round two.

In one famous incident, Thorne bet £ 38, 000 on a match involving John Parrott, betting that Parrott would lose as Parrott had lost his personal cue and had to use one supplied by the venue.

Eyeopener editors were surprised to find that Thorne had not been invited, as at least one member of the 40th masthead was told that he had reportedly said he was looking forward to the event.

She spares at least 17 ( Maharet, Mekare, Khayman, Louis, Jesse, Gabrielle, Armand, Daniel, Marius, Mael, Santino, Pandora, Eric, Vittorio, Thorne and the coven that made Quinn Blackwood ; Manfred Blackwood, Petronia, and one from ancient Greece ) vampires from her slaughter — either ancient vampires she can't easily destroy, or Lestat's loved ones — and demands that they join with her in her plan for a new world order: to kill 99 % of the world's men and to set up a new Eden in which women, with Akasha as Goddess, reign.

has one brother, Thorne ( Winsor Harmon ), and one sister, Kristen Forrester ( Teri Ann Lynn ).

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.

The best known line-up of Rough Cutt reformed for a one-off reunion show in October 2002 at the Viper Room in Hollywood with Shortino, Alford, Derakh, Hager, and Thorne performing together one last time.

Thorne was one of the first people to criticize the Red Sox for leaving ill-fated Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner out in the 10th inning over Dave Stapleton.