Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds ( née Monni )— a six-time Finnish national karate champion — whom he first met in the autumn of 1993.

Most of the Moomin books by Finnish author Tove Jansson were novels, but several Moomin picture books were also published between 1952 and 1980, like Who Will Comfort Toffle?

Solberg won a nationwide RC car championship at the age of 13 as he inherited his interest of motorsport through his parents, mother Tove and father Terje, who were keen bilcross ( an " inexpensive version " of Norwegian rallycross, similar to Swedish folkrace and Finnish jokamiehenluokka ) competitors and rallycross enthusiasts.

Chairwoman Tove Lifvendahl proudly wore an " I love Bush " shirt after George W. Bush's election in 2000, although she was quick to criticise him for the steel tariffs he later imposed.

Robert Phillipson is married to Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

The series was published in book form in Swedish, and books 1 to 6 have been published in English, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.

Other artists who have found inspiration in Tolkien's works include Catherine Karina Chmiel, Inger Edelfeldt, Anke Eißmann, Roger Garland, Michael Hague, Tove Jansson ( of Moomin fame, illustrator of Swedish and Finnish translations of The Hobbit ), Paul Raymond Gregory, Tim Kirk, Angus McBride, Kay Miner, Billy Mosig, Colleen Doran, Jenny Dolfen and Matěj Čadil.

The publisher also has an imprint for children called Enfant, with which they have published the Moomin works of Tove Jansson and Pippi Longstocking comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman.

They have one daughter, Talicia Tove Martins, born in June 1996.

In the Moomin Valley Museum you can see original illustrations made by Tove Jansson ( the creator of Moomins ), 40 miniatures, tableaux about Moomin events and a small ( 2. 5 metres high ) Moomin House.

* 1921 – Tove Maës, Danish actress ( d. 2011 )

* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

Torvalds was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendants to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date.

Other European productions included a stop motion-animated series of Tove Jansson's The Moomins ( from 1979, often referred to as " The Fuzzy Felt Moomins "), produced by Film Polski and Jupiter Films.

** Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( b. 1914 )

Tove Marika Jansson () ( 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, which was then a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

After Moominvalley in November Tove Jansson stopped writing about Moomins and started writing for adults.

Although she became known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson worked as illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language satirical magazine Garm from the 1930s to 1953.

The name " Moomin " comes from Tove Jansson's uncle, Einar Hammarsten: when she was studying in Stockholm and living with her Swedish relations, her uncle tried to stop her pilfering food by telling her that a " Moomintroll " lived in the kitchen closet and breathed cold air down people's necks.

In 1952, after Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British publisher asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins.

Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson.

In 1966 Tove Jansson won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her contributions to children's literature.

Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books: The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My ( 1952 ), Who will Comfort Toffle?

Examples include Lars Saabye Christensen's Beatles, Tove Nilsen's Skyskraperengler ( Skyscraper Angels ), Ingvar Ambjørnsen's Hvite niggere ( White Niggers ), Gerd Brantenberg's St. Croix trilogy, Herbjørg Wassmo's Tora-trilogy and Roy Jacobsen's Seierherrene.

* Kontra, Miklos, Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas & Tibor Varady ( 1999 ), Language: A Right and a Resource, Central European University Press.

* Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Robert Phillipson ; Mart Rannut ( 1995 ), Linguistic Human Rights, Mouton De Gruyter.

* Fair Play ( novel ), English title of Finnish author Tove Jansson's novel Rent spel

Tove Fraurud ( born 19 August 1980 ) is a Swedish politician with the Left Party ( Vänsterpartiet ) and was the chairman of Young Left ( Ung vänster ), its youth wing, 2004 – 2005.

* Sculptor's Daughter-Christmas, Snow, Pets and Females, and The Bays by Tove Jansson, BBC Radio 4, ( 2006 )

* Tove Lifvendahl, 2000 – 2002

Tove Fergo ( born 24 September 1946 ) is a Danish vicar and politician representing the liberal party Venstre.

The books that were influential in the early development of computational quantum chemistry include Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson's 1935 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – with Applications to Chemistry, Eyring, Walter and Kimball's 1944 Quantum Chemistry, Heitler's 1945 Elementary Wave Mechanics – with Applications to Quantum Chemistry, and later Coulson's 1952 textbook Valence, each of which served as primary references for chemists in the decades to follow.

Their hurry to produce a model of DNA structure was driven in part by the knowledge that they were competing against Linus Pauling.

When it became clear to Wilkins and the supervisors of Watson and Crick that Franklin was going to the new job, and that Linus Pauling was working on the structure of DNA, they were willing to share Franklin's data with Watson and Crick, in the hope that they could find a good model of DNA before Pauling was able.

The first two were Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, and Linus Pauling, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.

In their view, Linus, Cletus and Clement were possibly prominent presbyter-bishops but not necessarily monarchical bishops.

Among the six teenage songwriters Simon selected for tutelage were Melissa Manchester, Tommy Mandel and rock / beat poet Joe Linus, with Maggie and Terre Roche ( the Roche Sisters ), who later sang back-up for Simon, joining the workshop in progress through an impromptu appearance.

He and the muse Calliope were the parents of Orpheus and Linus.

Notable exceptions to using women to voice young boys ' roles are the Peanuts animated specials and films, in which boys were actually cast to read the boys ' lines ( e. g., Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder ).

The theoretical frameworks for molecular systematics were laid in the 1960s in the works of Emile Zuckerkandl, Emanuel Margoliash, Linus Pauling, and Walter M. Fitch.

The theoretical frameworks for molecular systematics were laid in the 1960s in the works of Emile Zuckerkandl, Emanuel Margoliash, Linus Pauling and Walter M. Fitch.

From 1983 onward, several new input techniques were developed and included in laptops, including the touchpad ( Gavilan SC, 1983 ), the pointing stick ( IBM ThinkPad 700, 1992 ) and handwriting recognition ( Linus Write-Top, 1987 ).

Linus proposes an idea that Bottler and he had been plotting since they were children: to infiltrate Skywalker Ranch and steal a rough cut of the film.

Linus Yale ’ s family are of Welsh descent, and his ancestors were of the same family as Elihu Yale, the benefactor to and namesake of the well known Yale University.

* On Lost, Kate Austen murdered her father by blowing up the house he was sleeping in, and Ben Linus murdered his father by releasing poison gas in the car they were both sitting in ( Ben survived by wearing a gas mask ).

Though he spoke the only lines of dialogue in the first strip and was one of the strip's primary figures in its first few years, he was mainly utilized as a " straight man " for Charlie Brown and soon began to be eclipsed by newer characters who were more developed, such as Linus and Lucy.

Carigiet's dramatic and colorful compositions were noticed and positively reviewed by art critics such as Manuel Gasser in Graphis Inc. or Linus Birchler, editor-in-chief of Art Monuments of Switzerland and member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission.

Two main types of secondary structure, the alpha helix and the beta strand or beta sheets, were suggested in 1951 by Linus Pauling and coworkers.

Another time, Charlie Brown and Linus were very wordily talking about complaints.

After returning home and expecting a hero's welcome, Linus soon found his fellow Linomen were skeptical of the existence of the so-called " planet Earth " and decides to return to it, this time with a camera.

In some telecasts of the film, some of the fight scenes between Snoopy, Linus and Lucy were edited out, as was Sally's discovery of a copy of the book Sambo in the library.

The fact that the names Claudia and Pudens are separated in 2 Timothy by the name Linus also suggests they were not a married couple.

Back at school, Charlie Brown only came up with 13 words on his essay that he and Linus were forced to write during vacation.

Linus is given a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of those who were sitting in that space, and they are on their way.