* 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God.

If that business is a subsidiary which has considerably more independence then the title might be known as Chairman and CEO ( for example, Philip I. Kent of Turner Broadcasting System in Time Warner ).

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

For the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner is said to have been wearing an actual mail and she complained how heavy this was.

The mechanism of transformation is structural mapping, in which properties of two or more source domains are selectively mapped onto a blended space ( Fauconnier & Turner, 1995 ; see conceptual blending ).

In March 2012, Barrymore is set to co-host the twelfth season of The Essentials, a film showcase on Turner Classic Movies which spotlights significant classic films.

The level index arithmetic of Clenshaw, Olver, and Turner is a scheme based on a generalised logarithm representation.

KRC ( Kent Recursive Calculator ) is a lazy functional language developed by David Turner in ( or before?

He is TNT's lead NBA voice, calls NFL games for CBS, and also calls NCAA tournament action for CBS and Turner Sports.

* 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

* 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.

* 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

Turner technically holds the rights to the Popeye cartoons today, but sales and distribution is in the hands of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

The exact origin of the game is unknown, but casino executive Robert Turner first brought Omaha into a casino setting when he introduced the game to Bill Boyd, who offered it as a game at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget Casino ( calling it " Nugget Hold ' em ").

Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.

Ike Turner recorded " Cubano Jump " ( 1954 ) an electric guitar instrumental, which is built around several 2-3 clave figures, adopted from the mambo.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

Robert Edward " Ted " Turner III ( born November 19, 1938 ) is an American media mogul and philanthropist.

Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, is named after him.

In 2010, in the wake of both the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia on April 5, that killed 29 miners and on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 crew on April 20, Turner stated on CNN that " I'm just wondering if God is telling us He doesn't want to drill offshore.

The Treasurer is Jeff Turner ( HI ).

This is a list that Warner Bros. Entertainment owns primarily by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. itself and by ownership through acquisition of companies such as Turner Entertainment Co., New Line Cinema, and Hanna-Barbera.

* March 7 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.

Turner syndrome or Ullrich-Turner syndrome ( also known as " Gonadal dysgenesis "), 45, X, encompasses several conditions in human females, of which monosomy X ( absence of an entire sex chromosome, the Barr body ) is most common.

As a sixteen-year-old student at Hollywood High School, Turner skipped a typing class and bought a Coke at the Top Hat Cafe located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place ( not Schwab's Pharmacy, as is commonly believed ), where she was spotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter.

The causes of this decline are uncertain ; but warfare and the exhaustion of agricultural land are commonly cited ( Meggers 1954 ; Dumond 1961 ; Turner 1974 ).

Turner Entertainment Company, Inc. ( commonly known as Turner Entertainment Co .) is an American media company founded by Ted Turner.

It was inspired by the theme to the 1936 film Modern Times, written by Charlie Chaplin and commonly known as " Smile " ( lyrics were added to Smile in 1954 by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons ).

In some cases, the chromosome is missing in some cells but not others, a condition referred to as mosaicism or " Turner mosaicism ".

Turner has frequently been referred to as a ' great innovator ' of Rock and Roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard and Johnny Otis.

In accordance with common practice, the whites referred to him by the last name of his owner, Benjamin Turner.

It is still often referred to on maps by the original canal crossing name of Windmill Bridge and is very close to the spot where the eponymous windmill once stood ; attracting the attention of a local Brentford artist named Joseph Mallard William Turner.

Indeed one of them, Samuel H. Turner ( 1790 – 1861 ), of the General Theological Seminary, NYC, referred to the " Rabbinical writer " in this way: " The work itself is evidently composed in the purest Rabbinical Hebrew, with a large intermixture of the Biblical idiom, ..." indicating that Turner was not of the opinion that it was an ancient text.

However, in the Turner Prize ceremony itself, Lord Palumbo, head of the Arts Council, referred to critics of the Turner Prize as a " confederacy of dunces ".

He was referred to, instead, as " Trillionaire Ted ", a play on " Billionaire Ted ", the WWF-given nickname of Ted Turner.

It used to be referred to as the male version of Turner's syndrome ( and is still sometimes described in this way ); however, the genetic causes of Noonan syndrome and Turner syndrome are distinct.

With the Gitarreros she performed a duet of Bryan Adams and Tina Turner's " It's Only Love " with Mike Kilian of Rockhaus ; after this she was often referred to as the " Tina Turner of the East ," owing in part to their similarly raspy singing voices and bouffant hairstyles.

Bachman – Turner Overdrive ( Sometimes referred to as Hard And Fast ) is the ninth studio album by Canadian rock band Bachman – Turner Overdrive, released in 1984.

The area around Sioux Falls ( the metropolitan area including the counties of Minnehaha County, Lincoln County, McCook County, and Turner County ) is often referred to as the " Sioux Empire.

Turner was a friend of Peter Perez Burdett and his scientific knowledge was referred to Joseph Wright of Derby when he constructed his painting of The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus in 1771 which is now in Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

William Wordsworth visited on a number of occasions and referred to it in his famous 1805 autobiographical poem The Prelude, whilst Turner made numerous etchings of the Abbey.

Turner & Hooch has been referred to in various films and television shows, including the ABC medical sitcom Scrubs, in which main characters J. D.

Turner referred to this process as " Alembicizing ".