Among the more than two dozen exhibitors who attended the first meeting held in New York on April 25, 1917, were Frederick Dahnken of the Turner and Dahnken Circuit in San Francisco, Harry O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, Samuel Roxy Rothafel of New York, Earl H. Hulsey of Dallas and Nathan H. Gordon of Boston.

( A concept explored by the artist Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a working boat and then back into a shed, winning him the 2005 Turner Prize.

Earlier artists who used these techniques include Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

To the contrary, both J. M. W. Turner and James Northcote were fervent acolytes: Turner requested he be laid to rest at Reynolds ' side, and Northcote ( who lived for four years as Reynolds ' pupil ) wrote to his family " I know him thoroughly, and all his faults, I am sure, and yet almost worship him.

But after one month as a money-losing venture, Turner sold it to MTV, who redeveloped the channel into VH1.

Writers like Dickens and Tolstoy, painters like Turner, and musicians like Brahms were not radicals or " Bohemians ", but were instead valued members of society who produced art that added to society, even when critiquing its less desirable aspects.

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

As he drove toward the Murrah Federal Building in the Ryder truck, McVeigh carried with him an envelope containing pages from The Turner Diaries — a fictional account of white supremacists who ignite a revolution by blowing up the FBI headquarters at 9: 15 one morning using a truck bomb.

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 ").

Former Prime Minister John Turner, who as a child knew Bennett while he was prime minister, praised Bennett's promotion of Turner's economist mother to the highest civil service post held by a Canadian woman to that time.

" He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R & B artists who employed this feel.

Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who was to escort it to England, claimed later that he had personally seized it from Menou and carried it away on a gun-carriage.

But as Chu points out, there are plenty of examples of science fiction poetry and verse by writers including Diane Ackerman, Emily Dickinson, Suzette Haden Elgin ( who founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and authored The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook ), Ruth Fainlight, Robert Frazier, Cathy Park Hong, Andrew Joron, and Frederick Turner, among many others.

After a brief struggle for control over filling these vacancies, General Manager AJ Smith fired Schottenheimer, replacing him with Norv Turner, who had been a head coach with two other NFL teams and had previously served the Chargers as offensive coordinator.

On that play, the 49ers only had 10 players on the field because LB Keena Turner, who was seriously ill with the chicken pox during Super Bowl week, missed a call to enter the game.

In contrast to Levin who as CEO isolated Turner from important company matters, Parsons did invite Turner back to provide strategic advice although Turner never received an operational role that he sought.

* October 21 – Lebanese kidnappers release Jesse Turner, a mathematics professor who had been held hostage for more than 4 years.

Ted Turner, who in 1996 was worth $ 3. 2 billion due to his Time Warner enterprise, decided to make a $ 1 billion contribution to the UN because he had previously donated to similar causes, and felt strongly about the issues the UN were participating in.

They were reading the Red Book but didn't know who Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, and Nat Turner were.

In The Rains of Ranchipur, Burton plays a noble Hindu doctor who attempts the spiritual recovery of an adulteress ( Lana Turner ).

Poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, and Robert Southey, as well as painter J. M. W. Turner, were among those who visited the area.

Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior ( 1646 – 1717 ), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith ( née Turner ) ( 1643 – 1733 ), who were both Catholics.

The first over-the-counter trade Wednesday afternoon at Eppler, Guerin & Turner, the managing underwriter, was at $17 a share.

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

It was, according to author Steve Turner, a " marriage made in heaven ...

Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

The gut was then cut and stretched and fastened to stakes to dry and then made into waterproof parkas, bags, and other receptacles ( Turner Ch.

In 1868 a Michaux cycle was brought to Coventry, England by Rowley Turner, sales agent of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company ( which soon became the Coventry Machinist Company ).

It was rekindled once, in 1978, for the Hawklords spin-off, but otherwise continued only with design commissions for projects involving the band's saxophonist Nik Turner.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

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 main magazine of this group from 1884 – 1957 was The Fraternal Visitor, whose editors included J. J. Bishop and J. J. Hadley ( d. 1912 ), then Thomas Turner, and finally Cyril Cooper ( till reunion in 1957 ).

John D. Turner, professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska and famed translator and editor of the Nag Hammadi library, stated that the text Plotinus and his students read was Sethian gnosticism which predates Christianity.

In the 1970s, ML was created by Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh, and David Turner developed initially the language SASL at the University of St. Andrews and later the language Miranda at the University of Kent.

Originally, this film was going to be a remake of King Kong vs. Godzilla with the title Godzilla vs. King Kong, but Turner Entertainment demanded too much money for the use of Kong.

After completing his training, Powers was assigned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia, as an F-84 Thunderjet pilot.

The UCLA Film Archive, in association with Turner Entertainment and with funding provided by Hugh Hefner, the original film was restored and released in comparison with the 1946 version in 1996.

" He continued playing with Sniper until early 1974, when he was replaced by Alan Turner.

In March 2011, Spader was named to star in By Virtue Fall, a film written and to be directed by Sheldon Turner.

Pope Innocent was, according to historian Ralph Turner, an " ambitious and aggressive " religious leader, insistent on his rights and responsibilities within the church.

Most historians today, including John's recent biographers Ralph Turner and Lewis Warren, argue that John was an unsuccessful monarch, but note that his failings were exaggerated by 12th-and 13th-century chroniclers.

Jim Bradbury notes the consensus of contemporary historians that John was a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ", albeit, as Turner suggests, with " distasteful, even dangerous personality traits ", including pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty.

Rick Turner, the Cheshire County Archaeologist, was notified of the discovery and succeeded in finding the rest of the body, which later became known as Lindow Man.

He grew up on the family's pastoral properties and was educated at Glamorgan ( now part of Geelong Grammar School ) and Melbourne Grammar School, before completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics (" Modern Greats ") at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1952, where he became friendly with future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner.

In 2007, a 165-minute biopic of Brando, Brando: The Documentary, produced by Mike Medavoy ( the executor of Brando's will ) for Turner Classic Movies, was released.