When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.

When his colleague Richard Courant wrote the now classic Methods of Mathematical Physics including some of Hilbert's ideas, he added Hilbert's name as author even though Hilbert had not directly contributed to the writing.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

When writing solo passages for the bass in orchestral or chamber music, composers typically ensure the orchestration is light so it doesn't obscure the bass.

When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

: When God decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over My wrath.

When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper.

When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper ( the Sunday Times ).

When either writing through or directly to physical device registers, this may, but not necessarily, cause a real interrupt to occur at the device's central processor unit ( CPU ), if it has one.

" When he was repatriated, he was allowed to keep the manuscript of a book he had been writing, and his pet starling.

When writing to memory, the CPU writes data from MDR to the memory location whose address is stored in MAR.

When Nash wasn't writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom, giving lectures at colleges and universities.

When he first started writing songs for the Pixies, Francis says he was listening to nothing but Hüsker Dü, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop ; Other influences associated with Francis include The Gun Club and The Cars.

When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.

* When writing RPN on paper ( something that some users of RPN may not do ) adjacent numbers need a separator between them.

When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.

When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.

When they started writing the script, the Coens wrote only 40 pages and then let it sit for a while before finishing it.

When writing about these picturing situations, Wittgenstein used the word " Bild ," which may be translated as " picture " or " model ".

When Beckett started writing he did not have a visual image of Vladimir and Estragon.

# When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible — and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him " an iconoclast, moralist and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later.

When Rossetti died Stephens co-wrote his obituary for the edition of Athenaeum dated April 15, 1882.

When several days later the news of Muir ’ s passing finally reached Paris, a brief obituary notice was inserted in Le Moniteur to the effect that he had died from a recurrence of his old wounds.

When he died in 1999, his New York Times obituary fondly remembered him as " A Voice of Cheer and Cheese.

" When Seymour published a favorable obituary of his father, who had been killed serving in the Confederate army in Virginia, Butler confiscated the newspaper and imprisoned Seymour for three months.

When Berners died in 1939, the Chicago Tribune headlined his obituary " Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead.

When his father, Myles Birket Foster died, the artist son's obituary was published.

When several days later the news of Muir ’ s passing finally reached Paris, a brief obituary notice was inserted in Le Moniteur to the effect that he had died from a recurrence of his old wounds.

When Channel 4 broadcast Ferrari's obituary on Eurotrash, it was transmitted with straight dubbing as a mark of respect ( Eurotrash < noinclude >'</ noinclude > s dubbing is normally campy, often playing it for laughs to get around the censorship regulations ).

When Chevalier Jackson died in Philadelphia in 1958, his obituary referred to him as " one of the greatest, if not the greatest laryngologists of all time.

When Gardner died in 1989, his obituary in The New York Times was headlined " Hy Gardner, 80, Gossip Columnist and a Celebrity in His Own Right.

When Osho died in 1990, he wrote an obituary calling him the " master of the heart " as well as " the holiest scoundrel I ever knew ".

When Lord Fairfax saw Carter's obituary in the London monthly The Gentleman's Magazine, he was astonished to read of the immense personal wealth acquired by his resident land agent.

When he died in 1850, his unpopularity was such that The Times did not give him an obituary.

When the Attlee Government was voted out of office in 1951, the economy had been improved compared to 1945.

When the Witchcraft Laws were replaced, in 1951, by the Fraudulent Mediums Act, Gerald Gardner went public, initially somewhat cautiously.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When Libya gained its independence in 1951, veterans of the original Sanusi Army formed the nucleus of the Royal Libyan Army.

When the Chinese communists took over Tibet in 1951, Bhutan closed its frontier with Tibet and sided with its powerful neighbor to the south.

When its last assets were sold in 1951, HOLC turned a small profit.

When the Supreme Court upheld the Smith Act ( June 4, 1951 ), Hall and three other men skipped bail and went underground.

* 1951: When Worlds Collide-No nominees named ( When Worlds Collide was the sole nominee and won the award outright.

When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ) based on a 1933 novel by Philip Wylie, deals with two planets on a collision course with Earth – the smaller planet a " near miss ," causing extensive damage and destruction, followed by a direct hit from the larger planet.

When the Royal Festival Hall opened in 1951 the LSO and LPO engaged in a mutually bruising campaign for sole residency there.

Several readings by Lewis are collected on The Enemy Speaks, an audiobook CD published in 2007 and featuring extracts from " One Way Song " and " The Apes of God ", as well as radio talks titled " When John Bull Laughs " ( 1938 ), " A Crisis of Thought " ( 1947 ) and " The Essential Purposes of Art " ( 1951 ).

Whitman was a supporting actor in When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ), All American ( 1953 ), Brigadoon ( 1954 ), Silver Lode ( 1954 ), Ten North Frederick ( 1958 ), The Decks Ran Red ( 1958 ) starring Dorothy Dandridge, on whose face Whitman planted Hollywood's first interrracial kiss, These Thousand Hills ( 1959 ), and The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ).

When these results were first published in 1951, this group was the most compact group ever identified.

When Packard's president George T. Christopher announced that the " bathtub " would get another facelift for 1951, influential parts of the management revolted.

When he edited and reissued the book in 1951, he softened his opinion of Crosby somewhat.

These include The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 1951 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ), The War of the Worlds ( 1952 ), 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1954 ), This Island Earth ( 1955 ), Forbidden Planet ( 1956 ), Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ), The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), Journey to the Center of the Earth ( 1959 ) and On the Beach ( 1959 ).

When she refused, General Foods cancelled their sponsorship, and CBS dropped it from their schedule by June 1951.

When the current split in two in 1951, he took the side of the grouping that retained the name, publishing its Il Programma Comunista.

When the permit expired in 1951, the government found a concessionaire, who was put in charge of running the lifts, ski school and cafeteria.

When the first session started in August 1951, there were 224 students and 42 teachers in the ten departments of the institute.

When the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was first shown on television in 1956 ( by CBS ), the label issued a soundtrack album of songs and dialogue excerpts recorded directly from the film, as they had done with their LP of music and dialogue from Quo Vadis in 1951.

When the Santa Fe unveiled its new " Pleasure Dome "- Lounge cars in 1951, the railroad introduced the travelling public to the Turquoise Room, promoted as " The only private dining room in the world on rails.