By the mid 1980s through to the 1990s, the university looked to expand with new buildings on the Highfield campus, developing the Chilworth Manor site into a science park and conference venue, opening the National Oceanography Centre at a dockside location and purchasing new land from the City Council for the Arts Faculty and sports fields ( at Avenue Campus and Wide Lane, respectively ).

Portions of Woodward Avenue were once known as " Saginaw Street " and " Wide Track Drive " ( the portion of Saginaw Street that runs through the downtown business district remains under that name ).

A predecessor of sorts to the World Wide Web, it was named after the school mascot.

Because Rose broke Cobb's record, ABC's Wide World of Sports named Rose as its Athlete of the Year that year.

On the April 30, 2011 edition of ABC's Winners Bracket, the Rumble in the Jungle was named the greatest moment in the history of ABC's Wide World of Sports.

His performance in 1975 resulted in his being named PGA Player of the Year for the fourth time, tying Ben Hogan, and he was also named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year.

A graduate of Worcester Academy and the University of Colorado, Toomey was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year in 1968.

He also won Sports Illustrated magazine's " Sportsman of the Year " and was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year.

Tim Berners-Lee apparently named his precursor of the World Wide Web ENQUIRE, after this work in 1980.

Simulated ticker displays, named after the original machines, still exist as part of the display of television news channels and on some World Wide Web pages — see news ticker.

Unser turned in a dominant season-long performance, winning eight of 16 races on his way to his second CART championship, as well as being named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year that year.

In 1967, MacNaughton founded World Wildlife Fund Canada ( WWF-Canada ), which is the Canadian branch of the global conservation organization, World Wide Fund for Nature ( formerly named World Wildlife Fund ).

Ciudad Perdida was discovered in 1972, when a group of local treasure looters found a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside and followed them to an abandoned city which they named " Green Hell " or " Wide Set ".

* World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States.

In football, as a senior, he won every game, was named the team Most Valuable Wide Receiver, team Most Valuable Linebacker, and the was awarded the team's Top Leadership honors.

White was a walk-on at Michigan State University and was named the Big Ten Wide Receiver of the Year in 2010.

The modern lyric for The Water Is Wide was consolidated and named by Cecil Sharp in 1906 from multiple older sources in South England, following English and Scottish lyrics with very different stories and styles, but the same meter.

Wide receiver / defensive back Omarr Smith was named the Ironman of the Game, as he had four receptions and also led a San Jose defense that forced three Rattler turnovers.

In 1842 the first Europeans named the river as the Wide Bay River.

Wide receiver Phil Elliott plays for a 1970s era professional football team based in Dallas, Texas named the North Dallas Bulls, which closely resembles the Dallas Cowboys.

Webfoot was named in the early 1990s, several years before the World Wide Web became popular.

Even after he acquired an Apple Macintosh computer, he used it only for email and for browsing the World Wide Web.

As We May Think also predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication in addition to hypertext such as personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: " Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

Struggling with injuries and motivational issues after his exhaustive U. S. tour in 1925, Nurmi found his long-time rivals Ville Ritola and Edvin Wide ever more serious challengers.

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) in October, 1994.

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Online civil liberties organizations arranged protests against the bill, for example the Black World Wide Web protest which encouraged webmasters to make their sites ' backgrounds black for 48 hours after its passage, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign.

Gecko is the third most-common layout engine on the World Wide Web, after Trident ( used by Internet Explorer for Windows since version 4 ) and WebKit ( used by Safari and Google Chrome ), and followed by Presto ( used by Opera ).

He retired from the program on December 17, 2004, but returned to PBS soon after to host Wide Angle in 2005.

This was Miller's last great commercial success ; a series of collections, live albums and attempts to find a new style appeared in 1984 ( Italian X-Rays ), 1986 ( Living in the 20th Century ) and 1988 ( Born 2B Blue ), but after 1993's effort, Wide River, Miller gave up recording records altogether for some considerable time.

Yet according to World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong the number of the endangered black-faced spoonbills wintering in Mai Po has risen from roughly 35 in the late 1980s to 152 after 10 years.

Leigh filmed a role in Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 ) as a grieving patient of Tom Cruise, who declares her love for him after the death of her father.

The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

She also wrote her memoirs, High, Wide and Frightened soon after her retirement.

It grew out of The Millicent Protocol for Inexpensive Electronic Commerce, which was presented at the 1995 World Wide Web Conference in Boston, but became associated with Compaq after that company purchased Digital Equipment Corporation.

Others would put forward similar ideas, but a significant revolution in encyclopedism would not take place until after the advent of the personal computer, the Internet and the World Wide Web in the late 20th century.

Two years later, they introduced the Wide World Wrestling brand and television show ( which was changed to World Wide Wrestling in 1978 and which existed later as WCW WorldWide after the company was sold to Turner Broadcasting Company ).

In the early 1990s it was repeated again as part of TV-am's Wide Awake Club / Wacaday series ; after Wacaday finished in 1992, Batfink was consigned to the vaults in the UK for the next twelve years.

Implementors commonly build SOAs using web services standards ( for example, SOAP ) that have gained broad industry acceptance after recommendation of Version 1. 2 from the W3C ( World Wide Web Consortium ) in 2003.

Queen of Angels, set in 2047, was written just before the creation of the first website in 1991 and describes a global network based on the exchange of text ( a sort of super USENET ), whereas the sequel, Slant, set in 2055 and written in 1997 after the coming of the World Wide Web, describes a global network which has inexplicably changed to resemble a vast shared virtual reality.

The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing " April in Paris " in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German Heer of WWII.

In the course of the eighteenth century ( as Paris would in the nineteenth century ) it underwent a major rebuilding, with the Wide Streets Commission demolishing many of the narrow medieval streets and replacing them with large Georgian streets.

This led to the first version of WebCT in early 1996, first presented at the 5th international World Wide Web conference in Paris during the spring of 1996.