In 2007 Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Jeff Gordon, Mia Hamm, Tony Hawk, Andrea Jaeger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded the charity Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and aims to inspire all people to volunteer and support their communities.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the Gordon Murray designed " fan car "— which won its only race before being withdrawn — in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

That run died when Preston Wilson hit a three run walk off homer off of closer Tom " Flash " Gordon, which halted the team's momentum.

For example, at least one El Borak in which the protagonist infiltrates the City of the assassins was rewritten with Conan replacing Francis Xavier Gordon and a supernatural element added.

David Gordon White traces the modern popularity of the " Hindu " seven chakra system to Arthur Avalon's The Serpent Power, which was Avalon's translation of a late work, the Satcakranirupana.

This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

In 1815 he was created Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

The Committee rejected a fourth paper by Gordon Tucker which would have lifted all restrictions on homosexual sexual practices.

Gordon Wenham in his commentary on Leviticus expresses the idea that Christianity removed the need for animal sacrifice in these words: " With the death of Christ the only sufficient " burnt offering " was offered once and for all, and therefore the animal sacrifices which foreshadowed Christ's sacrifice were made obsolete.

However, Baylor University professor Dr. J. Gordon Melton has written that Hubbard disregarded and abrogated much of his earlier views about women, which Melton views as merely echos of common prejudices at the time.

By the time of Vere Gordon Childe's work, The Dawn of Europe ( 1947 ), which affirms the Mesolithic, sufficient data had been collected to determine that the Mesolithic was in fact necessary and was indeed a transition and intermediary between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

Bush's influence is still evident in research laboratories of today in Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits ( from Microsoft Research ), which implements path-based systems reminiscent of the Memex.

At the Computer History Museum TX-0 alumni reunion in 1984, Gordon Bell said DEC's products developed directly from the TX-2, the successor to the TX-0 which had been developed at what Bell thought was a bargain price at the time, about.

The Galveston News said on 2 May 1876 that Denison Texas had a Polo Club which was before James Gordon Bennett established his Westchester Club or attempted to play the " first " game.

* Gordon Allport delineated different kinds of traits, which he also called dispositions.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

At the end of the show, Ray warns the audience, " Don't drive like my brother ," to which Tom replies, " And don't drive like my brother.

A baffled Cain demands to know how Xavier managed to overcome his psychically shielded helmet to which the Professor replies that he decided to visit Cain in his sleep.

Summa Theologica, written by Thomas Aquinas in the second half of the 13th century, is a series of common questions about Christianity to which he wrote a series of replies.

) In the second instance, Banks is preparing for an Easter service and attempts to show off his prowess by singing the last two lines of the chorus ; Smith jokingly replies with his own version, in which he makes a joke about Carlton's height.

Suspicious of the amount in their pot, suspecting more of their friends will be arriving, he remarks " there's an awful lot of sofkey ", to which one of the men replies " sofkey always cooks up bigger than you think ".

She tells Rhett tearfully, " I'm afraid I'll die and go to hell ," to which Rhett replies, " Maybe there isn't a hell.

At the end, Ray asks his father if there is a heaven, to which his father replies that it is the place where dreams come true.

*" Questions and Answers "', which consists of 107 questions submitted to Bahá ' u ' lláh by Zaynu ' l-Muqarrabin concerning the application of the laws and Bahá ' u ' lláh's replies to those questions

" says the dying Otto, to which Brian despondently replies " You silly sods!

The god Tyr defends Freyr, to which Loki replies that Tyr should be silent, for Tyr cannot " deal straight with people ," and points out that it was Loki's son, the wolf Fenrir, who tore Tyr's hand off.

", the cop replies, " Lemmy ", to which Rex, played by Steve Buscemi, imitates a game show buzzer and the cop quickly changes his answer to "...

" Cleese remarks that it's not much of a cheese shop, but Palin insists it is the best in the district due to its cleanliness, to which Cleese replies " Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.

" Eventually, Cleese asks if Palin has any cheese at all, to which Palin replies " yes ".

Captain Mainwaring says " We have one invaluable weapon in our armoury: ingenuity and improvisation ", to which Private Frazer replies " That's two.

Tom replies that he must be " Old Scratch ", which is another name for the devil, and the black man acknowledges that he is Old Scratch.

To which Stalin replies, " The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?

", to which He replies, " Romam vado iterum crucifigi.

", Lake replies, " It makes a noise ," which he demonstrates by tapping it against a door frame

In the 1996 novel Executive Orders, Clark sarcastically suggests to reporter Robert Holtzman " Get Val Kilmer to play me in the movies " to which Holtzman replies " Too pretty, Nick Cage has a better stare.

One early story with hints of backwards time travel is Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ( 1733 ) by Samuel Madden, which is mainly a series of letters from British ambassadors in various countries to the British Lord High Treasurer, along with a few replies from the British Foreign Office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era.

Using Internet Protocol address spoofing, the source address is set to that of the targeted victim, which means all the replies will go to ( and flood ) the target.

:# Bob replies with a synchronize-acknowledgment ( SYN-ACK ) message, which Alice receives.

:# Alice replies with an acknowledgment message, which Bob receives, and doesn't need to reply to.

" To which Ricky replies, " That's the thing, Dad — they don't feel like it's anything to be ashamed of.