The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.

The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

Situations often take the characters to other destinations, including New York City, Washington, D. C., Hollywood, tropical islands, the Moon, Mars, and some purely fanciful worlds of Capp's invention.

The bit featured Kurt Loder as the show's host, half-reluctantly and half-resigned, trying to teach the two characters the meaning of Thanksgiving as they report live from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, where they take more interest in people's butts and porn-shops than anything else.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

New characters were introduced, such as Terry Duckworth ( Nigel Pivaro ), Curly Watts ( Kevin Kennedy ), Martin Platt ( Sean Wilson ), Reg Holdsworth ( Ken Morley ) and the McDonald family ; one of whom, Simon Gregson, started on the show as Steve McDonald a week after his 15th birthday, and has been in the programme ever since.

New characters Des and Steph Barnes moved into one of the new houses in 1990, being dubbed by the media as ' Yuppies '.

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Potential for comedy lay in his use of ' contemporary ' characters, in his sophisticated tone, his relatively informal Greek ( see In Greek below ), and in his ingenious use of plots centred on motifs that later became standard in Menander's New Comedy, such as the ' recognition scene '.

After Montag starts to rip a few pages from the beginning of a rare copy of The New Testament ( one of the few left that actually contains God's word, rather than the bastardized versions that have Jesus and other Biblical characters shilling products ), Faber relents and teaches Montag about the importance of literature in its attempt to explain human existence.

* Douglass, his wife, and his mistress, Ottilie Assing, are the main characters in Jewell Parker Rhodes ' Douglass ' Women, a novel ( New York: Atria Books, 2002 ).

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

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The film explored late 1960s New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters.

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Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

* The 10th Kingdom miniseries requires the use of a magic mirror for the characters to change setting between modern day New York City ( the 10th Kingdom ), and the Nine Kingdoms of fairy tale, primarily the 4th Kingdom from Snow White.

Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Hence, the passing of time was more discernible in the very early years, such as the graduation of Spider-Man ; and what started as children or teenaged characters, such as Kitty Pryde, Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards, Power Pack, or the New Mutants are all allowed to age at wildly shifting rates ( in the second case even backwards at times ), whereas surrounding characters somewhat dependent on a certain age limit do not change at all.

New characters may be added as the tradition evolves, and older characters dropped.

New games frequently referred to previous entries in the series, often in the form of cameos from recurring characters.

M ' Ress and Arex, characters from the animated series, appear in the Star Trek: New Frontier novels by Peter David, in which M ' Ress and Arex are transported through time to the 24th Century, and are made officers on board the USS Trident.

New characters begin with a number of gold pieces determined by rolling three six-sided dice and multiplying the total by ten.

The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

His half-brother Jim was a successful guitarist who worked with the Les Paul Trio in New York.

New Jersey rock critic Jim Testa wrote " Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox ", a vitriolic screed attacking disco that was considered a punk call to arms.

Polian in turn hired Jim Mora to become the next head coach of the team and would go on to draft Tennessee Volunteer quarterback Peyton Manning, the son of New Orleans Saints legend Archie Manning, with the first overall pick in the 1998 draft.

James Robert Flynn PhD FRSNZ ( born 1934 ), aka Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, researches intelligence and is famous for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued year-after-year increase of IQ scores in all parts of the world.

False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK, New York: M. Evans & Company, 1998, ISBN 0-87131-920-9.

It features interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order, Dee Snider, Nikki Sixx, Mick Jones of The Clash, Kat Von D, Henry Rollins, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, Joan Jett, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind

New regular players included rookie Danny Valencia at third base, designated hitter Jim Thome, closer Matt Capps, infielder J. J. Hardy, and infielder Orlando Hudson.

Numerous members, including Larry Csonka, Ray Flaherty, Joe Guyon, Pete Henry, Arnie Herber, Cal Hubbard, Don Maynard, Hugh McElhenny, and Jim Thorpe were at one time associated with the New York Giants, but they were inducted largely based on their careers with other teams.

New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey announced that he was a " gay American " in August 2004.

Other politicians discussed in the film include former Virginia Representative Ed Schrock, California Representative David Dreier, former New York City mayor Ed Koch, and former Louisiana Representative Jim McCrery.

* The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, Rodale, New York, 2006 ( co-author with Jim Mason ); Text, Melbourne ; Random House, London.

One highlight of the season occurred on Father's Day, when Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets, the first in Phillies history.

After some time spent inactive, he was asked to play the famous Half Note in New York City in 1971 by guitarist Jim Hall.

In further response to this issue, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former Rolling Stone editor, published a thorough critique of the magazine's lists in a book called Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics ( ISBN 1-56980-276-9 ), which featured differing opinions from many younger critics.

* Jim Stephenson, New Zealand international football ( soccer ) goalkeeper

* 1947 – Jim Richards, New Zealand race car driver

To honor the 40th anniversary of the 1958 NFL Championship, also known as " The Greatest Game Ever Played ", the following participants of that game appeared during the coin toss ceremony: Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti, Frank Gifford, Roosevelt Brown, Don Maynard, Sam Huff, and Tom Landry, the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants.

* Simplest ' universal computer ' wins student $ 25, 000 by Jim Giles, New Scientist, October 24, 2007.

With no security in sight and only three bases, umpire crew chief Jim Honochick forfeited the game to the New York Yankees.

* August 6 – Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New Jersey

* August 6 – Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher ( d. 1991 )

** The New Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister.