Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Karl Verner was the first scholar to note the factor governing the distribution of the two outcomes.

Karl ( Adolph ) Verner (; 7 March 1846 in Århus – 5 November 1896 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish linguist.

Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864.

* Verner Moore White ( 1863-1923 ), born in the county, was a noted landscape and portrait artist.

His father was Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra ( 1869 – 1947 ) of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

This was won in 1925 by Morley Horder and Verner Rees who located the main entrance in Keppel Street.

Oscar Verner Peterson ( August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942 ) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

She was styled The Lady Helen Windsor until her marriage, on 18 July 1992, to Timothy Verner Taylor ( b. 8 August 1963 ), an art dealer and the eldest son of Commander Michael Verner Taylor, RN and Susan G. Percy.

This law reinstated the Sherbert Test, which was set forth by Sherbert v. Verner, and Wisconsin v. Yoder, mandating that strict scrutiny be used when determining if the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing religious freedom, has been violated.

Leaving government service, he practiced law with the Washington firm of Arnold and Porter between 1969 and 1975 ; was a television news commentator in Washington DC, 1972 – 1976 ; was a professor of law at Howard University, 1973 – 1974 ; ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for mayor of the District of Columbia, 1974 ; and became a partner in the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Alexander, 1975.

He was later awarded the Elizabeth O ’ Neill Verner Governor ’ s Award for “ Lifetime Achievement in the Arts “ in May 2001.

He was born Johan Verner Ölund in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality,

One example was Sherbert v. Verner, where the Court overturned the state Employment Security Commission's decision to deny unemployment benefits to a practicing member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who was forced out of a job after her employer adopted a 6 day work week, which would have required her to work on Saturdays against the dictates of her religion.

The American businessman and missionary Samuel Phillips Verner was sent to Africa in 1904 under contract from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ( St. Louis World Fair ) to bring back an assortment of pygmies to be part of an exhibition.

Verner was unable to persuade any villagers to join him until Benga spoke of how the muzungu had saved his life, the bond that had grown between them, and his own curiosity about the world Verner came from.

For his efforts, Verner was awarded the gold medal in anthropology at the Exposition's close.

Verner eventually arranged for Benga to stay in a spare room at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City while he was tending to other business.

Meanwhile, Verner was struggling financially and had made little progress in his negotiations with the museum.

Verner was unsuccessful in his continued search for employment, but he occasionally spoke to Benga.

This was changed to ' the Orange Order ' as the ‘ wreckers ’ became more organized under the leadership of Blacker and James Verner, an attorney and agent for the Armagh estates of absentee landlord, Lord Charlemont.

McCartney, who was attempting to defend Devine, was attacked with a broken bottle and then dragged into Verner Street, beaten with metal bars and stabbed.

The inflectional type is usually accepted to reach back into Proto-Indo-European times, with an exact correspondence of Sanskrit and Old Norse ylgr, both meaning " she-wolf ", first described by Karl Verner in 1877 ( see Verner's law ).

Verner concludes that based on the position of a mason's inscribed Year 1 date from Neferefre's reign which was found " on a large corner block situated at the end of the tunnel for the descending corridor ... at about two thirds of the height of the extant core of the monument ", Neferefre reign lasted " not longer than about two years.

The only artifacts known for Shepseskare's reign are several clay sealings from Abusir, where the king may have been buried, and two cylinder seals, according to the respected Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner.

* May 20 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1859 )

The Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner maintains, however, that it cannot have been as long as 20 years due to the unfinished state of Neferirkare's Abusir pyramid complex.

Verner has spent almost 20 years in the communications and public service fields.

* 1968: Verner E. Suomi for his imagination, ingenuity, and versatility in conceiving and designing diverse meteorological sensors which have helped to transform the satellite as a meteorological probe from a dream to a reality.

According to Miroslav Verner, Djedkare Isesi's highest known date is a Year 22 IV Akhet day 12 papyrus, which would belong anywhere from Year 32 to Year 44 of his reign depending on whether the Cattle Count was Bi-annual ( 2 times ) or semi-annual ( 1. 5 times ).

Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Josée Verner are currently working on a Copyright Act amendment bill which is set to be introduced ( at least in part ) on June 12, 2008.

In this paper Hamilton discusses sex ratios as strategies in a game, and cites Verner as using this language in his 1965 paper which " claims to show that, given factors causing fluctuations of the population's primary sex ratio, a 1: 1 sex-ratio production proves the best overall genotypic strategy ".

Verner advocates the hypothesis that Shepseskare succeeded, rather than preceded, Neferefre based upon the archaeological context of the 1982 discovery of several new clay seal impressions bearing this king's name -- Horus Sekhemkau --" in the oldest part of Neferere's mortuary temple Abusir, which was not built " until Neferefre's death.

Verner stresses that the progress of Shepseskare's intended pyramid at Abusir, which is unfinished and is situated just north of Sahure's own pyramid,

Verner had been asked by one of his customers if he could find a solution which would make it possible to print on plastic.

Miroslav Verner speculates that Prince Ranefer took the throne as Neferirkare and Prince Netjerirenre may have later take the throne as Shepseskare.

He also refused to talk to a group of protesters who went to his office to express their concern, stating " When Canadian Heritage Minister Josée Verner and I have reached a consensus and we're satisfied, we will introduce a bill.

Previous Ministers have been Josée Verner and Mauril Bélanger.

The Court required that states have a " compelling interest " in refusing to accommodate religiously motivated conduct as it decided Sherbert v. Verner ( 1963 ).

It has been stated by Prentice during a confrontation with the public demanding details on the bill that " When Canadian Heritage Minister Josée Verner and I have reached a consensus and we're satisfied, we will introduce a bill.

The first member of the family is speculated to have been Verner Braghde from Halland.

" However, he is the most ephemeral ruler of this dynasty and some Egyptologists such as Miroslav Verner have strongly argued that Shepseskare's reign lasted only a few months at the most based upon the evidence of an unfinished fifth dynasty royal pyramid at Abusir, whose base was barely completed before it was abandoned as well as the very small number of objects identifying this king.