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Cable car on rails - very similar to a funicular. However single cables may go up one hill and down another. The cable car grips the cable using a grip (a very large pliers). The car is stopped by letting the grip detach from the cable, and then applying brakes. In San Francisco, California at four o'clock in the morning on August 2, 1873, Andrew Smith Hallidie successfully tested the world's first cable car. An underground loop of steel cable runs continuously. The vehicles on rail use a gripping device to attach to and detach from the moving cable. Such system is quite effective for the steep streets on the hills of San Francisco. The cable cars are still in operation and represent a world famous tourist attraction. In Hong Kong, the Peak Tram is a.
Andrew Smith - Andrew Smith Andrew Smith (born 1952) is a British politician for the Labour Party, and a member of the Cabinet. He is MP for Oxford East, and after Labour's victory in the 1997 general election he was made a minister in the Department for Education and Employment. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1999 to 2002, when he became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions..
Andrew Golota - Andrew Golota Andrew Golota (born January 5 1968) is a professional boxer from Poland who has been involved in many controversial fights. Golota had 111 wins in a stellar amateur career, that culminated in his winning a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Golota won other international amateur tournaments, but in 1991, he and his wife decided to move permanently to the city of Chicago, where she had lived on and off since the age of nine. In 1992, he turned professional, knocking out Roosevelt Shuler in three rounds. He had three more knockouts and then went the distance for the first time, when Robert Smith took him six rounds. Then, he went into a 16-fight knockout win streak, including wins over Bobby Crabtree and.
Andrew Mackay - Andrew Mackay Andrew James Mackay (born August 27, 1949) is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Bracknell for the Tories. He was deputy Chief Whip under John Major, and was made shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland by William Hague. He was sacked by Iain Duncan Smith..
Smith Thompson - Smith Thompson Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 - December 18, 1843) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 until his death in 1843. Born in New York, he attended Princeton, taught for a short period therafter, and subsequently earned a law degree and set up a law practice. He soon joined the Democratic-Republican Party and served in the state legislature briefly prior to being appointed to the state Supreme Court, on which he served for sixteen years (including four as chief justice). However, his primary ambition was for political office. He was appointed Secretary of the Navy under President James Monroe, and campaigned for the Democratic-Republican Presidential nomination for the 1824 race. When Andrew Jackson won the nomination, Thompson only reluctantly accepted accepted.
Timeline of invention - gun: Richard J. Gatling 1862: Submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol * 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux 1864: Sleeping car: George Pullman 1865: Compression ice machine: Thaddeus Lowe 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel 1867: Practical Typewriter: Christopher L. Sholes 1868: Typewriter: Carlos Glidden, James Densmore and Samuel Soule 1868: Air brake: George Westinghouse 1868: Lawn mower: Hills Budding Ferrabee (???) 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers 1870s 1870: Magic Lantern movie projector: Henry R. Heyl 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison 1871: Cable car on rails: Andrew S. Hallidie 1871: Compressed air rock drill: Simon Ingersoll 1872: Celluloid: John W. Hyatt 1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field 1874: Barbed wire: Joseph Glidden, Jacob Haish 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony 1875: Gun- (magazine): B..
King James Version of the Bible - the same chapter or chapters; and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he thinks good, all to meet together, to confer what they have done, and agree for their part what shall stand. As any one company hath dispatched any one book in this manner, they shall send it to the rest to be considered of seriously and judiciously: for his Majesty is very careful in this point. If any company, upon the review of the book so sent, shall doubt or differ upon any places, and therewithal to send their reasons; to which if they consent not, the difference to be compounded at the general meeting, which is to be the chief persons of each company, at the end of the work. When any place of special.
January 28 - from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway 1871 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War. 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. 1915 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. 1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa. 1918 - Civil War in Finland begins. 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Shanghai. 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion..
Jimmy Page - singles for EMI, "The Worrying Kind" and "Bald Headed Woman". It wasn't until an offer from Mike Leander from Decca Records that Page was to receive regular studio work. His first session for the label was the recording "Diamonds" by Jet Harris & Tony Meehan which went to Number 1 on the singles chart in 1963. After brief stints with the band Mickey Finn, and Carter Lewis and The Southerners, Page committed himself to full-time session work. His studio output in 1963 included Brian Pool & The Tremeloes' "Twist and Shout", Heinz's "Just Like Eddie" and in 1964, The Rolling Stones "Heart of Stone", Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By", The Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road", Dave Berry's "The Crying Game", and Lulu's hit "Shout". Under the auspices of producer Shel Talmy,.
John Gibson Lockhart - was made possible by the kindness of the publisher Blackwood, who advanced money for a promised translation of Schiegel's Lectures on the History of Literature, which was not published until 1838. Edinburgh was then the stronghold of the Whig party, whose organ was the Edinburgh Review, and it was not till 1817 that the Scottish Tories found a means of expression in ''Blackwood's Magazine]]. After a somewhat hum-drum opening, Blackwood suddenly electrified the Edinburgh world by an outburst of brilliant criticism. John Wilson (Christopher North) and Lockhart had joined its staff in 1817. Lockhart no doubt took his share irs the caustic and aggressive articles which marked the early years of Blackwood; but his biographer, Mr Andrew Lang brings evidence to show that he was not responsible for thc virulent articles.
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize - Mine 1943 - Morwenna Donelly, Beauty for Ashes 1944 - Alun Lewis, The Last Inspection 1945 - James Aldridge, The Sea Eagle 1946 - Oriel Malet, My Bird Sings 1947 - Anne-Marie Walters, Moondrop to Gascony 1948 - Richard Mason, The Wind Cannot Read 1949 - Emma Smith, Maiden's Trip 1950 - Kenneth Allsop, Adventure Lit Their Star 1951 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Beautiful Visit 1952 - No Award 1953 - Rachel Trickett, The Return Home 1954 - Tom Stacey, The Hostile Sun 1955 - John Wiles, The Moon to Play With 1956 - John Hearne, Voices Under the Window 1957 - Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof 1958 - V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur 1959 - Dan Jacobson, A Long Way from London 1960 - David Caute,.
June 21 - denying the right to vote to some citizens. 1919 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnepeg General Strike. 1919 - Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War. 1940 - France surrenders to Germany. 1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver British Columbia. 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister 1964 - Three Civil Rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US.
June 8 - solar transit of the planet Venus since 1882; the next one will occur on June 6, 2012. Births 1724 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (+ 1794) 1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, adventurer (+ 1795) 1810 - Robert Schumann, composer (+ 1856) 1847 - Ida McKinley, former First Lady of the United States 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (+ 1959) 1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, author (+ 1987) 1910 - John W. Campbell Jr, science fiction writer, publisher, editor (+ 1971) 1916 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate 1917 - Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (+ 2002) 1918 - Robert Preston, actor (+ 1987) 1921 - Suharto, former President of Indonesia 1921 - Alexis Smith, actress (+ 1993) 1924 - Lyn Nofziger, political operative 1925 - Barbara Bush,.
International Space Station - space program, will be a major contributor in this sense is, however, a subject of strong debate. After the accident of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003, and the subsequent suspension of the US Space Shuttle program, the future of the ISS is uncertain. The construction is halted as that is done by the Space Shuttle, and the crew exchange is done using the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. With Soyuz TMA-2 a two-astronaut caretaker crew is launched, instead of the previous crews of three. The ISS has seen the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, who reported spent 20 million USD to fly aboard a Russian supply mission and the first space wedding when Yuri Malenchenko on the station married Ekaterina Dmitriev who was in Texas. The International Space Station. Photo.
Interactive Fiction Competition - open to games produced by any method. Entries are required to be released as freeware or public domain, reflecting the general non-profit ethos of the IF community. The following is a list of winners to date: 1995 (Inform): A Change in the Weather by Andrew Plotkin 1995 (TADS): Uncle Zebulon's Will by Magnus Olsson 1996: The Meteor, The Stone, And A Long Glass Of Sherbet by Graham Nelson 1997: The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith 1998: Photopia by Adam Cadre 1999: Winter Wonderland by Laura A. Knauth 2000: Kaged by Ian Finley 2001: All Roads by Jon Ingold 2002: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian 2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto.
Hal Prince - 30, 1928), full name Harold Smith Prince, is a theatre producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical (and less notably, dramatic) productions of the past half-century. He was born in New York City, and began work in the theatre as an assistant stage manager. He co-produced The Pajama Game, which won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical, and was followed by a string of successes. His early work with Stephen Sondheim on West Side Story led to a long string of collaborations including Company, Follies, and Sweeney Todd. After the disappointing Merrily We Roll Along, they did not work together again until ''Bounce. He directed two of Andrew Lloyd Webber's successes, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera He married Judy Chaplin, daughter of Saul Chaplin..
Herbert Henry Asquith - succeeds Lord Wolverhampton as Lord President. November 1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lewis Vernon Harcourt as First Commissioner of Public Works. Lord Morley succeeds Beauchamp as Lord President. Lord Crewe succeeds Morley as India Secretary, remaining also Lord Privy Seal. Lewis Harcourt succeeds Crewe as Colonial Secretary. October 1911 - Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna switch offices, Churchill taking the Admiralty and McKenna the Home Office. Lord Carrington succeeds Lord Crewe as Lord Privy Seal. Crewe remains India Secretary. Walter Runciman succeeds Lord Carrington at the Board of Agriculture. Joseph Albert Pease succeeds Runciman at the Board of Education. Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse succeeds Pease at the Duchy of Lancaster. February 1912 - Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Carrington as Lord Privy Seal, remaining also India Secretary. Thomas MacKinnon Wood succeeds.
U.S. presidential election - C. Pinckney (Federalist) 1808 election James Madison (Democratic-Republican) Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist) 1812 election James Madison (Democratic-Republican) DeWitt Clinton (Federalist/Peace) 1816 election James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) Rufus King (Federalist) 1820 election James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) (not opposed) 1824 election John Quincy Adams‡ (Democratic-Republican) Andrew Jackson‡ (Democratic-Republican) William H. Crawford (Democratic-Republican) Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican) 1828 election Andrew Jackson (Democrat) John Quincy Adams (National Republican) 1832 election Andrew Jackson (Democrat) Henry Clay (National Republican) William Wirt (Anti-Masonic) John Floyd (Nullifiers) 1836 election Martin Van Buren (Democrat) William Henry Harrison (Whig) Hugh L. White (Whig) Daniel Webster (Whig) Willie P. Mangum (A Whig, but votes received from Nullifiers) 1840 election William Henry Harrison (Whig) Martin Van Buren (Democrat) James G. Birney (Liberty Party) 1844 election James K. Polk†(Democrat) Henry Clay (Whig) James G. Birney (Liberty.
U.S. presidential election, 1828 - Pct Party Running Mate (Electoral Votes) Andrew Jackson of Tennessee (W) 178 647,286 56% Democrat John C. Calhoun of South Carolina (171) John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts 83 508,064 44% National Republican Richard Rush of Pennsylvania (83) William Smith of South Carolina (7) Other Total 100.0% Other elections: 1816, 1820, 1824, 1828, 1832, 1836, 1840 Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register The election was held on December 2, 1828. See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1828 , History of the United States (1776-1865).
