Sentences with phrase «early pioneers named»

Early pioneers named the city Blue Springs for its abundance of clean water.

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These prestigious awards are named after Dr Trevor Pearcey, an outstanding Australian tech pioneer who not only built one of the world's earliest digital computers, but also -LSB-...]

In the Big Book's Third Edition, there is an account by an early newcomer (whose name was Abby G.) and who returned from a ball game to see Wilson and Pioneer Clarence Snyder sitting on the davenport.

When deciding what to name their new restaurant, the Browns found inspiration in Santa - Cali - Gon - the Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails that flourished during the country's great westward expansion by early pioneers.

Earlier this year, the Cambridge team headed by John Sulston, moved into a new and heavily automated genome sequencing and research centre at Cambridge, named in honour of Fred Sanger, the double Nobel laureate who was one of the pioneers of DNA sequencing in the 1970s.

The tool has a personal history that traces back to 1994, and an ancestral history that stretches nearly four full decades earlier, to a London lab in 1955 and a man named Robert Langridge, also known as the pioneer of molecular graphics.

They talk about Blake's pioneering digital art, which often obliquely if not directly referenced pop culture; one exhibition of his work was named after the eyeglass vendor in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Spectacular Optical, and borrowed its ideas from the spatial dynamics in Cronenberg's early movies.

Prize is named for pioneering film writer Louis Delluc (1890 - 1924), whose early insistence that cinema is an art form that can transcend storytelling makes him the spiritual father of French film criticism.

Winds of Change — Long - term Tatra owner Delwyn Mallett surveys the pioneering use of wind tunnels in automotive body design, focussing on the influential work of Hungarian aerodynamicist Paul Jaray / The very first Jaguars — Celebrating 80 years since the first use of the Jaguar name, Paul Skilleter looks at William Lyons's initial forays into mass production and explains what these early cars are like to live with / Vintage Revival Montlhéry 2015 — David Burgess-Wise reports from the historic banked circuit south of Paris and from the hundreds of rare pre-1940 cars and motorcycles entered selects his personal highlights / «Home, Allaston» — Mike Allaston's family photograph albums detail the careers of his father and grandfather as professional chauffeurs.

The steep pass was used by early California pioneers and is named after the survivors of the tragic Donner - Reed party of 1846.

The park itself is named after Julia Pfeiffer Burns (1868 - 1928), a local and legendary early pioneer and resident who impressed Helen Brown and had run a ranch in McWay canyon with her husband, John B. Burns.

In the late «70s and early «80s, the Southern Californian photographer Jo Ann Callis made a name for herself as a pioneer of fabricated photography.

Though the late Hollis Frampton was a pioneer of early digital art and made invaluable contributions to avant - garde cinema in the 1960s, his name is far less known than his roommates Frank Stella and Carl Andre, who were often the subjects of Frampton's experimental photography.

The baroness achieved certain notoriety in 2004, when, having pioneered the collecting of photography as an art form since the early 1980s, she named her collection Veronica's Revenge, after the patron saint of photographers (and, incidentally, laundry - workers).

Earlier, Josh was founder & CEO of Vivavi, a pioneering retail venture specializing in modern design, sustainable furniture, named to Inc..

To even begin to name any is to omit so many others, but among the pioneers are Maura Grossman, a leader in e-discovery innovation; Sharon Nelson, cofounder of Sensei Enterprises and the dean of forensics and cybersecurity; and Stacy Stern, cofounder of Findlaw and Justia and one of the earliest pioneers in legal information technology.

The data analytics machine that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used in her 2016 campaign — named Ada after the 19th - century mathematician and early computing pioneer — used state - of - the - art segmentation techniques to target groups of eligible voters in the same way that Barack Obama had done four years previously.

I had never heard of Forrest «Woody» Mosten, but as soon as I began to investigate the collaborative law and mediation resources that were pioneered by those who'd earlier come to similar realizations, I bumped into Woody's name - over and over.