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An Age

It was nominated for an Ditmar Award in 1969 in the "Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection" category.



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Art Shay

Shay's 2000 autobiography is titled Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the 20th Century. In 2002, the American Theater Company in Chicago staged Shay's autobiographical play, Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart?, directed by Mike Nussbaum.

Arthur Holmes

Holmes was a pioneer of geochronology, and performed the first accurate uranium-lead radiometric dating (specifically designed to measure the age of a rock) while an undergraduate in London, assigning an age of 370 Ma to a Devonian rock from Norway, improving on the work of Boltwood who published nothing more on the subject.

Babu Thiruvalla

Babu Thiruvalla as he is popularly known, entered into the Malayalam movie at an age of about 22 years (after working abroad for about half a decade) with eminent legends like Bharatan and the debut film Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam starred by eminent actors like Nedumudi Venu Sarada and paved way to the acting of Parvathy, Devan and many more were accepted well by all kinds of audience and bagged many awards.

Bartolomeo Cristofori

However, as Stewart Pollens points out (see References below), this person cannot be Bartolomeo Cristofori, since the census records an age of 13, whereas Cristofori according to his baptismal record would have been 25 at the time.

Close to Shore

Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence is a non-fiction book by journalist Michael Capuzzo about the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.

Dragonmead

In the year 1308, an age when knight fought against knight in armor, when King Ludwig IV ruled Bavaria, the Drei Kronen Brauerei was founded in the small city of Strassgiech, Germany, near the famous castle “Giechburg”.

Emily Robison

She had enjoyed playing throughout school, but was at an age where she was already entertaining thoughts of working hard to be accepted by the United States Air Force Academy.

Gudavalli

Gudavalli is a village 33 miles (53 km) east of Guntur City in Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India in the Mandal of Cherukupalli.It is the home of freedom fighters and an age-old temple to the god Lakshmi Narasimha.

Harvey Wheeler

He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe, 1962, an early cold war novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war.

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

1997 David Quammen for The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

How Green House

William Morris and architect Philip Webb looked back to an age before the machine and founded the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Igor Malkov

Skating for the USSR, he became Olympic 10,000 m Champion at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, only 0.05 seconds ahead of Tomas Gustafson, becoming the youngest male Olympic champion in the history of Olympic speed skating at an age of 19 years and 9 days.

Indian aurochs

The youngest known remains, which clearly belong to wild Indian aurochs are from Banahalli in Karnataka, southern India, with an age of about 4200 years old.

Jessica Warner

Her books include Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason and John the Painter: Terrorist of the American Revolution.

Justin Storms

Richard Guerrero of the Corpus Christi Caller Times, "while classic influences such as Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers as well as Nick Cave and Glenn Danzig are obvious, Justin's morose wail is a fresh one in an age of cut-and-paste digitized rock."

Kumbha of Mewar

A very tall and powerful man, he was about 7 feet tall; he held the Hindu flag flying high in an age when several Hindu kings like Kapilendradeva of east India, Deva Raya II of south India and Man Singh Tomar of central India defeated the Turkic invaders in different parts of India and expanded their kingdoms.

Lego Prince of Persia

The Ostrich Race is a 169 piece set with an age rating of 6–12.

Manilal C. Parekh

Prior to that, at an age of fifteen, he seems to have already read The Use of Life written by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and also The Imitation of Christ influencing him in moral and spiritual attraction at an younger age.

Maureen G. Mulvaney

Dara Torres, 2008 Beijing Olympian, said, "If I can do it, you can too. Don’t put an age on your dreams."

Medallion Shield

It was reported in 1909 that discussions had taken place between Belfast Royal Academy, Campbell College, Methodist College and Royal Belfast Academical Institution about setting up a rugby junior competition for pupils with an age qualification given as under fifteen years of age on 1 November.

Oliger Paulli

He justified his claim showing the name Paulleli as a combination of Greek Paulus and Hebrew Eli;thus, meaning God supplies the inadequacy.He also claimed that, at an age of 13, he made a blood covenant with God, who exchanged a yodh for the he in his baptismal name;thereafter, renaming his original name from Holiger to Oliger(Olliger), to connote

Paul Sédille

Sédille made his mark as a private architect executing residential commissions during an age that celebrated heroic, civic works such as the Paris Opéra (1860–1875) by Charles Garnier or the Palais de Justice (Paris, 1857–68) by Joseph-Louis Duc and Honoré Daumet.

Ron Sider

David Chilton's book, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators (1986), with a foreword by Gary North, argues that Sider's book takes a position contrary to the biblical teachings on economics, poverty, and giving, and that the economic model it provides is untenable.

St Stephen's Chapel

A lower false ceiling was installed in the chamber to help to improve its acoustics, the quality of which was important in an age without artificial amplification.

Stafford Township, New Jersey

The second phase included construction of LEED-certified apartments, and future plans in place for the development include a Lifestyle center and an age-restricted community.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Cocky Bennett of Tom Ugly's Point in Sydney was a celebrated Sulphur-crested Cockatoo who reached an age of 100 years or more.

The Malfated

Their debut CD, 'Rat Candy', was released in June 2006 to immediate fanfare, and has currently sold in excess of five thousand copies, in an age when a big star on a big label need only sell three thousand singles to reach Number One in the UK Singles Chart.

UK Polaris programme

Robert McNamara was highly critical of the US bomber fleet, which he saw as obsolete in an age of Inter-continental ballistic missiles.

Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

Every Halloween in Cornwall, the life size effigy of a man rolls down the cliffs and into the sea inside a flaming wheel; the morbid commemoration of an age old Pagan ritual whereby the dummy would in fact be a human sacrifice.