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Lardner's Ring

Its title is presumably a tribute to the writer Ring Lardner, Jr., who was among the writers of the 1950s BBC television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.


Bishop Ring

Bishop's Ring, a type of atmospheric effect that causes a colored halo around the sun

Bishop's ring

Bishop's Ring, a diffuse brown or bluish halo observed around the sun in the presence of large amounts of dust in the stratosphere

Bottlinger's ring

A Bottlinger's Ring is a type of halo that is elliptical, instead of circular as the 22° halo or the 46° halo.

Because it is so small however, it is usually seen around the Subsun.

Dare to Care Records

Artists who have released material on Dare to Care include Malajube, We Are Wolves, Les Georges Leningrad, Pawa Up First, Yesterday's Ring, Armistice and The Sainte Catherines, while artists on Grosse Boîte include Cœur de pirate, Tricot Machine, La Patère Rose, Le Husky, Jacquemort, Bernard Adamus, Avec pas d'casque, Les sœurs Boulay and Jean Leclerc.

Dykwynkyn

He contributed some notable props for the first cycle of Wagner's Ring at Bayreuth.

Eru Ilúvatar

Ilúvatar was also the only name of God used in earlier versions — the name Eru first appeared in "The Annals of Aman", published in Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth.

George L. Vose

:As the object has been more to be useful than original, the best engineering writers and experimenters have been consulted ; among whom are, — Gauthey, Navier, Vicat, Tredgold, Barlow, Totten, Fairbairn, Hodgkinson, Clark, and Lardner.

Intrauterine device

Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg, another German physician after whom the G-spot is named, created the first Ring IUD, Gräfenberg's ring, made of silver filaments.

James Carrige Rushe Lardner

James Carrige Rushe Lardner (1879 – 3 May 1925) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Monaghan, 1907-18.

John Lardner

In 1999, at the age of 26, Lardner reached the first round of the World Snooker Championship by defeating Neal Foulds, Quinten Hann and Martin Clark in the qualifying rounds.

North Monaghan by-election, 1907

Lardner was elected unopposed, although his nomination as the Nationalist candidate had been opposed by the powerful Joseph Devlin, whose Ancient Order of Hibernians was in competition with the Irish National Foresters.

Society of Midland Authors

Other notable members over the years included Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Loredo Taft, Gene Stratton Porter, Jane Addams, Daniel J. Boorstin, August Derleth and Carl Sandburg.

Tolkien's Ring

Tolkien's Ring is a book written by David Day about the origins of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings story and the origins of Middle-earth in general.

Uruk-hai

In Morgoth's Ring, Tolkien states that Saruman did interbreed orcs and men, resulting in "Man-orcs large and cunning, and Orc-men treacherous and vile."

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum

This gallery exhibits the classical experiments like Oersted's experiment, Barlow's wheel, Faraday's ring, etc.

You Know Me Al

Lardner was a sportswriter who moved to Chicago in 1907, where he covered the Cubs and White Sox for several city newspapers, most notably the Chicago Tribune.


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