Robert Ferguson - Robert Ferguson Robert Ferguson (c. 1637 - 1714), British conspirator and pamphleteer, called the "Plotter," was a son of William Ferguson (d. 1699) of Badifurrow, Aberdeenshire, and after receiving a good education, probably at the university of Aberdeen, became a Presbyterian minister. According to Bishop Burnet he was cast out by the Presbyterians; but whether this be so or not, he soon made his way to England and became vicar of Godmersham, Kent, from which living he was expelled by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Some years later, having gained meanwhile a reputation as a theological controversialist and become a person of importance among the Nonconformists, he attracted the notice of the earl of Shaftesbury and the party which favoured the exclusion of the Duke.
Robert L. Hill - Robert L. Hill Robert Lee Hill (June 8, 1892-?) was an African-American sharecropper from eastern Arkansas and founder of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. Robert Lee Hill was born in Dermott, Chicot County, Arkansas. Records of Hill's birth and early life are a mystery. Documents with his handwriting seem to show that he had some form of limited formal education. Hill did complete a correspondence course as a private investigator and was known to refer to himself as "Robert Hill, U.S. Detective". Sometime before 1918 Hill moved from his birthplace to the town of Winchester, Arkansas in Drew County. Hill was married, had two children, and worked for the Valley Planting Company. While living in Winchester he became active in organizing the African-American.
Robert Tannahill - Robert Tannahill Robert Tannahill (1774 - 1810) was a Scottish poet known as the "Paisley Poet". A Martial Culture and the Birth of the Modern State When in 1809 Robert Tannahill wrote to his friend the Renfrewshire Militiaman James King, "I see no end of this war system"; he showed an understanding of the general inability of human beings to resolve serious conflicts embedded within the historical dynamic of our psychological propensity for war. At a more particular level he was focussing on something with a distinctive place in Scottish culture and history. Tannahill was entering the heart of a Scottish political debate although he has not previously been described as a political poet in any sense at all. A fairly lengthy portion of the introduction.
Virtual history - genre of alternate history fiction. Although there are Victorian examples of virtual history, it was not until the 20th century that the exploration of counterfactual positions was to begin in earnest. An early example is "If, or History Rewritten," (1931), which features a contribution by Winston Spencer Churchill who examined what would have happened had Robert E. Lee won at the Battle of Gettysburg. A more recent collection of essays exploring topics in these fields are to be found in "Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals" edited by Niall Ferguson..
IMAX - there were attempts at multi-projector systems. While impressive, the system was cumbersome, difficult to set up and the joins between the screens were difficult to hide. The IMAX (IMage MaXimum) system was developed by three Canadians: Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr. It uses a special 70mm film stock (called "15/70" film) which is three times the size of conventional 70mm stock. The "15" in the designation refers to the number of perforations (sprocket holes) per frame, three times the 5 perforations for standard 70mm stock. IMAX film is also stronger than standard 70mm film, has a more square aspect ratio, and does not carry a sound track. IMAX film also differs from conventional film types in that it moves through the projector horizontally rather than vertically (that is, the.
History of the United States (1945-1964) - live in them, even affluent African Americans with the wherewithal to afford a home in the suburbs faced informal and formal barriers. The few African Americans who ventured into suburbs were generally shunned in every passive and overt manner. Indeed, whiles clamored to leave cites, so incensed by the prospects of their children attending school with African American schoolchildren. African American enrollment was growing in urban school districts due to the Supreme Court desegregation cases of the mid-1950s. Around every city, a clear hierarchy emerged of "good" suburban neighborhoods and more most ones, mirroring the emergence of such class gradations within the cities themselves. Touted for their sense of community, suburbia has been attacked by later critics for its conformity and homogeneity. Indeed, suburbs were inhabited by many of similar age.
U.S. House election, 2004 - for each district by party (Opponents will be added as they become known) District Incumbent Party Elected Status Opponent Alabama 1 Jo Bonner Republican 2002 Running Alabama 2 Terry Everett Republican 1992 Running Alabama 3 Mike Rogers Republican 2002 Running Alabama 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 1996 Running Alabama 5 Robert Cramer Democrat 1990 Running Alabama 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 1992 Running Alabama 7 Artur Davis Democrat 2002 Running Alaska Don Young Republican 1972 Running Arizona 1 Rick Renzi Republican 2002 Running Arizona 2 Trent Franks Republican 2002 Running Arizona 3 John Shadegg Republican 1994 Running Arizona 4 Ed Pastor Democrat 1990 Running Arizona 5 J. D. Hayworth Republican 1994 Running Arizona 6 Jeff Flake Republican 2000 Running Arizona 7 Raul Grijalva Democrat 2002 Running Arizona 8 Jim Kolbe Republican 1984 Running.
Gettysburg Confederate Order of Battle - multiple names of commanders are shown, this indicates the succession of command through the three-day battle, (July 1-3, 1863). = Army of Northern Virginia = Gen* Robert E. Lee, Commanding General Staff Chief of Staff and Inspector General, Col R. H. Chilton Chief of Artillery, BG William N. Pendleton Medical Director, Dr. Lafayette Guild Chief of Ordinance, Ltc Briscoe G. Baldwin Chief of Commissary, Ltc Robert G. Cole Chief Quartermaster, Ltc James L. Corley Judge Advocate General, Maj H. E. Young Military Secretary and Acting Asst. Chief of Artillery, Col A. L. Long Aide de Camp and Asst. Adjutant General, Ltc Walter H. Taylor Aide de Camp and Asst. Military Secretary, Maj Charles Marshall Aide de Camp and Asst. Inspector General, Maj Charles S. Vanable Engineer, Capt S. R. Johnston Table.
Governor-General of New Zealand - William Hobson, RN (under Lt.-Col. Sir George Gipps, RE, Governor of New South Wales 1837 - 1846, and Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand 1839 - 1841) 1841 - 1853 NZ a Crown Colony of Britain Title: Governor 1841 - 1842 Captain William Hobson, RN 1843 - 1845 Captain Robert Fitzroy, RN 1845 - 1847 Captain George Grey Title: Governor-in-Chief 1848 - 1853 Sir George Grey, KCB 1853 - 1907 NZ a Self-Governing Colony Title: Governor of New Zealand 1853 - 1855 Sir George Grey, KCB 1855 - 1861 Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, CB 1861 - 1868 Sir George Grey, KCB 1868 - 1873 Sir George Ferguson Bowen, GCMG 1873 - 1874 The Rt. Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Bt. 1875 - 1879 Marquess of Normanby, GCB, GCMG, PC 1879 - 1880 Sir Hercules.
Governor of Hong Kong - the last one (Chris Patten), governors resided at the Government House. List Hong Kong had 28 governors, and 9 administrators (whose names are further indented in the following list). January 1841 - August 1841 - Captain Elliot (Administrator) August 1841 - June 1843 - Sir Henry Pottinger (Administrator) June 1843 - May 1844 - Sir Henry Pottinger (Governor) May 1844 - March 1848 - Sir John Francis Davis March 1848 - April 1854 - Sir Samuel George Bonham April 1854 - May 1859 - Sir John Bowring September 1859 - March 1865 - Lord Hercules George Robert Robinson March 1865 - March 1866 - Wiliam T. Mercer (Administrator) March 1866 - April 1872 - Sir Richard Graves Macdonell April 1872 - March 1877 - Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy April 1877 -.
Frederic Henry - started the realm in which his characters exist. They were familiar to him, but he could never reach them. I think the same holds true for Hemingway and his characters. Frederic Henry and Robert Jordan are perfect examples of "bordercrossers". Lt. Henry didn't want the medal of honor because he knew he didn't deserve it and deserted when realizing the true nature of war, Lt. Hemingway didn't take such drastic steps though he too had realized how pointless the war was. Robert Jordan took an active part in the Spanish Civil War and was willing to die for the country he loved, Ernest Hemingway was a non-combatant all the time. Background Mr. Hemingway doesn't provide his readers with much information about the family background and the past of Frederic Henry, one.
Fredericton Distinguished Citizen Award - Garfield Moffatt 1980 Robin Kilburn, Nellie Winters, and Frank MacLoon 1982 Dr. Everett Chalmers 1983 Joseph Dobbelsteyn, Mary Miles, and Stanley Dixon 1984 Senator Muriel Ferguson, Dr. Ivan Crowell, and Douglas Jonsson 1985 Dr. Reginald Balch, Paul Lynch, and Dr. Marguerite Wyile 1986 R.G. Bob McLeod, Gertrude Duffie, and John Clark 1987 Burton Colter, G. Neil Sneyd, and Guy DiGiacinto 1988 Jack Fenety, Dr. Francis Toner, and Aubrey Hanson 1989 Harry Levine, Brigadier J. Ernest Anderson, and Lt. Col. William Simcock. 1990 Dr. James Downey 1991 David Wilson 1992 Lloyd Humes and John Swanton 1993 Helen MacTavish and Richard Clark 1994 Ted Fellows, Laurie Menzies and Phillip Sexsmith 1995 Raymond Dickinson, Eric Garland, and Carmen Kilburn 1996 Bud Bird, Harold Doherty, and Joanne E. McLeod 1997 Fred Blair, Sandy DiGiacinto, and.
Edward Stafford (politician) - was born on 23 April 1819 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His family was prosperous, enabling him to receive a good education at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1841 and 1842, he undertook travel in Australia, but chose to join relatives in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1843. He soon became active in Nelson politics, criticising Governor Robert FitzRoy's "weak" response to the so-called Wairau Massacre. In 1850, he joined increasing calls for New Zealand's self-government, adding his own demand for universal suffrage. In 1853, Stafford became the first Superintendent of Nelson Province. Among his achievements was the establishment of an education system (compulsory, free, and secular) which was later used as the basis of the national system. His administration of Nelson Province was well regarded, and many predicted that he would "go far" in.
Eighty-second United States Congress - Democrat, NC Dennis Chavez (Senator), Democrat, NM Frank Leslie Chelf (Representative), Democrat, KY John Edgar Chenoweth (Representative), Republican, CO Robert Bruce Chiperfield (Representative), Republican, IL Earl Chudoff (Representative), Democrat, PA Marguerite Stitt Church (Representative), Republican, IL Louis Gary Clemente (Representative), Democrat, NY Earle C Clements (Senator), Democrat, KY Cliff Clevenger (Representative), Republican, OH Albert McDonald Cole (Representative), Republican, KS William Sterling Cole (Representative), Republican, NY William Meyers Colmer (Representative), Democrat, MS Jesse Martin Combs (Representative), Democrat, TX Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally (Senator), Democrat, TX Harold Dunbar Cooley (Representative), Democrat, NC Jere Cooper (Representative), Democrat, TN John Sherman Cooper (Senator), Republican, KY Robert James Corbett (Representative), Republican, PA Guy Cordon (Senator), Republican, OR Norris H. Cotton (Representative), Republican, NH Frederic René Coudert, Jr (Representative), Republican, NY Edward Eugene Cox (Representative), Democrat, GA.
US Congressional Delegations from Alabama - 1795-1861 Abercrombie, John William Representative 1866 - 1940 Aderholt, Robert Representative 1965 - Aldrich, Truman Heminway Representative, 1848 - 1932 Aldrich, William Farrington Representative, 1853 - 1925 Allen, James Browning Senator, 1912 - 1978 Allen, Maryon Pittman Senator, 1925 - Allgood, Miles Clayton Representative, 1878 - 1977 Almon, Edward Berton Representative, 1860 - 1933 Alston, William Jeffreys Representative, 1800 - 1876 Andrews, Arthur Glenn Representative, 1909 - Andrews, Elizabeth Bullock Representative, 1911- Andrews, George William Representative, 1906 - 1971 Bachus, Spencer T., III Representative, 1947 - Bagby, Arthur Pendleton Senator, 1794 - 1858 Bankhead, John Hollis Representative; Senator 1842 - 1920 Bankhead, John Hollis II Senator, 1872 - 1946 Bankhead, Walter Will Representative, 1897 - 1988 Bankhead, William Brockman Representative; Speaker of the House, US 1874 - 1940 Battle, Laurie Calvin.
USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) - Mrs. Thomas Lee McCann (wife of Lt. Thomas L. McCann and the niece of the Hon. William Bacon Oliver, Representative of the 6th District of Alabama), and commissioned on 17 August 1934, Captain John N. Ferguson in command. Tuscaloosa devoted the autumn to a shakedown cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, before she returned to the New York Navy Yard shortly before Christmas. She then underwent post-shakedown repairs which kept her in the yard into March 1935. The heavy cruiser soon shaped a course for the west coast. After a stop at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, she transited the Panama Canal on 7 and 8 April and then steamed north to San Diego, where she joined Cruiser Division 6 (CruDiv 6) in time to participate in.
Dunfermline - its fame and prosperity date from the marriage of Malcolm Canmore and his queen Margaret, which took place in the town in 1070. The king then lived in a tower on a mound surrounded on three sides by the glen. A fragment of this castle still exists in Pittencrieff Park, a little west of the later palace. Under the influence of Queen Margaret in 1075 the foundations were laid of the Benedictine priory, which was raised to the rank of an abbey by David I (see Dunfermline Abbey). Robert the Bruce gave the town its charter in 1322, though in his Fife: Pictorial and Historical (ii. 223), A. H. Millar contends that till the confirming charter of James VI (1588) all burghal privileges were granted by the abbots. In the 18th.
December 31 - resigns as President of Russia, to be replaced by Vladimir Putin 1999 - Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed. 1999 - The Panama Canal comes completely under Panama's jurisdiction. Births: 1514 - Andreas Vesal, physician (†1564) 1790 - Antoine Adamberger, actress (†1867) 1869 - Henri Matisse, painter and graphic artist (†1954) 1880 - George Marshall, recipient of Nobel Prize in Peace 1953 for the Marshall Plan (†1959) 1881 - Max Pechstein, painter and graphic artist (†1955) 1894 - Pola Negri, actress (†1987) 1905 - Jule Styne, composer (†1994) 1908 - Simon Wiesenthal, concentration camp survivor, activist 1920 - Rex Allen, actor, singer (†1999).
Deaths in 2003 - Carter-Ruck UK libel lawyer (89 years) 17 Ed Devereaux, Australian actor 17 Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns football quarterback during the 1950s (82 years) 16 Gary Stewart, Country music singer (suicide, age 58) 16 Robert Stanfield, Canadian politician 15 Keith Magnuson, former National Hockey League player (car accident, 56 years) 15 George Fisher, U.S. political cartoonist 14 Jeanne Crain, Oscar-nominated actress (78 years) 14 Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (75 years) 13 William V. Roth, Jr, former U.S. Senator, known for Kemp-Roth Tax Cut and Roth IRA. 12 Keiko, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame (27 years) 12 Heydar Aliyev, former President of Azerbaijan (80 years) 12 Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet (86 years) 12 Earl Gillespie, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves (81 years) 11 Ahmadou Kourouma, author.
USS Coral Sea (CV-43) - to coincide with President of the United States Richard M. Nixon's public announcement in Washington that naval mines had been seeded. The Intruder flight led by the CAG, Commander Roger E. Sheets, was composed of United States Marine Corps aircraft from VMA-224 and headed for the inner channel. The Corsairs, led by Commander Leonard E. Giuliani and made up of aircraft from VA-94 and VA-22, were designated to mine the outer segment of the channel. Each aircraft carried four Mk52-2 naval mines. Captain William R. Carr, USMC, the bombardier/navigator in the lead plane, established the critical attack azimuth and timed the naval mine releases. The first naval mine was dropped at 0859 and the last of the field of 36 naval mines at 0901. Twelve naval mines were placed in the.
