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2 unusual facts about Albert D. Shaw


Albert D. Shaw

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from November 6, 1900, until his death in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1901, before the close of the Fifty-sixth Congress.

He was appointed colonel of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, New York National Guard, in 1867, and resigned to accept the position of United States consul at Toronto, Canada, in 1868.


Abner O. Shaw

Abner Orimel Shaw was born on February 16, 1837 to Eaton Shaw and Mary Roberts in Readfield, Maine.

Albert D. Cohen

His interest and talent for writing stemmed out from his close personal friendship with the late British author Ian Fleming.

Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni was an ardent member of the Progressive Party and a strong supporter of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election.

Afer losing the 1912 election, Nortoni was appointed by the winner, Governor Elliot Woolfolk Major, to the board of curators for the University of Missouri.

In 1918, Nortoni campaigned for the Democratic nominee for Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph E. Davies, although he ultimately lost to Irvine Lenroot.

Nortoni married twice, first in 1892 to Maggie Lina of Bevier, Missouri, and again in 1906 to Emma Belcher of Boone County, Missouri.

Albert D. Richardson

In August 2013, a new book about Junius Henri Browne and Richardson, Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy by journalist and author Peter Carlson, was published by PublicAffairs.

Richardson and Browne were imprisoned for 20 months in seven different prisons, confined successively at Vicksburg, Jackson, Atlanta, Richmond, and Salisbury, North Carolina, prisons.

Richardson wrote for the New York Tribune owned by Horace Greeley, and traveled to battlefields during the American Civil War to report on the war, often with fellow journalist Junius Henri Browne.

They traveled together more than 400 miles through hostile country, and reached the Union lines on January 14, 1865.

Albert D. Sturtevant

With another plane from the same unit, piloted by a South African named Faux, their assignment was to escort a convoy of ships carrying beef between Holland and Britain.

Albert d'Orville

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1646, and while studying theology at the Catholic University of Leuven he attended the 'Chinese lectures' given by Martino Martini an Italian Jesuit missionary, then visiting the University of Leuven.

Antonio Maura

As prime minister, he created the Spanish Institute of Provission and he attempted to carry out a reform plan, but this was opposed by the liberals.

B. L. Shaw

He defeated fellow Republican Billy Montgomery in the November 17, 2007, general election to procure the District 37 seat vacated by the term-limited Senator Max T. Malone of Shreveport.

Barrow Peacock

The incumbent B. L. Shaw, a retired educator from Shreveport elected in 2007, decided not to seek a second term.

Cathy O'Neil

In June 2007 Cathy started four years working in the finance industry, including two years at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw.

Connection Machine

David E. Shaw's NON-VON machine, which preceded the Connection machine slightly.

David E. Shaw

Shaw is married to personal finance commentator and journalist Beth Kobliner.

David Shaw

David E. Shaw (born 1951), American entrepreneur; founder of D. E. Shaw & Co.

Dawn Mill, Shaw

It is not served by any canal but a rail service was provided by the Oldham Loop Line, built in 1863 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

Doris Kenyon

In 1938 Doris married Albert D. Lasker, owner of Lord & Thomas, a prosperous advertising agency.

Edison Studios

However, new restorations and screenings of Edison films in recent years contradict Everson's statement; indeed Everson's citing The Land Beyond the Sunset points out creativity at Edison beyond Porter and Collins as it was directed by Harold M. Shaw (1877–1926), who later went on to a successful career directing in England, South Africa, and Lithuania before returning to the US in 1922.

Frederick H. Shaw

Frederick Howard Shaw (a.k.a. Federico H. Shaw by the Spaniards) He was born in the Naval Station of Ferrol in North-western Spain on 20 October 1864 and died in the Spanish Capital on 11 August 1924) after a long and prolific political career.

General Problem Solver

General Problem Solver (GPS) was a computer program created in 1959 by Herbert A. Simon, J.C. Shaw, and Allen Newell intended to work as a universal problem solver machine.

George B. Shaw

:Not to be confused with the Anglo-Irish playwright and social thinker George Bernard Shaw.

Guy L. Shaw

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

Born on a farm near Summer Hill, Illinois, Shaw attended the public schools and the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois at Urbana.

Hakham Bashi

Stanford J Shaw, 'Appendix 1: Grand Rabbis of Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire, and Chief Rabbis of republican Turkey', in The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (New York City: New York University Press, 1991), 272-273.

Hyde Park, Boston

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was one of the first official African-American units in the United States Army and was commanded by Col. Robert G. Shaw, was assembled and trained at Camp Meigs in Readville.

Institute of Turkish Studies

Some of the key members of the Institute, Stanford Shaw, Heath W. Lowry, and Justin McCarthy, argue against defining the Armenian events as genocide.

J. R. Shaw

He has received several honorary degrees, including ones from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.

L. M. Shaw

Like his predecessor Secretary Lyman Gage, Shaw firmly believed that the Treasury should serve the money market in times of difficulty through the introduction of Treasury funds.

Max T. Malone

Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member.

Melville J. Shaw

Melville James Shaw (August 6, 1872—May 16, 1927) was an American officer born in Minnesota and serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly

Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly (31 December 1714 – 23 September 1769), Duke of Picquigny and then Duke of Chaulnes from 1744, was a French astronomer, physicist and freemason.

Newby Mill, Shaw

Subsequently, now named Shaw No 3 Mill, it became part of Littlewood's Shaw National Distribution Centre.

Pimm Fox

While at Bloomberg, he has interviewed a diverse group of people, including David Shaw of DE Shaw, Jim Clark of Netscape and WebMD, Eli Broad of SunAmerica and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.

Robert L. Shaw

Shaw was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1909 Alberta general election.

Robert S. Shaw

title=President of Michigan State College
of Agriculture and Applied Science|

Robert Sidey Shaw (July 24, 1871 – February 7, 1953) was president of the Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (now Michigan State University) from 1928 to 1941.

Schell Bridge

Designed by Edward S. Shaw, the bridge was built by the New England Structural Company of East Everett, Massachusetts.

The Bosun's Mate

The Bosun's Mate is a 1914 British silent comedy film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Mary Brough, Charles Rock and Wyndham Guise.

The English Review

In addition to continuing to print works by Conrad, Lawrence, and Wells, authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, Bertrand Russell, G. B. Shaw, Ivan Turgenev, and William Butler Yeats now appeared in the magazine's pages.

United States National Agricultural Library

The library, which had been decentralized since 1920, was consolidated into a central facility under the direction of Department Librarian Ralph R. Shaw.

Virginia Dale, Colorado

The Virginia Dale stage station hosted many famous travelers such as author Albert D. Richardson ("Beyond the Mississippi") and an Illinois governor, probably Richard Yates.

Warren W. Shaw

During his time as a student at Washburn, he was captain of the 1929 and 1930 Washburn football teams under coach Ernest Bearg.

William Poel

He wrote several comediettas and a book, Shakespeare in the Theatre. The National Portrait Gallery contains a number of pictures by Henry Tonks of Poel in the role as Father Keegan in G. B. Shaw's play John Bull's Other Island. His great-nephew Rupert Pole (1919-2006) was married to Anaïs Nin.


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