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Alexander Douglas-Douglas

He was the grandson of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, who was created a baronet 30 Sep 1831 and assumed by Royal Licence 31 Oct 1831 the name and arms of Douglas of Glenbervie.


Alex McAulay

Under the name Charles Douglas, Alex has recorded five indie-rock albums, including The Lives of Charles Douglas which features Maureen Tucker from The Velvet Underground on drums, and Statecraft with Joey Santiago from The Pixies on guitars.

Anuta

Ethnobotanist Douglas Yen, along with archaeologists Patrick Kirch and Paul Rosendahl, spent about two months there in 1971, and anthropologist Richard Feinberg lived on Anuta for almost a year in 1972-73.

Bobby Mackey's Music World

On October 30, 1992, on his show, Geraldo Rivera interviewed Mackey, his wife, Lawson, and Cole, along with Hell's Gate author Douglas Hensley and others.

Bryan Wells

Bomber Wells (Bryan Douglas Wells, 1930–2008), English cricketer

Caspar Wintermans

His latest book about Douglas is Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and his Finest Work, a biography of Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas which sets out to defend Oscar Wilde's beloved Bosie from over a century of false accusations, lies, and misinformation.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

Charles Douglas Moffatt (London, 5 July 1870 - Buenos Aires, 1 March 1953) was an English football player, considered one of the pioneers of the sport in Argentina.

Concord Township, Champaign County, Ohio

Concord Township was the site of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15 which fell to earth in a field following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron on March 9, 1967, triggering substantial changes in air traffic control procedures.

Doug Tewell

Douglas Fred Tewell (born August 27, 1949) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level, including two senior major championships.

Doug Van Horn

Douglas Claydon Van Horn (born June 24, 1944 in Sedalia, Missouri) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions and New York Giants.

Douglas Elliman

Douglas Elliman contributes to a variety of charities, some of which include the American Heart Association, Central Park Conservancy, the Gold Coast Film Festival, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.

Douglas Ferguson

Douglas Ferguson, Canadian numismatist, ANA President 1941-43, whose collection is now in the Currency Museum

Douglas Lawrence

Raymond Douglas Lawrence OAM (born 1943) is an Australian organist who is Director of Music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne.

Douglas Navigation

The bridge is the nearest to the mouth of the River Douglas, although there was a railway bridge that crossed the river at Hesketh Bank which was demolished when the West Lancashire Railway closed in 1965.

Douglas Warren

Douglas became Commanding Officer of 410 F86 Sabre Squadron at RAF North Luffenham, England in 1952.

Douglas, Chicago

Burnham Park runs along its shoreline, containing 31st Street Beach. The community area also contains part of the neighborhood of Bronzeville, the historic center of African-American culture in the city.

Durham School of the Arts

Ten members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church came from Topeka, Kansas to protest the show, the actors, and director, Douglas J. Graves.

Essie Honiball

The high fruit, low fat and all raw diet, which Honiball promotes has been referred to in the writings of health authors including Anne Osborne, Brian R. Clement Ph.D, Dr. Douglas Graham, and Viktoras Kulvinskas.

Fireball 500

Footage from Fireball 500, specifically shots of the 4B car (Jim Douglas' car) toppling over on its roof, show up later in the demolition derby scenes at the beginning of The Love Bug.

Flight 901

Air New Zealand Flight 901, McDonnell Douglas DC-10 collision with Mount Erebus, Antarctica, on 28 November 1979, 257 killed.

Frances Lumley-Saunderson, Countess of Scarbrough

Frances Douglas-Hamilton (died 30 December 1772) was the daughter of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney and his wife, Elizabeth Villiers.

Freak In

It was released on the RCA Bluebird label in 2003 and features performances by Douglas, Jamie Saft, Marc Ribot, Karsh Kale, Joey Baron, Romero Lubambo, Brad Jones, Ikue Mori, Seamus Blake, Chris Speed, Craig Taborn, Michael Sarin, with Stephanie Stone contributing vocals on one track.

Gustaf Douglas

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).

Hal Douglas

Douglas's voice briefly appears in the skit 5 Men and a Limo, featuring other notable voiceover recording artists, such as Don LaFontaine, John Leader, Nick Tate, Al Chalk, and Mark Elliot.

I Walk Alone

This was the first of several films that Lancaster and Douglas made together over the decades, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tough Guys (1986), establishing the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination.

John D. McKenzie

He was born in Gilby, North Dakota, the son of Alexander McKenzie and Isabella Douglas.

KK-theory

It was influenced by Atiyah's concept of Fredholm modules for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, and the classification of extensions of C*-algebras by Brown–Douglas–Fillmore (Lawrence G. Brown, Ronald G. Douglas, Peter Arthur Fillmore 1977).

Leemon McHenry

(Reply: W. V. Quine, "Response to Leemon McHenry" Process Studies, The Forum, 26, pp. 13–14; reprinted in Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne and the Analytic Tradition, ed by George Shields, State University of New York Press, 2003, pp. 171–173, and Quine in Dialogue, ed by Dagfinn Føllesdal and Douglas Quine, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 257–58.)

Lily Brayton

After Asche's death in 1936, Brayton married Dr. Douglas Chalmers Watson and moved to Drem in East Lothian.

Meaning and Mystery

It was released on the Greenleaf label in 2006 and features performances by Douglas, Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine, James Genus and Clarence Penn.

Melville Clyde Kelly

This resolution, the Airmail Act of 1925 was signed into law on February 2, 1925, prompting many companies to venture into the aviation field (e.g., Boeing, Douglas, and Pratt & Whitney).

Paul Alan Levi

Performers of his music include conductors Pierre Boulez, Jesús López-Cobos, Robert DeCormier, Clara Longstreth, Gustav Meier, and Gerard Schwarz; pianist Justin Kolb; and singers Margaret Ahrens, David Bender, Adam Klein, Antonia Lavanne, Douglas Perry, Neva Pilgrim, Lucy Shelton, Sheila Schonbrun, and James Archie Worley, as well as Cantors Richard Botton and Mark Lipson.

Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles

His second wife was HRH Princess Joan of Luxembourg (née Joan Douglas Dillon (b. New York City, New York, 31 January 1935).

Public capital

Empirical models that attempt to estimate the public investment and economic growth link involve a wide variety including: the Cobb-Douglas production function; a behavioral approach cost/profit function which includes public capital stock; Vector Auto Regression (VAR) models; and government investment growth regressions.

Rick Hurst

Richard Douglas "Rick" Hurst (born January 1, 1946) an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard and most recent The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion in 1997 and Hazzard in Hollywood in 2000.

Scott Bylewski

On 12 February 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a home on Long Street in Clarence Center, killing all the passengers on board, and Douglas Wielinski, who resided in the house.

Sian Alice Group

59:59 features contributions from Sasha Vine, Douglas Hart (Jesus & Mary Chain), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack) and Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance).

Sinclair Skinner

Skinner has worked for numerous engineering companies including Ohmeda, Inc., Honeywell, Pillsbury, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and The Architect of the Capitol where he performed testing and development for the space shuttle’s main engine controllers, manufacturing for a flour mill company and designed roadways in Macon County, Alabama where he was an apprentice to Curtis Pierce, the first African American county engineer in Macon County, Alabama.

Smith and Snipes Hall Farm Ltd v River Douglas Catchment Board

The River Douglas Catchment Board agreed with a number of landowners between the River Douglas and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal) to carry out some work if some contribution to the cost was given.

Spirit of South Carolina

She is built of several types of woods traditionally used in shipbuilding, including: Live Oak, Angelique, Longleaf Pine, Sapele, Purpleheart, and Douglas Fir.

Sulphur Springs Valley

The southern portion of the valley drains into Mexico through Douglas, ArizonaAgua Prieta, Sonora, and into the Yaqui River.

The Tiny Bell Trio

It was released on the Canadian Songlines label in 1994 and features performances by Douglas, Brad Shepik and Jim Black.

Thomas Green Fessenden

At this time, he formed the acquaintance of Benjamin Douglas Perkins, patentee of the metallic tractors (see Elisha Perkins) which Fessenden advertised in a poem in Hudibrastic verse.

Umpqua Community College

In the late 1950s, interested community members formed a committee, sponsored by the American Association of University Women, to explore the idea of establishing a community college in Douglas County.

Utah Shakespearean Festival

Designed by Douglas N. Cook, it is world-renowned for its accuracy in duplicating Shakespeare's Globe; the BBC used it as a filming location in 1981 for a documentary series on Shakespeare.

Valerie Landau

Engelbart and Landau also collaborated on writing the book "The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart" along with co-author Eileen Clegg.

Vernessa Mitchell

The group was featured on American Bandstand, Soul Train and television shows hosted by Merv Griffin, Dinah Shore, and Mike Douglas.

Wave 102

The station was founded by Douglas and June Anderson as part of The Petros Radio Group who launched Discovery AM in 1994 and Radio Waves in 1995, then decided to go for the full scale local licence with the help of their neighbour George Mackintosh (who started Radio Tay in 1980) along with a consortium who also founded Kingdom FM in Fife with the assistance of IRG (The Independent Radio Group)

Whole language

Widely-known whole language detractors include Louisa Cook Moats, G. Reid Lyon, James Kauffman, Phillip Gough, Keith Stanovich, Diane McGuinness, Douglas Carnine, Edward Kame'enui, Jerry Silbert, Lynn Melby Gordon, Rudolf Flesch, and Jeanne Chall.

William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas

Douglas' father William Longleg was Lord of Fawdon, and had as his superior Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus, Longleg was acquitted of withholding rents by a jury, Umfraville notwithstanding attacked Fawdon, imprisoned Longleg at Harbottle Castle and made off with some £100 sterling of goods.


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