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unusual facts about Alexander H. Stephens



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Logos' companion was discovered on 17 November 2001 from Hubble Space Telescope observations by K. S. Noll, D. C. Stephens, W. M. Grundy, J. Spencer, R. L. Millis, M. W. Buie, D. Cruikshank, S. C. Tegler, and W. Romanishin and announced on 11 February 2002.

Abraham P. Stephens

Stephens was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853).

Alex McKinnon

Alexander H. McKinnon (1904–1973), Canadian lawyer, judge and politician

Alexander H. Jones

Upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation, he was elected (in April 1868) to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to March 3, 1871.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress.

Alexander Rice

Alexander H. Rice (1818–1895), American politician and businessman from Massachusetts

Alexander H. Rice, Jr. (1875–1956), American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer

Ambrose E. B. Stephens

Stephens was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death.

He served as captain in the Ohio National Guard 1901-1903 and colonel in 1910 and 1911.

Boletus barrowsii

It was officially described by Harry D. Thiers and Alexander H. Smith in 1976 from a specimen collected near Jacob Lake, Arizona on August 21, 1971 by amateur mycologist Charles "Chuck" Barrows, who had studied the mushroom in New Mexico.

Cary W. Hartman

While president, he helped to bring honey consumption to the forefront of the California economy, encouraging the governor of California, William Stephens, to recognize "Honey Week" (February 6–11, 1922) as a promotion for apiarists in the state.

Casiquiare canal

During a 1924–25 expedition, Alexander H. Rice, Jr. of Harvard University traveled up the Orinoco, traversed the Casiquiare canal, and descended the Rio Negro to the Amazon at Manaus.

Clitocybe albirhiza

American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith first described the species officially in 1963, from specimens collected in June, 1954, near Payette Lake, Idaho.

D. Mallory Stephens

In 1952, he retired from the Assembly, and the seat was taken over by his son Willis H. Stephens.

Edward S. Stephens

It is now the site of the state's women's prison, the Topeka Correctional Facility.

Eustathius of Thessalonica

(It was first printed in R. Stephens' edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to.), and later in that of H. Stephens (Paris, 1577, 4to., and 1697, 8vo.), in Hudson's Geograph. Minor, vol.

Grover C. Stephens

Stephens began his academic career teaching at Brooklyn College (1952–53), after which he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota (UM) in September 1953.

Hygrocybe virescens

The species was originally named Hygrophorus virescens by American mycologists Lexemuel Ray Hesler and Alexander H. Smith in their 1963 monograph of North American Hygrophorus species.

Jack Stephens

Jackson T. Stephens (1923–2005), founder of Little Rock, Arkansas-based Stephens Group, namesake of the Jack Stephens Center

James B. Stephens

A native of Virginia, he was the founder of East Portland and Stephens Street in Portland, Oregon is named in his honor.

Stephens refused Overton's offer to sell him his Portland land claim for 300 new salmon barrels because he planned to bid for another claim, which he secured in 1845 and on which East Portland was founded.

He started a cooper shop in Oregon City and got his barrel-making stock from William Overton, one of the founders of Portland.

Kenneth O'Donnell

Thomas E. Stephens
as Appointments Secretary

Lactarius argillaceifolius

The species was first described by American mycologists Lexemuel Ray Hesler and Alexander H. Smith in their 1979 monograph on the North American species of Lactarius.

Lactarius fuliginellus

Described as a new species in 1962 by American mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Lexemuel Ray Hesler, the mushroom is found in North America.

Lactarius quietus

incanus was described by Lexemuel Ray Hesler and Alexander H. Smith in their 1979 North American species of Lactarius.

Lactarius repraesentaneus

According to the classification proposed by Lexemuel Ray Hesler and Alexander H. Smith in their 1979 monograph of North American Lactarius species, L. repraesentaneus belongs in the stirps Speciosus of the section Aspideini, of the subgenus Piperites of genus Lactarius.

Lactarius rufulus

The surface characteristics of many species in section Thejogali (as defined by Hesler and Smith in 1979) are called rimulose-areolate (irregularly cracked, with the cracks crossing one another) based on a surface with "numerous mounds of inflated cells" paired together with crevices.

Lactarius vinaceorufescens

The species was first described by American mycologists Lexemuel Ray Hesler and Alexander H. Smith in 1960, based on specimens collected in Muskegon, Michigan in 1936.

Marietta Holley

Along with Frances Miriam Whitcher and Ann S. Stephens, Marietta Holley is remembered as one of America's most significant early female humorists.

Mycena overholtsii

The species was first described by mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Wilhelm Solheim in 1953, on the basis of specimens collected in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming.

Owen K.C. Stephens

Stephens has done design work for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Wizards of the Coast), Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, EverQuest Role-Playing Game, The Black Company Roleplaying Game, The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game, Gamma World Sixth Edition, as well as Dungeons & Dragons material appearing in Dragon magazine and NeoExodus: A House Divided.

Peter John Stephens

He was the brother of Richard Waring, the US-based actor, and son of Thomas E. Stephens, whose portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents and Evelyn Mary Waring.

Psilocybe yungensis

The species was described as new to science by American mycologists Rolf Singer and Alexander H. Smith, based on specimens collected in Nor Yungas Province, Bolivia, on the road to La Paz to Coroico.

Relief Society

Since April 2012, the General Relief Society Presidency has been composed of Linda K. Burton, President; Carole M. Stephens, First Counselor; and Linda S. Reeves, Second Counselor.

Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young

Others who were known to visit the house included actresses Joan and Constance Bennett, Senator James D. Phelan, and Governor William D. Stephens.

Silas Dinsmoor

Dinsmoor moved with his wife, Mary Gordon, and children to St. Stephens, the capital of the Alabama Territory, and then to Mobile.

Slackdaddy

In 1989, Howard and Werden joined St. Stephens students McCain and Luke Taylor to form The Moorish Idylls.

SS James B. Stephens

The Boatswain, Edward F. Racine, was later awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for righting the overturned motor lifeboat, rescuing several other men from the water, and then helping to keep morale up whilst awaiting rescue.

St. Stephens, Alabama

Among the prominent citizens of St. Stephens was Henry Hitchcock, first attorney general of Alabama and later chief justice of the state Supreme Court.

St. Stephens, Wyoming

Constantine Scollen the famous missionary was a priest here amongst the Arapaho between 1890 and 1892.

Vivian Beaumont Theater

On rare occasions the theater has been rented to commercial producers, such as Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks, who presented Peter Brook's production of La Tragedie de Carmen in 1983.

William Thomas Councilman

In 1916, he went with the Rice Expedition, led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., to the Amazon and Brazil.

Willis H. Stephens, Sr.

As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Stephens was considered one of the most powerful and influential men in New York State.


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