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Alfred Hall

Alfred A. Hall (1848–1912), Vermont attorney, politician and judge


Ackley School District v. Hall

The Independent School District of Ackley, Hardin County, Iowa, promises to pay to Foster Brothers, or order at the Hardin County Bank at Eldora, Iowa, on the first day of May, 1872, five hundred dollars for value received, with interest at the rate of ten percent per annum, said interest payable semiannually, on the first day of May and November in each year thereafter at the Hardin County Bank at Eldora, on the presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached

Albert W. Hicks

There are several discrepancies between this account and that found in Herbert Asbury's classic crime history The Gangs of New York - an Informal History of the Underworld (1928, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Alfred Gilman

Alfred A. Gilman (1878–1966), American missionary and bishop in China

Alfred Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf or Knopf Publishing Group, subsidiary of Random House

Amen Clinic

Harriet Hall has written critically about SPECT scans in articles for Quackwatch and for the Science-Based Medicine website.

Arul Chinnaiyan

Narla G, DiFeo A, Fernandez Y, Dhanasekaran S, Huang F, Sangodkar J, Hod E, Leake D, Friedman SL, Hall SJ, Chinnaiyan AM, Gerald WL, Rubin MA, Martignetti JA.

B. J. Hall

Upon graduation from Solano, Hall transferred to Webber International University, where he played the 2006 season with the Warriors.

Brian Biggs

Shredderman series, written by Wendelin Van Draanen—2004-2006 (Children's Novel) Knopf, ISBN 0-375-82351-4, ISBN 0-375-82352-2, ISBN 0-375-82353-0, ISBN 0-375-82354-9

Burton P. C. Hall

Hall was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001, and in 2003 he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester (KSS) by Pope John Paul II.

David Folsom

On January 11, 1995, Folsom was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated by Sam B. Hall, Jr..

David M. Hall

This recognition was awarded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and PennCORD, a civics education program championed by federal judge and Pennsylvania First Lady Marjorie Rendell.

Donald A. Hall

He worked for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Elias & Brothers, and L.W.F. Engineering before moving to Santa Monica, California in 1924 to work for Douglas Aircraft.

He attended the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a certificate in mechanical engineering in 1917.

Edd Hargett

The vacancy occurred when U.S. Representative Sam B. Hall, Jr., of Marshall resigned to accept a federal judicial appointment from U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan.

Edward N. Hall

Hall directed the Weapon System 133A (Minuteman) program until the eve of the missile’s first complete flight test.

Eric G. Hall

He began the confidential programs of the Air Force, and was instrumental in setting up the U 235 facility at Chaklala, then known as the Chaklala Air Force Centrifuge Laboratories (CAFL).

Freemasons' Hall, London

It has also been used in many other feature films, including Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004), The Line of Beauty (TV), The Wings of the Dove (1997) and Johnny English (2003).

Gordon W. Bowie

A specialty of the Bangor Band under Dr. Bowie was the music of R.B. Hall, Maine's own march composer who was a contemporary of John Philip Sousa.

Gunther Behnke

He was recruited by head coach Joe B. Hall to play for the University of Kentucky but became homesick and never appeared in a game for Kentucky.

JILA

JILA's faculty includes two Nobel laureates—Eric Cornell and John L. Hall—and three John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FellowsDeborah S. Jin, Margaret Murnane and Ana Maria Rey.

John Heilpern

On its publication in the US by Knopf in 2007, The New Yorker described it as “compelling”, The Wall Street Journal as “masterful”, and The Philadelphia Inquirer as “a model of what a literary biography ought to be.” The Wall Street Journal named it one its Ten Best Books of the Year.

Jonathan M. Hall

He is the author of many books, including Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, and A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE, and of various articles and reviews on Archaic and Classical Greece.

Joseph Hall

Joe B. Hall (born 1928), former American college basketball coach

Julia Dent Cantacuzène Spiransky-Grant

"Revolutionary Days; Recollections of Romanoffs and Bolsheviki, 1914-1917," (1920) and "My Life Here and There." (1922) All of her books were published in the U.S. by Charles Scribner's Sons, and in London by the firm of Chapman & Hall.

Kevin Grevey

Grevey played college basketball at the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of legendary coach Adolph Rupp's last freshman class and played his three collegiate seasons (freshmen were not eligible to play varsity basketball at the time) under Rupp’s successor, Joe B. Hall.

Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park

Accurate restoration of the home and its rooms was aided by both an extensive study of the home in 1986 through the Historic American Buildings Survey, and through a large collection of photographs of the home taken in 1868 by Alfred A. Hart, and again in 1872 by Eadweard Muybridge.

Lily Yeh

In 1986, Lily Yeh was asked by Arthur Hall, founder of the Afro-American Dance Ensemble, to create a park in the abandoned lot next to his studio in North Philadelphia.

Lindley Evans

Evans wrote some film scores for the developing movie industry: for Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised (1936), Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) and The Rats of Tobruk (1944); and Ken G. Hall's Tall Timbers (1937).

Louis Uchitelle

In March 2006 Knopf published his book, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences.

Mary Martha Pearson

Mrs S.C. Hall (Anna Maria Hall) (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1830).

Maya Hero Twins

Red Horn's Sons, part of the Siouan traditional legends of the deity Red Horn, have been shown to have some interesting analogies with the Maya Hero Twins mythic cycle by the scholar Robert L. Hall.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

In 2006, Hallmark Cards chairman Donald J. Hall, Sr., donated to the museum the entire Hallmark Photographic Collection, spanning the history of photography from 1839 to the present day.

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Newton H. Hall

He captured a Confederate flag from the division of Patrick Cleburne during the fighting at Franklin in November; he was awarded the Medal of Honor a few months later.

Olive Hill, Kentucky

Olive Hill is the birthplace of country music singer Tom T. Hall, a fact that is noted on the "Welcome to Olive Hill" signs on the edges of town.

Osee M. Hall

Born in Conneaut, Ohio, he attended the local public schools and graduated from Hiram College in Ohio and from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1868.

Peithologian Society

Although Peithologian's alumni included such prominent names as Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of 1882), Nobel laureate Hermann Muller (Class of 1910), and publisher Alfred A. Knopf (Class of 1912), both it and Philolexian suffered declining membership after the turn of the century.

Peter W. Hall

Supported by Vermont Senators Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy, Hall's nomination was uncontroversial, and he was confirmed on June 24, 2004, by voice vote.

Simon J. Hall

From 1997 until 2001 Hall was the director of the Department of Urology at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.

Sociology of literature

John A. Hall, (1979), The Sociology of Literature, London: Longman.

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US.

Tony Hall

Tony P. Hall (born 1942), U.S. politician, representative and ambassador

Tony P. Hall

Hall's confirmation to the post was held up for several months, but he was confirmed and sworn into the post in September 2002 by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Trick or Treatment

A review by Harriet A. Hall on Quackwatch stated that some negative reviews of Trick or Treatment demonstrated "an appalling poverty of thought"; articulating that since the reasoning behind the author's conclusions is solid, critics instead deny the methods of science, misrepresent the book's contents and use ad hominem attacks against the authors.

Watertown, Tennessee

In 1997, songwriter Tom T. Hall immortalized the city in a song titled appropriately, "Watertown, Tennessee".

William Addison Dwiggins

His scathing attack on contemporary book designers in An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books (1919) led to his working with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

WMYA-TV

WAIM-TV was owned by Wilton E. Hall, publisher of the Anderson Independent and Daily Mail newspapers (now merged as the Anderson Independent-Mail), along with WAIM/1230 and WCAC-FM 101.1 (now WROQ).

Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Its seat is the Merchant Taylors' Hall between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill, a site it has occupied since at least 1347.

ZCBJ Hall

Z. C. B. J. Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Chippewa County, Wisconsin


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