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unusual facts about Alfred H. Moses


Alfred H. Moses

In 2002 he was awarded Romania's Mare Cruce Medal (Order For Merit) by the President of Romania,Ion Iliescu and the only American to have been so honored.


Alfred H. Grebe

At the age of 9 he was given a radio set by his father, and soon came to be such an expert that his science teacher at Public School 88 in Jamaica said Alfred knew more than he did.

After three years onboard (during which time he traveled as far as India) he returned to Long Island, where the first commercial station on the island was being built at Sayville.

) He set up a broadcasting company called the "Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation" (changing WAHG to WABC on November 1, 1926) which operated his stations until he sold them to CBS in January 1929.

(His WAHG is, through several call letter changes, now WCBS, still a major radio station in New York City.

Alfred H. Love

In 1875 he met with Alfred B. Meacham, a member of the peace commission to end the Modoc War, and members of the Modoc people, including Toby Riddle and Frank Riddle, who were on a national lecture tour.

Fanny Davenport

Montrose J. Moses, Famous Actor-Families in America;; (New York, 1906)

Fort Ransom, North Dakota

The fort was built on top of Grizzly Bear Hill, a site chosen by Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry.

Franklin J. Moses

Franklin J. Moses, Jr. (1838-1906), Governor of South Carolina from 1872 to 1874, son of the above

Franklin J. Moses, Sr. (1804-1877), Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court from 1868 to 1877

Franklin J. Moses, Sr.

Moses was born in Charleston to Major Myer Moses and Esther (Hetty) Phillips, who was one of 22 children of Jonas Phillips.

George H. Moses

However, he narrowly lost to Fred Brown amidst the Democratic/Roosevelt landslide in 1932.

Glowin' Moses

Milton eventually returned to the music scene with his R&B/Soul collective, Mosaic.

In addition to adding saxophonist Curtis Brown (who had already begun playing with the band in several concerts), the band added "The Philipino Phenom" Alden Lumagui on bass and "Sugar" Shawn Moseley on keyboards.

Go Down, Moses

The group becomes increasingly preoccupied with hunting Old Ben, a monstrous, almost immortal bear that wreaks havoc throughout the forest.

History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina

Among those who have held high office, however, have been Gen. E. W. Moise, adjutant-general of the state of South Carolina from 1876 to 1880, Franklin J. Moses, Sr. (born Israel Franklin Moses), who became chief justice of the South Carolina supreme court in 1868, and his son Franklin J. Moses, Jr., governor of South Carolina from 1872-74.

Horace A. Moses

Moses continued making financial contributions to arts and sciences in his hometown, Ticonderoga, New York, throughout his life.

José Gómez-Sicre

In 1944, he served as an advisor to Alfred H. Barr, Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, putting together an exhibition of Cuban paintings that traveled across the United States for the next two years.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.

Mary Miller

For that exhibition, she wrote the catalogue of the same title—a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award of the College Art Association—with Simon Martin, senior epigrapher at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Kingston Scott

Franklin J. Moses, Jr., the first governor after him, claimed Scott “fraudulently signed state bonds in the St James Hotel in New York under the joint influence of alcohol and burlesque queen Pauline Markham,” known as one of “The British Blondes.”

Solomon L. Hoge

Running on the Republican ticket with Franklin J. Moses, Jr. for governor in 1872, Hoge won the race for comptroller general against the Independent Republican candidate J. Scott Murray of Anderson.

University of South Carolina School of Law

The program continued until it was shuttered following the death of a subsequent professor, Chief Justice Franklin J. Moses, in 1877.

Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagrams that are used in geophysics and meteorology to analyse spatially distributed data (such as rainfall measurements) are called Thiessen polygons after American meteorologist Alfred H. Thiessen.

William R. Moses

He is the son of the late actress Marian McCargo (1932–2004) and advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Sr., who divorced in 1963.


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