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Alfred L. Jenkins

Alfred L. Jenkins was an American diplomat, lecturer and author, born September 14, 1916 in Manchester, Georgia.


A Wizard of Earthsea

Further inspiration came from the work of her parents, anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber, with Ishi.

Alfred L. Rives

Later he accepted a position in Washington under Captain Montgomery Meigs, of the United States Engineering Corps where he served for one year as assistant engineer of the United States Capitol and Post Office buildings.

Being proficient in engineering, he determined to adopt that as a profession, and in 1848 entered the University of Virginia, where he remained one session, then accompanied his father to France.

Alfred Pearson

Alfred L. Pearson (1838–1903), lawyer and Union Army general in the American Civil War

Alfred Wilson

Alfred L. Wilson (1919–1944), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II

Arthur L. Jenkins

In 2001, Jenkins was named an Honorary Police Surgeon of the New York City Police Department.

Jones LA, Lammertse DP, Charlifue SB, Kirshblum SC, Apple DF, Ragnarsson KT, Poonian D, Betz RR, Knoller N, Heary RF, Choudhri TF, Jenkins AL 3rd, Falci SP, Snyder DA.

Biorheology

The term was first proposed by Alfred L. Copley, a German-American medical scientist, at the first International Congress on Rheology in 1948.

Bird's Point, Missouri

Union cavalry under David P. Jenkins guarded the region for the early part of the war, deterring Confederate attempts to regain control of the supply routes.

Comcast NBC merger

Wall Street Journal business columnist Holman Jenkins says, “Customers want the product for free. Comcast’s lifeblood, the $100-a-month cable bill and the $50-a-month broadband bill, increasingly look like duplicative expenses. And so on.”

David P. Jenkins

During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.

Elizabeth B. Jenkins

In May 2010, Elizabeth served as technical advisor and guide to the DISCOVERY CHANNEL's Les Stroud Beyond Survival into the Andean mountains to join the Q'ero Indians on their yearly pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit'i.

Fort Magruder

Soldiers and impressed slaves constructed the line to the east of Williamsburg as recommended by Captain Alfred L. Rives, an 1848 civil engineering graduate of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) who was acting chief of the Engineer Bureau at Confederate headquarters in Richmond.

George W. Jenkins

He was transferred to the company's largest store in Winter Haven, which he managed for four years.

Harry W. Jenkins

He was then assigned to the 5th Marine Regiment and then the 9th Marine Regiment in Okinawa, Japan.

Hemorheology

Alfred L. Copley, the scientist who introduced the term hemorheology.

Hilliard P. Jenkins

Jenkins served in other leadership roles with the Mobile-Baldwin Area Boy Scouts of America, the Baldwin County Mental Health Board, the Baldwin County Executive Committee, and the Alabama Selective Service Board.

For over 20 years, he served as chairman for of the ADC’s Baldwin County unit.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Prius fans might do the planet more good by convincing the American Public of the merits of nuclear energy, the closest thing to a genuinely "green solution" to energy challenges in the real world.

Ica stones

Excavations in Ica Province were carried on in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by scholars such as Max Uhle, Julio C. Tello, Alfred L. Kroeber, William Duncan Strong and John Howland Rowe.

Interference theory

In 1924, James J. Jenkins and Karl Dallenbach showed that everyday experiences can interfere with memory with an experiment that resulted in retention being better over a period of sleep than over the same amount of time devoted to activity.

Ishi Wilderness

Ishi is the name given by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to the last surviving Native American from the Yahi Yana tribe.

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) is a made-for-television biopic based on a book by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe.

James J. Jenkins

He is a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the Psychonomic Society, the Midwestern and Southeastern Psychological Associations, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the International Society for Ecological Psychology.

Jerry B. Jenkins

From 1996 to 2004, Jenkins was writer of the sports-oriented comic strip Gil Thorp.

Jimmy Hayes

Republican Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Baton Rouge and Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans then advanced to the tightly contested general election, which Landrieu narrowly won.

John I. Jenkins

Jenkins is a member of the Board of Directors for the Commission on Presidential Debates.

He is the author of numerous scholarly articles published in The Journal of Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, and The Journal of Religious Ethics and of the book Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas.

John J. Jenkins

Born in Weymouth, England, Jenkins emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1852, where they settled in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

He served as a Representative from that district for the 54th through the 57th Congress, after which he moved to Wisconsin's newly created 11th Congressional District.

Kansas City Public Schools

Missouri v. Jenkins is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court.

Karuk traditional narratives

The published record of Karuk oral literature is an unusually rich one, thanks to the efforts of Alfred L. Kroeber, John Peabody Harrington, William Bright, and others.

Leslie White

Thus, contrary to Alfred L. Kroeber, Kluckhohn, and Edward Sapir, White saw the delineation of the object of study not as a cognitive accomplishment of the anthropologist, but as a recognition of the actually existing and delineated phenomena which comprise the world.

Organizational patterns

Kroeber speaks of universal patterns that describe some overall scheme common to all human culture; of systemic patterns are broad but normative forms relating to beliefs, behaviors, signs, and economics; and total culture patterns that are local.

Organizational patterns also have roots in Kroeber's classic anthropological texts on the patterns that underlie culture and society.

Pacatnamu

Kroeber made some sketches of the main architectural features of the site but only of one portion of the site.

Reed-Jenkins Act

The law was sponsored by Senator David A. Reed (Republican) of Pennsylvania and Representative Thomas A. Jenkins (Republican) of Ohio.

Richard Venable

He lost his Republican Party nomination bid in first congressional district race to replace the retiring Bill Jenkins to David Davis.

Ripley, West Virginia

During the Civil War, Ripley remained under control of the Union except for a brief incursion by Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins in September 1862.

South Beach Diet

To explain this failure, he turned to the scientific work with insulin resistance which led David J. Jenkins to develop the glycemic index in the early 1980s.

Spectacular mark

Some players have achieved fame for their role as stepledders of famous marks, such as Graeme "Jerker" Jenkins, who was the stepladder for Alex Jesaulenko's mark; Melbourne band TISM wrote the song "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" about him.

Victor Vaughn Morris

According to Peruvian researcher Guillermo Toro-Lira, among the notable individuals who attended Morris' Bar were Elmer Faucett (founder of the Faucett Perú airline), José Lindley (founder of the Corporación José R. Lindley S.A. and Inca Kola), Alfred L. Kroeber (the cultural anthropologist), and Richard Halliburton (an adventurer and cultural ambassador to Peru).

West Virginia in the American Civil War

Albert G. Jenkins - Former Congressman who led a brigade of western Virginia cavalrymen.

On the Confederate side, Albert G. Jenkins, a former U.S. Representative, recruited a brigade of cavalry in western Virginia, which he led until his death in May 1864.

Woodrow W. Jones

Jones was elected in 1950 as a Democrat to the 81st Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle.


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