Ainsworth Emery Blunt was born on February 22, 1800 in Amherst, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to John Isaac (1756-1836) and Sarah (Eames) Blunt (1765-1858).
The Amherst-Leopold Papyrus is split in two halves: the lower half of the papyrus was bought in Egypt by Lord Amherst of Hackney in the middle of the 19th century, and sold to John Pierpont Morgan in 1913.
Franklin Pierce, who later become the 14th President of United States of America, studied under Judge Edmund Parker in Amherst.
The two principal colonial towns of Geelong and Melbourne were involved in the gold fever hype, since the California rush had also started, with the discovery of Daisy Hill, as was reported in local newspapers between February and March 1849.
Stock car racing began at the fairgrounds in 2013 under the name Amherst Speedway.
BC and UMass met again in Amherst, MA in 1901, 1902, and 1912, with UMass winning all three contests before the series was halted.
Stephen Korns, an Amherst, Massachusetts-based artist, working with the New York lighting firm L’Observatoire, conceived of the color phase shifting which will ultimately include the entire Buffalo Bayou greenway.
The Buffalo Bulls baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University at Buffalo in Amherst, New York, USA.
The C. reinhardtii wild-type laboratory strain c137 (mt+) originates from an isolate made near Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1945 by Gilbert M. Smith.
His nephew, Richard Lapham, earned first-team accolades as a high schooler at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire in 2005 and played offensive tackle for Boston College.
Family Brown was founded in 1967 by frontman Joe "Papa" Brown, who was born August 30, 1925 in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Noted owners of the General Kyd-Stern are its namesakes, General Kyd and Leo Stern, as well as Lord Amherst of Hackney, W.E. Hill & Sons and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
She was born Helen Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nat Welby Fiske and Deborielle Waterman Vinal.
Newcomb was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and with his parents and a brother, in 1839 he emigrated to Victoria, Texas.
It belonged to the private collection of Lord Amherst in Norfolk.
Renee Mallett is also the owner and art director of Nolia Gallery, a fine art gallery located in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Herbert Robbins presented the above described problem at the International Conference on Search and Selection in Real Time in Amherst, 1990.
He died at the age of 85 in Amherst, New York near Buffalo, and was interred in the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Cheektowaga, New York.
In 2009, SPoT opened their fifth location called Williamsville SPoT, in the town of Amherst, New York.
2 were in the possession of William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, a British book collector.
The copy used for the edition published by the Early English Text Society is from the Pierpont Morgan Library—it was previously owned by the Earl of Aylesford and Lord Amherst of Hackney.
The first game played between the two schools took place on November 6, 1897, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk.
Unlike its Boston counterpart, WGBY does not operate an affiliated radio station; the area is instead served by WFCR, an NPR affiliate licensed to Amherst.
William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835–1909), British Conservative Member of Parliament
He also exhibited a Thutmose III brick circa 1330bc, excavated from the banks of the Nile.
In 2004, Dr. and Mrs. McGuire made a $7.5 MM gift to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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The Amherst Center for Russian Culture was created by Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts after the gift of a major collection of Russian books, manuscripts, periodicals and ephemera by Thomas P. Whitney in 1991.
Powhatan Ellis, (1790–1863), born in Amherst County, justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, United States Senator from Mississippi, and minister to Mexico.
Arnott is located in central Wisconsin approximately four miles east of Plover, four miles south-south west of Custer, and seven miles west of Amherst (Lat: 44° 27' 26.0", Lon: -89° 26' 48.5").
Ashfield is the birthplace of prominent director Cecil B. DeMille (whose parents were vacationing in the town at the time), Alvan Clark, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope maker, and William S. Clark, member of the Massachusetts Senate and third president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst).
Theodore Baird Residence, Amherst, Massachusetts, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and also known as Baird House (and listed as Baird House on National Register of Historic Places)
After graduating from Amherst College in 1894 where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, he labored as a bookkeeper and lumberjack.
A contemporary of Bridgeman’s, Horace Walpole, describing his colleague’s design style in his essay On Modern Gardening, wrote: ‘though he still adhered much to strait walks with high clipt hedges, they were only his great lines; the rest he diversified by wilderness, and with loose groves of oak, though still within surrounding hedges’ (Amherst, 1896, p. 249).
The son of Charles Humphrey Atherton and Mary Ann Toppan-Atherton, Charles G. Atherton was born in Amherst, New Hampshire on 4 July 1804.
All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.
After the war, he returned to Amherst and received his B.A. in 1946.
He had a son, Peter M. Haas, who is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Among other assignments, he directed the 1949 WNBW production of Julius Caesar produced by his Amherst, Masquers to open the Folger Shakespeare Library Theater in Washington DC.
"Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity", Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
George W. Huber, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a center for international picture book art, drew 90,000 visitors to the Hampshire campus and Amherst during its first year.
He attended graduate school at Amherst and Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there.
Olds attended college at a number of schools including St. John's College, Annapolis, and the University of Wisconsin, but received his undergraduate B.A. from Amherst College in 1947.
He served as an assistant baseball coach under Bill Thurston at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts for several years, and his college coaching career has included stops at Lassen College in Susanville, California and Riverland Community College in Austin, Minnesota.
In 1750 Fort Lawrence (located in the present-day community called Fort Lawrence on the Missaguash River, just west of Amherst, NS) was built by British troops on LaPlanche Street to defend the border of Nova Scotia.
In addition to the Author and Germaine Pitt (or 'Lady Amherst', unrelated to any of Barth's previous novels), the correspondents are: Todd Andrews (from The Floating Opera), Jacob Horner (from The End of the Road), A.B. Cook (a descendent of Burlingame in The Sot-Weed Factor), Jerome Bray (associated with Giles Goat-Boy and Chimera) and Ambrose Mensch (from Lost in the Funhouse).
The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
Miss Charlton, who had recently completed a summer course at Amherst College in the newly developed field of librarianship, and is thought to have studied under Melvil Dewey, came to this library in 1895.
He has had residencies at Yaddo (1981 and 1992), the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire (1982, 1989, 1992), and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia (1992, 2007, 2010).
Richard Minear, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Route 10 is often called the College Highway because it links Yale University, Trinity College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth College.
A mutiny took place among the garrison at Fort Amherst in 1762, resulting in courts-martial at Louisbourg for the main people involved; demotions and hundreds of lashes by cat o'nine tails and one execution.
Bob Pickett (Robert A. Pickett, 1932–2010), head coach of the University of Massachusetts Amherst football team
At Amherst College Thurman met his lifelong friend Prof. Lal Mani Joshi, a distinguished Indian Buddhist scholar.
Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.
Sattler's other Buffalo-area locations included stores in the Thruway Plaza (later Thruway Mall) in Cheektowaga, New York (1957), Boulevard Mall in Amherst, New York (1962), Seneca Mall in West Seneca, New York (1969), and Main Place Mall in downtown Buffalo (1973).
TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.
Lindsley, along with George Ticknor at Harvard, Jacob Abbott at Amherst, and James Marsh at the University of Vermont, was considered one of the leading educational reformers of the era.
He was born in Mayfair, London, the son of Viscount Holmesdale (later 2nd Earl Amherst) and was baptised on 3 May 1836 in St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London.
In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.
Arthur Zajonc (born 1949), professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts
Weizenbaum attended Amherst Regional High School for her freshman year, before she decided to return to Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School where she went to middle school.