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Andrew W. Loomis

Loomis was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1837, until October 20, 1837, when he resigned.


Alvin W. Hall

In 1922, United States Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon appointed Hall to a special committee designed to review the procedures of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Andrew Lewis

Andrew W. Lewis, medieval and Renaissance Europe historian at Missouri State University

Andrew W. Barrett

Barrett was born in March 8, 1845, in Stockholm, New York, to Joseph Beeman Barrett and Mehitable or Mahitable Noyes.

Ashmolean Museum University Engagement Programme

The University Engagement Programme of the Ashmolean Museum (the UEP) was established at the University of Oxford in 2012 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

BiblioVault

Development began in late 2001 under the auspices of the University of Chicago Press, with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Bleeding Oath

They have gained notoriety for their large Facebook campaigns, as well as their irreverent attitude and self-deprecating humour, as evidenced by the group and its fans getting artists from various major groups, including Andrew W.K., DragonForce, Jason Aalon Butler of letlive. and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth (who the band are heavily influenced by) to tell them, in jest, to "fuck off".

Bob Ufer

In 1983, the parents of Ann Arbor raised rock 'n' roller, Andrew W.K., purchased the Ufer home.

Carolyn Makinson

From 1988 to 2002, she was responsible for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s population and refugee programs, and remained a senior advisor to the foundation until 2006.

Charles D. Coffin

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis and served from December 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Chauncey C. Loomis

On this first trip, he received permission to disinter the body of Charles Francis Hall, a Cincinnati journalist who in had made two attempts (1860–63 and 1864–69) to find the grave of Sir John Franklin, and who himself died in the course of an 1871 attempt to reach the North Pole.

Destroy Build Destroy

Destroy Build Destroy was a game show hosted by musician Andrew W.K. in which two groups (a "green or blue" team and an "orange or yellow" team, usually grouped by theme such as common interests) of three teenage contestants got to destroy various objects, then built vehicles out of the wreckage.

Edward L. Ayers

The lab is currently developing a digital atlas of American history through a grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Francis B. Loomis

His commissions included final negotiations which resulted in the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone, service as special ambassador to France to receive the body of John Paul Jones and Special Envoy Extraordinary to Japan, arranging the visit of the U.S. fleet to that country in 1908.

It was during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison that Loomis first entered government service as consul at Saint-Étienne, and at Grenoble, France, until 1893.

Francis Loomis

Francis B. Loomis (1861–1948), the 25th United States Assistant Secretary of State

Geoffrey de Freitas

Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law, and in 1936 on the voyage home he met his future wife, Helen Graham Bell, a Bryn Mawr graduate and daughter of Laird Bell, a prominent Chicago lawyer and Democrat.

Guatemala, Cuba

In the first half of the 20th century, the village was a sugar cane processing center owned and operated by the United Fruit Company and named in honor of one of the company's founders, Andrew W. Preston.

Hanna Holborn Gray

She has also served as a Director, Board Member or Trustee of various institutions, including the Harvard Corporation, the Yale Corporation, the Smithsonian Institution, JP Morgan Chase, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Marlboro School of Music, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Concord Coalition, the Mayo Clinic, the Brookings Institution, and Bryn Mawr.

Herbert C. Hoover Building

Soon afterward Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon and the Board of Architectural Consultants, composed of leading architects and headed by Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago architectural firm of Bennett, Parsons, and Frost, developed design guidelines for the site.

Jaded Sun

After gaining new experience they started to record their debut album Gypsy Trip together with producers Richard Mouser (Weezer, Dream Theater, Tears for Fears), Jimmy Coup (The Coup de Grace and Andrew W.K.) and Robert Vosgien (Lenny Kravitz, Bush, Goo Goo Dolls).

James E. Krier

James E. Krier is the Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the father of performer Andrew W.K. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the fields of property, contracts, and law and economics, and he teaches or has taught courses on contracts, property, trusts and estates, behavioral law and economics, and pollution policy.

Jaroslav Miller

He was twice appointed a fellow of the prestigious German scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster) and the American Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004, 2010 Wolfenbüttel).

Keith David Watenpaugh

He has also had the CIEE Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, Social Science Research Council, Will Rogers and the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq fellowships; he was the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies at Williams College in 1998-2000.

Math the Band

The band has performed over 1000 shows throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom, touring with bands such as Andrew W.K., Japanther, Wheatus, MC Frontalot, mc chris, MC Lars,and Peelander-Z.

Paul Magdalino

He is a fellow of: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Early Christian Humanism, Catholic University of America; Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium at Frankfurt and Munich; Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University.

Philip S. Khoury

Khoury has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and Thomas J. Watson Foundation.

Roman de la Rose Digital Library

With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this joint project makes available about half of the roughly 300 Rose manuscripts known to be extant.

Thine Is the Glory

The protagonist is Scott Shallenberger Stewart, who begins as a country boy and ends among the roster of "the lords of creation"—Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew W. Mellon, George Westinghouse, and others.

Todd Hedrick

Hedrick was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Graduate Research Grant from the Mellon Foundation and a DAAD Summer Fellowship from the Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Utrice Leid

Leid worked as a receptionist at the New York Amsterdam News for six months, and in 1977 she and Andrew W. Cooper, a columnist at the newspaper, left to establish the Trans-Urban News Service (TUNS).

William Larimer Mellon, Sr.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 1, 1868 to James Ross Mellon, eldest son of Judge Thomas Mellon, and Rachel Larimer Mellon, daughter of railroad and land baron William Larimer, Jr. He spent part of his childhood in the West with his uncle Andrew Mellon, who deeply influenced him.

Zen of Screaming

Other pupils of Melissa Cross have been the lead vocalists for famous heavy metal bands such as Slipknot, All That Remains, Shadows Fall, Underoath, Arch Enemy, Madball, God Forbid, and Andrew W.K.


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