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Arthur F. H. Mills

Captain Mills (Wellington College, Berkshire, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) was wounded in World War I at La Bassée and wrote a pair of books, his first, about that experience: With My Regiment: From the Aisne to La Bassée (J. B. Lippincott & Co.: Philadelphia, 1916) and Hospital Days (T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1916) under the pseudonym Platoon Commander.


A.J. Moore Academy

Billy G. Mills (born 1929), Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1963–74, Superior Court judge thereafter

Abraham G. Mills

Abraham Gilbert Mills (March 12, 1844 – August 26, 1929) was the fourth president of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (1883-1884), and is best known for heading the "Mills Commission" which controversially credited Civil War General Abner Doubleday with the invention of baseball.

Unsurprisingly, the agreement was unpopular with players, who organized to form a new league for the 1884 season, the Union Association, which did not recognize the reserve rule or salary limitations.

In 1888, Mills called an assembly of representatives from the three professional leagues—the National League, American Association, and Northwestern League—in what was dubbed as the "Harmony Conference."

Arthur Bentley

Arthur F. Bentley (1870–1957), American political scientist and philosopher

Arthur F. Bentley

Arthur Fisher Bentley (October 16, 1870 in Freeport, Illinois – May 21, 1957 in Paoli, Indiana) was an American political scientist and philosopher who worked in the fields of epistemology, logic and linguistics and who contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science.

Arthur F. DeFranzo

On that day, near Vaubadon, France, he was wounded while rescuing an injured man from hostile fire.

Arthur F. Foran

Dick Foran was a famous B-movie actor, while Walter E. Foran followed in his father's footsteps in the New Jersey Senate.

Arthur F. Gorham

Gorham left Miami when he received the principal Congressional appointment to West Point from Rep. William L. Fiesinger.

His name was added in a ceremony on October 6, 1949 presided over by West Point Superintendent Major General Bryant Moore and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg.

In November 1941 he graduated from the newly created Airborne School receiving a "Certificate of Proficiency" signed by then Major Robert Sink and, more importantly, a set of silver jump wings.

Arthur F. H. Newton

In Rhodesia he founded the Bulawayo Harriers and set amateur records for 60 and 100 miles.

After this race he returned to England and ran the London to Brighton course in 5:53:43, beating the previous record by over an hour.

Arthur F. Lederle

Born in Leland, Michigan, Lederle graduated from Eastern Michigan College in 1909, and received an LL.B. from Detroit College of Law in 1915, an LL.M. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1923, and an LL.D. from Wayne State University in 1952.

Arthur F. Odlin

From 1901 to 1904, Odlin was a judge of the Court of First Instance in Manila in the then-U.S. controlled Philippine Islands, reportedly the first court to be created in the Philippines under U.S. rule.

Arthur F. Wright

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Arthur Wright, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 70+ works in 200+ publications in 6 languages and 8,800+ library holdings.

Arthur Knight

Arthur F. Knight (1865–1936), American inventor credited with invention of steel golf clubs

Behr Brothers Piano Company

Xavier Scharwenka, Moritz Moszkowski, S. B. Mills, Edottard Remenyi and a host of other world famous artists and composers have endorsed instruments bearing the Behr Bros.

Bennett Scott

He co-wrote many songs with A.J. Mills and Fred Godfrey including Tom Costello’s "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Sail Away", Whit Cunliffe’s "Fall In And Follow Me", "One Of The B’hoys" by Mark Sheridan, "When I Take My Morning Promenade" by Marie Lloyd, "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty by Florrie Forde and "Take me in a Taxi, Joe".

Burns Fellowship

Arthur F. Burns Fellowship for United States journalists with German language skills, organized by the International Center for Journalists

Daniel W. Mills

He moved to Corwin, Ohio, in 1859 and engaged in the mercantile, grain-shipping, and pork-packing businesses.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

David L. Mills

Mills was the chairman of the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures Task Force (GADS) and the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force.

Douglas R. Mills

Mills served as Athletic Director for the University of Illinois from 1941 to 1966, responsible for football coaches Ray Eliot and Pete Elliott and basketball coach Harry Combes.

Elijah H. Mills

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826.

Fort Bridger

Daguerreotypist John Wesley Jones visited the garrison in 1851 and Samuel C. Mills, traveling with the Army bound for Utah, produced at least one image of Fort Bridger in 1858.

Fort Kearny

The earliest surviving photograph of the post, taken in 1858 by Samuel C. Mills, shows the post as a collection of adobe buildings without any wall or fortifications.

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

The earliest surviving photograph of Fort Laramie, taken in 1858 by Samuel C. Mills, shows the remains of the old adobe walled fur trade fort (Fort John) flanked by a cluster of scattered wood and adobe buildings around the parade grounds.

Janet Mills

Janet T. Mills (born 1947), Attorney General of the US state of Maine

Janet M. Mills (1921–1991), Republican member of the Connecticut House of Representatives

Janet T. Mills

Janet Trafton Mills (born December 12, 1947, in Farmington, Maine) is the Attorney General of the US state of Maine and current vice chair of the Maine Democratic Party.

Jon L. Mills

He has appeared on CNN's "Burden of Proof," Public Television's "Lehr Report," National Public Radio, ABC, BBC and other media.

Kensett, Arkansas

Located adjacent to the east side of Searcy, the city is the hometown of noted legislator Wilbur D. Mills, who was influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s in the United States House of Representatives.

Knowing and the Known

Knowing and the Known is a 1949 book by John Dewey and Arthur Bentley.

Lady Dorothy Mills

Lady Dorothy married Captain Arthur F. H. Mills of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry after he was wounded in the First World War in 1916, being presented at the ceremony with a wedding ring made from a bullet that had been surgically removed from his ankle after he was wounded in combat at La Bassée, France.

Ntpd

The name of the software was changed back to "ntpd" for version four because the NTP creator, Dave Mills, decided that something probably should not be "experimental" for about twenty years without changing dramatically.

Ogden L. Mills

He was to elected to the Republican Party, from the 67th, 68th and the 69th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1921 until March 3, 1927.

P. J. Mills

In 1975, Mills ran again for statewide office when Louisiana Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr., stepped down to run unsuccessfully for governor against Edwin Edwards and State Senator Robert G. Jones of Lake Charles, son of former Governor Sam Houston Jones.

Percy Jewett Burrell

Burrell served as the sixth supreme (national) president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity from 1907 to 1914, and along with fraternity founder Ossian E. Mills has been credited by fraternity historians with encouraging the early expansion of and formulating the basic philosophies and spiritual values espoused by the fraternity.

Ralph J. Mills

His essays and criticism concentrated on 20th Century poets such as Roethke, Edith Sitwell and Wallace Stevens.

Roosevelt Union Free School District

“I knew then there had to be a problem with the deficit,” he said, “but at that time I couldn’t tell how large the deficit was.”- Richard P. Mills.

Samuel C. Mills

After arriving at Camp Floyd, Mills accompanied Simpson's detachment in surveying a new road to Fort Bridger up Provo Canyon.

T. Mills

At age 17, he began his solo career writing music in his bedroom using software such as Pro Tools, Logic and Reason to create backing tracks for his songs, and by 18, he was posting his music on MySpace.

U.S. Mills

Meanwhile, the Erewhon Natural Foods Market was founded in 1966 by Aveline and Michio Kushi, with an emphasis on organically-grown produce and macrobiotics.

Their brands include Uncle Sam Cereal, Erewhon, New Morning, Skinner's Raisin Bran, and, formerly, Farina.

Walter Travis

The Schenectady Putter was invented by Arthur F. Knight, a General Electric engineer, who created a model reflecting his ideas in the summer of 1902 at his home course, Mohawk Golf Club in Schenectady, NY.


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