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2 unusual facts about Baker v. Carr


East New Market, Maryland

His defeat in an at-large county councilmanic election led to a subsequent action on the part of the United States Justice Department which resulted in a consent decree forcing Dorchester County to adhere to the Supreme Court's Baker v. Carr ruling of one man, one vote and the end of at-large races for single county councilmanic seats as well as affecting the drawing of lines in other county and state elections.

Jerry Atkinson

Atkinson was to serve a total of three terms in the Tennessee House, serving Davidson and Williamson Counties as a "floterial representative", part of an arcane system which was then in use in Tennessee to avoid the constitutionally-mandated redistricting of the House according to population every ten years following the census (and which was eventually invalidated by the United States Supreme Court in its landmark Baker v. Carr ruling).


1975–76 Spirits of St. Louis season

Twelve players from the final two Spirits of St. Louis rosters (1974–76) played in the NBA during the 1976–77 season and beyond: Maurice Lucas, Ron Boone, Marvin Barnes, Caldwell Jones, Lonnie Shelton, Steve Green, Gus Gerard, Moses Malone Don Adams, Don Chaney, M. L. Carr and Freddie Lewis.

Anne C. Conway

President George H. W. Bush appointed Conway to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 24, 1991, to the seat vacated by George C. Carr.

Anthony J. Carr

He entered general nurse training at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, at the age of eighteen (18) becoming a Registered Nurse in 1954.

Battle of Big Black River Bridge

Union Brig. Gen. Michael K. Lawler formed his 2nd Brigade, Eugene A. Carr's 14th Division, which surged out of a meander scar, across the front of the Confederate forces, through waist-deep water, and into the enemy's breastworks, held by Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn's East Tennessee Brigade.

Betsy B. Carr

She was a past supervisor of statewide programs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Carr–Benkler wager

The Carr–Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.

CSC Maiden Saginaw

In 1924 Walter J. Carr found investors Walter Savage, Edward Savage and John Coryell willing to put money into a new enclosed cabin aircraft.

Edward Carr

E. H. Carr, British historian, journalist and international relations theorist

Ezra S. Carr

Carr and his wife Jeanne were close friends of John Muir and were extremely influential in Muir's life at several key junctures.

Carr was born in Stephentown, New York on March 9, 1819, the son of Peleg Slocum Carr and Deborah Goodrich Carr.

One exhibitor was a young man named John Muir who in his spare time on the family farm in Marquette County whittled a series of very clever clocks and similar devices.

George Carr

George C. Carr (1929–1990), American lawyer and United States federal judge

Great Kings' War

John F. Carr and Roland Green, Great Kings' War, Ace Science Fiction Books, 1985

Great Kings' War is an English language science fiction novel by John F. Carr and Roland J. Green, a sequel to H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

James Carr

James G. Carr (born 1940), American federal judge for the Northern District of Ohio

Justice Carr

Leland W. Carr, an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1945 to 1963

Nathan T. Carr

Carr was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Michael C. Kerr and served from December 5, 1876, to March 3, 1877.

Otis T. Carr

Otis T. Carr (December 7, 1904 - September 20, 1982) first emerged into the 1950s flying saucer scene in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955 when he founded OTC Enterprises, a company which was supposed to advance and apply technology originally suggested by Nikola Tesla.

Ray Palmer's Fate Magazine gave Carr a great deal of free publicity, not all of it complimentary, throughout the 1950s.

Ozzie Silna

Twelve players from the final two Spirits of St. Louis rosters (1974–76) played in the NBA during the 1976–77 season and beyond: Maurice Lucas, Ron Boone, Marvin Barnes, Caldwell Jones, Lonnie Shelton, Steve Green, Gus Gerard, Moses Malone, Don Adams, Don Chaney, M. L. Carr and Freddie Lewis.

Paul Carr

Paul H. Carr (1924–1944), U.S. Navy gunner's mate and Silver Star recipient

Peter Carr

Peter P. Carr (1890–1966), American grocer and Wisconsin state senator

Reading comprehension

Authors, such as Nicholas Carr, and psychologists, such as Maryanne Wolf, contend that the internet may have a negative impact on attention and reading comprehension.

Robert Bruner

Bruner is the co-author, along with Sean D. Carr, of The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm.

Robert Gilpin

Gilpin describes his view of international relations and international political economy from a "realist" standpoint, explaining in his book Global Political Economy that he considers himself a "state-centric realist" in the tradition of prominent "classical realists" such as E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau.

Samuel S. Carr

He was at one point President of the Brooklyn Art Club, and was also a member of a Masonic Lodge.

Sean Carr

Sean D. Carr, Director of Corporate Innovation Programs at the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia

Steven E. Carr

Carr is the brother of entrepreneur and philanthropist Gregory C. Carr.

The Shallows

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, published in the UK as The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember, is a 2010 book by American journalist Nicholas G. Carr.

Too Big to Know

Weinberger discusses topics such as expertise, echo chambers, open government, the WELL, Debian, the U.S. Army's Center for the Advancement of Leader Development and Organizational Learning; and the writing of Charles Darwin (On the Origin of Species) and Nicholas G. Carr ("Is Google Making Us Stoopid?").

Wallace, North Carolina

Wallace is also the boyhood home of M. L. Carr who played professionally overseas, and with the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics.

Walter Carr

Walter J. Carr (1896–1970), American pilot and aircraft promoter


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