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Abraham Baldwin

In 1801, Franklin College, UGA's initial college, opened to students with Josiah Meigs succeeding Baldwin as president to oversee the inaugural class of students.

African-American literature

In all, Baldwin wrote nearly 20 books, including such classics as Another Country and The Fire Next Time.

All Saints Church, Hollingbourne

Other memorials include those to Martin Barnham (d. 1610, father of Sir Francis Barnham), Dame Grace Gethin (d. 1697), Samuel Plummer (d. 1705), Baldwin Duppa (d. 1737) and Baldwin Duppa (d. 1764)

Baldwin v Brighton City Council

Andrea Baldwin underwent gender reassignment while working in a temporary post as Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Community Safety Development Officer with Brighton and Hove City Council.

Baldwin–Kennedy meeting

June Shagaloff, a White NAACP official (attending in an "unofficial capacity")

Bulgarian–Latin Wars

Emperor Baldwin I was captured, Count Louis I of Blois was killed, and the Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo led the surviving portions of the crusader army into a hasty retreat back to Constantinople, during the course of which he died of exhaustion.

Chad Ragland

Most recently, Chad competed in the SCORE International Laughlin Desert Challenge in 2010 and The Best in the Desert Parker 425 with past SCORE Trophy Truck Champion, BJ Baldwin for Baldwin Motorsports.

Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

Justus Doolittle, a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions joined the Rev. S.L. Baldwin of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission in the editorship, but this journal stopped publication in May 1872 after the publication of Volume 4.

Cos Cob Power Station

The "New Haven" chose A.C. electrification as proposed by Baldwin-Westinghouse, with locomotives which could operate on the third-rail D.C. system within city limits, and the A.C. system on the main line.

Craig Baldwin

Though he finished his first 16mm film, Wild Gunman, in 1978, he had explored his (rather Situationist) desires to eradicate the borderlines between fine and popular art, public and private imagery, the political and the purely aesthetic in several film and photo-essay projects, notably Flick Skin (1977), a Super-8 film that Baldwin made while living in the projectionist booth at a porn theater.

Cunningham Piano Company

Louis Cohen determined that building a small number of pianos by hand without the national recognition of companies like Mason & Hamlin, Steinway, or Baldwin was difficult in the economic climate of the Post World War II era.

Donny Baldwin

After Aynsley Dunbar left Jefferson Starship in 1982, Baldwin replaced him and joined his old band mate Thomas; he made his recorded debut with the band on the Nuclear Furniture LP in 1984.

Eustace of Boulogne

Eustace I, Count of Boulogne r.1045-1049, son of Count Baldwin II of Boulogne and Adelina of Holland

Faith Baldwin

In the 1960s, Baldwin became familiar as one of the "guiding faculty members" of the Famous Writers School, a heavily advertised correspondence school that drew criticism for allegedly deceptive advertising.

Felts

Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency, a U.S. private detective agency founded by William Gibboney Baldwin and Thomas Lafayette

For Fukui's Sake

For Fukui's Sake is a 2011 travel book by Sam Baldwin that describes the experiences of living in Ono, Fukui prefecture, Japan, whilst working as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) on the JET Programme.

Frank Stephen Baldwin

Together they had seven children: Frank Pardee Baldwin (1873–1946) who was born in Philadelphia; Emma Virginia Baldwin (1877–1952) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as a librarian at the public library; Eugene Denniston Baldwin (1880–?) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as an insurance clerk; George Howard Baldwin (1890–1950); Lillian Isabel Baldwin (1886–1916); and Blanche Baker Baldwin (1891–1969) who was born in New Jersey, and worked as a clerk at the YMCA.

Furman Stewart Baldwin

Furman S. Baldwin served as a navy pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II and served as a civilian for the Department of Defense at The United States Military Academy at West Point until his retirement in 1985.

George Dessart

George Baldwin Dessart (born August 27, 1925 - died October 20, 2012) was an American television producer and executive and served as national chairman of the American Cancer Society from 1996-98.

Gregory T. Baldwin

Gregory T. Baldwin, born March 23, 1976 in Hollywood, California, is a United States Air Force Officer and former video game developer, best known for his work with Electronic Arts' Westwood Studios and Interplay Entertainment.

Heartbeat Productions

Simon Edwards was looking to release records by local punk band Vice Squad, however Cherry Red were not enthusiastic, so with Dave Bateman and Shane Baldwin from the band he set up Riot City Records (they had chosen the name, as Bristol had recently been in the news due to the 1980 St. Pauls riot).

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.

History of Thessaloniki

However, after the death of the emperor Manuel I Komnenos in 1180, the fortunes of the Byzantine Empire began to decline and in 1185, Norman rulers of Sicily, under the leadership of Count Baldwin and Riccardo d'Acerra, attacked and occupied the city, resulting in considerable destruction.

Jaffa Railway Station

The locomotive was a Baldwin 2-6-0, one of the first three built for the line, and carried the American and French flags.

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

Salisbury was part of two parliamentary deputations which called on the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, in the autumn of 1936 to remonstrate with them about the slow pace of British rearmament in the face of the growing threat from Nazi Germany.

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

He was schooled at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906, where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society along with his friend Frederick W. Baldwin.

John F. Baldwin, Jr.

Baldwin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1966.

Joseph Baldwin

From 1857 to 1863, Baldwin led normal schools, including the Farmington Male and Female Seminary (Burnettsville, Indiana) and a new institution at Kokomo, Indiana.

Judith Baldwin

Baldwin, who took over the role of Ginger Grant in Rescue from Gilligan's Island in 1978 appeared with the original Ginger (Tina Louise) three years earlier in the 1975 film The Stepford Wives.

Judy Baldwin

Baldwin worked as a director for Avatar Studios in St. Louis for two years before being encouraged to move to Los Angeles by actor Kevin Kline, also a St. Louis native, who helped secure freelance work for Baldwin upon her arrival.

Louis Wright

Louis C. Wright, American academic administrator, president of Baldwin-Wallace College from 1934 to 1948

M1917 Enfield

A third manufacturer, Eddystone Arsenal - a subsidiary of Remington - was tooled up at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania.

Maco light

The tale associated the light with Joe Baldwin, a train conductor who was said to have been decapitated in a collision between a runaway passenger car and a locomotive at Maco, along the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, in the late 1800s.

Mary Julia Baldwin

In 1863, when the Civil War threatened to close the seminary, Baldwin became its principal.

Matewan, West Virginia

Attempts to unionize by coal miners in 1920 led to the Battle of Matewan between miners and Baldwin–Felts detectives, which was the inspiration for the 1987 movie Matewan.

Matthias W. Baldwin

Based on designs first shown at the Rainhill Trials in England, Baldwin's prototype was a small demonstration engine that was displayed at Peale's Philadelphia City Museum.

Monica Baldwin

Monica Baldwin (1893–1975) was a British writer, a niece of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who was a canoness regular for 28 years.

Moonshine River

Then, the manager announces that the showing, Romeo and Juliet, will not be played tonight, as the actors portraying the Montague and Capulet families - the Baldwin and the Estevez brothers - are at a feud with one another.

Nathan Schiff

Born in Forest Hills, New York, Schiff grew up in Baldwin Harbor, Long Island where he began making films at the age of 11.

No Name in the Street

It depicts several historical events and figures from the Baldwin's perspective: Francisco Franco, McCarthyism and Martin Luther King's death, as well as Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (titled Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano for the sing-a-long videocasette release) is an animated musical television special written by Dr. Seuss, directed by Gerard Baldwin, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, completed in 1979 and first aired on ABC on May 2, 1980.

Proximity fuze

Baldwin was a member of the (APL) team headed by Tuve that did most of the design work.

Reginald of Canterbury

The largest surviving version of his poems is in Bodleian Library manuscript Laud misc 40, which was probably a presentation copy to one of Reginald's correspondents, Baldwin, a monk of the cathedral chapter of Rochester Cathedral.

Restormel Castle

Restormel Castle was probably originally built after the Norman conquest of England as a motte and bailey castle around 1100 by Baldwin Fitz Turstin, the local sheriff.

Roger Sherman Baldwin

A simplified version of the events regarding the Amistad case was made into a movie called Amistad in 1997 in which Matthew McConaughey portrayed Roger Sherman Baldwin.

Roland Michener Secondary School

All homerooms are split into 4 houses, each named after a prominent Canadian politician: Baldwin, Frontenac, Tupper and Vanier.

Rowland E. Trowbridge

In 1864, Trowbridge defeated Baldwin to be elected to the 39th Congress, and was reelected in 1866 to the 40th Congress, serving from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1869.

The Baldwin Brothers

The album was also produced by Dave Trumfio and The Baldwin Brothers and includes musical contributions from Mark Lanegan, Sarai (rapper), Justin Porée of Ozomatli, Lisa Kekaula, David Randall (AKA The Wrekked Train) of Lo Fidelity Allstars and Julio Davis of The J. Davis Trio.

Theodore Goddard

Goddard went straight to Downing Street to see Baldwin, as a result of which he was provided with an aeroplane to take him directly to Cannes.

Up Late with Alec Baldwin

On November 15, 2013, MSNBC announced that Up Late would be suspended for two weeks starting with that night's show after Baldwin received criticism for allegedly using an anti-gay slur while interacting with reporters.


see also

Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency

In 1910, the name of the agency was changed to the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency, headquartered in Bluefield, West Virginia.