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79 unusual facts about Billy "Uke" Scott


A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

In New York Times critic A. O. Scott's introduction to the work, Scott attempts to justify McCarthy's "witty savagery", as the collection's essays reveal McCarthy's unmitigated seriousness and rigor that were sometimes muzzled in her works of fiction.

AERCam Sprint

The sphere, which looks like an oversized soccer ball, was released by Mission Specialist Winston E. Scott during the STS-87 spacewalk and flew freely in the forward cargo bay for about 30 minutes.

Allen Scott

Allen D. Scott (1831–1897), American lawyer and politician from New York

Allen J. Scott (born 1938), professor of geography and public policy

Anna Ella Carroll

Based on this information Carroll wrote a memorandum that she sent to Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott and Attorney General Edward Bates in late November 1861, advocating that the combined army-navy forces change their invasion route from the Mississippi to the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

Ashburne Hall

Ashburne Hall was founded in 1900 by Samuel Alexander, R. D. Darbishire, C. P. Scott and Alice B. Cooke as a hall of residence for women students.

Bill Scott

Billy "Uke" Scott (1923–2004), British music hall performer and ukulele player

Buffalo, Missouri

Terry D. Scott, 10th Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy

C. Fred Bergsten

In 2001, he co-founded the Center for Global Development along with Edward W. Scott, Jr. and Nancy Birdsall.

Cadastre

James C. Scott, in Seeing Like a State, argues that all maps, but particularly cadastral maps, are designed to make local situations legible to an outsider, and in doing so, enable states to collect data on their subjects.

Charles L. Scott

The severity of his leg pain caused him to resign his commission in 1862, after the Battle of Seven Pines.

Christopher Scott

Christopher J. Scott, television, film and theater producer in New York City

David B. Robertson

In 2008, Robertson was term limited from serving addition terms in the Michigan State House and was succeeded by Paul H. Scott.

Desmond J. Scott

In August 1943 he received the DSO and became Wing Leader, RAF Tangmere.

Douglas D. Scott

Scott has led similar work at other Indian Wars battlefields, including Fort Washita and the site of the Sand Creek Massacre.

Douglas Scott

Douglas P. Scott (born 1960), mayor of Rockford, Illinois, United States

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk was the first New York theater organization to give awards to talents such as Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein and George C. Scott.

Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son.

Frank D. Scott

Scott was born of Scottish ancestry in Alpena, Michigan, attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1901.

During the 69th Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

Frank S. Scott

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883 – September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident.

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Founded in 2004 by Edward W. Scott, Adam Waldman and Jack Valenti, Friends of the Global Fight works to educate and mobilize U.S. decision makers to support the Global Fund and the fight to end the worldwide burden of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Game Critter Super-Squad!

Game Critter Super-Squad! is a comic created by Jeremy "Norm" Scott that appeared in the now-defunct video game magazine GameNOW.

Glenn Springs Raid

When General Hugh L. Scott learned of the attack he organized another punitive expedition under the joint command of Colonel Frederick W. Sibley and Major George T. Langhorne.

H. H. Scott, Inc.

H.H. Scott was involved in early stereo multiplex testing with radio station WCRB in Boston, one of the first three U.S. FM stations to broadcast in multiplex stereo.

Hal S. Scott

In 1974-1975, before joining Harvard, he clerked for Justice Byron White.

Hey, Shipwreck

Patrick Hrabe says former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Terry D. Scott wrote him and said he was "still laughing" after viewing the cartoons.

High modernism

Essentially located in the wilderness, Brasília was to be a “single-function, strictly administrative capital,” says political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott.

Highland Park Community College

Among the alumni of Highland Park Community College is Michigan State Senator Martha G. Scott.

Howard E. Scott

-- with Deacon Jones from the LA Rams"?title=Eric Burdon">Eric Burdon and Lee Oskar stopped in to hear them play.

Hox gene

In 1983, the homeobox was discovered independently by researchers in two labs: Ernst Hafen, Michael Levine, and William McGinnis (in Walter Gehring's lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland) and Matthew P. Scott and Amy Weiner (in Thomas Kaufman's lab at Indiana University in Bloomington).

Hugh L. Scott

He was promoted to major in the Regular Army in February 1903 and served as Military Governor of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, in 1903-06 and also commanded troops there, taking part in various skirmishes, reorganized the civil government and institutions.

Jacqueline Babbin

They also continued their collaboration throughout the decade as producers on TV specials, including Hedda Gabler (with Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave), and The Crucible (with George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, and Fritz Weaver).

Joan Wallach Scott

Previously married to Donald Scott, a professor of American history at CUNY, she is the mother of A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, and the artist Lizzie Scott.

Joe B. Scott

A left-handed hitter, Scott played professionally from 1936 until 1956.

John A. Scott

The collection of novellas What I Have Written has been filmed from his own screenplay and he has been translated into French, German and Slovenian.

John C. Brown

In 1876, Brown, who supported Thomas A. Scott's efforts to build a transcontinental railroad in the South, joined the Texas & Pacific Railroad as a vice president.

John P. Scott

John P. Scott (c. June 12, 1933 – May 21, 2010) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 1998 where he represented the 36th Legislative District, which covered Passaic and portions of southern Bergen County.

John Sidel

He received his Bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MA in Political Science in 1988 from Yale University, where he worked closely with James C. Scott, and he received his PhD in 1995 from Cornell University, where he worked under the supervision of Benedict Anderson.

Julian Schlossberg

He also established himself as a producer’s representative for prominent figures such as Elia Kazan, Dustin Hoffman, John Cassavetes, and George C. Scott, Elaine May and Robert Duvall.

Just price

The political scientist James C. Scott, for example, showed how this ideology could be used as a method of resisting authority in "The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia" (1976).

Justin, Scott, and Speigel

The morning show runs Monday through Friday from 5:30AM-10AM, starring Justin Schlegel, Scott Reardon and Josh Spiegel with their producer Mike Anderson.

Kaintuck Territory

In 1976 the Bicentennial Theater was added, where musical acts including the Statler Brothers , Barbara Mandrell , Billy "Crash" Craddock, Jerry Lee Lewis , Marty Robbins , Ronnie Milsap , Conway Twitty , Ernest Tubb and The Monkees appeared.

Kesho Y. Scott

She is the author of several books, including The Habit of Surviving, and Tight Spaces (coauthored with Cherry Muhanji and Egyirba High), which was the winner of the 1988 American Book Award, and was also awarded the Christine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

After receiving her doctoral degree she became Distinguished American Studies Scholar in Residence at Pennaylvania State University in Harrisburg (1989), visiting professor at Nanjing University in China (1994), and Fulbright visiting professor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (2001–2002).

Larry B. Scott

He was also the voice of the Paladin in the game Diablo II.

Mars Automatic Pistol

It was manufactured first by Webley & Scott and later by small gunmakers in Birmingham and London.

Matthew P. Scott

Among his laboratory's many subsequent discoveries, he is recognized for the cloning of the patched gene family and demonstration that a human homolog PTCH1 is a key tumor suppressor gene for the Hedgehog signaling pathway as well as the causative gene for the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, or Gorlin syndrome.

Michael L. Scott

In 2005, Scott, along with William Scherer III and Doug Lea developed a set of algorithms to handle lock-free concurrent exchanges and synchronous queues.

Michael T. Scott

Michael T. Scott is an American comedy writer, animation director and creator of the Happy Fatties online cartoon series, which has been featured on several notable web video sites including, YouTube, Dailymotion, Yahoo! Video, Openfilm, Animation World Network, Crackle, Aniboom, Funny or Die and Newgrounds.

Montevideo Uruguay Temple

Richard G. Scott, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who was one of the first Mormon missionaries in Uruguay, presided at the groundbreaking ceremony for the temple.

Moorestown Friends School

Historian James C. Scott dedicated his 1990 book Domination and the Arts of Resistance to Moorestown Friends School.

Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise

The book indicates that the Enterprise's original five-year mission ended on April 7, 2212, while later and more authoritative print (Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, The Star Trek Encyclopedia and on-screen references (Star Trek: Voyager: "Q2 (Voyager episode)") put the end of the mission around 2270.

Although Star Trek staffers such as Michael Okuda and Andrew Probert served as consultants for the book, it contains statements that were later contradicted.

Nathan B. Scott

Born near Quaker City, Ohio, he attended the common schools and engaged in mining near Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1859 to 1862.

Newton Booth

He returned to Terre Haute in 1857 and engaged in the practice of law with future U.S. Congressman Harvey D. Scott until 1860, when he returned to Sacramento, and again engaged in mercantile pursuits.

Nirbheek

The gun's simple mechanism is thought to have been based on earlier designs by Webley & Scott and Smith & Wesson.

Patched

The original mutations in the ptc gene were discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by 1995 Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and colleagues, and the gene was independently cloned in 1989 by Joan Hooper in the laboratory of Matthew P. Scott, and by Philip Ingham and colleagues.

Posthegemony

James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990)

Richard G. Scott

A few weeks after returning from Uruguay, Scott was interviewed by the then-Captain (later Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover for a job on a top-secret project involving nuclear energy.

After they both completed their missionary service, they married in the Manti Utah Temple.

One of his missionaries was D. Todd Christofferson, who would later be called to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles with Scott.

Robert W. Scott

Constitutionally barred from seeking another term, he later served as co-chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission and as President of the North Carolina Community College System, from 1983 until 1995.

Roncarelli v. Duplessis

Roncarelli's legal counsel throughout were A.L. Stein and Professor Frank Scott.

Sep E. Scott

He drew five issues of Thriller Comics Library, which also reprinted his "Captain Flame" and "King's Captain" serials, and painted 108 covers for the title, and several for Cowboy Comics Library, War Picture Library and Swift.

Teenage Rebel

It was nominated for two Academy Awards; Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss).

Thomas E. Scott, Jr.

Scott served a judge on Circuit Court in Miami from 1980 to 1984, returning to private practice in Fort Lauderdale from 1984 to 1985.

Thomas F. Scott

Thomas Fielding Scott (March 12, 1807–July 14, 1867) was the first missionary Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Oregon territories.

Turin School of Development

Lectures frequently includes prominent international professors such as Prof. David Throsby, Prof. Allen Scott, Prof. Massimo Marelli (rector of University of Naples), Prof. Gianmaria Ajani (dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Turin) and Prof Helmut Anheier.

Walter D. Scott

WD Scott was named after Walter Scott and his wife, Dorothy (later Lady Scott).

Australia converted to decimal currency on 14 February 1966 and most Australians alive at the time can remember the theme song to the advertising teaching about the conversion, which was sung to the tune of "Click Go the Shears".

Sir Walter D. Scott, AC, CMG founded Australia's first management consultancy firm, WD Scott and was active in its leadership until his death in 1981.

Walter M. Scott

Walter M. Scott (November 7, 1906, Cleveland, Ohio – February 2, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

His first Academy Award nomination came in 1950 for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's drama All About Eve.

William B. Campbell

In early 1862, after the Union Army occupied Middle Tennessee, Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott recommended Campbell for military governor, but the appointment went to Andrew Johnson.

Winfield W. Scott, Jr.

A point of irony is that Willard W. Scott was a cadet at West Point at the same time as Winfield W. Scott, with Willard being two years senior to Winfield.

Winston M. Scott

Winston Mackinley Scott (1909 - 26 April 1971) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as Mexico City station chief from 1956 to 1969, having joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In 1955 Scott asked for a transfer to Mexico City, and took office as station chief there in August 1956, becoming "a virtual proconsul".

Xen C. Scott

Scott recruited Joe Sewell to Alabama and then sent him to the Cleveland Indians when Sewell's football days were over; Joe Sewell went to the Baseball Hall of Fame.


B. B. Dickerson

He now lives in Southern California and tours with Howard E. Scott, Lee Oskar and Harold Brown as the Lowrider Band.

Categorical set theory

Lambek, J. and Scott, P.J., Introduction to Higher Order Categorical Logic, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986.

Dan Christie Kingman

Among the pallbearers were Chief of Staff General Hugh L. Scott and two former Chiefs of Engineers, Generals Mackenzie and Bixby.

Idemili North

Towns that make up the local government are Abacha, Abatete, Eziowelle, Ideani, Nkpor, Obosi, Ogidi, Oraukwu, Uke, Umuoji.

Pediatric ophthalmology

Other notable pediatric ophthalmologists have included: Jack Crawford, John T. Flynn, David S. Friendly, Eugene R. Folk David Guyton, Eugene Helveston, Arthur Jampolsky, Barrie Jay, Phillip Knapp, Burton J. Kushner, Henry Metz, Marilyn T. Miller, John Pratt-Johnson, Arthur Rosenbaum, William E. Scott, Gunter K. von Noorden, and Mette Warburg.

Steve Stadelman

Stadelman was endorsed by former Rockford Board of Education President Nancy Kalchbrenner and former Mayors Charles Box and Doug Scott.

Willie Mabon

"Seventh Son", first recorded by Mabon in 1955, has since been covered by a number of artists including Johnny Rivers, Georgie Fame, John Mellencamp, Billy "Crash" Craddock, Mose Allison, Sting, Climax Blues Band, and Long John Baldry.