The law was introduced by Illinois State Representative Careen Gordon and State Senator Gary Dahl, and was signed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on June 11, 2006 and became effective immediately upon his signature.
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For much of the first half of 1864, the regiment served at Winchester, Virginia, under Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, and were defeated in their first significant combat action during the Second Battle of Winchester, being pushed off a wooded ridgeline near Kernstown, Virginia, by elements of the Confederate brigade of John B. Gordon on June 13.
Bruce S. Gordon (born 1946), American business executive and former NAACP president
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq is a 2006 book written by Michael R. Gordon, chief military correspondent for The New York Times, and Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, which details the behind-the-scenes decision-making leading to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Daniel P. Gordon (born 1969), American politician and construction contractor
Donaldson, Gordon, "The Bishops and Priors of Whithorn", in Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History & Antiquarians Society: Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, Third Series, vol.
His latest book, Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management & Risk Assessment, co-edited with Ian Bremmer and Paul Bracken, was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press.
1927 An Introduction to Old Norse, Revised edition 1956, revised by A.R. Taylor; Reprinted 1981, Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd edition
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A collection of these was privately published as the book Songs for the Philologists.
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On Gordon's departure from Leeds, he was succeeded by Bruce Dickins.
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While at Leeds, he wrote his An Introduction to Old Norse (first published 1927) and collaborated with Tolkien, who worked at Leeds from 1920–25, particularly on their edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (first published 1925).
He is likely to have been inspired by real people such as Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, "Chinese" Gordon and Lawrence of Arabia as well as the fiction of Talbot Mundy.
The Stonington Historical Society ran a major exhibit in 2005 about his life and work, curated by Bernard L. Gordon, who had fished with Thompson on Thompson's ship, the Eleanor.
Eugene C. Gordon, railroad construction engineer and Confederate Officer in the Civil War
He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs
Food of the Gods II, sometimes referred to as Gnaw: Food of the Gods II as well as Food of the Gods part 2, is a 1989 film that is a very loose sequel to the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film based on H.G. Wells' novel, The Food of the Gods.
After the President and CEO Bruce S. Gordon resigned, the NAACP announced on June 1, 2007 it would restructure, closing the regional offices to emphasize roles of the state conferences.
Gordon became a career foreign service employee in 1920, and served at embassies in Paris, Budapest, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro.
Gerald L. Gordon, Ph.D., is the president and chief executive officer of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) in Fairfax County, Virginia, a position he has held since late 1983.
Another man affiliated with Iberia College was its first president, the Rev. George A. Gordon, an abolitionist and local Presbyterian minister who refused a presidential pardon granted by Abraham Lincoln.
He remained with the D'Oyly Carte company until 1890, playing Piscator in The Carp (a one-act curtain raiser) when it accompanied Ruddigore, and Mr. Harrington Jarramie in Mrs. Jarramie's Genie (another curtain raiser), when it accompanied The Yeomen of the Guard, in each case at the Savoy Theatre in London.
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He was responsible for making the textual revisions to Ruddigore when that opera was restaged in December 1921, as well as the extensive revision (with music director Harry Norris) to create the Savoy Edition of Cox and Box, and he approved any changes to stage business, such as Darrell Fancourt's introduction of the Mikado's famous laugh.
After the war he worked at Tube Investments (TI) at the Group Research Laboratory, Hinxton Hall, near Cambridge.
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He designed the rescue dinghies for most bomber aircraft used in the war, and studied the strength and behaviour of reinforcement fibres made of glass, carbon, boron and other materials.
In his position as Pentagon spokesman, on July 25, 2009 Gordon wrote to a senior editor at The Miami Herald, reporting what he characterized as sexual harassment by its reporter Carol Rosenberg, whose beat is the Guantanamo detention camp.
Stewart Gordon, "Robes of Honour: Khilat in Pre-Colonial and Colonial India".
During the first phase of the Iraq war, he was the only newspaper reporter embedded with the allied land command under General Tommy Franks, a position that "granted him unique access to cover the invasion strategy and its enactment".
When the piece was performed with Yeomen, Brownlow was replaced by J. M. Gordon.
In 1913, having graduated from the Universities of University of Toronto and Oxford, Gordon became administrator at the University of Alberta.
He was an American diplomat, appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius.
He has also been involved in porting several non-gaming products such as Google Earth.
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icculus.org is Ryan C. Gordon's personal website and a project incubator not unlike Sourceforge.net and GNU Savannah.
He faced undefeated heavyweight prospect Gerry Cooney in 1978 but lost via a fourth-round disqualification.
He later resigned the ambassadorship, and was replaced by Robert C. F. Gordon.
Created by writer Robert N. Skir and artist Steven E. Gordon, he first appeared in "Speed And Spyke", episode #5 (December 9, 2000), where he was voiced by Neil Denis.
He has served as an adjudicator for many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer, William Kapell, Rosa Ponselle, Virginia Waring and the finals of the Canadian Music Competitions, and Music Teachers National Competitions at the regional and national levels.
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He founded the William Kapell International Piano Competition and acted as its director for 15 years.
Tom Gordon was Co-commander of Delaware's first serial killer task force which led to the apprehension and prosecution of Steven Brian Pennell, the state's first and only known serial killer.
Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959).
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He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-fifth Congress).
A 1978 graduate of Shaker High School, Gordon graduated from SUNY Brockport in 1982.
In 1918 he became one of the first two African-American All-Americans (the first was Paul Robeson).
Walter L. Gordon (1906–1987), Canadian politician and cabinet minister
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Walter A. Gordon (1894–1976), African-American political figure and American football player for University of California, Berkeley
He moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1809 to continue his practice and eventually became the city's commonwealth attorney in 1812.