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Carlson's patrol

The battalion's original organization and tactics were based around Communist Chinese precepts Carlson had witnessed while serving as an observer with the Communists during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937-1938.


Air-to-air photography

Famous air-to-air photographers include Charles Brown (United Kingdom), Mariusz Adamski (Poland), Luigino Caliaro (Italy), Ted Carlson (United States of America), Jamie Hunter (United Kingdom), Jan Jorgensen (Norway) and Katsuhiko Tokunaga (Japan).

Albert D. Richardson

In August 2013, a new book about Junius Henri Browne and Richardson, Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy by journalist and author Peter Carlson, was published by PublicAffairs.

Anna Fairclough

Fairclough was elected to each of these offices by defeating an incumbent in the election; her Assembly victory was over incumbent Ted Carlson, better known as the Anchorage police officer who arrested actor Steve McQueen in 1972.

Arne Carlson

In 1994, the delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party State Convention viewed Carlson as too liberal, and endorsed instead Allen Quist and Doug McFarland.

Carlson's election followed a scandal arising after the initial Republican nominee, businessman Jon Grunseth, was accused of sexual improprieties that allegedly occurred several years earlier with two then-underage girls.

Bill Cowan

He has also been a Fox News Channel contributor since 2001, has been a co-host with Ambassador Dick Carlson of the radio and television show Danger Zone, and he has written articles for The Washington Post and been featured in several television shows apart from the documentary such as 60 Minutes, Larry King Live and others.

Brian E. Carlson

Brian E. Carlson (born 1947 in Alexandria, Virginia) is a public diplomacy specialist.

Carlson School of Management

Curtis L. Carlson (’37 BA) – Chairman, Carlson Companies, Inc., namesake of the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management

Carlson Twins

As with the Brewer twins, the Carlson twins first received public attention after modeling naked for photographer Bruce Weber.

Charlie Carlson

Mr. Carlson currently lives on the east coast of Florida, and is one of the founding members of the Grand Order of Weird Writers.

Cleghorne!

The series focused on the life of Ellen Carlson (Cleghorne), a single mom who is raising her nine-year-old daughter Akeyla on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Curtis Carlson

While at Sarnoff, Carlson led teams that developed the HDTV standard and designed a system to assess broadcast image quality, both of which were awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award.

For his contributions, Carlson was awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award in 2002 and the Society for Information Display's Otto H. Schade Award in 2006.

Debby Carlson

In 2004, Carlson was unsuccessful in her campaign against Conservative incumbent Rahim Jaffer, where she placed second.

Dylan Carlson

Carlson was one of the many people interviewed in the Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt & Courtney (1998), which argues that Cobain might have been murdered and casts suspicion on his wife Courtney Love.

George Lennon

He adopted Zen Buddhism and in 1967, with Chester Carlson, inventor of electrophotography (Xerography), became one of the founders of the Rochester Zen Center.

Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society

The Howard Center gained some publicity when Carlson, who was then its president, testified in a victorious Washington Supreme Court case against gay marriage.

Indent style

It was also popular in the early days of Windows, since it was used in three influential Windows programming books, Programmer's Guide to Windows by Durant, Carlson & Yao, Programming Windows by Petzold, and Windows 3.0 Power Programming Techniques by Norton & Yao.

Jack Carlson

Carlson's brothers Steve and Jeff are also former professional hockey players, and famous for roles in the movie Slap Shot as two of the Hanson Brothers.

Joe Moreira

At age nine, he began training in Jiu-Jitsu at the schools of the legendary Carlson and Rolls Gracie, where he was taught mainly by Reyson Gracie and Pinduka.

Joyce Carlson

Carlson created a pen-and-ink portfolio of her sketches several months after she began working at Disney, and presented it to her employers.

Karlstad, Minnesota

The new town was named Karlstad, honoring both Mr. Carlson and the city of Karlstad in Sweden.

Katrina Carlson

Carlson also garnered appearances in films and television shows including: In the Line of Fire, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a Bajoran Officer and Special Delivery.

Krister Henriksson

He also runs the film production company Tåbb Ltd together with his partner Cecilia Nilsson and he is co owner of the audiobook publisher Svenska Ljud Audioförlag (www.svenskaljudclassica.se) together with Carlson Invest Ltd (www.cinvest.se), Frekvens Produktion Ltd (www.frekvens.se) and the actors Katarina Ewerlöf and Johan Rabaeus.

Leonard Brumm

The Carlson Brothers later played the roles of two of the three Hanson Brothers in the 1977 motion picture, Slapshot.

Lev Yilmaz

Yilmaz was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Turkish physicist Hüseyin Yılmaz (author of the Yilmaz theory of gravitation) and Karen Carlson.

LSS Data Systems

Ken Carlson, founder—before designing and developing LSS software, Carlson helped integrate the first commercial Cray-1 computer system into the time-sharing network of United Computing Systems, and built one of the first commercial TCP/IP networks as Vice President of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.

Matthew Carlson

Carlson also wrote the screenplay for the 1994 film Wagons East! starring John Candy and Richard Lewis.

Patricia Hamilton

She married Leslie "Les" Carlson; their son Ben, graduated from theatre school; he appears in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning as Walter Shirley.

Paul Carlson

(The Twilight Zone television episode entitled "You Drive" was filmed in this neighborhood one year before Carlson's death.)

Psychological astrology

Carlson concluded that the astrologers were unable to match horoscopes with profiles compiled using the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) in blind tests any better than chance.

Richard Carlson

On July 14, 1951, Carlson and then U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey were the guests on the CBS live variety show, Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, in which hostess Faye Emerson visited Minneapolis to accent the kinds of music popular in the city.

In the 1958-1959 television season, Carlson portrayed Colonel Ranald Mackenzie in the syndicated western series, Mackenzie's Raiders, with Morris Ankrum and Brett King among those cast as "Raiders".

Richmond Greenway

An additional side project will add a bike lane/bike trail between the Richmond Greenway and the Ohlone Greenway at Potrero Avenue via 23rd Street, Carlson Boulevard, Cutting Boulevard, and Potrero.

Rylan Galiardi

On January 14, 2013, Galiardi was traded by Gwinnett, along with Christian Ouellet and Cody Carlson to the San Francisco Bulls in exchange for Justin Bowers and Sacha Guimond.

Society for Amateur Scientists

In 1995, Scientific American magazine tapped Carlson, due to his leadership in the citizen scientist community, to write their long running column The Amateur Scientist.

Sons of Gwalia

was formed in 1897 by George William Hall, major investor William Pritchard Morgan and others to own and operate the Sons of Gwalia mine, which had been discovered in March 1896 by prospectors A. Glendinning, Jack Carlson and Frank White, who had named it after the Welsh homeland of the syndicate funder, Coolgardie storekeeper Thomas Tobias.

The Beardless Warriors

The film starred Universal contract players Steve Carlson, Jonathan Daly, and Robert Pine, with James Drury as the sergeant.

The Deadly Snakes

Formed in Toronto in 1996, the band's final line-up consisted of Andre Ethier on vocals and guitars, Matthew Carlson on guitar, trumpet and bass, Chad Ross on guitar, bass and mandolin, Jeremi Madsen on guitar, bass, saxophone and percussion, Max McCabe-Lokos (using the stage name Age of Danger) on piano, organ and percussion, and Andrew "Gunn" Moszynski on guitar and drums.

The Electra

Formed in 1985 by Brian Nixon and Jeff Carlson, and later joined by Chris Manak (Peanut Butter Wolf).

The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson

The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson is an American current affairs television program hosted by journalist Gretchen Carlson on the Fox News Channel.

Tupelo Press

Tupelo also publishes a series of poetry in translation, including the work of such internationally respected authors and translators as Polina Barskova (translated by Ilya Kaminsky, Matthew Zapruder and Katie Farris), René Char (translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson), and Joumana Haddad (translated by Khaled Mattawa).

Wallace Carlson

Some time after the newspaper folded, Carlson created his first animated cartoon, Joe Boko Breaking Into the Big League (1914) completely on his own, the same year as Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur.

Wckr Spgt

The band consists of Joel Huschle, Mark Givens, and Dave Carpenter and, over the years, a plethora of guest musicians and artists, notably John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, Ian Carlson of The Desperation Squad, and the members of Nothing Painted Blue (Franklin Bruno, Kyle Brodie, and Peter Hughes).

WSNW

Programming on WSNW includes America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, oldies music with Nonna Carlson in the morning, AM Seneca and The Midday Report with Chad Dorsett, "Coffee Time" with Adam Wright, Kool Gold (late mornings and weekends), Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Sportstalk with Phil Kornblut, Jim Bohannon's nighttime show, and Kim Komando.


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