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2 unusual facts about Charles D. Ferris


Adam and Yves

Wildmon targeted ABC president Elton Rule and Federal Communications Commission chairman Charles D. Ferris with postcards urging them not to allow "perverted filth" on the air.

Charles D. Ferris

While most scholars look the term of Reagan appointee Mark S. Fowler as the beginning of telecommunications deregulation, deregulation actually began with Ferris.


A Public Space

Marilynne Robinson, Haruki Murakami, Charles D'Ambrosio, Rick Moody, Anna Deavere Smith, Kelly Link, Daniel Alarcón, Juan Manuel Chavez, Santiago Roncagliolo, Miguel Gutierrez, Jillian Weise, Keith Lee Morris, Jonathan Lethem, Martha Cooley, Anne Carson, Delia Falconer, David Levi Strauss, Nam Le, Ander Monson, Maile Chapman, and Antoine Wilson.

Battle of Al Mansurah

The ships of the Seventh Crusade sailed from the French ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, then in 1249 sailed toward Egypt, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois.

Battle of Fariskur

With the full support of Pope Innocent IV during the First Council of Lyon, King Louis IX of France accompanied by his brothers Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois launched the Seventh Crusade against Egypt.

Carlo Pedretti

In 1985, he attributed to Leonardo, a wax model (c.1506-08) of a bucking horse with rider, possibly an equestrian portrait of Charles d’Amboise, the French Governor of Milan from 1503-1511 and Leonardo’s friend and patron.

Charles D. Baker, Jr.

Because of Baker's role in the insurance business, the appointment caused controversy, but he and the hospital's CEO, Paul F. Levy, denied any conflict of interest.

Charles D. Breitel

In November 1973, he was elected on the Republican and Liberal tickets Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, defeating Democrat Jacob D. Fuchsberg and Conservative James J. Leff.

Charles D. Brown

Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Brown wrote and directed a single short film in 1914.

Charles D. Coffin

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis and served from December 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Charles D. Coryell

In 1954 he received the Louis Lipsky Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Charles D. Drake

While in the Senate he was chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-first Congress).

Charles D. Herron

He was the son of William Parke Herron (1843–1927), a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Charles D. Hodges

He was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy in the Thirty-sixth Congress, caused also by the death of Mr. Harris.

Charles D. McLaughlin House

The Charles D. McLaughlin House is located at 507 South 38th Street in the Gold Coast Historic District of Midtown Omaha, Nebraska.

Charles D. Metcalf

He activated that country’s first military finance office at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

Charles D. Provan

Provan expressed other controversial exegetical views in Christian News, including the idea that two books of the Old Testament: The Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes were warnings concerning both the late-life degeneracy of King Solomon and thinking and behavior about which believers should not engage.

Charles D. Rafferty

Rafferty's grandson, Kevin Rafferty, is a documentary film cinematographer, director, and producer, best known for his 1982 documentary The Atomic Cafe.

Charles D. Tandy

He first turned it into a leathercraft company when shoe rationing in World War II almost killed the business, and later expanded into selling leather and tools to make such products as wallets.

Charles D. W. Canham

The opening scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan depicts the conditions under which Canham's regiment landed on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach along with one company of Army Rangers.

Charles d'Abancour

Abancourt and his fellow-prisoners were murdered in cold blood in massacres on 9 September 1792 at Versailles, and Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime.

Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes

He was the first son of Honoré d'Albert (d. 1592), seigneur de Luynes, who was in the service of the three last Valois kings and of Henry IV of France.

Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes (5 August 1578 – Longueville, 15 December 1621), was a favourite of Louis XIII who was made a Peer of France and Constable of France before dying at the height of his influence.

Charles D'Ambrosio

Orphans, a collection of essays, was published in 2005 by Clear Cut Press.

Charles d'Autremont

During the professional years on New York's southern tier (1875–1882), d'Autremont campaigned actively for Horace Greeley in 1872, Samuel Tilden in 1876, and Winfield Scott Hancock in 1880.

Charles d'Orléans

Prince Charles Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Anjou (b. 1973) son of Prince Michel, Count of Evreux

Charles, Duke of Orléans, Duke of Orléans (1394 – 1465) son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans and Valentina Visconti

Charles G. Ferris

Ferris was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dudley Selden and served from December 1, 1834, to March 4, 1835.

Charles Kimball

Charles D. Kimball (1859–1930), American politician and Governor of Rhode Island

Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie

After the death of Louis du Vergier de La Rochejaquelein, Sapinaud succeeds him on June 10, 1815 at the head of the Catholic and Royal Army of Vendée, yet he resigns after a few days and names Charles d'Autichamp as his successor.

Chronique de la Pucelle

Shorty before Agincourt, Charles d'Orléans, soon to be made captive, appointed Cousinot his chancellor; Cousinot administered the affairs of the duchy during Charles' interminable captivity in England.

Commercial astronaut

This is distinct from an otherwise non-government astronaut (such as Charlie Walker) who fly while representing a non-government corporation but with funding and/or training coming from government sources.

Edwin Barclay

Edwin Barclay, a member of the True Whig Party which ruled at that time, served as foreign minister and secretary of state of Liberia in the government of Charles D.B. King from 1920 until 1930.

George Ferris

George M. Ferris, Jr. (1927–2008), American investment banker and philanthropist

George M. Ferris (1893–1992), American investment banker and philanthropist

Given Campbell

Soon after leaving university he came to St. Louis to begin practicing law and was for a short time in the office of Charles D. Drake, later a U.S. Senator from Missouri, and he was admitted to the bar in 1856.

I Marine Amphibious Corps

General Vandegrift carried on in command of the Corps when its next-designated commander for the invasion of Bougainville, Major General Charles D. Barrett, died following a fall from the balcony of his quarters in New Caledonia.

J. Edward Fox

Fox left government service in 1989, joining Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo as Managing Director of Mintz, Levin's Governmental and International Affairs Group.

Jesse N. Funk

He earned the medal while serving as a stretcher bearer during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, when he and another soldier, Charles D. Barger, entered no man's land despite heavy fire and rescued two wounded officers.

John Noble Goodwin

Goodwin was elected to be Arizona Territory's delegate to the 39th United States Congress on September 6, 1865, defeating incumbent Charles D. Poston in the process.

Louis, Count of Évreux

#Charles (1305–1336), Count of Étampes married Maria de la Cerda, Lady of Lunel, daughter of Fernando de la Cerda.

Monluc

Jeanne de Monluc (died 1657), countess of Carmaing, princess of Chabanais, brought the estates of her house to the family of Escoubleau by her marriage with Charles d'Escoubleau, marquess of Sourdis and Alluyes.

Mortimer Y. Ferris

He was Chairman of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission which supervised the construction of two bridges over Lake Champlain: The Champlain Bridge from Crown Point, New York, to Chimney Point, Vermont, in 1929; and a second bridge, from Rouses Point, New York, to Alburgh, Vermont, in 1937.

Sally Purcell

She published a number of translations and several selected editions of poetry, including Monarchs and the Muse (Carcanet, 1972), editions of George Peele and Charles d'Orléans (also for Carcanet), and a selection of Provençal Poems.

William Ferris

William H. Ferris (1874–1941), African American journalist and author

William R. Ferris (born 1942), folklorist and scholar of the U.S. South, former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities

William R. Ferris

In 2002, Ferris was a Visiting Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history, and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore.

He attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, for one year from 1965 to 1966, and returned to the U.S. to continue his graduate studies.


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