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2 unusual facts about Charles F. B. Price


Charles F. B. Price

For his outstanding work he received praise from President Calvin Coolidge, the Secretary of State and from the Nicaraguan Government.

Within six months the revolt in Cuba heated up, and President Theodore Roosevelt ordered a Marine expeditionary force to Cuba in September.


Charles Baird

Charles F. Baird (1923-2010), United States Under Secretary of the Navy and CEO of Inco Ltd.

Charles Carey

Charles F. Carey, Jr. (died 1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Charles Chandler

Charles F. Chandler (1836–1925), American chemist and public-health reformer

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.

Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.

Charles F. Brush

In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a hydroelectric power plant at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, among the first to generate electricity from water power in the United States.

Between 1910 and 1929 he wrote several papers on his version of a kinetic theory of gravitation, based on some sort of electromagnetic waves.

Charles F. Buck

He graduated from the high school of New Orleans in 1861, and then attended Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy near Pineville, Louisiana.

Charles F. Chandler

In 1870 he and his brother William Henry Chandler, a chemistry professor at Lehigh University, started the journal The American Chemist, the first chemical journal in America.

Upon retirement he and his second wife Augusta Berard Chandler continued to reside in New York City, but spent more and more time at their summer home in Westhampton and at her family's home in New Hartford, Connecticut, where Chandler died in 1925.

Charles F. Curry, Jr.

As he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, he engaged in the practice of law and in mining and other business enterprises.

Charles F. Haas

Ultimately, however, he settled in television, directing episodes of such popular series as Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Charles F. Howard

In 1994, Charlie Howard ran in the Republican primary for District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives, which is demographically dominated by Sugar Land, against incumbent Republican Jim Tallas, who succeeded Tom DeLay in 1984 after DeLay made a successful run for Congress.

Additionally, he has also been recognized by various publications, including the Houston Chronicle for his efforts in securing funds for the expansion of U.S. Highway 59, which runs through Sugar Land, and by the Republican Party of Texas for Howard's strong recognition of the party's values.

Charles F. Knight

A Republican, he has supported John Ashcroft, Bush Cheney '04, Rudy Giuliani, Roy Blunt, John McCain, Mitt Romney.

Charles F. McLaughlin

He was a member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947 until November 14, 1949 when he took the oath of office a day later as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia.

Charles F. Newcombe

In the process he became very interested in the Haida and started to collect their artifacts to "preserve" them from, what was then thought to be, the demise of the native culture.

Charles F. Wishart

Charles Frederick Wishart (1870–1960) was a United States Presbyterian churchman who was President of the College of Wooster from 1919 to 1944 and who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1923 at the height of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.

Charles Sprague

Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Charles Stein

Charles F. Stein II (1900–1979), Baltimore historian and heraldist

Charles Walcott

Charles F. Walcott (1836–1887), American Union brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War

Charlie Howard

Charles F. Howard (born 1942), known as Charlie, Texas state representative, 1995–present

Curtiss CS

The first of these took place overnight between 22 and 23 June, when Lt Frank Wead and Lt John D. Price set five records - distance (963.123 mi, 1,544.753 km), duration (13 hours, 23 minutes, 15 seconds), speed over 500 km (73.41 mph, 117.74 km/h), speed over 1,000 km (74.27mph, 119.12 km/h) and speed over 1,500 km (74.17 mph/118.96 km/h).

Dean A. Hrbacek

He decided that he would run at that time only if the incumbent Republican, Charlie Howard, chose not to run.

Emory H. Price

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Engineers Club of Dayton

The Engineers Club of Dayton was founded by Colonel Edward A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering in Dayton, Ohio in 1914.

Eric W. Mountjoy

Mountjoy, E.W., Windth, J., Price, R.A., and Douglas, R.J.W., (2001): George Creek, 83 C10, Geology and structure cross-section, Alberta, Geological Survey of Canada.

Ever Increasing Faith

Ever Increasing Faith is a Christian television show hosted by Frederick K. Price, and Betty Price that has been airing in weekly syndication since 1978.

Frederick Price

Frederick K. C. Price (born 1932), founder and pastor of Crenshaw Christian Center, California

Gene-centered view of evolution

Besides Richard Dawkins and George C. Williams, other biologists and philosophers have expanded and refined the selfish-gene theory, such as John Maynard Smith, George R. Price, Robert Trivers, David Haig, Helena Cronin, David Hull, Philip Kitcher, and Daniel C. Dennett.

Gutenberg Glacier

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after German-born seismologist Beno Gutenberg, director of the California Institute of Technology seismology laboratory in the 1930s, and collaborator with Charles F. Richter in developing the Richter Scale, 1935, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

John J. Valentine, Sr.

Upon the resignation of Charles F. Crocker in August 1882, Valentine was elected vice president and a director of Wells Fargo.

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

He was also the co-editor for Crypt of Cthulhu, published by Mythos Books LLC working alongside Robert M. Price, Michael Cisco and David Wynn.

Mansukh C. Wani

In 2000, Dr. Wani received an award for applied research in medicine, the Charles F. Kettering Prize, from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

Membrane paradigm

In 1986, Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price and D. A. Macdonald published an anthology of papers by various authors that examined this idea: "Black Holes: The membrane paradigm".

This approach to the theory of black holes was created by Kip S. Thorne, R. H. Price and D. A. Macdonald.

Mount Richter

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Charles F. Richter, American physicist, California Institute of Technology, 1930–70; in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, 1935, he developed the Richter Scale which bears his name, used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Peter O. Price

Price was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended Friends Select School.

Problem book

A.P. Lightman, W.H. Press, R.H. Price, and S.A. Teukolsky (1979) Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation (ISBN 978-0691081625)

Richard H. Price

These simulations have provided a major impetus for the development of gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO.

Robert M. Price

He questions the idea of a historical Jesus; in the documentary The God Who Wasn't There, Price supports a version of the Jesus myth hypothesis, suggesting that the early Christians adopted the model for the figure of Jesus from the popular Mediterranean dying-rising saviour myths of the time, such as that of Dionysus.

Rodman M. Price

On returning to New Jersey he was elected as a Democrat to the 32nd United States Congress from New Jersey's 5th congressional district and served from March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.

Seymour Peck

In Dec. 1956 Peck was indicted, along with Robert Shelton, William A. Price, and Alden Whitman, for contempt of Congress by a Washington grand jury.

Stan Barnes

Born in Wisconsin, Barnes played high school football at San Diego High for Clarence "Nibs" Price, who encouraged his brightest players, starting with Barnes, to follow his path to Berkeley to play for the California Golden Bears under coach Andy Smith.

T. Price

Price started his career playing for Geneva Cross, a team from the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

While the influence of the fantasies of Lord Dunsany on Lovecraft's Dream Cycle is often mentioned, Robert M. Price argues that a more direct model for The Dream-Quest is provided by the six Mars ("Barsoom") novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs that had been published by 1927.

Thomas M. Price

Outside Galveston, Price designed the Lasher House (1956) in the Memorial section of Houston, Texas which has been renovated and restored by Ray Bailey architects and the Bauer House outside Port Lavaca, Texas (1958).

Walter Price

Walter H. Price, one of the 'Four Founding Fathers' of Aston Villa Football Club

William Harold Cox

His most famous case was United States v. Price (1965), the federal government's effort to prosecute those who allegedly killed three Mississippi civil rights workers.


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