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4 unusual facts about Charles G. Boyd


Charles G. Boyd

He is a member of the board of directors at defense electronics firm, DRS Technologies; graphics software firm, Forterra Systems; and venture capitalists In-Q-Tel, who support the work of the Central Intelligence Agency.

From May 1, 2002 until December 31, 2009, he was the president and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a national security public interest group.

He retired from the Air Force in 1995 and has remained active in the national security realm, including as a program director of the Council on Foreign Relations and as president of Business Executives for National Security.

From December 14–17, 2009, Boyd led a delegation from BENS to Pyongyang, North Korea, to discuss economic issues with officials from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea government.


Advanced Base Force

On 19 June 1913, the Fixed Defense Regiment, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Long, was formed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Animal Stories

:See also: section on ‘’’Animal Stories’’’ under Charles G. D. Roberts.

Blood type diet

The evolutionary theory of blood groups used by D'Adamo stems from work by William C. Boyd, an immunochemist and blood type anthropologist who made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood groups.

Charles B Macgibbon

Charles and Fred J. Boyd actively worked to create a society for hospital pharmacists.

Charles Conn

Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) the 19th century U.S. Representative from Indiana and the namesake of the musical instrument company C.G. Conn Inc.

Charles G. Atherton

The son of Charles Humphrey Atherton and Mary Ann Toppan-Atherton, Charles G. Atherton was born in Amherst, New Hampshire on 4 July 1804.

He was a States-rights Democrat from a northern State of New England.

Charles G. Bennett

Bennett was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.

Charles G. Bond

Bond, a nephew of American Civil War general Charles H. Grosvenor, was born in Columbus, Ohio the son of William W. and Frances (Currier) Bond.

Charles Grosvenor Bond (May 29, 1877 – January 10, 1974) was a Republican United States Representative from the state of New York who served in the 67th United States Congress.

Charles G. Case II

Charles G. Case II is a Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge for the United States bankruptcy court, District of Arizona.

Charles G. Cleveland

In July 1968 he was assigned to the staff of Headquarters Third Air Force at RAF South Ruislip, England.

Charles G. Conn

Conn served as mayor of Elkhart from 1880 until 1883, and as member of the Indiana state House of Representatives in 1889.

Colonel Conn also served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and was re-elected many times as Commander of the local G.A.R. post.

Charles G. Coulon

Charles G. Coulon (b. 16 Feb. 1825, Göttingen, Germany – d. 2 Feb. 1881) was the sixth mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Charles G. Dahlgren

His older brother, John A. Dahlgren, was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and enjoyed a measure of fame for inventing the Dahlgren gun.

Charles G. Dawes House

Certainly the best example ever built in the United States is the 225 room Biltmore House (1888–1895), the home of George Washington Vanderbilt constructed in Asheville, NC, which was also designed by Hunt.

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 G. Oakman

On February 8, 1954, Oakman introduced a bill to the U.S. House that would add the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.

In 1952, Oakman defeated Democrat Martha W. Griffiths to be elected as a Republican from Michigan's 17th congressional district to the 83rd Congress, serving from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955 in the U.S. House.

He was also a member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors 1941-1952; served as executive secretary to the mayor of Detroit in 1941 and 1942; city controller 1942-1945; served four terms as city councilman 1947-1952; secretary of the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority 1948-1954 and general manager 1955-1973.

Charles G. Palmer-Buckle

In 2002 he apologized on behalf of Africans for the part Africans played in the slave trade, and the apology was accepted by bishop John Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

Charles Hartshorne

In turn Hartshorne has been a seminal influence on the theologians Matthew Fox, Daniel Day Williams, Norman Pittenger, Gregory A. Boyd, Schubert Ogden and John B. Cobb, on the American philosopher Frank Ebersole and on the Australian biologist-futurologist Charles Birch.

Dale Wainwright

His successor on the court, effective December 3, 2012, is Jeffrey S. Boyd, a former chief of staff to Governor Rick Perry.

Douglas A. Boyd

Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, folklorist and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Edward Boyd

Edward F. Boyd (1914–2007), American marketing executive at Pepsi

Emil Norlander

Among those recording his songs in America were Ingeborg Laudon, Bert Leman, Gösta Nyström, Elis Olson-Ellis, Hjalmar Peterson, Calle Sjöquist and Charles G. Widdén.

John M. Geddes

He and Jill Abramson (since promoted to executive editor) were appointed to their positions by then-executive editor Bill Keller to succeed former managing editor Gerald M. Boyd.

Jones, Oklahoma

Aldrich named the town after his friend and business associate, Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones who was a three-time mayor of Oklahoma City.

Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.

He served as chairman of the commission and vice mayor of Dade County.

Julian Boyd

Julian P. Boyd (1903–1980), American professor of history at Princeton University and editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Lee Tracy

In his autobiography, Charles G. Clarke, the cinematographer on the picture, said that he was standing outside the hotel during the parade and the incident never happened.

Microsoft Project

Alan M. Boyd, Microsoft's Manager of Product Development, introduced the application as an internal tool to help manage the huge number of software projects that were in development at any time inside the company.

Microsoft Works

However, Bill Gates and his Head of Acquisitions, Alan M. Boyd, convinced Williams to license the product to Microsoft instead.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Pennsylvania

In 2006, five state representatives, with Pennsylvania State Representative Scott W. Boyd as a main sponsor, introduced House Bill 2381, proposing an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Robert W. Boyd

He is currently Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and on the Faculty at the University of Rochester.

In 2010 he became Professor of Physics and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa.

Sempronius

Sempronius H. Boyd, U.S. Congressman from Missouri and U.S. Civil War Colonel.

Stregheria

Grimassi shares in common, in his books, the general "Witch-cult hypothesis" that appears in the writings of Charles G. Leland (Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, 1899), a theory to the effect that European witchcraft was the continuation of an ancient pre-Christian form.

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.

Willard L. Boyd

He returned to Iowa in 2002 to serve as interim president, holding the role between 2002 and 2003 until being succeeded by David J. Skorton.

After ending his tenure as a university president, Boyd served as the President of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1981 to 1996.


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