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unusual facts about Charles L. Allen


Charles L. Allen

Born in Newborn, Georgia, he ministered around the state, including 1948 to 1960 at Grace United Methodist in Atlanta.


Amiriyah shelter bombing

Charles E. Allen, the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning supported the selection of bomb targets during the Persian Gulf War.

Aris T. Allen

A freeway, Aris T. Allen Boulevard (Maryland Route 665) was named for Allen, who died the year prior to its completion.

Augustus N. Allen

It still owns and manages a broad portfolio of properties in the New York and Miami metro areas.

Bolte

Charles L. Bolte (1895–1989), U.S. Army general and World War I and World War II veteran

Cayuga Duck

Writing in 1848, Richard L. Allen, recommends the “common black duck” as being the most profitable for domestic use, as they laid between forty to fifty eggs and sometimes even more, if kept from sitting.

Cecil J. Allen

Geoffrey Freeman Allen, his son, also a writer on railway topics, and first editor of Modern Railways

Charles E. Allen

Satellite photos and electronic intercepts indicating this alternative use were regarded as circumstantial and unconvincing to Brigadier General Buster Glosson, who had primary responsibility for targeting.

Charles Knapp

Charles L. Knapp (1847–1929), member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

Charles L. Brieant

He was also renowned by members of the bar for his Rollie Fingers-style mustache.

Investigation determined that the chocolates had been sent by John Buettner-Janusch, the former chairman of the New York University (NYU) Anthropology Department, who had been sentenced to prison by Judge Brieant after being convicted of making illegal drugs.

Charles L. Glazer

Mr. Glazer, formerly the Republican National Committeeman for Connecticut, served on the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee and was the Sergeant-at-Arms at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Mr. Glazer served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Investment Professionals, in addition to serving on the board of directors of many civic and charitable organizations, including Arch Street, The Greenwich Teen Center, Connecticut, of which he was the founding chairman.

Charles L. Henry

Henry was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898.

Charles L. Scott

The severity of his leg pain caused him to resign his commission in 1862, after the Battle of Seven Pines.

Charles L. Sullivan

An attorney from Clarksdale, Mississippi, Sullivan ran in Texas for President of the United States in the 1960 presidential election as the candidate of the Constitution Party.

Charles L. Tutt

Charles Leaming Tutt (III), born 26 January 1911, died 3 November 1993.

Charles L. Venable

Venable also served five years (2002–2007) as deputy director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and then five years as the Director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY.

Charles Swain

Charles L. Swain (1866–?), Democratic politician from Ohio, United States

Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes

The congregation engaged the noted Baltimore firm of Dixon and Carson, and the cornerstone was laid June 9, 1874.

David Spergel

shared the 2010 Shaw Prize in astronomy with Charles L. Bennett and Lyman A. Page,Jr. for their work on WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe).

Dorathy M. Allen

Prior to 1945, the Miss Arkansas Pageant was sponsored by the East Arkansas Young Businessmen's Club.

Edmund T. Allen

Theodore von Kármán intervened and recommended to Eddie Allen that the Boeing wind tunnel should be designed for airspeeds near the speed of sound.

Ethel D. Allen

She often encouraged African-Americans and women to seek political office; indeed, her friend Augusta Clark would later become the second African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council, eventually becoming the Democratic Majority Whip.

In January 1979, incoming Governor Dick Thornburgh named Allen his choice for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

George Loftus Noyes

Other prominent Boston artists working at the Fenway Studios in that period include Marion B. Allen, Lilla Cabot Perry, Joseph Decamp, Philip Hale, Lillian Wescot Hale, Charles Hopkinson, György Kepes, William Kaula, Lee Lufkin Kaula, Lillian and Leslie Prince Thompson, William McGregor Paxton, Marion L. Pooke, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Mary Bradish Titcomb.

Gordon Allen

Gordon P. Allen (1929–2010), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

J. H. Allen

While the works of Allen and Armstrong are by no means identical, with Allen's work being much earlier, much longer and in hard-back book format, the core of Allen's work does appear to have served as inspiration for Armstrong, and Allen's book was not unknown to Armstrong's students at Ambassador College.

James C. Allen

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

John L. Allen, Jr., a longtime Vatican watcher with the National Catholic Reporter, speculates that Kurtz is seen as a leading candidate for archbishop in a major American city with possible promotion to the exclusive rank of cardinal.

Joseph H. Allen

The factory was closed in 1861, not only due to poor sales, but because Allen enlisted in the Union Army.

Laurence Allen

Laurence W. Allen (1892–after 1926), English World War I flying ace

Lily L. Allen

Allen was born to John Oram and Jane (Talbott) Oram at Newport, County Mayo, Ireland on 30 December 1867.

Lower Moreland Township School District

Jill Kelley, Lebanese-American socialite, who became a key figure in the 2012 United States government investigation into inappropriate communications by top U.S. Generals David Petraeus and John R. Allen.

Maryland Route 665

In October 1992, state officials named MD 665 for Aris T. Allen, a doctor and former member of the Maryland General Assembly who had died in 1991.

Paul S. Allen

He is a fan of Jaguar sports cars, The Beatles,Sheffield Wednesday soccer team and is a keeper of Border Collies.

R.S. Allen

Allen and Bullock also created the TV series Rango, and wrote the screenplays for the feature films Girl Happy (starring Elvis Presley), The Man Called Flintstone (1966) and Don't Drink the Water (1969), among others.

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Richard Van Allen

Richard V. Allen (born 1936), American National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan

St. Jude Catholic Church

St. Jude Catholic Church, Allen, Texas, a Catholic church in Allen, Texas, United States

Sukanta Chaudhuri

This was part of a project on cultural mobility carried out by the scholar Stephen Greenblatt and the off-Broadway dramatist Charles L. Mee.

Taylorsville, North Carolina

Charles E. Allen, former Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the US Department of Homeland Security

The Railway Magazine

One of those who shared authorship of the series after his death was the Great Eastern Railway engineer Cecil J. Allen (1886-1973) who became sole author from 1911 until succeeded by O. S. Nock in 1958, when Cecil J. Allen moved his performance column to Trains Illustrated (later renamed Modern Railways), edited by his son, G. Freeman Allen.

Thomas R. Allen

In 2010 Allen cosponsored an ordinance with 30th Ward Alderman Ariel Reboyras that designated a stretch of Central Avenue in the vicinity of its intersection with Belmont Avenue as "Honorary Lech Kaczynski Way" to honor the deceased Polish President.

TwentyWonder

The event featured performers such as Grant-Lee Phillips, Joel Hodgson, Harmonix, Funny or Die, The Batmobile, etymologist Taylor Lura, theremin player Eban Schletter, Dave "Gruber" Allen, Jim Turner as Mr. Tremendous and Tim Biskup.

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1940

Roosevelt and Wallace defeated the Republican nominees, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of Indiana and his running mate Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

William J. Allen

He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from June 2, 1862, to March 3, 1865.

William Mandel

The book received critical acclaim from notables, including author and senior editor of The Black Scholar, Robert L. Allen; renowned musician and activist Pete Seeger; and the internationally respected poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

William W. Allen

William Wirt Allen (September 11, 1835 – November 21, 1894) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.


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