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unusual facts about Charles S. West


Charles S. West

During this tenure he established a partnership with Judge John Hancock; their law firm represented the Houston and Texas Central Railway.


Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music

"The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon" is an instrumental, its title references Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band's 1967 hit single "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago".

Barzillai J. Chambers

Chambers was nominated for Vice President by the reunited party, as was Absolom M. West of Mississippi; Chambers was victorious on the first ballot, by 403 votes to 311.

Bathroom sex

According to Mark D. West, people in these hotels often engage in bathroom sex "with the tap on".

Charles Ashley

Charles S. Ashley, Mayor of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1897 to 1905

Charles Becker

In the aftermath, Manhattan District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, who had made an appointment with Rosenthal before his death, made no secret of his belief that the gangsters had committed the murder at Becker's behest.

Charles McDowell

Charles S. McDowell (1871–1943), Charles Samuel McDowell, Jr., interim Governor of Alabama

Charles Randall

Charles S. Randall (1824–1904), member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts

Charles S. Deneen

He had also been the lead prosecutor in Chicago's infamous Adolph Luetgert murder trial.

Charles S. Desmond

In 1959, he was elected unopposed Chief Judge.

Charles S. Dorion

Charles S. Dorion (a.k.a. C.S. Dorian) was an American painter during the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and was known for his moonlit Seascapes.

Charles S. Drew

A hardcover version of Drew’s report of Indian attacks on settlers in the Oregon Territory was published by Ye Galleon Press of Fairfield, Washington in 1973.

Charles S. Fairfax

Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was thrice married and his son by his third wife, Margaret Herbert (1783–1858), Albert, who had died during the lifetime of his father, left two sons, Charles and John.

He was collaterally related to Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, who relinquished his English estates to his brother, Robert, and emigrated to America, where he settled on a plantation of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.

Charles S. Haas

At around this time he was approached to write the script to the film Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), which was directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell.

Charles S. Hartman

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a Democrat in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

He was reelected as a Silver Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1899.

Charles S. Johnson

In 1929 an American missionary in Liberia reported that Liberian officials were using soldiers to gather tribal people who were shipped to the island of Fernando Po as forced laborers.

Charles S. Kaelin

He studied under John Henry Twachtman between 1876 and 1879, after which time he moved to New York City and joined the Art Students League of New York.

Charles S. Keith House

After the sale of the house, Charles Keith later went on to gain additional public notoriety when he accepted the position of interim mayor of Kansas City in 1940 between Bryce B. Smith's resignation and the inauguration of John B. Gage.

Charles S. Lawrence

He took over the secretary's role from Carl R. Fellers, head of the food technology department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and moved the national offices to its present location in Chicago.

Charles S. Lieber

It was not until the 1980s, when researchers Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren identified the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the stomach as a cause of ulcers and stomach cancer, for which they won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Charles S. McDowell

He served as Mayor of Eufaula from 1908–12, and was President of the Alabama State Bar in 1915-16.

Charles S. Roberts Award

James F. Dunnigan Award, To a Game Designer, Developer, Graphic Artist or Game for outstanding achievement—Ananda Gupta and Jason Matthews, Twilight Struggle (GMT Games LLC)

Charles S. T. Calder

From the mid-1920s through to the outbreak of World War II, Calder was active in the resurgence of studies of Neolithic sites in Scotland as Investigator in the RCAHMS, as were V. Gordon Childe, Walter Gordon Grant and J Graham Callander, Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities.

Charles S. Whitman

The handling of the Schmidt murder case, the prosecution of the poultry trust and of election frauds won for Whitman high commendation.

Charles Zimmerman

Charles S. Zimmerman, (1896–1983), American socialist politician and trade union official

City of Lights, City of Angels

COLCOA was created in 1996 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Writers Guild of America, West, France’s Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique.

Dust Tracks on a Road

It begins with Hurston's childhood in the black community of Eatonville, Florida, then covers her education at Howard University where she began as a fiction writer, having two stories published under the guidance of Charles S. Johnson.

Greenbelt News Review

In 1965, an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher in the News Review published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as "blackmail" the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a local real estate developer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

IRN/USA Radio Network

The remaining two channels are aboard the SES Americoms AMC-3 Satellite located at 87° west longitude and utilizes a DVB MPEG-2 Compliant technology.

The first channel is located aboard the SES Americom's AMC-8 Satellite located at 139° west longitude and utilizes the StarGuide Satellite Transmission System.

John B. West

After working as a postdoctoral fellow with Hermann Rahn at Buffalo in 1961-62, he returned to London as Director of the Respiratory Research Group at Postgraduate Medical School (1962-67) and was promoted to University Reader there in 1968.

John Kirkland Clark

(January 21, 1877 - January 20, 1963) was a New York City assistant district attorney under Charles S. Whitman, the New York County District Attorney.

Justice Russell

Charles S. Russell, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia

Justice West

Jesse F. West, an Associate Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Larry Arnhart

Arnhart has debated the leading advocates of intelligent designMichael Behe, William Dembski, John West, Jonathan Wells, and Richard Weikart—all of whom are fellows of the Discovery Institute.

Lisa Aziz

From 16 February 2009, she became co-presenter of the pan-regional news programme The West Country Tonight, which replaced The West Tonight (ITV West) and Westcountry Live (ITV Westcountry) alongside Steve Scott.

Lisa Victoria

Her previous career includes stage and television performances for BBC Wales, HTV and S4C, as well as the leading role of the character Kelly in the BBC Radio Wales soap Station Road.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

A Broadway revival opened on February 6, 2003 at the Royale Theatre, featuring Charles S. Dutton as Levee and Whoopi Goldberg as Ma.

National Black Arts Festival

People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.

Northampton County High School – West

In the late 1980s, the district decided to consolidate and open a new high school which was closer to the portion of Northampton county that borders Lake Gaston.

Pieter Claesen Wyckoff

Other notables who married Wyckoff descendants are: Pearl Buck, Robert Ralph Young, Isaac Ferris, Charles S. Fairchild, Roscoe Conkling, Philip Freneau, and Baron Klemens August Freiherr von Ketteler.

Popcorn Deelites

As Seabiscuit, he played alongside Jeff Bridges as Seabiscuit's owner Charles S. Howard, Tobey Maguire as jockey Red Pollard, Chris Cooper as trainer Tom Smith, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens as the "Ice Man" George Woolf, and Hall of Famer Chris McCarron as Charles Kurtsinger, another Hall of Fame jockey.

Steven L. West

is an American research scientist and rehabilitation counselor specializing in addictions issues among persons with disabilities.

T. A. Goudge

He was a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Mind Association and the Humanities Association of Canada; he also served as President of the Canadian Philosophy Association in 1964 and as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society from 1957 to 1959.

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam

The Deputy Ambassadors and their periods of service in Vietnam are: U. Alexis Johnson (June 1964–September 1965), William J. Porter (September 1965–May 1967), Eugene M. Locke (May 1967–Jan 1968), Samuel D. Berger (March 1968–Mar 1972) Charles S. Whitehouse (March 1972–August 1973).

Von Stade

Charles S. von Stade (1919–1945), American polo champion, father of opera singer Frederica von Stade

Wang Shifu

Wang, Shifu, Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema; with a Study of Its Woodblock Illustrations by Yao Dajuin.


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