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Sentinel-class cutter

Charles "Skip" W. Bowen, who was then the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, is credited with leading the initiative of naming the vessels after enlisted individuals who served heroically in the Coast Guard, or one of its precursor services.


ADM formalism

-- The first lead sentence should define what it is--> developed in 1959 by Richard Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner is a Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity.

Albert Bowen

Albert E. Bowen (1875–1953), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Baumol's cost disease

Baumol's cost disease (also known as the Baumol Effect) is a phenomenon described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s.

C. V. Vishveshwara

Later he developed interest in General Relativity and encouraged by Fuller, transferred to University of Maryland to work with Charles W. Misner.

Casa Rio

Van Ryn and de Gelleke worked mostly in Wisconsin; the Charles W. Stribley House in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, built in 1910, is another of their works that is NRHP-listed.

Charles Cathcart

Charles W. Cathcart (1809 – 1888), United States Representative and Senator from Indiana

Charles Conn

Charles W. Conn (1920–2008) author and prominent religious figure in the Church of God

Charles Daniels

Charles W. Daniels (born 1943), Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court

Charles Russell House

Charles W. Russell House, Wheeling, West Virginia, listed on the NRHP in West Virginia

Charles Sandford

Charles W. Sandford (1796–1878), American militia and artillery officer, lawyer and businessman

Charles T. Barney

In 1907, the Knickerbocker entered into a deal organized by speculators F. Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse to corner the market of the United Copper Company.

Charles W. Bell

Bell was elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).

Charles W. Cole

Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge, Educational Testing Service, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.

Charles W. Eldridge

In addition to his duties as an officeholder, starting in 1893, Eldridge worked as a salesman for Chase & Sanborn.

Charles W. F. Dick

While in Congress, he became one of the largest stockholders in the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and served as a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors.

Charles W. Fisher

By way of fulfilling that promise, he built a mansion in Cochrane in 1908 (which became the Just Home Guest Ranch in 1931 and was donated to a Franciscan order in 1948).

Charles W. Harrison

Harrison studied singing in New York City with noted voice teacher Frederick Bristol and organist Leo Kofler.

Charles W. King

Cannon were fired from the hilltops of the Miura Peninsula as soon as the ship approached Uraga, in compliance with the 1825–42 Shogunal order that any approaching Western ships, apart from Dutch ones, should be fired upon.

Charles W. Lindberg

The first U.S. flag was raised and planted on top of Mount Suribachi from 10:20 to 10:37 a.m.; the second flag raising about 1 p.m. Captain Dave E. Severance, the commander of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, ordered Lt. Schrier to take a patrol to raise an American flag at the summit to signal to others that it had fallen.

Lindberg was a native of Grand Forks, North Dakota when he enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after the Japanese Navy attack on Pearl Harbor.

Charles W. Maynes

From 1997 through 2007, Maynes was president of the Eurasia Foundation.

Charles W. McClammy

He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1866, served in the State senate in 1871 and was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891).

Charles W. Morse

In 1912 Morse became ill, and a panel of Army doctors declared that he suffered from Bright's disease and other maladies and would soon die if he remained in prison.

Charles W. Penrose

He served there until his death, four years later in Salt Lake City from chronic prostatitis.

Charles W. Stribley House

The 1945-built Casa Rio, in Florida, also known as the S.W. Stribley House, is another work by Van Ryn & DeGelleke, and is their only NRHP-listed work outside of Wisconsin.

Charles W. Vursell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress.

Charles W. Woodward High School

Two decades later in 1987 the high school merged into Walter Johnson High School.

Charles W. Woodworth

The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America gives an annual award for achievement in Entomology in the Pacific region of the U.S. over the previous ten years called the C. W. Woodworth Award (list of winners).

Charles Walton

Charles W. Walton (1819–1900), United States Representative from Maine

David Bowen

David R. Bowen (born 1932), U.S. Representative from Mississippi

Economics of the arts and literature

Key works in the cultural economics as such were those of Baumol and Bowen (Performing Arts, The Economic Dilemma, 1966), of Gary Becker on addictive goods, and of Alan Peacock (Public Choice).

Edward Bowen

Edward L. Bowen (born c.1942), American author of books on Thoroughbred horse racing

Given Campbell

When tension over secession increased, Campbell enlisted in the 2nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Militia under Col. John S. Bowen.

Hendrick van Rensselaer

Charles W. van Rensselaer (1823—1857), First Officer SS Central America

Horizon problem

The horizon problem is a problem with the standard cosmological model of the Big Bang which was identified in the late 1960s, primarily by Charles Misner.

James A. Van Dyke

He began a practice with future Michigan Supreme Court justice Charles W. Whipple in 1835, later partnering with, in turn, E. B. Harrington and H. H. Emmons, before leaving private practice in 1852 to become the attorney for the Michigan Central Railroad.

Jeremy Tree

During his career, Jeremy Tree conditioned horses for prominent owners such as Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., Prince Khalid Abdullah and American John Hay Whitney.

John W. Bowen

He is the paternal grandson of John W.E. Bowen, Sr., former President of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, former Professor of Music at Clark College in Atlanta.

Keith Starrett

On July 6, 2004, Starrett was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Charles W. Pickering, Sr. Starrett was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 20, 2004, and received his commission on December 13, 2004.

Ogden Mills Phipps

Dinny Phipps and his father were two of the subjects in the 2003 book Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders by race historian Edward L. Bowen that chronicled the history of Thoroughbred racing's most influential breeders.

Otis R. Bowen

Vernie also owned a hardware store in Leiters Ford, was a trustee for Aubbeenaubbee Township, President of the Woodlawn Hospital Board of Trustees, and President of the Leiters Ford Merchants Association.

Robert Leroy Cochran

In 1938 he was elected for a third term as Governor, defeating the Republican candidate, Charles J. Warner, by 44% to 40.6%; a third candidate, Charles W. Bryan, received 15.4% of the vote.

St. George, Staten Island

According to island historians Charles Leng and William T. Davis, it was only after another prominent businessman, Erastus Wiman, promised to "canonize" him in the town's name that Law agreed to relinquish the land rights for a ferry terminal.

The House Behind the Cedars

It was adapted from the 1900 novel of the same name by the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt, who explored issues of race, class and identity in the post-Civil War South.

USS Emily

In October 1862, the Emily fell under the jurisdiction of a Colonel Howard at Roanoke Island, whereat she was lent to Lieutenant Commander C. W. Flusser to ferry Union servicemen wounded in the Joint Expedition Against Franklin to Norfolk Hospital.

William Bowen

William G. Bowen (born 1933), former President of Princeton University

You're Next

Erin (Sharni Vinson) accompanies her boyfriend, Crispian (A. J. Bowen), to his wealthy family's reunion at their remote Missouri vacation house, next door to the scene of the still-undiscovered murders.


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