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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.


ADM formalism

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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 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. 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. 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. Vursell

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

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

Edward W. Clayborn

In The Ganymede Takeover, the San Franciscan author Philip K. Dick, a record enthusiast, has a character state that "True Religion", sung by Clayborn was one of the first jazz recordings.

Electric Shepherd Productions

Philip K. Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, is Executive Producer of the movie The Adjustment Bureau which is loosely based on "Adjustment Teamalt=Table of Contents for Orbit Science Fiction No. 4, September–October 1954.

Electric Shepherd Productions is the production arm of the Philip K. Dick Estate.

George W. Dick

George W. Dick (born March 28, 1964, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) also known as "G-Wiz" is an American writer, actor, director, and musician who wrote the 1987 Billboard top ten R&B hit "She's Fly" (performed by Tony Terry).

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.

In Milton Lumky Territory

In Milton Lumky Territory is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick.

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.

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.

Lexus 2054

In 2002, Lexus was requested by Steven Spielberg, a Lexus owner himself, to design a vehicle that would fit the requirements of year 2054 for his movie adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story Minority Report.

Nancy E. Dick

She was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1984, losing to incumbent Republican William L. Armstrong.

Point of divergence

In Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, an alternate history novel in which Germany and Japan win World War II, the point of divergence is Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempted assassination by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933, which did take place in its timeline and led to an Axis victory in a prolonged Second World War in 1948.

Rent Romus

This formation focused on a set of compositions inspired by the writings of author Philip K. Dick.

Robert P. Dick

He was in private practice in Wentworth, North Carolina from 1845 to 1848, and in Greensboro from 1848 to 1853.

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 Best of Philip K. Dick

Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Planet Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Space Science Fiction, Imagination, Astounding Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Science Fiction Stories and Startling Stories, as well as the anthologies Dangerous Visions and Star Science Fiction Stories No.3.

The Bladerunner

No film was produced from it, but Hampton Fancher, a screenwriter for the 1982 film (based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), had a copy, and he suggested "Blade Runner" as preferable to the earlier working titles "Android" and "Dangerous Days".

The Body Snatchers

The Father-thing (December 1954), a short story by Philip K. Dick, appearing in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, uses the ideas of pods duplicating humans and fire being the means of destroying the pods

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.

The Simulacra

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of several protagonists within the United States of Europe and America (USEA), formed by the merger of (West) Germany and the United States, where the whole government is a fraud and the President (der Alte, "the Old Man") is a simulacrum (android).

The Tenth Dimension

The Tenth Dimension has published some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, including Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Aldiss and many others.

Time Tourist

The album's packaging makes reference to a number of other science fiction names corrupted over two centuries — Phettt (Boba Fett), Hein Len (Robert A. Heinlein), Seaclarc (Arthur C. Clarke), A.C Mov (Isaac Asimov), and Kaydich (Philip K. Dick) — as well as to the Roddenberry and Lucas "Sacred StarTexts".

Tokyo Sogensha

It and its spin-off Sōgen SF Bunko since 1991, are Japan's oldest existing sci-fi bunkobon label, publishing over 600 books until April 2013 including the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Lois McMaster Bujold, Vernor Vinge, James P. Hogan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Charles Wilson, and Greg Egan.

Tom, Dick, and Harry, Rock Again!

The song "Tere Pyar Mein", which will be featured in the film, was arranged by Canadian producer Vikas Kohli of Fatlabs Studios.

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.


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