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2 unusual facts about Charles W. Walton


Charles W. Walton

Walton was elected as a Republican to the 37th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1861, to May 26, 1862, when he resigned to accept a judicial appointment.

Charles Walton

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


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.

Baltasar Gracián

Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647), translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom (by Joseph Jacobs, 1892), The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion (by L.B. Walton), Practical Wisdom for Perilous Times (in selections by J. Leonard Kaye), or The Science of Success and the Art of Prudence, his most famous book, some 300 aphorisms with comments.

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. Chipp

Jeannette was fitting out for her mission, which would be to attempt to sail to the North Pole via the Bering Strait.

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).

Edward Cromwell Disbrowe

Sir Edward Disbrowe was born at Walton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire, the son of Colonel Edward Disbrowe, and his wife Lady Charlotte Hobart, fourth daughter of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Engelhard

In 1958, Engelhard's son Charles Jr. consolidated the family’s holdings to form Engelhard Industries, Inc. as a publicly held company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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.

Jerome L. Walton

Jerome L. Walton is the name of a fictitious American science fiction author whose career was described by Steven H Silver in the 1999 April Fool's edition of SF Site, a science fiction and fantasy review Web site.

Joseph Walton

Jo L. Walton, (1982–), Scottish-South African poet and novelist

Julian Whiting

During his tenure, the Cutlerites endured the second (and last, to date) schism in their history when Eugene O. Walton, a convert to the church, proclaimed himself to be the "One Mighty and Strong" in 1980.

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.

Maurkice Pouncey

Pouncey entered the 2010 NFL Draft as the consensus No. 1 center available, ahead of Matt Tennant, J. D. Walton, and Eric Olsen.

Melick

Charles W. Melick, head coach of the University of Maryland college football program

Robert E. Walton

He has won the US Handicap, the Sunshine League, the Pacific Coast Open, the Silver Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the America Cup, the US Arena Handicap, and the Interscholastic Arena Championship.

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.


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