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Christopher C. Bowen

During the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate States Army and served throughout the war as a captain in the Coast Guard.


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.

Bruce Garvey

In 1970, Garvey and Daily Expresss Richard Killian were the only reporters present at NASA's Mission Control when the crew of Apollo 13 first reported the critical equipment failures which changed the lunar mission into a rescue operation.

Chris-Craft

For the NASA flight director, see Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Christopher C. Augur

He was a member of the Aztec Club of 1847, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Military Order of Foreign Wars.

Christopher C. Horner

He has provided legal, policy, and political commentary several hundred times each on both television and radio, in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, including on the Fox News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC (with repeat visits on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer), BBC, CNN, CNN International, ITN, CBC, Bloomberg, and Reuters Television.

Horner has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and works on a legal and policy level with numerous think tanks and policy organizations throughout the world.

Christopher C. McGrath

McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the 8st and 82nd United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1953.

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

Edward L. Bowen

He penned the story of Man o' War, the first book in the Thoroughbred Legends series published by Eclipse Press.

In 1960 he attended the University of Florida to study journalism then in 1963 transferred to the University of Kentucky, a move that allowed him to also write for the Lexington-basedThe Blood-Horse magazine.

FSU Hymns

Mission Control used the Fight Song to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.

Gemini 4

:Flight Director Chris Kraft, to Grissom: The flight director says, get back in!

Given Campbell

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

J. Rayburn Bertrand

In the election of 1972, Democrat Kenneth Francis "Kenny" Bowen (whom Bertrand had defeated in 1968 when Bowen was a Republican) was elected mayor.

John B. Campbell Handicap

In his book Legacies of the Turf, prominent racing historian Edward L. Bowen says that at one time the John B. Campbell Handicap was a race of national importance.

John S. Bowen

He was first assigned to the army cavalry school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania until 1855, when he was transferred to the Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri; while in St. Louis, he met and married Mary Kennerly.

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.

While attending U.S.C., he was a member of the 1947-48 and 1948-49 Track and Field Teams where he was coached by Dean Cromwell and Jess Hill.

Mercury-Atlas 5

Flight Director Christopher Kraft alerted the Hawaii controllers to be ready to initiate retrofire to bring the spacecraft down in the Pacific, if necessary.

Museum of Flight

It includes a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all areas of space research.

Norman L. Bowen

Bowen conducted experimental research at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington from 1912 to 1937.

Of a Fire on the Moon

After spending time at the space center and mission control in Houston, and witnessing the launch of the colossal Saturn V rocket at Cape Kennedy in Florida, Mailer began writing his account of the historic voyage at his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts during marathon writing sessions to meet his deadlines for the magazine.

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.

Perisphinctes

The Perisphinctes boweni ammonite was named after the English chemist and geologist E. J. Bowen (1898–1980).

Roger Abramson

He was a Campaign Manager and part of the Executive Committees for various political campaigns, including Senator William F. Bowen, Governor Jack Gilligan and Special Events for Robert Kennedy in Ohio.

Selima Stakes

Referring to the 1959 Selima Stakes, in his book Legacies of the Turf, author Edward L. Bowen says that it was "then one of the most important autumn races for juvenile fillies."

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.

Snow Knight

Reeves, Richard Stone, Bowen, Edward L. Belmont Park: A Century of Champions (Snow Knight section) (2005) Eclipse Press ISBN 978-1-58150-122-3

Tecwyn Roberts

NASA's concept of Mission Control had previously been developed under the leadership of Christopher C. Kraft.

UFO sightings in outer space

An analysis done in 1999 by former Mission Control specialist James Oberg concluded that all the objects were nearby sunlit debris.

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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