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Comstock–Needham system

The Comstock–Needham system is a naming system for insect wing veins, devised by John Comstock and George Needham in 1898.


Ben Peterson

Peterson grew up in Comstock, Wisconsin, attending nearby Cumberland High School before attending Iowa State University.

Camp Hudson

Camp Hudson, later Fort Hudson was located on the west bank of the Devils River, below the Second Crossing of Devils River by the San Antonio-El Paso Road, (now known as Bakers Crossing nearby to the north) and 19 miles south of Juno and 21 miles north of Comstock in Val Verde County, Texas.

Color motion picture film

After experimenting with more advanced methods of additive systems (including a camera with two apertures (one with a red filter one with green) from 1915 to 1921, Dr. Herbert Kalmus, Dr. Daniel Comstock, and mechanic W. Burton Wescott (who left the company in 1921) developed the subtractive color system for Technicolor.

Comstock Park, Michigan

Renamed "Comstock Park" after Charles C. Comstock, who represented the district in Congress from 1885-1886.

Comstock Public School District

In 2013, the Comstock Board of Education approved the creation of a STEM Academy.

Daniel Webster Comstock

Comstock was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1917, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1917.

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills have their genesis with the father of William Henry Comstock (1830–1919) — Edwin Perkins Comstock (1799–1837) — who founded a drug company in New York City sometime before 1833.

Fredric Hobbs

In 1978, with Warren Hinckle, Hobbs wrote and illustrated "The Richest Place on Earth," a history of Nevada's Comstock Lode in the 1860s and '70s, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

Holmby Park

The movie High School Hellcats (dir. Edward L. Bernds, 1958), starring Yvonne Lime and Brett Halsey, was shot on Comstock Avenue, with Holmby Park in the background.

Ivoryton

Ivoryton Playhouse: The Ivoryton Playhouse, formerly the recreation hall for the workers of Comstock, Cheney and Co., is currently a year-round professional theater, with its shows produced by the Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation.

Jane S. Richards

Jane Snyder was born to Isaac Richards Snyder and his wife Louise Comstock in Parmelia, Jefferson County, New York.

John Henry Comstock

He also did work in insect morphology and is best known as the co-proposer of the Comstock-Needham system with James George Needham.

Karen Morrison-Comstock

During her reign she traveled extensively and met celebrities, including Jack Lemmon, Bobby Vinton, Omar Sharif and Joe Namath.

Keith Comstock

Comstock is the great-grandson of the former United States Postal Inspector and politician Anthony Comstock.

Kenneth S. Wherry

Wherry was born in Liberty, Nebraska, to David Emery and Jessie (née Comstock) Wherry.

Meet Mr. McNutley

In the episode "The Prodigy", David Stollery, later of Walt Disney's serial, The Adventures of Spin and Marty (in the role of Marty), appears as Peggy's cousin who enrolls at Comstock as a pre-teen.

Misschief Films

Natasza Zurek,Laura Hadar, Victoria Jealouse, Erin Comstock, Hana Beaman, Annie Boulanger, Anne-Flore Marxer, Izumi Amaike, Stacy Thomas, Marie-France Roy, Leanne Pelosi, Tara Dakides, Silvia Mittermuller, Spencer O'Brien, Jacqui Berg, Amber Stackhouse, Priscilla Levac, Maribeth Swetkoff, Alexis Waite, Kelly Clark, Gretchen Bleiler, Torah Bright, and Jamie Anderson.

Outer Comstock

Route 81 forms the neighborhood's boundary to the west, in the south it is roughly marked by Seneca Turnpike as it ascends from The Valley, in the east by (from north to south) Comstock Ave., East Colvin St.

Phlebopus

Phlebopus tropicus has been shown to form a crust of mycelium around the roots of species of Citrus in Brazil covering colonies of the comstock mealybug Pseudococcus comstocki which attack the roots of these plants after they have been carried there by ants (Solenopsis saevissima var. moelleri); these mycelial crusts are called criptas by Brazilian writers.

Ralph Comstock

Ralph Remick Comstock (November 24, 1890 – September 13, 1966) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1913 and 1918 for the Detroit Tigers (1913), Boston Red Sox (1915), Pittsburgh Rebels (FL, 1915) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1918).

William Henry Comstock

He started his business in 1854, William H. Comstock Company, Ltd., which sold patent medicine including Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, Dead Shot Pellets and McKenzus Dead Shot Worm Candy.


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