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unusual facts about David L. Holmes


The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes of the College of William & Mary.


36th Oklahoma Legislature

State legislators met at the Oklahoma State Capitol in session from January 4 to June 8, 1977, from June 13 to June 17, 1977, and from January 3 to March 28, 1978, during the term of Governor David L. Boren.

Bayou Academy

After the United States Supreme Court decided Alexander v. Holmes in 1969, ordering the desegregation of public schools in the South, the all-white Bayou Academy doubled its enrollment for the 1970 school year.

Carter Harrison, Sr.

Harrison's career and assassination are closely connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer H. H. Holmes) in The Devil in the White City.

Chanson de geste

Urban T. Holmes, Jr. A History of Old French Literature from the Origins to 1300.

David Gunn

David L. Gunn (born 1937), American (& Canadian) railroad administrator

David Hawk

David L. Hawk (born 1948), American management theorist, architect and systems scientist

David Hough

David L. Hough, American writer on motorcycle safety, education and training

David L. Bassett

The atlas is a series of paired slides that use Gruber's View-Master three-dimensional viewing system to display a perception of depth and levels of detail that made Bassett's work pioneering.

David L. Cornwell

Although an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress, Cornwell was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress, representing Indiana's 8th congressional district.

David L. Downie

David Downie is the son of Leonard Downie, Jr., Executive Editor of the Washington Post from 1991–2008, and Barbara Sims, an environmental lawyer.

Dr. Whitman is the daughter of Marina von Neumann Whitman, the noted economist, and Robert Freeman Whitman, professor emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the granddaughter of John von Neumann, one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century.

David L. Grange

In May 2009, Grange became Chief Executive Officer of PPD LLC, a Contract Research Organization based in North Carolina.

David L. Hoof

Following a stint as a teacher at Montgomery College, Hoof was employed by the United States Department of Energy, where he was part of the nuclear reactor fuel reprocessing program.

David L. Lambert

In 1967 he became an immigrant to the USA to work at the California Institute of Technology, then in 1969 at the University of Texas at Austin, where in 1974 he became a professor.

David L. Lee

In 1981, he joined a company that was acquired by the satellite communications firm Comsat, where he held a variety of executive positions before joining TRW Information Systems Group in 1986.

David L. Seymour

Seymour was elected as a Democrat to the 28th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845, and was Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

David L. Sokol

Sokol purchased 96,060 shares of Lubrizol at a limit price of $104 per share between January 5 and 7, 2011.

David MacKenzie

David L. Mackenzie (1860–1926), first Dean of Detroit Junior College

David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

David Payne

David L. Payne (1836–1884), U.S soldier and pioneer, "Father of Oklahoma"

David Webster

David L. Webster (1888–1976), American physicist in early X-ray theory

DFJ Frontier

DFJ Frontier was founded in 2002 by Managing Directors David Cremin and Scott Lenet, former entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Edwin Holmes

Edwin N. Holmes, head football coach for the Middlebury College Panthers football team, 1915–1917

Elizabeth Garrett

Garrett was also Legislative Director and Tax and Budget Counsel to Senator David L. Boren.

Ephraim P. Holmes

In August 1952 he assumed command of the attack transport Sanborn, which conducted landing exercises at Vieques, Puerto Rico and Onslow Beach, North Carolina as part of Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

First Call

In late 1994, First Call acted as the backup group for David L. Cook's inspirational single, "When Heaven is My Home".

Fizzle Like a Flood

In 2005, Ernest Jenning offered a (re-)mastered reissue of Golden Sand and the Grandstand with all-new artwork by Frank Holmes (who was the artist for the 1966 Beach Boys album Smile).

Frank J. Holmes

He has contributed album or sleeve artwork for their works The Smile Sessions (2011) and Songs Cycled (2013).

Genta H. Holmes

Genta Hawkins Holmes (born September 3, 1940 in Anadarko, Oklahoma) is an American professor in diplomacy and former American foreign service officer and ambassador.

Global Roundtable on Climate Change

David L. Downie served as Director of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change before leaving the Earth Institute to join Fairfield University.

GURPS Bio-Tech

The first edition of GURPS Bio-Tech was written by David L. Pulver.

H. H. Holmes

The producer and director of the film, John Borowski, also wrote a book on Holmes titled The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes.

H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer

Produced over a four-year period, the film highlights locations such as Holmes' childhood home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and the courtroom in Philadelphia where the "trial of the century" was held.

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

J. A. Chapman

In June 1867, mayor Thomas J. Holmes, who had been appointed the previous year after the resignation of Henry Failing, was elected to a full term, and then died the following morning.

Marina von Neumann Whitman

Dr. L Whitman is married to David L. Downie, a scholar of international environmental policy, who is the son of the Leonard Downie, Jr., the noted journalist and long-time editor of the Washington Post.

Naming of moons

The name of Haumea and its moons were suggested by David L. Rabinowitz of Caltech and refer to the mother goddess and her daughters in Hawaiian mythology.

Ntpd

The name of the software was changed back to "ntpd" for version four because the NTP creator, Dave Mills, decided that something probably should not be "experimental" for about twenty years without changing dramatically.

Randi Kaye

After several changes at the network and the departure of previous weekend mornings anchor T. J. Holmes, she took over as permanent weekend anchor.

Richard Beebe

He was an original Beatnik still working and being creative in the late 1960s when he discovered Harry Shearer, David L. Lander, and Michael McKean, all much younger than he.

Richard Ducharme

In 1999 he left GO Transit to join the Toronto Transit Commission as General Manager, replacing David Gunn who announced his retirement on October 7, 1998.

Robert E. Holmes

In 1978, Governor Rhodes appointed Holmes to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated when Frank Celebrezze was elected as Chief Justice.

T. J. Holmes

Holmes also anchored significant news stories, including Saddam Hussein’s execution in 2006, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008, and the terrorist attacks at the Glasgow Airport in 2007.

Theophilus H. Holmes

After Holmes was relieved as head of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General Kirby Smith made him head of the District of Arkansas.

He planned a coordinated attack in conjunction with Sterling Price, John S. Marmaduke, James Fleming Fagan, and, Governor of Arkansas, Harris Flanagin.

University of the Nations

David L. Cunningham, son of university founder, filmmaker and part-time faculty

Yale School of Public Health

David L. Katz, MD, MPH ‘93, founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center.

Zebulon Baird Vance

At the age of twenty-one, he wrote to the President of the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, former Governor David L. Swain, and asked for a loan so that he could attend law school.


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