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Douglas A. Boyd

Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, folklorist and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.


Blood type diet

The evolutionary theory of blood groups used by D'Adamo stems from work by William C. Boyd, an immunochemist and blood type anthropologist who made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood groups.

Charles B Macgibbon

Charles and Fred J. Boyd actively worked to create a society for hospital pharmacists.

Charles G. Boyd

He is a member of the board of directors at defense electronics firm, DRS Technologies; graphics software firm, Forterra Systems; and venture capitalists In-Q-Tel, who support the work of the Central Intelligence Agency.

From May 1, 2002 until December 31, 2009, he was the president and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a national security public interest group.

He retired from the Air Force in 1995 and has remained active in the national security realm, including as a program director of the Council on Foreign Relations and as president of Business Executives for National Security.

From December 14–17, 2009, Boyd led a delegation from BENS to Pyongyang, North Korea, to discuss economic issues with officials from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea government.

Charles Hartshorne

In turn Hartshorne has been a seminal influence on the theologians Matthew Fox, Daniel Day Williams, Norman Pittenger, Gregory A. Boyd, Schubert Ogden and John B. Cobb, on the American philosopher Frank Ebersole and on the Australian biologist-futurologist Charles Birch.

Daggett, California

The airport was built as a modification center for the Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber aircraft that were sent to Russia as part of the Lend-Lease program during World War II.

Dale Wainwright

His successor on the court, effective December 3, 2012, is Jeffrey S. Boyd, a former chief of staff to Governor Rick Perry.

Daniel Johnson, Sr.

In his memoirs, Hydro-Québec executive, Robert A. Boyd, recalls being woken up at 6 a.m. the next morning by his boss, Roland Giroux.

Douglas A. Blackmon

He revealed the stories of tens of thousands of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude, which lasted into the 20th century.

Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer, journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

Douglas A. Brooks

He is noted not only by his publications but also his editorship of The Shakespeare Yearbook.

Douglas A. Lawson

He was among individuals selected to represent the Jackson School of Geosciences.

Douglas A. Martin

He has written critically and lyrically on aspects of Virginia Woolf, The Lost Boys, Sylvia Plath, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Arundhati Roy, pornography, Silvan Tomkins and Melanie Klein.

Outline of My Lover was selected as an International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement by Colm Toibin and adapted in part by The Forsythe Company, along with "Irony Is Not Enough: Essay On My Life As Catherine Deneuve (2nd draft)" by Anne Carson, for the multimedia production "Kammer/Kammer".

Douglas A. Warner III

For example, Warner's father served as a trustee of the Cincinnati Music Hall Association and Art Museum and chaired the United Appeal one year.

Edward Boyd

Edward F. Boyd (1914–2007), American marketing executive at Pepsi

Fred J. Boyd

Fred J. Boyd was an Australian pharmacist, qualified accountant and X-ray technician, and the founding president of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia.

German ship Totila

At 14:45, a new formation of 11 A-20s appeared and hit the Teja, which sank with some 4,000 men on board.

Hatbox Field

The USAAF 410th Bombardment Group trained at the airfield with Douglas A-20 Havocs in the fall of 1943 before being reassigned to the Ninth Air Force in England, where they flew Martin B-26 Marauders.

Hope Mirrlees

Since 2000, Mirrlees' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

James H. Boyd

James Hervey Boyd (14 November 1809 – 4 July 1877) was mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, for four terms.

John H. Boyd

Elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress Boyd was United States Representative for the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853.

John M. Geddes

He and Jill Abramson (since promoted to executive editor) were appointed to their positions by then-executive editor Bill Keller to succeed former managing editor Gerald M. Boyd.

Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.

He served as chairman of the commission and vice mayor of Dade County.

Julian Boyd

Julian P. Boyd (1903–1980), American professor of history at Princeton University and editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Julian C. Boyd (1931–2005), American linguist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Kaikoura lights

A spate of sightings followed the initial report and an Air Force Skyhawk was put on stand-by to investigate any positive sightings.

Lead21

In July 2006, director Daniel Trimble stated at a Lead21 reception with General Charles G. Boyd (former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of United States European Command (USEUCOM) that the organization has no marketing budget, and that its growth has been fueled almost entirely by word of mouth from its membership.

Michael D. C. Drout

With Douglas A. Anderson and Verlyn Flieger, he is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, (Volumes 1–7, 2004–2010).

Microsoft Project

Alan M. Boyd, Microsoft's Manager of Product Development, introduced the application as an internal tool to help manage the huge number of software projects that were in development at any time inside the company.

Microsoft Works

However, Bill Gates and his Head of Acquisitions, Alan M. Boyd, convinced Williams to license the product to Microsoft instead.

Nugent Barker

Douglas A. Anderson noted in a Foreword to a later edition of Written With My Left Hand that Barker ranks alongside fellow twentieth-century exponents of the strange story, Walter de la Mare and John Metcalfe.

On Fairy-Stories

Tolkien on Fairy-Stories, by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson: "A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form..."(2008) ISBN 978-0-00-724466-9.

On Mark Marksman

The On Mark Marksman was an American high-speed civil executive aircraft converted from surplus Douglas A-26 Invader airframes by On Mark Engineering.

Palu

Pilots from a CIA Taiwan-based front organisation, Civil Air Transport, flying CIA B-26 Invader aircraft, repeatedly bombed and machine-gunned targets in and around Palu; destroying vehicles, buildings, a bridge and a ship.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Pennsylvania

In 2006, five state representatives, with Pennsylvania State Representative Scott W. Boyd as a main sponsor, introduced House Bill 2381, proposing an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Robert W. Boyd

He is currently Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and on the Faculty at the University of Rochester.

In 2010 he became Professor of Physics and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa.

Sempronius

Sempronius H. Boyd, U.S. Congressman from Missouri and U.S. Civil War Colonel.

The Annotated Hobbit

The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson.

Vultee XA-41

However, with the reduction in military orders due to the approaching end of the war, no production contract was placed, and the aircraft was used as an engine testbed for the USAAF as well as being evaluated by the U.S. Navy in comparison with other contemporary attack aircraft, especially the Douglas AD-1 Skyraider and Martin AM-1 Mauler.

Willard L. Boyd

He returned to Iowa in 2002 to serve as interim president, holding the role between 2002 and 2003 until being succeeded by David J. Skorton.

After ending his tenure as a university president, Boyd served as the President of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1981 to 1996.

Wright J65

Nevertheless, once it entered production it proved to be as good as the British versions, and along with the Martin B-57, its original target, the J65 went on to power versions of the North American FJ Fury, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, and the two Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter prototypes.

Ziaulhaq

Air Force Master Sergeant Patrick W. Boyd, Major Christopher P. West and a third GI plead guilty shortly after the Afghans were apprehended.


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