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Earl B. Olson

He was a mainstay of the turkey industry, and a pioneer in developing new turkey products and expanding the marketplace.


Abigail Adams Smith

The gruesome details of the surgery and the remainder of Nabby's life have been discussed by historians such as James S. Olson.

Albanians in Ukraine

Olson, James S., An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires.

Alec G. Olson

Olson served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1963, to January 3, 1967, during the 88th and 89th congresses.

Bermuda Flicker

Though most material is from Late Pleistocene deposits unearthed by Storrs L. Olson, David B. Wingate and others in the Admirals Cave, the Wilkinson Quarry, and in the Walsingham Sink Cave in Hamilton Parish in Bermuda in 1981 there is one bone, a tarsometatarsus from a juvenile, which is from a Holocene layer in the Spittal Pond.

Communication during the September 11 attacks

Passengers and crew who made calls include: Sandra Bradshaw, Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Peter Hanson, Jeremy Glick, Barbara K. Olson, Renee May, Madeline Amy Sweeney, Betty Ong, Robert Fangman, Brian David Sweeney, and Ed Felt.

Daniel F. Steck

In November 1935, Steck was jokingly appointed by Iowa Governor Clyde Herring as one of his counsel, along with Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson, to defend him against a citizen's criminal complaint filed against Herring for unlawful gambling.

David R. Olson

He worked briefly at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was worked as a fellow under the supervision of Jerome Bruner, at Harvard University's Center for Cognitive Studies

He attended the University of Saskatchewan from 1953–55, obtained a teaching certificate; he then taught in a village school in Alsask, Saskatchewan.

Eric E. Fiel

“Lt. Gen. Wurster has been a brilliant and strong leader,” said Adm. Eric Olson, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command.

Eric Olson

Eric T. Olson (born 1952), retired admiral in the United States Navy and former commander of United States Special Operations Command

Feathered dinosaur

Some mainstream ornithologists, including Smithsonian Institution curator Storrs L. Olson, disputed the links, specifically citing the lack of fossil evidence for feathered dinosaurs.

Floyd B. Olson

Olson last made a public appearance on June 29, 1936, giving a stump speech in Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.

Shortly after Olson died, Minnesota State Highway 55 (a highway that was then being constructed) was renamed the "Floyd B. Olson Memorial Highway" in his honor.

Gary A. Olson

In 1991, Olson began conducting scholarly interviews of internationally prominent intellectuals including anthropologist Clifford Geertz, linguist Noam Chomsky, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard, philosopher of science Sandra Harding, theorist and cultural critic Donna Haraway, political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, and feminist theorist bell hooks.

Gerald T. Olson

Olson has been involved with several other projects, including Repo Man starring Emilio Estevez, The Hidden starring Kyle MacLachlan, Rapid Fire starring Brandon Lee and Peter Berg's The Rundown starring Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken and Rosario Dawson.

Glorious Appearing

In the National Review, the Catholic author Carl E. Olson described Glorious Appearing as "400 pages of repetitive, numbing bombast", and said that the premillenialist dispensationalist theology that forms the theological basis for the novels "is rejected, either explicitly or implicitly, by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and nearly every major Protestant denomination".

Great Church

Roger E. Olson (1999) uses the term to refer to the Great Church at the time of the Council of Chalcedon (451) when the Patriarch of Constantinople and Bishop of Rome were in fellowship with each other.

Harry F. Olson

Harry F. Olson, a pioneer in the field of 20th century acoustical engineering, was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa to Swedish immigrant parents.

Harry H. Peterson

He was elected Ramsey County Attorney to serve 1923–1924 and subsequently served as the Minnesota Attorney General during the Farmer-Labor administration of Floyd B. Olson, 1933–1936.

Hector E. Pagan

Also present were ROTC classmates, a friend from Chile, family members from Puerto Rico and a South Korean brigadier general and Admiral Eric T. Olson, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

James Olson

James S. Olson, American professor of history at Sam Houston State University

John E. Olson

After transport to Japan in November 1942, Olson was imprisoned at the Osaka Seiko Company steel mill in Osaka, Japan where he spent the remainder of the war in forced labor, until being moved to Oeyama Island before the onset of U.S. bombing raids.

In 1985 he self-published his first book, "O'Donnell: Andersonville of the Pacific", in which he drew parallels between Camp O'Donnell and the Civil War Confederate prison, Andersonville—the two prisons represent the two highest levels of mortality in history for U.S. POW's.

The Olsons had five children, including scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson.

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

Forty-one individuals have held the office of lieutenant governor since Wisconsin's admission to the Union in 1848, two of whom—Warren Knowles and Jack Olson—have served for non-consecutive terms.

Mark Olson

Mark W. Olson (born 1943), U.S. Federal Reserve governor from 2001 to 2006

Mark W. Olson

Between 1971 and 1976, Olson served former Republican Representative Bill Frenzel of Minnesota, as Legislative Assistant for Banking Issues (1971–72), then as Director of his district office (1974–76).

Martin A. Nelson

Nelson obtained the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1936, but lost both general elections to Floyd B. Olson and Elmer A. Benson, respectively.

Ochyor

Everett C. Olson, 1962, Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, USA and USSR Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, 52: 1–224.

Phasmagyps

The fossil was reexamined in the early 1980s by avian paleontologist Storrs L. Olson.

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

The original Board members were Carol E. Dinkins, of Texas, Chairwoman; Alan Charles Raul, of the District of Columbia, Vice Chairman; Theodore B. Olson, of Virginia; Lanny Davis, of Maryland, and Francis X. Taylor, of Maryland.

Ron Scarlett

Scarlett became notable for his excavations over many decades on several paleontological deposits on New Zealand like Te Aute, Lake Poukawa, or the Pyramid Valley swamp where he unearthed and described the fossil remains of a Late Quaternary avifauna including bones of the Eyles' Harrier (Circus eylesi), the New Zealand Owlet-nightjar, the Scarlett's Duck (which was named by Storrs L. Olson), and the Hodgens' Waterhen.

Sigurd F. Olson

He led canoe expeditions for a group that became known as the "Voyageurs," which routinely included Eric W. Morse, Denis Coolican, Blair Fraser, Tony Lovink, Eric W. Morse, Elliott Rodger, and Omond Solandt.

Sigurd also was a consultant to the Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall on wilderness and national park issues.

He was known honorifically as the Bourgeois — a term the voyageurs of old used of their trusted leaders.

Slaugenhopia

Although it was known only from fragments, paleontologist Everett C. Olson reconstructed the entire skull when he named the genus in 1962.

Small-billed Moa-nalo

It was described in 1991 from subfossil material collected in September 1982 by Storrs Olson, Helen James and others, from the Auwahi Cave on the southern slopes of Haleakalā, on the island of Maui.


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