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2 unusual facts about Edward L. Hamilton


Edward L. Hamilton

Hamilton was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 4th congressional district to the 54th United States Congress and subsequently re-elected to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1921.

He was chairman of the Committee on Territories in the 58th through 61st Congresses.


. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him

The story first appeared in the May 1974 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction and the 1974 anthology Final Stage, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry Malzberg.

And Then...

Roy "Royalty" Hamilton worked with Joe on the title track, as well as "Sweeter than Sugar" and "Sweet Dreams".

Barinthus

Barinthus, a character in the "Merry Gentry" series of books by Laurell K. Hamilton

Bitek

Bitek is a fictional substance mentioned numerous times in the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.

Castle Mill

Oxford University donors, such as Michael Moritz, and the University's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Andrew Hamilton, have also been targeted with letters by the protesters, warning that the buildings "blot out the unique view of Oxford's Dreaming Spires from Port Meadow".

Christopher A. Kojm

From 1984 to 1998 he was a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Lee H. Hamilton, the ranking member, then chairman of the committee.

Clark Natwick

Clark Natwick competed in several road racing events; he won Mt. Hamilton Road Race racing with Greg LeMond

Colorado School of Mines

The honorary named Colorado School of Mines buildings commemorate Dr. Victor C. Alderson, Edward L. Berthoud, George R. Brown, Dr. Regis Chauvenet, Dr. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Cecil H. and Ida Green, Simon Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, Arthur Lakes, Dr. Paul D. Meyer, Winfield S. Stratton, and Russell K. Volk.

Edward Beach

Edward L. Beach, Sr. (1867–1943), U.S. Navy officer, author, and educator

Edward Bowen

Edward L. Bowen (born c.1942), American author of books on Thoroughbred horse racing

Edward L. Alperson

Alperson's last film of note was acquiring the film rights to Irma La Douce for Mirisch Productions that was filmed in 1963 by Billy Wilder but without the music.

What promised to be Alperson's good fortune turned out to be his downfall when he befriended James Cagney then on suspension from Warner Bros.

Edward L. Atkinson

In 1916 he served on the Western Front and fought at the Somme, receiving the Distinguished Service Order.

Edward L. Baker, Jr.

Baker is the maternal grandfather of jazz saxophonist and Oscar nominee Dexter Gordon.

Edward L. Berthoud

He came to the United States in 1830 with his parents and spent his childhood along the Mohawk River and in Oneida County in Upstate New York.

In the early 1850s he worked as a surveyor on the Panama Canal.

Edward L. Burlingame

In 1879, he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed founding editor-in-chief of Scribner's Magazine, where he served until his resignation in 1914.

Edward L. Deci

Deci is also Director of the Monhegan Museum (in Monhegan, Maine) where he spends his summers writing about psychology and art (though rarely at the same time).

Edward L. Ferman

He continued as editor until 1991, when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and continued as publisher of F&SF until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000.

Edward L. Keithahn

He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working "in the Indian service," as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people.

Edward L. Masry

The case was adapted into the highly successful film, Erin Brockovich, with Albert Finney portraying Masry.

Ed Masry has a non-speaking cameo in the film Erin Brockovich as a diner patron sitting behind Julia Roberts, the same diner that cameos Erin Brockovich as a waitress.

Edward L. O'Neill

He was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.

He served in the United States Navy from 1919–1923, after which he became engaged in the real estate business in Newark.

Edward L. Pierce

He was a member of the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant Treasurer of the United States, but declined.

Far darrig

In Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, the fear dearg makes an appearance in the book Divine Misdemeanors, where he asks Merry to give him a proper name.

Fleet Canuck

The Canuck originated with the Noury N-75, designed by Bob Noury which first flew in 1944 at Mount Hope, Ontario.

Fred C. Hamilton

Following the general election of 1927 (which was won by Premier John Bracken's Progressives), Hamilton campaigned for the Liberals in the northern riding of Rupertsland -- which, due to its remoteness, voted after the rest of the province.

Hinkley groundwater contamination

Erin Brockovich, a legal clerk to lawyer Edward L. Masry, investigated the apparent elevated cluster of illnesses in the community linked to hexavalent chromium.

Irwin I. Shapiro

In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.

James A. Hamilton

He attended Public School No. 32 in Manhattan, and graduated from New York Evening High School in 1892, and B.A. from University of Rochester in 1898.

James M. Hamilton

Hamilton enrolled at Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana.

James R. Reid

James R. Reid resigned for health reasons in 1904, and was succeeded as president by Dr. James M. Hamilton, an economist.

John T. Hamilton

From 1985 to 1996 Hamilton was the guitarist and principal songwriter, together with Donna Croughn, for the band Tiny Lights, based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Joseph Cari, Jr.

Chairman Cari played a central role in strategic planning of the center and recruited the Honorable Lee Hamilton as the Director of the Center and supported Congressman Hamilton's appointment to Co-Chair the 9/11 Commission with former Secretary of State, James Baker.

Jurgen Ziewe

Many of his fantasy images found their way onto book covers of well known science fiction authors including Robert Silverberg, Vernor Vinge, Steven Baxter, Iain Banks, Dan Simmons, Greg Bear, John Barnes and Peter F. Hamilton and writers of the Mind-Body-Spirit genre.

Katzenbach

Edward L. Katzenbach (1878–1934), New Jersey Attorney General, brother of Frank S. Katzenbach, father of Nicholas Katzenbach

Larry C. Napper

In 1983-84, Napper received an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship in the office of Representative Lee H. Hamilton.

Lee Hamilton

Lee H. Hamilton (born 1931), former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana

Milton H. Hamilton, Jr

Hamilton implemented a system of user fees at many state parks to help offset their operating expenses; this program was frozen upon the inauguration of Phil Bredesen as governor.

Oamaru

Peter F. Hamilton's novel The Dreaming Void (London: Macmillan, 2007; ISBN 978-1-4050-0) refers to " ... the backwater External World of Oamaru" (page 22).

Paul Trousdale

In 1954, he purchased the Doheny Ranch from Mrs Lucy Smith Doheny Battson, wife of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (1893–1929), son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), and developed it into Trousdale Estates, later home to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Ray Charles.

Self-determination theory

Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan later expanded on the early work differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and proposed three main intrinsic needs involved in self-determination.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

W. J. Hamilton

William J. Hamilton, (born 1932), American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey

Wayne Christian

In 2009, a controversial amendment sponsored by fellow Republican, Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton passed the Texas House, allowing Christian and a handful of neighbors on the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston to rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

Wendy Hamilton

Wendy J. Hamilton, former president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving


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