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3 unusual facts about Edward S. Curtis


John Joseph Braham, Sr.

In the early teens Edward S. Curtis (ethnographer, photographer, and soon to be film maker whose major subject was the North American Indian) commissioned Braham to compose a score for In the Land of the Head Hunters.

Lawrence Denny Lindsley

This association led him to work for Edward S. Curtis, where Lindsley developed some of the color negatives (orotones), known as the “gold tones”, for Curtis’ famous “Indians of North America” series.

Timothy Long

The group performs music including the original score for a newly restored print of Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters.


2-2-2

Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy supplied six 2-2-2 locomotives to the Bristol and Gloucester Railway in 1844, and fourteen to the Great Southern and Western Railway in Ireland in 1848, (the last of these has been preserved at Cork Kent railway station.

Allard Hall

In 1976 construction began on the Curtis building, named for the Faculty's founding Dean, George F. Curtis, who died on October 23, 2005.

Arthur Curtis

Arthur R. Curtis (1842–1925), Union Army officer during the American Civil War

Cambodian genocide denial

On June 6, 1977, he and his collaborator, Edward S. Herman, published a review of Barron and Paul's, Ponchaud's, and Porter's books in The Nation.

Charles B. Curtis

As well as working in private practice for more than sixteen years Curtis served as the last Chairman of the Federal Power Commission and the first Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981.

Cork Kent railway station

Originally built by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool at a cost of £1,955, the engine was obtained by the Great Southern and Western Railway to run services from Dublin to Cork.

Depressaria

To make matters worse, J. Curtis popularized another incorrect spelling, D. heracleana, apparently first introduced (as Pyralis heracleana) by J.C. Fabricius in his 1775 Systema Entomologiae.

Doublespeak

Edward S. Herman, political economist and media analyst, has highlighted some examples of doublespeak and doublethink in modern society.

Edward Davidson

Edward S. Davidson, professor of electrical engineering and computer science

Edward Herman

Edward S. Herman (born 1925), American economist and media analyst

Edward Mann

Edward S. Mann (1905–2005), educator and former president of the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts

Edward S. Bragg

He was appointed consul general in Havana, Cuba in May, 1902, and in Hong Kong, then a British crown colony, in September, 1902, serving from 1903 to 1906.

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

Edward S. Jordan

Jordan supported his own way through the University of Wisconsin–Madison and achieved high grades while working as a sports reporter for a Madison, Wisconsin newspaper and the Milwaukee Journal.

Edward S. Lacey

He attended the public schools and Olivet College and engaged in various business pursuits and in banking.

Lacey was elected as a Republican to represent Michigan's 3rd congressional district in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1885.

Edward S. Rogers, Sr.

Roger Sr father was a director with Imperial Oil Company and formerly a partner in Samuel and Elias Rogers Coal Company (Elias Rogers and Company) founded 1876 by his Quaker father Samuel Rogers and uncle Elias Rogers (d. 1920).

Edward S. Walker, Jr.

Edward S. Walker was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.

He started the negotiations with Libya which lead to Libya's decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion US dollars in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 as well as UTA Flight 772.

Eminence, Indiana

Glenn M. Curtis - four time Indiana state champion basketball coach (Lebanon & Martinsville) and coach at Indiana State and the high school coach of John Wooden.

George M. Curtis

After defeating Hayes, he served in the 54th United States Congress, then was re-elected two years later and served in the 55th United States Congress.

Gum industry

1848: John B. Curtis developed the first commercially available chewing gum

Henry Faulds

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

James B. Longley

The owner of a successful insurance agency in Lewiston, Longley got his first opportunity in statewide politics when then-Governor Kenneth M. Curtis asked him to lead a state government commission called The Maine Management and Cost Survey Commission, which was intended to make government more efficient, and cut costs.

James C. Curtis

He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Collector of Internal Revenue for his district, and remained in office until 1869.

James F. Curtis

James Freeman Curtis II (1825–1914), 49er, Vigilante leader in San Francisco, its first Chief of Police, officer in the California militia and Volunteers in the American Civil War.

James J. Storrow

With police Commissioner Edwin U. Curtis at odds with the rank and file police, Boston Mayor Andrew J. Peters appointed Storrow to chair an ad hoc Citizen's Committee to review the matter.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

Attorney General Cummings received novel advice from Princeton University professor Edward S. Corwin in a December 16, 1936 letter.

Kenneth Curtis

Kenneth M. Curtis (born 1931), former American lawyer and politician

Kenneth L. Curtis (born 1965), initially found incompetent to stand trial for the killing of his girlfriend, found competent 10 years later

Kenneth L. Curtis

Reporters for News Channel 8 observed Curtis taking classes at a local college with an apparent goal of a career in psychiatry.

Leonty Ramensky

This was long before Correspondence analysis was first used (1952), the now classic applications of ordination to plant communities by J. Roger Bray and John T. Curtis and David W. Goodall and the theoretical foundations of gradient analysis was developed by Whittaker and others (1970s onwards).

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, is an analysis of the news media, arguing that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".

Marietta Earthworks

The complex was again surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio).

Rainier Club

E. H. Harriman, John Burroughs, John Muir, Edward S. Curtis and Henry Gannett set out to Seal Island and other Bering Sea islands and to the coast of Siberia and the Bering Strait from the Club, and celebrated there on their return.

Salvage ethnography

Photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was preceded by painter George Catlin (1796–1872) in attempting to capture indigenous North American traditions that they believed to be disappearing.

Schell Bridge

Designed by Edward S. Shaw, the bridge was built by the New England Structural Company of East Everett, Massachusetts.

Segretissimo

A first series with the same name was launched in October 1960, featuring 12 spy novels all by Jean Bruce; the series was then restarted from #1, which (apart Bruce) has featured mainly translations of American or British authors, such as James Hadley Chase, Edward S. Aarons, Stephen Gunn and others, as well as the Nick Carter series and the SAS series by Gérard de Villiers and his followers.

Thomas B. Curtis

He served as vice president and general counsel, Encyclopædia Britannica, from 1969 to 1973.

United States and state terrorism

Notable works include Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's The political economy of human rights (1979), Herman's The real terror network (1985), Alexander L. George' Western state terrorism (1991), Frederick Gareau's State terrorism and the United States (2004) and Doug Stokes' America's other war (2005).

Walter Mason Camp

Camp visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield many times, in the company of such notable participants as Curley, Peter Thompson, Gen. Edward S. Godfrey, Sgt. Daniel Knipe, Stanislaus Roy, George Herendeen, and others.


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