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Edwin B. Brooks

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.


Aaron A. Brooks

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Ahmad D. Brooks

In 1998, Ahmad signed and became a valuable member of the University of Texas football team for Coach Mack Brown’s inaugural class at UT.

Archy Lee

Stovall had Lee arrested, but a prominent civil rights attorney, Edwin B. Crocker defended Lee, and in decision on January 26, 1858, Judge Robert Robinson ruled that Lee was a free man because California was a free state and, though Mississippi was a slave state, Stovall had become permanent resident of California, and thus could not own slaves.

Arthur Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks (born 1964), American social scientist and musician

Battle of Akroinon

Other historians however, from the early 20th-century Syriac scholar E.W. Brooks to more recent ones such as Walter Kaegi and Ralph-Johannes Lilie, have challenged this view, attributing the reduced Arab threat after Akroinon to the fact that it coincided with other heavy reversals on the most remote provinces of the Caliphate, which exhausted its overextended military resources, as well as with internal turmoil due to civil wars and the Abbasid Revolution.

Blossoms in the Dust

It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.

C. Jay Cox

He mentioned in a 2004 interview that some of his idols are James L. Brooks, Sydney Pollack and Billy Wilder.

Dave Carley

He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks.

Edwin B. Crocker

He earned a degree in civil engineering at Rensselaer Institute in Troy, New York.

The next year, Crocker agreed to serve as legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, a company run by the Big Four, which included Edwin's younger brother, Charles Crocker.

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

The Barnegat Division (established in 1967) is located in Ocean County on the inland side of Barnegat Bay.

Edwin B. Hooper

Hooper gained approval for the development of the AIM-9 Sidewinder.

Edwin B. Howard

Upon his retirement from the Army in 1954, Howard became a consultant for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

Eugene C. Brooks

He was named head of the Department of Education at Trinity College in 1907, where he served until 1919 when he was appointed state superintendent of public instruction by Governor Thomas Walter Bickett.

Ford Flivver

Ford's chief test pilot was Harry J. Brooks, a young employee who had become a favorite of Ford.

Franklin E. Brooks

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

George M. Brooks

Brooks was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George S. Boutwell.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

Half-Decent Proposal

Although the episode was written by Tim Long, the idea for the episode was pitched by series' co-creator and executive producer James L. Brooks.

Harry J. Brooks

A first attempt launched on 24 January 1928, witnessed by Henry Ford, landed short in a forced landing at Asheville, North Carolina.

Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

Holy Cross could have joined the newly founded Big East Conference in 1980, but college President Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., vetoed the move for academic reasons.

Idris Muhammad

In 1966, he married Dolores "LaLa" Brooks (former member of the Crystals; she converted to Islam with him and went for a time under the name Sakinah Muhammad).

Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve

Other agency partners include the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, the Pinelands Commission, The Tuckerton Seaport and The Cooperative Institute of Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology.

John E. Brooks

A 2007 article in BusinessWeek suggested that "Brooks helped shape an exceptional group of overachievers", including Clarence Thomas and Edward P. Jones as chronicled in the 2012 book on the integration of Holy Cross, "Fraternity" by Diane Brady.

During his presidency, he and Peter Likins of Lehigh University were the two college presidents contacted by the Ivy League in the first stage of the formation of the Patriot League during the early-1980s.

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Mark Andrus

Initially Kevin Kline, Ralph Fiennes, Holly Hunter, and producer Laura Ziskin expressed interest, but after a lot of meetings the project fell into limbo for three years until James L. Brooks became involved.

Nathan C. Brooks

Poe's "Ligeia", "A Predicament" (published as "The Scythe of Time"), and "The Haunted Palace" were all originally published in Brooks' magazine.

In 1831, he was elected principal of the Franklin Academy, located in Reisterstown, Maryland.

Nathan Covington Brooks, the youngest son of John and Mary Brooks, was born in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland on August 12, 1809.

NGA Pro Golf Tour

The NGA Pro Golf Tour is a private company founded by T. C. "Rick" Jordan in 1988 and later sold to Hooters restaurant chain owner Robert H. Brooks in 1994.

Peter Likins

During his administration at Lehigh, he and the Reverend John E. Brooks, S.J. of the College of the Holy Cross were the two university presidents contacted by the Ivy League in the first stage of the formation of the Patriot League during the early-1980s.

Richard L. Young

On July 15, 1997, Young was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana vacated by Gene E. Brooks.

Robert L. Caslen

Other generals that appeared in the video included Vincent K. Brooks and Air Force generals Peter U. Sutton and Jack J. Catton Jr.

Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards

The final round of the awards are judged by prominent writers, directors, and entertainers, who have included Moss Hart, Billy Wilder, George Stevens, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Dustin Hoffman, James Brooks, David Mamet, A. Scott Berg, and David Lynch.

Stand Up and Scream

The song "Hey There Mr. Brooks" is written as a homage to the film, Mr. Brooks.

Steve Faber

Faber is writing and executive producing a film for writer/director James L. Brooks, as well as adapting the screen version of journalist A. J. Liebling's Telephone Booth Indians.

Stokely Webster

During the 1960s, he painted many portraits of his wife, Iva, as well as his daughter, Stephanie (dancer, who later married novelist Martin Brooks), and his granddaughter, Kathryn (novelist and photographer K. S. Brooks).

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953) is the brief 21st book in the humorous children's series Freddy the Pig written by American author Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Too Young to Kiss

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore).

Walter R. Brooks

Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.

Since Brooks himself had died by the time production began on the show, as of early November of 2013, it was not known whether his estate collected royalties from its production.) His most enduring works, however, are the 26 books he wrote about Freddy the Pig and his friends.

Will Lyons

It was while working for Justerini & Brooks in St James's street that Lyons received the opportunity to sell and taste a great many fine and rare wines particularly Bordeaux and Burgundy.

Before journalism, Lyons worked as a wine merchant for Justerini & Brooks and Lea & Sandeman in London.

William Brooks of Blackburn

In 1792 they founded Cunliffe Brooks Bank at Blackburn but at first manufacturing was the main activity.

William H. Kelsey

His brother was Edwin B. Kelsey, who was a lawyer, businessman, and Wisconsin state legislator.


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