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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

An outstanding success...Immaculately researched and packed with detail, but written in a way that will appeal to readers of all kinds — Sir Patrick Moore


1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike

Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was the EA's first vice-president; grocery store president Frank H. Armstrong of Reid, Murdoch & Company the second vice-president; and William E. Clow, president of plumbing manufacturer J.B. Clow & Co. the secretary.

97th Operations Group

The lead aircraft of the group, Butcher Shop, was piloted by the Group Commander, Colonel Frank A. Armstrong, and squadron commander Major Paul W. Tibbets (who later flew the Enola Gay to Hiroshima Japan on the first atomic bomb mission).

Anne W. Armstrong

She was also a pioneering woman in business management, and was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business in the early 1920s.

In the 1940s, the Tennessee Valley Authority completed South Holston Dam, effectively inundating the Big Creek community, which straddled the South Fork Holston just upstream from the dam.

Archie Dagg

In another tape, he talked in detail about pipemaking, and in a third he recalled Tom Clough, Richard Mowat, G.G. Armstrong and 'Kielder Jock' Davison.

Bassingbourn Barracks

The first of these, the 101st Provisional Combat Bomb Wing, commanded by Brigadier General Frank A. Armstrong, Jr., set up its headquarters at Bassingbourn on 16 April 1943.

C. W. Armstrong

His son, Simon W J Armstrong, married the daughter of Diana Miller, Countess of Mértola.

The son of Henry Bruce Armstrong, of Dean's Hill, Armagh, he married Hilde Kolz, with whom he had one son and daughter.

Charles Armstrong

Charles K. Armstrong, academic, historian, and professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University

Comparative linguistics

Some believers in Abrahamic religions try to derive their native languages from Classical Hebrew, as Herbert W. Armstrong, a proponent of British Israelism, who said that the word 'British' comes from Hebrew brit meaning 'covenant' and ish meaning 'man', supposedly proving that the British people are the 'covenant people' of God.

David L. Armstrong

Some of the projects he championed were expansions of the medical district, a $111 million Marriott hotel, Fourth Street Live! and Louisville Glassworks.

His term had several successes, most notably his support for the revitalization of Downtown Louisville.

The Louisville Extreme Park was one of his signature accomplishments as Mayor.

Frank Armstrong

Frank A. Armstrong (1902–1969), United States Army Air Forces Brigadier General

G.G. Armstrong

He taught 36 pupils, including Joe Hutton, Tommy Breckons and Colin Caisley, and passed on his pipemaking skills to William Cocks.

He learned to play the instrument from the Clough family, and studied pipemaking with John E. Baty.

Gertie Gitana

Her music hall repertoire included "A Schoolgirl's Holiday", "We've been chums for fifty years", "When the Harvest Moon is Shining", "Silver Bell", "You do Look Well in Your Old Dutch Bonnet", "Queen of the Cannibal Isles", "Never Mind", "When I see the Lovelight Gleaming", and especially "Nellie Dean" - written by Henry W. Armstrong - which an audience first heard her sing in 1907.

Gibson C. Armstrong

He was elected in a special election on July 16, 2002 to fill the unexpired term of John E. Barley.

Herbert W. Armstrong

Franz Josef Strauss, a major politician in post WWII Germany, became the target of the broadcasting and publishing media blitz that Armstrong unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong, The Plain Truth and the Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England.

Armstrong adhered to a form of British Israelism which stated that the British, American and many European peoples were descended from the so-called Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, using this belief to state that biblical references to Israel, Jacob, etc., were in fact prophecies relating to the modern day, with literal application to the USA, Britain, and the British Commonwealth.

Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal née Armstrong-Jones (born 1979, ), a daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ∞ Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Huguenot High School

Some minority families also objected to the transportation hardships, as well as loss of traditional family participation at neighborhood schools, notably including Richmond high schools named for Maggie L. Walker, Samuel C. Armstrong, and John Marshall which had been attended by generations of some families.

Joe Armstrong

Joe E. Armstrong (born 1956), American politician and member of the Tennessee House of Representatives

John S. Armstrong

John S. Armstrong (b. November 18, 1850, d. April 26, 1908) was the co-founder (along with Thomas Marsalis) of the former City of Oak Cliff (now incorporated into Dallas) and founder of the town of Highland Park, Texas.

Moses K. Armstrong

Armstrong later moved to Yankton, then a small Native American village, in Dakota Territory, when Minnesota Territory was admitted as a State.

Nancy E. Dick

She was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1984, losing to incumbent Republican William L. Armstrong.

Nellie Dean

"(You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You) Nellie Dean" is a sentimental ballad in common time by Henry W. Armstrong, published in 1905 by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City.

Nikola Tesla Museum

A series of selected letters, placed on both sides of the photograph, witnesses the highest acknowledgements expressed to Tesla by the greatest scientists of his time: Albert Einstein, William Crookes, Lord Kelvin, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Robert A. Millikan, Lee de Forest, Edwin H. Armstrong, Arthur H. Compton, Arthur E. Kennelly, Popov and Pupin.

Prince Kuhio Federal Building

It was built on part of the former US Army Fort Armstrong, which was named for Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893), son of Hawaiian missionaries.

Pruneface

He also made a brief appearance in the 1990 film adaptation of Dick Tracy, in which he is portrayed by R. G. Armstrong.

R. G. Armstrong

Armstrong also appeared on The Twilight Zone, in the episode "Nothing in the Dark" along with a young Robert Redford.

In the story line, the recently widowed Doreen Bradley (Patricia Barry) exposes Stoner as the murderer of her husband.

Armstrong initially enrolled at Howard College, now Samford University in Homewood, Alabama, where he became interested in acting, and then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Race and the War on Drugs

The idea that minorities have to somehow “prove” that racial discrimination was being used during a search and seizure (United States v. Armstrong, 1996) and that the Equal Protection Law has been separated from the Fourth Amendment through successive court decisions leaves the accused at a disadvantage.

Richard Armstrong

Richard N. Armstrong (born 1945), Canadian communication professor and religious rhetoric scholar

Richard N. Armstrong

He and his wife, Kristy, have three grown sons, one of whom is Eric M. Armstrong, publisher and head film critic of The Moving Arts Film Journal.

Samuel Armstrong

Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893) - Hawaiian-born military officer and educator

Sy Bartlett

There he came into daily contact with the inner workings of Air Force commanders in England, including Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong, and was a close observer of the development of the Eighth into a powerful combat force.

Thomas Armstrong

Thomas "Tommy" Armstrong (1848 – 1920), 19th century Geordie singer, songwriter

Thomas H. Armstrong (1829–1891), American Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Thomas E. Armstrong (born 1959), American Republican politician from Pennsylvania

WQNO

The program director who developed the format was William L. Armstrong who later served as a U. S. Senator from Colorado.


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