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3 unusual facts about Gordon J. Russell


Gordon J. Russell

Russell was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Reese C. De Graffenreid.

He was re-elected to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 4, 1902, to June 14, 1910, when he resigned to become a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which office he held until his death in Kerrville, Texas, September 14, 1919.

Gordon Russell

Gordon J. Russell (1859–1919), U.S. Representative from Texas and federal judge


21459 Chrisrussell

It is named after Christopher T. Russell, a professor of geophysics and planetary physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Adam Roffman

Since that time Adam has worked with such directors as Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, David O. Russell, Paul Feig, James Toback, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, Peter Hedges, Ben Affleck, Edward Burns, Martin Campbell, and numerous others.

Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael

In it, she describes her affinity for the new works of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson and David O. Russell, showing an appreciation for Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the first half of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Three Kings.

Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis

The compilation includes essays by a variety of radical feminists such as Alice Walker, Robin Morgan, Kathleen Barry, Diana E. H. Russell, Susan Leigh Star, Ti-Grace Atkinson, John Stoltenberg, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Susan Griffin, Cheri Lesh, and Judy Butler.

Andrew J. Russell

Russell's first photographs, taken with a camera borrowed from Fowx, were used by Brigadier General Herman Haupt to illustrate his reports.

Arthur Roy Mitchell

The museum displays some 250 of his major works, which are similar in theme to the better known western artists Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Ashen light

Christopher T. Russell and J. L. Phillips from the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California in Los Angeles and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico have offered a mathematical approach to figuring out how exactly the ashen light is formed.

Ben T. Russell

Benjamin T. Russell (born 10 January 1983 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a rugby union player who plays at No. 8 or Flanker for London Welsh.

C.W. Blubberhouse

Chapman Winston Blubberhouse is a fictional poet and author, created by R.B. Russell and Mark Valentine.

Charlie L. Russell

Charlie and his younger and more famous brother, basketball legend Bill Russell, attended local Oakland schools.

Christopher de Bellaigue

He wrote "Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten People", an account of the three years he lived in Varto, after publishing an essay in the New York Review of Books about the Turkish "deportations and massacres" of Armenians in 1915 and being told by Professor James R. Russell that he was engaging in genocide denial and scolded by editor Robert Silvers for acting as an "apologist" for the Turks.

Craig H. Russell

He also arranged three compositions for the 2006 film Nacho Libre, which were performed by Chanticleer.

Middle Earth, a suite after J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.

Donald Russell

Donald S. Russell (1906–1998), Democratic Senator from South Carolina

Edwin F. Russell

After graduating from Princeton University, he worked during the 1940s as the associate publisher of The (Newark, NJ) Star-Ledger.

Eric Warren Singer

Singer and fellow writer David O. Russell are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for the 2013 film American Hustle.

Frederick F. Russell

He conducted trials at the Army Medical Museum comparing the efficasy of both an orally administered and an injected vaccine.

George K. Brady

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the 17th Infantry in March 1891 and commanded that regiment at Fort D. A. Russell.

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.

Greg P. Russell

He has won a Emmy Award in 1989 for Outstanding Film Sound Mixing in his work on Muppet Babies.

Hans Jürgen Press

While a prisoner at Ft. D.A. Russell in Texas, he painted detailed murals of far West Texas mountain scenes at Building 98 in Marfa, Texas.

J. R. Russell

He was re-signed to the Bucs' practice squad on November 30, 2005, and was competing for a spot on the opening day roster, along with former Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowler David Boston and rookie Maurice Stovall from Notre Dame.

John H. Russell, Jr.

Early in March 1917, he assumed command of the 3rd Regiment, with headquarters in Santo Domingo City, Dominican Republic, and within a short period of time he was detached and ordered to command the 4th Regiment of Marines with headquarters at Santiago de los Caballeros, where he remained until October 1917, when he was detached and ordered to the Republic of Haiti to command the Marine Brigade serving in that country.

Juan Bautista Sancho

; William J. Summers; Craig H. Russell; Antoni Gili: J.B. Sancho: Pioneer Composer of California, Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2007, ISBN 978-84-7632-342-7

Judith C. Russell

She is the first Dean of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, with the position elevated to the Dean rank from a directorship to reflect the increased importance of the libraries and information for the University of Florida.

Justice Russell

Charles S. Russell, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia

Lee Russell

Lee M. Russell (1875-1943), American politician from Mississippi

Leslie W. Russell

He was a member of the 52nd United States Congress and served until September 11, 1891, when he resigned to become a justice of the New York State Supreme Court.

Louis Borno

Embarrassed by media coverage of the war and disappointed at the ineffectiveness of the occupation, U.S. President Warren G. Harding decided in 1922 to improve the level of American administrators and appointed as High Commissioner Major General John H. Russell, Jr..

New York state election, 1894

Ex-U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton (in office 1889-1893) was nominated for Governor on the first ballot (vote: Morton 532½, J. Sloat Fassett 69, Cornelius N. Bliss 40½, Stewart L. Woodford 40, Daniel Butterfield 29, Leslie W. Russell 20, James Arkell 1).

Norman D'Amours

Instead of running for a 6th term in the House of Representatives, he ran for the United States Senate in 1984 against Republican incumbent Gordon J. Humphrey and lost with 41%.

Rhodes Brothers

(See the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods web site, Seattle.gov, and its information on the Albert J. Rhodes mansion, designed by Ambrose J. Russell and Frederick Heath (architect).

Richard Chenevix Trench

George W. E. Russell described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and recounted the following anecdote of his old age:He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket.

Richard M. Russell

He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, for election in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress.

Richard T. Russell

Richard Thomas Russell is the creator of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language and the author of the Z80 and MS-DOS versions of BBC BASIC.

Sid W. Richardson

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Soldiers Pay

Soldiers Pay is a 2004 documentary film by David O. Russell.

Stuart Russell

Stuart J. Russell (born 1962), computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence

Take Me Along

Take Me Along is a musical based on the Eugene O'Neill play Ah, Wilderness, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell.

Thousand Mile Tree

The gorge just east of Devil’s Slide was named Wilhemina Pass and was the subject of several views by Union Pacific’s official photographer A. J. Russell for his stereographic tour of the new line.

Utica, Montana

One of Utica's most famous local residents was the western painter C.M. Russell, who at the time was a young cowhand hired by a local rancher and gold miner named Jake Hoover.

William F. Russell

William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

William Happer

Happer, G. J. MacDonald, C. E. Max, and F. J. Dyson, "Atmospheric-turbulence compensation by resonant optical backscattering from the sodium layer in the upper atmosphere," J. Opt.


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