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unusual facts about Hal C. Banks


Hal C. Banks

An American with mob connections, he came to Canada in 1949 to help bust purportedly Communist-controlled shipping unions and establish the Seafarers International Union as their replacement.


72nd World Science Fiction Convention

Iain M. Banks: a writer who has received both popular and critical acclaim for his science fiction novels published over 25 years, including the Culture series, and for 15 other books published under the name Iain Banks.

Ann Leckie

The reviewer of Locus appreciated the ambitious structure of Leckie's novel, which interweaves several past and present strands of action in a manner reminiscent of Iain M. Banks's Use of Weapons, and its engagement with the tropes of recent space opera as established by Banks, Ursula K. Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh and others.

Apress

Authors include Andrew Troelsen, Adam Freeman, Ed Yourdon, Matt MacDonald, Andy Budd, Rob Harrop, Dave Mark, Michael A. Banks, Keir Thomas, Malcolm Harkins, Jacob Lamm, Scott Donaldson, Peter Seibel, Bob Walsh, Rory Lewis, and Joel Spolsky.

Benjamin Banks

Ben B. Banks (born 1932), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Bernard Illowy

During Union occupation of New Orleans, he had a friendship with Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, Commander-in-Chief of the Department of Louisiana, as well as with many other high officials, both of the military and the civil administration, and was able to do much good for many of his congregants.

Cat-Women of the Moon

They were presented by the writer Sarah Hall, and produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords; they featured a number of British writers including Iain M. Banks, China MiƩville, and Nicola Griffith.

Charles C. Banks

Charles Chaplin Banks was the son of Helen Agnes and Charles P. Banks; the latter owned and taught Arnold House Preparatory School in Llanddulas, Wales.

Commissioner v. Banks

In the second case, Sigitas J. Banaitis, a vice president of the Bank of California, retained an attorney on a contingent-fee basis and sued the bank and its successor in ownership, the Mitsubishi Bank, for interference with his employment agreement and wrongful discharge.

Court-martial of Fitz John Porter

He was also to send word to another Union corps commander, Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, to secure Warrenton Junction.

E. Bruce Heilman

He returned to the position on an interim basis in 1987-1988 after the unexpected resignation of his successor, Samuel A. Banks.

Homer C. Blake

Though Blake had lost his ship, he had frustrated Semmes' plan to resupply his ship from captured merchantmen off Galveston, and then sail to the mouth of the Mississippi River to interdict Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River Campaign.

Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism

William C. Banks, the director of the Institute, is the Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

James Banks

James A. Banks (born 1941), professor at the University of Washington, Seattle

James Isham Gilbert

Gilbert and a detachment of the XVI Corps (known as the Right Wing-XVI Corps commanded by Smith) were transferred to the Department of the Gulf under Nathaniel P. Banks for the Red River Campaign.

John Porter Hatch

In March 1862, Hatch assumed command of the cavalry of the V Corps under Major General Nathaniel P. Banks.

John Reese Kenly

Kenly himself was severely wounded when he was taken prisoner, but his stand had saved General Banks's division at Winchester, and he was raised to the command of a brigade in 1862.

Jonathan H. Carter

Low water levels in the Red River prevented the Missouri from participating in the defense of western Louisiana when the army of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks and the fleet of Admiral David Dixon Porter advanced on Shreveport in April 1864.

Kelly Marcel

Marcel is credited for the screenplay of the 2013 drama film Saving Mr. Banks, "a behind-the-scenes look at how the popular Disney film "Mary Poppins" came to be," starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers.

Lovell Rousseau

However, a committee was organized to investigate the incident which was composed of Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry J. Raymond, Rufus P. Spalding, M. Russell Thayer and John Hogan.

Mansfield State Historic Site

Confederate General Richard Taylor, son of U.S. President and General Zachary Taylor, decided to challenge the Union at Mansfield, rather than waiting until Union commander Nathaniel P. Banks reached Shreveport.

Morganza, Louisiana

Historian John D. Winters in The Civil War in Louisiana (1963) documents the arrival in May 1864 of Federal troops in Morganza under General Nathaniel P. Banks, recently defeated in the Battle of Mansfield in De Soto Parish and abandoning the Red River Campaign.

Multicultural education

Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Christine Sleeter, Ernest Morrell, Sonia Nieto, Rochelle Brock, Cherry A. McGee Banks, James A. Banks, Nelson Rodriguez, Leila Villaverde and many other scholars of critical pedagogy have offered an emancipatory perspective on multicultural education.

Nathaniel P. Banks

However, he did not immediately attempt the capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the main Confederate stronghold below Vicksburg, because the garrison was reported to be large.

When Banks's men reached the southern Valley at the end of a difficult supply line, the president recalled them to Strasburg, Virginia, at the northern end.

Richard C. Banks

(born April 19, 1931) is an American author, ornithologist and Emeritus Research Zoologist on staff with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

The Birds of the Malay Peninsula

"After the war E. Banks, former Curator of the Sarawak Museum, wrote a replacement text and deposited it in the British Museum (Natural History).

The Invisible Universe Foundation

The special guest was L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress novels who read from and talked about her work with the audience.

Thomas W. Sherman

After that he commanded the Defenses of New Orleans before taking command of a division in Major General Nathaniel P. Banks's army, which he led into action at the Siege of Port Hudson.

Washington, Louisiana

During the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Connecticut, part of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks's forces, occupied Washington, then larger than the parish seat of Opelousas.


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