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2 unusual facts about Homer L. Wise


Homer L. Wise

On that day, in Magliano, Italy, Wise carried a wounded man to safety and repeatedly went ahead of his unit to engage the German forces alone.

He was removed from combat in November and formally presented with the Medal of Honor by General Alexander Patch, commander of the Seventh Army, in Épinal, France.


Army of the Kanawha

Confederate units in the vital Kanawha River valley of western Virginia were styled the "Army of the Kanawha" after they were put under the command of former Virginia governor Henry A. Wise on June 6, 1861.

Cutty

Dennis "Cutty" Wise, a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire

George S. Wise

The Wise Observatory and the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University is named after Wise.

Harold A. Baker

Baker was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 9, 1978, to a seat vacated by Henry S. Wise on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

Henry A. Wise

In 1865 he was unable to reclaim Rolleston, his plantation outside Norfolk, before he received pardon from the president.

Homer L. Dodge

From 1942 to 1944, he took a leave of absence from the University of Oklahoma to serve as director of the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council.

In 1919 Dodge became chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Oklahoma, and in 1926 he became dean of the graduate school.

Homer Levi Dodge was the Chair of the Department of Physics, Dean of the Graduate school, and founder of the Oklahoma Research Institute, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

James B. Terrill

Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise appointed Terrill a major of cavalry in the state militia in 1859.

James H. Williams, Jr.

Furthermore, in 1963 the Shipyard chose to award him a four-year full Homer L. Ferguson Scholarship to MIT.

James W. Wise

Due to a prolonged illness, he was unable to qualify for or attend the 68th Congress.

Wise was elected as a Democrat to the 64th and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925).

Jefferson County, West Virginia

Among those attending the Brown execution was a contingent of 1500 cadets from Virginia Military Institute sent by the Governor of Virginia Henry A. Wise under the supervision of Major William Gilham and Major Thomas J. Jackson.

John A. Wise

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John Ambler Smith

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875) with 51.11% of the vote, defeating Democrat George Douglas Wise.

John Anthony Copeland, Jr.

Copeland's parents appealed to Gov. Henry Wise of Virginia to claim their son's body, but he refused.

Marcus Jastrow

The problem under discussion at the time was organization, urged in the Eastern States by the Orthodox Isaac Leeser, and in the Western by the Reform Isaac M. Wise.

Massillon Tigers

J.J. Wise, who was the Massillon Clerk of City Council, led a committee to secure the necessary funds for a new football and jerseys that were nearly the same color.

Mount Ferguson

It was discovered and photographed by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30), and named for Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA, which made repairs and alterations on Byrd Expedition ships.

Permanent wilting point

Lyman Briggs and Homer LeRoy Shantz (1912) proposed the wilting coefficient, which is defined as the percentage water content of a soil when the plants growing in that soil are first reduced to a wilted condition from which they cannot recover in approximately saturated atmosphere without the addition of water to the soil (Taiz and Zeiger, 1991).

Rocky Mount, Virginia

Among these were the immediate past governor, Henry Wise, who settled his family here before he served in the military.

William Albin Young

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, to April 26, 1898, when he was succeeded by Richard A. Wise, who contested his election.

Wise Observatory

Founded in October 1971 as a collaboration between Tel-Aviv University and the Smithsonian Institution, and named after the late Dr. George S. Wise, the first President of the Tel-Aviv University.


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