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James A. Wilson

James Arthur Wilson is a mathematician working on special functions and orthogonal polynomials who introduced Wilson polynomials, Askey–Wilson polynomials and the Askey–Wilson beta integral.

Richard Askey

The Askey–Wilson polynomials (introduced by him in 1984 together with James A. Wilson) are on the top level of the (q)-Askey scheme, which organizes orthogonal polynomials of (q-)hypergeometric type into a hierarchy.


Alabama Air National Guard

Maj. James A. Meissner, a World War I ace who had flown with Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, led the effort to form the unit and served as its first commander.

Andrew Wilson

Andrew P. Wilson (1886–after 1947), British director, playwright, teacher, and actor

Angela K. Wilson

She helped create the CASCaM program with funding and support from the University of North Texas, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Department of Education, and the United States Department of Energy.

Big Robot

Rossignol says that Fallen City is based around the "broken windows theory" of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, which says that keeping an area in good-repair changes a populations outlook and so prevents further vandalism and prevents a descent into more serious crimes.

Clark L. Wilson

He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and served in the submarine force in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Silver Star and Gold Star.

Compton I. White, Jr.

White was re-elected in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but was defeated for a third term in 1966 by Republican state senator Jim McClure of Payette.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Democracy: An American Novel

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U.S. president of the novel "bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant".

E. B. Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson, American mathematician and pioneer in vector analysis

Edith Taliaferro

She made her acting debut at the age of two in Shore Acres with James A. Herne.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

Edwin Wilson

Edwin P. Wilson (1928–2012), American intelligence official and CIA officer

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

However, despite his impressive record, his one loss had been a third round knockout against Darroll "Doin' Damage" Wilson on HBO the previous year which halted his momentum and hurt his status as one of the premier up-and-coming heavyweights.

Glen Wilson

Glen P. Wilson (1923–2005), executive director of the National Space Society

Hugh Wilson

Hugh E. Wilson, American college football, baseball and basketball coach

Ian E. Wilson

With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution.

Jakob Sederholm

In the 1974 historical novel Centennial, James Michener listed Sederholm among those scientists who made early estimates of the age of the Earth.

James A. Connolly

He ran unsuccessfully for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress.

James A. Elkins

This behind-the-scenes socialization amongst leading Texas politicians and businessmen included the likes of Jesse Jones, Gus Wortham, James Abercrombie, George R. Brown, Herman Brown, Lyndon Johnson, William L. Clayton, William P. Hobby, Oscar Holcombe, Hugh Roy Cullen, and John Connally.

James A. Forbes

(born 1935) is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

James A. Haley

Haley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1977).

James A. Hamilton

He attended Public School No. 32 in Manhattan, and graduated from New York Evening High School in 1892, and B.A. from University of Rochester in 1898.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

James A. Martin

Just two weeks before Martin's death, he was visited by Ateneo de Manila University president Bienvenido Nebres, who gave him a jacket of the Ateneo basketball team that he had coached some 70 years earlier.

James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art

Over the years the Colloquium's presenters have included leaders in the field, such as David C. Driskell, Ann Gibson, Leslie King Hammond, Samella Lewis, Lowery Stokes Sims, Deborah Willis and Judith Wilson.

James A. Schoenberger

He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center (1973–1994) and served as president of the American Heart Association (1980–81).

James A. Smith

James Alexander Smith (1881–1968), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross

James A. Thurber

He was the principal investigator of a seven-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Campaign Management Institute to study campaign conduct and a four-year study of lobbying and ethics from the Committee for Economic Development.

James A. Van Dyke

He began a practice with future Michigan Supreme Court justice Charles W. Whipple in 1835, later partnering with, in turn, E. B. Harrington and H. H. Emmons, before leaving private practice in 1852 to become the attorney for the Michigan Central Railroad.

James Weston

James A. Weston (1827-1895), American civil engineer, banker, and politician

Junius F. Wells

Wells was also the author of eleven biographies, including those of John C. Frémont, Thomas L. Kane, Charles C. Rich, James A. Garfield, and Orson Pratt.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

Kevin R. Wilson

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

Lindenwood Park, St. Louis

Two nationally prominent Americans of the 1880s who are commemorated are General Winfield Scott Hancock, a Union general in the American Civil War and presidential nominee in 1880, and Chester A. Arthur, the Republican vice-president who succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of James A. Garfield in 1881.

Megalosauridae

Because of this traditionally polyphyletic use, some scientists, such as Paul Sereno, reject the family name Megalosauridae in favor of Torvosauridae (coined by Jensen in 1985), despite the fact that Megalosauridae has priority under the ICZN rules governing family-level names in zoology.

Michael Jon Hand

Efforts to arrange deals included incorporating a company in Pretoria, South Africa, and sending Bernie Houghton with two Nugan Hand employees to the United States to meet Edwin P. Wilson.

Morey Leonard Sear

On March 30, 1976, Sear was nominated by President Gerald Ford to a seat on that court vacated by James A. Comiskey.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

"Cerebral growth" is also a pun, as one of the objects of the museum is a human horn.

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.

National Labor Relations Board v. Sands Manufacturing Co.

Gross, James A. The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Quagmire's Baby

The episode featured guest performances by Luke Adams, John Bunnell, Max Burkholder, Noah Gray-Cabey, Christine Lakin, Brittany Snow, Mae Whitman, and Tom Wilson, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.

Scottsdale Football Club

The Scottsdale team of 1973, which had been captain-coached by Bob Wilson, was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the first club to receive such an honour.

The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha! is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson and Anna C. Long published in August 2008.

The Martyred Presidents

At the center of the altar, a viewing portal displays the portraits of three U.S. PresidentsAbraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley—each victims of assassination.

Thomas Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 1935), information scientist researching information-seeking behaviors

Van Allen Range

It was named after James A. Van Allen, an American scientist and one of the original organizers of the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58.

Walter Smith Cox

During his service, he presided over the trial of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield.

William Arthur Smith

Smith's work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Toledo Museum of Art (1942 and 1952), at Bucknell University (1952) and in foreign cities in the 1960s and 1970s.

Woodland Opera House

Some notable performers on the WOH stage in the late 19th and early 20th century include Nance O'Neil, James A. Herne, Harry Davenport Madame Helena Modjeska, John Philip Sousa and his band, comics Weber and Fields, George M. Cohan's troupe, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan as well as rising motion picture stars Sydney Greenstreet, Walter Huston and Verna Felton.


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