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1849 in archaeology

James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon.

Baños de Coamo

General James H. Wilson ordered the 3rd and 4th Regular Pennsylvania Artillery to provide artillery support for the frontal assault on the Baños, while Troop C covered the right side against flanking.

Bragg-Mitchell Mansion

That plantation and all of the furnishings were subsequently burned when Wilson's Raiders went through that area, the irony being that Mobile itself never became a battleground as had been anticipated.

Bui Tuong Phong

His fellow students also supported him very much, as James H. Clark, Franklin C. Crow, George Randall, Dennis Ting and John Riley.

Coaldale Big Green

The team was formed in 1912 by the Coaldale Athletic Association and James H. Gildea, who would manage the team for 21 seasons, with a roster of mostly local talent.

David J. Brown

In 1982, Brown was one of the group of the seven technical staff from Stanford (along with Kurt Akeley, Tom Davis, Rocky Rhodes, Mark Hannah, Mark Grossman, Charles "Herb" Kuta) who joined Jim Clark to form Silicon Graphics.

Edward T. Stotesbury

On January 18, 1912, after having been a widower for thirty-some years, Stotesbury married widow Eva Roberts Cromwell, becoming the stepfather of Oliver Eaton Cromwell, James H. R. Cromwell, and Louise Cromwell Brooks.

Gershwin Prize

The Gershwin Prize was created and first awarded by the Library of Congress in 2007 under the leadership of Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to recognize "the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world’s culture" as part of the Library's mission to recognize and celebrate creativity.

Guy M. Townsend

In 1969, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots presented Townsend with the James H. Doolittle Award recognizing outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering achievement in aerospace technology.

J. Grant Thiessen

The volumes also contain individual author biographies; authors covered include James H. Schmitz, Jack Williamson, E. C. Tubb, A. E. van Vogt, and Charles L. Harness.

James Britton

James H. Britton (1817–1900), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, United States

James Carson

James H. Carson (1821–1853), Second Sergeant in the US Army in the mid-1850s

James Cassidy

James H. Cassidy (1869–1926), United States Representative from Ohio

James Coffman

James H. Coffman, Jr., United States Army officer who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross

James Davenport

James H. Davenport (born 1953), professor of information technology at the University of Bath

James Dolan

James H. Dolan (1885–1977), 2nd President of Fairfield University in Connecticut, USA

James Donovan

James H. Donovan (1923–1990), Republican politician, former New York State Senator

James Fay

James H. Fay (1899 – 1948), American lawyer and Democratic politician

James Flatley

James H. Flatley (1906–1958), United States Navy aviator and tactician

James Fowler

James H. Fowler (born 1970), political science professor at the University of California, San Diego

James H. Aitchison

James Hermiston Aitchison (1908 in Innerleithen, Scotland – 12 July 1994 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Canadian academic and politician and leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.

James H. Baker

He became a teacher, and had charge of the Female Seminary at Richmond, Indiana.

James H. Beal

Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Beal was able to help recover stolen philatelic material, such as those stolen in the May 1977 theft at the New York Public Library, as well as several of the stolen and rare “invented airplane” (Scott C3a) which were stolen from collector Ethel Bergstresser McCoy in 1955.

James H. Billington

Billington created the Library’s first national private-sector advisory group, the James Madison Council, whose members have supported the NDL Program, many other Library outreach programs, and acquisitions for the Library’s collections.

Most recently he was awarded honorary doctorates from the Tbilisi State University in Georgia (1999) and the Moscow State University for the Humanities (2001).

James H. Boyd

James Hervey Boyd (14 November 1809 – 4 July 1877) was mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, for four terms.

James H. Brady

He was educated in public schools, and graduated from Leavenworth Normal College in Kansas.

James H. Burton

Burton returned to Macon in October 1863, where he awaited delivery of several shipments of machinery from the firm Greenwood & Batley of Leeds, England.

James H. Cassidy

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

James H. Cassidy was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Theodore E. Burton, where he served from April 20, 1909 to March 3, 1911.

James H. Coffman, Jr.

After bandaging his hand, Colonel Coffman picked up AK-47s from Commando casualties and fired them with his other hand until each ran out of ammunition.

James H. Cummings

James Harvey "Mister Jim" Cummings (1890–1979) was a Tennessee farmer, attorney, and political figure.

James H. Davis

Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis, 1899–2000), American singer and governor of Louisiana

James H. Dooley

His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.

In 1880, Dooley joined the board of directors of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, which soon expanded into a multi state system of over 3,000 miles and in 1894, became the basis of the Southern Railway.

She also gave a half million dollars to build the Richmond Public Library as a memorial to her husband.

James H. Ellis

When, a few years later, Diffie and Hellman published their 1976 paper, and shortly after that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman announced their algorithm, Cocks, Ellis, and Williamson suggested that GCHQ announce that they had previously developed both.

James H. Faulkner

These included International Paper Container Division, Kaiser Aluminum, Alpine Industries Laboratories, Baldwin Utility Structures, Baldwin Lighting, Eastwood-Neally Company, Colt Industries, Jinan, Holland Industrial Services, Gulf Packaging Company, Cedartown Paper Board Cores, Baldwin Asphalt, Yellow Hammer Building Systems, Barclay, Bay Minette Mills, Baldwin Pole and Piling, Den-Tal-Ez, and Standard Furniture.

James H. Ganong

Born in Springfield, New Brunswick, James was the eldest of the six children of Francis Daniel Ganong and Deborah Ruth Keirstead.

James H. Gildea

He also managed a professional football team, the Coaldale Big Green.

James H. Goss

Born in Union, South Carolina, Goss attended the common schools and the Union Male Academy.

James H. Graham

Graham was elected as a Republican to the 36th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861.

James H. Hawley

Through luck or an acute weather sense, they chose to leave the area for Walla Walla, Washington before the depth of winter set in.

He acted as a mediator in a dispute between striking miners and owners near Hailey.

James H. Hays

His first mine was opened in 1828, at the mouth of Street's Run, where it empties into the Monongahela River.

James H. Higgins

In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate in the United States Senate election in Rhode Island.

James H. Hobby

Born at New Boston, New Hampshire, Hobby was appointed 3rd Assistant Engineer in 1848.

James H. Humphrey

In 1953, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland and became a full professor in 1956.

James H. Hunter

James Hogg Hunter (Maybole, Scotland, 30 December 1890-London, Ontario 22 October 1982) was a Scottish-born Canadian Christian journalist, novelist and biographer.

James H. Knowlton

In 1853, Knowlton was a member of the legal team of Levi Hubbell during his impeachment trial.

James H. MacLafferty

MacLafferty was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Elston.

He was reelected to the Sixty-eighth Congress and served from November 7, 1922, to March 3, 1925.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress.

James H. Madole

The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6)

Madole also wrote that the Aryans originated in the Garden of Eden located in North America.

James H. Morey

Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrases.

James H. Simpson

In May 1859, he headed an expedition to survey a new route from Camp Floyd (south of Salt Lake City) across the Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah and through the Great Basin to Genoa, Nevada near California.

James H. Southard

He served as chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-ninth Congresses).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Born near Toledo, Ohio, in Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Southard attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1874.

Southard was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1907).

James H. Street

The Broadway musical, Hazel Flagg, was based on his short story, as well as the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis-film Living It Up.

James H. Stuart

James H Stuart is a former mayor of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, from 1986 to 1996.

James H. Torrens

He is buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY, not far from his friends Babe Ruth, James Cagney and James Farley.

James H. Williams, Jr.

He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the mechanics, design, fabrication, and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of nonmetallic fiber reinforced composite materials and structures.

James H. Wilson

Grant promoted him to brevet major general on May 6, 1864, and had him assigned to command a division of cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, which he did with boldness and skill in numerous fights of the Overland Campaign and in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

James H. Windrim

National Saving And Trust Company, New York Avenue & Fifteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. (1888).

As Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury Department, 1889–91, he was responsible for all federal construction.

James Horne

James H. Horne (1874–after 1917), American athletic director and coach

James McBride

James H. McBride (1814–1864), Confederate general in the American Civil War

James McClure

James H. McClure, British crime author and journalist, born in South Africa

James Peck

James H. Peck (1790–1836), American judge in Missouri impeached for abuse of power

James Simpson

James H. Simpson (1813–1883), surveyor of the American West for the U.S. Army.

James Street

James H. Street (1903–1954), American journalist, Baptist minister, and novelist

James Wallis

James H. Wallis (1861–1940), Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, editor and Patriarch

Jujamcyn Award

The former owner of Jujamcyn, James H. Binger, was a primary sponsor of the award up to his death in 2004.

King George County, Virginia

Confederate soldiers fired back from Mathias Point, striking and mortally wounding Commander James H. Ward of the Freeborn, who became the first Union naval officer to die in the Civil War.

Koontz House

James H. and Cynthia Koontz House, Echo, Oregon, listed on the NRHP and also known as Koontz House

MacLafferty

James H. MacLafferty (1871-1937), a U.S. Representative from California

Medal of Honor Aircraft

Some aircraft were recognized following their crew's award but were not preserved, including Butch O'Hare's F4F, which wasn't stricken until two and one half years after his MoH action, as well as Maj. James H. Howard's "borrowed" P-51, whose identity remains a mystery.

National Digital Newspaper Program

On March 31, 2004, Bruce Cole, the directory of the NEH, and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, signed an agreement creating the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Paul Raeburn

Raeburn is the 2012 American Chemical Society (ACS) Grady-Stack Award Winner for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public.

Pinellas Army Airfield

A plaque was dedicated at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport passenger terminal in 1994 by the P-51 Fighter Pilots Association and Brigadier General James H. Howard, USAF (Ret), the only European Theater fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II and the last wartime base commander of Pinellas Army Airfield.

Risch algorithm

The case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport.

Robert A. Rushworth

Rushworth was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and in 1975 received the SETP's James H. Doolittle Award for "outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering achievement in aerospace technology".

Social network analysis software

Christakis, Nicholas and James H. Fowler "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," New England Journal of Medicine 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007)

Steven H. Scheuer

His brothers (all deceased) were 13-Term New York Congressman James H. Scheuer, Walter Scheuer, an investor and film producer, and Richard Scheuer, a scholar and philanthropist.

Symbolic integration

It was first implemented in Reduce in the case of purely transcendental functions; the case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport; the general case was solved and implemented in Axiom by Manuel Bronstein.

Taiji dolphin drive hunt

This full-length documentary was funded by billionaire James H. Clark and shows controversial dolphin killing techniques and discusses high mercury levels in Taiji dolphin meat.

The Study Society

Recent speakers have included: Rupert Spira, Iain McGilchrist, James H. Austin, Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, Dr Denis Alexander, Dr Peter Fenwick, Chris Frith.

Tiburón Island Tragedy

According to James H. McClintock, before leaving his home in Phoenix, Arizona, Robinson told an Associated Press correspondent that he intended to be gone for six months, at the end of which he would return with some stories about the natives.

Veterans Today

Veterans Today lists as its editorial board of directors former members of the U.S. military Gordon Duff (senior editor and chairman of the board), Major Bobby Hanifin, James H. Fetzer and Clinton Bastin; former members of intelligence agencies Lt. General Hamid Gul (Pakistan), Col. Eugene Khrushchev ((former)Soviet Union), and Jim W. Dean (managing editor), Gwenyth Todd and Leo Wanta (United States); as well as Jeff Rense, Carol Duff, Khalil Nouri and Michael Harris.

Victor Kamkin Bookstore

Some 60,000 volumes were additionally saved from incineration through the prompt action of Congressional Representative Connie Morella and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

Waldo Covered Bridge

The bridge was used as an access route in April 1865 by Wilson's Raiders during the American Civil War, a cavalry group led by Union Army General James H. Wilson.

Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?

William Edward Arnal and Michel Robert Desjardins in their Whose Historical Jesus? (1997) cites the book while comparing the different hypotheses on the "Qumranites", citing other scholars such as James H. Charlesworth (Jesus and the Dead Scrolls, 203) who judges that the Qumranites were one of the Essenes groups, and Hartmut Stegemann.


August Wilson Theatre

After her husband James H. Binger's death in 2004, producer and president of Jujamcyn Rocco Landesman announced that he planned to buy Jujamcyn.

Bennett Jones

1959 – Partners James V.H. Milvain and James H. Laycraft win the last Canadian appeal before the Privy Council in London, England (Wakefield v. Oil City 1959 29 W.W.R. 638)

Edward Banker Willis

From San Diego, Willis marched with James H. Carleton's expedition across New Mexico Territory and was involved in the capture of Tucson, an old Spanish presidio defended by a handful of milita.

Franklin H. Elmore

He was solicitor for the southern circuit from 1822 to 1836, a colonel on the staff of the Governor from 1824 to 1826, and was elected as a State Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James H. Hammond.

L. D. Knox

In 1978, Knox and then Louisiana Secretary of State James H. "Jim" Brown of Ferriday in Concordia Parish, running as Democrats, unsuccessfully challenged the reelection of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Jerry Huckaby.

Marie Arana

For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post, during which time she instituted the partnership of The Washington Post with the White House (First Lady Laura Bush) and the Library of Congress (Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress) in hosting the annual National Book Festival on the Washington Mall.

Myron H. McCord

The governor quickly responded by recommending James H. McClintock and Buckey O'Neill be appointed company commanders with Alexander O. Brodie recommended for the position of battalion commander.

The Experience Economy

The term Experience Economy was first described in an article published in 1998 by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, titled "The Experience Economy".