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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.

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)

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.

Century Pharmaceuticals

Century modified Dr. Henry Dakin's original formula, making it stable for 12+ months.

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 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.

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.

James Britton

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

James Cassidy

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

James Davenport

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

James Fowler

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

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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. MacLafferty

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

James H. Madole

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

James H. Morey

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

James H. Southard

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

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. Windrim

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

James Horne

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

James Peck

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

James Wallis

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

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.

MacLafferty

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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".

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.

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.


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