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5 unusual facts about James H. Simpson


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.

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 Simpson

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

Reese River

The river is named after John Reese, who explored the area in 1854 as part of the expedition of Colonel Edward Steptoe, and who later served as a guide to Captain James H. Simpson's survey of a military road through central Nevada.

Samuel C. Mills

In 1858, Captain James H. Simpson, an officer in the Army's Topographical Engineers, was assigned to the reinforcements being sent to Utah Territory as part of the so-called Utah War.


1993–94 Houston Rockets season

During Game 5 (June 17, 1994) most NBC affiliates (with the noted exception being WNBC-TV out of New York) split the coverage of the game between NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson's slow speed freeway chase with the LAPD.

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.

Celebrity bond

The securitization of the collections of other artists, such as James Brown, Ashford & Simpson and the Isley Brothers, later followed.

Chuck Barnes

Initially representing racing greats Mario Andretti, Jimmy Clark, A.J. Foyt and Rodger Ward, Barnes expanded into professional football and basketball, signing Johnny Unitas, O.J. Simpson, Calvin Hill and Pat Hayden, among others.

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.

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.

Guy Padgett

He reportedly enjoyed great popularity among his constituents, including support from prominent Republican Party politicians such as Alan K. Simpson.

James Britton

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

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.

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.

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. 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. Stuart

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

James Peck

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

James Simpson

James B. Simpson (died 2002), American journalist and Episcopal priest, known for Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

James Wallis

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

John A. Simpson

During the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he remained loyal to the government of Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford in the face of a rebellion from Liberal insurgents.

KOZL-TV

The station was one of many Fox affiliates that planned to decline O. J. Simpson's two-night interview special with Judith Regan on November 27 and 29, 2006 called If I Did It.

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.

Lucia A. Simpson

Lucia A. Simpson was built in 1875 by Rand & Burger in Manitowoc, Wisconsin for Simpson & Co. of Milwaukee.

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.

Mrs. Simpson

Wallis Warfield Simpson, who subsequently married the former King Edward VIII and became known as Her Grace the Duchess of Windsor.

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.

Nicholas Grabowsky

In June 1995, Carol went missing from her adult education services school, and Nicholas devoted his time to search for her, along with local news media, a host of volunteer searchers, and the assistance of such celebrity personalities as Charlotte Blasier, wife of O. J. Simpson defense attorney Bob Blasier.

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".

Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale

The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Bob (Robert) Simpson, who at the time was director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Scouting in Wyoming

While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U.S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.

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 Big Salad

In the last scene of the episode, Kramer leads police in a slow-speed chase on the New Jersey Turnpike while driving a white Bronco in a spoof of the slow-speed chase led by O.J. Simpson on the morning of June 17, 1994, a few months before this episode aired.

The Saturday Night Armistice

Along with sketches, there were also a number of humorous set-ups, such as Armando tricking O. J. Simpson into autographing a folded piece of paper stating "I DID IT" or sending a bus of Princess Diana-lookalikes to take photographs of News International journalists leaving their office.

Washington, Louisiana

Washington was the birthplace of Louisiana Governor Oramel H. Simpson, who served from 1926 until his defeat by the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. in the 1928 Democratic gubernatorial primary.

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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