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unusual facts about James W. Black



American Monetary Institute

While 2013 speakers are still unconfirmed, past speakers have included: Michael Hudson, Richard C. Cook, William K. Black, Dennis Kucinich, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

Buckeye gasoline buggy

Charles H. Black reported that he completed and tested his first steam engine "chug buggy" in 1891.

Cimetidine

Cimetidine was the culmination of a project at Smith, Kline and French (SK&F; now GlaxoSmithKline) by James W. Black, C. Robin Ganellin, and others to develop a histamine receptor antagonist to suppress stomach acid secretion.

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).

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Pryde (Bernie Casey) is a noteworthy scientist who is working on an experimental remedy for liver damage.

Eugene Black

Eugene R. Black, Sr. (1898–1992), President of the World Bank, 1949–1963

Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by York and later refined in a minor way by Gibbons and Hawking.

Henry M. Black

In February 1864, he was sent to Fort Humboldt with three companies of reinforcements ("C," "E" and "G"), to take command of the Humboldt Military District.

J. R. Black

The newspaper's in-house photographer was the Austrian, Michael Moser, but Black, an amateur photographer himself, supplemented Moser's images with his own.

James B. Black

In 2005 and 2006, Black was linked to a series of scandals involving, among other things, the party-switching Rep. Michael P. Decker, and the North Carolina lottery, established the previous year.

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

James Marshall House

James W. Marshall House, Lambertville, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

James McMillan

James W. McMillan (1825–1903), Union officer during the American Civil War

James Rutherford

James W. Rutherford (1925–2010), American politician; former mayor of Flint, Michigan

James W. Adams

James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.

James W. Borden

His brother, physician Joseph Borden (1806–1875) and his family moved to California and named the town of Borden, California.

There was a minor territorial dispute over the remote Johnston Atoll.

James W. Bryan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Bryan was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

James W. Davidson

Leaving in 1914, he spent CAN$250,000 of his own money to establish branches of Rotary International in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Burma, Siam (Thailand), Java, and in several of the Malay states including Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Ipoh, Klang and Singapore.

In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs.

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

James W. Dunbar

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

James W. Faulkner

His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.

James W. Forsyth

He died on October 24, 1906 in Columbus, Ohio, and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

James W. Hennigan, Jr.

Hennigan is the Hennigan referred to in Morgan v. Hennigan since he was head of the Boston School Committee at the time.

James W. Maloney

Jim Maloney died at age 74 on March 10, 1984 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

James W. Pumphrey

Pumphrey's stable was located near the National Hotel, which was Booth's Washington residence at the time.

James W. Reid

James William Reid (1859–1933), physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

James W. Smith

A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he

James W. Stone

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.

James W. Walter, Sr.

His wife, Monica Walter, died in 1982, leaving two sons, James W. Walter Jr. and Robert Walter.

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).

James W. York

In any physical theory, it is important to understand when solutions to the fundamental field equation exist, and answering this question has been the central theme of York's scientific work, culminating in the achievement, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, of formulating the Einstein field equation as a well-posed system in the sense of the theory of partial differential equations.

Jeremiah S. Black

Perhaps the most influential of President Buchanan's official advisers, he denied the constitutionality of secession, and urged that Fort Sumter be properly reinforced and defended.

John D. F. Black

Black also was the executive producer of the detective movie Trouble Man (1972), which starred Robert Hooks and whose musical score was written by Marvin Gaye.

Mount Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker was originally called "Mount Saint Agnes"; according to Bradford Washburn, James W. Bagley of the USGS named it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick.

Pete Peterson

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Rose Eytinge

Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia to the Hamlet of E. L. Davenport, and Desdemona with James W. Wallack as Othello and Davenport as Iago.

Scott Black

Lieutenant General Scott C. Black, American military lawyer and former Judge Advocate General of the US Army

Susan L. M. Aumann

Prior to 2002, District 42 was represented by Democrats James W. Campbell, Maggie McIntosh, and Samuel I. Rosenberg.

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).

Timothy L. Woodruff

In the process Woodruff became the only Lieutenant Governor in New York history to serve under three different Governors — Frank S. Black, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. As Lieutenant Governor, Woodruff took a leadership role in the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, helping to protect the forests there from the devastation of clear cutting and large scale damming projects.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

William Reese

James W. Reese, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, went by his middle name "William"

William T. Culpepper, III

Considered the greatest Rules Chairman of all time, Culpepper will be remembered as one of the architects of the co-speakership (James B. Black and Richard T. Morgan) in 2003 and the driving force behind passage of the state's education lottery in 2005.


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