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4 unusual facts about Jeremiah S. Black


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.

Black was born on January 10, 1810 in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania near his Glades, the son of Representative Henry Black, and his wife Mary Black (Sullivan).

Jeremiah Sullivan Black (January 10, 1810 – August 19, 1883) was an American statesman and lawyer.

Justice Black

Jeremiah S. Black, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1854


Alan Black

Alan W. Black, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University

Alan W. Black

Black wrote the Festival Speech Synthesis System at Edinburgh, and continues to develop it at Carnegie Mellon.

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.

Arrive Alive

Arrive Alive is the title of an unfinished comedy film starring Willem Dafoe and Joan Cusack, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and produced by Art Linson.

Buckeye gasoline buggy

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

Chauncey Forward Black

Born in Glades, Pennsylvania on November 24, 1839, he was the son of justice for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of State Jeremiah S. Black and Mary (Forward) Black, and the grandson of Representative Henry Black and Mary (Sullivan) Black.

Chevrolet El Camino

A 1970 model El Camino named "Brimstone" is the vehicle used by the character "Preacher" in the videogame Twisted Metal: Black.

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.

Dana Milbank

Milbank stated that he has been dissatisfied since he was criticized by Olbermann's staff over making a positive comment about Charlie Black, a McCain senior advisor, and as a result had already been negotiating with CNN.

Dead Grandma

Filming locations included Art Center College of Design, Pasadena City College, Cafe 50's, Big Mama's Rib Shack and various locations in Pasadena and Studio City. The series was mentored by television and film director Jeremiah Chechick.

Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles

In addition, he was a member of the J&JPRD Board (Raritan, New Jersey, USA), the Board of Directors of Janssen Pharmaceutica (Beerse, Belgium) and the Sir James Black Foundation (London, United Kingdom).

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

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

Pryde realizes that Linda will give him away, and he attacks her as Mr. Hyde, dragging her to the Watts Towers.

Eli M. Black

United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez said that his career was proof that management could work with farm labor "for the betterment of all." Black served as a trustee of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The American Jewish Committee, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Babson College, the Jewish Guild for the Blind, and the Jewish Museum.

Black's suicide was the inspiration for a scene in the 1994 screwball comedy film The Hudsucker Proxy.

Eugene Black

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

Eugene F. Black (1903–1990), member of the Michigan Supreme Court, 1956–1972

Eugene R. Black, Sr.

In 1963, the United States was considering pursuing a program to create a supersonic transport (SST) to rival the British and French Concorde.

Frank S. Black

Black was elected as a Republican to the 54th United States Congress as the representative of New York's 19th congressional district, and served from March 4, 1895, to January 7, 1897, when he resigned.

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. B. Black

He wrote The Reign of Elizabeth the second volume of the Oxford History of England series to appear.

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.

The same year Black received authorisation to publish articles on government policy and the proceedings of the Daijō-kan (太政官), or Council of State.

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.

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.

Black also wrote the teleplay for and was the associate producer of one of the outstanding early episodes of Star Trek—The Naked Time.

During the 1980s, Black was also given credit for the story for sequel episode, The Naked Now, in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Justice Black

Charles C. Black, an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court

Keith P. Ellison

On January 26, 1999, Ellison was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated by Norman W. Black.

Lydia T. Black

In April 2001, she, along with fellow anthropologist and historian and close colleague Richard Pierce, historians Barbara Sweetland Smith, John Middleton-Tidwell, and Viktor Petrov (posthumous), was decorated by the Russian Federation with the Order of Friendship Medal, which they received at the Russian consulate in San Francisco.

M-Doc

In 1998, he released his third and last album Young, Black, Rich and Famous, which included "Free",(a different version of the Denise Williams song) featuring Cristina Sanchez.

Martha Black

In 1986 a Canadian Coast Guard high-endurance multi-tasked vessel was given the name "Martha L. Black" in her honour.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 Christmas comedy film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik.

Roy Keith Black

He is the grandfather of film and television writer, Keith D. Black, the cousin to both British Politician, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes and House of Common's Conservative MP, The Right Honourable Phillip Oppenheim.

Scott Black

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

Scott M. Black, American investor, philanthropist and art collector

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.

Virginia v. Black

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivered the opinion stating, "a state, consistent with the First Amendment, may ban cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate."

West End, Dundee

The university’s College of Life Sciences located on Hawkhill incorporates the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Sir James W. Black Centre, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre laboratories.

Where no man has gone before

It is the result of the combined input of several people, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and producers John D. F. Black and Bob Justman.

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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