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unusual facts about Joseph C. Wolff


Joseph C. Wolff

In 1864, he enlisted in the 2nd New York Light Cavalry Regiment as a bugler, and took part in the battles of Opequon, Cedar Creek and Five Forks.


Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Previous Assistant Secretaries since the position's creation, by recency, are Jendayi E. Frazer, Constance Berry Newman, Walter H. Kansteiner, III, Susan E. Rice, George Moose, Herman Jay Cohen, Chester A. Crocker, Richard M. Moose, William E. Schaufele, Jr., Nathaniel Davis, Donald B. Easum, David D. Newsom, Joseph Palmer II, G. Mennen Williams, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite.

Balduin Möllhausen

He made another trip (1857–58) to North America accompanying an expedition under Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives exploring central Colorado and the Colorado River.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Missouri State Militia commanders and Union Volunteers began to converge on Joseph C. Porter’s recruiters and associated guerrillas, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19, Florida on July 22, and Santa Fe on July 24.

Benjamin Harrison Reeves

Sibley, surveyor Joseph C. Brown, and other party members continued on to New Mexico.

Council of Revision

At the time of its abolition, the members were Governor DeWitt Clinton, Chancellor James Kent, Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer, and Associated Justices Joseph C. Yates, Jonas Platt, William W. Van Ness and John Woodworth.

Demag

In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Dolorimeter

In 1940, James D. Hardy, Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell of Cornell University introduced the first dolorimeter as a method for evaluating the effectiveness of analgesic medications.

Guillermo Hernández-Cartaya

Rep. Lester L. Wolff stated on 60 Minutes that Cartaya's WFC arranged for Castro a 100 million USD loan to Colombia (the Colombian officials agreeing to aid cocaine smuggling).

Joseph C. Brown

Initial point of the Fifth Principal Meridian (1815) - Brown established the initial point of the Fifth Principal Meridian which was to be used for surveying lands in the Louisiana Purchase in the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota.

Where the two lines met was the Initial Point which is in Louisiana Purchase State Park in Arkansas.

Joseph C. Carter

In 1978 he joined the Boston Police Department where his positions including patrol officer, detective, patrol supervisor, Deputy Superintendent, Superintendent, Chief of Staff of the department and Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, presiding over all departmental disciplinary trial boards.

Joseph C. Hare

In August 2003, a new state park in the Hares Canyon was to be named Hares Canyon State Park, but the name was later changed to L. L. "Stub" Stewart State Park.

A railroad station near Manning, west of Buxton, and another stop in Aloha between Beaverton and Hillsboro, were both named for Hare.

Joseph C. Harsch

During the capture of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, Harsch, who had been traveling with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, translated for a British officer leading the arrest.

Joseph C. Harsch married Ann Elizabeth Wood, the daughter of retired United States Navy Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, and maintained a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island.

Joseph C. Hart

Hart was a lawyer by profession, who also served as a Colonel in the National Guard and as a school principal.

Joseph C. Howard, Sr.

His father, a friend of civil rights leader Dr. Ralph Bunche, was a native of South Carolina, his mother has been described as Native American (Sioux).

Joseph C. Joyce

In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to the Environmental Regulation Commission (ERC).

Joseph C. Palczynski

Jenifer McDonel, 36, the pregnant mother of a 2-year-old boy, was fatally wounded from a ricochet bullet in front of her family during an unsuccessful carjacking attempt in Chase.

Joseph C. Pringey

An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the 68th Congress, Pringey became Acting postmaster of Chandler, Oklahoma, in 1923 and 1924.

Joseph C. Sharp

In 1961, he began his career as a research psychologist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where, in 1970, he was appointed Deputy Director of Neuropsychiatry.

Joseph Sharp received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroanatomy from the University of Utah.

Joseph C. Yates

As Governor, Yates sat for a portrait by John Vanderlyn, famed for his rendition of such eminent historical figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, James Monroe, George Clinton, Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor.

Joseph Phillips

Joseph C. Phillips (born 1962), African American actor and conservative Christian commentator

Joseph Rodriguez

Joseph C. Rodriguez (1928–2005), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Joseph T. Kingsbury

Joseph T. Kingsbury was born on November 4, 1853 to Joseph C. Kingsbury and Dorcas Moore, in Weber County, Utah.

Lester L. Wolff

He lost his bid for re-election to John LeBoutillier who was helped by Reagan's coattails in the 1980 House election.

Louis Althusser

Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists Richard D. Wolff and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a conception of class different from the normally understood ones.

Lower Moreland Township School District

Valerie Plame, CIA operative and wife of U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson whose identity was released by White House officials.

On the Riviera

It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Music and Best Art Direction (Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott).

Richard D. Wolff

One of his students, George Papandreou, went on to become Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011.

Both would then be part, along with Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Rick Edwards, of the "radical package" that was hired in 1973 by the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Wolff has been full professor since 1981.

State capitalism

A relatively recent text by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class Theory and History, explores what they term state capitalism in the former Soviet Union, continuing a theme that has been debated within Trotskyist theory for most of the past century.

Susan Millar

Her great grandfather Tommy Millar worked in Harland & Wolff building RMS Titanic and then sailed on her maiden voyage in 1912, as a crewmember.

The McConnell Story

The McConnell Story is a 1955 dramatization of the life and career of U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph C. McConnell (1922–1954), who served as a navigator in World War II before becoming the top American ace during the Korean War.


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