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Kenneth T. Wilson

In 1971, following legislative redistricting, Wilson lost his seat in a close contest to Democrats Eldridge Hawkins and Peter G. Stewart.


2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season

On October 15, 2011, team owner C. J. Wilson said that he would miss the season due to its interference with the 2012 Major League Baseball season.

Andrew Wilson

Andrew P. Wilson (1886–after 1947), British director, playwright, teacher, and actor

Angela K. Wilson

She helped create the CASCaM program with funding and support from the University of North Texas, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Department of Education, and the United States Department of Energy.

Arvo Ojala

Among the TV and film stars that Ojala taught to shoot included James Arness, Robert Culp, James Garner, Kevin Kline, Paul Newman, Hugh O'Brian, Clint Walker, and Thomas F. Wilson.

Ashraf Tai

After emerging triumphant in a tournament staged in Sri Lanka in 1980, Tai took his undefeated kickboxing record of 45–0–0 (44 knockouts, 33 in the first round)into a title shot at reigning world lightheavyweight kickboxing champion, Don Wilson of the United States.

Austroplatypus incompertus

In order for an animal to be considered eusocial, it must satisfy the three criteria defined by E. O. Wilson.

Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin F. Wilson (1922–1988), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Beyond the Forest

The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

Big Robot

Rossignol says that Fallen City is based around the "broken windows theory" of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, which says that keeping an area in good-repair changes a populations outlook and so prevents further vandalism and prevents a descent into more serious crimes.

Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873

As Kenneth T. Jackson points out in his book Crabgrass Frontier, "the first really significant defeat for the consolidation movement came when Brookline spurned Boston." This was, according to Jackson, the starting point for a massive suburbanization campaign that swept the United States and greatly influenced the American way of life.

Clark L. Wilson

He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and served in the submarine force in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Silver Star and Gold Star.

Craig Steven Wilder

He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, under the tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and Eric Foner.

David G. Wilson

David G. Wilson, the son of Michael G. Wilson, is head of Creative & Business Affairs for Eon Screenwriters Workshop Ltd, as well as Vice-president of Global Business Strategy for Eon Productions.

E. B. Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson, American mathematician and pioneer in vector analysis

Edgar C. Wilson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

Edwin Wilson

Edwin P. Wilson (1928–2012), American intelligence official and CIA officer

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

However, despite his impressive record, his one loss had been a third round knockout against Darroll "Doin' Damage" Wilson on HBO the previous year which halted his momentum and hurt his status as one of the premier up-and-coming heavyweights.

George M. Keller

In August 1988, Chevron named Kenneth T. Derr as chairman to succeed Keller, who would be reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65.

Glen Wilson

Glen P. Wilson (1923–2005), executive director of the National Space Society

History of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Famous factories included Wheeler & Wilson, which produced sewing machines and exported them throughout the world, Remington UMC, Bridgeport Brass, General Electric Company, American Graphophone Company (Columbia Records), Warner Brothers Corset Company (Warnaco) and the Locomobile Company of America, builder of one of the premier automobiles in the early years of the century.

Hugh Wilson

Hugh E. Wilson, American college football, baseball and basketball coach

Ian E. Wilson

With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution.

Ian Wilson

Ian E. Wilson (born 1943), chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Island restoration

Isolated islands have been known to have greater levels of endemism since the 1970s when the theory of Island biogeography, formulated by Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson was developed.

Jack L. Wilson

In the fall of 1967 he returned to Florida to coach at Titusville High School.

James A. Wilson

James Arthur Wilson is a mathematician working on special functions and orthogonal polynomials who introduced Wilson polynomials, Askey–Wilson polynomials and the Askey–Wilson beta integral.

Jean-Yves Thériault vs. Don Wilson

Jean-Yves Thériault vs. Don "The Dragon" Wilson was a middleweight kickboxing bout that took place in Montreal, Canada on December 18, 1984, which ended in a decision draw.

John J. B. Wilson

His book The Official Razzie Movie Guide was published in 2005 for the 25th anniversary of the Razzie awards.

Justin Potter

Their son, Justin P. Wilson, is a Republican politician in Tennessee and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

Kevin R. Wilson

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1928

Consisting of wealthy planters, businessmen, and New Orleans's Regular Democratic Organization political bosses, the political leadership of the state united behind the candidacy of U.S. Congressman Riley J. Wilson of Ruston in July 1927.

Michael Jon Hand

Efforts to arrange deals included incorporating a company in Pretoria, South Africa, and sending Bernie Houghton with two Nugan Hand employees to the United States to meet Edwin P. Wilson.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

"Cerebral growth" is also a pun, as one of the objects of the museum is a human horn.

O. W. Wilson

In 1925, O.W. Wilson became chief of police of the Fullerton Police Department for two years.

Opus Dei and politics

Felzmann, on saying these things, is being inconsistent with a testimony he wrote in 1980 saying that Escrivá is "a saint for today." (Documentation Service Vol V, 3, March 1992) They claim that former members, called "apostates" by their former organization, often lend their voices to coalitions fighting their previous religious organizations (see Dr. Bryan R. Wilson).

Quagmire's Baby

The episode featured guest performances by Luke Adams, John Bunnell, Max Burkholder, Noah Gray-Cabey, Christine Lakin, Brittany Snow, Mae Whitman, and Tom Wilson, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.

Robert Lee Wilson

Robert L. Wilson (1920–1944), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient

Scottsdale Football Club

The Scottsdale team of 1973, which had been captain-coached by Bob Wilson, was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the first club to receive such an honour.

State of the Planet

It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond.

The Encyclopedia of New York City

Historian and Columbia University professor Kenneth T. Jackson edited this work that combines informative and interesting information about New York City into one volume, first published in 1995 by the New-York Historical Society and Yale University Press.

The Jayne Mansfield Story

The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha! is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson and Anna C. Long published in August 2008.

Thomas Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 1935), information scientist researching information-seeking behaviors

Tug Wilson

Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921-2009), British Army colonel and founder and first commander of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force

Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

On May 18, 1992, the amendment was officially certified by Archivist of the United States Don W. Wilson.


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