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Lawrence Knox

Lawrence E. Knox (1836–1873), British Army officer and founder of The Irish Times


Aiken Tennis Club

Former world champions that have played on the court include Northrup R. Knox, G.H. "Pete" Bostwick, Jr., Jordan Toole, Jimmy Bostwick, Wayne Davies, and Robert Fahey.

Blake Ross

In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart.

Gnomic poetry

Easterling, P.E. (series editor), Bernard M.W. Knox (editor), Cambridge History of Classical Literature, v.I, Greek Literature, 1985.

Harley E. Knox

During his term, he was responsible for constructing the San Diego Aqueduct, which joined the Metropolitan Water District's Colorado River Aqueduct.

Hugh Knox

Knox was the son of Philander C. Knox, who served as the U.S. Secretary of State under William Howard Taft and U.S. Attorney General under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Indian Rights Association

The management of early Indian Rights Association's programs fell almost entirely to five men, all of whom had lengthy careers with the IRA: Herbert Welsh, Matthew Sniffen, and Lawrence E. Lindley, active in Philadelphia; and Charles C. Painter and Samuel M. Brosius, agents and lobbyists in Washington D.C.

Joseph B. Murdock

In mid-1911, Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson was chosen to succeed Murdock as commander-in-chief of the fleet as of November 1911, but Murdock had gained distinction in his handling of unrest in China related to the Xinhai Revolution of that year, and United States Secretary of State Philander C. Knox requested that Murdock be kept on as fleet commander-in-chief to allow continuity until the situation in China stabilized.

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.

Voters instead chose Steve Pylant, the first Republican ever elected as sheriff in Franklin Parish.

Lawrence E. Blume

He is a Visiting Research Professor at IHS Vienna and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute's steering committee.

Lawrence E. Fouraker

Lawrence E. Fouraker (October 28, 1923 - December 20, 1998) was the sixth dean of the Harvard Business School (1970–1980).

Lawrence E. Roberts

They had four children: Dorothy Roberts McEwen, Lawrence E. Roberts II, Sally-Ann Roberts Craft Nabonne, and Robin René Roberts.

Lawrence E. Spivak

Spivak's office was at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., which was also his home.

Spivak published inexpensive digest-sized paperback editions, often abridged, of works by authors including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Cornell Woolrich.

Mercury Publications

Mercury Publications (aka Mercury Press) was a magazine publishing company, owned and operated by Lawrence E. Spivak, which mainly published genre fiction in digest-sized formats.

Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline

The park is named for former state senator George Miller, Jr. and former State Assembly member and Point Richmond resident John T. Knox.

New Delta Review

Recent contributors include many of the leading voices in international literature: Jennifer L. Knox, Paul Muldoon, Helen Dunmore, Anne Carson, Diane Lockward, Kristjana Gunnars, Billy Collins, Julia Copus, Andrew Motion, Robert Pinsky, Stacey Richter, Andrei Codrescu, and George Singleton.

Portrait of Seymour H. Knox

It was donated by the families of his two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour H. Knox III and Mrs. and Mrs. Northrup R. Knox, to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in honor of Seymour H. Knox II for his 60 year contribution as a member of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.

Some of the major celebrity portraits of this style include those of Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Mao Zedong and Andy Warhol himself.

Raymond F. Clevenger

In 1964, he defeated incumbent Republican Victor A. Knox to be elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the Eighty-ninth Congress, serving from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1967.

Robert O. Swados

Along with Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup R. Knox, he was a partner in Niagara Frontier Hockey, the original consortium that founded the Buffalo Sabres.

Thomas W. Knox

Knox was well known for his written attacks on William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union soldiers, which reintroduced into the public debate the issue of Sherman's sanity, and also was controversial for its publishing of important information pertaining to the Vicksburg Campaign.

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Knox enlisted in the California National Guard, where he was made a lieutenant colonel.

Victor A. Knox

Knox was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the 83rd United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1965.

William F. Knox

In 1917, he formed a law partnership with William S. Moorhead, who later served as a U.S. Congressman from 1959 to 1981.


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