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Matthew Freeman

Matthew C. Freeman (1980–2009), American military officer killed in Afghanistan


American–Iranian Council

AIC's honorary board includes secretary Donna Shalala, and its Board of Directors is composed of, Thomas Pickering, former Senator J Bennet Johnson, former Vice-Chairman of Chevron Richard Matzke, Dr. Fereidun Feksharaki President of FACTS, and Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi of Rutgers University, Ambassador Sargent Shriver, R.K. Ramazani, Ambassador Robert H. Pelletreau, Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Judith Kipper, Roy Mottahedeh.

Benjamin H. Brewster

John's sister, Jane Slidell, was married to Matthew C. Perry, who was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.

Cape Hedo

The expedition of Commodore Perry (1794 – 1858) visited Cape Hedo, and recorded it as "Cape Hope" in his Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan.

Carl H. Freeman

He holds the Ford Foundation-Harvard University Innovations in American Government Award and the Organization of American States Medal for distinguished service in the areas of humanitarian de-mining and natural disaster assistance.

Charles E. Freeman

In September, 1973 governor Dan Walker named Freeman to the Illinois Commerce Commission, a rate regulatory agency with power over telephone, electricity and gas companies.

Illinois governor Otto Kerner appointed Freeman to the Illinois Industrial Commission in January, 1965 as an arbitrator, where he heard thousands of work-related injury cases.

Originally from Virginia, Freeman (the surname may have been adopted when his father's family was freed from slavery by Quakers before the Civil War) did his undergraduate work at Virginia Union University and earned his J.D. degree from John Marshall Law School.

Daniel E. Freeman

Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.

He has also published editions of the music of Josef Mysliveček and Giovanni Benedetto Platti and was a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) and the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001).

Daniel Evan Freeman (born 27 April 1959) is an American musicologist who specializes in European art music of the eighteenth century, in particular the musical culture of eighteenth-century Prague and the Bohemian lands.

David Dixon Porter

In June 13, 1847, Matthew C. Perry mounted an expedition to capture the interior town of Tabasco.

Dedham, Essex

Roger A. Freeman, (1928-2005), Dedham farmer and author who became a world authority on the operations of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II.

Enoch Greenleafe Parrott

In 1843 he took part in the anti-slavery expedition of Commander Matthew C. Perry's Africa Squadron.

Furukawa Ichibei

Furukawa's school education began and ended before Commodore Perry's ships entered Japanese waters.

Horton Hatches the Egg

Richard B. Freeman, writing in 2011 about the contemporaneous economic situation in the United States, called Horton Hatches the Egg a tale of investment.

Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia

This book describes the fascination that Japan has had from the very beginning of acquiring technology, from the first visit by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853 to Tokyo and the integration of technology into Japanese society, which they, according to the book, feel will strengthen and improve their society, economy and life in Japan and the world.

Jake Muxworthy

Jake has accepted his first lead, as 'John,' the comparatively less twisted of a psychopathic serial killer's two sons, in Morgan J. Freeman's film Born Killers (2005).

Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

State Representative Robert L. Freeman, Democrat, 136th district (Hellertown, Leithsville, Lower Saucon, Shimersville and Wassergass wards)

Matthew James

Matthew C. James 19th century Marine architect, poet and songwriter from Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Matthew Paterson

Matthew C. Paterson (died 1846), American lawyer and politician from New York

Michael O. Freeman

In 1998 he won the DFL Party endorsement but lost the primary election to Skip Humphrey, who went on to lose the general election to Jesse Ventura.

Morey Leonard Sear

Roemer, the father of future Governor Buddy Roemer and Marcello, a New Orleans crime figure, were convicted and imprisoned for conspiracy, but Young, a former aide to Governor John J. McKeithen and current staffer to then Lieutenant Governor Robert "Bobby" Freeman, was acquitted of all charges.

Mosquito Fleet

#The name of a United States Navy "squadron detachment", commanded by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, that fought against the Mexican fortresses at Tuxpan and Villahermosa during the Mexican-American War.

North American P-51 variants

The Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid R. Freeman, lobbied vociferously for Merlin-powered Mustangs, insisting two of the five experimental Mustang Mk Xs be handed over to Carl Spaatz for trials and evaluation by the U.S. 8th Air Force in Britain.

Open-source unionism

Open-source unionism is a term coined by academics Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers to explain a possible new model for organizing workers that depended on the labor movement"taking its own historical lessons with diversified membership seriously and relying more heavily on the Internet in membership communication and servicing."

Organizational ecology

Introduced in 1977 by Michael T. Hannan and the late John H. Freeman in their American Journal of Sociology piece "The population ecology of organizations" and later refined in their 1989 book Organizational Ecology, organizational ecology examines the environment in which organizations compete and a process like natural selection occurs.

Patricia Turner

Turner was greatly influenced in 1986 when she saw photographs of Alabama Black Belt quilters taken by Roland L. Freeman, shown in that year’s catalog for the Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C. There, as a young folklorist, Turner spent two weeks with Alabama quilters who participated in the festival and with Gladys-Marie Fry, who facilitated public workshops with the quilters.

Peter Freeman

Peter A. Freeman (born 1941), founding dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing

Polygon Records

It was started in 1949 as the Polygon Record Company Ltd. by Alan A. Freeman and Leslie Clark, who was anxious to control distribution of his daughter Petula Clark's recordings.

R. B. Freeman

Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (1935-8), he received his BA in 1938 (First Class honors in Zoology) and MA in 1950.

Ralph M. Freeman

Freeman also served on the Flint Board of Education from 1935 to 1949 and was its president for four years.

He was a prosecuting attorney in Genesee County, Michigan from 1928 to 1932 and was in private practice in Flint, Michigan prior to his appointment to the federal bench in 1954.

Raymond P. Rodgers

He was also the grandnephew to two renowned U.S. Navy commodores, Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) and Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819).

Richard P. Freeman

Freeman was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915 – March 4, 1933).

He was graduated from Bulkeley High School at New London in 1887, from Noble and Greenough's Preparatory School, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1888, from Harvard University in 1891, and from the law department of Yale University in 1894.

Robert L. Freeman

In 2003, the political website PoliticsPA named him as a possible successor to House Minority Leader Bill DeWeese.

Ted Mondale

Coincidentally, the race included three other candidates from families famously connected in Minnesota politics: Skip Humphrey, the son of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (then Attorney General); Mark Dayton of the Dayton Department Store dynasty (then State Auditor); and Mike Freeman, son of former governor Orville Freeman (then Hennepin County, Minnesota district attorney).

The Empire Strikes Out

Previously, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry had forced the opening of Japanese society and had introduced the game of baseball to Japanese people who quickly took to the sport.

According to Elias, the tour was “…permeated by racism.” Previously, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry had forced the opening of Japanese society and had introduced the game of baseball to Japanese people who quickly took to the sport.

Until the Real Thing Comes Along

According to this version, the songwriting credits read: Words and Music by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin and L.E. Freeman.

Yokohama Archives of History

The archives are next to Kaiko Hiroba (Port Opening Square) where Commodore Perry landed to sign the Convention of Kanagawa.

The Archives include a museum which tells the story of Japan and Yokohama's opening to the West from the arrival of Commodore Perry and his black ships.


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