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Ralph Walker

Ralph C. S. Walker, former head of the Humanities Division at Oxford and Kant specialist


Abram A. Hammond

In 1852 John C. Walker was nominated by the Democratic Convention to be the candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Boston Custom House

—Opened August 1st, A.D. 1847, James K. Polk, President U.S.A.; Robert J. Walker Sec'y of the Treasury; Marcus Morton, Collector of the Port; Samuel S. Lewis, Robert G. Shaw, Commissioners; Ammi Burnham Young, Architect.

Coleman Station Historic District

Judge John M. Walker, Jr. wrote for a three-judge panel that both the National Historic Preservation Act and a similar Hawaii case from 1979 gave the Keeper of the Register the authority to act on a listing independently of a state or local body regardless of whether procedural flaws existed in the state process.

Commercial astronaut

This is distinct from an otherwise non-government astronaut (such as Charlie Walker) who fly while representing a non-government corporation but with funding and/or training coming from government sources.

Continuous subscription service

In 1996, Synapse founders Jay S. Walker and Michael Loeb introduced the concept of continuous subscription service, which basically took the same business model used by cable television companies, internet service providers, and wireless phone companies.

D. P. Walker

The book examines the role of magic in the lives and thought of such diverse figures as Marsilio Ficino, Francis Bacon and Tommaso Campanella, and its overall influence on the Renaissance.

Dani Romain

Dani Romain is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer, who has been the writing and production partner of George F. Walker in the television series This Is Wonderland, The Line and Living in Your Car, and the film Niagara Motel.

David T. Walker

Recently he has gained popularity in Japan for playing guitar for the pop music group Dreams Come True, and on band member Miwa Yoshida's solo albums, and has also performed live with them.

Douglas X-3 Stiletto

NACA pilot Joseph A. Walker made his pilot checkout flight in the X-3 on 23 August 1954, then conducted eight research flights in September and October.

E. C. Walker

The attribution of the song "I like cigars beneath the stars" by an "E. C. Walker" to the poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the politician is probably mistaken.

Edward G. Walker

Having been inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, Walker studied law at the Georgetown, Massachusetts office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin.

Edward S. Walker, Jr.

Edward S. Walker was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.

Elisabeth Scott Bocock

She also was a founder of the Maggie L. Walker Foundation, which has had a hand in preserving some of the distinctive structures in Jackson Ward.

Eric Walker

Eric A. Walker (1910–1995), president of Penn State University, 1956–1970

Franklin D. Sherwood

In November 1891, he was elected to the State Senate, but his Democratic opponent Charles E. Walker contested the election in the courts.

George J. Walker

He served tours in France, Germany, Korea and Vietnam as well as stateside assignments at Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, New York; Fort Holabird, Maryland; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Hood, Texas; Washington, DC; and Fort McPherson, Georgia.

Harriet G. Walker

Their home on Hennepin Avenue was remembered in the History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota by Isaac Atwater as a place of "refined and generous hospitality" and the nursery for their children.

Iranian American Bar Association

Currently, IABA's board and an advisory board includes lawyers from several American Lawyer 100 firms, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Perkins Coie, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Morrison & Foerster, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Baker & McKenzie, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

J. H. Walker

Due to his leadership, he kept thousands of Texas families from losing their homes during the Great Depression.

James N. Walker

James N. Walker served as a member of the 1863-1865 California State Assembly, representing the 4th District.

John A. Kay

He became involved with the construction of the South Carolina State House in 1854, first as Peter H. Hammarskold's project superintendent, and later as assistant architect under George E. Walker.

Joseph A. Walker

He transferred to the High-Speed Flight Research Station in Edwards, California, in 1951.

Landing at Anzac Cove

The Auckland and Canterbury Battalions of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, under the temporary command of Brigadier General H.B. Walker, an ANZAC staff officer, were also directed to Baby 700.

Leon Lapidus

Lapidus was noted for his work in the application of computer techniques to chemical engineering for which he was honored with William H. Walker Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Linda T. Walker

From 1989 to 1990, Walker served as a law clerk to Judge G. Ernest Tidwell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Walker was recommended for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by Republican Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson.

Marshall Formby

The other contestants were sitting Governor Marion Price Daniel, Sr., who sought an unprecedented fourth two-year term; Don Yarborough, a liberal lawyer and supporter of organized labor from Houston; former Attorney General Will Wilson, later a Republican convert, and retired Army General Edwin A. Walker, known for his staunch anti-communism.

Milwaukee River

In the early 19th century, three towns were formed across the banks of the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic rivers: Juneautown by Solomon Juneau, Walker's Point by George H. Walker and Kilbourntown by Byron Kilbourn.

Morgan W. Walker, Sr.

At the age of eighteen, he had the leg amputated at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, but the problem persisted as "phantom pain", later believed to have been caused by a pinched nerve.

Norman W. Walker

Walker's work influenced later juice advocates such as Jason Vale in the UK, otherwise known as The Juice Master, and Jay Kordich, who popularized "juicing" in the United States with extensive television advertising in the 1990s.

Norman Walker

Norman W. Walker (1886–1985), British-American raw food and alternative health advocate

Olene S. Walker

Olene Walker was the first female governor to be sworn in by a female Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, Christine M. Durham.

In a move that caused a degree of controversy within the state, the Utah Republican Party at its convention on May 8, 2004 elected not to place Walker on the ballot for the party primary (held on June 22, 2004), selecting instead Jon Huntsman, Jr. and Nolan Karras as the two potential Republican party candidates for the office of Governor of the State of Utah.

Payson Utah Temple

Dallin H. Oaks presided at the groundbreaking ceremony on October 8, 2011, with William R. Walker conducting and Janette Hales Beckham, Steven E. Snow and Jay E. Jensen in attendance.

Plain Clothes Theatre Productions

In 2006 the company produced a double bill of plays by Canadian playwright George F. Walker from his 'Suburban Motel' collection of plays; namely Problem Child and Criminal Genius.

Ralph C. Body

On March 5, 1962, Body was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Allan K. Grim.

Ralph C. Hancock

He also edited The Legacy of the French Revolution with Gary Lambert and wrote Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Cornell University Press, 1989).

Ralph C. Smedley

After his graduation in 1903, he started working at the local YMCA.

Again the club lasted only a short time after he moved to Santa Ana, California in 1922.

Richard Nixon Foundation

The Nixon Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors, led by Nixon's staff member Ronald H. Walker.

Robert J. Walker

However, due to his support of the Union during the Civil War, the Texas Legislature withdrew the honor and honored Samuel Walker, a Texas Ranger, instead.

He lived in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania from 1806 to 1814, where his father was presiding judge of the judicial district.

Stanley Walker

Stanley C. Walker (1923–2001), Democratic member of the Virginia Senate

Synchrotron Radiation Source

Dr. John Walker won the 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on ATPase, for which he carried out studies on one of the SRS beamlines.

They Just Had to Get Married

The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman, H.M. Walker, and an uncredited Preston Sturges, based on the Broadway play A Pair of Silk Stockings (1914) by Cyril Harcourt.

Thomas A. Walker

Other works that he undertook were the Barry Dock and Railway, and the Preston Dock, and in addition he carried out the contract for the Buenos Aires Harbour Works with John Hawkshaw and resident engineer James Murray Dobson.

Tribute to Bobby

#Stormy Monday Blues (Aaron "T-Bone" Walker) - 2:39

Walker County, Texas

However, Walker later supported the Union during the Civil War; thus, in order to keep the county's name from being changed, it was renamed for Samuel H. Walker, a Texas Ranger and soldier in the American Army.

Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline

Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline is a play by Canadian playwright George F. Walker first produced at Toronto Free Theatre in 1977.


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