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Richard C. Banks

(born April 19, 1931) is an American author, ornithologist and Emeritus Research Zoologist on staff with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.


72nd World Science Fiction Convention

Iain M. Banks: a writer who has received both popular and critical acclaim for his science fiction novels published over 25 years, including the Culture series, and for 15 other books published under the name Iain Banks.

American Monetary Institute

While 2013 speakers are still unconfirmed, past speakers have included: Michael Hudson, Richard C. Cook, William K. Black, Dennis Kucinich, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Aster Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006, after Richard C. Aster, Professor of Geophysics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who has been involved in volcanological studies at the Mount Erebus volcano observatory on Ross Island, with ice, ocean, and tectonic seismic source research, and with seismological, tectonic, and structural studies of Antarctica.

Cat-Women of the Moon

They were presented by the writer Sarah Hall, and produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords; they featured a number of British writers including Iain M. Banks, China Miéville, and Nicola Griffith.

Commissioner v. Banks

In the second case, Sigitas J. Banaitis, a vice president of the Bank of California, retained an attorney on a contingent-fee basis and sued the bank and its successor in ownership, the Mitsubishi Bank, for interference with his employment agreement and wrongful discharge.

David A. Bramlett

During his tenure as Deputy Commander, he was the interim commander of Pacific Command after the commander, Admiral Richard C. Macke, came under fire for comments he had made in regard to the 1995 rape scandal in Okinawa that involved several U.S. servicemen.

Deutsche Guggenheim

In 1993, one year before the withdrawal of American troops from the city, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's then-director, Thomas Krens, was approached with the idea of a Berlin branch of the museum by Richard C. Holbrooke, then the American ambassador to Germany.

E. Bruce Heilman

He returned to the position on an interim basis in 1987-1988 after the unexpected resignation of his successor, Samuel A. Banks.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Florists' Transworld Delivery

On December 19, 1994, a precursor to the FTD Corporation, a private, for-profit company Perry Capital, acquired FTD, which then divided FTD into two organizations: FTD Incorporated, a for profit corporation, and FTD Association, a non-profit trade association.

Hal C. Banks

An American with mob connections, he came to Canada in 1949 to help bust purportedly Communist-controlled shipping unions and establish the Seafarers International Union as their replacement.

Homer C. Blake

Though Blake had lost his ship, he had frustrated Semmes' plan to resupply his ship from captured merchantmen off Galveston, and then sail to the mouth of the Mississippi River to interdict Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River Campaign.

James Banks

James A. Banks (born 1941), professor at the University of Washington, Seattle

James Isham Gilbert

Gilbert and a detachment of the XVI Corps (known as the Right Wing-XVI Corps commanded by Smith) were transferred to the Department of the Gulf under Nathaniel P. Banks for the Red River Campaign.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

Karl O. Christe

For his research, Christe was most recently awarded the Richard C. Tolman award in 2011.

Kelly Marcel

Marcel is credited for the screenplay of the 2013 drama film Saving Mr. Banks, "a behind-the-scenes look at how the popular Disney film "Mary Poppins" came to be," starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers.

Lovell Rousseau

However, a committee was organized to investigate the incident which was composed of Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry J. Raymond, Rufus P. Spalding, M. Russell Thayer and John Hogan.

Marilyn Durham

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing starred Burt Reynolds and British actress Sarah Miles.

MCI Inc.

Rakoff appointed former SEC chairman Richard C. Breeden to oversee Worldcom's compliance with the SEC agreement.

Multicultural education

Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Christine Sleeter, Ernest Morrell, Sonia Nieto, Rochelle Brock, Cherry A. McGee Banks, James A. Banks, Nelson Rodriguez, Leila Villaverde and many other scholars of critical pedagogy have offered an emancipatory perspective on multicultural education.

Nathaniel P. Banks

However, he did not immediately attempt the capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the main Confederate stronghold below Vicksburg, because the garrison was reported to be large.

When Banks's men reached the southern Valley at the end of a difficult supply line, the president recalled them to Strasburg, Virginia, at the northern end.

Recession

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

Richard Atkinson

Richard C. Atkinson (born 1929), American psychologist and former president of the University of California

Richard Blum

Richard C. Blum, American investment banker and husband to Dianne Feinstein

Richard C. Aster

Dr. Aster is a member of the Seismological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and other Earth science societies and organizations.

Richard C. Cook

As a Resource Analyst at NASA's Comptroller's Office, Richard C. Cook was responsible for assessing the budgetary implications of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), External Tank, and Centaur Upper Stage of the Space Shuttle program.

Documentation further suggests the Rogers Commission was conceived as part of a cover-up effort, including collusion by some NASA managers, White House operatives and commission head William P. Rogers.

Richard C. Jack

Ice Pick, Tandem, Panico Productions (studio owned by Julian Doyle - Director of Photography for Brazil, Holy Grail, and other Gilliam-related projects), Blue Sunflower Studios, Uli Meyer Animation, Passion Pictures

Richard C. Kerens

In 1876 he moved to St. Louis, Mo., and thereafter was interested in the construction of railroads and was active in the Republican politics of Missouri.

Richard C. Meredith

Meredith developed his writing during his time in the Army and began to submit short stories to some of the men's magazines that had appeared in imitation of Playboy.

Richard C. Miller

In 1941, during the Second World War, Miller got a job at North American Aviation, where he met Brett Weston.

Richard C. Nolan

In July 1942, Nolan was assigned along with other athletic coaches to participate in a "physical hardening program" at the Naval Air Corps' pre-flight training program at Gardner Air Base.

Richard C. Parsons

He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Richard C. Scherrer

After retiring to Marrowstone Island in Washington State, he worked on the development of new models for Express Aircraft, including retractable landing gear and turbine powered variants.

Richard Casey

Richard C. Casey (1933–2007), U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York

Richard Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland (born 1945), fringe researcher, famous for his theories on the Face on Mars

Richard Powell

Richard C. Powell, president of the Optical Society of America in 2000

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

The Invisible Universe Foundation

The special guest was L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress novels who read from and talked about her work with the audience.

The Real Estate Pros

Each episode stars Richard C. Davis and his crew from Trademark Properties of Charleston, South Carolina as they purchase and renovate a piece of real estate.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Urban historian Richard C. Wade challenged the Frontier Thesis in his first asset, The Urban Frontier (1959), asserting that western cities such as Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Cincinnati, not the farmer pioneers, were the catalysts for western expansion.

Thomas W. Sherman

After that he commanded the Defenses of New Orleans before taking command of a division in Major General Nathaniel P. Banks's army, which he led into action at the Siege of Port Hudson.

United States v. Dominguez Benitez

A three-judge panel of the court consisting of Circuit Judges James R. Browning, Stephen Reinhardt, and Richard C. Tallman voted 2-1 to reverse his conviction and sentence.

Washington, Louisiana

During the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Connecticut, part of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks's forces, occupied Washington, then larger than the parish seat of Opelousas.


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