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Richard D'Alton Williams

In the USA he practised medicine until he became ill and died of tuberculosis in Thibodaux, Louisiana in 1862.


A Welsh Sunset

The fashion in the late Victorian era and Edwardian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers, like A Welsh Sunset.

Animals, Men and Morals

The book contains essays by Ruth Harrison on factory farming; Muriel Dowding, founder of Beauty without Cruelty, on furs and cosmetics; Richard D. Ryder on animal testing; and Terence Hegarty from the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments on alternatives.

Black Devil Disco Club

The record was discovered by Rephlex’s own PP Roy for 20 pence at a car boot sale, and quickly found favour with friends Richard D. James and Luke Vibert.

Capillary electrophoresis

Capillary electrophoresis was first combined with mass spectrometry by Richard D. Smith and coworkers, and provides extremely high sensitivity for the analysis of very small sample sizes.

Cudahy Packing Company

Michael remained as President until 1961, when his son, Richard D. Cudahy, succeeded him.

Flick Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal IV, were Charles B. Sears (presiding judge), former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; William C. Christianson, former Minnesota Supreme Court justice; Frank N. Richman, former Supreme Court of Indiana justice; and Richard D. Dixon, former North Carolina Superior Court judge, as an alternate judge.

Jeffrey Hyland

Former Million Dollar Listing cast members Chad Rogers and Josh Altman, Frank Robinson's daughter, Nichelle, Ron Kass's son, Robert, Anne Heche's former husband, Coleman Laffoon, and Richard D. Zanuck's daughter-in-law, Marisa, are among Hilton & Hyland's 106 salespeople.

Jennifer Todd

She recently produced (with Richard D. Zanuck) the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton.

La Basoche

It was presented in London in 1891 in an English translation by Augustus Harris and Eugène Oudin at Richard D'Oyly Carte's Royal English Opera House (today's Palace Theatre), running from 3 November 1891 to 16 January 1892.

Louis Althusser

Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists Richard D. Wolff and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a conception of class different from the normally understood ones.

Mark Obenshain

Obenshain is the son of former Virginia Republican Committee Chairman Richard D. Obenshain and the brother of another past Chairman, Kate Obenshain.

Mirador Basin

Archaeological and environmental studies conducted by the Mirador Basin Project, directed by Richard Hansen, previously known as the Regional Archaeological Investigation of the North Petén, Guatemala (RAINPEG) Project, have identified data relevant to the origins and early development of the Maya civilization in this area.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

While in Ireland the Dublin edition of the book was published by the abolitionist printer Richard D. Webb to great acclaim and Douglass would write extensively in later editions very positively about his experience in Ireland.

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

; the scientific director of intramural research is Richard D. Leapman, PhD.

Oppegaard Spur

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Richard D. Oppegaard, Seaman Apprentice, U.S. Navy, a member of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, who lost his life in a shipboard accident, November 8, 1957.

Prepared piano

More recent composers to use prepared pianos include John Wolf Brennan, Roberto Carnevale, Philip Corner, Stephen Scott, Richard D. James, Jason Moran, Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Marina Leonardi, Hiromi Uehara, and Volker Bertelmann.

Richard D. Bennett

On January 29, 2003, Bennett was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Frederic N. Smalkin.

Richard D. Braatz

He has received many honors including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the Antonio Ruberti Foundation and IEEE Control Systems Society.

Richard D. Cotter

After Cotter completed the mapping in Yosemite late 1864, he signed up to work on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia and Alaska, with the goal of providing a telegraph link from Asia through Alaska by way of Bering Strait.

In 1866 Richard Cotter and J.T. Dyer made a very hazardous and successful exploration of the country between Norton Bay and the mouth of the Koyukuk River on the Yukon.

Richard D. Dean

He commanded Battery C, 1st Battalion,128th Field Artillery and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 128th Field Artillery in the 1950s.

Richard D. Dunphy

The Wisconsin Legislature approved an extra pension for Dunphy in 1868 to help him support his family.

Richard D. Feinman

Richard David Feinman (born 1940) is a professor of biochemistry and medical researcher at State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, better known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center who studies nutrition and metabolism.

Richard D. Gill

In recent years he has actively lobbied for retrials for Lucia de Berk and Kevin Sweeney.

In 2006, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at Leiden University, where he became the chair of mathematical statistics.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya and also a director of the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates the mainly unexplored territory in the northern Peten, Guatemala.

Hansen worked as a historical consultant on the 2006 Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, and has appeared in 25 film documentaries including several National Geographic specials, the Discovery Channel, CNN, CNN International, Koch Television, British Broadcasting Corp, Sixty Minutes Australia, CBS, History Channel, ABC 20/20, ABC Primetime Live, ABC Good Morning America, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, TimeLine Films of London,Guatevision, and the Learning Channel.

In December 2005 he was given the National Order of the Cultural Patrimony of Guatemala by the Guatemalan President, Oscar Berger, and in 2008 was named Environmentalist of the Year for Latin America by the Latin Trade Bravo Business award.

Richard D. James Album

In addition, a remix of Logan Rock Witch was among the many bootleg remixes of Aphex Twin that V/Vm did as part of his Helpaphextwin series.

Richard D. King

In 1983, King transferred to the California Air National Guard and was assigned to the 261st Combat Communications Squadron.

Richard D. Kisling

He returned to the United States in April 1952 and was assigned as first sergeant of the 1707th Food Service Squadron, Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Richard D. Lines

Together with his wife Helen Calvert Lines, also a keen astronomer, he built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona.

Richard D. McCarthy

He worked as a press attaché to the American Embassy in Tehran from 1975 to 1976.

Richard D. Simons

After the resignation of Sol Wachtler in November 1992, Simons was chosen Acting Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

Richard D. Wolff

One of his students, George Papandreou, went on to become Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011.

Both would then be part, along with Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Rick Edwards, of the "radical package" that was hired in 1973 by the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Wolff has been full professor since 1981.

Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester

Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094 – 25 November 1120) was the son of Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester and Ermentrude of Clermont.

The earldom then passed through his father Hugh's sister Maud to Richard's first cousin Ranulph I, in 1121.

Richard Gill

Richard D. Gill (born 1951), Anglo-Dutch mathematician / mathematical statistician

Richard Hubbard

Richard D. Hubbard (1818–1884), United States Representative and Governor of Connecticut

Richard Ryder

Richard D. Ryder (born 1940), British psychologist and animal rights advocate

Scarab Productions

The company currently has television and feature film projects in development with The Zanuck Company, Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil Warner Bros.

State capitalism

A relatively recent text by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class Theory and History, explores what they term state capitalism in the former Soviet Union, continuing a theme that has been debated within Trotskyist theory for most of the past century.

The Willow Pattern

The fashion in the late Victorian era and Edwardian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers, like The Willow Pattern.

Universal Indicator Green

The common held belief is that Richard D. James produced the 12" and 10" records, while Mike Dred produced the 7". It is also rumored to be produced by James, Dred and Grant Wilson-Claridge, although it is possible that either James or Dred solely produced the album. The album was pressed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies of a box set in which a 12", 10" and 7" vinyl record come in a screen-printed white plastic shopping bag (pictured).

Universal Indicator Red

This album is rumored to be produced solely by Richard D. James, although it is possible that it was produced by Mike Dred instead, or in cooperation with James.

Why We Disagree About Climate Change

Richard D. North writing on his personal website said, "Most of the books on global warming science and policy are pretty muddled, hysterical or dreamy by turns. Very few have real quality. Mike Hulme’s book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change seems to be in a different class".


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