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unusual facts about Richard W. Colcock


Colcock

Richard W. Colcock (born 1806), Superintendent of the Citadel, (Military College of South Carolina), 1844–1852


Alberta Darling

Darling first joined the Wisconsin State Legislature by winning a special election in 1990 for the 10th district (defeating Rick Graber in the primary).

Amphitrite-class monitor

When the Hayes administration came to power in 1877, it appointed a new Secretary of the Navy, Richard W. Thompson, to replace Robeson.

Colcock

William F. Colcock (1804–1889), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Dolorous Stroke

Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1999.

Go West, young man

Author Ralph Keyes also suggests Soule as the source, offering an account in which the line originated from a bet between Soule and Indiana Congressman Richard W. Thompson over whether or not Soule could trick readers by forging a Greeley article.

Guild of Scholars of The Episcopal Church

The Guild was founded in 1945 and has included such eminent members as Cleanth Brooks, Brooks Otis, Henry Babcock Veatch, Frederick Pottle, W. H. Auden, Dell Hymes, Hyatt Waggoner and Richard W. Bailey.

New Jersey Meadowlands Commission

These parks include Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, home to a butterfly garden, World Trade Center Memorial, overlook of New York City, several trails, and the NJMC's Meadowlands Environment Center.

Richard Fisher

Richard W. Fisher (born 1949), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Richard O'Neill

Richard W. O'Neill (1898–1982), U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Richard Pollack

Richard W. Pollack, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii

Richard Richards

Richard W. Richards (1893–1985), Australian explorer with Ross Sea Party 1914–17, awarded the Albert Medal

Richard W. Bailey

In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today.

Richard W. Blue

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Richard W. Bourne

He was reappointed as Chair of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust in September 2009, after chairing it for four years.

Richard W. Cook

From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as an executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Richard W. Cook (August 8, 1907 – October 26, 1992) was born in Muskegon, Michigan.

Richard W. DeKorte

It is said that Byrne was so impressed with the DeKorte during those meetings he made DeKorte Head of the New Jersey State Energy Office (or "Energy Czar" as he was called).

Richard W. Dowling

The Thermopylae of Lieutenant Dick Dowling, in The Irish Sword by Patrick Denis O'Donnell, VOL.XXIII, no.91, Military History Society of Ireland, Dublin, Summer 2002 (pages 68–86)

Dowling was born in Knockballyvisteal, Milltown, near Tuam, County Galway, Ireland in 1838, the second of eight children, born to Patrick and Bridget Dowling (née Qualter).

Richard W. Gilsdorf

He served his first appointment at St. John Church in Little Chute, Wisconsin, for two years, and then received assignment to the faculty of Sacred Heart Minor Seminary near Green Bay.

After several years of serious illness, Gilsdorf died on May 4, 2005, and was buried at St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Howard, Wisconsin, near his father’s and mother’s tombs.

For the final 23 years of his life he served as pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Casco, Wisconsin.

He attended that city’s Central Catholic High School and then the St. Lawrence Minor Seminary in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin.

Richard W. Haines

This job led to a six-year association with Troma Entertainment as the company's post-production supervisor when Charles Kaufman sent Haines over to his brother Lloyd Kaufman after Haines satisfied them with his editing and sound editing work on the film.

Haines' next project was the 1994 sci-fi thriller Head Games, followed the by action film Run for Cover (1995), which starred Adam West and featured the final film appearance of Viveca Lindfors.

A testament to the cult popularity of Splatter University is the reference by the character Randy Meeks (played by Jamie Kennedy) in a phone conversation in Wes Craven's Scream 2 (1997).

Richard W. Higgins

He is depicted as one of four examples in bravery in the history of the German Air Force.

In 1957 Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base became a joint-use facility with the new West German Air Force.

The new name was approved by the Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs Monika Hohlmeier.

Richard W. Hoffman

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957).

Richard W. Hughes

Richard W. Hughes is an American gemologist and award winning author, known as an authority on Corundum: rubies and sapphires.

He was the director of the Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand during the 1980s, and also served at the American Gem Trade Association’s gemological laboratories in California and New York from 2005 to 2008.

Richard W. Leopold Prize

A 3-member committee, chosen by the President of the OAH, chooses the best history book on U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. foreign policies, U.S. military affairs, or biographies of government officials.

Richard W. Mallary

He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, losing to present U.S. Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy in his initial run for the U.S. Senate.

In between his service as Vermont Secretary of Administration, Mallary was elected as a Republican, by special election, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Robert T. Stafford, and reelected to the Ninety-third Congress, serving from January 7, 1972-January 3, 1975.

Richard W. Richards

Richard Richards was awarded the Albert Medal in 1923 for his efforts on the ice to save the lives of Spencer-Smith and Mackintosh, this award being converted in 1971 to the George Cross, an exchange offered to all Albert Medal holders then living.

Richard W. Thompson

The French were in the process of funding the new Panama Canal Company under Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps.

Richard W. Townshend

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fiftieth Congress).

Townshend was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1889.

The Antelope

Later in August Richard W. Habersham, the United States District Attorney for Georgia, filed a libel in court that under the Act in Addition, the Africans on the Antelope were free, on the grounds that they had been removed from Africa by persons intending to sell them in the United States.

William F. Colcock

He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Coosawhatchie, South Carolina.

Ziółkowski

Richard W. Ziolkowski scientist and engineer involved with metamaterials research.


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