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Robert E. Bailey

After transferring to the Reserve Command, Bailey was assigned to the 96th Tactical Airlift Squadron at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Hennepin County, Minnesota.


1885 in the United States

December 29 – James E. Bailey, United States Senator from Tennessee from 1877 till 1881.

Acheron Empire

Acheron was first mentioned in Robert E. Howard's novel The Hour of the Dragon as an ancient empire in the history of the setting.

America First Committee

Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin, publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune).

Attempts to make the Potomac River navigable

There was a large conflict with Virginia Governor Henry Lee (father of Robert E. Lee), who purchased 500 acres of land around Great Falls (he named it “Matildaville” after his wife) to build a warehouse for goods being transported down the Potomac (predicting the route would quickly become profitable after the project’s completion).

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Bruce Chadwick

Chadwick’s newest books are 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Sourcebooks, 2008), about the causes of the Civil War.

Champoeg Meetings

Those who participated in these early meetings included François Norbert Blanchet, William J. Bailey, Mr. Charlevon, David Donpierre, Gustavus Hines, William Johnson, Jason Lee, Étienne Lucier, Robert Moore, Josiah Lamberson Parrish, Sidney Smith, and David Leslie.

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Charles Sangster

His poems include an extensive knowledge of classic, historic, and mythological works, as well as British and American authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, P.J. Bailey, and Longfellow.

Conan the Mercenary

Conan the Mercenary is a fantasy novel written by Andrew J. Offutt and illustrated by Esteban Maroto featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, the second volume in a trilogy beginning with Conan and the Sorcerer and concluding with The Sword of Skelos.

Construction delay

Economic historian Robert E. Wright argues that construction delays are caused by bid gaming, change order artistry, asymmetric information, and post contractual market power.

Cramton Bowl

Several area high schools call Cramton Bowl home including the Jeff Davis Volunteers, Lanier Poets, Lee Generals, and Carver Wolverines.

Dennis Hart Mahan

Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

Didn't We Almost Have It All?

Loretta Devine (Adele Webber), Diahann Carroll (Jane Burke), Tsai Chin (Yang's mother), Elizabeth Reaser (Rebecca Pope), Steven W. Bailey (Joe), Jack Yang (Walter) all reprised their role as guest stars.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

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.

Heck Thomas

On September 1, 1862, Union General Philip Kearny was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Young "Heck" was entrusted with the general's horse and equipment and was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to take them through the lines to General Kearny's widow.

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

In addition to the papers of Herbert Hoover, the manuscript holdings include those of Lewis Strauss, Gerald P. Nye, Felix Morley, Clark Mollenhoff, Robert E. Wood, Westbrook Pegler, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, among others.

J. R. Bailey

Bailey released a record on Calla Records that year called "Love Won't Wear Off." It was written and produced by Billy Guy of The Coasters.

His song "Let Me Prove My Love to You", which was originally performed by The Main Ingredient, was sampled for Alicia Keys' 2003 single "You Don't Know My Name".

James A. Roberts

In 1864, he enlisted as a private in the 7th Maine Battery, and fought at the Siege of Petersburg, and later participated in the campaign ending with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.

Jason Michael Brescia

During the production of the film, the producers asked Brescia to write in roles for Andy Milonakis, Kevin Nash, Jason Mewes, G. W. Bailey, and Mindy Sterling, to help ensure that the film be sold.

John F. Reif

filling a vacancy created by the retirement of former Justice Robert E. Lavender.

Kate Ferguson

She was born Catherine Sarah Lee, to the southern poet Eleanor Percy Lee and William Henry Lee, cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

Lessing J. Rosenwald

Rosenwald was the best known Jewish supporter of the America First Committee, which advocated American neutrality in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was led by his successor at Sears-Roebuck and lifelong friend Robert E. Wood.

Milt G. Barlow

He would later serve with several Virginia cavalry companies before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 along with the remnants of General Robert E. Lee’s army.

Omnism

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotes as the term's earliest usage the 1839 long poem "Festus" by English poet Philip J. Bailey: "I am an omnist, and believe in all religions".

Ray Oyler

Before the Pilots even played their first game in 1969, Seattle radio disc jockey Robert E. Lee "Bob" Hardwick looked over the list of players drafted by the Pilots, discovered Oyler's batting average and created the "Ray Oyler Fan Club," initially as a radio bit on his radio show.

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.

Robert D. Bailey

R. D. Bailey Lake, formed by a dam on the Guyandotte River and named after Robert D. Bailey, Sr.

Robert E. Clary

Born March 21, 1805 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the second son of Electa (Smith) and Ethan Allen Clary was named after the recently executed Irish patriot Robert Emmet.

Robert E. Holmes

In 1978, Governor Rhodes appointed Holmes to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated when Frank Celebrezze was elected as Chief Justice.

Robert E. Howard's character

The students at Brownwood High School, in 1922, saw Howard as a quiet and reserved person.

Robert E. Laws

The enemy force, estimated to be a reinforced infantry company, was well supplied with machineguns, ammunition, grenades, and blocks of TNT and could be attacked only across a narrow ridge 70 yards long.

Robert E. Lee Blackburn

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Robert E. Lee Chadwick

His dissertation, directed by Professor Robert Wauchope, was titled The Archaeology of a New World "Merchant" Culture.

Robert E. Powell

In 1996, he was unseated by his former political ally, Abe E. Pierce, III, the president of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury and the first African American to fill the mayoralty in Monroe.

Robert E. Walton

He has won the US Handicap, the Sunshine League, the Pacific Coast Open, the Silver Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the America Cup, the US Arena Handicap, and the Interscholastic Arena Championship.

Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

IWS was conceived of in the 1990s by worship theologian Robert E. Webber, who intended to provide doctoral-level theological training to Worship Leaders and Music Ministers, who often complete Master degrees in areas like music or theology, and thus lack the divinity credentials to enroll in Doctor of Ministry programs.

Robert Pierre

Robert E. Pierre (born 1968), reporter and editor at The Washington Post

Skip Away

After Skip Away was soundly defeated as a four-year-old by Formal Gold in the Philip H. Iselin Breeders' Cup Handicap at Monmouth Park and in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park, he was given a new rider, Jerry Bailey, who replaced Shane Sellers.

Texas-Oklahoma wildfires of 2005–06

The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

The Frost-Giant's Daughter

While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was derived in its entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913).

The Further Chronicles of Conan

The Further Chronicles of Conan is a collection of fantasy novels written by Robert Jordan featuring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard.

Virginia Field

Her mother was a cousin of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and her aunt was British stage actress and director Auriol Lee.

Win probability

The first win probability analysis was done in 1971 by Robert E. Machol and former NFL quarterback Virgil Carter.

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.


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