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Benjamin Harris Babbidge

Benjamin Harris Babbidge was a blacksmith, having completed an apprenticeship with the shipbuilders J. & W. White of Cowes.

Blazer's Scouts

Colonel Carr B. White organized the original cavalry company (initially known as the Brigade Scouts or Spencer's Scouts) at Fayetteville, West Virginia, in mid-September 1863.

Campbell Award

Robert W. Campbell Award an environmental, health, and safety award named in honor of Robert W. Campbell

Campbell P. White

White was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, to October 2, 1835, when he resigned before the 24th United States Congress met.

Cedar Cove

Ormonde, designed by architect Frank Furness; Notleymere, designed by architect Robert W. Gibson; Scrooby, designed by architect Robert S. Stephenson; and Shore Acres, designed by architect Stanford White.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

The building was eventually converted into a residence by architect Charles E. White, Jr., Roberts' son-in-law and an employee in Wright's studio in the years 1903-1905.

Compton I. White, Jr.

A Democrat, he was elected to the open seat in the first district in 1962 and re-elected in 1964.

White was re-elected in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but was defeated for a third term in 1966 by Republican state senator Jim McClure of Payette.

Daniel R. White

founded by former television gag writer and presidential speechwriter Robert Orben.

Demographics of Denver

The current Denver mayor, Michael Hancock, elected in 2011, is also African-American, as are city councilwoman Allegra "Happy" Haynes and Denver police chief Robert C. White.

Dick Waterman

In 1963, he began to promote local shows with blues artists including Mississippi John Hurt and Booker "Bukka" White.

Edwin Q. White

He was sent to Seoul to help the AP's South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan.

George E. White

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Gilbert F. White

White worked under President Johnson in committees that advised the establishment of the National Flood Insurance Program – although he was not happy when his cautions were ignored and the NFIP was rolled out too quickly.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

Hillsboro Cemetery

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Hillsboro Cemetery is home to multiple notable interments, including baseball player Kirby White and politicians Joseph J. McDowell, John Armstrong Smith, Jacob J. Pugsley, Allen Trimble and Wilbur M. White.

Hugh L. White

The vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and an NAACP worker, Lee had been urging African-Americans in the Mississippi Delta to register and vote.

Jesse White

Jesse J. White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Jo Jo White

Additionally, he appeared in two movies with diminutive roles: 1980's Inside Moves and 2007's The Game Plan, in which his son, actor Brian J. White, also starred.

Jonathan Simons

At 41 years old, Simons was recruited by the Georgia governor Roy Barnes and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation of Atlanta to be the Founding Director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.

Michael L. White

Behind the scenes, he was a co-writer and producer on the 1992-1993 TV Series, Computer Doctor and executive producer for the 1993 series, Spirit of Television.

Michael R. White

He also declared October 30, 1994 "Bone Thugs~N~Harmony Day" in the city of Cleveland to honor the hometown rappers.

Neo-Gramscianism

The beginning of the Neo-Gramscian perspective can be traced to York University professor emeritus, Robert W. Cox's article "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory", in Millennium 10 (1981) 2, and "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method", published in Millennium 12 (1983) 2.

One Way Forward

This aspect of the problem has been discussed by media scholar Robert W. McChesney in his books on The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century, and

Passive voice

Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice.

Patricia Breckenridge

Breckenridge was one of three candidates Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission proposed to governor Matt Blunt to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Philip White

Philip L. White (1923–2009), American historian and civic activist

Purgatorio

Franz Liszt's Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia (1856) has a "Purgatorio" movement, as does Robert W. Smith's The Divine Comedy (2006).

R. J. Cutler

Black. White. was a television series on FX television and featured two families—one white, the other black—who traded places and races.

Robert Lyon

Robert W. Lyon (1842–1904), American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Robert W. Boyd

He is currently Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and on the Faculty at the University of Rochester.

Robert W. Castle

His involvement in Demme's documentary led to an unlikely career as an actor in more than a dozen films over the next two decades, including roles in Philadelphia, The Addiction, Beloved, and Rachel Getting Married.

Robert W. Clower

"The Coordination of Economic Activities: A Keynesian Perspective," with Axel Leijonhufvud, 1975, American Economic Review.

Robert W. Ford

After one year in Lhasa, he was requested to go to Chamdo, capital of eastern Tibet (Kham), to establish a radio link between Lhasa and Chamdo.

Robert W. Heagney

After graduating from Simsbury High School, Rob earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Anselm College in 1975 and later received his Juris Doctor from the University of Bridgeport School of Law, now Quinnipiac University, in 1980.

Robert W. Levering

Robert Woodrow Levering (October 3, 1914 – August 11, 1989) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son-in-law of Usher L. Burdick and brother-in-law of Quentin N. Burdick.

Robert W. Lyon

He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in the west suburb of McKees Rocks.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Robert W. Mattson, Jr.

Mattson was elected State Auditor at the age of 26, the second-youngest to attain statewide office in Minnesota; the distinction of being the youngest goes to Jim Lord, who was 25 when elected State Treasurer.

Robert W. Patten

He claimed that he was born in 1811, ran away from home at age nine, was adopted by Winnebago Chief Big John and romanced the chief's daughter.

Robert W. Sennewald

Sennewald served as Commander in Chief, U.N. Command/Commander in Chief, ROK/U.S. Combined Forces Command/Commander, U.S. Forces Korea/Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army (CINCUNC/CINCCFC/COMUSFK/CG EUSA) from 1982 to 1984; and as Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM) from 1984 to 1986.

Septimus Norris

He worked for the Norris firm under William's management, but did not continue under Richard's; railway historian John H. White, Jr. believes animosity existed between Septimus and Richard.

Shiva Naipaul

He then decided to concentrate on journalism, and wrote two non-fiction works, North of South (1978) and Black & White (1980), before returning to the novel form in the 1980s with Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), a departure from his two earlier comic novels set in Trinidad, as well as a collection of fiction and non-fiction, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).

Terri L. White

In 2007, while White was serving as the Department's Director of Communications and Public Policy, then Commissioner Terry Cline resigned after being nominated by (then) President of the United States George W. Bush to become the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

The Marshall News Messenger

The Texas Republican and the Tri-Weekly Herald, both published by Robert W. Loughery, were credited with aiding the election of Marshall citizens J.P. Henderson, Edward Clark, and Pendleton Murrah to the Governor's office and Louis T. Wigfall to the U.S. Senate.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

William H. White

The keeping of the Register of Architects is now governed by the Architects Act 1997, and the name of the body responsible for the Register has been changed from the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) to the Architects Registration Board (ARB).

Yue Lao

Yue-Laou (sic) appears as a character in Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Maker of Moons" from the collection of the same name in 1896.


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