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unusual facts about Samuel W. Davies


Samuel W. Davies

For the English footballer, see Samuel Richard Davies


3200 Phaethon

Simon F. Green and John K. Davies discovered it in images from October 11, 1983 while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data for moving objects.

Absent-minded professor

Examples in film of absent-minded professors include "Doc" Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, the title character in the film The Absent-Minded Professor and its less successful film remakes all based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor, as well as Professor Farnsworth of Futurama and Professor Frink in The Simpsons.

Albert D. Nortoni

In 1918, Nortoni campaigned for the Democratic nominee for Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph E. Davies, although he ultimately lost to Irvine Lenroot.

Bessie Potter Vonnoh

In 1898, she received the commission for a bust of General Samuel W. Crawford for the Smith Memorial Arch in Philadelphia.

Canton, Connecticut

Samuel W. Collins (1802–1871), founder of the Collins Axe Factory for which Collinsville is named

The Canton Historical Museum in Collinsville is located in a building of the former Collins Axe Company, founded by Samuel W. Collins and one of the first ax factories in the world.

Carbon dating the Dead Sea Scrolls

In 1991 Robert Eisenman and Philip R. Davies made a request to date a number of scrolls, which led to a series of tests carried out in Zurich on samples from fourteen scrolls.

David Meeks

Meeks was reared in the Springhill Community in Faulkner County and attended first Greenbrier High School in Greenbrier but graduated from Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida.

Eric Hurley

Hurley attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was teammates with fellow first round draft pick Billy Butler who was selected by the Kansas City Royals.

Ernest Medina

:"Do I see Lieutenant Calley? Do I see Captain Medina? Do I see Gen'ral Koster and all his crew?"

George Sykes

His 3rd Division, the Pennsylvania Reserves, led by Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Crawford, attacked from Little Round Top, drove the Confederates across the "Valley of Death" and ended the deadly fighting in the Wheatfield.

Gerald Duckworth and Company

It was important in the development of English literature in the first half of the twentieth century, when it published such writers as Virginia Woolf (Gerald Duckworth's half-sister), W. H. Davies, Anthony Powell, John Galsworthy and D. H. Lawrence.

H. O. Davies

He led a Nigerian delegation to the Economic Council at the United Nations in 1964, and in September 1974 Chief H.O. Davies was knighted by the French Government Chevelier de l' Ordre national du Mérite (Industrial) for his significant contributions in energizing Total Fina Oil and the Elf Petroleum companies of which he was a Director and for promoting French-Nigerian relations.

James Miller McKim

McKim was depicted in the The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, a lithograph by artist Samuel W. Rowse, which was widely published to help raise funds for the Underground Railroad.

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

The Mowbray-Clarkes lived in Rockland County, New York at a farm and studio called Brocken, just six miles from Arthur B. Davies.

Joseph Davies

Joseph E. Davies (1876–1958), United States ambassador to the Soviet Union

Kate Ferguson

She married the Civil War hero General Samuel W. Ferguson (1834-1917), and their house became a social center in Greenville, Mississippi.

Kay Davies

Davies continued to work with her former husband, Stephen G. Davies, on scientific projects, even after their separation in 2000.

L. P. Davies

Davies' novels The Artificial Man (1965) and Psychogeist (1966) were adapted into the 1968 film Project X and The Alien (1968) was very freely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy, starring George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin.

Llanrumney

Notables who objected included Rumney High School Governing Body, Fields in Trust, Alun Michael MP, David Melding AM, Lorraine Barrett AM, Andrew R.T. Davies AM, Cllrs Cook, Parry, Ireland, Hudson, Morgan, Joyce and RREEL.

Native Sons of the Golden West

Lloyd G. Davies (1914–1957), Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51

Paul B. Davies

He has also scripted music videos for everyone from Kate Bush to Ken Russell.

Paul L. Davies

Outside academic work Davies was a member of the Company Law Review Steering Group, whose reports eventually led to the Companies Act 2006; he is the general editor of the Industrial Law Journal and is Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee.

Peel, Oregon

Peel post office was established in 1888 and named for congressman Samuel W. Peel of Arkansas.

R. E. G. Davies

with Imre E. Quastler, Commuter Airlines of the United States (Smithsonian, 1995) (Reference)

S. O. Davies

(2003 reprint), Iain Dale, The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935, Politico's.

Samuel Dexter

Samuel W. Dexter, founder of Dexter, Michigan, was his son.

Samuel Richards

Samuel W. Richards (1824–1909), religious and political leader in Utah

Samuel W. Alderson

In 1966, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was passed, which together with Ralph Nader's book, "Unsafe at Any Speed" put the search for an anatomically faithful test dummy into high gear.

Samuel W. Eager

Eager was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hector Craig and served from November 2, 1830, to March 3, 1831.

He was not a candidate at the election held the same day for the Twenty-second Congress.

Samuel W. Koster

Freelance investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the massacre to the wider public in November 1969.

On March 16, 1968, a company of Americal Division troops led by Captain Ernest Medina and Lieutenant William Calley slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a South Vietnamese hamlet known as My Lai (referred to as "Pinkville" by the troops).

Samuel W. Martien

Grandson Norman Hopkins Martien, Jr. (1926-2012), a Waterproof native, was a graduate in chemical engineering of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and an engineering project manager for Kaiser Aluminum in Gramercy, Louisiana.

Samuel W. Moulton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867).

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881 – March 4, 1885) and served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (Forty-eighth Congress).

Samuel W. Peel

He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Fiftieth and Fifty-second Congresses).

Peel was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893).

Samuel W. Rowse

Henry Brown, a slave, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society.

Samuel W. Thornton

He participated in several of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Vicksburg, and Battle of Memphis, where he was shot in the thigh and hospitalized until the end of the war.

W. J. A. Davies

He formed a notable international half-back partnership with his Royal Navy team-mate Cecil Kershaw; in their 14 matches together for England they never finished on the losing side.

During his time playing he earned 22 caps, making him England's most capped fly-half until Rob Andrew overtook him.

W. P. C. Davies

William Philip ("Phil") Cathcart Davies (born 6 August 1928), played rugby union at centre for Evesham RUFC, Cheltenham RUFC, Cambridge University, Harlequins, England and the British Lions (South Africa 1955).

W. R. Davies

Speakers presented during the Davies years included John Mason Brown, Margaret Bourke-White, Bennett Cerf, Norman Cousins, Bernard DeVoto, Sinclair Lewis, Wayne Morse, Carl Rowan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Dorothy Thompson.

A goal of $15,000 was set, with all funds to be directed to match federal grants for National Defense Student Loans.

The foundation was created to raise funds for the new National Defense Student Loans Program that provided low-interest loans for promising but needy students.

Walter Pach

With painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he brought together leading contemporary European and American artists.


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