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unusual facts about Sophia A. Nelson


Sophia A. Nelson

WATCH Sophia called on as a subject matter expert with ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer.


A Date with Your Family

The title itself was mocked as well, with the characters cracking jokes that implied it suggested incest (Mike Nelson responded by saying "Hey, I like my family as a friend!").

Allison Nelson

His father, John B. Nelson, who ran Nelson's Ferry across the Chattahoochee River, was an early DeKalb County settler who was murdered in 1825, when Allison was three years old, by John W. Davis.

Arthur E. Nelson

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but was elected fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949).

Botanical Gardens, Nelson

Besides cricket, the ground also saw one of the first rugby matches to be played in New Zealand between Nelson College and a group of local players.

Call to Glory

Craig T. Nelson received familiarization rides in USAF jets at Edwards Air Force Base during the filming of the series, including flights in the T-38 Talon, the F-4 Phantom II, and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Carol Bly

Three of her stories were also combined into the movie Rachel River, which starred Craig T. Nelson.

Daniele Archibugi

(with Jonathan Michie), Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance, preface by Richard R. Nelson (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

David M. Nelson

Others who used the Wing-T with success included Paul Dietzel with LSU, Frank Broyles with Arkansas, Ara Parseghian with Notre Dame, Jim Owens with Washington, and Eddie Robinson of Grambling State.

Donald M. Nelson

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson regularly criticized Nelson for his "inability to take charge".

In February 1943, Roosevelt invited Bernard Baruch to replace Nelson as WPB head, but was persuaded to change his mind by advisor Harry Hopkins, and Nelson remained in the post.

Eric Nelson

Eric M. Nelson, American historian and professor of government at Harvard University

Ernest D. Nelson

He came to North Dakota in 1908, and was educated in the public schools and in the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

He farmed in Golden Valley County, North Dakota for 30 years during his lifetime, and was a veteran of World War I.

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Reflecting EAEPE's open-ended theoretical perspectives, EAEPE's current honorary presidents include major scholars such as Janos Kornai, Richard R. Nelson, Douglass C. North, Luigi Pasinetti, while Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Edith T. Penrose, Kurt Rothschild, G.L.S. Shackle and Herbert A. Simon were EAEPE's honorary presidents in the past.

Gary V. Nelson

Gary Vincent Nelson (born 1953) is an urban missiologist and President and CEO of Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Guy G. Hurlbutt

After President George H. W. Bush was elected, he chose not to renominate Hurlbutt for the post, selecting Thomas G. Nelson instead.

Harold G. Nelson

He has been president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 2000, a position previously held by such notable scholars as: Margaret Mead, Ilya Prigogine, Russell Ackoff, Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers and C. West Churchman.

Harold G. Nelson (born 1943) is an American architect, consultant and Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, President of the Advanced Design Institute and Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.

I'm Not Rappaport

The 1996 film version, written and directed by Gardner, starred Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson, Martha Plimpton, Peter Friedman, and Ron Rifkin.

If Women Counted

Margunn Bjørnholt and Ailsa McKay (eds.), Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics, with a foreword by Julie A. Nelson, Toronto, Demeter Press/Brunswick Books, 2014, ISBN 9781927335277

Jimmy Dimos

When Dimos became Speaker, Allen Bares of Lafayette, with Roemer's blessing, began a two-year stint as Senate President, although another candidate, Sydney B. Nelson of Shreveport, had been seeking the position for months by arranging private meetings with colleagues in their Senate districts.

Jonathan Nelson

Jonathan M. Nelson (born 1956), founder of Providence Equity Partners

Keith Pavitt

He collaborated closely with Belgian economist Luc Soete, with Italian social scientist Giovanni Dosi, and he kept a strong intellectual link with the American economist Richard R. Nelson.

Kent C. Nelson

Nelson is chairman of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the world's largest foundation dedicated to helping disadvantaged children.

He has been active in several educational initiatives: the Partnership for Kentucky Schools and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.

Martin A. Nelson

He later moved to Minnesota and earned his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law (then the St. Paul College of Law) in 1916.

Nelson obtained the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1936, but lost both general elections to Floyd B. Olson and Elmer A. Benson, respectively.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1958

In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Robert F. Murphy, defeated Republican Elmer C. Nelson, Prohibition candidate Harold E. Bassett, and Socialist Labor candidate Francis A. Votano.

Minerva Reefs

Nevertheless, Minerva was referred to in O. T. Nelson's post-apocalyptic children's novel The Girl Who Owned a City, published in 1975, as an example of an invented utopia that the book's protagonists could try to emulate.

N. O. Nelson

N.O. Nelson founded the village of Leclaire in 1890, naming it after Edme-Jean Leclaire, who had inaugurated employee profit sharing in France.

Norris J. Nelson

Norwegian actress Asta Bertels was mentioned in the testimony, Nelson relating that he brought her from Norway the same month, April 1946, that he separated from his wife and that he was acting as her agent in furthering a Hollywood career; she signed a contract with showgirl impresario Earl Carroll.

Patrick Brantseg

In 1993, after Michael J. Nelson took over as host, Bransteg was given the title "utility infielder," which meant that he took care of many smaller duties around the BBI offices.

Pennsylvania v. Nelson

The Case was argued in front of the Warren Court whose members were: Earl Warren; Hugo Black; Stanley Reed; Felix Frankfurter; William O. Douglas; Harold Burton; Tom C. Clark; Sherman Minton; and John Marshall Harlan II.

Roger D. Nelson

Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.

Russell M. Nelson

In 1995 Nelson went to Beijing, along with Neal A. Maxwell and other LDS Church leaders, on an official invitation of Li Lanqing who at the time was Vice Premier of China.

Russell Nelson

Russell M. Nelson (born 1924), American physician and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Scott A. Williams

The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department played by Craig T. Nelson.

Supersonic Man

On October 11, 2013, it was released by RiffTrax as a Video On Demand download via their website, featuring former Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast members Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett providing a mocking audio commentary.

Theodore D. Chuang

He began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, from 1994 to 1995.

Tracy Middendorf

Middendorf won an Ovation Award for her interpretation of Alma in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Fountain Theater in 1999, and starred opposite Craig T. Nelson as Muriel McComber in the 1998 Lincoln Center production of Ah, Wilderness!.

Voter apathy

Vanderbilt professor Dana D. Nelson in Bad for Democracy argues that all citizens seem to do, politically, is vote for president every four years, and not much else; they've abandoned politics.

Walter Newman Haldeman

He attended Maysville Academy with future prominent Americans’ Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Wadsworth, Thomas H. Nelson, and William "Bull" Nelson under the tutelage of Professor William A. Richardson.

William E. Nelson

William E. Nelson (born February 18, 1941) was an environmental wax researcher from Perth, Ontario, Canada.

William Nelson Page

The circa 1730 Nelson House built by "Scotch Tom" Nelson in Yorktown, Virginia is a National Historical Landmark maintained by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service.


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