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Stephen W. Perkins

In 1866 he was re-elected to his former judicial post in Brazoria County, but the regional Union commander, Major General Joseph J. Reynolds removed him from office on April 25, 1869 as "an impediment to Reconstruction".


Aaron Idol

He would defeated Puma and "The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson in a triple threat match that lasted 30 minutes.

African-American history of agriculture in the United States

Blues pianist Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins for instance had once been a tractor driver on a Mississippi plantation before enjoying a successful career with Muddy Waters.

Angella Reid

Angella Reid is the White House Chief Usher, becoming on October 2011 the first woman and the second African American following her predecessor, Stephen W. Rochon, to serve in that post.

Antietam Confederate order of battle

Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam.

Antonio José Martínez

Stephen W. Kearny led 1,700 American troops into Santa Fe without encountering any resistance.

Australian Aboriginal Sovereignty

Notable proponents of Aboriginal sovereignty included Charles Perkins and Gary Foley.

Bear Mountain Bridge

The 11-member board of directors included financiers E. Roland Harriman and George W. Perkins.

Broken windows theory

According to a study conducted by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush, the premise that the broken windows theory operates on—that social disorder and crime are connected as part of a causal chain—is faulty.

Carl C. Perkins

Perkins was elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the 98th and the 99th Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, U.S. Representative Carl Dewey Perkins.

Carl Perkins Bridge

It is named after the late Carl D. Perkins, Congressman from the 7th District of Kentucky.

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Casa Blanca was one of the Pima Villages on the Gila River in what was then part of the state of Sonora, Mexico, encountered by the American expeditions of Stephen W. Kearny and Philip St. George Cooke in 1846 and later by Americans on their way to California on the Southern Immigrant Trail during the California Gold Rush.

Christopher Perkins

Carl C. Perkins (born 1954), commonly known as Chris Perkins, former U.S. Congressman

CineAction

In subsequent issues, CineAction! (the logo dropped the exclamation point with the 23rd issue) went on to publish the work of Douglas Pye, V. F. Perkins, Scott Forsyth, Tony French, Tony Williams, Edward Gallafent, Brad Stevens, Deborah Thomas, Andrew Britton, and scores more.

Dahlgren Affair

Though the papers have long been disputed, recent scholarship by historians including Stephen W. Sears and Edward Steers, Jr. has tended to favor their authenticity, though few who believe in their authenticity contend they were written by anyone other than Dahlgren himself.

DeForest H. Perkins

In 1926, Perkins was accused of conspiring with Republican Governor Owen Brewster and the Klan's Imperial Wizard, Hiram Evans in a Washington, D.C. Hotel Room, to sabotage the candidacy of a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Arthur R. Gould, who was running an anti-Klan campaign.

Dixon S. Miles

Sears, Stephen W. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam.

Henry J. Stainrook

Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Sears, Stephen W., Chancellorsville, Houghton Mifflin, 1996, ISBN 0-395-87744-X.

Herbert Joseph Thomas

William T. Perkins, Jr. (posthumous Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade in the Vietnam War)

Isaac J. Wistar

Sears, Stephen W., Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000, ISBN 0-618-05706-4.

Isaac P. Rodman

Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Houghton Mifflin, 1983, ISBN 0-89919-172-X.

James S. Havens

He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James B. Perkins (April 19, 1910 – March 3, 1911).

Jesse M. Williams

Sears, Stephen W., To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.

John M. Perkins

1982, the Perkinses left Voice of Calvary Ministries to return to California, where they founded Harambee Christian Family Center in Northwest Pasadena.

Joseph Ginat

with Edward J. Perkins ( (eds.) The Peace Process Between Israel and Arab Countries: Achievements and Obstacles.

with Edward J. Perkins (eds.) The Palestinian Refugees Problem: Traditional Positions and New Solutions.

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid

Vigil y Alarid was left in charge as acting Governor of New Mexico when his predecessor Manuel Armijo fled Santa Fe to escape the approaching U.S. troops under General Stephen W. Kearny.

Kearny Mesa, San Diego

Camp Kearny in turn was named for Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny, a leader in the Mexican-American War who also served as a military governor of California.

Manik

T.J. Perkins, a professional wrestler who performs under the ring name Manik

Oskaloosa, Iowa

The first white settlers arrived in 1835 led by Nathan Boone, youngest son of Daniel Boone who acting on instructions from Stephen W. Kearny selected it to be the first site of Fort Des Moines on a high ridge between what Skunk River and Des Moines River.

San Miguel del Vado Land Grant

During the Mexican–American War in 1846 General Kearny's forces followed the Santa Fe Trail below Bent's Fort to invade and establish a U.S. provisional government of New Mexico.

Star route scandal

Garfield's investigation revealed among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Thomas J. Brady, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

Star routes

Among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

Stephen W. Burns

Born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Burns is best known for playing 'Pete Stancheck' in Herbie Goes Bananas and 'Jack Cleary' in the The Thorn Birds mini-series.

Stephen W. Pless

On January 16, 1969, four days before leaving office, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Pless the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony.

After his parents divorced, his mother Nancy Lassetter Pollard moved to Atlanta and remarried, to Berlin Pless.

Stephen W. Rochon

A New Orleans native, Admiral Rochon served as the Coast Guard's Director of Personnel Management in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricanes, providing support for Coast Guard personnel and their families, and ensuring they had housing and new job assignments.

Stephen W. Sears

Stephen Ward Sears (born July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

As an author he has concentrated on the military history of the American Civil War, primarily the battles and leaders of the Army of the Potomac.

Stephen W. Wood

Acting/theater/performing experience includes an 'extra' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads (May 2007); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (September 2007); an 'extra' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising (November 2007); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, (August 2008);

Stephen W. Worth

Stephen continued to work for Spumco for ten years as a Producer on commercials, web cartoons, several television series and a prime time special for Cartoon Network called Boo Boo Runs Wild.

Tsui Lap-chee

Prior to his appointment as the Vice-Chancellor, he was Geneticist-in-Chief and Head of the Genetics and Genomic Biology Program of the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children and co-founder (with Dr. Steve Scherer) of The Centre for Applied Genomics.

William Perkins

William T. Perkins, Jr. (1947–1967), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient

Xylocopa sonorina

In 1899, R. C. L. Perkins described the species as Xylocopa aeneipennis, and in 1922, P. H. Timberlake identified it as Xylocopa varipuncta.


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