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The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins

As cover design the original Folkways LP's artwork by Ronald Clyne with a photograph taken by Samuel B. Charters was used.


A. G. Hopkins

Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell (eds.): Africa, Empire and Globalization.

His principal works include An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and, with Peter Cain, British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001), which won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and is considered by many to be the most influential interpretation of British expansion offered in the last half century.

Albert Hopkins

Albert J. Hopkins (1846–1922), Congressman and U.S. Senator from Illinois

Albert L. Hopkins

worked at the US MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Draper Lab) during the development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control System, or the GN&C.

The system was designed in two forms, one for the command module and one for the lunar module.

After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

Dick Waterman

Within a few years, he was representing House, Hurt, White, Skip James, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, Arthur Crudup, Junior Wells, J. B. Hutto and many others.

Francis A. Hopkins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

George H. Hopkins

One of his brothers, Dan Hopkins who served in the same regiment was mortally wounded in the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862.

Gold Star Records

The studio was important in launching the careers of such artists as Lightnin' Hopkins, Harry Choates, George Jones, Eddie Noack, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Roy Head, and Freddy Fender.

Institute for Research in Art and Technology

The Directors in August 1970 included David Curtis, Hugh Davies, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, John Lifton, Pamela Zoline (USA) with Biddy Peppin as Secretary.

Jaime Crespo

He is also the guitarist and front man of the musical group The Bottle Rockets which have been best described as loud, interpretive Americana (the Stooges meet Lightnin' Hopkins).

John Benson Brooks

This became part of a LP called "Avant Slant," which was a collage of new and already recorded sounds and songs from Milt Gabler, the poet Robert Graves, LeRoi Jones, Lightnin' Hopkins, and others.

Joseph M. Kendall

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to February 18, 1897, when he was succeeded by Nathan T. Hopkins, who contested his election.

Larry Hopkins

Larry J. Hopkins (born 1933), American politician who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives

Larry J. Hopkins

He is the son of Glenn and Martha Hopkins and the father of actor Josh Hopkins.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".

Filmmaker Les Blank captured the Texas troubadour's informal lifestyle in his 1967 documentary The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins.

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

Undeterred, director Mark N. Hopkins and his team produced a 15-minute pilot about the organization's emergency response to the 2005–06 Niger food crisis and were consequently given permission.

Morava K-theory

By a theorem of Devinatz–Hopkins–Smith, every thick subcategory of the category of finite p-local spectra is the subcategory of type-n spectra for some n.

Moses A. Hopkins

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Nathan T. Hopkins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1900.

Peter Senge

An engineer by training, Peter was a protégé of John H. Hopkins and has followed closely the works of Michael Peters and Robert Fritz and based his books on pioneering works with the five disciplines in Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT&T Corporation, Hanover Insurance, Harley-Davidson since the 70s and 80s through today.

Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins

The accounting firm failed to prove that the same decision to postpone Ann Hopkins' promotion to partnership would have still been made in the absence of sex discrimination, and therefore, the employment decision constituted sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Proto-globalization

First introduced by historians A. G. Hopkins and Christopher Bayly, the term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of so-called 'modern globalization' in the 19th century.

Robert Hopkins

Robert E. Hopkins, Past President of the Optical Society of America

Samuel Hopkins

Samuel M. Hopkins (1772–1837), United States Representative from New York

Samuel I. Hopkins

Hopkins was elected as a candidate of the Labor Party to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889).

Sergey Ryazansky

He was launched to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft on September 25, 2013 alongside American astronaut Michael S. Hopkins and another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kotov.

Tomato Records

The label has released albums by influential artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lead Belly, Chris Smither, Dave Brubeck, Nina Simone, Harry Partch, John Cage and Albert King.

Topological modular forms

The original construction of tmf uses the obstruction theory of Hopkins, Miller, and Paul Goerss, and is based on ideas of Dwyer, Kan, and Stover.

William R. Hopkins

He pushed for the development of parks, improved welfare institutions, wider boulevards, more playgrounds, air pollution control, and the construction of both the Van Sweringen brothers' Terminal Tower and Cleveland Stadium.

An excellent speaker, he was nicknamed by Witt as "Chautauqua Bill." He won support of Cleveland's ethnic large population, receiving praise in Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Czech, Polish and other foreign-language papers (there were roughly a half-dozen in big circulation at the time).


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