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Theobald M. Burns

Burns ran unsuccessfully in the federal Gloucester riding in 1908 and 1911, losing to Onésiphore Turgeon each time.


1901 Detroit Tigers season

In order to avoid running afoul of this stricture, owner James D. Burns built a ballpark on his own property in Springwells Township, Michigan just outside the Detroit city limits.

Alleghany Corporation

The company's residual railroad investments led to president and CEO John J. Burns serving on the board of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation from 1995 to 2004.

Brian D. Burns

In 1976 Burns was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, losing a three way race to State Treasurer Stella Hackel.

David D. Burns

For Burns, the BDC replaced Aaron Beck's BDI which appeared in the 1980 edition of Feeling Good (that Burns says he was grateful for permission to reproduce).

David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling books Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook.

David R. Burns

Earlier in the same day, leading Democratic state representative Emily Cain had called for Burns' immediate resignation.

The commission also asked Maine Attorney General William Schneider to open a criminal investigation and impose a large fine for the violations which Commission chair Walter McKee called "mind-boggling".

Faraday constant

The Simpsons episode "Dark Knight Court" (RABF10) has Mr. Burns asking Comic Book Guy how much he wants for his entire comic book inventory.

Fredrik Olsen

Olsen has been called "The Norwegian Howard Hughes" for his great wealth and avoidance of publicity; although a recluse he is also reputed to be the inspiration for the look of The Simpsons cartoon character Mr. Burns.

Gold Dust Trio

Born in Iowa on January 18, 1894, he grew up in Greeley, Colorado, where he learned the art of wrestling through a correspondence course administered by grappling guru Martin "Farmer" Burns, who had been the nation's preeminent professional wrestler during the late nineteenth century.

It Don't Come Easy

The song is used as inspirational background music for a montage of Marge Simpson painting a portrait of Mr. Burns.

John A. Burns

His many achievements include the promotion of Hawaii as a center for oceanography, construction of the new State Capitol building, and expansion of the University of Hawaii, helping to transform it into a first-class university, attracting students and faculty from around the world and early planning for the construction of the Aloha Stadium to host university football and bowl games.

John F. Burns

Burns was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting citing "his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina".

In an October 2008 interview with the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, Burns accused Kabulov of being a KGB operative.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

Homer, Smithers, and Mr. Burns get a positive (if inaccurate) impression from this, and Homer is put in total charge of the power plant while Mr. Burns takes time off to have fun floating down the Ganges with corpses he has befriended.

Laura J. Burns

She often collaborates with fellow author Melinda Metz, with whom she writes the book series based on the Everwood TV show, and the Wright and Wong young detective series.

Louis Burns

Louis F. Burns (1920-2012), an American author and historian of the Osage Nation

Meta-power

The idea has stemmed from work by sociologists such as Tom R. Burns and Peter Hall, the economist Thomas Baumgartner, as well as by political scientists such as James Rosenau and Stephen D. Krasner.

Michael R. Burns

Burns has served as chairman of Ignite Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based entertainment production company, was co-founder of the Hollywood Stock Exchange, and serves as chairman and co-founder of Novica.com.

Burns has recently been profiled or featured in such varied major media outlets as AMC Sunday Morning Shootout, Barron's, BloombergTV, BusinessWeek, CBS MarketWatch, CNBC Power Lunch, Financial Times, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Michael W. Burns

Democrat Mary Ann Love and Republican James E. Rzepkowski were both reelected, but Theodore J. Sophecleus finally ran for election and won.

Patrick Roach

Mr. Lahey and Randy's relationship is similar to that seen between Mr. Burns and Smithers on The Simpsons, only involving more petty crime, foul language, role-playing, drug use, and large amounts of alcohol.

Paul Kaiwi

In 2002, he received his Medical Degree from the John A. Burns School of Medicine and entered into the University of Hawaii Family Practice Residency program.

Philippe DeVille

Philippe R. DeVille (born August 5, 1944) is a Belgian economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain, known for his contributions in the field of socioeconomic systems theory in collaboration with Tom R. Burns and others.

Power, Conflict, and Exchange in Social Life With Thomas Martin Baumgartner and Tom R. Burns

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh

Edward J. Burns (1983–2009) – Appointed Bishop of Juneau, Alaska on January 19, 2009; installed on April 2, 2009.

Scott Burns

Scott Z. Burns (born 1962), American screenwriter, producer, and director

Social rule system theory

The development of a more systematic conceptualization and theorizing about social rules and systems of social rules emerged in the late 1970s in the collaborative work of Thomas Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVille, and later Helena Flam, Reinier de Man, Atle Midttun, Anders Olsson, and others.

Social structure

Other recent work by Margaret Archer (morphogenesis theory), Tom R. Burns and collaborators (actor-system dynamics theory and social rule system theory), and Immanuel Wallerstein (World Systems Theory) provided elaborations and applications of the sociological classics in structural sociology.

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.

The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World

However, the contest has been rigged by Mr. Burns' assistant, Smithers, in order for Burns to rid himself of the Simpson family for all the trouble they have caused him over the years.

The Tripods

The strips were drawn by John M. Burns and in each issue, they consisted of three pages; the first two in colour and the third in black and white.

The Twisted World of Marge Simpson

Before the crowd has a chance to consume their complimentary pretzel, it is announced that Mr. Burns has won a 1997 Pontiac Astro Wagon in the day's give-away competition.

Tom R. Burns

Social rule system theory was formulated in the 1980s by Burns and Helena Flam together with others was a contribution to the New Institutionalism.

Werewoman

The transformation is also forced in the graphic novels Curse of the Were-Woman by Jason M. Burns and Christopher Provencher, where an inveterate womanizer is cursed by an angry jilted lover and witch, causing him to become a woman at night.

William J. Biggy

Upon falling out with the men supporting the graft prosecution, Biggy was placed under surveillance by detectives employed by William J. Burns, a special agent to the prosecution.


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