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Thomas A. Morris

He graduated fourth in the Class of 1834 and became an officer in the 1st U.S. Artillery stationed at Fort Monroe in Virginia and then at Fort King in Florida.


Bertalan de Némethy

During this time he trained famous competitors in the sport, including George H. Morris, Joe Fargis, Frank Chapot, Kathy Kusner, Leslie Burr, Conrad Homfeld, Michael Matz, Melanie Smith, Neal Shapiro, and William Steinkraus.

Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris

It was composed of eight ex officio members: the Mayor of New York City, the New York City Comptroller and the President of the New York City Council, each of whom was elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents, each having one vote.

Eric A. Morris

Star Trek: Voyager, JAG, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Pretender, and The Outer Limits.

Esomeprazole

Thomas A. Scully, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also criticized AstraZeneca for their aggressive marketing of Nexium.

Glenn T. Morris

Morris has also served as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (now the United Nations Human Rights Council), and the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations, where he provided contributions to the drafting of the U.N.Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again

A 1934 recording of the song by Thomas A. Dorsey was selected in 2007 by the United States' National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

Isaac N. Morris

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Warsaw, Illinois, in 1836.

James R. Morris

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

John C. Brown

In 1876, Brown, who supported Thomas A. Scott's efforts to build a transcontinental railroad in the South, joined the Texas & Pacific Railroad as a vice president.

Jonathan D. Morris

Morris was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas L. Hamer

Joseph W. Morris

Morris was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Campbell Cantrill and served from November 30, 1923, to March 3, 1925.

Jubilee quartet

Groups such as the Golden Gate Quartet—originally named the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet—infused their performances of spirituals with the rhythmic beat of blues and jazz and gradually began including gospel standards written by Thomas A. Dorsey and others in their repertoire.

Larry Cuba

Created in Chicago with Tom DeFanti's Graphic Symbiosis System GRASS, consists of sixteen "objects", each composed of 100 points of light, some of them geometric shapes like circles and squares, others more organic shapes resembling gushes of water.

Lewis G. Morris House

Lewis G. Morris House (New World Foundation Building) is a historic house at 100 E. 85th Street in New York, New York.

Medicare Part D

Medicare boss Thomas Scully, who threatened to fire Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster if he reported how much the bill would actually cost, was negotiating for a new job as a pharmaceutical lobbyist as the bill was working through Congress.

Mike Craver

This humoristic song is based on the first words transmitted thru the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson.

Murray's Steps

It was released in 1982 and features performances by Murray, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Bradford, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Craig Harris, Curtis Clark, Wilber Morris and Steve McCall.

Nenad Ban

His interest in large macromolecular assemblies led him for his postdoctoral work to the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University where he determined the atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit by X-ray crystallography, as part of the group in the laboratory of Thomas A. Steitz.

Oil in My Lamp

The song has been recorded many times and was a hit in Jamaica in 1964 for Eric "Monty" Morris, as well as appearing on The Byrds' 1969 album Ballad of Easy Rider.

Pittsburgh in the American Civil War

Other important personalities of the Civil War born in the immediate Pittsburgh area included Col. Daniel Leasure, Congressman Robert McKnight, industrialist William Metcalf, and Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Rowley.

Pressed Steel Company

Tycoons William R. Morris and Edward G. Budd were unable to settle their differences.

Robert J. Morris

One of the subcommittee's most notorious events was the April 1957 suicide of E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, after Norman found out that the subcommittee was reopening an earlier investigation regarding his involvement in a Communist study group.

Robert L. Morris

Richard Wiseman took his PhD in psychology under the supervision of Morris.

The Eudaemonic Pie

The Eudaemonic Pie is a 1985 book by American author Thomas A. Bass, about a group of University of California, Santa Cruz, physics graduate students (known as the Eudaemons) who in the late 1970s and early 1980s designed and employed miniaturized computers, hidden in specially modified platform soled shoes, to help predict the outcome of casino roulette games.

The Telephone Gambit

# The world famous scene in which Bell and Watson make their first telephone call is described in his autobiography by Thomas A. Watson some year's after Bell's death.

Thomas A. Benes

Awards he received include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal three award stars, the Air Medal with valor device and four strike/flight numerals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal.

Thomas A. Bickle

Thomas Anthony Bickle (born 23 December 1940 in Norfolk, UK) is a British/Swiss microbiologist.

Thomas A. Davis

During the Spanish-American War he served as a Captain of the 6th US Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Sixth Immunes, which was mustered at Knoxville, Tennessee and saw service in Puerto Rico.

Thomas A. Desjardin

Historical advisor to actor Jeff Daniels - In 2011, Daniels said publicly of his role as Joshua Chamberlain: "For me, whatever people think that role was, it is because of Tom Desjardin."

Desjardin has appeared in nationally televised documentaries numerous times and was the historical consultant for actor Jeff Daniels in his role as Chamberlain in the 1993 movie Gettysburg.

Thomas A. (Tom) Desjardin (born June 10, 1964) is an American historian who has written books on the American Civil War and American Revolutionary War.

Thomas A. DuBois

DuBois has also translated into English Johan Turi's "An Account of the Sámi", the first secular book ever written in the Sámi language.

Thomas A. Ferguson

Since retiring from government service, Ferguson has run a consulting business based out of Howard County, Maryland.

Thomas A. Jackson

During the 1920s he was a major figure in the CPGB, being on the Central Committee from 1924 to 1929 and editor of The Communist and The Sunday Worker.

Thomas A. Livesley

Elected Mayor of Salem in 1927, he presided over a number of public works in the city that included bridge building, paving of major streets, the installation of street lights and traffic signals and the construction of the Salem Municipal Airport (McNary Field).

Thomas A. O'Donnell

O'Donnell served as president and board chairman of CALPET until it was sold to the Texas Company (later known as Texaco).

Thomas A. Romberg

In the 1980s Romberg was chair of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) commissions that produced Curriculum and Evaluation Standards NCTM standards for School Mathematics, and the Assessment Standards for School Mathematics.

Thomas A. Smith

He is also an active member of the Houston Geologic Society, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Seismological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.

Thomas A. Walker

Other works that he undertook were the Barry Dock and Railway, and the Preston Dock, and in addition he carried out the contract for the Buenos Aires Harbour Works with John Hawkshaw and resident engineer James Murray Dobson.

Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.

He ran for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor in 1974 amid a crowded field of candidates and was badly outspent by both eventual nominee and winner Ray Blanton and runner-up Jake Butcher.

Thomas A. Wofford

He was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced the practice of law in Greenville.

Thomas Barry

Thomas A. Barry (c. 1879–1947), American football player and coach

Thomas G. Morris

He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1972, and then served as a management consultant and vice president for Bank Securities, Inc.

Thomas McCann

Thomas A. McCann, head football coach at Bowdoin College (1913–1914) and the University of Maine (1917)

Thomas McMahon

Thomas A. McMahon (1943–1999), novelist and Professor of Applied Mechanics and Biology at Harvard University

Tom Moloney

:This article is about the British businessman, for the American politician see Thomas A. Maloney.

University of Texas at Tyler

Allen R. Morris - Emmy Award winning producer/director/writer; formerly with KLTV; frequent actor at Tyler Civic Theatre from 1979 to 1990; attended marketing and communications courses in early 80's while working on a Master's Degree.

Viking 1

The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team.

Young Earth creationism

Price's work was subsequently adapted and updated by Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb Jr. in their book The Genesis Flood in 1961.


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