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Thomas S. Sprague House

The Thomas S. Sprague House was a private residence located at 80 West Palmer Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.


43rd North Carolina Infantry

Thomas S. Kenan was elected Lieutenant colonel of the 43rd regiment in March 1862, and promoted to colonel in April 1862.

8: The Mormon Proposition

It states that LDS Church leader Thomas S. Monson asked to ensure the passage of the controversial California Proposition 8.

Barbara E. Mink

Studying with local artists — Stan Taft, Bill Benson, Bente King and Thomas Buechner — Mink has received formal training in landscapes and botanical illustration.

Billy C. Sanders

Sanders had been one of the six final candidates for selection as the fourth MCPON in 1979 but then-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Hayward selected AFCM Thomas S. Crow for the job.

Charles T. Hinde

He was one of six children born to Thomas S. Hinde (1785–1846) and Sara Cavileer Hinde (1791–1847).

Evolving digital ecological networks

Just one year later, Thomas S. Ray developed an alternative system, Tierra, and performed the first successful experiments with evolving populations of self-replicating computer programs.

Fibag scandal

In 1961, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported Franz Josef Strauss, minister of defense in Konrad Adenauer's cabinet, had advised his American colleague, Thomas Gates, to contract the company Fibag (Finanzbau Aktiengesellschaft) for construction of several thousand apartments for the American military in Germany.

Lyman Draper

The most famous personal papers in the Draper Collection include those of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Thomas S. Hinde, John Donelson, James Robertson, Joseph Martin (General), and Simon Kenton.

North Potomac, Maryland

Cabin John and Robert Frost middle schools feed into Thomas S. Wootton High School in nearby Rockville, Maryland, Herbert Hoover feeds into Churchill High School in nearby Potomac, Maryland, and Jones Lane feeds into Quince Orchard High School.

Orontium aquaticum

However, in a 1988 paper by Thomas Ray, he argued that the structure was misidentified by Engler and was actually a sympodial leaf.

Phoenician language

The name given to these people by Hanno the Navigator's interpreters was transmitted from Punic into Greek as gorillai and was applied in 1847 by Thomas S. Savage to the Western Gorilla.

Silver End

The village includes some noteworthy early examples of Modernist architectural design; the distinctive white, flat-roofed houses on Frances Way and Silver Street are the work of influential Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, a leading designer of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in the 20th Century who is also credited with designing the concrete pylons on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Tampico México Temple

Thomas S. Monson, of the LDS Church's First Presidency gave the dedicatory prayer for the Tampico Mexico Temple on May 20, 2000.

The Chapters Live

The story was inspired by the Cold War, and the preservation of Albert Einstein's brain, which was kept by Thomas S. Harvey, M.D. There are also science fiction themes, such as aliens being concerned with humanity's self-destruction, and the resurrection of the dead through technology.

Thomas Crow

Thomas S. Crow (1934–2008), Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy

Thomas Hammond

Thomas S. Hammond (1883–1950), American business and political leader, soldier and football player and coach

Thomas Pettit

Thomas S. Pettit (1843–1931), newspaper publisher and politician from Kentucky

Thomas S. Buechner

A sculpture garden he created displayed such items as capitals from Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condict Building.

He rescued sculptures by Daniel Chester French representing Brooklyn and Manhattan which had sat at the Brooklyn plaza of the Manhattan Bridge and that were removed as part of construction on the bridge's approaches, and placed them at the entrance to the museum.

Thomas S. Butler

While in Congress, he was chairman of the United States House Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses) and member of the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses).

Thomas S. Estes

In early 1938 Estes received an honorable discharge from the Marines to join the United States Foreign Service as a clerk and was assigned to the legation in Bangkok, Thailand under American Minister Edwin L. Neville and Holbrook "Chappy" Chapman.

Thomas S. Gordon

Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-fifth Congress).

Thomas S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York.

Hammond was also active in Republican Party politics and served as the chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee and the Chicago America First Committee.

Thomas S. Kleppe

Kleppe was born on July 1, 1919 in Kintyre, North Dakota, to son of Lars Owen Kleppe, who was some to the homesteaders and the former Hannah (née Savig) Kleppe.

Thomas S. McMillan

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent the 1st congressional district in 1924 for the Sixty-ninth Congress.

Thomas S. Moorman, Jr.

#November 1967 - November 1970, reconnaissance intelligence staff officer, 497th Reconnaissance Technical Group, Wiesbaden-Schierstein, West Germany

Thomas S. Plowman

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, to February 9, 1898, when he was succeeded by William F. Aldrich, who contested his election.

Thomas S. Power

First was David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty in 1937: they were divorced after World War 2, whereupon she married Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow.

Thomas S. Ray

Tom Ray is also a former member of the International Core War Society.

In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons's conclusion to his famous Hyperion Cantos sci-fi series, it is revealed by the character of Aenea that the TechnoCore originated from a human experiment in which computer programs were allowed to compete for resources (e.g. memory) and evolve accordingly.

Thomas S. Ricketts

Named after his joy of celebrating the Chinese New Year, the scholarship not only funds promising students but also allows for those students to meet with Ricketts and the other members of the endowment.

Thomas S. White, Jr.

During this period he began a close working relationship with John Templeton and developed his proprietary method of value investing based on identifying the analytical tools appropriate to country, region or industry group.

Thomas Savage

Thomas S. Savage (1804–1880), American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist

Three Brave Men

The acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., found it misleading and at his request Dunne produced a revised version making it clear, in the Navy's words, that "the Chasanow case was far from being a typical case and that under current procedures it could not happen again."

Vivian Park, Utah

When Thomas S. Monson was a child he would spend summers from the 4th of July to Labor Day at Vivian Park.


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