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2 unusual facts about William D. Foster


William D. Foster

In 1915, however, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company came into being, building on Foster's groundwork to produce various films including The Realization of a Negro's Ambition in 1916 and The Trooper of Company K in 1917.

Films such as Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000), about a black television executive who decides to make a minstrel show and is appalled by its success, still convey the same stereotypes that Foster was trying to convey nearly one hundred years earlier.


Cape Leahy

It was discovered and photographed from the air on January 24, 1947, by United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–1947, and named by Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Navy, who, as naval advisor to President Harry S. Truman at the time of Operation Highjump, assisted materially at the high-level planning and authorization stages.

Charles A. Foster

He was a research assistant to Aharon Barak, Justice (and later President) of the Supreme Court of Israel.

Embedded Training Teams

While serving as ETTs in Kunar Province, Captain William D. Swenson (Army) and Corporal Dakota Meyer (Marine) were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Ganjgal.

Equality Colony

A formal "call" for this convention was published in Coming Nation July 11 and 18, and was endorsed by Henry Demarest Lloyd, Eugene Debs, Frank Parsons, William D. P. Bliss and Eltweed Pomeroy.

Farmers' Market Nutrition Program / Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

The WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Act of 1992 that established the FMNP was introduced to the House of Representatives on November 5, 1991 by Democratic Representative Dale Kildee, and was co-sponsored by Democratic Representative William D. Ford and Republican Representative William F. Goodling.

Frank Battisti

Guest soloists and conductors appearing with the Ithaca High School Band while Battisti was conductor of the ensemble included Benny Goodman, Carl "Doc" Severinsen, Donald Sinta, Harvey Phillips, The New York Brass Quintet, Jimmy Burke, Vincent Persichetti, Norman Dello Joio, Thomas Beversdorf, Clyde Roller, Frederick Fennell, William D. Revelli and Walter Beeler.

Garfield Heights City School District

Named after World War II Medal of Honor recipient William A. Foster, Garfield's first Elementary School serves children Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and is currently under Principal Karen Ruane and Associate Principal Sandy Powers.

George P. Foster

:For the U.S. Representative from Illinois, see George Peter Foster.

James Foster

James C. Foster, chairman and chief executive officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

Joe Forehand

William D. Green assumed the job of CEO effective that same month.

John H. Foster

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress.

John S. Foster, Jr.

In 1952, Foster was recruited to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory by founder Edward Teller, and became a division leader in experimental physics.

In the summers of 1946 and 1947, he worked on the Canadian nuclear power project in Chalk River, Ontario.

Kenneth Maxwell

Maxwell claims that key Council on Foreign Relations acting at Kissinger's behest put pressure on Foreign Affairs editor, James Hoge, to give the last word in a subsequent exchange about the review to William D. Rogers, a close associate of Kissinger's, rather than to Maxwell; this went against established Foreign Affairs policy.

Lafayette S. Foster

Foster was elected President pro tempore of the Senate at the beginning of the 39th Congress in 1865, and held that title until the end of his term in 1867.

Little Bay de Noc

A bit further north, Gladstone was founded in 1887 by U.S. Senator from Minnesota, William D. Washburn, to serve as a rail-lake terminal for lumber products.

Louis DeNaples

In 2001, as part of a federal gambling investigation, four informants make mention of a relationship between DeNaples and current leader of the Bufalino crime family, William D'Elia.

M. A. Foster

He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.

The "game" from the title of The Gameplayers of Zan is based on cellular automata, a more intricate version of Conway's Game of Life.

Martha Kaplan

Contents: Preface by Marshall Sahlins, Introduction by Martha Kaplan; Original papers by John D Kelly, Andrew Lattas, Deborah McDougall, Martha Kaplan, Daniel Rosenblatt, and Margaret Jolly, with Comments by Robert J. Foster and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.

Martha M. Foster

Foster's continuing relationship with Chinese documentary television professionals began in 1997, when professor Ren Yuan of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now the Communication University of China) brought Chinese documentaries to show at the Windy City International Documentary Festival in Chicago, which Foster founded and directed.

Martin D. Foster

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

Foster was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919).

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake is an album performed by a side project of Cardiacs, created by Tim Smith, Sarah Smith and William D. Drake.

Murphy J. Foster

Foster appointed another Tensas Parish legislator, Thomas M. Wade of Newellton to the state board of education; Wade was later the long-term Tensas Parish school superintendent.

Paul L. Foster

During college Paul was inducted into the Texas Theta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Baylor University.

Photosensitive ganglion cell

In 1991 Russell G. Foster and colleagues, including Ignacio Provencio, discovered a non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor in the eyes of mice.

Russell Evans Smith

On February 16, 1966, Smith was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Montana vacated by William D. Murray.

Sam Sheppard

Cuyahoga County prosecutor William D. Mason led the State of Ohio's trial team, which included assistant prosecutors Steve Dever, Kathleen Martin, and Dean M. Boland.

The Lamplighter

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of the novel in an 1855 letter to William D. Ticknor: "What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse?"

Toward Soviet America

Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z. Foster, in 1932.

William Bishop

William D. Bishop (1827–1904), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

William D. Bishop

He was the president of the Naugatuck Railroad Company and the New York and New Haven Railroad Company

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress, but served as commissioner of patents from May 23, 1859, to January 1860.

William D. Bynum

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

William D. Drake

The other band members were the then-current Cardiacs drummer Dominic Luckman and two other former Cardiacs members (keyboard player and co-singer Mark Cawthra and bass player Jon Bastable (who'd been a backup Cardiac during Cawthra's tenure in the band).

William D. Euille

He is also one of two alternates representing Virginia on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

William D. Green

Green was raised in Hampden, Massachusetts and did odd jobs managing horses, assisting electricians, and in construction.

William D. Kelley

He served as Chairman on the United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and on the Committee on Manufactures (51st United States Congress).

William D. Law

Law is an avid runner and has completed over two dozen marathons, including five Boston Marathons.

William D. McElroy

McElroy was born to William D. McElroy and Ora Shipley in Rogers, Texas.

William D. McGee

On that day, near Mülheim, Germany, he voluntarily walked into a minefield to aid two comrades who had been wounded by anti-personnel mines.

William D. Morrow

William D. Morrow is General Superintendent of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.

William D. Puleston

Under Puleston's period as Director, Congress authorized the expansion of the staff in Washington and established new attaché offices in 1936 at Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru.

William D. Rogers

He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (October 1974 – June 1976) and Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (June 1976–January 1977) under then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the administration of President Gerald Ford.

William D. Williamson

That same year he ran for and won a congressional seat in the seventeenth Congress.

William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel

His title was held by his son William, until he died, childless, in 1224, when it was passed to William's youngest son Hugh.

William Daniel Phillips

For the cabin in Georgia see William D. Phillips Log Cabin

William Washburn

William D. Washburn (1831–1912), American politician representing Minnesota


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