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William F. Laurance

William F. Laurance is Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University, Australia, and has received one of Australia’s highest scientific honours, the Australian Laureate Award.


Andrei Navrozov

In all over $1 million was raised from alumni supporters, whereupon some 16 lavishly produced and extravagantly priced issues were published, with the participation of such contributors as E. M. Cioran, Philip Larkin, Lewis Lapham, Henri Peyre, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Martin Seymour-Smith, Ernst Gombrich, A. L. Rowse, Boris Goldovsky, Annie Dillard, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Bandini 750 sport siluro

In 1957 the award-winning author and screenwriter William F. Nolan used a 750 torpedo in a story.

Capitol of Puerto Rico

The evaluation of the proposals was in charge of William F. Willoughby (president of the Executive Council), José de Diego (Speaker of the House, represented by Luis Muñoz Rivera), José S. Quiñones (President of the Supreme Court), and Laurence Grahame.

Cohmad Securities

On January 14, 2009, William Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, who is in charge of the state's securities issues, filed suit against Jaffe, a Cohmad broker for Madoff, who promoted Madoff's funds to wealthy investors in Massachusetts and Florida.

Colcock

William F. Colcock (1804–1889), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Ego eimi

William F. Beck, Lutheran - The New Testament in the Language of Today (St. Louis, 1963).

Embassy of Botswana in Washington, D.C.

Notable owners have included William F. Aldrich, Thomas H. Anderson, Thomas Leiter (son of Levi Leiter) and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

God's Word Translation

GW had its beginnings with a New Testament translation titled "The New Testament in the Language of Today: An American Translation", published in 1963 by LCMS pastor and seminary professor William F. Beck (1904–1966).

Harold Hayes

As an editor, Hayes appreciated bold writing and points of view, favoring writers with a flair for ferreting out the spirit of the time—writers like Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, John Sack, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Garry Wills, Gina Berriault, and Nora Ephron.

Intermodal passenger transport

In some cases, facilities were merged or transferred into a new facility, as at the William F. Walsh Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse, New York or South Station in Boston, Massachusetts.

Leadership Institute

While the Institute does not provide instruction in philosophical conservatism, it does encourage its graduates to read classic conservative authors like Edmund Burke and "classical liberal" authors like Frederic Bastiat, as well as more modern conservative thinkers including William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, and libertarian thinkers such as economists Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek.

Lockheed J37

A committee under the direction of William F. Durand was set up to put the British designs into production and build an aircraft to test them.

M-325

In the history of cryptography, M-325, also known as SIGFOY, was an American rotor machine designed by William F. Friedman in 1936.

Maliseet Vocabulary

The book includes an introduction by Professor William F. Ganong of Smith College, who refers to the book as the first work in the field, and asserts that (as of 1899) the young people of the Maliseet "care nothing" for their language and culture, and that the conditions making the book possible were rapidly slipping away with the passing of the (then-) present generation, although this prediction has fortunately not been borne out.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

Tanglewood

The 210 acre Tanglewood estate was gifted to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1936 by Mary Aspinwall Tappan (descendant of Chinese merchant William F. Sturgis and abolitionist Lewis Tappan.) The estate was named after a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The Early History of God

The history of the emergence of Judaism and monotheism has been the subject of study since at least the 19th century and Julius Wellhausen's Prolegomena to the History of Israel; in the 20th century a work was William F. Albright's Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan (1968), which insisted on the essential otherness of Yahweh from the Canaanite gods from the very beginning of Israel's history.

William Albright

William F. Albright (1891–1971), evangelical Methodist archaeologist, biblical authority, linguist and expert on ceramics

William Denny

William F. Denny (c. 1860–1908), American vaudeville performer and pioneer recording artist

William F. Albright

He was also the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922–1929, 1933–1936, and did important archaeological work at such sites in Israel as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922) and Tell Beit Mirsim (1933–1936).

William F. Badè

After short pastoral appointments at Unionville, Michigan, and Chaska, Minnesota, he returned to Moravian College as instructor of Greek and German, earning his PhD from that institution in 1898 with a thesis on the Assyrian flood legends.

William F. Barnes

He did have two seven win seasons in 1960 and 1961, leading the Bruins to the 1962 Rose Bowl.

He did have two seven-win seasons in 1960 and 1961, leading the Bruins to the 1962 Rose Bowl.

William F. Bottke

In 2007, Bottke published a paper in Nature (with David Vokrouhlicky and David Nesvorny), proposing that the asteroid that produced the Chicxulub Crater and caused the Cretaceous mass extinction (although the latter is still contended) formed during an asteroid breakup in the main asteroid belt approximately 160 million years ago.

William F. Cellini

The election of Democrat Dan Walker as Governor the following year ended Cellini's career in state government.

William F. Creed

William F. Creed (1845 - November 8, 1903) of Malone, New York, was appointed auditor at the Manhattan Custom House by Daniel Magone, the Collector of the Port of New York.

William F. Downes

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the federal courthouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

William F. Dunne

He is best remembered as the editor of the radical Butte Bulletin around the turn of the 1920s and as an editor of the daily newspaper of the Communist Party USA from the middle-1920s through the 1930s.

William F. Durand

A native of Connecticut, he was a member of the first graduating class of Birmingham High School in Derby, Connecticut (now Derby High School) in 1877.

William F. Fitzgerald

On March 3, 1884, following the death of Justice A. W. Sheldon, President Arthur nominated Fitzgerald for a seat on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court.

William F. Haddock

His next film was in 1911, when he directed The Immortal Alamo, which is the earliest known film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and which starred Francis Ford.

He often teamed up with early film actor Lamar Johnstone, the first time being in the 1913 film Hearts and Crosses, co-starring Lucille Young.

William F. Herrin

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

William F. Kerby

Kerby was selected as one of the "Great American Business Leaders" of the 20th Century by Harvard Business School.

William F. Knox

In 1917, he formed a law partnership with William S. Moorhead, who later served as a U.S. Congressman from 1959 to 1981.

William F. L. Hadley

Hadley was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Remann and served from December 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897.

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

William F. McCombs

McCombs helped Woodrow Wilson become Governor of New Jersey and then managed Wilson's successful campaign for the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination.

William F. Meggers Award

It was established in 1970 to honor William Frederick Meggers and his contributions to the fields of spectroscopy and metrology.

William F. Milliken, Jr.

Later, continuing involvement included a term as Chief Steward for the Formula One US Grand Prix.

William F. Patry

William F. Patry (born January 1, 1950 in Niskayuna, New York) is an American lawyer specializing in copyright law.

William F. Russell

William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

William F. Schulz

From 1997 to 2005, Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz contributed a total of $9,450 to the campaigns of Democratic Party politicians Gary Ackerman, Geraldine Ferraro, Carolyn McCarthy, Steve Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Bill Nelson and Al Gore.

William Galvin

William F. Galvin (born 1950), Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

William Lamb

William F. Lamb (1883–1952), principal designer of the Empire State Building

William Moran

William F. Moran (1925-2006), knifemaker who founded the American Bladesmith Society

William Packer

William F. Packer (1807–1870), governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1861


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