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William G. Powell

William Glasgow Powell (September 8, 1871—May 11, 1955) was an American officer born in at St. Louis, Missouri and serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.


Alan M. Powell

His close association with NASCAR has allowed him to bring talented performers to the arena, such as Tyrese Gibson.

Alfred B. Mullett

In 1882, he set up a practice in New York with Hugo Kafka and William G. Steinmetz, later establishing Alfred B. Mullett & Sons to practice with his two elder sons.

Aliette de Bodard

"The Church of Accelerated Redemption" (with Gareth L. Powell), Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, Spring 2010

Baumol's cost disease

Baumol's cost disease (also known as the Baumol Effect) is a phenomenon described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s.

Bruce Marks

He appeared to lose a 1993 election for the 2nd senatorial district for the Pennsylvania Senate, but a federal judge declared him the winner of that election after finding that the campaign of William G. Stinson had engaged in election fraud.

Burbank, Oklahoma

Rich and famous oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.

Camp Nama

"Get to the bottom of this immediately. This is not acceptable," Mr. Cambone said in a handwritten note on June 26, 2004, to his top deputy, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin.

Christopher B. Kaiser

Henry Margenau and William G. Pollard, by his own admission, were two writers who influenced him as a science student in the 1960s.

Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service

The Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service at the City College of New York (CCNY) is a nonpartisan educational, training, and research center named for its founder, General Colin L. Powell, USA (Retired), a graduate of CCNY.

D. A. Powell

Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Linda, California.

David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

David Westin

After graduation, he served as a law clerk to J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and later clerked for Lewis F. Powell of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula

The Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula (or DFP; named after William C. Davidon, Roger Fletcher, and Michael J. D. Powell) finds the solution to the secant equation that is closest to the current estimate and satisfies the curvature condition (see below).

Economics of the arts and literature

Key works in the cultural economics as such were those of Baumol and Bowen (Performing Arts, The Economic Dilemma, 1966), of Gary Becker on addictive goods, and of Alan Peacock (Public Choice).

Episcopal Diocese of Ohio

William Andrew Leonard was consecrated as the Fourth Bishop of Ohio in 1889 and was responsible, with financial backing from William G. Mather, for the construction of Trinity Cathedral, completed in 1907.

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.

Gizmo key

The gizmo key was introduced by Verne Q. Powell (Powell Flutes), in response to criticisms of the B foot joint by performers such as Jean-Pierre Rampal, who believed that the lengthened tube made it harder for them to produce the highest notes.

Gordon Danby

Gordon T. Danby is an American physicist notable (together with Dr. James R. Powell) for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute 'Medal 2000 for Engineering'.

Howze Board

The board was created by a letter from General Herbert B. Powell, Commanding General, United States Continental Army Command, dated 3 May 1962, although as noted above the board was already functioning by this date.

Ingram Wilcox

He also appeared a few times on Fifteen to One in 1995 and 1996, and was a notable witness to the famous outtake where host William G. Stewart dropped his question cards whilst explaining the rules of the first round in 1995.

James R. Powell

James R. Powell is an American physicist notable — together with Dr. Gordon Danby — for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute "Medal 2000 for Engineering".

Jesus the Magician

Archaeologist William G. Dever argues (2005) that magic is "precisely what religion is, or at least was, however much that may offend modern sensibilities."

Magnetic levitation

1961 James R. Powell and BNL colleague Gordon Danby electrodynamic levitation using superconducting magnets

Ranjan Roy Daniel

T He carried out research in the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, headed by the Nobel laureate C. F. Powell, using nuclear emulsions exposed to cosmic rays at high altitudes.

Robert E. Powell

In 1996, he was unseated by his former political ally, Abe E. Pierce, III, the president of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury and the first African American to fill the mayoralty in Monroe.

Salisbury Indians

The team appealed, first to William G. Bramham, president of the National Association, then to Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of Baseball, but the ruling stood.

Sebold

William G. Sebold (1899–1970?), World War II double agent against Germany in the U.S.

Songs of My People

The African-American people who appeared in the project's photographs included Zina Garrison, Quincy Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Thurgood Marshall, Gordon Parks, Colin L. Powell, Willy T. Ribbs, and Louis Wade Sullivan.

St. Agnes Boys High School

William G. Parrett - Former CEO of Deloitte Touche, Current Chairman and Senior Partner of Deloitte and Touche

The Tea Ladies

The producer of these programs, William G. Stewart, had earlier produced a pilot episode for a UK situation comedy series based on a group of tea ladies and resurrected the concept as The Tea Ladies in Australia.

William Bowen

William G. Bowen (born 1933), former President of Princeton University

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 G. Anderson

After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Alabama State College for Negroes (now Alabama State University) in 1949, Anderson attended Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his certification in surgery.

William G. Bassler

Bassler was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1988 by then-governor Thomas Kean (R).

William G. Bray

Bray was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975).

William G. Connare

He served as Bishop of Greensburg from 1960 to 1987.

William G. Curlin

Following the election of George W. Bush, Curlin praised the President's opposition to abortion, saying, "He gives us hope. That's what's important today. You felt under the former administration that there was no hope as far as the sanctity of life issue."

William G. Haan

They were the first Allied Army Unit to pierce the famed German Hindenburg Line of defense.

William G. Higgs

William Garland Higgs (born c. 1952) is an American businessman and co-founder of Mustang Engineering.

William G. James

By this time he had begun to publish his compositions, and in 1916 his ballet music By Candlelight was performed in concert at the Savoy Theatre, London.

William G. Johnsson

Born in Australia, he earned a degree in chemical technology before attending Avondale College, where he met his wife Nolene Johnsson.

William G. Laidlaw

He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Fifty-first Congress).

William G. Moore Jr.

C-130 Herculess under his command were the first aircraft into Hanoi to prepare for returning prisoners of war, and he commanded the homecoming operation at Clark Air Base under the direction of the commander in chief, Pacific Command.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

Duquesne had been a spy for Germany since World War I; before that, he had been a Boer spy in the Second Boer War.

William G. Steiner

He remains active in the Orange County political scene, primarily as an elder statesman of Orange County politics.

William G. Stewart

Stewart is a long-standing supporter of the campaign to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece.

William Tanner

William G. Tanner (1930–2007), American academic and Southern Baptist pastor


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