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unusual facts about William H. Peck


Cape Canaveral Light

William H. Peck wrote about his meeting with lighthouse keeper Mills Burnham of Cape Canaveral in the Florida Star newspaper in 1887.


1996 Legg Mason Tennis Classic

The 1996 Legg Mason Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C. in the United States and was part of the Championship Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

Ahmednagar College

Ahmednagar College was founded in 1947 by the late Dr. B.P.Hivale with the support and co-operation of the American Marathi Mission, Bombay, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Minnepolis, Minnesota, the late Mr. William H. Danforth of St. Louis, Missouri and a number of other individual friends and groups.

America First Committee

Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin, publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune).

Conspiracy and siege of the Mountain Meadows massacre

He met with many of the eventual participants in the massacre, including William H. Dame, Isaac C. Haight, and John D. Lee.

Dimitri Buchowetzki

However, producer Irving Thalberg was unhappy with the early filming, and replaced Buchowetzki with Edmund Goulding, cinematographer Merritt B. Gerstad with William H. Daniels, and Cortez with John Gilbert.

Edward William Elton

Before the termination of the season he accepted an engagement of a month from William H. Murray of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.

Eriogonum truncatum

The first recorded sighting of Mt. Diablo buckwheat was by William H. Brewer, the first Chair of Agriculture at the Yale University Sheffield Scientific School.

Hector Ruiz

In 2012, Ruiz—along with former First Lady Laura Bush, Charles Matthews, Melinda Perrin, Julius Glickman and Admiral William H. McRaven, the Navy Seal who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden—was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas.

James Sun

James was recently selected as one of the top 100 alumni from the University of Washington in the "Wonderous 100 Alumni Award", which also included Bill Gates Sr., Governor Christine Gregoire, and musician Kenny G.

Karl King

He was given a testimonial dinner for 250 people in 1951 at the age of 59 where band world luminaries including Glenn Cliffe Bainum, Albert Austin Harding, Paul V. Yoder, and William H. Santelmann attended (as well as William S. Beardsley, the governor of Iowa).

Lake Agassiz

First postulated in 1823 by William H. Keating, it was named by Warren Upham in 1879 after Louis Agassiz, when Upham recognized that the lake was formed by glacial action.

Levi Warner

Warner was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Barnum.

Maggie Cassella

Over the years Cassella has interviewed comedy legends such as Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers, as well as performers such as William H. Macy, Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robert Downey, Jr., Laura Linney, Eartha Kitt and k.d. lang.

McRaven

William H. McRaven (born 1955), United States Navy four-star admiral, currently Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command.

Meadeau View Institute

William H. Doughty, the institute's founder and money manager, accepted over $1 million in donations and loans from backers in an attempt to build a conservative Utopia in Duck Creek and Mammoth Valley, Utah (near Hatch).

Meany Hall for the Performing Arts

Meany himself wanted the building to be named Seward Hall, after William H. Seward, the man who bought Alaska from Russia.

Michael G. Turnbull

The Supreme Court project was the most comprehensive Turnbull was responsible for, working closely with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter, as well as Sally Rider who served as Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Reversible Errors

In 2004, a television miniseries based on the novel and bearing the same title was released starring William H. Macy, Tom Selleck and Felicity Huffman.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

Sidney Badgley

He moved to Cleveland in 1887 and formed a partnership with William H. Nicklas in 1904 after Nicklas came to work for Badgley as a draftsman.

Square root biased sampling

Square root biased sampling is a sampling method proposed by William H. Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist, for use in airport screenings.

Ward Morehouse

Morehouse was a world traveler who drove across the United States over 23 times and visited 80 foreign countries in search of stories and interviews with such personalities as Sergeant Alvin York, Eugene O'Neill, Christopher Fry, H. L. Mencken, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

William Brawley

William H. Brawley (1841–1916), U.S. Representative from South Carolina and U.S. federal judge

William H. Block Co.

Restaurants located within the Illinois Street store included the Fountain Luncheonette, the Terrace Tea Room, the Men’s Grille, and the James Whitcomb Riley Room.

William H. Boole

William H. Boole (1827 - February 24, 1896) was a pastor of the Willet Street Methodist Church in the Bowery in New York City.

William H. Brawley

He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, and served from March 4, 1891, until February 12, 1894, when he resigned to accept a position on the bench.

William H. Calkins

Calkins was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to October 20, 1884, when he resigned.

William H. Enochs

Enochs was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Ironton, Ohio, July 13, 1893.

William H. Gest

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.

William H. Hinton

In the 1980s, Hinton's daughter Carma Hinton, returned to Long Bow to make a series of documentary films, including Small Happiness and To Taste 100 Herbs.

William H. Hudnut III

Over the sixteen years of his term, more than 30 major building projects took place downtown, including renovations and expansions to Monument Circle, Indianapolis Union Station, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Indiana Convention Center.

William H. Hughes

William Henry Hughes (September 30, 1864 in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pennsylvania – November 11, 1903 in Granville, Washington County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

William H. Keith, Jr.

“UNODIR” (writing as H. Jay Riker) in First to Fight (1999) ISBN 978-0-515-12528-3

William H. Murray

During his tenure as governor in years of the Great Depression, he established a record for the number of times he used the National Guard to perform duties in the state and for declaring martial law.

William H. Noble

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

William H. Porter

On October 6, 1908, Porter was elected to serve as President of the New York Clearing House.

William H. Randall

Randall was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1867).

William H. Seymour

Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, was then an independent municipality, but would be within a few years annexed to the city.

William H. Spinks

He campaigned for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 federal election as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada, but lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate William Gilbert Weir.

William H. Stetson

William H. Stetson is a Roman Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei ordained in 1962.

William H. Sutphin

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress.

William H. T. Bush

A former president of and director of the St. Louis-based Boatmen's Bancshares from 1978 to 1986 he is active in various St. Louis civic functions including being chairman of the Board of Trustees of Saint Louis University (1985–92), chairman of the Missouri Botanical Gardens (1991–93) and president of the Municipal Opera Association (The MUNY) (2005–06).

William H. Tebbs

However, not long afterward the decision was made to name Oskaloosa as the county seat.

William H. Tipton

He became quite popular as an outdoor portrait photographer, taking thousands of photographs of visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield, where he established Tipton Park.

William H. Wheat

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

William H. White

The keeping of the Register of Architects is now governed by the Architects Act 1997, and the name of the body responsible for the Register has been changed from the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) to the Architects Registration Board (ARB).

William H. Worthington

Both his grandfathers were well-known Kentucky frontiersman Edward Worthington and Gabriel Slaughter and his ancestry can be traced to President James Monroe.

William Henry Stevenson

William H. Stevenson (1891–1978), a member of the United States House of Representatives


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