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	Akeley Paul Bunyan Historical Society Museum
		The Akeley Paul Bunyan Historical Museum is located on Main Street immediately behind the large statue of Paul Bunyan.
		The Museum was opened in 1984 and contains an interesting collection of pictures and artifacts portraying the early Akeley history when the largest sawmill in the state was located here and the population was between 3,000 and 4,000.
		It is interesting to work there, one can learn about Akeley's early history which is quite rich and colorful, and many interesting people from around the country, and also foreign countries, visit the Museum.
	www.akeleyminnesota.com /organizations/museum/museum.htm (630 words)

	Carl Akeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akeley specialized in African mammals, particularly the gorilla and the elephant.
		In 1909 Akeley accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on an expedition to Africa and began working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where his efforts can still be seen in the Akeley African Hall.
		Akeley died of a fever in the Congo during his fifth expedition to Africa.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Akeley (366 words)

	CWHF-Mary Akeley
		Akeley Africa Hall, a wing of the Museum of Natural History, was named for him.
		Akeley took charge of his expedition, photographing wild animals in their natural habitat.
		Mary Akeley was one of the earliest observers of the loss of Africa's wildlife to hunters and became a crusader for game preserves.
	www.cwhf.org /hall/akeley/akeley.htm (327 words)

	The Whisperer in Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Akeley had photographed it on what was evidently his study table, for I could see rows of books and a bust of Milton in the background.
		Akeley had given me a transcript of what he believed the spoken words to be, and I glanced through this again as I prepared the machine for action.
		Akeley, Noyes hastened to inform me, was glad and ready to see me; although his sudden attack of asthma would prevent him from being a very competent host for a day or two.
	www.dagonbytes.com /thelibrary/lovecraft/thewhispererindarkness.htm (17926 words)

	Akeley (including the hamlet of Stockholt)
		Akeley had a church in 1164 which came under the living of Longueville Abbey, but a later church, St. James the Apostle, was built in 1854.
		This parish, by the name of Akeley cum Shockholt, was inclosed, pursuant to an act of parliament passed in 1794, when a corn rent was settled on the rector in lieu of tithes, but the Marquis of Salisbur's estate was exempted from the operation of the act.
		Akeley was noted for its Lace industry and had a large school where children were taught pillow lacemaking.
	met.open.ac.uk /genuki/big/eng/BKM/Akeley (1407 words)

	whittlewoodproject
		Fourth, the largely absentee lords of Akeley may have exercised a conservative influence over the manor, the court rolls of 1382-1422 suggesting a concern to fill tenancies and repair properties, to ensure that watercourses and roads were not obstructed, and to maintain the cultivation of the land.
		After Ralph’s death in 1441 Henry VI granted Akeley together with the other Longueville lands ‘to the Warden and Fellows of New College [in Oxford], whose possessions are diminished and insufficient to maintain their burdens, in order that they may in future pray more heartily for the said king’.
		The church at Akeley was described in this agreement as a chapel, that at Leckhampstead as the mother church.
	www.le.ac.uk /elh/whittlewood/akeley%20history.htm (2071 words)

	HISTORY OF AKELEY MINNESOTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Akeley is located in the east central part of Minnesota at the head of the famous Crow Wing chain of lakes.
		Thus Akeley became a village of beautiful homes and in the year of 1909 there was a population of 2,200.
		Akeley had two institutions that she was proud of: the fire department and the library.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mnhubbar/akelhis.htm (3657 words)

	Akeley Hall of African Mammals
		Akeley was a dedicated explorer, taxidermist, sculptor, and photographer who led teams of scientists and artists on several expeditions to Africa during the first two decades of this century.
		Akeley, however, began by re-creating the animal's shape with an armature made of wood, wire, and sometimes parts of the actual skeleton.
		While we have learned a great deal about mammals and their world since Akeley's day, and we no longer collect animal specimens as Akeley did, his vision and his desire to preserve the world he lived in still inform much of the work done at the Museum.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Akeley_Hall_of_African_Mammals/akeley.html?50 (332 words)

	Akeley, Carl Ethan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His principal contribution was in the field of taxidermy ; his system of mounting specimens by applying the skin to a finely contoured model is still used by museums.
		His animal sculptures and paintings may be seen in Akeley Hall in the Museum of Natural History and in the Field Museum of Natural History.
		He invented the cement gun for use in his own work, and the Akeley camera is widely used by naturalists.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Akeley-C1.asp (196 words)

	Akeley Addition
		Akeley Institute is the former residence of H. Akeley.
		AKELEY INSTITUTE―THE BREAKING OF Promptly at 10:30 o’clock the Grand Haven Cornett Band marched up Washington street to the central school building and escorted the superintendent, teachers and nearly one thousand school children to the grounds of the Akeley Institute, where already had assembled the Bishop of the Diocese of Western Michigan Right Rev. Geo.
		Gillespie, Clergymen, trustees of Akeley Institute and many prominent citizens from different parts of the state, as well as a very large number of prominent ladies and gentlemen of this county and city.
	www.sandhillcity.com /Evening%20Tribune%206%2091/ET%206%2091%20SECTIONS/ET%206%2091%20Local%20News/Akeley%20Add.htm (624 words)

	Carl Ethen Akeley Taxidermy
		Akeley followed that advice and was subsequently hired by the owner, Professor Henry J Ward at the starting salary of $3.50 a week.
		Akeley was a dedicated explorer, taxidermist, sculptor, and photographer who led teams of scientists and artists on several expeditions to Africa during the first two decades of this century.
		Akeley died in 1926 on a wildlife expedition to the Congo.
	www.taxidermy4cash.com /akeley.html (3214 words)

	Lefalophodon: Carl E. Akeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When combined with Chapman's realistic "habitat group" dioramas, Akeley's method of sculpting lifelike bodies around carefully prepared skeletal mounts led to a revolution in museum design.
		While in Africa before World War I, Akeley survived being trampled by an elephant and killed a leopard with his bare hands.
		In the 1920's Akeley made a large specimen collection as part of his effort to create the American Museum's famous African mammal hall; he died in the Virunga mountains while working on what became the mountain gorilla diorama.
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /~alroy/lefa/Akeley.html (197 words)

	Akeley, Minnesota MN, city profile (Hubbard County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Akeley, MN Akeley is a city in Hubbard County.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Akeley was $13,749, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Akeley, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $303.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20795 (435 words)

	Akeley, Minnesota City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The city of Akeley was incorporated on December 30, 1916.
		It was developed on large tracts of timber land that had been surveyed by Thomas Barlow Walker in 1876 and purchased by him and Akeley a short time later; their Red River Lumber Company began in 1893.
		Plummer was born in Indiana in 1851, came with his family to Minnesota in 1855 and to Akeley Township in 1894; the name changed to the present spelling in 1927.
	www.leechlake.info /Towns/Akeley.htm (1025 words)

	Kurt Akeley's home page
		Kurt Akeley, Achieving Near-Correct Focus Cues Using Multiple Image Planes, Stanford PhD Dissertation, June 2004.
		Kurt Akeley, Simon J. Watt, Ahna Reza Girshick, and Martin S. Banks, A Stereo Display Prototype with Multiple Focal Distances, ACM Transactions on Graphics, pp.
		Kurt Akeley and Tom Jermoluk, High-Performance Polygon Rendering, ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings, pp.
	research.microsoft.com /users/kakeley (329 words)

	1995 Achievement Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The SIGGRAPH achievement award is presented to Kurt Akeley in recognition of his contributions to the architecture, design, and realization of high performance 3D graphics hardware systems.
		Kurt Akeley received a B.E.E. from the University of Delaware in 1980, and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford in 1982.
		Kurt Akeley and Tom Jermoluk, "High-Performance Polygon Rendering," SIGGRAPH '88 Conference Proceedings, pp.
	www.siggraph.org /awards/1995/AchievementAward.html (519 words)

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