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  Winfield Dunn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn (born July 1, 1927) was governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975.
Dunn was a delegate to the 1968 Republican National Convention.
During his tenure, Dunn was a member of the National Governors' Conference Executive Committee from 1971-1973, and he chaired the Education Commission of the States from 1972 to 1973 and the Republican Governors Association from 1973 to 1974.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winfield_Dunn   (492 words)

  
 Lamar Alexander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party.
Alexander was the Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee in the election of 1974 facing Democrat Ray Blanton, a former congressman and candidate for Senate two years earlier.
Alexander made history by becoming the first person reelected to a 2nd 4-year term by defeating Knoxville mayor Randy Tyree in the 1982 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lamar_Alexander   (588 words)

  
 Divine Service-VC Dunn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dunn was a 21 year old Lieutenant (later Colonel) on October 25, 1854, When the 11th galloped into history against Russian guns at Balaclava in the bloody ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
Dunn turned his charger back to rescue the sergeant, who was being pressed by three Russian dragoons, (heavily armed mounted troopers.) The rest of the brigade raced on, leaving Bro.
Dunn was awarded the British Empire's highest award for heroism and for his courage- the Victoria Cross.
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 Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist.
According to the biography, "Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution" by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming is quoted as saying that this was "a wonderful fable".
His discovery of penicillin had changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of useful antibiotics and his discovery of the penicillin has saved and is still saving millions of people.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Fleming   (1895 words)

  
 Scholar spy shined light on China - Obituaries - smh.com.au
Dunn found it enjoyable, if not overstimulating - aside, that is, from having to deal with Idi Amin, to whose country he was also accredited, and his Ugandan government of pistol-toting thugs.
Dunn was born in 1923 in Townsville, where his father, James McIntyre Dunn, was business manager of a family group of newspapers, later Provincial Newspapers (Queensland).
Dunn was recruited into the then Department of External Affairs in London, and made his way back to Canberra at the end of 1952.
www.smh.com.au /news/obituaries/scholar-spy-shined-light-on-china/2005/12/06/1133829593219.html   (1547 words)

  
 Dunn, Alexander Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alexander Dunn was the first Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest medal for bravery in battle.
Dunn chose a career with the British army and was a lieutenant with the 11th Hussars when he won the medal during the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava in the Crimea (Russia) in October 1854.
Dunn later commanded the 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regiment), which he helped to organize.
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 'Questionable' acts cited, Dunn says | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Dunn, D-Garden Grove, is leading an investigation into whether the nation's largest Guard force resorted to the same type of civilian monitoring that characterized Vietnam War-era protests.
Alexander said last week the spying allegations are "flat wrong." The federal National Guard Bureau, which oversees states' guard units, agreed with Alexander's interpretation that the report cleared the Guard of any violations and that no further action was necessary.
In a letter to the inspector general, Dunn alleged Alexander mischaracterized the report's conclusions because he believed the report wouldn't be made public and his interpretation would not be contradicted.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050826/news_1n26guard.html   (354 words)

  
 U.S. Senate candidate profiles: Lamar Alexander, the early years - Sunday, 09/15/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Throughout his public life, Alexander kept walking and hiking and wearing his trademark red-plaid shirt that reminded people that he was one of them — just plain old Lamar, the kid who tossed newspapers to neighbors in his Blount County hometown and snowballs at tourists on their way to vacations in Florida.
Alexander says he was amused, even in agreement with their assessment.
Alexander says the music and the early habits of crisp practice helped form some of the core of his essential character.
www.tennessean.com /government/archives/02/09/22446802.shtml?Element_ID=22446802   (2011 words)

  
 Alexander Dunn VC
Alexander Dunn earned the Victoria Cross as a 21-year-old lieutenant in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.
During the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, Lt. Dunn, one of the handsomest men of his day and one of the finest swordsmen and horsemen in the army, won the Victoria Cross.
Special note: Dunn's grave went unattended in Senafe (what is not Eritrea) until a group of Canadian UN soldiers from CFB Gagetown spent days uncovering the site and cleaning it up (the site had been used as a garbage dump in the village) in early 2001.
www.mysteriesofcanada.com /VC_Recipients/dunn.htm   (307 words)

  
 Legion Magazine : Canada And The Victoria Cross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dunn was the only officer in the Charge of the Light Brigade to receive the medal and the only cavalry officer in the entire campaign to whom it was awarded.
Dunn was awarded his VC two years after the actions for which he won it.
Dunn is said to have dismounted from his horse and sent his valet to a nearby stream for some water.
www.legionmagazine.com /features/victoriacross/04-01.asp   (2436 words)

  
 Alexander Dunn, Jr. - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
Dunn was advanced from one position to another until he had charge of a department of this great mercantile institution.
Dunn then engaged in the real estate and loan business, and on January 1, 1899, he and a few other Holton citizens organized the State Bank of Holton, which was first opened for business in his real estate office which was a small frame building on the north side of the square.
Dunn was married, May 1, 1873, to Miss Rose, daughter of Joseph W. and Elizabeth (Pope) Taylor, natives of Hendricks county, Indiana, where Mrs.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/d3/dunn_alexander_jr.html   (688 words)

  
 [334 NLRB No. 78] Moses Electric Service, Inc., 26-CA-17100
Dunn was involved in hiring of some former employees including Terry Johnson, Dan Currey, Eddie Orlanski, Mark McLaurin, and James Loden in the summer and fall of 1995.
Alexander did nothing to indicate to Hux, Dunn, or Express Personnel that he was connected to the Union.
Alexander walked past Jones, went over and picked up all his tools and told Jones that he had had enough and was leaving.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/334/334-78.htm   (13720 words)

  
 Alexander Dunn
Alexander Dunn came to America in 1837 and at once located in Clinton county, Iowa, where he secured a farm of three hundred and twenty acres of raw land.
The patriarch of the Dunn Family, Alexander Dunn, was born in Derryaghy, Ireland on 20 Jun 1811.
Alexander Dunn was born in 1812 in Antrim County, Ireland.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dunnliz/6.htm   (2855 words)

  
 Beers: Dunn p. 1092   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
DANIEL DUNN (deceased) was a native of Greene county, Penn., born December 6, 1807.
Daniel Dunn was a representative self-made man. Starting under the most adverse circumstances, he made a success of life, and left an unsullied record.
Alexander Hamilton Dunn is one of the most prosperous young farmers if Morris township.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/dunn-1092.html   (372 words)

  
 WILD WILD WEST : Wildest Page : Cinefantastique article : Michael Dunn
Although Dunn appeared in only ten shows, it was initially planned that he would do 4 per season.
Born as Gary Neil Miller in 1934 in Oklahoma, Dunn was a child prodigy with an IQ of 178, becoming a concert pianist at age 15 and the following year attending the University of Michigan.
Dunn once said, "Secretly all he really wants is chocolate creams and women and a chance to sing.
www.wildwildwest.org /www/feature/cine/cine3.html   (1014 words)

  
 Some Notes on the Earliest Origins of Our Dunns
John Dunn was remembered by his Georgia neighbors as an avid Methodist, and while he seems never to have learned to read and write, it's not surprising that his grandson ended up as a prominent minister.
John Dunn has been identified successfully in every US census from 1820 through 1860; his wife was living with their children in 1870 and was clearly stated to be a widow by 1880.
When Dunn married Elizabeth Kell, they were on the very edge of white settlement in Georgia, just across the Chattahoochee from Cherokee territory, but only two years before their marriage the land they were living on subsequently had been Indian land.
www.tamandmichael.com /dunn1.htm   (4844 words)

  
 TOS Episode 68
Kirk befriends Alexander, a Platonian of short stature who lacks the mental abilities of the others and is constantly abused by them as a result.
Alexander is the only one of the group who displays any awareness that their actions are wrong, and has over time developed a colossal hatred of his fellows.
Dunn is fabulous in the role, and he goes a long way toward overcoming some of the episodes other deficiencies.
www.ditl.org /datepisode.php?TOS68   (799 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Senator to subpoena evidence on Calif. National Guard intelligence unit
Dunn fears the unit may have been used as a spy agency, which the Guard denies, and plans hearings by his subcommittee that oversees the Guard's funding.
In a letter to Dunn on Tuesday, Brigadier General John R. Alexander said he would provide no details pending a federal investigation beginning Wednesday by the U.S. Army's inspector general, federal National Guard Bureau's inspector general, and the National Guard Bureau's legal arm.
Dunn accused Alexander of "hiding behind a federal investigation" that he termed "the classic fox guarding the hen house." He worried federal investigators will take any evidence to Washington, D.C., out of the reach of his committee in what he said should be a state, not federal, probe.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050705-1822-ca-guardintelligenceunit.html   (553 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Al Dunn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In this role, Dunn was the lead architect for several state of the art e-business projects in the energy field.
Dunn was the lead architect for several state-of-the-art e-business projects in the energy field.
Dunn was also Director of R&D for McCabe & Associates and held a variety of technology positions at Telic and System Automation.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Dunn_Al_41507492.htm   (428 words)

  
 Ionic Lodge (25 GRC) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bro Dunn was a 21 year old lieutenant (later colonel) on October 25, 1854, when the 11th galloped into history against Russian guns at Balaclava in the bloody ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
For his bravery and courage, Bro Dunn was awarded the British Empire's highest award for heroism for his courage the Victoria Cross.
Bro Dunn was Initiated, Passed and Raised in Ionic Lodge.
www.geocities.com /lionelboxer/ionic/dunnvc.html   (211 words)

  
 Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Alexander the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One story is that either upon entering or exiting the temple he was greeted by the priest as "my son." Alexander's army and followers were not in a strategic position to see the priest and thought the words came from the god himself.
However it happened, from that point on Alexander was instated as a son of god, like the pharaohs of old.
Alexander initiated the building of Alexandria, but never lived to see the city.
www.touregypt.net /macdyn01.htm   (182 words)

  
 Galactopedia A Section 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Picard once likened Mackenzie Calhoun to Alexander the Great, because Calhoun had liberated his whole planet before he was even an adult.
Alexander, U.S.S. Federation starship, Larson-class, Starfleet registry NCC-4367.
Alexander chellenged this, as Alpha Pelusium didn't have an Oort cloud and was across the Federation from Klytanian space.
www.captainmike.org /Galactopedia/a3.html   (3559 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Dunn, Alexander: New-found classics on guitar
Alexander Dunn is bringing some unusual guitar music to town.
Dunn has also arranged Igor Stravinsky's Elegy for solo viola, and will play it in honour of the great blind Spanish composer Joquin Rodrigo, who died last year.
Dunn's current project is working with early Beethoven and early 19th-century instruments.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/D/Dunn_Alexander/2000/05/05/744688.html   (404 words)

  
 State Senator Fears Federal Takeover of National Guard Spy Probe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dunn said Wednesday that the Guard erased Davis' computer hard drive, which is believed to have included information subpeonaed by Dunn's office.
Dunn said he feared federal officials could seize all information about the guard's activities and move crucial probe evidence to Washington, D.C. and, therefore, outside of the jurisdiction of the state investigation.
In a letter delivered to Dunn this week, Guard Brigidier General John R. Alexander said the California Guard could provide no further details to the state probe as they participate in the federal investigation.
www.news10.net /storyfull1.asp?id=11872   (606 words)

  
 Alexander Dunn Jr.
Witnesses told police that Dunn lay down on the east side of the crossing as the train approached from the east.
Dunn was born in Ida Grove, 07 Feb 1858, and he married Ida Wiley there Oct. 13, 1881.
The death of Alex Dunn, 92 year old Davenporter, who was killed Saturday afternoon when run over by a Rock Island Lines freight train at Fifth and Brown streets, was ruled as an accidental by Scott County Coroner C. Wildman today.
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 Dunn
Source: Jean Dunn Yager, Dunn Family REsearcher Carroll County, KY (letter) George Dunn was born in Pennsylvania, Married in Henry County, K later came to what is now Carroll County and bought a large tract of land lying on both sides of the Little Kentucky River.
William Dunn first wife Catherine was daughter of Rezin and Nancy Kendall Wright.Rezin and Nancy were married in Henry county ky in 1809.Nancy was the daughter of David Kendall.Rezin and Nancy Wright later came to carroll county where he died in 1843.
ROBERT5 DUNN (JOHNW4, JOHN3, JAMES2, JOHN1) was born February 01, 1812 in Garrett county, Ky, and died May 23, 1895 in Carrol county Ky. He married MARY POLLY WISE April 03, 1842 in Carroll county, Ky. She was born November 20, 1824 in Carrol county Ky, and died July 09, 1876.
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 Nathan, Suzanne, Natalie and Alexander
Natalie and Alexander were the disciples passing out endless bread and fish (running around and around the living room trying to get to all the people).
Alexander is also getting cuter by the day.
Alexander has been such a joy, is an intricate part of our family, and we can’t imagine life without him!
www.nathanandsuzanne.com   (944 words)

  
 The Old Coach Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
By TITUS Sports Marketing – Evangel Christian coach Dennis Dunn is headed to the college ranks after leading his Eagles to a 10th state championship earlier this month -- the 200th victory of his 16-year coaching career.
Dunn, who led ECA (12-3) to 42-7 triumph over Opelousas Catholic in the Louisiana Class A state championship game before 5,753 at Independence Stadium in the Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classic, is headed to Louisiana College as its head coach, according to reports.
Alexander has also served as DC at Louisiana-Monroe.
www.theoldcoach.com /archives/000804.php   (266 words)

  
 The Great Railway
Alexander, living along the river who sometimes worked on the Nelson farm, tried to persuade Julia to run off and marry him.
Dunn named it after the church in which he had been ordained (116) in Victoria.
Dunn lived on until 1925 dying at the age of 82.
www.fortlangley.ca /langley/4rail.html   (5184 words)

  
 'The Abrams Report' for April 8 - MSNBC Transcripts - MSNBC.com
DUNN:  Well, they are, whether—obviously you disagree.  But that is, you know, what our law has always been.  And so to impose that duty on someone who is innocent, who did not commit a crime and put an obligation...
DUNN:  And in New York we have a...
DUNN:  Again, as it has been said earlier, if indeed the act, which was terribly gross, you know...
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7464675   (3487 words)

  
 Alexander Graham Bell
He got the idea for the telephone at a convention were a man made sound come out from a deaf person's ear that was hooked up to a microphone.
The telephone was invented by Alexander in the later months after the convention.
To sum it up Alexander Grahm Bell was one of the most famous inventors and he did a lot of good stuff for our world.
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