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  The Partners - Alexander Ross
Alexander is a well-known music lawyer in the UK and is recognised in particular for his expertise in the licensing and distribution of music in the online and mobile environment.
Alexander advises record labels including the Ministry of Sound on new media issues and also has extensive experience as a talent lawyer, advising several well-known recording artists on their commercial and management arrangements.
Alexander lectures as an authority on new media issues and is a regular panelist and moderator at Midem, Popkomm, and other conferences.
www.wiggin.co.uk /ourpartners_alexanderross.asp   (362 words)

  
 Ross Alexander: Hollywood, History, and Mysterious Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ross took to boinking as many of the studio's contract beauties as he could in as short a time as he could, so the story goes.
So, here it is. If Ross Alexander hadn’t died from that bullet wound to the head, why for and whence it came, the complexion of our national life from at least 1976 forward would have a distinctively different texture.
Many of Ross Alexander’s contemporaries were gays, lesbians or bisexuals, and successfully concealed their preferences because the culture of that time required that they do so.
www.geocities.com /old30thstar/rossalexander   (2642 words)

  
 Alexander Ross - LoveToKnow 1911
ALEXANDER ROSS (1699-1784), Scottish poet, was born on the 13th of April 1699 at Kincardine-O'Neil, Aberdeenshire.
He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and became tutor to the children of Sir William Forbes of Craigievar.
The background of shepherd life as known to Ross, and the rather sordid motives of the characters, despite their high-sounding names of Helenore, Rosalind, andc., are depicted with uncompromising truth.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alexander_Ross   (182 words)

  
 alexross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Alexander Milton Ross, a naturalist and physician, was born on December 13, 1832, at Belleville, Upper Canada.
Ross made at least five trips into the southern states and was directly involved with the escape of 31 or more fls.
Ross did for the slaves was a brave, exciting and great thing, we should be proud that some one from Canada gave up so much to try to help others that he believe were being treated very unfairly.
www.saskschools.ca /~cudworth/alexross.html   (245 words)

  
 Siamandas Image Services
Ross was born in Scotland on his father's farm in Layhill on May 9, 1783.
Ross was not interested in being either a schoolteacher or a farmer.
Ross was finding himself in increasing difficulty with Gov George Simpson who saw Ross setting himself as a bad example as a petty trader.
timemachine.siamandas.com /PAGES/early_manitoba/Alexander_Ross.htm   (545 words)

  
 Alexander Milton Ross, M.D.
The sincere radical abolitionists, with whom Dr. Ross was labouring, were despised, hated and ostracised by the rich, the powerful and the so-called higher classes; but Dr. Ross always possessed the courage of his opinions, and preferred the approval of his own conscience to the smiles or favours of men.
During the smallpox epidemic in Montreal (in 1885), Dr. Ross was a promient opponent of vaccination, declaring that it was not only useless as a preventative of small-pox, but, that it propagated the disease, when practiced during the existene of an epidemic.
Ross is a resident of Montreal, and a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.
www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/ross_alexander.htm   (804 words)

  
 JOURNAL OF ALEXANDER ROSS - SNAKE COUNTRY EXPEDITION, 1824
Ross first left his paternal home in Scotland in 1804, from which it may be estimated that he was more than sixty years of age when completing these books, which, from their context, evidently were based upon some journal or memoranda then at hand.
Ross now crossed the various small source streams of the Big Hole or Wisdom river and passed over the low divide to the Beaverhead, which is another of the sources of Jefferson's Fork of the Missouri.
Ross from the time he reached the Boise until he returns on September to the rough mountain pass dividing Blaine and Custer Counties, Idaho; for this interim see pages 90-118 of "The Fur Hunters." His lofty peak now mentioned may be Boulder Peak of today, but he named it Mt. Simpson.
www.xmission.com /~drudy/mtman/html/ross.html   (6639 words)

  
 Columbia Magazine - Alexander Ross's Koran
Among this first contingent of traders was Alexander Ross, a schoolteacher of Scottish origin from upper Canada with education and a drive for adventure that was a prerequisite in the fur trade.
Alexander Ross was nominally in charge at Fort Okanogan during this period, although he also spent a fair amount of time at Spokan.
In 1822 Ross wrote to George Simpson, governor of the new company, that he had had enough of the fur trade and wished to leave the country to raise his three children in a Christian manner.
www.wshs.org /wshs/columbia/articles/0404-a4.htm   (1168 words)

  
 MHS Transactions: Letters of a Pioneer, Alexander Ross
Alexander Ross wrote Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon and Columbia Rivers (1849), The Fur Traders of the Far West (1853), The Red River Settlement (1856).
Ross, William, James, Jemima, and Alexander Streets were all named after him or members of his family.
Alexander Ross, Farmer, Layhill, Parish of Dyke, By Forres.
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/transactions/1/rossletters.shtml   (3450 words)

  
 Alexander Ross - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ross, Alexander 1783-1856, Canadian fur trader and pioneer, b.
In 1825 Ross settled in the Red River district; in Assiniboia he was sheriff and a member of the council.
John MacDonald, earl of Ross and lord of the Isles
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ross-a1le.html   (340 words)

  
 Alex Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ross is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superheroes.
Ross has also been the subject of a minor controversy over his refusal to draw certain characters (most notably Kyle Rayner, who at the time of Ross' refusal was the Green Lantern).
Ross' interpretation of the classic (in contrast to the modern vision) Batman and Robin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Ross   (1270 words)

  
 Alexander Milton Ross
ROSS, Alexander Milton, Canadian naturalist, born in Belleville, Ont., 13 December, 1832.
After his return to Canada he became a member of the College of physicians and surgeons of Quebec and Ontario, and was one of the founders of the Society for the diffusion of physiological knowledge in 1881.
Ross has been appointed treasurer and commissioner of agriculture for the province of Ontario, and he has removed from Montreal to Toronto.
www.famousamericans.net /alexandermiltonross   (646 words)

  
 Alexander Ross
For his first solo museum exhibition, Massachusetts and New York-based artist Alexander Ross presents paintings and drawings that play with scale, biomorphic forms, and the synthesis of abstraction and representation.
Ross photographs the finished forms and then paints and draws from the photographs, which have been cropped and edited, thus further removing the models from their original state.
Ross transcends his interpretations of the models from their three-dimensional form to two-dimensional representations on canvas and paper.
www.contemporarystl.org /ce_alexanderross.php   (557 words)

  
 Alexander Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Ross (fur trader) (1783-1856), Canadian fur trader.
Alexander Ross (c.1901-1941), casualty of the SS Sauternes
Alexander Ross (explorer), member of Ernest Giles expedition of 1875 to 1876 in Central Australia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Ross   (161 words)

  
 J.B. Alexander Ross, Professor of Chemistry
J.B. Alexander (Sandy) Ross joined the University of Montana Chemistry Department in 2001 as Professor and Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Facility.
Sandy Ross is a physical biochemist specializing in time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.
Ross JBA, Laws WR, Shea M: Intrinsic Fluorescence in Protein Structure Analysis in Protein Structures: Methods in Protein Structure and Structure Analysis, Eds.
www.umt.edu /chemistry/faculty/ross.htm   (682 words)

  
 Warts and all: the art of Alexander Ross ArtForum - Find Articles
Which is why Alexander Ross--since he is and does all these things--quietly attracts and holds attention.
Ross isn't exactly a newcomer to the scene--at forty-three he isn't exactly young either--but his first one-person show, at Feature in New York, was only five years ago.
Although his works on canvas have a fairly consistent look--his palette is almost exclusively composed of muted greens, grays, and blues--and his works on paper are likewise based on a limited set of variables, there is nothing programmatic about his method.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_1_42/ai_108691800   (746 words)

  
 Significant Scots - Alexander Ross
He was born in Aberdeen in the year 1590; but his parentage has not been ascertained, nor have the circumstances of his early life been recorded.
During the struggles of the great civil war, Ross espoused the royal cause, and his writings are filled with praises of the king, and denunciations of the parliament.
There is scarcely a subject in the wide range of literature, on which Ross has not left a work.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/ross_alexander.htm   (427 words)

  
 Ross (AR04) - Press Release - Alexander, Ross Announce Highway 167 Transportation Summit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
U.S. Reps. Rodney Alexander (D-La) and Mike Ross (D-Ark) officially announced today that they will host a U.S. Highway 167 transportation summit this Monday in Junction City, where their districts meet.
Alexander and Ross have invited highway officials from Louisiana and Arkansas as well as leaders from communities along Highway 167 to discuss four-laning the road from Interstate 20 at Ruston to the Arkansas-Louisiana state line.
Congressman Alexander and I began discussing Highway 167 before he even took office, and I am pleased that we are able to host this summit as one of our very first actions in the 108th Congress.”
www.house.gov /ross/pr_2001_2002/pr_022803b.html   (313 words)

  
 sharpe
In a note penciled on Jan. 21, 1981, Ross anticipated this developing style, “I envision a continuing overall image of abstract forms that, upon closer inspection, are in reality representational.” He went on to write that he wanted to emphasize the mystical and fantastic, avoid sentimentality, obviousness, and classical nude positions, but he scribbled emphatically.
The technique Ross developed for his Inventive Realism is mainly washes of different chemical media, which sometimes are resisted by the surface of his paper and sometimes absorbed.
Ross had four children: Robert (Bob), deceased; Arlene, a retired medical doctor living in Arizona and alternately attending seminary school in Chicago; Alan, a successful author, singer/songwriter and business owner living in Bisbee, Arizona; and Wendy, retired from Brother Corp and living in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
www.rossmusic.net /sharpe.htm   (1467 words)

  
 Colonel Alexander Ross Clarke, CB, FRS, FRSE, R.E.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
David Ross Clarke or Eriboll, Scotland had gone out to Jamaica as a merchant and in 1827 he married Eliza Hall, the daughter of Charles Hall.
At the age of 17, Alexander suddenly formed a desire to join the Army and went up for the entrance examination for the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich after only about three weeks of preparation.
Kenneth Ross Clarke died as a baby in 1873 and Mary Grace Clarke died, aged 23, in 1883.
members.aol.com /reubique/clarke.htm   (2092 words)

  
 Biography
Alexander Ross emigrated to Canada from Moray County, Scotland in 1805.
Ross arrived on the Columbia River in March, 1811 as an employee of the Pacific Fur Company.
This was in the year 1814, and his diary of the journey has become a valuable source of information on the early exploration of the area—though it has been lamented that his attention to detail was not greater.
www.alexanderstreet2.com /EENA/bios/A6598BIO.html   (561 words)

  
 Alexander Ross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ross accompanied the North West Company trader-explorer David Thompson upriver to the mouth of the Okanogan, where a post was built, and Ross left in charge.
In 1816 he became second in command of the coast trade under James Keith, but after a year went to Fort Kamloops in present British Columbia, and later was in charge of Fort Nez Perce at the junction of the Columbia and Walla Walla rivers.
When the Hudson's Bay Company absorbed the North West Company (1821), Ross went along, directed the Snake River brigade for a year, was succeeded by Peter Skene Ogden, and spent his last years at the present Winnipeg, in charge of schools for the Red River settlement.
www.3rd1000.com /history3/biography/aross.htm   (226 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Alexander Ross": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The little we know of his exploits in the Snake country was written by his North West colleague, Alexander Ross, for whom McKenzie was a hero.
Alexander Ross lived for several years among the Southern Okanagan and married an Okanagan woman he called Sally.
Alexander Ross had been impressed by the virtues of the women of the Okanagan tribe, who possessed "an engaging sweetness, are good...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Alexander-Ross   (598 words)

  
 discussion
This discussion between James Hyde and Alexander Ross represents an exchange of ideas between two artists at the cutting edge of the reinvention of abstract art.
Alive to issues surrounding the semiotics of art, his forms and structures can seem invested with the personality of letters or digits of a newly formed language.
Alexander Ross (b.1960), who shows at Feature, Inc., New York, is a painter whose intriguing imagery is derived from multiple sources, including biotechnology and the natural sciences.
www.nyss.org /nozkowski/discussion.html   (3243 words)

  
 Alexander Ross — Infoplease.com
Advent ousts Alexander Mann founder ahead of IPO.
Lieutenant Frederick Dochstader UE: died as a 20-year-old in action under command of Major Ross, Butler's Rangers.
Ernest Hemingway and the New Yorker: the Harold Ross files.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0842448.html   (249 words)

  
 Alexander Ross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Alexander Ross - Partner, Wiggin and Co Alexander's specialism is with licensing and distribution of music in both online and mobile environments.
He also advises on specialist copyright issues, e-commerce, book publishing, theatre rights, promotions and photography.
In addition to lecturing on new media issues, he is a regular panellist and moderator at Midem, Popkomm, and other conferences.
www.musictank.co.uk /alexander_ross.htm   (227 words)

  
 DR ALEXANDER MILTON ROSS
ALEXANDER MILTON ROSS - Chatham, ON The Clan Ross Association of Canada first paid homage to the legendary Dr Alexander Milton Ross in the Fall Issue (November, 1999) of the CRA-Canada newsletter when an article by Robert C Gunn of Mississauga, Ontario, was featured.
Our recently elected 2nd Vice-President, Andrew Ross Thibodeau, reacted in a manner similar to others after reading the brief biography of Dr. Alexander Milton Ross and he replied, "Thank you for the CC on Alexander Ross as a possible recipient of our commemoration efforts.
Andrew Thibodeau had done some preliminary work towards this end, and J. Donaldson Ross and he were to continue development of this project, hopefully in time for the 2006 AGM.
www.greatclanross.org /cra~can5a4m.html   (1190 words)

  
 Alexander Ross | History Comes Alive
One of the courageous people, Alexander Milton Ross, was a Canadian from Belleville.
Ross traveled extensively through the deep south during the 1850's using his international reputation as an ornithologist to gain access to many plantations where he secretly held meetings to organize and facilitate the escape of hundreds of enslaved people.
His friendship with such famous abolitionists as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and John Brown allows this performance to delve into the inspirational story that is the Underground Railroad.
www.historycomesalive.ca /canadians/ross.htm   (176 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Alexander Ross (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Alexander Ross (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Alexander Ross 1783–1856, Canadian fur trader and pioneer, b.
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