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Benjamin Dabney was at the head of the bar in King and Queen County, and was engaged by the British government to settle British claims.
Dabney was often annoyed by the different mnanners of his neighbors out there, very few of whom thought it necessary to send regrets or apologies when his invitations could not be accepted.
The roof of the house in which Thomas had to put his wife and children was so leaky, that he had sometimes at night when it rained to sit up in bed and hold an umbrella over her and the baby.
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  House System at Caltech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The houses resemble fraternities (diverse traditions and cultures, a sense of belonging to a group of like-minded people), but are similar to a dormitory system in that every student is required to join a house.
Dabney House (or Dabney Hovse) is one of the four original (South) undergraduate student houses at Caltech.
In 1973, the House was disowned by the Dabney family when students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library with the simple phrase "Impeach Nixon ".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dabney_House   (1856 words)

  
 Dabney Friedrich Hosts Ask the White House
Visit the "Ask the White House" archives to read other discussions with White House officials.
Initially, counsel in the White House vet potential candidates in consultation with home State Senators and Department of Justice lawyers.
In my opinion, the White House made no efforts to appeal to the American people to break the deadlock on this issue.
www.whitehouse.gov /ask/20031113-2.html   (1015 words)

  
 GEORGIA BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO
Dabney was wounded not far from Washington, Georgia at the Battle of Kettle Creek.
Dabney, who had been granted a federal pension, had not been allowed to have a chance in Georgia's 1819 land lottery with other veterans.
In an 1820 letter she was said to be the "biggest and tallest" fl woman the writer had ever seen and had "proven herself to be a strong, a kindly, a never failing friend to Colonel Heard and his family." [14] Of pure African blood, she said she was the daughter of a great king.
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 The Committee of Correspondence: Moving Towards Independence
Although he served as the chaplain of the house of Burgesses, he was the second choice of the body to "preach a Sermon, suitable to the Occasion." 41 Price spoke of the destruction of the wicked city of Sodom and sent his audience to their homes understanding the magnitude of that day.
Elizabeth Dabney Coleman, The Carrs of Albemarle” (M.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 1944), 3-4.
While Dabney Carr is on record as suggesting the establishment of the Committee of Correspondence before the entire House of Burgesses, Dumas Malone and Virginius Dabney both agree that the idea was originally Richard Henry Lee’s with Malone suggesting that Jefferson gave Carr the task to introduce him and his rhetorical skills to the body.
earlyamerica.com /review/fall98/lastdays.html   (4306 words)

  
 D.C. Cogdell House 1905 - Hood County, Texas
There is at least one other Cogdell house in Granbury--the Dabney House Bed and Breakfast, located at 100 S. Jones St. and so named for Dr. Dabney who lived in the house for many years.
The Dabney house was originally built for Dan Cogdell's daughter Zuma and her new husband, W.F. Juliff, as a wedding present.
The similarities between the Earl Cogdell and the Dabney houses, both Craftsman-style bungalows, are numerous.
www.granburydepot.org /z/biog/CogdellHouse1905.htm   (639 words)

  
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Dabney looked after her with his mouth puckered into shape for a whistle; but she had hardly disappeared before he found himself confronted by the strange young gentleman.
As for Dabney Kinzer and his friend from the city, they were on their way to the water-side, after all, at an hour which indicated either smaller appetites than usual or greater speed at the breakfast-table.
Not too large for Dabney to manage all alone, "The Jenny," as he called her, and as her name was painted on the stern, was all the better for having two on board, and had room in her then for more.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/3/4/10340/10340.txt   (22211 words)

  
 House System at Caltech - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
1.1 Blacker House 1.2 Dabney House 1.3 Fleming House 1.4 Lloyd House
Blacker house features halls painted as heaven, purgatory and hell (hell being rather hot due to the peculiarities of the construction).
Lloyd House is one of the seven undergraduate houses at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and is one of the newer North Houses (along with Page and Ruddock).
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Ricketts_House   (2016 words)

  
 The Cavalier Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Dabney house is the place I call home this year.
Of course, radio waves are afraid of entering the sacred house of Dabney, so I have to go outside to the Old Dorms quad to use my cell phone.
I especially enjoy the company in Dabney, although a lot of slurs have been attached to my hall in particular.
www.cavalierdaily.com /CVArticle.asp?ID=28602&pid=1516   (621 words)

  
 California Institute of Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goodhue conceived of the overall layout of the campus and designed the Physics Building, Dabney Hall, and several other structures, in which he sought to be consistent with the local climate, the character of the school, and Hale's educational philosophy.
Four (south) houses (or hovses, so named for the inscription on the gates thereof) were built: Blacker House, Dabney House, Fleming House, and Ricketts House.
During the 1990s, an additional house, Avery House, was built to accommodate those who feel the original seven houses were not suitable for them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology   (2228 words)

  
 Education | Striking a balance
The courtyard is controlled by Dabney House, who have the infuriating rule that music must be played from mid-morning to midnight.
Dabney is the next undergraduate house along, attached to Fleming House where I am staying.
Dabney is staking a claim to being the fun-loving party house.
education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4703699-111226,00.html   (703 words)

  
 Robert Lewis Dabney
Dabney wrote on April 20, 1861 - as he foresaw the approaching evils of the "...mountainous aggregate of enormous crime, of a ruined Constitution, of cities sacked, of reeking battlefields, of scattered churches, of widowed wives and orphaned children, of souls plunged into hell..."
But things were otherwise and so Dabney, though disapproving of the management of the affairs of his state and section, and though he had as long a possible been a Union man - was proud to be one of the sturdious patriots and servants of his State and the Confederacy.
Meanwhile Dabney's umbrella had been reduced to tatters by branches - his hat was mangled - and an officer immediately gave him a cap.
www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/RL_Dabney   (4055 words)

  
 Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
When he went back to his uncle's house, his mother, who had arrived on the boat, told him that she had seen a little fellow no bigger than himself up in the rigging of a big ship, and was amazed to hear that he was no other than her own boy.
A house was rented for the two boys, and, with the assistance of a cook and a body-servant apiece, they kept house during their collegiate course.
Dabney was often annoyed by the different manners of his neighbors out there, very few of whom thought it necessary to send regrets or apologies when his invitations could not be accepted.
docsouth.unc.edu /smedes/smedes.html   (20913 words)

  
 House systems - Alarm systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Better example of the traditions of Blacker House is the basis of undergraduate student residence at the school.
Like a residential college, a House embodies two closely-connected concepts — it is to rally fellow house-members and to pick individuals for alarm systems team events.
Residents of Dabney House or Dabney Hovse is one of the House System, and freshmen were not allowed to live there.
alarm-systems.mantleclock.org /house-systems   (795 words)

  
 The Committee of Correspondence: Moving Towards Independence
Although he served as the chaplain of the house of Burgesses, he was the second choice of the body to "preach a Sermon, suitable to the Occasion." 41 Price spoke of the destruction of the wicked city of Sodom and sent his audience to their homes understanding the magnitude of that day.
Elizabeth Dabney Coleman, The Carrs of Albemarle" (M.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 1944), 3-4.
While Dabney Carr is on record as suggesting the establishment of the Committee of Correspondence before the entire House of Burgesses, Dumas Malone and Virginius Dabney both agree that the idea was originally Richard Henry Lee's with Malone suggesting that Jefferson gave Carr the task to introduce him and his rhetorical skills to the body.
www.earlyamerica.com /review/fall98/lastdays.html   (4306 words)

  
 Granbury, Texas
Built in 1886, the Opera House was restored and reopened in 1975.
Captain's house, The- Built in the 1870's by James H. Doyle, this Queen Anne Victorian is two blocks from the square overlooking Lake Granbury.
Dabney House- Built in 1907 by prominent banker Dan Codgell as a wedding gift to his daughter.
www.lnstar.com /mall/txtrails/granbury.htm   (476 words)

  
 Dabney-house software downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Fright House is loaded with cool animations: bats, hooting owls, fright ening screams, thunder, lightning and more.
It shows a cosy little house at the edge of a fir forest on the bank of a frozen lake.
Secure-It is a local Windows security harden ing tool, proactive ly secure your PC by either disabling the intrusion and propagation vectors proactive ly or simply reduce the attack surface by disabling unimportant functions.
www.freedownloadsoft.com /dabney-house.html   (613 words)

  
 My father was Augustine Lee Dabney, my mother was Elizabeth Osborne Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He was a lawyer of much learning, and a successful practitioner, and while always diligent in his practice, and to his duties while on the bench, he was too modest and considerate to reap large emoluments from his labors.
I may here describe the series of plantations that were situated around Dry Grove as a focus, upon which resided the Virginia "Colonists," all of whom were related to me by blood or by marriage.
In the same neighborhood, we camped on the main road to Pass Christian, near a farmer's house.
milleralbum.com /ThomasGregoryDabney.html   (4935 words)

  
 Mountain Road Walking Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This house is about a mile past the Halifax library and on the same side of the road.
Dabney Cosby, his wife, and other family members are buried at St. John's Church.
From 1845 to 1847 Cosby was working under architect A.D. Davis as the subcontractor in charge of masonry on the additions to Old East and Old West buildings at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
www.halifax.com /county/HalifaxWalkingTourWoodside.htm   (716 words)

  
 Dabney Hall, University of Cincinnati Virtual Tour
Dabney Hall is a traditional, non-smoking hall that can house up to 300 students.
Dabney Hall is located just around the corner from the Campus Recreation Center, making it convenient for students to get in a workout, take a swim or participate in other fitness activities.
While no one is required to choose a special interest option, potential benefits of living on a special interest floor include having common classes with roommates or neighbors and ease in forming study groups.
www.uc.edu /virtualtour/living/dabney.html   (124 words)

  
 eBay - VHS: Where the Heart Is   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Dabney Coleman stars as demolition contractor Stewart McBain in director John Boorman's WHERE THE HEART IS, a Capra-esque fable that harkens back to the populist comedies of the 1930s.
When an architectural conservation group legally thwarts McBain's plans to vaporize the aging Dutch House apartments in Brooklyn, he's ridiculed for defending his actions in the media by the twentysomething layabout children who live off the fruits of his labor.
The parents of his eldest daughter's brother-in-law had given their children a derelict old house to take care of, instead of giving them an allowance.
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 Castle of Dreams: Thoughts and Journal Entries - Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
They are also on the southeaster part of campus, but these three of the seven student houses are on the north side of the Olive walk.
One of the South houses, adjoining Blacker to the north, location of ten (or fewer) minute dinners and Simpsons-watching (yes, it's related), and TND.
One of the three North houses, House color is a dark blue.
dreamcastle.stormpages.com /northtower/glossary.html   (776 words)

  
 Real Genius Information
Dabney House, Room #50 has the same mural of a Voyager image of Saturn.
Some of the student houses are constructed with a space between the outer walls and room walls, called "hyperspace", which can be clambered around in.
In Caltech slang, a "mole" is a resident of Blacker House and "trolling" is intensive studying to the extent one never sees the light of day, much like a real troll.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/7350/misc.html   (839 words)

  
 Dabney Charter School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Reid was hired, on a part-time basis, for a salary of $12,000 a year plus a stipend for health insurance and retirement, to assist the City in developing the curriculum, hiring staff, remodeling the Dabney campus, and opening the school.
We are writing to you in anticipation that you may discuss the possible sale of Dabney or its conversion to office space or other similar uses.
We find that there is a definite need for additional elementary student stations as a result of the closure of Dabney, Rhimes and Skeen at the completion of the 2003 academic year and the opening of Leesburg Elementary at the beginning of the 2004 academic year.
www.leesburgflorida.gov /blog/Dabney_Charter_School   (949 words)

  
 Dabney Doberman Pinschers-- 19 Years Of Top Quality Dogs Bredfor Show, Performance, Companionship. Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Charles W. Dabney: Eleventh President, 1887-1904 completed Chemistry Building on "the Hill" as Dabney Hall, after the eleventh president of the University, Charles William Dabney.
Dabney House Bed and Breakfast in Granburry, Texas.
Dabney House is a 1907 Craftsman Style home featuring its original hardwood floors, beveled and stain glass by the main entree "The Dabney House Baked Parmesan Chicken Breast" and.
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 The Writing's in the Walls
Overlooking the courtyard of Dabney House, one of Caltech’s undergraduate residences, is a bas-relief featuring Euclid, Pasteur, and six other luminaries of science and mathematics.
Dabney’s Alley 3 acquired a pilot’s-eye view of an airplane hurtling down on campus, poetically portraying the universal undergraduate flameout nightmare.
Dabney’s homage to underground comics in Alley 2 (“Lester mused over past midnight slayings”) has itself been consigned to the underground.
pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v41/walls.html   (1988 words)

  
 Marcus Garvey - Garvey & Dubois Meet - The Negro World
Dabney, the son of a Virginia slave, attended Oberlin College from 1885 to 1886 and taught school in Richmond for eight years before moving to Cincinnati to take over management of his uncle's hotel, the Dumas House.
Dabney quickly became involved in fl Republican polities in the city, and the Dumas House served as a center for Republican political rallies.
In response to fl demand for more political power within the government of Cincinnati, a number of fls were appointed to political office; Dabney was appointed the first fl assistant paymaster in 1898 and then head city paymaster, the highest political position held by a fl in Cincinnati.
www.marcusgarvey.com /wmview.php?ArtID=97   (978 words)

  
 DEI, a trademark of Dabney Hovse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The letters DEI and their lowercase Greek equivalents have long been associated with Dabney House at Caltech.
It is commonly reported that Caltech foodservice once had a dish which was eaten only by residents of Dabney House, and that the phrase ``Dabney Eats It'' was coined by foodservice workers.
I have correspondence indicating that Fleming was taunting Dabney with a ``Dabney eats it'' chant as early as the 1956-1957 academic year.
www.ucolick.org /~sla/dei   (405 words)

  
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In one sense (though the wrong one) the Dabney House was the more impressive of the pair of domiciles: for it was seven stories tall and had two hundred rooms; while the House of Heth was only four stories and basement, and had but fourteen rooms, counting in the trunk-room.
Over and in the Heth House there prevailed the most charming air of ease with dignity, of taste plus means, that you could well imagine: while the circumambient atmosphere of the Dabney House, not to put too fine a point on it, was the abomination of desolation, or that abomination's little brother.
Heth's house, negotiating with his executor at that; while in the great pile of the eponymous Dabney, you could have all of three rooms and (portable) bath for twelve dollars a month, though strictly cash in advance....
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