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  Dixon, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dixon is a city located 30 miles from Sacramento, California, in Solano County.
Dixon is also home to the May Fair, the longest running annual fair in the state of California.
Dixon is also the home of the Gymboree Corporation's only Distribution Center, servicing all stores and customers around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dixon,_California   (562 words)

  
 Dixon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was in Dixon that John Dixon began a ferry service and tavern in 1830, along the Peoria–Galena mail route.
Dixon has persuaded her father and mother to come over and see her directly.
Dixon was so well pleased with his new name, and appeared to think it so obliging in Mr.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Dixon   (235 words)

  
 Jeane Dixon
Jeane Dixon (1918-1997) was an astrologer and alleged
Dixon's prophecy's being fulfilled were not too great--7 to 3, based on twentieth-century experience (Christopher 1970: 81).
Dixon was featured every year in various publications that engage in the entertaining pursuit of making predictions for the new year.
skepdic.com /dixon.html   (643 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dixon, Illinois
Dixon was the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan, whose family house is preserved at 816 South Hennepin Street.
Every spring Dixon holds the annual Petunia Festival down Galena Avenue featuring a multitude of floats from all around, a vehicle resembling an old locomotive engine(which can be occasionally spotted year-round) and the whimsical character of Pinky the Petunia.
The Dixon High school itself is a thing to look at, because unlike most high schools it is built almost like a castle.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dixon,_Illinois   (772 words)

  
 ESPN.com - 2002 NBA Draft: Juan Dixon Draft Bio
Dixon was also named to the ACC All-Defensive team and named ESPN The Magazines Shooting Guard of the Year.
Dixon is also the only player in NCAA history to have collected over 2,000 points, 300 steals and 200 made 3-pointers.
Dixon ended his college career ranked second in ACC history, second at Maryland and 12th in the NCAA with 333 steals.
sports.espn.go.com /nbadraft/tracker/player?playerId=15678   (561 words)

  
 Dixon
Dixon was forty-nine years and seven months old, and leaves a widow and eight children to mourn his loss.
Dixon stood outside the jail and informed the mob that he was not going to give up his prisoner.
James M. Dixon was born on 10 April 1864 in Valdosta, Georgia, while his mother refugeed there from her home in Savannah during the War Between the States, his father then being in the Confederate blockade running service.
www.saylerfamily.com /Dixon/geneology_of_james_dixon.htm   (2034 words)

  
 WND-Ron Dixon jailed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dixon fired two shots from his.9 mm pistol, wounding the suspected burglar in the chest and groin.
Authorities charged Dixon with illegal possession of a firearm when they discovered his gun was not legally registered in New York, a charge that carries up to a year in prison.
Dixon was in, I would be willing to wager that you would also use whatever means you had on hand to defend your loved ones, as any of us would.
www.wmsa.net /news/WorldNetDaily/wnd-030611_defend_kid_jail.htm   (636 words)

  
 Dixon County, NEGenWeb Project Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dixon county was first settled in 1856 and the county was organized by an act of the legislature in December 1858.
Dixon county had issued $87,000 in bonds to build the line, and now felt it had been defrauded.
In the act organizing Dixon County, the city of Ponca was included within its boundaries, and it it was required that the county seat be voted on.
www.homestead.com /DixonCoNEGenWebProject/DixonCoNEGenWebProject.html   (2493 words)

  
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Dixon was greeted by his legal guardians, family, friends and other supporters.
Dixon’s supporters, however, said a law enacted to protect children from child molesters was misused in order to convict Dixon of the molestation charge.
Dixon is scheulded to stand trial this month on a sexual battery charge stemming from that incident.
11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46395   (1016 words)

  
 Dixon Illinois Main Street
Dixon Main Street is moving into a new level of maturity, building on past experience and projects.
In October of 2004, Dixon was chosen by Lieutenant Governor, Pat Quinn, as the host city for the Illinois State Main Street Conference.
Dixon Main Street was recognized by Illinois Main Street Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn's Award for Excellence in Downtown Revitalization.
www.dixonil.com /mainstreet   (326 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - Can sports save Marcus Dixon?
Dixon is one year into a 15-year sentence, also of dubious origins.
But his grades and SAT scores, prominently featured but wholly irrelevant in the disposition of his case, are high enough that his mother will not have to ask any coach to "save her son," as Ann Iverson asked of John Thompson at Georgetown.
In Dixon's case, the real drama is that fl men sleeping with white women is still taboo.
espn.go.com /page2/s/jones/040121.html   (1084 words)

  
 Senator Larry Dixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Senator Dixon, born in Nowata, Oklahoma, on August 31, 1942, is Executive Director of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners.
Dixon, the former Gaynell Kimbrough of Piedmont, are the parents of two daughters: Katherine and Elizabeth.
Senator Dixon is a Methodist, a Republican, a member of the Montgomery Lions Club, and the National Administrators in Medicine.
www.legislature.state.al.us /senate/senators/senatebios/sd025.html   (112 words)

  
 WhosWhoinDixonCounty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dixon has been the scene of several county seat battles, one of which occurred before Dixon County was organized and was still part of Dakota county.
Raymond Newton); 1890-1920 farmed in Dixon co; 1929- gen ins agt in NewCastle; 1900-14 mbr sch bd dist 14, dir Dixon co; 15 years mbr sch bd at Newcastle; 1908 chmn Dixon co Dem Central com; 1911-13 police magistrate and JP of Newcastle; 4 years pct assessor; IOOF; 5 years trustee congl ch; hobby, politics.
Gregory Kneifl); 1880-90 farmed with father in Dixon Co; 1890-94 farmed with brother James; 1894-98 farmed with brother Peter; 1896-farmed indep; 1898-1936 treas Dixon Co sch bd; 1915-23 mbr twp bd; Tara Hill Cath Ch; Dem; hobbies; livestock; owner of farm homesteaded by father 1870; res Newcastle.
www.homestead.com /DixonCoNEGenWebProject/WhosWhoinDixonCounty.html   (2482 words)

  
 Dixon Industries Inc. Recalls Riding Lawn Mowers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dixon has received about 532 reports of fuel leaking from these mowers.
The model numbers are located on the body of the mower near the bottom of the seat, or on both sides of the front of the body above the wheels.
Dixon dealers sold these mowers nationwide at various time periods from July 1997 through March 2002 for between $2,500 and $7,400.
www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/prerel/prhtml02/02124.html   (244 words)

  
 Dixon District Chamber of Commerce - Dixon History
Dixon was first settled in 1852 by Elijah S. Silvey, whose search for gold landed him in these parts during the California gold rush.
The Dixon Chamber of Commerce organized in 1909, and at that time encouraged the May Day celebration to be held on the weekend closest to the First of May.
Dixon was also known in the early 1900’s as “The Dairy City” after hydraulic pumps became available to farmers.
www.dixonchamber.org /history.php   (1308 words)

  
 Louisa Dixon Attorney Jackson Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dixon to the Mississippi Ethics Commission which is charged with assuring that public officials are independent and impartial and that public office is not used for private gain.
Dixon directed the Investigative Audit Division of the State Auditor's Office where she managed a staff of auditors and investigators auditing for misappropriations and assisted with lawsuits to enforce the audits.
Dixon is the author of two suspense novels, loosely based on her experience in state government: Next to Last Chance, (1998); and Outside Chance, (1999).
www.louisadixon.com   (313 words)

  
 City of Dixon's Profile
Dixon maintains small town charm while reaping the benefits of its ideal location between Sacramento and San Francisco, the two most dynamic metropolitan areas in Northern California.
Dixon schools have a good reputation, and are a safe place for learning and growth.
Dixon schools also have one of the highest statewide rates for participation in sports, music and dramatic arts activities and low suspension and dropout rates.
www.ci.dixon.ca.us /general/DixonProfile.html   (1149 words)

  
 Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ultimately Dixon argued that American painting could best work its influence on the lives and thoughts of people when painters based their work upon native material and their native reaction to it.
Maynard Dixon was a regionalist long before the term arrived, with a confirmed belief in the vitality of America.
From 1900 to his death in 1946, Dixon periodically roamed the West's plains, mesas, and deserts on foot, horseback, buckboard-even by automobile-drawing, painting, and writing, pursuing a transcendent awareness of the region's spirit.
www.tfaoi.com /distingu/mdixon.htm   (1078 words)

  
 AOK: Preparing for Conversations with Nancy Dixon
Before forming her own company, Common Knowledge, Dr. Dixon was Professor of Administrative Sciences at The George Washington University in Washington DC and earlier was a member of the Human Resource Development graduate faculty at The University of Texas, Austin.
Dixon serves as an Editorial Reviewer for the Human Resource Development Quarterly and as a Member of the Editorial Board for Management Learning and for Action Learning: Research and Practice.
Dr. Dixon's consulting company has worked with corporations and government agencies to create communities of practice, develop lessons learned systems, facilitate after action reviews for large projects and help individuals develop their social capital.
www.kwork.org /Stars/dixon.html   (7334 words)

  
 Dixon Gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 17-acre wooded site was acquired by the Dixons in 1939 and construction of their home followed.
The gardens were carefully carved out of native Tennessee woodlands, with consideration given to the fine old trees, vistas, arrangement and sequence of garden space.
Dixon's English heritage, the gardens were landscaped in the manner of an English park with open vistas adjacent to smaller, intimate formal spaces.
www.dixon.org /Gardens/gardens.html   (156 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan... Dixon, Illinois
As I look back on those days in Dixon, I think my life was as sweet and idyllic as it could be, as close as I could imagine for a young boy to the world created by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
n a town like Dixon during the early 1920s, the silent movie was still a novelty, "talkies" hadn't been invented yet, visits by vaudeville troupes were still rare, and television was something you read about in science fiction stories.
She was a star performer of a group in Dixon that staged what we called "readings": Dixonites would memorize dramatic or humorous passages from famous poems, plays, speeches, or books and deliver them in a dramatic fashion before an audience at church or elsewhere.
www.ronaldreagan.com /dixon.html   (990 words)

  
 Willie Dixon, Mississippi blues musician
In 1980 Dixon was inducted into the Blues Foundation’s Hall of Fame and in 1982 Dixon set up the Blues Heaven Foundation to help musicians and their estates claim their due (Perry 2-3, "Dixon Dodges Glare of New Recordings Spotlight").
Dixon’s songs are considered to be the greatest body of work of any blues songwriter.
Dixon died at the age of seventy-six at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank, California on January 29, 1992.
www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/Dixon.html   (1133 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: dixon
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Aaron Dixon is expected to announce his candidacy for the United States Senate, challenging incumbent Maria Cantwell.
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www.technorati.com /tag/dixon   (500 words)

  
 Dixon Miniatures : Wargaming Figures for collectors and wargamers including 25mm Samurai, 25mm Vikings, 25mm English ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Established in 1976 DIXON MINIATURES are world renowned for the design and the production of only the very best military miniatures and wargaming figures.
DIXON MINIATURES strive to provide these demands and are probably the only company in this field casting most of our figures with as many as twenty head variants per figure code in order to give as much realism to your armies in 'the field' as possible.
Finally DIXON MINIATURES could not remain the leaders in our field without you the customer and we are constantly on hand not only to take your orders, but to listen to your comments and suggestions on either completely new ranges or how we can add to or improve the old established ranges.
www.dixon-minis.com   (332 words)

  
 Prof. David Dixon
Dixon’s main research interest, at present, is the application of the techniques of numerical simulation to chemical problems with a focus on fluorine chemistry.
A major interest is the appropriate use of large scale computing systems and the appropriate choice of computational methods.
For example, Dr. Dixon was one of the first computational functional theory to solve chemical problems.
bama.ua.edu /~chem/people/faculty/dixon/dixon.html   (505 words)

  
 Don Dixon @ eFolkMusic
Dixon's debut solo album, "Most Of The Girls Like To Dance But Only Some Of the Boys Like To," included several years worth of "vault raiding." With that release, Dixon established himself as more than just an American rock cult figure.
The record is proof that while Dixon has a phenomenal command of the pop idiom, he's not afraid to take chances, a fact that wasn't lost on the critics.
Dixon's songwriting talents garnered him a hit single in Germany with Joe Cocker's cover version of "I Can Hear The River" and numerous co-writes with established artits like Counting Crows and Marshall Crenshaw.
www.efolkmusic.org /ArtMusic/ViewArtist.asp?aid=47   (911 words)

  
 The Dixon Public Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dixon Public Library has become a partner in the Solano, Napa and Partners Library Consortium (SNAP).
The Dixon Public Library is participating in the InfoPeople Project, which provides points of public access to the Internet.
The Dixon Public Library is also a member of the Claifornia Library Association, the North Bay Cooperative Library System, the Solano Napa and Partners (SNAP) regional library service, and an affiliate member of the Mountain Valley Library System.
www.dixon.lib.ca.us   (156 words)

  
 Dixon Unified School District
This website is like a work of art, it’s never quite finished, so make sure to visit periodically to see the updates and upgrades that we will provide in the future.
The Dixon Unified School District has a growing enrollment of approximately 4000 students in grades K-12, of which approximately 45% are of Hispanic ethnicity.
Dixon schools are committed to using technology as a learning tool.
www.dixonusd.org   (348 words)

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