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Holmes Beach, Florida Holmes Beach is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,966.
Holmes Township, Michigan Holmes Township is a township located in 2000 census, the township had a total population of 2...
Mycroft Holmes Mycroft Holmes is a Sherlock Holmes.
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 George N. Holmes
Holmes had many interesting and remarkable experiences, and his career is one which exemplifies the value of perseverance, fidelity and integrity in gaining position and fortune.
Holmes belongs to a family noted for its longevity, three of his grandparents having lived to nearly the age of ninety years; and George Holmes was eighty-five at his death.
Holmes has the utmost confidence of the officials of his company, who have found that they can depend absolutely upon his accuracy, ability and loyalty; and has also gained and retained the friendship of all who have worked with him or have come into contact with him in any way.
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 Holmes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernest Holmes (1887–1960), founder of the movement known as Religious Science, also known as "Science of Mind," a part of the New Thought Movement.
Oliver Wendell Holmes the elder (1809–1894), poet and essayist
Mycroft Holmes, a self-aware computer in the Robert A. Heinlein novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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George was elected as president, in part, in recognition of the leadership he provided in forming the District Conference.
George Holmes is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology of the College of Medicine at Howard University.
George has built a reputation as one who will not transgress for "a piece of bread." As such, he has been the main force in empowering the Faculty Grievance Commission at Howard, first at the medical school and later at the university as a whole.
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 Sherlock Holmes Pastiche Characters - Story Summaries D
Holmes investigates the kidnapping of a banker's daughter, but is attacked while carrying out a bank robbery and learns his client is not who he claims to be.
Holmes tells Watson that he had worked on the Ripper case and uncovered the identity of the Ripper, who was of such high social standing that his identity could not be revealed, and who was banished from the country, instead of being brought to trial.
Holmes and Watson go to investigate, the house is set on fire, and Holmes reaches the conclusion that the lightning-struck tree wasn't really struck by lightning, but was cunningly made to look that way to conceal the fact that a different tree had been dropped on the man and then hidden....or something.
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 McGuffey | History of the McGuffey Reading Center
Before joining the faculty in 1857 as a new chair of history and literature, he served as professor at Richmond College and the College of William and Mary and as the first president of the University of Mississippi, all before the age of thirty.
The McGuffey Reading Clinic, headed by Professor Ullin W. Leavell, was established by him in 1946 and developed in the succeeding years into an important agency for the improvement of reading ability for people of all ages.
In 1985 he established the George Graham Lectures at the University of Virginia in honor and memory of one of his former students.
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 George H. Holmes Biographical Sketch
Holmes came to UNI, then Iowa State Teachers College, in 1929 and was the school's first journalism teacher, as well as its first director of publicity, of publications and of public relations, the latter tasks evolving through his years of service.
Prior to coming to UNI, Holmes directed the Journalism Laboratory at the University of Michigan, was director of publicity and journalism instructor at the University of South Dakota, and was a reporter for the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer.
Holmes was born October 14, 1901, at Canisteo, N.Y., the son of George H.
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 George Frederick Holmes
HOLMES, George Frederick, educator, born in Demerara, British Guiana, in 1820.
He became a professor in Richmond college, Virginia, in 1845, in 1846 president of the University of Mississippi, and in 1847 professor of history, political economy, and international law in William and Mary college.
In 1857 he was chosen professor of history and literature in the University of Virginia.
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Thomson, Sir George Paget Thomson, Sir George Paget, 1892-1975, English physicist; son of Sir Joseph John Thomson.
He was professor of natural philosophy at the Univ. of Aberdeen (1922-30) and from 1930 to 1952 was professor of physics at Imperial College, Univ. of London.
Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st marquess of Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st marquess of: see Grenville, George Nugent Temple, 1st marquess of Buckingham.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virginia
George Mason wrote the Bill of State Rights, which was followed by the Declaration of Independence, composed by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the colonists, 4 July, 1776.
The Seal of Virginia was adopted from the suggestion of George Wythe.
Lavalette Floyd Holmes, wife of the erudite Professor George F. Holmes f the University of Virginia; Mrs.
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 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
George R. Holmes and his associates believe that promoting social competency in each adolescent group member is central to successful therapy.
GEORGE R. HOLMES is Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychology at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute.
ROBERT V. HECKEL is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Carolina.
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 Hol-Hoy: Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals.
-- George Holyoake, lecturing on May 24, 1842, at the Mechanics Institute in London on "Home Colonization as a Means of Superseding the Poor Laws and Emigration," and then responding to the question of a preacher, who asked whether there should not be churches and chapels in the community.
For more than nine hours he addressed the jury in an eloquent and learned appeal that freedom of speech was a priceless heritage of mankind, that liberty of opinion was essential to the progress and happiness of man, and that blasphemy was an imaginary offense.
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 University of Mississippi. Department of Classics History
Whitfield was Adjunct Professor of Greek from 1872 to 1874 after which he practiced law and became Professor of Law at the University.
Professor Bondurant edited a newsletter for Latin teachers in Mississippi which was appropriately entitled Vox in Desertis Clamans.
Professor Turnbull served for many years as Secretary of the Mississippi Society of the AIA and as a member of the Managing Committee of the American School at Athens.
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 McGuffey | History of the McGuffey Reading Center | George Frederick Holmes
Holmes' interest in education, and especially grammar, caused him to write numerous textbooks, readers, grammars and a school history of the United States.
New York, Professor Holmes' Readers were called the University Series, and extended to six readers with a spelling book and a grammar.
It is interesting to note that Holmes was a contemporary and colleague of William Holmes McGuffey, and it is reported that they shared interests led to long evenings of discussion and argument over the fine points of grammar.
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 University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Scarlets Web - 08/30/01
Working with large-scale computer simulations, a team of scientists that included Xiao Cheng Zeng, UNL professor of chemistry, has modeled four new kinds of crystalline ice, all by adjusting the diameter of a carbon nanotube by less than one-quarter of a nanometer (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter).
He is one of the world's leading researchers on the theory of atomic photoionization, the ionization of a molecule or atom caused by absorption of radiant energy.
The endowed stipend from the NU Foundation for University Professors is $15,000.
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 UNL News Releases 11/24/03
Our newest University Professors -- Ruma Banerjee, John Turner and Charles Wood -- have distinguished themselves as first-rank researchers who have achieved at the highest levels of their individual disciplines and who are acknowledged leaders in their fields of study.
Banerjee, whose title will be George Holmes University Professor of Biochemistry in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, leads a team that last year won a $10.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Nebraska Redox Biology Center.
She joined Nebraska's biochemistry faculty as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and professor in 2000.
www.unl.edu /pr/2003/1103/112403anews.html   (675 words)

  
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George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska Linkoln, Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Professor Hardy joined UNL in 1966 as a Visiting Associate Professor of Physics.
He was an Associate Professor of Physics through 1967 and became a full Professor in 1968.
www.physics.unomaha.edu /Material_Science/Hardy.html   (405 words)

  
 Profile of John Woollam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Professor Woollam is an outgoing individual deeply involved in helping students build careers, and especially in research and development.
As part of this process, both he and his students travel to conferences in and out of the United States to exchange research results and to collaborate with other researchers.
Professor Woollam is nationally active in several professional societies.
www.ee.unl.edu /faculty/john_woollam/john_woollam.html   (416 words)

  
 CBA: Faculty & Staff » Fred Luthans
Fred Luthans is the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
The editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Business, Professor Luthans is also the editor for Organizational Dynamics and is on the editorial board of several other journals.
Professor Luthans has a very extensive research program at the University of Nebraska.
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 Daily Nebraskan - Three UNL professors receive highest honors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
University Professor is the highest possible distinction for a University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty member.
Before joining UNL in 1991 as an assistant professor of biochemistry, she was a lecturer at the University of Michigan.
In 1997, she was promoted to UNL associate professor and to professor in 2000.
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 LikeTelevision - Sherlock Holmes - Woman in Green
Sherlock Holmes is once again after Professor Moriarty and a clever woman, The Woman in Green.
Sir George later visits her at her swank apartment and wakes up the next day in a boarding house with amnesia.
Holmes suspects the work of Professor Moriarty, even though he is presumed dead by Watson.
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 George Holmes -
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George J Borjas - Friends or Strangers : The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy - 0465025676
George Milton Holmes is aRepublican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the states ninety-second House district, including constituents in Forsyth and Yadkin counties.A retiree from Hamptonville, North Carolina, Holmes is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in his fourteenth term in the state House.
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 Lincoln Journal Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Three UNL professors were among those picked for the University of Nebraska's most prestigious awards for teaching and research announced Monday.
Rosowski is the Adele Hall Distinguish Professor of English and serves as the university's pre-eminent Willa Cather scholar.
Kamil is the George Holmes University Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology at UNL and serves as director of UNL's Cedar Point Biological Station.
www.journalstar.com /articles/2004/02/27/local/10045952.txt   (227 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
"In this work Holmes provides comprehensive, in-depth discourse on the stages of adolescent development, relating them to psychological and social constructs of the family and to the changing social context of the United States in recent decades.
In this book, George R. Holmes provides care-givers and parents with specific tactics to move teenagers successfully through adolescence.
GEORGE R. HOLMES is a Professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
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Connecticut to discuss the project." The nine-year-old William Ziegler, Jr., was present for part of the interview with Walter Holmes, and was "impressed with the clarity of Mr.
Holmes came to assume so benevolent a role in the lives of Ziegler readers that he was called "Uncle Walter" by thousands who had never met him.
Holmes did suffer from vertigo, and it is possible that he suffered an attack while he climbed up to adjust the curtains, and fell out.
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 UCD News - May 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A UCD graduate in horticulture was the recipient of the 1995 International Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award by the Gamma Sigma Delta honour society of Agriculture in the US.
Dublin-born Professor Dermot Coyne is George Holmes Regents Professor in the Department of Horticulture in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
The commendation with the presentation noted that Professor Coyne had earned an 'outstanding' reputation by utilising the tools of research, education and service to increase efficiency of plant production on national and international levels.
www.ucd.ie /ucdnews/may96/alumnus.html   (91 words)

  
 PIMS: Library: General Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Institute Library, which opened in 1929 with a mere 3,000 titles donated by St Michael’s College, today has holdings of more than 100,000 volumes whose lustre is enhanced and complemented by specialized collections of microfilms and slides.
Access to the library is normally granted to those professors and graduate students of the University of Toronto who need to consult unique copies or materials not otherwise accessible.
Every reasonable opportunity to use the library is also given to visiting scholars, particularly Guests of the Institute.
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 UNL | Academic Affairs | Professorships
Ruma Banerjee, George Holmes University Professor of Biochemistry
Ruma Banerjee, Willa Cather Professor Emeritus and Professor of Biochemistry
Roger Wiegand, Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Mathematics
www.unl.edu /svcaa/faculty/awards/professorships.shtml   (586 words)

  
 04.08.2004 - April features three Graduate Council Lectures
The first, on Tuesday, April 13, is the Howison Lecture in Philosophy, named for George Holmes Howison, a professor of that subject who arrived at Berkeley in 1884.
Gordon’s topic, focusing on the work of a well-known member of the Berkeley community in the mid-20th century (and the influence of that work on American political ethics), is “Visual Democracy: Dorothea Lange and the Political Culture of the New Deal.” The lecture will be illustrated with selections from Lange’s photographs.
This year’s Foerster Lecturer, Carlo Ginzburg, is professor of Italian Renaissance studies at UCLA.
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 Scarlet's Web - 12/1/95 - News in Brief
DiBernard joined UNL in 1978 as an assistant professor in the Department of English and was promoted to associate professor in 1980.
Since then, she has won a distinguished teaching award, has been recognized numerous times by the UNL Parent's Association and the Teaching Council for contributions to teaching and earlier this year was named a charter member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, a new body at UNL that recognizes excellent teachers.
Sally Wise, director of the Law Library, Linda Pratt, professor and chair, English, and Dermot Coyne, George Holmes Professor of Horticulture and chair of the Academic Freedom Award Committee, will review the materials and select one nominee to present to the Academic Senate for approval.
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