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  John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, the greatest of all bluesmen passed away peacefully in his sleep in the morning of June 21, 2001 at his home in the San Francisco Bay area, at the age of 83.
Hooker influenced countless generations of musicians and inspired music fans around the world during his sixty year career.
Earlier that year, Hooker was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and presented by Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton.
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 Joseph Hooker
Hooker moved to command the Department of the East until he retired from the army after suffering a stroke on 15th October, 1868.
Lincoln, as was his character and habit, overlooked all the hard things Hooker had said of him, made him Commander of the Army of the Potomac in view of the good things he expected him to do for the country, and sent him, with the commission, a letter full of kindness and wise advice.
Hooker was in Washington on the Thursday of the week before the battle of Gettysburg, and at a conference with the President and the Secretary of War, it was agreed to hold Harper's Ferry, which, the year before, had been surrendered with great loss of men and materials of war.
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 John Lee Hooker
Hooker was born on August 22, 1917, to a sharecropping family in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Hooker went on to record for more than two dozen labels, often resorting to aliases such as John Lee Cooker, Delta John and the Boogie Man for contractual reasons.
Hooker appeared in The Blues Brothers movie, sang the title role on Pete Townshend’s concept album The Iron Man, and has duetted with Van Morrison.
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 Thomas Hooker - Britannia Biographies
Thomas Hooker was born of Puritan parents in the county of Leicestershire in 1586.
Chelmsford had a reputation as a place full of alehouses and drunkenness, but under the influence of Hooker's godly preaching the town was changed for the better.
Thomas Hooker, like Cotton, wanted to build a godly community, but he believed all the men should have a voice and a vote.
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 Home Entertainment Furniture,Home Office Furniture,Dining Room,and Bedroom Furniture - By Hooker Furniture
Hooker's extensive product line seamlessly combines function and elegance, and includes: home entertainment furniture, home office furniture, accent chairs and accent pieces, living room tables, bedroom furniture, kid's furniture, metal beds, dining furniture, bathroom furniture, leather and collections.
Once you locate furniture pieces of interest in our online catalog, which is organized by product category across the top of our home page, you can find a store near you that carries our brand through the dealer locator.
Hooker Furniture is one of the nation's largest publicly-traded furniture companies, and you can learn all about our financial performance through the investor relations section on our web site.
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 Hooker Home
Three months later Hooker was sent by rail in command of the 20th corps of the Army of the Potomac to help relieve General George H. Thomas, besieged at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Hooker still considered Howard to have been instrumental in bringing about his defeat at Chancellorsville and refused to serve under Howard, and he resigned.
Hooker's flanking column, consisting of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth corps and two divisions of the Second Corps, crossed the Rappahannock at Kelly's Ford on the 28th and 29th by pontoon-bridges, and passed the Rapidan by fording and by means of pontoons, arriving at Chancellorsville on the 30th.
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 World Wide Words: Hooker
General Hooker was a real person, though one who wasn’t universally popular — one biographer calls him “a conniver and carouser” — because he was quarrelsome, deeply disrespectful of his superiors, a womaniser, a drunkard, and (worst of all) an unsuccessful soldier.
Hooker’s headquarters were described as a combination of bar and brothel into which no decent woman could go.
The implication is that the hooker catches her clients by similar, albeit less tangible, methods.
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 Joseph Hooker Biography
One of the most immodest and immoral of the high Union commanders, "Fighting Joe" Hooker frequently felt slighted by his superiors and requested to be relieved of duty.
Once in charge, Hooker's headquarters were roundly criticized by many as a combination of bar and brothel.
To make matters worse Hooker was dazed by the effects of a shell striking a pillar on the porch of his headquarters.
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 Hooker Harness
Hooker Harness, Inc. was founded by innovator Jack Hooker.
During the early years Jack produced a variety of harnesses primarily for the aviation industry.
Through the years, Hooker Harness has become the most well known and respected producer of Aerobatic seatbelts and shoulder harnesses.
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 The Joseph Dalton Hooker website: Welcome!
Joseph Dalton Hooker was arguably the most important British botanist of the nineteenth century.
A traveller and plant-collector, he was one of Charles Darwin’s closest friends and eventually became director of Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Coming soon: my book Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian Natural History, will be published by the University of Chicago press early in 2008.
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 Hooker Headers, mufflers, complete exhaust systems
The Hooker line of Super Competition™ and Competition™ headers, mufflers and catback exhaust systems are the most complete on the market.
Since the golden era of drag racing in the 1960s, Hooker has helped more racers reach the Winner's Circle than any other header company.
Street to race, Hooker exhaust technology will make your car or truck perform and sound better.
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 NRL - Ruth H. Hooker Research Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The NRL Ruth H. Hooker Research Library offers a full range of traditional and digital library resources to enhance and support the research programs of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research.
Ruth Hutchison Hooker was NRL’s first librarian, a trained physicist hired to create a library at NRL in 1927.
In honor of her 35 years of service, NRL named the technical library the ‘Ruth H. Hooker Technical Library’ in 1975.
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 F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Hooker
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have been affected by this trojan, change your Windows domain and RAS password immediatly.
Hooker is a password and data stealing trojan.
Being run it installs itself as KERN32.EXE (name may differ in different versions) into \Windows\System\ directory and modifies RunOnce key in the Registry to be run during next Windows session.
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 Real Estate - Real Estate Australia - Property and Homes for Sale, Rental Property - About Us Page - Australia - L.J. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Les Hooker opened the first office of L.J. Hooker on Maroubra Road, Maroubra Sydney in 1928.
In those early days Les Hooker spent his time much like L.J. Hooker agents do today – meeting people, talking to them, developing relationships and gaining trust.
We have all heard the phrase "work smarter not harder" and at L.J. Hooker we have developed a System.
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 TJ-HOOKER.COM - A Service of NEWHALLNET in Association With JOHNEATS.COM
TJ-Hooker.com is your one-stop source for all things T.J. Hooker.
Which T.J. Hooker character do you think could have supported their own spin-off series?
T.J. Hooker, all character names and imagery related to the show are © Columbia TriStar Television.
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 THE RUG HOOKER'S NETWORK
Welcome to this unique, online Fiber Art publication!
We originated in 1996 primarily as a resource for Traditional Rug Hookers and have, upon request from our viewers, expanded our resources to include Punch / Speed Needle Rug Hooking and Latch style rug making.
You are invited to explore our Web pages and satisfy your Rug Hooking needs.
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