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  James Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Miller (VC 1857), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857.
James Miller (VC 1916), an English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1916.
James Francis Xavier Miller, headmaster of the Newcastle Royal Grammar School.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Miller   (249 words)

  
 James Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Miller (25 April 1776 - 7 July 1851) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire, Governor of Arkansas Territory, and a Brigadier General in the United States Army during the War of 1812.
James Miller was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Miller was taken as a prisoner of war in 1813 and was later exchanged.
www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/james_miller.html   (261 words)

  
 James Miller (filmmaker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This documentary was entitled Death In Gaza, and was released by HBO in 2004.
On March 9, 2005, the IDF announced the closing of the Miller case, announcing that the soldier believed responsible for the shooting would not be indicted.
Miller’s widow Sophy said the family was determined to find justice and put an end to the "culture of impunity" within the army.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Miller_(filmmaker)   (1024 words)

  
 James Miller: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James miller (25 april 1776 - 7 july 1851) was a member of the united states house of representatives from new hampshire, the first governor...
James miller was a scottish recipient of the victoria cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to...
James miller was an english recipient of the victoria cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_miller.htm   (614 words)

  
 James Miller (parachutist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James "Fan Man" Miller (1963–2002) was a parachutist and paraglider pilot from Henderson, Nevada, who became famous after he landed inside the ring where the rematch boxing fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe was being held on November 6, 1993, at Las Vegas.
Miller's declining health forced him to move to Anchorage, where he lived until he was reported missing on September 22, 2002.
Although Miller's disappearance and death were reported in the local press, his suicide did not become widely known outside Alaska until later in 2003, when ESPN went searching for him to film a Sportscenter feature to be shown during the tenth anniversary of his stunt.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Miller_(parachutist)   (389 words)

  
 George Mason University BOV--James C. Miller III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James C. Miller III of McLean, an economist, is a counselor to the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation.
In 1994 and in 1996, Miller was a candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from Virginia.
Miller graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.B.A. in Economics, and from the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in Economics.
bov.gmu.edu /miller.html   (195 words)

  
 George James Miller Jr.#965
Miller was convicted of the Sept. 17, 1994, murder of Gary Kent Dodd, 25.
Miller's ex-wife, whom he divorced prior to trial, testified he was not at home at the time of the murder and that he had taken her car keys from where she hid them and left.
Miller, 977 P.2d at 1110.The district court noted that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' statement that Exhibit 55, was "not evidence" and "was not introduced into evidence and it was not taken into deliberations by the jury" was incorrect.
www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/US/miller965.htm   (6874 words)

  
 Beers: Miller p. 994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Miller, grandfather of subject, was born in the Emerald Isle, immigrating to America in early manhood.
John Miller, father of subject, was born on the home farm in Mt. Pleasant township, and in 1815 was united in marriage with Margaret Miller, a native of Ireland, who came with her parents to America in 1811.
James Miller, the subject proper of this memoir, was born September 23, 1819, on the old home farm in Mt. Pleasant township, Washington Co., Penn., where he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the primitive subscription schools of the period.
www.savory.org /chartiers/beers-project/articles/miller-994.html   (444 words)

  
 James Miller (parachuter)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Miller (1963-2003) was a parachuter from Henderson, Nevada, who became famous after he landed inside the ring where the rematch boxing fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe was being held at, November 6, 1993, at Las Vegas.
James Miller became known, after that, as the fan man.
When ESPN went searching for Miller to film a Sportscenter feature to be shown during the tenth anniversary of his dare, it was discovered that Miller had committed suicide in March: A group of hunters had found a decomposing body in Alaska, and it was identified as James Miller.
www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/james_miller__parachuter_.html   (187 words)

  
 Music | Faculty Brass Three
James Miller is the associate principal trombonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a position held since 1999.
Miller earned his Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Northern Iowa and his Master of Music at The Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student of Per Brevig and Joe Alessi.
Miller is the brass department coordinator at the North Carolina School of the Arts and is a UMI clinician.
www.ncarts.edu /ncsaprod/music/facbrassthree.asp   (176 words)

  
 NH Division of Parks & Recreation: Miller State Park - General James Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Miller was born in 1776 in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Miller was also honored with the gift of a dress sword from the state of New York.
Miller resigned his army commission in 1819 and accepted the appointed position of Governor of the Territory of Arkansas.
www.nhparks.state.nh.us /ParksPages/Miller/MillerGenrl.html   (396 words)

  
 James Miller
Miller is a Professor Emeritus on Recall at the University of California (UCLA) School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
Miller has been a member of the NIH Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section and various other NIH study groups.
Miller is a reviewer for several distinguished journals including the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, the Journal of Immunology, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
www.lyme.org /ldf/miller.html   (252 words)

  
 Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
JAMES MILLER is the associate principal trombonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a position he has held since 1999.
Miller earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Northern Iowa and his Masters of Music degree from the Juilliard School where he was a scholarship student of Per Brevig and Joe Alessi.
James Miller serves on the faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
www.laphil.com /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=379   (154 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Quest for truth over Gaza death
James Miller was a cameraman on the side of the underdog.
James was shining a torch onto a white flag.
James was shot in the front of his neck by an Israeli bullet and was mortally wounded.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3235155.stm   (474 words)

  
 James Miller General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Blake Miller was medically discharged from the Marine...
DC James Miller, of the Area Crime Unit, said: "Given that the Common Lane area was...
in the death of the British photographer James Miller in Rafah...
www.wikiverse.org /james-miller-general   (398 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Miller Williams, entrepreneur, effectively founded Canada’s giant petroleum industry when, in 1857, near what became Oil Springs in Southwestern Ontario, he first produced oil commercially from an excavated well.
James Miller Williams was the first to drill through rock and tap the “fl gold” deposits in southwestern Ontario for commercial markets.
James Williams started his own interest in rock oil (which could be seen floating on the greasy surface of many a woodland pool in parts of southwestern Ontario) only in the mid- 1850s after he was already well established as the owner of a carriage works in Hamilton.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/102-103.htm   (662 words)

  
 THE WAR WITHIN
James Blake Miller was born in Pike County in the hills of eastern Kentucky, where Daniel Boone is said to have walked and where moonshine is still consumed.
Miller and his fellow Marines settled into a routine in Anbar province in western Iraq, setting up hiding places among the palms and sand, and watching for the white pickups that insurgents would use to plant bombs and fire mortars.
As Miller remembers that day, he was on a rooftop taking fire and calling for support on his radio - a 20-pound piece of equipment that he had to lug around along with nine extra batteries, hundreds of extra rounds of ammunition, and a couple of cartons of cigarettes.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/29/MNGMHGVCEV1.DTL   (3229 words)

  
 C4 News - World - Israel - Death in Gaza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In May 2003, James Miller was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip.
Miller and his close friend, reporter Saira Shah, had set out to follow up their award-winning films Beneath The Veil and Unholy War with a documentary about children caught in the crossfire of the bitter territorial dispute at the heart of the Middle East's troubles.
James Miller's "Death in Gaza" won the direction, cinematography and non-fiction film-making awards at last night's ceremony in Los Angeles.
www.channel4.com /news/2004/special_reports/death_in_gaza.html   (660 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Devon | Israel rules out Miller charges
Mr Miller, from Devon, was shot dead in 2003 at the age of 34, allegedly by a soldier in the Israeli Defence Forces.
Mr Miller's sister Anne pledged to continue the action, saying the family would seek a judicial review of the decision not to prosecute and issue a civil action for wrongful killing.
Mr Miller had been in the town of Rafah making a film about the effect of the Middle East conflict on Israeli and Palestinian children when he was shot.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/devon/4329903.stm   (331 words)

  
 CBS.com
Born and raised in Hohenwald, Tennessee, James Miller moved to Northlake, Illinois when he was 13 years old.
Miller was employed by the United States Navy from October 1990 until October 1992 as a seaman apprentice.
Miller currently resides in Mobile, Alabama, with his wife, Brandi, and their four children.
www.cbs.com /primetime/survivor10/survivors/bio/james.shtml   (163 words)

  
 International Trombone Association :: About ITA :: James Miller
James Thomas Miller is currently the associate principal trombonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a position he has held since 1999.
Miller continues as instructor of trombone at the North Carolina School of the Arts a position he has held since 1996.
James Miller is a clinician for UMI (United Musical Instruments).
www.trombone.net /about/jmiller.asp   (528 words)

  
 James Miller
The college thought it was appropriate to honor James Miller for his many fine contributions he made to the campus.
Miller was only 44 when he died, and he had been a member of the faculty since 1960.
The James M. Miller Honor Award in History and Political Science is presented annually at the college's convocation to an "outstanding and creative student" in history and political science.
www.morningside.edu /morningside/help/Bb/miller.cfm   (318 words)

  
 James Miller III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James C. Miller III is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and chairman of the CapAnalysis Group, an economic consulting firm associated with the international law firm Howrey, Simon, Arnold and White.
Between 1977 and 1981, Miller was a Resident Scholar at the Center for the Study of Government Regulation at the American Enterprise Institute.
Miller began his career as an assistant professor of economics at Georgia State University in 1968.
www-hoover.stanford.edu /bios/miller.html   (274 words)

  
 British Journalist Killed by Israeli Troops in Gaza Strip
British television journalist James Miller died after being shot by Israeli troops in the southern town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Miller, 35, was hit as he was filming a stand-up segment as part of a documentary he was making on the army's destruction of hundreds of homes of militants in the Palestinian territories.
A photo handed out May 3, 2003 shows freelance British cameraman James Miller a day before he was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0503-03.htm   (627 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics): Books: Henry James,Patricia Crick,Geoffrey Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Daisy Miller, whose father is in the US and whose mother is her ineffectual "chaperone," is a free spirit in a society bound by unstated but rigid "rules," determined to do whatever she wants, whenever she wants, with whomever she chooses.
James focuses on two characters here--both Daisy and Winterbourne--and though the story is told from Winterbourne's point of view, Daisy is often the more vibrant of the two characters.
James drew Daisy with such a mixture of characteristics - innocence, sentimentality, straightforwardness, passivity - that it's easy for the reader to sympathize with her.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140432620?v=glance   (1892 words)

  
 US People--Miller, James, Quartermaster, USN.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Miller was born in Denmark in 1835 or 1836 (sources vary).
For his courageous conduct on this occasion, Quartermaster James Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted to Acting Master's Mate.
Quartermaster Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor for courageous behavior on board USS Marblehead during her engagement with a Confederate battery on John's Island, Stono River, South Carolina, 25 December 1863.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-m/j-miller.htm   (297 words)

  
 James MILLER
All I can tell you is that Cousin James Miller has the property all in his possession, has rented out the land, and has paid Mother part of what was owing to her for the support of Peggy, but did not pay it until Mother employed a man to go and get it.
James plantation adjoined that of his brother Ebenezer Miller, and near that of E. Loyd Wailes.
Miller, B.R. Miller, T. Buck, J. and H. McCullough, J. Mason, G. Baynard, Gorton and Co., Eben Miller and E. Pollard were appropriated to work said road.
homepage.mac.com /bfthompson/Miller_family/ps07_001.html   (980 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | C4 cameraman killed in Gaza
Miller was due to be based in Rafah for four weeks, filming a documentary for the American HBO cable network.
Miller and Shah were finalists in the 2001 Rory Peck Awards for Beneath the Veil.
Miller was taken to the same hospital where a British peace activist is still in a coma after being shot in the head by the Israeli army on April 11.
www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,948548,00.html   (832 words)

  
 NH Division of Parks & Recreation: Miller State Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Located on the 2,290-foot summit and flank of Pack Monadnock in Peterborough, Miller is the oldest state park in New Hampshire.
Admission is $3 for adults; $1 for children ages 6-11; children ages 5 and under and NH residents age 65 and over are admitted free.
Miller is a carry-in/carry-out park; please carry your trash home with you and dispose of it properly.
www.nhparks.state.nh.us /ParksPages/Miller/Miller.html   (237 words)

  
 The Smokers Club, Inc. - The Smoking Marine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Miller became the symbol of the tough, determined U.S. troops when a picture of his dirt-and-blood-streaked face ran on the cover of The Post last November while the Marines were battling for control of Fallujah.
Miller was on the roof of a home where he and his fellow 1st Platoon members had spent the day engaged in practically nonstop firefights, fending off snipers and attackers who rushed the building.
Miller, who was sent to Iraq in June, is the eldest of three brothers from the hamlet of Jonancy, Ky., in the heart of Appalachian coal country.
www.smokersclubinc.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=584   (5673 words)

  
 ei: MILLER, James -- Journalist
James Miller, a 34-year-old British cameraman and documentary filmmaker, was shot dead by the Israeli Defense Forces in Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip, on May 2, 2003.
Miller and his crew had been working for the US HBO cable network in Rafah on a documentary about how Palestinian children are affected by the violence of the Intifada.
IFJ demands end to military "whitewash" after top journalist is shot dead in Palestine, Aidan White, General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists calls for a systematic process of independent investigation by respected international authorities, 3 May 2003.
electronicintifada.net /bytopic/people/45.shtml   (339 words)

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