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  Wilson, Sir James Milne
Was born at Banff, Scotland, on 29 February 1812, the third son of John Wilson, a shipowner.
In 1868, at the time of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, Wilson was mayor of Hobart and on 4 August 1869 became premier and colonial secretary in a ministry which lasted until November 1872.
XXXVI.) In 1872 Wilson was elected president of the Tasmanian legislative council, and held this position until his death on 29 February 1880.
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 A.A. Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
Milne won a scholarship to Westminster School at age 11, an unusually precocious accomplishment.
Milne married in 1913, but the relationship was one more of friendship than of love; there was not a great deal of sexual intimacy, as they maintained separate bedrooms.
Milne was already a pacifist when World War I broke out, but felt he had to contribute to the war effort in some way, volunteering and eventually being assigned to the Signal Corps.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
Wilson strenuously opposed the influx of convicts from Tasmania, fought for the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales, and opposed Governor Hotham in his attitude to the miners; but when the rebellion broke out he took the stand that there were peaceable and legitimate methods of obtaining redress.
Wilson was a tall, sombre, silent figure, but his reserve was largely due to shyness, for his friends found him a lovable man. He had an active and benevolent mind, was thoroughly sincere, earnest and unselfish, with a hatred of hypocrisy, chicanery and self-seeking.
In 1874 Wilson gave the university of Melbourne £30,000 which with accrued interest was expended on a building in the Gothic style now known as the Wilson Hall.
www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html   (20274 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Portrait: AN Wilson
Though now agnostic, Wilson once intended to be a clergyman, and something of that is still visible in his bearing: erect, but solicitous, and slightly buttonholing.
Wilson acknowledges that his feelings about her writing are mixed - the same doubts expressed in his book, where he wonders, in flashback, whether her novels are not "pretty good tosh" as well as being at times brilliant.
Wilson quotes Murdoch herself to say that, in the novel of our lives, we would all be characters in a comedy - except comedy, of course, can be very cruel.
books.guardian.co.uk /departments/biography/story/0,6000,1034600,00.html   (1492 words)

  
 Detective Fiction and Edmund Wilson: A Rejoinder
In all three columns, however, Wilson confesses a great weakness for Sherlock Holmes stories and, for him, Moriarity was a wonderful arch villain resembling no normal person.
Wilson found himself left out of a new reading trend and rather than objectively getting into the game, he condemns, belittles and finally admits that even the great Pooh-Bah finds himself somewhat addicted to some of it is amazing given the little he actually read.
Many other works by mystery authors such as Chesterton, Stout, Hillerman, and P.D. James (to mention only a very few) will outlive some of the literary luminaries of the past and present because they tell stories to which we can all relate in ways that are elegant and unforgettable.
www.dartmouth.edu /~gjdemko/praise.htm   (2256 words)

  
 Jeans biography
James' family moved to Brighton when he was eighteen months old then, when he was three years old, they moved to London.
Milne writes that studying this work when he was a student was one of his:-
Milne records in [Obituary Notices of the Royal Society of London 5 (1947), 573-589.',5)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">5] that Jeans spent part of his last day listening to music.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Jeans.html   (2278 words)

  
 David Graham Flucker
Joseph James Walker was born on the 1st of June 1885 in Ballarat, Victoria and was married in April 1915 in Wendouree, Victoria to Mildred Mary Chiverton.
James was born in 1863 in Newcastle, New South Wales to James Morris Downey and Catherine Hickey, and died in 1938.
James Morris Downey was born and died in 1893 in Ballarat.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography G
In 1869 he was elected without opposition as member for Hobart in the house of assembly, and in February 1870 became attorney-general in the J.
Wilson resigned in November 1872 and was succeeded by F.
Gordon was educated at Mount Barker under James Clezy, M.A., and at Gawler under the Rev. J.
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 Prominent Men of the Great Lakes : Capt. James Wilson
James Wilson of Bronte is mate on the schooner White Oak, of which staunch vessel he owns half along with Captain James Quinn of Oakville, and as a sailor on fresh water he has had a rare lot of experience.
Captain James Wilson was born in the year 1845, and he is a native of the County of Wentworth.
Wilson is married and has a family of one son and two daughters.
www.hhpl.on.ca /GreatLakes/Documents/ProminentMen?ID=c072   (659 words)

  
 Steve Coleman
Wilson sings on many of the tracks, and is spotlighted on "Little One I'll Miss You." There are a bunch of short tracks (two or three minutes), a trend which accelarated on the next album and then suddenly reversed itself.
Wilson is finally given something substantial to sing: Coleman's lyrics on the dramatic "Beyond All We Know," with ominous piano and cymbal washes like 1965 Coltrane.
Cassandra Wilson is present throughout, and her vocals lift many of the tracks (Coleman's kinetic "Cool Lou"), and her own "One Bright Morning" showcases the slow, lyrical direction she was taking with her solo career.
www.warr.org /scoleman.html   (3060 words)

  
 James Munroe Osborn
JAMES MUNROE OSBORN, one of the leading citizens of Fall River and for many years a foremost cotton mill promoter, was born in Tiverton, R. I., August 27, 1822, and is the youngest son of Thomas Osborn and Anna Durfee, his wife.
James M. Osborn was left fatherless when he was eleven years old, and thereafter his life was one of almost constant toil and manly industry.
For six years he remained with his widowed mother on the farm, availing himself in the mean time of such educational advantages as were then afforded by the common schools of his town.
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 The Bruce Medalists: Olin C. Wilson
A native Californian, Olin Wilson was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. under Paul Merrill.
Wilson Observatory, where he made spectroscopic studies of stellar chromospheres and stellar activity cycles as well as supernovae, Wolf-Rayet stars, planetary nebulae, and the interstellar medium.
Wilson started the HK project which continues to use Mt. Wilson telescopes to monitor a number of nearby stars in search of starspot cycles.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Wilson/index.html   (252 words)

  
 Milne Family Genealogy Forum (Page 3)
Re: Milne/ Thackston Descendants - Curtis Thackston 1/30/02
MILNE - Aberdeenshire Scotland - Jude McMillan 5/04/01
Re: MILNE - Aberdeenshire Scotland - James Milne 5/08/01
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 James Whale
James Whale is certainly a known quantity both inside and outside of academic circles and it is readily acknowledged that he was a “great” director.
James Whale was gay and, what is more, he lived openly from 1930 to 1951 with David Lewis, a producer who worked for MGM and Warners.
James Whale's milieu was the stage, the courtroom, the operating room, the laboratory.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/05/whale.html   (7569 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet - Europe - Partick v Dunfermline Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Midfielder Derek Fleming took a short pass from Kenny Milne out on the left and swung in a cross into the box and Andy Thomson, who looked offside, stooped to head past Stillie from only eight yards out.
The second half started with little promise of what was to come but there was great drama in the 56th minute when Thistle doubled their lead with a penalty which resulted in Dunfermline being reduced to 10 men.
Milne found Grady with a great ball down the left and when the little striker's cross came over, Thomson bundled Jags midfielder Mitchell to the ground as he was ready to knock the ball into the empty net.
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 James Bearden - Department of Sociology
Wilson, William J., 1935- The bridge over the racial divide : rising inequality and coalition politics / William Julius Wilson.
Wilson, William J., 1935- The truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy / William Julius Wilson.
Wilson, William J., 1935- The declining significance of race : Blacks and changing American institutions / William Julius Wilson.
www.geneseo.edu /~bearden?pg=socl217/essay3.html   (922 words)

  
 Rare Books: James Marsden Collection
The illustrations by Edward A. Wilson being colored by hand through stencils in the studio of Walter Fischer.
The illustrations were drawn by Edward A. Wilson, and produced as gravures by the Photogravure and Color Company before being colored by hand in the studio of Walter Fischer, New York.
Wilson and then reproduced as gravures by the Photogravure and Color Company before being colored by hand in the studio of Martha Berrien in New York.
www.lib.ksu.edu /depts/spec/rarebooks/biblio/marsden.html   (13879 words)

  
 Poet: James Wright - All poems of James Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Poet: James Wright - All poems of James Wright
Free Poetry E-Book: 31 poems of James Wright
Born in 1927 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, one of the steel-producing towns strung out along the heavily-industrialized Upper Ohio River as it borders West Virginia and Pennsylvania, James Wright graduated with honors from Kenyon College in 1952 and studied in Vienna the next year on a Fulbright fellowshi..
www.poemhunter.com /p/t/poet.asp?poet=6912   (334 words)

  
 Mi-Moe: Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.
The world would be astonished if it new how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion.
www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/quote-m2.htm   (1962 words)

  
 Texas Patriots - 1836
James W. Fannin, Jr., colonel commanding; Lieutenant-Colonel William Ward, of the Georgia battalion; Major Benjamin C. Wallace, of the Lafayette battalion; Major Warren Mitchell, of the Georgia battalion; Adjutant Chadwick (or Shadwick), Adjutant J. Brooks, Sergeant-Major Gideon Rose.
Burr H. Duval; Lieutenants Samuel Wilson and John Q. Merrifield, Sergeants G. Daniell, J. Bagley, E. Chisen (probably Chisholm) and W. Dickerson; Corporals N. Hawkins, A. Williams, A. Lynd and R. Brashear; Privates T.
Wilkerson, J. Bridgeman, James H. Callahan [later a captain], Josiah McSherry, E. Durrain, Joseph Cramble, Thomas Harvey, John C. Kennymoore, Nicholas B. Waters, W. Welsh, John Lumpkin, A.
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 Robert Wilson Family Tree Index
The Robert Wilson Family Tree can be searched several ways:
Search for a string in the family tree.
Search an index of ALL surnames in the Robert Wilson family tree.
www.watkinsfhs.net /gedcoms/wilson/wilson1.html   (213 words)

  
 Poet: allan james saywell - All poems of allan james saywell
Poet: allan james saywell - All poems of allan james saywell
Poems by / from poet allan james saywell best love poem famous...
Poems By Poet allan james saywell, 7/17/2006 7:26:21 AM allan james saywell.
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 The Bruce Medalists: Seth B. Nicholson
Wilson Observatory, where he spent his entire career, he discovered three more Jovian satellites, as well as a Trojan asteroid, and computed orbits of several comets and of Pluto.
His main assignment at Mt. Wilson was observing the sun with the 150-foot solar tower telescope, and he produced annual reports on sunspot activity and magnetism for decades.
He and Edison Pettit used a vacuum thermocouple to measure the temperatures of the moon, planets, sunspots, and stars in the early 1920s.
www.sonoma.edu /hosts/physastro/brucemedalists/nicholson   (243 words)

  
 Maryland Historical Society Library: James [Teackle] Dennis Collection, 1651-1917, MS. 233 - Finding Aid
James Teackle Dennis was born 6 October 1865 to James Upshur Dennis, a Somerset County, Maryland lawyer, and his second wife Mary Wilson (Teackle) Dennis.
James Teackle Dennis' letters consist of replys to his requests for autographs; dialogue with his fellow Egyptologists concerning excavations, hieroglyphics, publication of articles, and European travel; and a letter dated 1899 from Henry Page who was fighting in the Spanish-American War.
A majority of the land was located in Somerset and Worcester Counties, Maryland while a small portion was in Accomack County, Virginia.
www.mdhs.org /library/Mss/ms000233.html   (886 words)

  
 The Bruce Medalists: Jim Peebles
With Robert Dicke and others he predicted the existence of the cosmic background radiation (previously predicted by Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman) and planned to seek it just before it was found by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.
He has investigated characteristics of this radiation and how it may be used to constrain models of the universe.
Peebles, James, interview with Alan Lightman, in Lightman, Alan & Roberta Brawer, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Peebles/index.html   (303 words)

  
 Men of San Patricio, Refugio and Goliad Spring 1836
John James, sindico of the Refugio ayuntamiento was spared upon capture, but was killed at Goliad with Fannin's men.
Osborn was wounded and spared with help of a native Tejano "Cobian" and appeal of his wife to Gen. Urrea.
James W. Bynes, John Fagan, Edward Perry, Anthony Sidick, John B. Sidick were captured at Coleto and spared on recommendation of Captain Don Carlos de la Garza, with whom they were neighbors on the San Antonio River.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/goliadmen.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Masters of Cinema - TOM MILNE
Tom Milne, the youngest of a family of three, was like his sisters Elma and Eileen, born in Malacca, Malaya.
After the war Tom Milne returned to Aberdeen to take an honours degree in English and French, followed by further study at the Sorbonne in Paris and teaching in a French Lycee.
Tom used to live in a rambling mansion block flat off the Kings Road in London where his massive book collection was stored — A A Milne next to Yukio Mishima — and a small box room was reserved for duplicate copies.
www.mastersofcinema.org /tommilne.htm   (4398 words)

  
 Genealogy Index for surnames beginning with M
Middleton, James Morrison (30 Sep 1909-30 Mar 1977)
Milne, John Wallace (15 Nov 1874-12 Aug 1914)
Milne, William B. Milton, Caroline (29 May 1878-24 Feb 1915)
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 Australian states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
1922) 21 Oct 1910 - 30 Jun 1913 James Sinclair Taylor McGowen ALP (b.
1869) 4 Aug 1869 - 4 Nov 1872 James Milne Wilson (b.
1906) 8 Mar 1886 - 29 Mar 1887 James Wilson Agnew (b.
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 Harry Pierson Library of Samuel Johnson, etc.
This one-of-a-kind book with 70 full-page engravings, collotypes, and tipped-in photographs bound on pages near the appropriate text, was cited by Hill in a letter to Mr.
Wyndham James Boswell A Short Life, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952, 2nd ed Littlejohn, David, Dr. J, His Life in Letters, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965 Littlejohn, David, Dr. J and Noah Webster, Two Men & Their Dictionaries, SF: Bookclub of California, 1971 Lobban, J.H., Dr. J's Mrs.
More, Hannah, Works of Hannah More The NY: Harper and Brothers, 1835 1st ed AmEd Newton, A. Edward, Doctor Johnson, A Play, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923 Newton, A. Edward, Men and Ghosts of Gough Square, London: J House [Harmsworth fund], 1940 Norman, Charles, Mr.
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