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  James Moore - encyclopedia article about James Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
James Moore (South Carolina politician), colonial governor of South Carolina from 1700–1703 and 1719–1721.
James Moore (craftsman), an 18th century glass maker and cabinet maker, employed as clerk of works on the building of Blenheim Palace.
James Moore (biographer), philosopher of science at the University of Cambridge, visiting scholar at Harvard University and author of biographies of Charles Darwin
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 Colonial North Carolina
The first settlements in North Carolina that were destined to live were made by Virginians in 1653, on the banks of the Chowan and Roanoke rivers, in a district called Albemarle from the Duke of Albemarle.
south of Virginia, and two years later the charter was enlarged and the boundaries defined and made to extend from twenty-nine degrees north latitude to thirty-six degrees thirty minutes, the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the "South Sea," or Pacific Ocean, on the west.
After 1704, however, North Carolina was again in turmoil, the causes being bad governors and continued attempts to establish the Church of England at the expense of the Dissenters, more than half of whom were Quakers.
www.usahistory.info /southern/North-Carolina.html   (1931 words)

  
 St. Clair County Biographies
JAMES R., a prominent young farmer of this township, was born in Monroe County, Illinois, in 1857.
James Cauthon, his father, a carpenter by trade and a native of Missouri, was born in 1824, and in 1849 married Miss Eliza Burse, of this county and a daughter of Zach.
The former was a native of South Carolina and the latter was a Virginian by birth.
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 Robert Howe (soldier) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His great-grandfather was James Moore (South Carolina politician), colonial governor of South Carolina.
Born to a prominent planter in Brunswick County, North Carolina, Howe was educated in England and, upon his return, was elected to the colonial assembly in 1764.
Serving in the North Carolina militia, Howe accepted a commission as a captain in 1766 where he was stationed at Fort Johnson (near present day Wilmington).
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 Biographies of 19th Century Southerners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Because the South at that time had next to no capacity to produce armaments, and, Benjamin thought, a huge amount of them would be needed, at one of the early Cabinet meetings he proposed that the Confederate government buy a huge amount of cotton and ship it to Europe to pay for arms and ammunition.
DeBow feared that the South, with its prolific fl population, would become a fl region unless the territory in which slavery could expand was increased, and, because slavery was profitable in the tropics, he advocated the creation of new slave states south of the border.
A graduate of an incubator of secession, South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) and the University of Virginia's law school, the love of his life was politics, and he intended to become a successful South Carolina politician.
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 CalendarHome.com - 1713 - Calendar Encyclopedia
January 17 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albermarle County, North Carolina in a second offensive against the Tuscarora.
June 1 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes.
September 1 - Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia led by Colonel James Moore returns to South Carolina after mixed success in the campaign against the Machapunga and Coree.
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 Old Fort Revisited
He traveled from the South Carolina coast and his purpose was supposedly to acquire territory for Spain, but in reality, he had hoped to find precious metals.
In 1690 James Moore, who was Secretary of the Colony of South Carolina, explored these hills and wrote that Indians told him a few Spaniards were mining about twenty miles away.
James was a Lieutenant, and of course, "Major Ben" attained the rank of Major.
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 1712   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
February 11 - Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia of Native Americans and settlers from the South Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina arrives at Bath.
Tuscarora War: An agent from the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina asks the provincial government in Charles Town, South Carolina for 1,000 troops under the command of a commander other than Colonel John Barnwell to fight the Tuscarora and their allies.
November 25 - Tuscarora War: Although acting governor of North Carolina Thomas Pollock knows Colonel James Moore's South Carolina militia is en route to attack the Tuscarora, he meets with Chief Tom Blunt of the Tuscarora and representatives of several other tribes to discuss a peace treaty.
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 James Moore (South Carolina politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moore's defeat of the Appalachee and Spanish Florida in general was hailed as a major victory for Carolina, which had been fighting with the Spanish for control of the region for decades.
Known throughout the Carolina's as simply "the family" meaning the leading family of the entire region, the Family bloomed and then faded away as seems the fate of any prominent family over time.
James Moore also had a Charleston, SC home aned home in the Goose Creek area nearby to Charleston.
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 The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771): Electronic Edition.
This was a sparsely settled region of pine forest, stretching monotonously from the valley of the Roanoke on the north to that of the Cape Fear on the south.
The fact that Maurice Moore in his “Atticus” letter arraigned Tryon for these two pieces of extravagance seems to have led most writers to assume that these were important causes of the troubles that came later.
Moore served against the Regulators, and his letter indicates that he hardly understood the movement.
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 deal-with-it.org | the cards | jokers | karl rove
His influence is a large part of the reason why under its anti-government rhetoric, federal spending is rising, the power of government is growing, deficits are out of control, and "conservative" leaders are either becoming disenchanted or proving themselves utterly without integrity.
The South Carolina Presidential primary in 2000 is a case in point.
James Moore, author of Bush's Brain, a book on Rove, observed that Rove "once told a consultant that we interviewed.
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 Major Allen G. Brady
In July 1862 William H. Noble, a Bridgeport lawyer, politician and former business partner of P.T. Barnum was authorized by Governor Buckingham to raise a regiment in Fairfield County, the Seventeenth Connecticut.
Major Brady's wing was faced south along the old Turnpike and in support of four guns of Captain Julius Dieckman's 13th New York Independent Battery.
Brady spent a good amount of his post war years in disputes with the Pension Office over the level of disability he suffered from as a result of his Gettysburg wound, as well as for what he claimed to be a permanent disability from the kick he recived from his horse in 1862.
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 WebRoots Library U.S. History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The result of these controversies was that in South Carolina as well as in New England and the middle colonies the provincial assemblies had in their hands an effective offset to the administrative control exercised by the home government.
When, about the middle of the century, Governor Glen of South Carolina declared that the executive power was largely in the hands of commissioners appointed by the assembly, he made a statement which, with some allowance for exaggeration, might have been made with regard to several of the provincial governments.
In South Carolina there was a strong group of Charleston merchants which, until about 1760, formed the backbone of the government party, opposing the paper-money legislation desired by the planters and taking a generally conservative position on public questions.
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 "W" Famous People
Waller, Edmund (1606-87) Poet and politician, born in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, SC England...
Witteveen, Hendrikus Johannes (1921-) Dutch economist and politician, born in Zeist, WC Netherlands.
Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, Baron (1883-1964) Politician and businessman, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England...
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 NORTH CAROLINA--COLONIZATION-THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
Sothel proved to be a knave; he plundered the proprietors and the people most shamelessly, and after five years of turbulent misrule he was driven into exile--the same year that witnessed the Revolution in England and the exile of James II.
The white population was now about five thousand; Albemarle settlement had extended many miles into the forest; this involved encroachment on the soil of the native red man--and it brought its troubles.
He was later granted for his share a strip of land just south of Virginia, sixty-six miles wide "from sea to sea."Return
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 John Alexander Lillington
John Alexander Lillington, planter, politician, and soldier, was born in the 1720s, the son of John and Sarah Porter Lillington.
As the Revolution approached, Lillington was elected to the New Hanover County Committee of Safety in 1775 and as one of the county’s delegates to the Third Provincial Congress, which met at Hillsborough in August 1775.
As the British moved south to threaten Charles Town in 1780, North Carolina militiamen commanded by Lillington were sent to aid General Benjamin Lincoln.
www.harnett.org /library/lillingtonja.htm   (380 words)

  
 People Behind the Names M
JAMES I. (1792-1853) Congressman from North Carolina 1831-1849.
HENRY MIDDLETON (1770-1846) Governor of South Carolina 1810-1812.
JAMES MOORE (????-1706) Indian trader born in Ireland.
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 Non-Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
James had repeatedly advised the President of the United States to not back a 'dead horse", that England was in no shape to fight and would be whipped by the Germans.
James Bradley's research reported in this book, reveals to me for the first time, the extent to which Emperor Hirohito and his Generals, the so-called "Spirit Warriors", had prepared the population for all out war.
Luther, the guy who threatened to put poison in the Savannah water supply, Minerva the witch from South Carolina who was hired by Williams to put a spell on the District Attorney prosecuting the case, and the lady Chablis a transvestite who tries to gatecrash Savannah society.
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 The New Yorker: PRINTABLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
James A. Baker III, the future Secretary of State, ran a well-financed race for Texas attorney general in 1978, and lost.
James Moore and Wayne Slater, the authors of a new and generally unfavorable Rove biography called “Bush’s Brain,” found a memo he wrote Clements in which he suggested renting the subscriber list of Krugerrand Buyer, a magazine for investors in the South African gold currency, because they’d be good Republican donor prospects.
Years before the 2000 campaign was under way, Rove began orchestrating a procession of politicians, lobbyists, intellectuals, journalists, and organizers to Austin to meet Bush—a stratagem that echoed the “front-porch campaign” in Canton, Ohio, that the supposedly reluctant William McKinley, one of Rove’s favorite historical figures, ran before the 1896 Presidential election.
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 Famous Presbyterians
Gordon Davidson (politician and lay leader) Sir Lyle McEwan (grazier, politician and churchman) WA John and Isabella Ferguson (doctor, civil servant and wine-growers) Edward Fox Angelo and family (soldier, administrator and elder) Georgiana Molloy (botanist) Alan Mungulu (Aboriginal elder) Sir Ron Wilson (Jurist and lay leader) TAS Rev.
aft 1802) James Hoge, D.D. (1784-1863) Great-grandson of an ancestor.
James Robinson (abt 1769 - aft 1847) Rev.
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To publish periodicals devoted to the advancement of learning and produced at the University of North Carolina by or under the direction of the faculty of that University; 2.
To publish, so far as may be agreed between the corporation and the authorities of the University of North Carolina, catalogues, bulletins, and other documents pertaining to that University or to any department thereof; and 3.
LAWSON'S HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA Hart, F.H. Hartley, L.C. Hartley, L.C. THIS IS LORENCE (retitled LAURENCE STERNE: A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY) Hartley, L.C. Hartley, L.C. Harvey, R.F. Harwell, R.B. Hasbrouck, A., trans.
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 The Rise and Fall of the Texas Republican Party: The Rove Machine--by Tom Pauken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Carole Strayhorn is a likeable politician who styles herself "one tough grandma," but her political views on state issues are more in tune with the Austin liberal crowd than with Texas conservatives.
Despite the success of O'Donnell, the Bushes (aided by their consigliore, James Baker, and Rove, their hired gun), and their network of supporters across the state in turning the Texas Republican Party into a more pragmatic, centrist party, Texas conservatives have occasionally stormed the barricades and taken power back from the establishment.
I was succeeded as party chairman by Susan Weddington, who had risen to her position of influence in the party through the support of the Religious Right.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/November2004/1104Pauken.html   (3121 words)

  
 1850 FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
December 12 - Martin F. Ansel, Governor of South Carolina (died 1945)
Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in South Africa (died 1913)
James Kenyon, British pioneer of cinematography (died 1925)
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Pierre van Cortlandt, Phillip's father, was a noted NY politician and involved in various committees."
James Irvine and Anthony J. Morris and Richard Butler,
Joseph Penrose and James Chambers and Adam Hubley (Lieutenant-Colonel),
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 Amazon.com: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception: Books: David Corn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
There is nothing unique about Bush as a politician being a liar; in that respect he is in good company.
I completely agree with David Corn's assessment of George W. Bush's struggle with personal honesty, and would go a step further and insist that is his most probably the most dishonest president in the history of our nation.
Her quiet regarding our President's character and the catastrophic effect it is having on the nation is a greater threat to her integrity than anything James Frey has ever conceived of being.
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 Amazon.com: Bush's Brain: DVD: Tom Pauken,Rick Perry (II),Wade Lieseke Jr.,Chuck McDonald,Cathy Bonner,Bill ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
What was done to John McCain in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, and to Max Cleland of South Carolina in his Senate race, strike me as so reprehensible as to call into question the future of the Republican Party.
I don't understand how Moore can say what Rove was thinking when he met Bush (unless he kept some diary or told people--and both scenarios are unlikely).
The best example of the blatant slant of this DVD was the man who's parents died and he felt the stress of Rove had done that to her.
www.amazon.com /Bushs-Brain-Tom-Pauken/dp/B0002V7SMA   (2715 words)

  
 Non-Fiction
Theo van Gogh had recently completed a movie with the Dutch Politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali titled "Submission" which Bouyeri thought was an "insult to the Prophet Mohammed".
After shooting van Gogh in broad daylight and in the view of several witnesses, Bouyeri took out a knife and cut his victim's throat, then calmly walked away to a nearby park where he was captured by the police.
If you already know all about that stuff and what you really want to read about is King Philip's war, then this is the book for you.
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 Howard Dean: Winning Back America: January 2004 Archives
Moore skillfully lays out arguments surrounding the issue and short-circuits them all, leaving one impossible question: why do Americans kill each other more often than people in any other democratic nation?" target="_new">Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
No one in the Kerry camp seemed to know, but it sounds so awful Iowans on the receiving end of those calls were saying "Well no! Of course not!" and writing Howard off as some sort of bigot (which he is not!).
In her statement today, she said that she had not been able to surmount "funding and organizational disadvantages" in her campaign, and said that "continuing would not have been fair" to her supporters.
www.winningbackamerica.com /weblog/2004/01/index.html   (10666 words)

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