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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Watson was born in Hudson, New York, in 1850.
Watson was able to get his horse up again, but the two men were unable to keep up with their company, which was in a battalion under the command of Lt. Col.
Watson returned to the Midwest by train with a private from another company, William Slaper, who later recalled that Watson was intending to go to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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 Watson - pafn01 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
James was a soldier in 93rd Regiment of Highlanders.
One might conclude that James was not present at William's funeral (or at least not at the burial).
James' mother Jane had died when he was 5, and his father left, he was raised by the O'Brien family and so never knew his mother's surname.
www.rideau-info.com /ken/genealogy/watson/pafn01.htm   (1209 words)

  
 James Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Watson (portraitist), painter of 77 portraits held by the United States National Portrait Gallery[1]
James D. Watson, biologist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Sir James Watson (1801-1889), stockbroker and Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1871-1874
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Watson   (182 words)

  
 Ralph James Watson, Colonel, United States Air Force
Watson was a highly decorated World War II Ace fighter pilot, and was one of the youngest colonels to serve in the Army Air Corps/U.S. Air Force.
Watson was a past president and chairman of the board of the American Fighter Aces Association.
Watson was held in high esteem by many congressmen, senators and presidents, who valued his honesty and patriotism in the course of the defense of the nation.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rjwatson.htm   (453 words)

  
 James Watson Profile -- Academy of Achievement
James Watson was only 25 years old when he and his older colleague, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) the building block of all life on Earth.
Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1962, but this was not the end of Watson's career in the public eye.
From 1988 to 1992 James Watson served as the first Director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, a massive project to decipher the entire genetic code of the human species.
www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/wat0pro-1   (366 words)

  
 James Young
James Young's grandson, Abram Hayne Young (som of Thompson Young) wrote letters to his family from his many battles in the Civil War.
James Young died in South Carolina on September 6,1802, and was the first person buried in Prosperity, SC (photographs of the cemetery (he gave the land for this cemetery) and his grave are available as well as some history of the cemetery and a listing of the Young family interred there).
James Young has been used by many, including myself and my mother, for entry in the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
www.fdu.com /family/jamesyoung.htm   (864 words)

  
 History of the Watson Family
He was the son of James Watson, known to some of the readers of this sketch as "Uncle Jimmie" Watson, who lived just south of the Fritz house, from 1818 until his death in 1833.
Watson was one of the children of that union, and was born at San Francisco, February 23, 1847.
James Houston Watson and his wife, Elizabeth Carr Watson, were the grandparents of Judge H. Johnson and the little babe that came all the way from Kentucky to Pike County, Missouri, in her mother's lap, and she on horseback, became his tender, loving mother.
www.pcgenweb.com /family/watson.htm   (10676 words)

  
 James Watson Biography -- Academy of Achievement
James Dewey Watson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
The DNA molecule, Watson and Crick had found, is shaped like a double helix, or "gently twisted ladder." The two chains of the helix unlink "like a zipper," and reproduce their missing halves.
Throughout the ensuing controversy, Watson insisted that devotion to the truth was as essential in writing for the general public as it is in scientific research.
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 Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Watson would go on to win four Bronze Stars fighting in Vietnam, where he caught shrapnel in his arm, shoulder and legs from an exploding mine.
In Watson's book, he recounts what happened when his helicopter was shot down in the jungle during an attempt to rescue American prisoners of war.
Watson refuses the colonel's direct order in a burst of profanity, and by the time he and his crew are rescued by another chopper, there are officers and SEALs pointing guns at one another over whose orders to follow.
www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=9318   (942 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Point Man: Books: James Watson,Kevin Dockery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Watson was in SOF long before it was popular, in fact he was in it when SOF was actually unpopular.
Watson, along with other original sixties era SEALs, were placed in a simulated Asian communist POW camp at the Marine Corp's mountain warfare school in the Sierra Nevada mountains of CA.
Watson's idea of a so-called mission in Vietnam was going out for 2 hours in Levi's blue jeans then getting back to camp before dark so he could get drunk.
www.amazon.ca /Point-Man-James-Watson/dp/038071986X   (1419 words)

  
 Tom Watson: The Two Soldiers
This is a hometown Memorial Day story about two soldiers, their sacrifice, and what it means to be a real American.
The announcement came as military veterans, politicians and the mothers of other soldiers continued to denounce the group's decision to deny membership to Ligaya Lagman, a Yonkers mother whose son was killed in combat last year.
I believe these soldiers are a rare and special breed which I hold in especially high regard.
tomwatson.typepad.com /tom_watson/2005/05/the_two_soldier.html   (2074 words)

  
 The Soldier - Moviefone
The Soldier (1982) At the age of 13, I witnessed "The Soldier" on the then-new cable network, H.B.O. Within the first 15 minutes of the movie you see numerous machine-gun...
Soldier movie review Soldier is mindless entertainment, pretty much devoid of any substance.
Soldier is worth renting on the video if you're looking for a well-done piece of...
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 Amazon.com: Soldier: Video: Ken Wahl,Harry Madsen,Ned Eisenberg,William Prince,David Cooper,Eugene Key,Tom Wright,Lisa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Soldier is a very slow moving Cold War film that could have been a good action movie.
I was blown away by the blood drenched action of 'The Soldier' as a goofy 7 year old.
That aside, James Glickenhaus was the master of comic book violence in the early 1980's and you can see some of his influence in Quentin's first works.
www.amazon.com /Soldier-James-Glickenhaus/dp/0792840801   (1829 words)

  
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Watson, James D. and Crick, Francis H.C. Genetic implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid.
Watson, James D. and Crick, Francis H.C. The complementary structure of deoxyribonucleic acid.
Watson, James D. Involvement of RNA in the synthesis of proteins.
library.cshl.edu /watsoncollection/watson_bibliography.html   (1675 words)

  
 Fr. Ron's weekly letter to his parish 2002
More amazing was the fact that soldiers from both sides laid down their arms, met in the middle of the combat zone, shook hands, talked about how they were fed up with the war, and about family life.
James Ziglar, outgoing commissioner of the Immigration Service, thinks that American immigration policy is schizophrenic, torn between the extremes of the open-door policy and xenophobic exclusion.
And we observe on TV how dishonorable it is when soldiers use civilians as shields or hide behind the mask of civilian clothes as a military tactic.
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 Pre Todd County Watson Data
James Watson of Fairfax county, Virginia, and Levin Powell, Jr., of Loudon
Watson was born April 6, 1767 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States
TheThomas Watson in the census (Thomas Watson) was
www.usgennet.org /usa/ky/county/todd/surname/watson2.htm   (4805 words)

  
 Hunter Library: James Watson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The collection contains two letters to James Watson, a Confederate soldier in the 25th North Carolina Regiment, from his wife, Elizabeth Watson, and a friend, Alfred Wilson.
The Watsons and Wilson were residents of Hamburg, Jackson County, North Carolina.
In the first letter, dated October 29, 1861, Elizabeth Watson wrote of missing her husband, food prices, crop conditions, the scarcity of money, the family, deaths in the county, and the weather.
www.wcu.edu /library/specialcoll/manuscripts/watson.htm   (128 words)

  
 Watson Land Company- Company History
Watson Land Company is deeply rooted in the history of California's and its first, large Spanish land grant, the Rancho San Pedro.
In 1963, Watson Land Company, in order to protect and enhance the value of its holdings, began land development activities in response to the changing needs of business and industry in Southern California.
The 1960's were the beginning of his vision to transition Watson Land Company's assets from undeveloped land holdings into master planned commercial real estate.
watsonlandcompany.com /about/history.htm   (610 words)

  
 James Watson, SGT, Army, New York NY, 28Mar70 12W054 - The Virtual Wall®
Jim was a good man and a good soldier.
Jimmy was so important to my father that he decided to name me, his first son, after him.
My name is James Watson Brennan, and I was born on March 29th, 1973.
www.virtualwall.org /dw/WatsonJT01a.htm   (217 words)

  
 Descendants of James Watson (b. bet. 1809-1813)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James was a soldier in 93rd Regiment, a plumber by trade.
James brought his sons William and James to live with the O'Brien family in Chatham (Cushing) in about late September, 1853.
This was the last the family has records of James' whereabouts.
www.rideau-info.com /ken/genealogy/watson/index.htm   (182 words)

  
 All for the Good Why genetic engineering must soldier on JAMES D. WATSON
But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for Medicine for their 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA.
Watson was the first director of the Human Genome Project; he now serves as president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
www.mindfully.org /GE/Soldier-On-James-Watson.htm   (956 words)

  
 James Watson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist James Watson was one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, the molecular building block of life.
Through meticulous work and building on the research of others such as Rosalind Franklin (who died before she could be awarded a part of the Nobel Prize), Watson and Francis Crick detailed how a genetic code defined the structure of DNA.
After winning the Nobel Prize in 1962, Watson went on to positions at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard before becoming the director of New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1968.
www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://Aviation/Bio/people/Watson.html   (96 words)

  
 THE SOLDIER: Friends do not let friends watch films like THE SOLDIER.
The Soldier is simply one of those films that, for some strange reason, manages to capture your attention while you are searching in your local video store for a delectable treat.
He is aided by his posse, known otherwise as “The Soldier’s Force” (the roster includes Steve James, veteran actor of Italian action films Peter Hooten, Joaquim de Almeida, and Alexander Spencer).
The Soldier himself is a carbon copy of James Bond; only the Soldier does not have any cool catch phrases or even a personality.
members.tripod.com /DragonFire2K/soldier1982.html   (1907 words)

  
 Judge reduces term in Iraqi teen killing | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
Another soldier shot the boy, but Horne said he was still breathing.
A second Fort Riley soldier, Staff Sgt. Cardenas J. Alban of Inglewood, Calif., was sentenced to one year in prison for murder in the same incident.
James Watson, a Vietnam veteran, said Horne's act was a "mercy killing," which soldiers throughout U.S. history have performed.
www.thenewstribune.com /24hour/iraq/story/2640752p-11130229c.html   (463 words)

  
 James Bowen
BOWEN, James, soldier, born in New York city in 1808: died in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 29 September 1886.
His last public office was that of commissioner of Charities, to which he was appointed by Mayor Havemeyer, and continued to fill most acceptably for many years.
General Bowen was a member of the union club, and of the Kent club, where he was an associate of Moses H. Grinnell, Richard M. Blatchford, James Watson Webb, and Thurlow Weed, and was valued for his sound views on literature.
www.famousamericans.net /jamesbowen   (477 words)

  
 My WATSON Family Ancestral Line - (Watson Genealogy)
If anyone has information regarding the ancestry of William WATSON and Thomas WATSON or any other new information about this direct WATSON family line, please contact us.
WATSON; he resided in VA (place unknown) and then probably in KY (place unknown); his children:
William WATSON was a soldier in Capt. Scott's Co., IN Militia, from Sep to Nov 1811, in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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 May
He leaves 25,000 rebel soldiers facing Hooker's 75,000 (correctly surmising that the injured and thoroughly outclassed Hooker will not risk a renewed assault) and masses 21,000 troops against the surprisingly larger threat, John Sedgwick's VI Corpr pressing west from Fredericksburg.
Grant places Sheridan in command of the Union cavalry corps and orders him to take his horse soldiers and penetrate deeply behind the rebel lines, his objective to gain intelligence on rebel strength and supplies, to destroy anything of military value, and to raise havoc in the countryside.
He hallucinates, urging his soldiers forward to the attack, but his last words are a peaceful plea for them all to cross over the river and rest in the shade of trees.
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 James Griffiths ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
James Pitts 1757 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
The Twelve Apostles: Saints Bartholomew, Andrew, Matthew, James the Greater, Thaddeus, Philip, James the Lesser,
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 ★ Reviews of books about vietnam (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Watson's idea of a mission in Vietnam was going out for 2 hours in Levi's blue jeans then getting back to base to get drunk before dark.
Not only was James Watson an unprofessional soldier but he tends to brag about it.
Chief Watson is a great SEAL...after successful ops SEALs always went to a bar to party and bond...its called UNIT INTEGRETY...after enough partying all SEALs within a unit should be able to finish each other sentences and trust each other with their lives (which they may have to sometime).
vietnam.vacationbookreview.com.cob-web.org:8888 /vietnam_93.html   (4976 words)

  
 Watson
North Carolina, Hillsboro IL, and Arkansas
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Warren and Katy were living at Stony Fork, Wilkes Co NC before they moved to Montgomery Co IL in the mid 1850s.
"David Watson was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and on a retreat escaped because his horse jumped a ditch which his pursuer's nag could not get over.
John's father is possibly Daniel Watson, who emmigrated from Scotland (-from Randolph Greer).
members.aol.com /ragnell822/watson.htm   (220 words)

  
 Rawhide: Winter Soldier - TV.com
Hap strides into camp telling Wish he is his old friend from Nachodoches.
The lieutenant arrests Watson, Favor and Hey Soos for having army goods.
Tell the world what you think of Winter Soldier, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /rawhide/winter-soldier/episode/136101/summary.html   (169 words)

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