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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wilson,
Woodrow Wilson and the legacy of the civil war.
Historical invisibility: the vexatious A. Wilson and the Abbey Theatre.
Wilson: commerce clause jurisprudence and the limits of federal regulation.
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 William Wilson Information
William Wilson (19th Century aquatics pioneer) (1844-?), Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo.
William Wilber Wilfred Wilson (1885-1964), a Canadian politician.
William Wilson is a sailor in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton.
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 Oneida County New York Biographies
WALTERS, JAMES N., was born in Russia, Herkimer county, November 27, 1824, son of William and Fannie Walters, whose children were: James N., David A., Susan Smith (deceased), Celia Newman, William W., and Irwin M., all natives of Herkimer county.
WILSON, CHARLES M., was born in New York Mills, January 25, 1849, son of Matthew, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and Annie (Young) Wilson, a native of Paisley, Scotland.
Henry Wilson was the son of James Wilson, who built the present homestead residence and purchased the present homestead farm, in 1792, coming here with Judge White, and being one of the earliest settlers in the township.
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 James Henderson Information
James Henderson (Canadian politician), politician from Alberta, Canada.
James Henderson (diplomat), former British Ambassador to Iceland.
This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
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 Napoleon Series: War of 1812 Issue 2
The massive increase of the army (on paper at least) legislated by the Act of 11 January 1812 provided for the appointment of two major-generals and five additional brigadier-generals and also created the positions of inspector general and adjutant general to be held by officers with the rank of brigadier-general.
Dearborn was discharged from the army in the spring of 1815 and later served as ambassador to Portugal.
A resident of Tennessee, Winchester was a state politician and brigadier-general of the Tennessee militia who had a reputation as a good fighter against the aboriginal peoples.
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 William Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Wilson (Pennsylvania politician), member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1815-19.
William Wilson (Donegal MP) (1836–1879), sometime MP for Donegal.
William Wilber Wilfred Wilson (1885-1964), a Canadian politician.
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 Library of Economics and Liberty: Biographies in Brief
He was an active opponent of slavery, a supporter of education and equality in India, and instrumental to parliamentary reform to increase representation of cities that had become unrepresented relative to rural areas during the rapid industrial growth.
James Mill, Scottish-born son of a cobbler and education-oriented mother, wrote on the British corn laws, free trade, comparative advantage, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, and the history of India.
Here he worked with James Wilson, one of the most consistent advocates of laissez-faire in Britain, Nassau Senior, one of the leading members of the classical school of political economy, and Thomas Hodgskin, a radical individualist author.
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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 Tuttle (1742-1770) Rev Hugh Vance (1735-1791) Rev.
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 CNN.com - Transcripts
Canadians are upset over a plan in Washington to require passports or similar papers to enter the U.S. from Canada and many on both sides of the northern border agree, it could be a pretty costly change.
MOOS: James Wilson has had it with his wife letting their kids sleep in the marital bed.
James is a marketing consultant so he knows how to pull a stunt the press can't resist.
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 Sentient Life on the Third Rock
Her son Marcus Wilson, a Montgomery physician, said he could describe his mother in three phrases: mother, missionary and medical pioneer.
In the early years, even after Wilson became a well-established and respected physician, many people still referred to her as "Rev. Seay's daughter." Wilson's father, Solomon Snowden Seay, was a successor to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wilson is survived by her children, one brother, one sister-in-law, 14 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.
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 NYNY 1790-1794
The Wadsworth brothers, James and William, nephews of Jeremiah, arrive in the Genesee Valley.
James Wadsworth purchases a 27,000-acre parcel of land here from his cousin Jeremiah, begins speculating himself.
Canadian governor, Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, tells Indians in Québec if they assist Britain in the upcoming war, lands in the Northwest Territory will be returned to them.
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 Thagodz Wiki News
Taft proved a less adroit politician than Roosevelt and seemed to lack the energy and personal magnetism of his mentor, not to mention the publicity devices, the dedicated supporters, and the broad base of public support that made Roosevelt so formidable.
In 1910 and 1911, however, he secured the ratification of arbitration treaties that he had successfully negotiated with the United Kingdom and France and thereafter was known as one of the foremost advocates of world peace and arbitration.
Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, was elected, although many historians argue that Wilson would have won anyway, because the Republican factions would not support each other.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1920
Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b.
September 18 - Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b.
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 USA: Rights for All - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Fuelled by politicians making inflammatory and false claims about the death penalty, the rate of executions and the number of crimes punishable by death has relentlessly increased.
James Wilson, a white man, was hospitalized with head and facial injuries in February 1997 after being beaten by three officers in Hartford, Connecticut.
For example, James Parkinson, an unarmed mentally ill man seen running naked around a swimming pool in June 1996 in Fairfield, California, died after police sprayed him repeatedly with OC (pepper) spray, hit him several times with an electric taser gun and shackled him face-down.
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 economics @ saintjames - a leading global village sustaining humanity?
Perhaps this is the best of times to list the sorts of questions that James Wilson the founder of The Economist might ask.
A) James, like the Royal Society of Arts more inquisitive members, stood up to oppose the worst of big he saw the British Empire compounding such as slave trading abroad and underclasses on London’s streets.
To decide whether the economics of Saint James (a global village in London) can help sustain all the crisis exponentials humanity needs to recocile worldwide, please look at this reference list first- other nominations are welcome...
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Wilson, Louis Round, History of the University of North Carolina, 1900-1930 (UNC, 1957).
Biographical data on the author is found at the beginning of each filer, and reviews of the book and realted articles are at the end.
For information on general series (e.g., the James Sprunt Studies in History) or departmental series (e.g., Studies in Philology), see the Director's Files in Subgroup 2.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/uars/40073.txt   (6033 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - 1885
May 9-12 - Canadian government forces inflict decisive defeat on Métis rebels at the Battle of Batoche.
November 7 - Canadian Pacific Railway finished: In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on a railway extending across Canada.
November 16 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis, Louis Riel is executed for high treason.
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 Wilson Family Crest by Houseofnames.com
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Wilson, who settled in Virginia in 1623; Christopher Wilson, a Scotch prisoner sent to Boston in 1651; Andrew Wilson, who arrived in New England in 1651.
We have researched the Wilson family crest in the most recognized sources of coats of arms.
In the Wilson coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Wilson- WordWeb dictionary definition
Author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)
British Labour politician (1916-1995), Prime Minister of the UK 1964-1970 and 1974-1976
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 THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACT OF 1916: "A CONTRADICTORY MANDATE"?
After noting that the Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson, approved of the proposed Park Service, while offering some amended language to the bill calculated to put greater distance between parks and national forests, the Committee called upon Secretary Fisher, who in his prepared statement gave six reasons why a bureau or service was desirable.
Congressman Kent was no less concerned with speed, however, and being a more seasoned politician and more popular colleague, he was both more active behind the scenes and more effective in the committee.
The Papers of James Wickersham, in the Alaska State Library in Juneau, show diary entries for the months in which the Park Service Act was discussed, and though Wickersham comments on other bills to come before the Committee on the Public Lands, he is quite silent on the Organic Act.
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 Bulgaria Confidential Report on Drug Trafficking into Montana
The small American cities on the Montana-Canada border- Libby, Conrad, Havre, Chinook, and Sidney, have long been well-known to the federal agencies as depots and destinations in the smuggling of heroin, cocaine and marijuana from the Canada-based Sicilian, Colombian, and Chinese Mafia.
The border of the state of Montana, famous for its clean environment, and untouched national parks and game reserves, stretches vastly and is almost unguarded.
The traffickers also utilize the lack of border surveillance of the Canadian and Canadian border provincial governments.
www.copi.com /articles/montana/980317c.html   (1340 words)

  
 History of American Thought
Commission from James II to Governor Andros for the Dominion of New England, 1688
James Wilson: "Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament",1774
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection (1829), The Remains of the Rev. James Marsh (1843).
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On the other hand, the "Federalists," chief among whom were Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and Jay, deplored the excesses of the French Revolutionists; thought their example rather to be avoided than emulated; and, with a still lingering affection for England despite her tyrannies, leaned to her side in the conflict which was so fiercely raging.
The presidential campaign in the autumn of 1844, between Henry Clay as the Whig and James K. Polk as the Democratic candidate, was fought mainly upon the issue of this annexation, and the election of Mr.
Van Buren was rather a shrewd politician than an eminent statesman; but he was a politician in a higher sense, and no stain of dishonor attaches to his career, while his presidential term was an honest and able one.
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 The SAINT JOHN RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
Guided tours of the Old Carleton County Courthouse, built in 1833, are available in July and August, and visits to the Connell House National Historic Site, home of the Carleton County Historical Society can be made year-round by appointment.
British, Canadian, New Brunswick and Acadian paintings, sculptures and other works of art are well represented at the world-renowned Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.
The Gallery is named for its benefactor, Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken), a prominent British politician and newspaper publisher who spent his early years in New Brunswick.
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 Proud To Be Canadian .ca
But good luck finding any class-warfaring politician who will admit this crucial factor.
Conventional wisdom blames the lack of decent “marriage material” out there: Too many potential husbands for low-income women are flipping burgers, unemployed or in jail, the story goes.
“To the institution of marriage the true origin of society must be traced,” James Wilson, a member of the Continental Congress, wrote in 1790.
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 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | July 21 | Damo Croton Pythagoras Holy Fools Apollo 11 ...
1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, professor of English literature, literary critic, and communications theorist, who was one of the founders of the study of media ecology (
Pip Wilson's articles are available for your website or publication, on application.
1873 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the
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