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  Forrest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Forrest (1847-1918) was a surveyor who made several expeditions into the centre of Australia.
Forrest reported the likelihood of minerals in the region, and today some of the richest mines in the world are found there.
Forrest was rewarded with a land grant of 2000 hectares, which he farmed.
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 John Forrest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forrest's team accompanied this group in a more northerly direction, but after a week of travelling it became clear that their destination was Poison Rock, where the explorer Robert Austin was known to have left eleven of his horses for dead in 1854.
Forrest's brief was to provide a proper survey of the route, which might be used in future to establish a telegraph link between the colonies, and also to assess the suitability of the land for pasture.
Forrest had been suffering from a cancer on his temple since early in 1917 and by 1918 he was very ill. He resigned as treasurer but not from parliament on 21 March 1918, and shortly afterwards boarded ship for London, where he hoped to obtain specialist medical attention.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Forrest   (3782 words)

  
 Australian Explorers: John Forrest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Forrest, afterwards Sir John Forrest, and later Baron Forrest of Bunbury, the first Australian raised to the British Peerage, did magnificent exploration work during his early years.
Later, Forrest, in company with his brother, Alexander, in the face of almost incredible difficulties, succeeded in finding an overland route from Perth to South Australia, completing the journey in five months.
Until his death in 1918, Lord Forrest was prominent in Australian public life.
www.ozedweb.com /history/h_oz_e_forrest.htm   (147 words)

  
 DEATHS IN ST.FRANCIS COUNTY-A TO B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AGGERSON - JOHN - 201A 24 62-1 10A Aggerson John 22 Arkansas ed01-pg197b.txt - 1930 CENSUS
ALEXANDER - ODELLA - 207A 6 62-1 16A Alexander Odella 2 6/12 Arkansas ed01-pg203a.txt - 1930 CENSUS
ARMSTRONG - JOHN - 275A 35 62-6 20A Armstrong John 47 Tennessee ed06-pg269a.txt - 1930 CENSUS
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 Forrest Lineage
William Forrest, son of John, brother of James and Matthew, appears upon the original manuscript of Tithables in Marple Township, Chester County in 1754, 56, 57,60, 62 and 63.
John Forrest, son of John Forrest and brother of James, Matthew and William, married in Salem County, N.J., February 17, 1740, Ann Davies.
John Forrest, the seventh son of John and Ann Davies Forrest, was born November 16, 1763.
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 Nathan Forrest, Ironclad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Forrest, from Memphis, Tennessee, enlisted as a private shortly after Tennessee seceded from the Union and rose to the rank of brigadier general.
Forrest was wounded several times in different battles and had a number of horses shot from beneath him.
Forrest unleashed his cannons and attacked with a three-sided effort, causing the Federals to retreat to a wooded area and then raise the white flag.
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 The 1864 Nashville Campaign: Battle of Franklin, Tennessee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John M. Schofield's Federal infantry corps managed to narrowly escape a well devised trap laid by General John B. Hood's Army of Tennessee, both armies moved northward to Franklin, Tennessee.
John Bell Hood had awoken on the morning of November 30, to find the Federal army had slipped through his grasp in the middle of the night.
As the Confederates moved northward, with Alexander P. Stewart's Corps in the lead, evidence of a quick flight by the Union army began to bolster the spirits of the Confederates in pursuit.
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 1864 Nashville Campaign: Columbia, Tennessee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It was the hope of the Confederacy that the Southern army could regain possession of Nashville, Tennessee, which had been occupied by Union forces since the fall of Fort Donelson in 1862.
Forrest's three divisions crossed the river at Carr's Mill, Lilliard's Mill, Owen's Mill and Hardison's Mill.
Leaving Ross' Texans in Wilson's front, Forrest and 5,000 of his cavalry were racing west on the Mount Carmel Road to Spring Hill.
www.johnbellhood.org /columbia.htm   (2097 words)

  
 John Forrest - easier version
Sir John Forrest and his brother Alexander were two well known Western Australian explorers.
In 1869, John Forrest was asked to lead an expedition to check on a story that a party of white men had been murdered by aboriginals.
Forrest did not give a very good report of the land through which they had travelled.
www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/forrest/forrest_-_easier.htm   (593 words)

  
 Forrest Masonic Lodge No. 19 - Huntsville, Texas - Freemasonry - Masonic
Forrest Masonic Lodge No. 19 was chartered by the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas on January 11, 1844.
Forrest Masonic Lodge is located on the downtown Huntsville square at 1030 12th Street and meets each Monday evening at 7:00 P. The regular Stated Meeting (Business Meeting) is held on the first Monday evening of each month.
A Brief History of Forrest Masonic Lodge No. 19, A. and A. Following the formation of the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas in 1837, that Grand Lodge body chartered 25 lodges before Texas became a state in 1846.
www.forrest19.com   (1658 words)

  
 Trivia for Forrest Gump (1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The background music playing while Forrest is using the bathroom in the Kennedy White House is the theme from Camelot (1967), which was a name often used in reference to Kennedy's years in office.
Forrest distracts several dogs trying to attack King and his supporters by playing fetch with them and rendering them harmless to King and himself as well as his supporters.
The scene where Forrest sits in the hallway of his school while his mother talks to the principal is a direct re-creation of Rockwell's painting "Girl with a Black Eye".
www.imdb.com /title/tt0109830/trivia   (1517 words)

  
 Dynasties: Alexander Forrest
Alexander Forrest was born in 1849 and, like his older brother John, was educated at the Bishop Hale school in Perth.
The Forrest brothers’ combination of public service with private enterprise was the focus of some criticism.
Alexander fell ill and died in Perth at the age of fifty-one in 1901.
www.abc.net.au /dynasties/txt/s1489335.htm   (231 words)

  
 Forrest Gump
FORREST GUMP never fails to be a feast for the senses.
The biggest laughs are purely character moments, such as Forrest discovering his speed while blowing apart his leg braces, or the rambling shrimp-based menu delivered by Forrest's Army buddy Bubba.
It was great watching Forrest grow up and partake in all those historical moments in him acting as innocent as a child and not having a care in the world.
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 John Agar at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Born in Chicago in January 1921, B-movie legend John Agar did not harbor a desire to be an actor early on.
John Ford's classic frontier epic about an isolated Cavalry outpost and the men and women who live there stars Henry Fonda as the fort's stubborn new commander, whose rigorous stance puts him at odds with his men and leads to war with the Apache, and John Wayne as his veteran second-in-command.
John Wayne is a peace-minded cattle baron in a territory riddled with corrupt officials.
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 Alexander Prentice of Carluke, Scotland
We do not have a birth date for John, but in view of his 1797 marriage, he was likely between the ages of 17 and 27 and was probably born between 1770 and 1780.
John Prentice and his wife Christina McColl are both buried in the Minden Cemetery in Haliburton County along with a number of their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
John., the fifth child and the oldest son, like all his brothers and sisters and his father before him, had been born at Crawfordwalls and before his marriage had worked with his father as a mason, building three stone houses, and as a sawyer, a forester cutting trees and peeling logs.
www.prenticenet.com /news/2001/alexander_prentice_carluke_scotland.htm   (6341 words)

  
 SIR JOHN FORREST (1847- ) - Online Information article about SIR JOHN FORREST (1847- )
Alexander Forrest (born 1849), he explored eastwards from See also:
John Forrest also surveyed in 1878 the See also:
(later Captain and M.E.) Joseph Samuel BADGE b.16.6.1867 St. Hilary's Cornwall, Blacksmith and mining engineer accompanied John Forrest on one of his expedition.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /FLA_FRA/FORREST_SIR_JOHN_1847_.html   (673 words)

  
 Dynasties: Sir John Forrest
Sir John Forrest is sometimes referred to as Western Australia’s greatest son; he was certainly the greatest of the Forrest sons.
Sir John became the first Premier of Western Australia and is regarded by many as the man who built the state.
Sir John went on to become a founding father of Australian Federation and served as treasurer and acting Prime Minister to the nation.
www.abc.net.au /dynasties/txt/s1489327.htm   (291 words)

  
 Explorers
Robert O'Hara Burke an ex-policeman and William John Wills a topographer and 13 other inexperienced souls who had little or no idea of what lay before them, set out with 25 camels, 27 horses, 2 wagons, 70 gallons of rum and 21 tons of equipment to find a way to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The princely sum of 9000 pounds had been raised for the trip, half went on importing the 25 camels in from Afghanistan.
Brothers John and Alexander Forrest also made significant contributions and surveyed huge areas of WA and the Kimberley region.
australasia.freewebsitehosting.com /explorers.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Forrest Family
The North and South Forrest cemeteries are located near Brownsville, TN The North Cem.
Sarah A. Forrester was born ca 1837/38 (per 1850 census) or March 1841 (per 1900 census) in Macon County, daughter of Jonathan Forrester and Lucinda F. Millsaps.
James Forrester died in 1755 and his will was probated in the December 1755 Court." "Orange County, North Carolina was formed in 1752 from the counties of Bladen, Johnston, and Granville.
www.bobbittville.com /Forrest-Family.htm   (3183 words)

  
 Composer John Beal: Welcome to Heart Attack City
Specializing almost exclusively in composition for theatrical marketing for over twenty years, John’s original scores for trailers have been heard by more moviegoers than many feature film composers and he is trusted by virtually every major director and studio to help sell their films.
John Eric Alexander, John Eric Alexander, President of John Eric Alexander Music, Inc., lives and works in the New York City area.
Alexander has also placed music in recent campaigns for such films as The Green Mile, US Marshalls, Hard Rain, and Kiss the Girls.
www.composerjohnbeal.com /attack.html   (2551 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Wade Hampton, and Joseph Wheeler and prominent Galveston businessman, son of Granville B. and Unity (Williams) Shannon, was born in Arkansas on May 7, 1839.
He was charged with escorting President Jefferson Davis to safety after the fall of Richmond in April 1865, but Davis was captured by federal cavalry before Shannon could come to his aid.
She was the granddaughter of Gen John B. Scott, cofounder of Montgomery, Alabama, and John H. Murphy, fourth governor of Alabama.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fshlb.html   (575 words)

  
 John Russell at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Born in Los Angeles in January 1921, John Russell was an athletic youth who majored in drama in college.
Sadly, John Russell passed away at the age of 70 in 1991; he was survived by three children.
Howard Hawks' western classic stars John Wayne as a sheriff whose town is under siege by the army of gunmen brought in by crooked cattle baron John Russell to free his brother, trigger-happy Claude Akins, from Wayne's jail.
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 John Prentice of Carluke, Lanark, Scotland
A word of caution: the tree is based solely on the possibility of family relationships because of similarity of names and proximaty of dates and locations.
The first entries for the town of Carluke begin with the entries for the children of John Prentice (wife's name not given) on 28 Jan 1700.
There was also a John Prentice who was born in Carluke; he was chr.
www.prenticenet.com /news/2001/john_prentice_carluke_scotland.htm   (453 words)

  
 John Fine Art at absolutearts.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
1835 John Alexander McDougall watercolor on ivory 1 3/16 in.
John Dixon Batten, The Piper, third plate from the portfolio Sketches Made on the Lithography Night 14 April 1905 by Member s of the Art Workers Guild, Clifford Inn Hall and Published for the Benefit of the Chest, 1905
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
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 Johns' Western Gallery
FORREST, Earle R. Enos L. Christman - Forty-Niner, Together with, Forty-Niners from Washington County, Pennsylvania, Published in The Pony Express, Placerville, California, 1945 & 1946
FORREST, Earle R. Four photographs taken in Tombstone, Arizona
FORREST, Earle R. Two photographs of firearms owned by John P. Clum
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 Geocaching Australia - Free and Open Geocaching
This limestone bust is of Bunbury born Western Australian Explorer Sir John Forrest.
John Forrest was also a well known botanist.
This is a memorial grave for Tommy Winditch, an Aboriginal man who is remembered as being 'a faithful friend and companion' of John and Alexander Forrest on their explorations in Western Australia.
geocaching.com.au /cache/gc87a8   (6550 words)

  
 Star of Sorcerers by John Humphries
In December 1980, Colonel John Alexander published an article in the US Army's journal, Military Review, "The New Mental Battlefield", stating that telepathy could be used to interfere with the brain's electrical activity.
After retiring from the Army in 1988, Alexander joined the Los Alamos National Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the US Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA.
Alexander and C.B. Jones are members of the AVIARY, a group of intelligence and Department of Defence officers and scientists with a brief to discredit any serious research in the UFO field.
www.cassiopaea.org /cass/sorcerers.htm   (2468 words)

  
 McElhaney Family of Forrest County, Mississippi
HUGH ALEXANDER MCELHANEY.....Born 11 August 1910 in Sumrall, Forrest
County, Mississippi DIED 25 March 1992 in Hattiesburg, Forrest County,
JOHN DAVID MCELHANEY SR........BORN 04 September 1916 in
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 General John B. Gordon Camp #46, Sons of Confederate Veterans; General John B. Gordon Chapter #88, Military Order of ...
General John B. Gordon Camp #46, Sons of Confederate Veterans; General John B. Gordon Chapter #88, Military Order of the Stars & Bars; The Old Guard of the Gate City Guard;
John B's Rebel Yell - April 1998 To October 2000 Editions
John E. McCay ~ To The Banks of the Chattahoochee-The Fighting Around Dallas and Kennesaw during the Atlanta Campaign
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 Exploration Time Line Australian Explorers by land and sea
The same account, with comments, is given in Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton.
Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton contains extracts from Tasman's journal.
On second voyage, established that areas now known as Western Australia and Queensland were part of the same land mass.
australiaexplorers.com /timeline.html   (1642 words)

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