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  John E. Miles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Easten Miles (born July 28, 1884, died October 7, 1971) was a politician from New Mexico who served as Governor.
Miles began to dabble in politics as an observer at first.
Miles, an inbetween who was not an advocate but also did not work against the New Deal, was seen as a compromise.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_E._Miles   (452 words)

  
 John Miles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
THERE ARE NO DOCUMENTS as proof John E. Miles was married to a daughter of Hannah Hale.
it cannot possibly be assumed that James Miles is a grandson of Hannah Hale.
Anyone who can produce solid documentation that John E. Miles was married to a daughter of Hannah Hale please send it to me, and I will gladly post the genealogy line.
www.geocities.com /creekhale/miles.html   (119 words)

  
 JOHN P. BREST, CO. E
John Parker Brest, a representative citizen of North Beaver Township, and an honored veteran of the Civil War, resides on his valuable farm of fifty-three acres, which is situated in the Second precinct.
John Parker Brest was reared and educated as a farmer boy, in Plaingrove Township.
John P. Brest was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and was reared near the Mercer County line, not far from Plain Grove.
www.100thpenn.com /johnbrestbio.htm   (1453 words)

  
 John E. Allen, Attorney
While John Allen, that stalwart exponent of democratic principles was on the road to Rock Monday evening, he met with an accident that came near depriving the citizens of that place of the most brilliant speech of the campaign.
John E. Allen presented us with a large "watermillion" last Monday, and here is the puff to which it entitles him.
John showed his appreciation of the several drinks both by word and action, and in each case pronounced the beverage a very superior article.
www.ausbcomp.com /~bbott/WORTMAN/People_and_Families/AllenJohnE.htm   (8004 words)

  
 NPR's Jazz Profiles: Miles Davis: Miles' Styles
Miles Davis was the personification of restless spirit, always pushing himself and his music into uncharted territory.
Miles, with his ear for talent, hand picked a group of virtually unknown players: 20-year-old bassist Paul Chambers, pianist Red Garland, drummer Philly Joe Jones and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane.
Miles began to look for something else in his sidemen, too, and was moved by the classical music approach of the young pianist Bill Evans.
www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/miles_styles.html   (1646 words)

  
 John E. Whitman
JOHN E. WHITMAN came to Pratt County at the age of sixteen and his life for thirty years has been one of growing influence and success as a farmer, land owner, business man and public official.
Whitman, father of John E., was born in Ohio June 20, 1847, and lived in his native state to the age of sixteen.
John E. Whitman was born at Centerville, Iowa, November 4, 1867, and graduated from the high school there in 1884, the same year that he came with his parents to Kansas.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1919ks/w/whitmaje.html   (829 words)

  
 about   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
John and the band also had offers from other labels, most notably EMI, but he felt that at EMI they would be just another act in their huge stable, whereas at Decca, they were more likely to give him the promotion he was seeking.
John replied that he was more of a conformist, but where he identified with it was that he had been called a loser by a number of people over the previous 7 years, who had also told him there was no way he was going to make it.
John responded to similar criticism later in the interview that guitar solos were disappearing in favour of synthesizers.
john-miles.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /h_about.htm   (9546 words)

  
 John E. Wool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After leading his troops 900 miles from San Antonio, he joined General Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista.
There his gallant leadership earned him a Congressional sword, a vote of thanks, and the brevet of major general.
Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_E._Wool   (708 words)

  
 John E. George
JOHN E. Much of the romance as well as the early history of the southwestern country around Liberal is treasured in the memory and experiences of John E. George, an old-time cattleman and leading man of affairs.
His father, E. Ben George, a native of Florida, went to Texas as a young man and at Seguin married a member of a prominent family in that section of the state, Miss Mary DeWeese, daughter of Thomas DeWeese.
He and his wife had four sons: John E.; Alonzo and Oscar, who left home and their fate has never been known to the family; Edgar, a stockman in New Mexico.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/g/georgeje.html   (1720 words)

  
 Yo Miles! - Shanachie 5046 - Wadada Leo Smith & Henry Kaiser
Miles was "selling out" to the latest trend in music, psychedelic rock, they angrily said as they dismissed it.
Rather than simply recreate Miles' original music, they use it as it a starting point for music that has its own beauty, terror, love and humanity, music that is more about eradicating boundaries than it is about reifying established categories.
For example John Medeski contriutes some organ on "Black Satin," while Bob Bralove plays electric keyboards and Freddy Roulette offers some on "Maiysha." Paul Plimeley plays pianos and organs on most of the record, and Berkeley saxophonist George Brooks, who is becoming famous for his Indian-jazz fusions, also contributes some of his trademark saxophones.
music.calarts.edu /~wls/pages/yo_miles.html   (896 words)

  
 John E. Fauquier
It could be 20 miles long and several miles wide, however, the Germans developed a tightly woven system of ground-based, radar sites from the tip of Denmark to Paris, in the Ruhr, and around the Frankfurt-Mannheim-Stuttgart industrial complex.
John Fauquier was among the bravest of these brave souls.
John Fauquier became the supreme bomber pilot when it was necessary.
www.constable.ca /fauquier.htm   (7465 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Miles
Miles, Earl — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Communist.
Miles, John W. — of Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y. Democrat.
Miles, William Porcher (1822-1899) — of South Carolina.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/miles.html   (708 words)

  
 E.J.N. - JOHN ABERCROMBIE
John Abercrombie, who comes from Greenwich, Connecticut, began playing the guitar at fourteen, and by the time he was out of high school, he was ready to veer away from imitative Chuck Berry licks in favor of learning to play the instrument more seriously.
John Abercrombie/Marc Johnson/Peter Erskine, released in 1989, was recorded in Boston on April 21, 1988 and documents this innovative trio live.
John's affinity for jazz standards complements his role as an active clinician and teacher.
www.ejn.it /mus/abercrom.htm   (689 words)

  
 John Stafford and Margaret Brunt
John Edward Johnston was born on 16 Aug 1834.
John Emmett Wesley Johnston Parents: William Emory Bruce Johnston and Rhoda Virginia Darst Stafford.
John Floyd Johnston was born on 16 Aug 1830.
www.johnstafford.org /stafford/d44.htm   (680 words)

  
 The Song Tradition John Shreve "Songs and Stories of the American West" American Folk
John A. Lomax became an adviser to the Archive of American Folk Song, which had been founded in 1927, and in 1937, its director.
John Jacob Niles published several collections of old and new folk songs, Richard Dyer-Bennet, who accompanied folk songs on the lute, introduced folk music into circles which would otherwise rejected „primitive“ music.
John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers felt that the emphasis in the folk song was no longer „social reform“ but „the search for human values.“ The songs of Bob Dylan were not or only rarely of a sort that invited singing along, seldom did they have a chorus.
www.john-shreve.de /music-text.html   (8987 words)

  
 MWP: John Faulkner (1901-1963)
Most renowned today as the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner, John Faulkner nevertheless was likewise a fiction writer, though of a considerably different style and sensibility than his brother.
Though the farm was located only a few miles from Oxford in the hills of eastern Lafayette County, his work at the farm brought Faulkner into contact with a people who were decidedly different from the small-town residents he already knew.
John Faulkner himself died less than a year later, on March 28, 1963, shortly after finishing the manuscript.
www.olemiss.edu /mwp/dir/faulkner_john   (623 words)

  
 John E. Wagner
JOHN E. WAGNER, for many years identified with Kansas banking, former president of the State Bankers Association and also well known in politics, being democratic candidate for lieutenant governor a few years ago, has lived at Larned since 1912 and is president of the First State Bank of that city.
John E. Wagner is the only son of a veteran of Waterloo in Kansas if not in the United States.
John E. Wagner was the only son of his father's second marriage.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/w/wagnerje.html   (1375 words)

  
 John E. Crawford
Crawford is still living in the county of Sullivan, making her home with a son, Charles, who carries on farming near the old family homestead.
The early life of John E. Crawford, spent on the home farm, was without events of striking interest and was passed very much like that of the majority of boys who are reared to industrious habits in the country.
His educational experiences included an attendance at the public schools in the winter seasons, while the rest of the year was devoted to the honorable toil with which life on the farm is attended.
www.angelfire.com /ne/PhyllisGenealogy/johncrawford.html   (627 words)

  
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John E. Greer, of Independence township is dead, at the age of 68 years.
The captain was a native of Kentucky and was one of seven children: James M., of Montgomery county; John E., deceased; Mrs.
The wife of John E. Greer was Margaret Petree, of Decatur county, Indiana.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/civilwar/John_E_Greer.htm   (1139 words)

  
 Northern Exposure: Elaine Miles bio
Born on April 7, 1960 in Pendleton, Oregon, Miles was raised outside the Seattle area as a member of the Umatilla tribe, one of three tribes on her reservation.
With no previous acting experience, Miles was discovered by Northern Exposure's casting agents when she accompanied her mother, Armenia Miles, and other local Native Americans to an audition for the part of Marilyn.
Anku, Ed's (Darren E. Burrows) aunt and wife of the local medicine man. Miles spends her down time traveling in her truck to numerous parades and festivals, where she performs her native dancing.
home.comcast.net /~mcnotes/miles.html   (475 words)

  
 The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions : Miles Davis : CD Reviews : One Final Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Miles gave himself the role of Poetic Purity; the musician playing The Foil was on hand to provide stark contrast.
John Coltrane is the most obvious example, with his set-challenging imperative to cram in every last note and scalar pattern into a 20-minute-plus epic.
Miles was charging furiously ahead in this period of his career, changing musicians on a daily basis, even switching them around while a session was going on, sometimes mid-take.
www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/d/davis-miles/complete-jack-johnson.asp   (1559 words)

  
 Miles Davis: Get Up With It ---Ink Blot Magazine
It's also pretty scary that two songs here are over thirty-two minutes long, the ambient/trance shiva for Duke Ellington called "He Loved Him Madly" (just as influential on modern dance music as anything German) and the three-part workout titled "Calypso Frelimo" (probably just too damned hot to be influential on anyone).
Miles was a bad mofo back then, and wouldn't shut up for anybody.
On this album, Miles Davis reached his goal of assembling the greatest rock band in the world, invented ambient dance music, and retained the spontaneity of his best jazz works.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Miles_Davis_Get_Up.htm   (431 words)

  
 Amazon.com: E.S.P.: Music: Miles Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
One advisory for those familiar only with Miles' early work: his playing on this record reflects the changing ideas of the jazz scene and isn't conventionally "pretty" like it is on Kind Of Blue.
But when you acquire a taste for this new Miles (and if you follow his career, it's necessary to acquire a taste for "new" Miles many times, as he was constantly reinventing himself) you realize this is some of the most musical and advanced playing of his career.
The band here (Miles on trumpet plus Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums) is tight and talented, interesting because it was their debut together.
www.amazon.com /E-S-P-Miles-Davis/dp/B00000DCH2   (2419 words)

  
 John E Mack Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Soon it was several drinks later, the band was finishing Miles Davis's "So What." and our waitress was ready to end her shift.
Throughout human history there has been immense curiosity about whether or not we are alone in the universe, and about the nature of life on other planets or in other regions of the cosmos.
John E. Mack, M.D., (October 4, 1929 - Sep 27, 2004), a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explored the ways in which perceptions and beliefs about reality shape the human condition.
www.johnemackinstitute.org /ejournal/article.asp?id=198   (3417 words)

  
 E.J.N. - JOHN MC LAUGHLIN
One of the most versatile and influential guitarists of our time, John McLaughlin is known as an extraordinary solo artist, as the leader of both the group breaking Mahavishnu Orchestra and the revolutionary indo-jazz group Shakti and as the composer of some of the most stunning classical Jazz-fusion pieces ever written.
A second Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra called "Europa" was commissioned by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and performed with that fine young orchestra during a tour that led through all the capitals of Europe.
In 1988, parallel to his more classical oriented activities, John McLaughlin founded a new Trio with electric bass and percussion, which led to a long and deep musical friendship with the Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu.
www.ejn.it /mus/mclaughl.htm   (714 words)

  
 The American Experience | John Brown's Holy War | John Brown's Fort
As the raid on Harpers Ferry began to unravel, John Brown and his men retreated to a small brick building in the armory complex -- the engine house.
John Brown's Day started early...to make a pilgrimage to the brick-walled fire-engine house...the group marched around the fort single file.
In 1968, John Brown's Fort was moved to its present location, less than 200 feet from its original site.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/brown/sfeature/fort.html   (347 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Tribute to Jack Johnson: Music: Miles Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Miles definitely was on a creative roll when he did this tribute lp.
Miles, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock, Steve Grossman, and Michael Henderson created a powerful rock and roll album that rivaled, and surpassed, many of the lps of its time- a straight ahead, no holds barred attack complete with blistering guitars, and powerful drumming and bass work by Cobham and Henderson.
John McLaughlin absolutely rips on the guitar here, and Miles chips in an uncharacteristically aggressive solo that is very memorable.
www.amazon.com /Tribute-Jack-Johnson-Miles-Davis/dp/B0000027GU   (1644 words)

  
 History of John E. Page
On the 19th of December 1838, at Far West, Elder John Taylor and myself were ordained as apostles under the hands of Elders B. Young and H.
William E. McLellin, Luke S. Johnson, John F. Boynton, and Lyman E. Johnson had left the church, and David W. Patten, had died of gunshot wounds at the battle of Crooked River.
Pratt (h1) and John E. Page, met at Cincinnati, and organized that branch.
www.saintswithouthalos.com /Bios/page,je2.htm   (1229 words)

  
 John Stafford and Margaret Brunt
Children were: Charles Walter Stafford, Miles Lee Stafford, Carl Lynwood Stafford, Margaret Lucille Stafford, Myrtle Fern Stafford, Homer Stafford, Hiram Stafford, Ernestine Stafford.
Children were: John E. Stafford, Ballard P. Stafford.
She was married to John Wright on 30 Sep 1833.
www.johnstafford.org /stafford/d103.htm   (735 words)

  
 Miles Ahead: Columbia Legacy/Mosaic Reissue Project
Along the way, Miles did a number of live club recordings which generated a hefty amount of quality music which merit boxed sets of their own.
The complete Miles Davis studio recordings from September 1968 to February 1969 are scheduled for February 1999.
In preparation for the Miles Davis project, every master tape from the Columbia vaults was brought to Sony Music's New York studio where all issued and unreleased material could be reviewed and researched.
www.plosin.com /milesAhead/Legacy.html   (1745 words)

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