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  Gerald Ford help - Wiki at Help.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ford was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment.
The Ford administration saw the withdrawal of American forces from the Vietnam War, the execution of the Helsinki Accords amid the Cold War and the continuing specter of inflation and recession.
Ford came under intense criticism for granting a preemptive pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal, and was subsequently defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election.
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  John Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was one of the most accomplished American film directors of the 1930s to 1960s, known particularly as a director of the Westerns, although his tributes to the veterans of World War II and Americana are also equally effective.
John A. Feeney's grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of a local (impoverished) gentry family, the Morris's of Spiddal, presently headed by Redmond Morris, 3rd Lord Killanin.
John Augustine and Abbey arrived in Boston and Portland within a few days of each other in May and June 1872, were married in 1875, and became American citizens three years later.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: John_Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
His son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829), the only son of a former President to hold the office until George W. Bush in 2001.
John Adams was born on October 30 (October 19 Old Style, Julian Calendar), 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts; his birthplace is now a national park.
One of these appointments, that of John Marshall, was a last minute appointment as Adams already knew he had lost the 1800 presidential election.
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 John Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second (1797–1801) President of the United States.
His son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829).
One of these appointments, that of John Marshall, was a last-minute act of retaliation for having been defeated by Thomas Jefferson.
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 John Adams - Linix Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Adams had none of the qualities of popular leadership which were so marked a characteristic of his second cousin, Samuel Adams; it was rather as a constitutional lawyer that he influenced the course of events.
John Adams was a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778.
John Quincy Adams, who later served as President and in the House of Representatives, was their eldest son.
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 John Adams Online Research :: Information about John Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789 – 1797) Vice President of the United States of the United States, and the second (1797– 1801) President of the United States.
His son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President of the United States (1825 – 1829), the only son of a former President to hold the office until George W. Bush in 2001.
John Adams was born on October 30 (October 19 Old Style and New Style dates, Julian Calendar), 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts ; his John Adams birthplace (Quincy, Massachusetts) is now a national park.
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 John Wilkes Booth - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor who is most famous for assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
He was named after the famous British revolutionary John Wilkes, whom the family claimed as a distant relative; Junius himself was named after the legendary Roman statesman Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
However, Booth's family was long time friends with John T. Ford, the theater's owner, and Booth was in and out of the theater so often during the war that he even had his mail sent there.
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 John Ford (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John "Rip" Ford, member of the Republic of Texas Congress and later of the State Senate, Texas Ranger, Confederate military officer, and journalist (1815 – 1897)
John Patrick Ford was a witness in the Schapelle Corby trial.
John Ford (Canadian politician) - Green candidate for the Canadian House of Commons (2004, 2006)
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 BT Research - Ford Motor Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression.
Ford of Brazil produces a pick-up truck version of the Fiesta, the Courier, which is also produced in South Africa as the Ford Bantam in right hand drive versions.
Ford was third to the automotive market with a hybrid electric vehicle: the Ford Escape Hybrid, which also represented the first hybrid electric SUV to market.
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 John_D._Rockefeller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American capitalist most known for his role in the early petroleum industry and the founding of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil is the largest of its descendants).
John Davison Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, the second of the six children to William Avery Rockefeller (November 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) and his wife Eliza Davison (September 12, 1813 - March 28, 1889).
John D. Rockerduck, a Walt Disney Company character who is popular in Europe, is named after him, because of all of his good deeds.
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 John F. Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as Jack Kennedy or JFK, was the 35th President of the United States (1961–1963).
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President on January 20, 1961.
John F. Kennedy was a member of the Knights of Columbus.
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 jazz - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Hard bop was a move away from cool jazz, an attempt to make bop more appealing to audiences by incorporating influences from soul music, gospel music, and the blues.
Hard bop was at the peak of its popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, and was associated with such notable figures as Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Charles Mingus.
Later, bebop and hard bop musicians, such as trumpeter Miles Davis, made more stylistic advances with modal jazz, where the harmonic structure of pieces was much more free than previously and frequently only implied by skeletal piano chords and bass parts.
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 Encyclopedia: John-Wayne
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa in 1907, but the name became Marion Mitchell Morrison when his parents decided to name their next son Robert; however in later life he often stated that his middle name was Michael.
John Wayne died of stomach cancer on June 11, 1979 at the age of 72 at the UCLA Medical Center, and was interred in the Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery in Corona del Mar, Orange County, California.
John Wayne was entered into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1974.
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 BT Research - Gerald Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ford graduated from law school in 1941 and was admitted to the Michigan bar shortly thereafter.
Ford was a member of the House of Representatives for twenty-four years, holding the Grand Rapids congressional district seat from 1949 to 1973.
Ford received monthly briefs by President Carter’s senior staff on international and domestic issues, and was always invited to lunch at the White House whenever he was in Washington, D.C. Up until Ford's death, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited the Fords' home frequently.
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Ford eventually joined in the credit markets in December 1927, when Ford unveiled the redesigned Model A, and retired the Model T after producing 15 million of them.
Henry Ford II, grandson of Henry Ford, served as President from 1945-1960, and as Chairman and CEO from 1960-1980.
In 2000, under the leadership of the current Ford chairman, William Clay (Bill) Ford, the Company stunned the industry (and pleased environmentalists) with an announcement of a planned 25 percent improvement in the average mileage of its light truck fleet — including its popular SUVs — to be completed by the 2005 calendar year.
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 Encyclopedia: John Ford (disambiguation)
John M. Ford (born 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.
Rear Admiral John Donaldson Ford (19 May 1840 – 17 April 1918) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
John Ford (born May 3, 1942) is a funeral director, insurance agent, and consultant in Memphis, Tennessee.
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 John Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He was born Sean Aloysius O'Fearna (some sources list his birth name as John Martin Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine to Irish parents from Galway and many of his films contain direct and indirect references to his ancestral heritage.
Ford began acting in 1914 and in 1921 turned to directing.
Ford cast Ward Bond as himself, under the character of John Dodge, in the 1957 movie The Wings of Eagles.
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 Carpenter, John :: C : Gourt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film music composer and occasionally an actor.
John Carpenter - A collection of reviews analyzing the production cicumstances surrounding each film, and the impact of this on the finished product.
John Carpenter - Marco Lanzagorta profiles the director for Senses of Cinema.
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 Mesothelioma - Ford
Ford are characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
A ford is a section of water (most commonly a section of a river) that is sufficiently shallow as to be traversable by wading.
A ford is therefore a cheaper alternative to a bridge when building a road across a waterway.
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 Bishop Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ford radically reformed the methods for large-scale manufacturing ofcars, and large-scale management of an industrial workforce.
Ford implemented the ideas of Eli Whitney, who developed the first assembly line using interchangeable parts, whichmade it possible to put the cars together at a much lower cost and with greater reliability and repeatability.
Ford was launched from a converted wagon factory, with $28,000 cash from 12 investors.
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 Scott's Reel Classics | Content| John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 — June 11, 1979), born Marion Robert Morrison, popularly known as "The Duke," was an iconic, Academy Award winning, American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s.
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, but his name was changed to Marion Michael Morrison when his parents decided to name their next son Robert.
John Wayne's enduring status as an iconic American was formally recognized by the United States Congress on May 26, 1979 when he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor [7][8].
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 Staten Island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Three weeks later, on September 11, 1776, the British received a delegation of Americans consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Edward Rutledge, and John Adams at the Conference House on the southwestern tip of the island (known today as Tottenville) on the former estate of Christopher Billop.
John Dehner - Television and movie actor born on Staten Island.
John's University has a campus on Staten Island.
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 Henry Ford
Ford was born on a prosperous farm owned by his parents, William and Mary Ford, immigrants from County Cork, Ireland.
In a newly-designed car, Ford drove an exhibition in which the car covered the distance of a mile on the ice of Lake St. Clair in 39.4 seconds, which was a new land speed record.
Ford dropped out of the race, and soon thereafter dropped out of racing permanently, citing dissatisfaction with the sport's rules and the demand on his time by the now booming production of the Model T. Racing was, by 1913, no longer necessary from a publicity standpoint—the Model T was famous, and ubiquitous on American roads.
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The Ford Motor Company has denied allegations that they profited by the use of forced labor to produce tanks for the Nazis during the war, saying that Ford had lost control of the German division by that point in the war and was not responsible for its activities.
Ford in South Africa traditionally sourced its models from the UK and Australia, with local versions of the Ford Cortina including the XR6, with a 3.0 V6 engine, and a Cortina 'bakkie' or pick-up, which was exported to the UK.
Ford was a member of the House of Representatives for 24 years from 1949 - 1973, and became Minority Leader of the House.
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At the same time, the KGB made creative use of assassination to deal with high-profile defectors such as Georgi Markov, and Israel's Mossad made use of such tactics to eliminate Palestinian guerrillas, politicians and revolutionaries, though some Israelis argue that the targeted often crossed the line between one or another or were even all three.
Many allege, however, that this is merely a smoke screen for political and moral benefit and that the covert and illegal training of assassins by major intelligence agencies continue, such as at the School of the Americas run by the United States.
Some of the wilder and arguably stranger methods used for protection by famous people of both today and yesterday have evoked many reactions from different people, some resenting the separation from their officials or major figures, some comforted by the security and some lamenting the state of society that such measures are necessary.
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John Ford leslie kelly and john ford coley Ford for District Clerk Phoro Album.
John is an athletic and very mobile big man who has the ability to run the floor well.
John and Conductor john kennedy ford phoenixville Conductor Keith Lockhart at Boston Pops Rehearsal in 2005.
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 Moab, Utah at AllExperts
In 1949 famed Western movie director John Ford was talked into using the area for the movie Wagon Master.
Ford had been using the area in Monument Valley around Mexican Hat, Utah, south of Moab, since he filmed Stagecoach there 10-years earlier in 1939.
Partly due to the John Ford movies, the area has become a favorite for photographers, rafters, hikers, and most recently mountain bikers.
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 Complete Film of John Ford
John Baxter, a British film critic, is the author of "Hollywood Exiles, The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, complete film of john ford and "The Cinema of John Ford.
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John Brigham - John Brigham Bravos of the West by John Myers, Bravos of the West is a panoramic history of the development of the West after the Lewis john brigham and Clark expedition.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt Online Research :: Information about Franklin D. Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The main weakness of the Roosevelt administration was the blatant corruption of the Tammany Hall machine in New York City, where the Mayor, Jimmy Walker, was the puppet of Tammany boss John F. Curry and where corruption of all kinds was rife.
It is widely accepted that the New Deal implemented many of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, which advocated an interventionist government policy using fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate economic Recessions and Depression (economics).
Pressure came from California Governor of California Culbert Olsen (a Democrat), the William Randolph Hearst newspapers and General John L. De Witt, the U.S. Army Commander in California, whose simple attitude was that "a Jap is a Jap." Opponents of the suggestion were Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Attorney-General Francis Biddle and FBI Director J.
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