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  Georgia Tech Faculty, John Kirby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby, JR, and Zusman, DR. (2003) Chemosensory Regulation of Developmental Gene Expression in Myxococcus xanthus.
Kirby, JR, Kristich, CJ, Saulmon, MM, Zimmer, MA, Garrity, LF, Zhulin, IB, and Ordal, GW.
Kirby, JR, Saulmon MM, Kristich CJ, and Ordal GW.
www.biology.gatech.edu /professors/kirby.html   (360 words)

  
 Dr. John D. Kirby
Kirby also studies factors that alter the fertilizing ability of avian spermatozoa, using poultry models to better define those factors that affect fertility and to improve the analyses of fertility data.
• Perrault, SD and JD Kirby (1999) Internal fertilization in Birds, pp 856-866, in The Encyclopedia of Reproduction, E Knobil and JD Neill, Eds., Academic Press, NY • Froman, DP, A Feltmann, ML Rhoads and JD Kirby (1999) Sperm mobility: A primary determinant of fertility in the domestic fowl.
• Ali, N, LE Cornett, JD Kirby, JA Vizcarra, JC Ellison, J Thrash, PR Mayeux, SM Jones, and DA Baeyens (2002) Molecular cloning and functional characterization of a vasotocin receptor subtype expressed in the pituitary gland of the domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus): Avian homolog of the mammalian V1B-vasopressin receptor.
www.uark.edu /depts/posc/kirby.html   (567 words)

  
 John Wayne's America: Rio Grande
John Wayne’s America ignores Kathleen’s rejection of Kirby and the disappointment in his voice in Wills’s judgement of her beguiling motives.
Kirby is the active initiator of the kiss and Kathleen has hardly been exerting her feminine wiles in the previous days to "seduce" him into kissing her.
While she was unable to influence Kirby to dismiss Jeff, Kathleen effectively pressured him so that he engaged in nepotism, removing Jeff from the harmful situation of defending the fort.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/duke3.html   (2257 words)

  
 John C. Kirby
JOHN C. For the past fifteen years the name of Dr. John C. Kirby has been increasingly identified with the best tenets of medical and surgical science in the city and vicinity of Cedar Vale.
John C. Kirby was born in Benton County, Missouri, January 7, 1864, and is a son of Robert and Nancy J. (Davis) Kirby.
Robert Kirby, the grandfather of the Doctor, was born in North Carolina, fought as an American soldier during the War of 1812, became a pioneer into Tennessee, and in 1843 moved to Benton County, Missouri, where he passed the remainder of his life as an agriculturist and died before the birth of his grandson.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/biok/kirbyjc.html   (989 words)

  
 Christopher Kirby Family
Henry Kirby was a son of John Kirby (c 1714-) and Joanna Owen (1710-1772).
In November 1797, Christopher was appointed with Levi Carter, Caleb and Jesse Carter, William Jones, John Foisha, John Allen and Jacob Harty to assist John Nelson and Richard Robbins in maintaining the road from Casteel’s Creek by the Greene Co., TN.
In the July 1798 session of the Greene Co., TN court, Christopher was a juror in the case of John Sheffey vs. James Taylor and Robert Carson.
members.tripod.com /bonniehill/christop.htm   (4351 words)

  
 Kirby Corporate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby Petroleum Company operated as a Houston based independent oil and gas exploration and development company until 1956 when, after the sale of its producing properties, the remaining non-producing acreage was merged with three other independent oil and gas companies to form Kirby VenSyn Petroleum Company, a publicly traded company.
Kirby Inland Marine and Sabine Towing, as well as numerous of the other marine companies acquired by Kirby, were very instrumental in the development of the United States inland waterway system, which is composed of thousands of miles of navigable rivers, canals and coastal waterways.
Kirby and its marine transportation and diesel engine services subsidiaries have approximately 2,400 employees, all of whom are in the United States.
www.kmtc.com /corp/history.cfm   (1102 words)

  
 Historic Houston: Great Houstonians: John Henry Kirby
Lawyer, lumberman, oil man and "Father of Industrial Texas," John Kirby was born on November 16, 1860 in Tyler County, Texas, to Sarah (Payne) and John Thomas Kirby.
Kirby became a clerk in the Woodville, Texas law office of Samual Bronson Cooper, a senator in the Texas legislature.
The Kirby Lumber Company was established on July 5, 1901 to manufacture and transport lumber.
www.houstonhistory.com /ghoustonians/history8l.htm   (366 words)

  
 Baltimore Venture Mentors || Team || John C. Kirby, JR.
Kirby was President and Owner of Atlantic Courier Company, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the scheduled delivery needs of banks and financial institutions.
Kirby began his business career in the mid 1980's as a Lending Officer at Maryland National Bank, serving in the International and Large Corporate Divisions.
Kirby holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy and received his MBA from the Fellows Program at Loyola College.
www.baltimoreventurementors.com /team/john.asp   (210 words)

  
 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
New York is just realizing that John Kirby was not born in Baltimore as once believed, but in Winchester.
Kirby grew up at 442 N. Kent Street where he was raised by the Reverend Washington Johnson and Principal Powell Gibson gave John Kirby his first music lessons at the Frederick Douglass School.
By 1952 the popularity of jazz had changed and Kirby's band disbanded shortly before he died of complications from diabetes in June of that year.
www.thebloom.com /events/jazz-brunch.html   (397 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Jazz Fest Honors Resident   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby died in 1952, at the age of 43 in Hollywood, Calif.
John Kirby (left) leans down to adjust the bass drum of the legendary Gene Krupa during a 1942 concert in Carnegie Hall.
Kirby of Winchester is being honored this weekend with a Jazz Fest.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/040806/Area_JAz.asp   (809 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: ALLEN, JOHN KIRBY
John Allen sold his interest in the hat store and followed his brother to New York City, where they were stockholders in H. and H. Canfield Company until 1832, when they moved to Texas.
In September 1836 John Allen was elected a representative from Nacogdoches to the Texas Congress.
John Allen served as congressman from Nacogdoches and on the president's staff with the rank of major.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/fal21.html   (497 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: KIRBY, JOHN HENRY
John Henry Kirby, primarily known as a lumberman and East Texas timberland owner, son of John Thomas and Sarah (Payne) Kirby, was born on a farm near Peach Tree Village, Tyler County, on November 16, 1860.
Kirby was a founder and five-time president of the Southern Pine Association, served two terms as president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association (1917-21), and functioned briefly during World War I
Financial bankruptcy in 1933 ended his active control of his lumber company and of the Kirby Petroleum Company, which he had organized in 1920, although he continued to serve as chairman of the boards of both companies until his death, on November 9, 1940.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fki33.html   (670 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Big Town - Big Town Songbook: Man out of time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John Kirby was born in 1908, by some accounts in Baltimore and by others in Virginia, by all accounts under the name John Kirk.
Kirby and Sullivan divorced in 1941, so by the time Shavers left in 1944, Kirby was looking at a whole new day.
Kirby spent the next four years trying to put it back together, and thought he had succeeded when he booked a Carnegie Hall reunion for Dec. 22, 1950, on a strange bill that included the hot rhythm and blues group the Orioles.
www.nydailynews.com /city_life/big_town/v-bigtown_archive/story/258085p-221062c.html   (1023 words)

  
 John Lynden Kirby Biographical Sketch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby was born at Charlevoix, Michigan, November 7, 1921.
Dr. Kirby was a member of the American Oriental Society, the Association of Economic Geographers, and the Association of American Geographers.
Not only was Dr. Kirby rated as among the best professors by the students in his courses, he also chaired university committees including the Budget Committee, the Committee on the Administration of Faculty Personnel, and the Asia Committee,and acted as a consultant to Brice-Petrides and Associates in 1972.
www.library.uni.edu /speccoll/bio/biokirby.html   (243 words)

  
 John Kirby - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby, originally a tuba player, switched to bass in 1930 when he joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra.
By 1937 Kirby had his own group at the Onyx Club; Frankie Newton and Pete Brown passed through the band before the personnel was set.
With Maxine Sullivan (Kirby's wife at the time) offering occasional vocals, the John Kirby Sextet was quite popular during 1938-42.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,453679,00.html   (396 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / John Kirby, 73; electrical engineer
Kirby was a baseball fan and had been drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies when he was younger.
Kirby was involved with the St. John's Missals Drum and Bugle Corps in Winthrop for many years.
He leaves his wife, Carol J. (Benson) Kirby; a son, John J. Kirby III of Rochester, N.H.; two daughters, Ellen Lavoie of Atkinson, N.H., and Karen Cioffi of Methuen; two stepsons, Craig Bartlebough of Derry, N.H., and John Bartlebough of Hamilton; a stepdaughter, Susan Stead of Georgetown; 10 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/02/13/john_kirby_73_electrical_engineer?mode=PF   (579 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Jazzin’ It Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Whether or not you knew John Kirby, the Daniel J. Farrar Elks Lodge on Winchester’s North Kent Street was the place to be Saturday.
Kirby, who left Winchester for Hollywood, Calif., played with some of the finest jazz and blues musicians of the era.
John Kirby is a part of Winchester, and part of people who live here, and this event proves that, he added.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/040809/Area_Jazz.asp   (564 words)

  
 John Kirby (by L. Proyect)
With Kirby on bass, Shavers on trumpet, Ellingtonians Buster Bailey and Russell Procope respectively on clarinet and saxophone, Armstrong cohort Billy Kyle on piano, and O'Neill Spencer on drums, the band was rooted in big band traditions.
Kirby's attempt to present jazz in classical trappings anticipated the Modern Jazz Quartet, which also performed in formal wear and worked up jazz arrangements of Back and Mozart.
The bebop revolution of the 1940s was an extension of this aesthetic and led to the avant-garde movement of the 1960s, which once and for all severed the connections between jazz musicians, fl or white, and the working-class.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/kirby.htm   (936 words)

  
 Powell's Books - John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks: With a Facsimile of the Suffolk Traveller, 1735 by Jenny ...
John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks: With a Facsimile of the Suffolk Traveller, 1735
Here, published in facsimile for the first time since the eighteenth century, are John Kirby's extremely rare large-scale Suffolk maps of 1736 and 1737 and the 1735 edition of his road-book The Suffolk Traveller, the earliest single-county roadbook.
This work of Suffolk topography includes a biography of John Kirby himself and a full account of the travails of publishing his maps and book.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27576&cgi=product&isbn=1843830515   (254 words)

  
 John Kirby Profile - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby is directly responsible for Cronos' lease marketing operations in the North Atlantic region, including Northern Europe, the east coast of America and Scandinavia.
Kirby is also responsible for Cronos' corporate operations including contract and billing administration, container repairs and leasing-related systems; Mr.
Kirby joined CCC in 1985 as European Technical Manager and advanced to Director of European Operations in 1986, a position he held with CCC, and later CCL, until his promotion to Vice President - Operations of Cronos in 1992.
www.forbes.com /finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=150215   (365 words)

  
 Collingwood Blue Mountain Real Estate J Kirby Sells Wasaga Beach Georgian Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As one of the top producers at Coldwell Banker Trinity Realty in Collingwood in 2003, John is dedicated to helping buyers and sellers realize their real estate goals.
John also has a growing list of satisfied clients who have become seasonal residents, enjoying the natural amenities that the Georgian Triangle, Georgian Bay area has to offer.
John Kirby is a sales representative with Coldwell Banker Trinity Realty Inc., 560 First Street, Collingwood Ontario.
www.johnkirby.ca /home.html   (377 words)

  
 AirTran Airways Names John Kirby Director of Network Planning
In this position, Kirby will be in charge of strategic planning, aircraft scheduling, alliances and operational analysis.
Kirby's experience includes acting as group leader for the MetroJet Task Force, facilitator for the On-Time Departure Audit Task Force, and project manager for Sabre integration.
Kirby began his career as a sales associate with People Express Airlines in 1983.
www.prnewswire.com /airtran/20000209b.shtml   (312 words)

  
 VA-PITTSYLVANIA CO.
John Kirby, Jr., served as a private in the Virginia Militia, in the Revolutionary War.
John "Kearby" received a grant for 1000 acres on the Piedmont Plateau in Goochland County on December 1, 1740.
Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
adriannehopkins.tripod.com /va-pitts.htm   (4407 words)

  
 John Kirby - 1941-1943: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The third John Kirby [+] CD from the European Classics label has 21 performances that trace Kirby's unique sextet from the peak of its popularity in 1941 through the war years.
With trumpeter Charlie Shavers [+], clarinetist Buster Bailey [+], and altoist Russell Procope [+] (along with pianist Billy Kyle [+] and drummer O'Neil Spencer), Kirby was able to form an unusual and very distinctive group sound that, although comprised of swing virtuosos, looked toward the cool jazz of the 1950s.
The band was starting to come apart a bit by the later tracks of this CD, with first Specs Powell [+] and then Bill Beason [+] replacing the late Spencer, George Johnson [+] ably filling in for Procope, and Shavers departing before the final number; however, the group sound remained intact.
www.music.com /release/1941-1943/2   (288 words)

  
 Georgia Tech Faculty, John Kirby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology (T. Creighton, ed.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, Vol 1, pp.
Kirby, JR, Kristich, CJ, Feinberg, SL, and Ordal, GW.
Rosario, MML, Kirby, JR, Bochar, DA, and Ordal, GW.
www.biology.gatech.edu /professors/kirby_publish.html   (304 words)

  
 IL POLITTICO :: Exhibition - Cento – Le Figure de il Polittico
Third solo exhibition in Rome of John Kirby in our exposition space, Looking On enforces, first of all, the relation of continuity and friendship that since a long time tigs the famous British painter to Il Polittico.
Under the title Looking On we will expose the last paintings by John Kirby, purposely realized for the present exhibition, in which his perturbating narrative takes part in places-non- places, some sort of empty pneumatic in which the movement that should be there blocks it’s self, and the breath holds back.
As mentioned in his text in the catalogue Arnaldo Romani Brizzi: «The originality of John Kirby is not only in the surrealist parts that are even easy to trace in some of his works.
www.ilpolittico.com /ingl-gallery16.html   (311 words)

  
 KVI - Seattle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kirby was invited back to DC to dedicate his show to the President's plan for Social Security reform.
The highlight of Kirby's trip to Washington DC for Media Day was his chance to meet and interview the President's right-hand man White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove.
Kirby and Brigadier General Mark Kimmit take a pause from the Kimmit's live appearance at KVI for a photo together.
www.kvi.com /x5614.xml   (437 words)

  
 John T. Kirby
Kirby, John T. “Mimesis and Diegesis: Foundations of Aesthetic Theory in Plato and Aristotle.”
On this see Kirby, “Rhetoric and Poetics in Hesiod.” It is interesting too that an acute twentieth-century critic, Roland Barthes, placed great emphasis on both semiology and rhetoric.
On the importance of time in narrative, see the remarks in Kirby, “Toward a Rhetoric of Poetics” (with bibliography).
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol7_1Kirby.htm   (1505 words)

  
 JOHN KIRBY - AN ACTORS GUARDIAN ANGEL : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John recently returned from Australia where he coached all the young stars on P.J. Hogan’s new live action feature “Peter Pan” for the “Gladiator” Producers Doug Wick, Lucy Fisher, and Patrick McCormick.
John has a special fondness for the work he shared with Judith Light on her Broadway performance of “Wit”.
John teaches three Intensive Scene Study classes at the John Kirby Studio in Hollywood,
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1668391   (296 words)

  
 John Kirby | The Complete Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings
There were only about four good bass players during the 1930's, and John Kirby wasn't one.
But I do not believe the Kirby sound affected or influenced later jazz—it was forgotten after the war.
Kirby may have taken his lead from Raymond Scott who led a chamber music ensemble that also borrowed from and gently parodied the classics.
www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0202_096.htm   (679 words)

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