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  WISE, H. A. - LoveToKnow Article on WISE, H. A.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
WISE, H. - LoveToKnow Article on WISE, H. misfortunes for the righteousover against these things the possession of wisdom is declared to be the supreme good.
Wise men are distrusted and opposed by the prophets.
WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900), American Jewish theologian, was born in Bohemia, but his career is associated with the organization of the Jewish reform movement in the United States.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WISE_H_A_.htm   (2646 words)

  
 WISE, HENRY A. - LoveToKnow Article on WISE, HENRY A.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
(C. WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876), American politician and soldier, was born at Drummondtown (or Accomac), Accomack county, Virginia, on the 3rd of December 1806.
John Brown's raid occurred during his term, and Wise refused to reprieve Brown after sentence had been passed.
He strongly opposed secession, but finally voted for the Virginia ordinance, was commissioned brigadier-general in the Confederate army and served throughout the war.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WISE_HENRY_A_.htm   (1328 words)

  
 Rank Insignia - Enlisted
The staff sergeant’s success, more than any other grade of the NCO rank, leads the path to the Army’s success, and the footprints you will see behind those of our greatest military leaders are probably those of a staff sergeant, where he stood confident, proud and eager to assist.
The platoon sergeant or sergeant first class generally has 15 to 18 years or more of military experience and is rightfully expected to bring that experience to bear in quick, accurate decisions that are in the best interest of the mission and the soldier.
The sergeant major’s experience and ability are equal to that of the command sergeant major, but the sphere of influence regarding leadership is generally limited to those directly under his charge.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/intro/enlist.htm   (1437 words)

  
 Using Credit Wisely   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Wise use contrasts with free-market environmentalism in that the latter is associated with libertarian political views and efforts to protect the environment through private initiatives such as land trusts; many libertarians would dispute any association of free-market environmentalism with the Wise Use movement and its goals.
Groups which the wise use movement would rather not be associated with, such as the John Birch Society, the Unification Church, and the Lyndon LaRouche organization, have sometimes attempted to hitch themselves to the wise use cause, and hold similar views on environmental issues to the wise users.
Wise began his movie career at RKO as a sound and music editor, but he soon grew to being nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for ''Citizen Kane'' in 1941.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/187/using-credit-wisely.html   (1663 words)

  
 Johnny Four Months   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
John Forbes Kerry exiting from a Toledo hotel was seen wearing a bucket on his head in celebratory abandon while playing to THE ELITE MEDIA as a rabid "bucket head." The "look" does something for the Senator that few past attempts at headgear brandishment have failed miserably to do.
John Forbes Kerry will maintain his inane posture as the candidate of the common man and continue to be the traitor, seditionist and liar that he has been since 1971 and beyond.
It is the wise voter that protects his/her vote and chooses their Presidential Candidate without falling for the opining, whining and outright fabrications of those who would steal their vote in a faux fog of lies and false accusations.
johnny_four_months.blogspot.com   (2234 words)

  
 John Otto Vogel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
John's interests at the Academy were varied: He was manager of the lacrosse team in his plebe year; active in the Chess, Skeet, and Ski Clubs; and a Sunday school teacher for three years.
John's roommate during plebe year wrote that John was a good and loyal friend and a wise counselor.
John had a passionate love for animals and served as a member of the board of directors of the Anderson Animal Shelter, Humane Society of North Central Illinois, from 1972 to 1986.
www.west-point.org /users/usma1949/17240   (710 words)

  
 Brigadier General Henry Alexander Wise
Brigadier-General Henry Alexander Wise was born at Drummondtown, Accomack county, December 3, 1806, a descendant of John Wise, who came to Virginia from England about 1650, and was a man of influence in the colony.
John Wise, father of General Wise, clerk of Accomack county and twice speaker of the Virginia senate, died in 18l2, and his wife, Sarah Corbin, in 1813.
Young Wise was cared for by his kinsmen, and educated at Washington college, Pa. After his graduation in 1825, he studied law three years with Henry St. George Tucker, and in 1828 removed to Nashville, Tenn., for the practice of his profession.
members.aol.com /jweaver300/grayson/wise.htm   (762 words)

  
 Staff-Sergeant John McGeough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
John McGeough was born in Dublin on the 11th June 1923.
In retrospect it is obvious to me that I was conned by the sergeant - he had most probably been told to fill vacancies in the Essex and that if I had persisted it would have been possible to join an Irish unit.
John McGeough was amongst the unfortunate men to be captured on the final day.
www.pegasus-one.org /pow/john_mcgeough.htm   (5236 words)

  
 Page 43
John and Rachel (Hart) Cole had a son John who married in 1691 Mehitable Loomis, and this may be the source of the claim that Stephen Hart had a daughter Mehitable who married John Cole [Farmington LR 2:123]."
John, born in Farmington, about 1655, baptized April 2d, 1655, saved from the fire, he being that night at Nod.
of Farmington, eldest son of John Hart and Sarah, his wife, (who were burned to death by the burning of their house, in 1666,) born in Farmington, about 1655, and baptized there April 2d, 1655, married, Mary, daughter of Deacon Isaac Moore, of Farmington, and both were admitted to the church there Nov. 24th, 1656.
users.rcn.com /harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p043.html   (673 words)

  
 John Wise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
John Wise is the name of several notable people:
John Sergeant Wise (1846-1913) U.S. Congressman from Virginia
John Wise (born 1935) former Canadian Minister of Agriculture
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/John-Wise.htm   (114 words)

  
 Guide Introduction: Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th
Nancy Allen, William Berlin, and Thomas Easton Gold (witnessed by James Allen and John Pierce); a lease of Maria Carter (Byrd) Nicholas to George William Allen and Neill Barnett; and a power of attorney of Maria Carter (Byrd) Nicholas to Richard Evelyn Byrd (bears affidavit of James Kerr Caskie).
Section 9 consists of six items, bonds, 1841-1866, of John Henry Hankins (of Bacon's Castle, Surry County, Virginia) with John Bennett, Alice Ann Mallory, Sheldon and Maupin of [unidentified location], Thomas, Adams and Co. of Smithfield, Virginia (bears revenue stamp), and Warren and Gwaltney of [unidentified location].
The bond is witnessed by Burwell Bassett, Fielding Lewis, and John Augustine Washington, and concerns the purchase by Washington of Mount Pleasant, King and Queen County, Virginia (formerly owned by John Robinson), and Woromonkoke (later Romancoke), King William County, Virginia (formerly owned by Bernard Moore).
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/womens_studies/southern_women/swmnd1.asp   (13340 words)

  
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The life and letters of Captain John Brown: who was executed at Charlestown, Virginia, Dec. 2, 1859, for an armed attack upon American slavery; with notices of some of his confederates.
Seven decades of the Union: the humanities and materialism, illustrated by a memoir of John Tyler; with reminiscences of some of his great contemporaries; the transition state of this nation--its dangers and their remedy.
Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: blockade running during the Civil War.
www.marshall.edu /speccoll/blake/W2-BIB.html   (1783 words)

  
 Malaspina Great Books - John Locke (1632)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
John Norris, the metaphysical rector of Bemerton and English disciple of Malebranche, criticized it in 1690.
John Toland, in his Christianity not Mysterious, had exaggerated doctrines in the Essay, and then adopted them as his own.
One of the ablest was John Sergeant, a priest of the Roman Church, in Solid Philosophy Asserted Against the Fancies of the Ideists (1697).
www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=160   (4210 words)

  
 Antoine Le Grand
He is noted for his polemical exchanges with Samuel Parker and John Sergeant, and for having given Descartes's work a Scholastic form so that it would be accepted in the schools.
John Smith, author of Select Discourses (1660), and the earliest recorded partisan of the Cartesian philosophy in England, was the first to introduce the study of Descartes to Cambridge.
Sergeant, best known for his criticisms of Locke's philosophy, was also highly critical of the Cartesian philosophy.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/legrand   (4191 words)

  
 Performance Government: A Roundtable Discussion
The state sent two new members, John Baldacci and James Longley, Jr., to the U.S. House of Representatives, and elected as a new U.S. Senator, Olympia Snowe, a former member of the House.
John Sergeant Wise, a New York financier, was shown into the Speaker's office.
Representative John Baldacci is a member of the Agriculture Committee, and serves on two subcommittees: Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture; and Resource Conservation, Research, and Forestry.
www.umaine.edu /MCSC/MPR/Vol4No1/mitch.htm   (5700 words)

  
 TLC :: Operation Homecoming
In this episode, we'll meet John Keith who lost his leg from a mortar attack while he was stationed in Iraq.
John reunites with his troop, but more importantly, reunites with the man who saved his life.
While Marine Staff Sergeant John Wise was away in Iraq for eight months, his wife Dawn decided to get gastric bypass surgery.
tlc.discovery.com /fansites/ohc/episodes/episodes.html   (1221 words)

  
 Literature
Letters to a Young Relative by John Randolph, the poems of William Munford, Swallow Barn (1832), a novel of the Tidewater, and Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt (1849) by John Pendleton Kennedy of Maryland are not altogether forgotten.
John Reuben Thompson, who succeeded Poe as editor of the Messenger, later composed stirring war lyrics that have found places in anthologies.
John Moreland is the author of many books of verse and appears in many important anthologies.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/literature.html   (3892 words)

  
 Working With Words
Tomorrow you'll have a chance to experience another in a series of periodic sessions highlighting the incredible national-class (hell, world-class) writing and reporting talent we have here in the region, along with some key support services that are often invisible to the reader but nevertheless crucial to the end product.
Armed with wiki pages, they'll be able to invite a larger group of knowledgeable professional and amateur local historians to submit information for possible use in the next edition of the encyclopedia.
John Battelle is a special name in magazine journalism.
www.workingwithwords.blogspot.com   (12260 words)

  
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Born in Washington D.C., John Chapman became known for his luminist-style, detailed paintings of Roman ruins and landscapes.
He studied with his father, John Gadsby Chapman, and a brother was artist Conrad Wise Chapman.
He exhibited at the National Academy of Design 1881-1883 and the Boston Art Club in 1875 and 1882, but his exhibition record is limited, and he died in poverty.
www.askart.com /artist/C/john_linton_chapman.asp?ID=21801   (279 words)

  
 Timeline US Presidents to JFK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
John Adams signed act that officially established the U.S. Marine Corps and the US Marine Band, composed of 32 drummers and fifers.
John Quincy Adams (74), former US president, defended "the Mendi people," a group of Africans who rebelled and killed the crew aboard the slave ship Amistad, while en route to Cuba.
John C. Fremont (1830-1890), American explorer, was the 1st Republican presidential candidate.
www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/subjects/PRESIDENTS_A.HTML   (16607 words)

  
 Civil War. Battle of New Market Memoir by Cadet Porter Johnson
Evans, Berkeley, and Royster have gone since the unveiling also John White of Lex and Wharton, Ricketts, Tom White and I don't {know} who else are now gone to their last [ ].
John L. Cocke, VMI Class of 1867, was a Private in Co. B and was in the front rank next to the color bearer, Evans.
John Sergeant Wise and Louis C. Wise were also New Market Cadets.
www.vmi.edu /archives/manuscripts/ms002pj.html   (2170 words)

  
 Wade Family Papers - Yulee, David Levy: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
The correspondence of John Sergeant Wise includes a letter, 28 October 1909, to Constance (Cary) Harrison (1843–1920) regarding his role as a courier for Jefferson Davis during the Appomattox campaign.
Included in the collection is a letter, 19 January 1862, from Wise to Judah Philip Benjamin (1811–1884) seeking permission to fill the depleted ranks of the Wise Legion with several companies of the 39th Virginia Infantry Regiment (c1).
A photocopy of a letter, 25 September 1861, from John James Henry Wise (1830–1895) of the 39th Virginia Infantry Regiment to John R. Drummond concerning a request for lumber needed to construct winter quarters for the unit.
www.vahistorical.org /cwg/w.htm   (3994 words)

  
 Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series M:
Among his correspondence is a letter to Judge John Scott and several letters from a brother in Georgia, John Marshall Keith (1788-1841), discussing the sale of a slave and state and national politics.
Robert Eden Scott (1808-1862), son of Judge John Scott and Elizabeth Blackwell (Pickett) Scott, was recognized as one of the state's leading Whigs in the years immediately prior to the Civil War.
(at Abingdon, Virginia, and Paris, Kentucky), John McDowell, Sarah (Preston) McDowell (of Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Virginia), Elizabeth (McDowell) McGavock (of Nashville, Tennessee), and Francis Preston (in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm6.asp   (7415 words)

  
 Matthew Hopkins
Together with his henchman and fellow ‘Witch-Pricker’ John Sterne, in just 14 months, Hopkins was responsible for the condemnations and executions of some 230 alleged witches, more than all the other witch-hunters that proliferated during the 160-year peak of the country’s witchcraft hysteria.
In September 1645, John Hopkins of Wenham (almost certainly James’ son) is described in parish records as being Presbyterian and was the appointed ‘Minister of South Fambridge’ in Essex.
John Thurlowe it turns out was the son of Thomas Thurlowe, the rector of Abbess Roding in Essex.
www.controverscial.com /Matthew%20Hopkins.htm   (5805 words)

  
 Just for Fun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Captain Wise soon requested reassignment to his father's command, which was granted in June of 1861.
John was living in Baltimore, MD. John was a member of the armed forces serving in Confederate Army, Civil War.
John William Corbin is mentioned in a book titled "Mosley and His Men" for gallent conduct while serving in the Confederate Army with Mosley's Command.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~toomey/conf.html   (3111 words)

  
 John Locke Bibliography -- Name/Title Index -- C
The correspondence of John Locke and Edward Clarke.
Common, I. The philosophy of John Locke as embodied in his correspondence.
John Locke and the theory of natural law.
www.libraries.psu.edu /tas/locke/nc.html   (2354 words)

  
 Officer Commission signed by Governor and Confederate Brigadier General, Henry A. Wise 1858   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Wise, Henry Alexander (1806-1876) of Accomac, Accomack County, Va. Uncle of George Douglas Wise; father of Richard Alsop Wise and John Sergeant Wise.
On Oct. 17, 1859, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia received the alarming news that Northerners had attacked the armory at Harpers Ferry.
John Brown, leader of the insurgents, was surrounded and soon would be captured; his fate was now in the governor’s hands.
www.scripophily.net /coofvi1.html   (465 words)

  
 WISE, John Sergeant (1846-1913) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
“John Sergeant Wise: A Case Study in Conservative-Readjuster Politics in Virginia, 1869-1889.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1979.
Davis, Curtis C. “Very Well-Rounded Republican: The Several Lives of John S. Wise.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 71 (October 1963): 461-87.
John S. Wise, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, Monday, May 5, 1884.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=W000651   (104 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002072076   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Young John Sergeant Wise boarded the train and sat down, his squirrel rifle between his knees.
Horrified, John shoved his gun-nearly half again as tall as himself-under the seats, and scrambled after it.
In John's words, "the soldiers went wild with laughter." Carrying the rifle, Jim marched John ahead of him like a prisoner of war.
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/globe041/2002072076.html   (414 words)

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