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In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  Robert Stacey and Stan McMullin on Bon Echo
Flora Denison also enticed the prominent Toronto landscape and portrait artist F.M. Bell-Smith to Mazinaw Lake in the hope that he would be inspired to capture the grandeur of Bon Echo in paint.
Merrill Denison inherited the inn and its debt-load.
The Denisons and their friends brought the ideas and attitudes of urban North America to an isolated part of Ontario, but the physical labour was provided by local tradespeople whose ideas and skills would also have influenced the built form.
www.ccca.ca /c/writing/s/stacey/stac001t.html   (16892 words)

  
 Collectors' Lives: American colonizers in Nineteenth-century and Early Twentieth-century Burma
A Denison graduate, Hunt served as the Dean of Women at Judson College near Rangoon from 1919 to 1951, a college founded by American Baptist missionaries around 1910.
Similarly, the ease with which Lindsay Upfill purchased the Hensely Buddha was made possible by the fact that by the turn of the century, the British rule of Burma was largely taken for granted, and the political, technical, and economic apparatuses for both subduing resistance and extracting wealth from the colony had been well-refined.
It is easy to criticize the suppression of Burmese resistance in the first moment of colonialism, when the colonizers needed the potent stridency of an ideology of cultural and religious superiority to justify their unwelcome presence in the country.
www.denison.edu /artgallery/colcult/essays/kent.html   (7728 words)

  
 webGED: My Family Data Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Washington Hill Denison was born in Henderson County on a farm 10 miles northwest of Lexington, January 5, 1878, the son of W. and Martha Fuller Denison.
Soon thereafter, Denison was appointed on the Court of Civil Appeals by Governor A. Taylor to serve during the sickness of Judge Sid Clark of Trenton, serving during the fall session of that Court at Nashville, 1922.
Denison, Jr., and Katherine Gaston were born two children, a daughter, Katherine, and a son, Watt, so named to keep the names in the family.
theavilas.com /progen/wga5.html   (4962 words)

  
 QKIndex: Muriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Dame Muriel Spark was one of the liveliest and most original literary talents to be discovered...
Dame Muriel Spark, one of the most admired and beloved Scottish writers of her...
DAME MURIEL SPARK, acknowledged as one of Britain’s greatest novelists, has died aged 88 near the Italian village where she had lived for 27 years.
www.qkindex.co.uk /muriel.html   (538 words)

  
 SPECTRUM Biographies - Amelia Earhart
Amelia and her sister, Muriel, who was born three years later, had a difficult childhood.
Their father was an alcoholic and because he often lost jobs, the family traveled a great deal.
At the war's end, she became a social worker at the Denison House in Boston and taught English to immigrant children.
www.incwell.com /Biographies/Earhart.html   (664 words)

  
 Amelia Earhart -The Early Years, biography
Amelia (Millie) and her sister Muriel (Pidge) were to know privilege and wealth through their grandparents....attending private schools and enjoying many of the comforts of life.
"This happy time," Muriel was to later write, "was unfortunately a prelude to a period which saw the loss of our material prosperity and the beginning of the disintegration of the family..."...Edwin had begun to drink.
In Autumn 1925, Amelia took a position at Denison House in Boston as a "novice" social worker and was later employed as a staff member.
www.ellensplace.net /ae_eyrs.html   (926 words)

  
 Amelia Earhart Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Two years later, after visiting her sister, Muriel, in Toronto, Canada, Amelia felt compelled to leave school.
Following her parent's divorce, Amelia moved back east where she was employed as a social worker in Denison House, in Boston, Massachusetts.
It was there she was selected to be the first female passenger on a transatlantic flight, in 1928, by her future husband, the publisher, George Palmer Putnam.
www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org /bio1.htm   (745 words)

  
 Amelia Earhart
Amelia was named after her two grandmothers, but she was called "Meelie" because when Muriel was young she couldn't say "Amelia".
A short time later Amelia, Muriel, and a neighbor boy, Ralphie built a roller coaster which ran from the top of an eight foot toolshed to the ground.
She told Muriel, her sister, that she could foresee a day when the cockpits of planes would be covered, and planes would be large enough to carry 10 or 12 passengers.
gardenofpraise.com /ibdearha.htm   (1874 words)

  
 Beck Lecturer Craig Arnold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
GRANVILLE - The 1998 winner of the Yale Younger Poets contest, the longest-running poetry prize in America, will read from his work at Denison University under the sponsorship of the Beck Lecture Series.
Shells takes its title from its playful examination of the idea of the shell as both the surface of the self and its protection or armor.
A resident of Salt Lake City, Arnold is also a vocalist and songwriter and he has produced one album with his band, Iris.
www.denison.edu /publicaffairs/pressreleases/arnold.html   (354 words)

  
 1936
We must learn to be thoughtfully and kindly critical to plays that come to us from our own writers, as well as from other countries.' George Herbert Clarke, Merrill Denison and Mazo de la Roche are Canadian writers.
Muriel Denison was a Canadian writer (Rhodenizer, p.
Six- year-old Susannah has been sent to Regina to spend the summer with her uncle who is a Mountie.
www.library.ubc.ca /edlib/egoffbib/1936.html   (3025 words)

  
 Mike Curley and Ajo, Arizona
Memorial services were held at the same time at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Catholic Church in Ajo, for those unable to attend in California.
His fame in his profession was based on his administrative ability and on his installation of the modern methods of extracting copper from the ores dipped up in the big pit at Ajo.
Curley moved to Westwood, CA, with his wife and two daughters, Phyllis and Muriel, all of whom survive him.
www.cunews.info /curley.html   (630 words)

  
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She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur Whitney Porter, and her sister and soul mate, M. Muriel Denison.
Iva and her sister Muriel came to Albuquerque in 1920 (at age 11 and 10 respectively) with their parents, William H. and Maude Denison, now deceased.
Iva and Muriel grew up in the Coffee Business and during WWII actually ran the business completely when their father left for California to work in the aircraft industry to more completely support the war effort.
obits.abqjournal.com /results?o_date=2005/08/07   (8255 words)

  
 Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
DESPENCER, Muriel Le DESPENCER, Galfridus (Geoffrey) Le --(ABT 1185-1242)
Mother: DESPENCER, Muriel Le Wife: STANDON (SANDON), Philippa De Birth: ABT 1220 - Of Standon, Staffordshire, England
Mother: MASSEY, Isabell De Wife: DESPENCER, Muriel Le Birth: ABT 1181 - Of,, Cheshire, England
mywebpage.netscape.com /rvcslc/Christensen/detail_D.htm   (3172 words)

  
 Former Catalogues - Manuscript Collections Online Catalogues - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of ...
It is less accessible than the CALM system but a powerful tool for researchers.
Archive of the Denison Family of Ossington, Nottinghamshire, 1575-1946
Papers of Sir William T. Denison in the Denison Collection
www.nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/old-cats.phtml   (652 words)

  
 Susannah of the Mounties (1939 b 78')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Based on Muriel Denison's book, an orphaned girl is found by a Mounty and helps to make peace with the Indians upset by the new railroad.
During the building of the Canadian Pacific railroad 1882-4 Indians massacred a wagon train.
A little girl bridges the two cultures while learning how squaws are treated by proud braves, as the natives react to the onslaught of white civilization foreshadowed by the life-changing railroad.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1939/SusannahoftheMounties.html   (415 words)

  
 Accelerated Reader Quiz List - Reading Practice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Dubois, Muriel L. I Like Computers: What Can I Be?
Denison, T. I Live at a Military Post
Denison, T. I Should Worry, I Should Care
www.beaufort.k12.nc.us /jss/i-q.htm   (546 words)

  
 eTexoma.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
We do custom showers and spa tubs along with complete bath remodels.
This photo is a custom shower done with Dal Tile's Musica series with an animal muriel on the back wall.
To see more go to Custom Showers to see more photos.
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 Major Arthur GEORGE, SR/Carrie Eula EDINGTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Name: Muriel Marie GEORGE Born: 6 FEB 1914 at: Sasakwa, Seminole, OK Married: 21 APR 1933 at: Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ Died: 4 JUL 1994 at: San Diego, San Diego, CA Spouses: Chester Lee SMITH
Name: Roger Dee GEORGE Born: 12 JAN 1923 at: Sasakwa, Seminole, OK Married: DEC 1942 at: Died: 10 AUG 1993 at: Denison, Grayson, TX Spouses: Tommie Jean ROBISON
Name: Billy Dale GEORGE Born: 17 APR 1927 at: Sasakwa, Seminole, OK Married: at: Died: 8 FEB 1986 at: Denison, Grayson, TX Spouses: Living RADTKE
home.comcast.net /~barbara7905/fam/fam01887.html   (367 words)

  
 Minnesota Author Biographies Project: Clifford D. Simak
Search PALS Catalog for author Searches for works by this author cover the entire PALS online catalog system.
Clifford D. Simak, a Primary and Secondary Bibliography by Muriel R. Becker
Simak fan page; includes biography, bibliography, and excerpts from books
people.mnhs.org /authors/biog_detail.cfm?PersonID=Sima318   (311 words)

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