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James K. Sheets was reared and educated in Clinton County, this state, where he early became familiar with the conditions and influences of the pioneer era and where he continued to be identified actively with agricultural pursuits until the call of higher duty came with the outbreak of the Civil war.
JAMES P. James P. Simons, recorder of White County for eight years, and for almost twenty years editor of the White County Demoerat, has been a resident of Monticello and its immediate vicinity nearly all his life.
JAMES C. With the death of James C. Small at his home in section 2 of Cass Township, June 18, 1908, there passed from the ranks of local citizenship one of the most highly respected men of White County.
www.brookston.lib.in.us /WhiteCo/biographies-S.htm   (15868 words)

  
 Large Scale Reconstruction 2004 | ADION award | Remarks of Uriel Frisch
Peebles has investigated characteristics of this radiation and showed how it may be used to constrain models of the universe.
Peebles was the first to resurrect Einstein's cosmological constant and the concept of its time variation, which became known later as the Quintessence.
Peebles used the fact that the abundance of clusters is exponentially sensitive to the normalization factor sigma_8 to constrain the amplitude of primordial density fluctuations.
www.obs-nice.fr /etc7/uf_remarks.html   (976 words)

  
 Jim Peebles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is an Canadian-American theoretical cosmologist.
Peebles and J. Yu, "Primeval adiabatic perturbation in an expanding universe", Astrophys.
Peebles, “Primordial Helium Abundance and the Primordial Fireball.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_James_Edwin_Peebles   (442 words)

  
 Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Draper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Stansfields and Drapers were closely allied for centuries in England, and culminated in the marriage of a daughter of the house to James Draper, "the Puritan," and becoming the mother of the Draper family of America.
Although James Draper is found in history as one of the original proprietors of the town of Lancaster, no evidence can be found that he ever lived there.
James and Miriam (Stansfield) Draper are buried at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where the same stone marks the resting-place of both.
www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/draper-2.html   (2491 words)

  
 The Bruce Medalists: Jim Peebles
Jim Peebles was born in Winnipeg and graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1958.
Peebles was one of the first to resurrect Einstein’s cosmological constant, suggesting it was needed in the 1980s.
Peebles, James, interview with Alan Lightman, in Lightman, Alan & Roberta Brawer, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Peebles/index.html   (304 words)

  
 Philip M. Sheppard Papers, American Philosophical Society
A geneticist and educator, Philip Macdonald Sheppard was head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Liverpool from 1963-1976.
Philip Macdonald Sheppard (1921-1976) was a geneticist whose primary interests included human and population genetics, evolution, medicine, and certain aspects of ecology and ecological genetics.
Philip Macdonald Sheppard was born on 27 July 1921 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England to George Sheppard, a schoolmaster, and Alison Macdonald.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/s/sheppard.htm   (2535 words)

  
 WARE, Capt. James, and PENDLETON, Nancy Garland
James' mother is identified by research only as Elizabeth, her surname has not been identified.
James enlarged the home to accommodate additional lodgers, and obtained an innkeeper's certificate, as was required by law in owning and managing an inn.
James Ware gave his daughter Mary Camden Ware a "house and lot near Pedlar." On October 1, 1829, Mary agreed to release her dower to the house and lot for a $5.00 consideration, and other property.
www.ancestraljourneys.com /ware_pendleton2.htm   (2768 words)

  
 WebRoots Library U.S. History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Teas was a son of Samuel Teas, a prominent resident of Milton.
Two sons, James S. and Charles H., also became doctors; the former died at Milton, February 20, 1847, and the latter is now a leading physician of that borough.
His son, James R. Shannon, was the publisher in 1832, and the issue of Saturday, February 25th of that year (Volume II, No. 28, New Series), is the latest that has been examined by the writer.
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 History & Genealogy - Manuscripts - Guide to Manuscripts Materials Pt. A
This collection of papers is primarily correspondence between John M. Watson and his family of Tennessee and James Byrns of Texas.
These are photocopies of letters from the Library of Congress for the period 1820-1840 and were written primarily to James Knox Polk and are concerned with Tennessee and national politics.
The papers of Edwin Litton Hickman (1875-1956), lawyer, Tennessee Legislator (1903-1907, 1909-1911), and County Judge (1918-1950) were given by Judge Hickman in 1953.
www.state.tn.us /TSLA/history/manuscripts/mguidea.htm   (12177 words)

  
 P James E Peebles - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Philip James Edwin Peebles, född 25 april 1935 i Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kanada är en amerikansk teoretisk fysiker, prisbelönt kosmolog och läroboksförfattare.
Han började studera fysikalisk kosmologi, innan ämnet betraktades som en seriös, kvantitativ gren av fysiken och är kanske den som gjort mest för att etablera den som egen respektabel disciplin.
Han har fått Asteroid 18242 Peebles uppkallad efter sig.
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 My Brethren - Guests - Site News
James Weightman – formerly of Newcastle upon Tyne, latterly, Portsmouth – was taken by the Lord on October 4, 2004.
James Taylor and, in addition to their own worth, are valuable as a witness to the gracious yet faithful spirit marking the brethren at that time before the 1959 slide into legality.
James Macdonald of Manchester in the rejection of separate address to, and worship of, the Spirit, and of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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 Civil War 2
Taking part in the hour_and_a_half engagement with the enemy, who had the dead range of the vessel and was punishing her with heavy fire, Martin served courageously throughout the battle until the Benton was ordered to withdraw.
Although guns were raking the decks from behind him, McGowan remained steadfast at the wheel throughout the thickest of the fight, continuing at his station and rendering service with the greatest courage and skill until his ship, repeatedly holed and twice rammed by the enemy, was beached and sunk.
As his ship led the advance column toward the barrier and both forts opened fire simultaneously, striking the vessel from stem to stern, Parker conscientiously performed his duties throughout the action in which attempts by 3 rebel steamers to butt and board were thwarted, and the ships driven off.
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 Old, James W. - Pulliam, Samuel Harper: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
Contains photocopies of letters, 1861–1862, from James W. Old (1840–1862) of Company B of the 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment to family members concerning camp life in northern Virginia in 1861 and the battle of Dranesville.
Included in the entries are notes regarding the weather, incidents of camp life, naval operations on the James River, the battle of Hampton Roads, and news of military engagements in the western Confederacy.
A reminiscence, 190[?], by James Eldred Phillips (1838–1905) of Company G of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, recounting his unit's role at the battle of the Crater.
www.vahistorical.org /cwg/o.htm   (2932 words)

  
 'Secret Empire': A Revolution in Snooping
The Harvard optics expert James G. Baker devises a camera small and light enough to ride on the slim, featherweight plane but powerful enough to detect strategic weapons from 70,000 feet.
For example, Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera and confidant of Eisenhower, believed in small, no-nonsense meetings; an automobile provided about the right amount of space.
Students of cold war espionage, like James Bamford, William E. Burrows, Curtis Peebles and Jeffrey T. Richelson, all of whom Taubman acknowledges, have been chipping away at the wall of government secrecy for decades.
www.udel.edu /global/agenda/2003/student/readings/spiesskiesbook2.html   (964 words)

  
 Virginians: The Family History of James Jones (c.1640-1719)
James and his son of the same name owned Indian slaves.
In Aug. 1693 the court Judged Sue, an Indian Girl of James Jones, to be 7, and Sarah, an Indian girl of James Jones Jr.
I James Jones being weake and sick but of sound and perfect mind and memory, praise be therefor given to Almighty God, doe make and ordain this my present Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say.
www.virginians.com /topics/7130.htm   (1649 words)

  
 Alter blog » Import: à lire
P J E Peebles/Phillip James Edwin Peebles/PJE Peebles, Quantum Mechanics, source: Baez.
Edwin F Taylor/John Archibald Wheeler, Spacetime Physics, source: Baez.
James D Bjorken, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, source: Baez.
www.5etdemi.com /alter/2005/12/import-a-lire   (672 words)

  
 BioTech IMC | BUILDING A SECRET AIR FORCE : The CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Philip Strong and Fred Durant from OSI also briefed the Office of National Estimates on the findings.
Despite such pressure, Philip Strong, Deputy Assistant Director of OSI, refused to declassify the report and declined to disclose CIA sponsorship of the panel.
Unknown to CIA officials, Dr. James E. McDonald, a noted atmospheric physicist from the University of Arizona, had already seen the Durant report on the Robertson panel proceedings at Wright-Patterson on 6 June 1966.
biotech.indymedia.org /or/2005/08/4668.shtml   (9981 words)

  
 Virginians: The Family History of Thomas Chappell III (c.1660-c.1703)
I was born about 1660 in that part of Charles City County south of the James that became Prince George County in 1702.
He, James, and Samuel settled in present-day Sussex County, while Robert stayed in Prince George.
James had some land also in Isle of Wight County next to a reservation for the Nottoway-Iroquois Indians that was a circle 6 miles in diameter containing about 18,000 acres.
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 Philip James Edwin Peebles - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Philip James Edwin Peebles (también conocido como P.
James E. Peebles) es un astrónomo estadounidense nacido en 1935.
James Peebles predijo algunas de las más importantes propiedades de las fluctuaciones del fondo de radiación de microondas ya en la década de 1970.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_James_Edwin_Peebles   (199 words)

  
 Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, 1864-1866 : a machine readable ...
James Wilson, of the District of Columbia, heretofore nominated on the 21 June, 1864, to be an assistant surgeon in the Navy, from the 21 June, 1864, and to take rank next after Assistant surgeon W. Simon.
I nominate Hiram Potter, jr., vice James L. Ridgely, who declined to accept, to be a district tax commissioner for the district of the State of North Carolina, under the “Act of Congress for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts, and for other purposes,” approved June 7, 1862.
I nominate Edwin C. Cushman, of Massachusetts, to be consul of the United States at Rome, in the place of W. Stillman, nominated for the consulate at Candia.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ll/llej/014/llej014.sgm   (14367 words)

  
 Open Questions: Cosmology
But it is only since the early 1920s that we have even had observational evidence that gave a somewhat accurate picture of the actual shape and dynamics of the universe as we now understand it.
It was at that time that Edwin Hubble found evidence that there are astronomical objects outside our own galaxy -- namely other similar galaxies -- and that all but the closest of them appear to be receding from us at a velocity proportional to their distance.
A breakthrough occurred in 1923 when Edwin Hubble (for whom the Hubble Space Telescope was named) was able to observe a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda galaxy (then usually known as the Andromeda nebula).
www.openquestions.com /oq-cosmo.htm   (8694 words)

  
 Haile, Robert Gaines - Hunton Family Papers: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
A letter, 20 January 1865, from Samuel J. Hay to Philip Haxall (1840–1897), of Beverly Holcombe Robertson's staff, discussing the Confederate withdrawal from Pocotaligo, S.C., the fall of Fort Fisher, N.C., and Hay's opinion of Confederate leadership in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
Included are brief accounts of Union soldiers in the area during Dahlgren's raid, a raid along the James River and Kanawha Canal led by Philip Henry Sheridan in February 1865, and news of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.
Entries concern family and social life, cannon casting operations of her husband, William James Hubard (1807–1862), and her efforts to supplement her family's income through the sale of strawberries and the manufacture of clothing for Confederate soldiers.
www.vahistorical.org /cwg/h.htm   (3818 words)

  
 Princeton University History
The university was becoming an obscure backwater when President James McCosh took office in 1868.
During his two decades in power, he overhauled the curriculum, oversaw an expansion of inquiry into the sciences, and supervised the addition of a number of buildings in the High Victorian Gothic style to the campus.
James Madison and Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton, Grover Cleveland was not an alumnus but served as a trustee of the University for some time while spending his retirement in the town of Princeton, and John F. Kennedy spent his freshman fall at the University before leaving due to illness and later enrolling at Harvard.
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 01 Oct History: This Date
Philip of Hesse, one of the German rulers, invited the Reformers to come to his territory to resolve their differences.
Behind Philip's desire for peace between Zwingli and Luther was thehope that a political alliance of the Protestant states might eventually be made, thus weakening the Catholic Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire.
A council of regency presided over by the venerable William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke, was formed to rule for Henry; by 1217 the rebels had been defeated and Louis forced to withdraw from England.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4oct/h4oct01.html   (11611 words)

  
 African Americans and the Old West
James Beckwourth was born into slavery in Virginia.
McCabe, an African American who served as the state auditor in Kansas for four years and as the state auditor in Oklahoma for ten years, decided to seize the moment of opportunity by purchasing 320 acres of land whereby the town of Langston, Oklahoma was established in 1890.
Edwin McCabe set up his own company - the McCabe Town Company in 1889 and sent his own agents into the South seeking to attract African Americans with new opportunities by settling in Langston.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/african/west/west.htm   (12045 words)

  
 NASA History Publications On-Line
James E. Tomayko wrote this contract or report in 1988.
By James Michener, Norman Counsins, Philip Morrison, Jacques Cousteau, and Ray Bradbury (NASA EP-125, 1976).
Hansen, James R. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/on-line.html   (3929 words)

  
 The Papers of George Washington
"James Nicholson and the Continental Frigate Virginia," American Neptune, 34 (1974), 135-41.
John Peebles' American War: The Diary of a Scottish Grenadier, 1776-1782.
An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, (Now a Citizen of Bourbon County, Kentucky) during His Captivity with the Indians in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58, and '59, etc. Lexington, Ky., 1799.
www.gwpapers.virginia.edu /project/volumes/titlelist.html   (6244 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, John B. Janes, Wm.
Jeffrey, Isaac T. Jennings, James C. Jewell, Geo.
Matthews, James L. Matthews, Milton S. Matthews, Wm.
www.bocomo.org /umcfound.htm   (1409 words)

  
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Of Ashes and Atoms was produced and directed by James Polaczynski and written by him with Robert Arrighi.
NASA SP-482 by James Burke, Jules Bergman, and Isaac Asimov, 1985.
James E. Tomayko wrote this contractor report in 1988.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/series95.html   (6234 words)

  
 Pennsylvania_198th
James A. Miller, Private, Company H of the 198th
Benjamin Butler's offensive north of the James River, Lt. Gen.
Gershom Mott's division, the Federals resumed their advance on the 2nd, captured Fort MacRae which was lightly defended, and extended their left flank to the vicinity of Peebles' and Pegram's Farms.
www.family2remember.com /198th/198th.htm   (983 words)

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