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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Slater King (1927-1969)
		Hunter King was born on July 18, 1927, to Margaret Allegra Slater and Clennon Washington King.
		Another of King's projects was the development of low-income and church-sponsored housing units, for which he obtained grants and loans from the federal government, the city of Albany, and sympathetic private investors.
		King worked successfully in many arenas, but at the time of his death his loss was perhaps felt most in Albany's arena of civil rights.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2552 (1138 words)

	Minnesota Population Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Center for Population Analysis and Policy in the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota and was an Assistant Research Scientist in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
		King has published on the living arrangements of the elderly in the U.S., on the measurement of living arrangements by households and individuals (with Samuel Preston), on underenumeration in historical census data, and on the incompatibility and reconciliation of family history and family demography.
		King is currently engaged in two research projects that extend her earlier work on the politics of historical and contemporary population analysis.
	www.pop.umn.edu /mpcNew/bios/Miriam_L_King.html (675 words)

	Preston King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Preston King (October 14, 1806 - November 12, 1865) was a United States Representative and Senator from New York.
		King was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847), but he was not a candidate for reelection in 1846; while in the House he was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-ninth Congress).
		He was elected as a Free Soiler to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853) and was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1856 and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1863; he did not seek reelection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preston_King (302 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: C. B. King (1923-1988)
		King was a prominent African American lawyer known for his courage, courtroom eloquence, and legal skills in the face of fierce and even violent opposition during the civil rights struggle in southwest Georgia.
		The drive for education, an important part of the King family's priorities, became the path toward distinction for the young King and his brother Preston King.
		As a culminating tribute to King's legacy, in November 2002 the new federal courthouse in downtown Albany was named in his honor.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1100 (1332 words)

	Preston King
		King said that the Union could not be destroyed peaceably, and was one of the first to give his opinion thus plainly.
		King collector of the port of New York.
		KING, Preston, senator, born in Ogdensburg, New York, 14 October, 1806; drowned in Hudson river, 12 November, 1865.
	famousamericans.net /prestonking (792 words)

	Press Release: King County, Preston community to celebrate protection of key lands for Preston Vision
		King County Executive Ron Sims will join residents of Preston at a square dance tonight to celebrate purchase of the last piece of land critical to completing the long dreamed-of vision of Preston as the regional gateway to the Snoqualmie Valley.
		It represented the last property acquisition outlined in the Preston Vision, a collaborative plan to ensure the rural character of the area by preserving and enhancing critical natural resources and recreation.
		King County provided $7,710,000 for Preston Vision land acquisitions, with the value of land preserved at $11,920,000.
	dnr.metrokc.gov /dnrp/press/2003/1010preston.htm (950 words)

	Preston Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mariah Preston on 11-28-1831 with Francis Preston as Surety.
		Henry Clay Preston died 7-14-1943 and is buried in the Rockwall cemetery.
		Clay Preston is seeking information on Thomas Sugget Wellington Preston b.3-23-1838 in Virginia or West Virginia, married Ann Moriah Prewitt in Hardeman Co., KY in 1865.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/quarrybank/194/preshelp2.htm (4732 words)

	Frank's Case Book
		Preston King was one of the ambitious sons of Clennon W. King, a fl businessman.
		In 1958, Preston King was offered a scholarship and applied for an extension of his deferment so that he might pursue a doctorate abroad.
		The noblest interpretation is that King stood on principle and would have complied with the service notice if he had been addressed with respect and if the deferment decision would have been independent of his race.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /fmonaldo/articles/preston_king.htm (639 words)

	CNN.com - Clinton pardons Preston King, figure in race-bias case - February 21, 2000
		At the time, King accused the military of failing to continue granting deferments as he pursued his education and implied there were racial motives behind the military's change in attitude.
		King is part of a prominent Georgia family with deep ties to the civil rights movement.
		Preston King is a professor of political science at the University of Lancaster in Lancaster, England.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/US/02/21/king.pardon (394 words)

	The Exile And His Daughter - Preston King, scholar, author, draft evader, 40 years in waiting for a pardon Essence - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As a little girl, Oona King looked to her father, Preston, and saw a dapper man who was either reading books or writing them, or giving talks all over the world.
		The Kings were a prominent family, unrelated to the Kings of Atlanta, but known in their own right for their role in the Civil Rights Movement in Albany.
		Preston's big brother, C.B. King, was a lawyer who would become a leading figure in the desegregation of south Georgia schools and eventually run for governor against Jimmy Carter.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_10_31/ai_69795112 (1001 words)

	Albany courthouse named for Fisk alumnus - Saturday, 11/09/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		King, an Albany native whose initials stood for Chevene Bowers, graduated from Fisk in 1949 at the age of 25.
		King could have left the South, but he wanted to help the poor and disenfranchised at home, said Preston King, one of his six brothers.
		King was known as a spellbinding orator who often sent judges and lawyers scrambling for their dictionaries.
	www.tennessean.com /government/archives/02/11/25067158.shtml (1259 words)

	Oona King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King, who is Black and Jewish, was born in 1967 to a Jewish mother (Hazel), and the U.S. -born civil rights activist Preston King; she was educated in Chalk Farm, London.
		King received a joint degree in Politics from the University of York and the University of California, Berkeley.
		King was targeted by protesters, who slashed the tyres on her car, pelted her with eggs and vegetables when she attended a memorial for Jewish Holocaust war dead, and made threats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oona_King (954 words)

	The Leadership Center at Morehouse College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Preston T. King is Scholar-in-Residence at The Leadership Center at Morehouse College and Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy at Emory University and founding editor of CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy).
		His underlying hypotheses are that the theory of liberty increasingly is running into the sands of alienation, anomie and escalating social tension and that there is a need to secure a paradigm shift to social tolerance and the idea of a friendship society.
		King was educated at Fisk University, the London School of Economics, and the Universities of Vienna, Strasbourg, and Paris.
	www.morehouse.edu /leadershipcenter/prestonking.html (235 words)

	Morehouse College: News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		King made international news in February 2000 when President Bill Clinton granted him full clemency, expunging convictions related to his disputed induction into the armed forces in 1958.
		King was convicted in 1961, by an all-white jury in “Jim Crow” Albany, Georgia, for refusing to report for a physical exam.
		King will alternate between Morehouse and Emory on a semester basis beginning initially at The Leadership Center at Morehouse where he is housed.
	www.morehouse.edu /News_Releases/2002/August/prestonking0830.html (506 words)

	Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
		When Preston King enrolled at Fisk University as an undergraduate in 1952, he applied, by mail, for a student draft exemption from his all-white draft board.
		King argued that he was not evading the draft because he would still be young enough to serve after he received his degree.
		King’s daughter, Oona King, who was born in England, is the second fl woman elected to the British Parliament.
	www.jointcenter.org /publications1/focus/FocusDetail.php?recordID=137 (1212 words)

	king family connection to wray family
		PRESTON B2 KING (WILLIAM1) was born 2 May 1827 in Mason County, West Virginia, and died 7 April 1893 in Mason County, West Virginia.
		WILLIAM EDWARD3 KING (PRESTON B2, WILLIAM1) was born 15 May 1858, and died 14 July 1915.
		JOSEPH ALBERT3 KING (PRESTON B2, WILLIAM1) was born 22 August 1860, and died 1 September 1923 in Point Plesant, West Virginia.
	www.angelfire.com /wv/austindoss/kingwray.html (423 words)

	Preston - Home
		Preston is a small, historic mill town located 22 miles east of Seattle.
		Preston is nestled amidst protected forests - where things are quieter, urban sprawl is limited and the lights go out early.
		The Preston Community Club is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to informing, protecting, and uniting our area community.
	www.prestonwa.org (274 words)

	SIDIUS
		King Treston III can be seen walking away from the village with his head held high.
		PRESTON See to it that the healers are prepared and then rally together a team to bring back whatever wounded you can find.
		King Treston comes to a sudden stop next to the tent and he and Edeon dismount from the horse.
	www.simplyscripts.com /scripts/sidius.html (14006 words)

	ABKJ Current Projects - Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Preston Bridge No. 682A crosses the Raging River in King County and consists of two lanes of vehicular traffic and a sidewalk on SE 86th Street.
		Rebuilt in 1958, the bridge is approximately 236' long, consisting of two rolled steel girder spans (~175') with an in-span hinge and four timber approach spans (~61').
		Countermeasure alternatives to mitigate the scour problems are being evaluated, with due considerations to environmental, stream, and fisheries impacts.
	www.abkj.com /nojava/preston.htm (142 words)

	King,Preston Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Preston King examines the views of Alexis de Tocqueville, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and George Sorel.
		This is a collection of Professor Preston King's essays on the history of ideas.
		The title invokes the embeddedness of the past in, and the sly complexity of, what we call altogether too summarily the "present." These essays are united by a persistent concern with the philosophy of history, especially the history of ideas.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/King,Preston (763 words)

	GRW SCRIPT: Challenge of the Yukon (Sergeant Preston)
		Preston and King hurried through the town and down to the river where the large ice flows, piled one on top of the other, formed a natural bridge from one side of the Yukon to the other.
		As the fuse burned towards the charge of blasting powder, Brad, Karen and the Sergeant with King at his master's heels, were nearing the middle of the river.
		Kurt was kneeling, but the force of King's charge knocked him to the ground - but he still held on to the rifle and at once King was whirling the hand that held it.
	www.genericradio.com /show.php?id=2f5641c01d78e7af (3846 words)

	Amazon.com: To Play the King / TV Movie: Video: Ian Richardson,Michael Kitchen,Kitty Aldridge,Colin Jeavons,Diane ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The king is troubled by the side effects of the prime minister's policies: homelessness, poverty, and an ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.
		A fat princess, the king's ex-wife, scandal-mongering newspapermen, and a kidnapping all play their part when Urquhart sets his plan in motion, but somebody very close to the prime minister has information that could destroy him.
		The King (portrayed with finesse by actor Michael Kitchen) launches an assault on Urquhart's "hard line" policies and enlists the aid of Urquhart's political enemies to gather against him.
	www.amazon.com /Play-King-TV-Movie/dp/6303542360 (1787 words)

	www.myspace.com/kingcasanova
		King Casanova are an alternative rock/metal band based in Preston, Lancashire.
		We like blending lots of different genres into a smooth, tasty, creamy substance - A great alternative to cows' milk in fact, for those of you that are lactose-intolerant.
		Sonicscrew are headlining The Venue Preston Tuesday 24th October.
	www.myspace.com /kingcasanova (941 words)

	FAMOUS Last Words - Preston King Black Issues in Higher Education - Find Articles
		When he refused to report for a physical exam and induction into the army, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for avoiding the draft.
		Last year, his daughter, Onna King, who is a member of the British Parliament, attended commencement at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., to accept an honorary degree for her exiled father.
		Earlier this year, King received a presidential pardon that allowed him to return to the United States.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_9_17/ai_63500228 (778 words)

	Preston, Washington WA, profile (King County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Preston is in King County, in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area.
		Sections below provide additional information and links about Preston travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the King County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, Seattle area jobs, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather.
		King County supported John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=24957 (351 words)

	Sergeant Preston of the Yukon - Challenge of the Yukon OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From the mid '40's right up to '54, Paul Sutton played Sgt. Preston, with Brace Beemer, the Lone Ranger himself, taking the role for a short time in the mid '50's.
		Preston's sidekick is a Malemute named "Yukon King." It works great, because it harkens back to the Robert Service and Jack London tales of the frozen North, and the canny canine continues to amaze the happy listener in adventures that often end with the two tackling toughs.
		When Challenge of the Yukon, as it was titled then, went national, the kids of America took to the frozen North's blizzards and winds like they had the dust and canyons of the Lone Ranger.
	www.otrcat.com /sgtpreston.htm (723 words)

	Preston King
		King joined the new Republican Party and was elected to Congress in 1856 but decided not to seek re-election when his term ended in March, 1863.
		When Andrew Johnson became president on 15th April, 1865, he invited King to Washington and served as his adviser.
		Appointed collector of the port of New York, Preston King committed suicide soon afterwards by jumping from a ferryboat in the harbour on 12th November, 1865.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAkingP.htm (213 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ultimate Collection: Music: Billy Preston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Preston also made a appearance in "Blues Brothers 2000" as part of the super group that included Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood and B.B. King among others.
		He even was a regular on the televiison show "Shindig." But working with the Beatles got him his own album with Apple gave him the foundation for his own hits such as "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Outa-Space," the first two tracks on this hits collection.
		Note: The reason for the live recording of "That's the Way God Planned it" is because the original was recorded for Apple and some sort of licensing restrictions apply.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ultimate-Collection-Billy-Preston/dp/B00004S5GD (753 words)

	Become.com - Shop results for preston bed king
		King Size Bed - Preston King Size Bed in Flecked Gold - Fashion Bed Group - B419
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		Preston King Size Headboard in Flecked Gold - Fashion Bed Group - B45936
	www.become.com /shop?q=preston+bed+king (248 words)

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