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	Melvin Purvis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Melvin Purvis (1903 - February 29, 1960) was a (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) U.S. lawman and FBI agent.
		Purvis was given great acclaim for his role in this and incurred the wrath of FBI Director (United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)) J.
		However, it should be noted that at the time of his death, Purvis was slowly and painfully dying of (Type genus of the family Cancridae) cancer, a fate he wished to avoid.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/melvin_purvis.htm (374 words)

	Purvis, Robert
		Purvis was the president of the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia during its six-year existence (1839-1844).
		Purvis was also the only chairman of the General Vigilance Committee, the successor to the pioneer organization, holding that post from 1852 to 1857.
		Purvis asserted that such nonpayment was "a vindication of his rights and personal dignity, against an encroachment upon them as contemptibly mean as it was infamously despotic." Since he paid a large amount of taxes, the directors of the public schools decided to rescind their exclusionary edict.
	archive.blackvoices.com /research/encarta/tt_1064.asp (1444 words)

	88286 -- Purvis v. Williams -- Brazil -- Kansas Supreme Court
		Purvis' main concern in his brief about the persuasiveness of the authorities used by the district court to decide this issue is somewhat tempered by the fact the Tenth Circuit continued to cite these cases after Purvis filed his brief.
		Purvis marshalls authority from nine federal district court cases for the proposition that some courts have held that individuals, in their individual capacities, may be liable under Title VII or the ADA.
		PURVIS' 42 U.S.C. Before the district court, Purvis conceded in his response to Defendants' motion to dismiss or for judgment on the pleadings that his § 1983 claims against Defendants in their official capacities were barred because in their official capacity, they are not "persons" within the meaning of § 1983.
	www.kscourts.org /kscases/supct/2003/20030725/88286.htm (5647 words)

	Encyclopedia: Melvin Purvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Melvin Purvis (1903 - 1960) was a U.S. lawman and FBI agent.
		Purvis was best remembered, however, as leading the manhunt for John Dillinger.
		Purvis was given great acclaim for his role in this and incurred the wrath of FBI Director J.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Melvin-Purvis (306 words)

	American Experience \| Public Enemy #1 \| People & Events
		Purvis likened the operation to a military action, in which all the special agents were equal contributors, and therefore, equally heroic.
		Purvis was forced to earn money by making commercial endorsements, which he found humiliating.
		Although the FBI labeled the death a suicide, it was later determined that Purvis may have been trying to remove a tracer bullet that was stuck in the pistol.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/dillinger/peopleevents/p_purvis.html (835 words)

	USC College : College Magazine : Autumn 2002 : Purvis Named Truman Scholar
		Purvis’ father teaches constitutional law at a college near Fresno, and her mother began practicing law three years ago after returning to school for her degree.
		Eventually, Purvis says, she would like to found a feminist law clinic that would harness the resources of a law school’s students and faculty to pursue legal and policy goals through the courts in areas such as abortion rights, health-care discrimination and the gender-wage gap.
		Purvis was also a columnist for the Daily Trojan during the past school year, writing regularly on such topics as media bias and the importance of unfettered speech post-Sept. 11.
	www.usc.edu /schools/college/college_magazine/autumn_2002/purvis.html (630 words)

	Doug Purvis Foundation - Biography of Doug Purvis
		Doug Purvis was born in Calgary, received his BA from the University of Victoria and his MA from the University of Western Ontario.
		Purvis played a pivotal role in the evolution of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, serving as its director for most of the past decade.
		Purvis was quintessentially Queen's in the sense that he followed in the tradition of the close Queen’s/Ottawa relationship established by predecessors like Clifford Clark, W. Mackintosh and John Deutsch.
	www.dougpurvis.org /bio.htm (1540 words)

	Purvis, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Purvis is a city located in Lamar County, Mississippi.
		Out of the total population, 20.0% of those under the age of 18 and 13.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
		However, actress Lacey Chabert was born there in 1982.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purvis,_Mississippi (410 words)

	Dr AJ Purvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Purvis, A. Cardillo, M. Grenyer, R. and Collen, B. in press Correlates of extinction risk: phylogeny, biology, threat and scale.
		Purvis, A. 1999 Problem-solving in conservation biology and wildlife management: exercises for class, field and laboratory, by J. Gibbs, M. Hunter Jr.
		Purvis, A. and Bromham, L. 1997 Estimating the transition/transversion ratio from independent pairwise comparisons with an assumed phylogeny.
	www.bio.ic.ac.uk /research/apurvis/pubs (1506 words)

	Nigel Purvis - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Purvis is the first Brookings scholar to receive appointments to each of the institution's three principle research programs - foreign policy, economics and governance.
		Purvis also served as a senior U.S. negotiator on global climate change, biotechnology and environmental aspects of trade policy.
		Purvis served as an international lawyer at the State Department advising on such diverse topics as the Dayton peace process for Bosnia, human rights, humanitarian affairs, economic sanctions and U.S. law on foreign relations.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Nigel_Purvis (371 words)

	NASCAR.com - Purvis awaiting medical clearance for return - May 21, 2004
		Purvis, 45, said NASCAR's required paperwork, stating his fitness from three doctors that have treated him since his accident on May 19, 2002, was completed.
		Both Biffle and Purvis were knocked out in the wreck, and Purvis suffered a closed head injury, broken vertebrae in his neck and a broken left leg.
		Purvis said the reunion with Finch's Phoenix Racing team -- with which he won on dirt, in ARCA and the Busch Series -- was a revelation.
	www.nascar.com /2004/news/headlines/bg/05/20/jpurvis_return (1165 words)

	The Leaf Chronicle - www.theleafchronicle.com - Clarksville, TN
		These days, Purvis is content to spend time with his wife, Margo, and his two sons: Thomas, a standout on the football and baseball fields as a rising senior at Rossview High; and Clay, who will be a freshman at Rossview in the fall and has taken a slight interest in his father's profession.
		Purvis, who finished sixth in the Busch Series points standings in '99 and seventh in '96, was at the peak of his career when the accident occurred at Nazareth.
		Now Purvis is returning to the roots of his career, and he's doing it on the speedway that started his rise toward auto racing's highest plateau.
	www.theleafchronicle.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050529/SPORTS/505290333/1006 (1061 words)

	STH \| Library \| Exhibits \| Purvis
		Purvis provided papers on the Samaritans at regional and national meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature between 1962 and 1995, as well as primary articles for The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Supplementary Volume (1976), The Biblical Encyclopedia (Jerusalem, 1982), The Cambridge History of Judaism (1989), and A Companion to Samaritan Studies (1993).
		Purvis has studied and written extensively on the Barton Collection and donated his own materials to Boston University in hope that they might be of value to graduate students in greater Boston and be accessed as a working library by scholars using the Barton materials.
		Purvis set about his research at a time in the field of Samaritan studies when the question of the sect's origin had not yet received satisfactory treatment.
	www.bu.edu /sth/library/exhibits/purvis.html (5178 words)

	William Purvis
		William Purvis made his debut as soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of 18, performing the Strauss Second Horn Concerto; today he pursues a multifaceted career as French horn soloist, chamber musician, and conductor.
		Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and appears frequently as soloist with both orchestras.
		William Purvis received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Haverford College, and is currently on the Faculties of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Columbia University, the Juilliard School (where he is Coordinator of the New York Woodwind Quintet Chamber Music Seminar), the Norfolk Festival and the Tanglewood Institute.
	naples.cc.sunysb.edu /CAS/music.nsf/pages/purvis (562 words)

	NASCAR.com - Competitive fire still burns for Purvis - May 18, 2003
		Purvis' memory loss was substantial, but that is improving daily.
		Purvis was walking to a barn on his property and remembered where Nazareth was.
		Purvis said Kenny Crosswhite, the MRO chaplain, was "most definitely was someone we could not have done without." NASCAR chipped in, too, as did the Busch Series Ladies Association.
	www.nascar.com /2003/news/headlines/bg/05/18/jpurvis_update (1179 words)

	Purvis to race Sunday - theleafchronicle.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Ironically, Purvis' first race since being seriously injured at the Nazareth Speedway will also be the last time a Busch Series race will be held at the one-mile, oval-shaped track.
		Purvis suffered two fractured vertebrae, a broken leg and a brain contusion after his car blew its engine, hit the outside retaining wall and slid back down the track.
		Purvis is familiar with Greenville-Pickens Speedway, and it gave him a sense of running short-track racing, similar to what he'll see at Nazareth.
	www.theleafchronicle.com /news/stories/20040520/localnews/461197.html (585 words)

	Dara Purvis Wins Truman Award
		Dara Purvis, a junior majoring in theater and political science with a 4.0 GPA, is the latest USC student to win the award, which recognizes public service as well as academic achievement.
		Eventually, Purvis said, she would like to found a feminist law clinic that would harness the resources of a law school's students and faculty to pursue legal and policy goals through the courts in such areas as abortion rights, health-care discrimination and the gender wage gap.
		Purvis said she would enjoy public office someday if she didn't pursue a legal career.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/8138.html (875 words)

	Jack Purvis - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Purvis played in Lexington, KY with the Original Kentucky Night Hawks for a few years in the mid-1920s; he also worked to qualify as an airline pilot and studied music in Chicago.
		Purvis started freelancing in 1926, worked with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians, visited Europe in 1928 with George Carhart and was with Hal Kemp's Orchestra from 1929-30 (originally as a trombonist before switching to trumpet).
		Purvis led three recording sessions from 1929-30 that resulted in eight titles, including "Copyin' Louis" and "Mental Strain at Dawn." Additionally, Purvis occasionally sat in on fourth trumpet with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra and briefly worked as a harpist.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,548683,00.html (483 words)

	Hugh Purvis
		Hugh Purvis was 'born in Philadelphia in 1843 and enlisted in the Marine Corps 27 October 1869.
		Hugh Purvis sailed for her first European cruise 2 February 1947 and after exercises with allied ships in the north Atlantic, formed a part of America's official party at the burial of King Christian of Denmark in April.
		During the latter part of 1965 Hugh Purvis was adapted for a new conformed planar array sonar at the Boston Naval Shipyard.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/h9/hugh_purvis.htm (1125 words)

	Lisa Purvis
		Purvis, L. Synergies and Commonalities in Case-Based and Constraint-Based Reasoning, In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Multimodal Reasoning, Stanford CA, March 1998.
		Purvis, L., Athalye, S. Towards Improving Case Adaptability with a Genetic Algorithm, In Leake, D. and Plaza, E. (eds.) Case Based Reasoning Research and Development, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, LNAI Series, Volume 1266, Springer-Verlag Publishers, July 1997.
		Purvis, L. and Pu, P. Adaptation Using Constraint Satisfaction Techniques, In Veloso, M. and Aamodt, A. (eds.) Topics in Case Based Reasoning, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, LNAI Series, Springer Verlag, 1995.
	home.rochester.rr.com /thepurvises/lisa.html (372 words)

	- People
		Randy Purvis was elected to an at-large council seat in April 1987 and was re-elected to a second term in April 1991 and to a third term in April 1995.
		Born in New Jersey and raised in Ohio, Purvis holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from The Ohio State University and a Juris Doctor Degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
		Purvis has served on the Board Directors for the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments, the Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees and the First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs' Board of Elders.
	www.springsgov.com /Members.asp?MemberID=46 (198 words)

	Pam Purvis Knows the Dramatics of Singing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		am Purvis was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, where she lived with her parents until her twelfth year, when the family moved to Dallas, Texas.
		Accompanying herself freed her husband to back her on his range of horns (see article on Ackerman), and Purvis is quick to credit her vocal style to "living with a horn player."
		Purvis and Ackerman recently debuted together at Stars restaurant in San Francisco.
	www.jazznow.com /v09n01May99/PPurvis.html (975 words)

	MELVIN H. PURVIS - DOCUMENT SIGNED 1952
		In full: "This Certifies that Melvin Purvis whose photograph and signature appear hereon is a duly authorized representative of the committee for the purpose of making investigations as authorized and directed by Senate Resolution 53, Eighty-Second Congress".
		FBI Special Agent Melvin Purvis led the agents who gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago in 1933 and Pretty Boy Floyd in an Ohio farm field in 1934.
		Purvis left the FBI in July 1935 after a year of personal confrontation with J. Edgar Hoover.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2003/law/MELVIN_H_PURVIS.htm (287 words)

	S W A D - Purvis, Jack
		Jack Purvis was born in 1937 in London, England, UK.
		Purvis died in November of 1997 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
		Purvis became paralyzed after an accident with his own vehicle after he'd parked it in 1991.
	nerf-herders-anonymous.net /JackPurvis.html (200 words)

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	www.flowershopnetwork.com /directory/MississippiFlorists/Purvis.php (996 words)

	Skot Foreman Fine Art, Ltd.: Purvis Young: drawings and other works on paper
		His retrospective is concurrently showing at the Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art in Savannah, GA through July 21, 2005.
		Moving ever so freely, each figure in a painting becomes a note on the scale of humanity, driven by the sounds of Miles, Monk and Bird.
		Such is the range of emotions and subject matter in Purvis Young: 1969 - 2000; A 30+ Year Painting Retrospective, now showing at the Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art in Savannah through July 31.
	www.artnet.com /event/74230/Purvis_Young_drawings_and_other_works_on_paper.html (673 words)

	Fujitsu \| CAChe \| George Purvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Purvis and Y. Ohrn, “Atomic and Molecular Electronic Spectra and Properties from the Electron Propagator”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 60 (1974) 4063-4071.
		Purvis III and R. Bartlett, “A full coupled-cluster singles and doubles model: The inclusion of disconnected triples”, Journal of Chemical Physics 76 (1982) 1910.
		George D. Purvis and Chris Culberson, “On the graphical display of molecular electrostatic force-fields and gradients of the electron density”, Journal of Molecular Graphics, 4 (1986) 88.
	www.cachesoftware.com /staff/gp.shtml (224 words)

	African American Registry: Robert Purvis was a dedicated abolitionist.
		From Charleston, South Carolina, the second of three sons born to a white cotton merchant and a free woman of color, young Purvis was to be a determined opponent of slavery.
		At the end of the war, Purvis was asked to head the Freedmen’s Bureau.
		Initially a Republican, Purvis became disheartened as the party retreated from the principles it advocated during reconstruction.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1053/Robert_Purvis_was_a_dedicated_abolitionist (365 words)

	DANFS: USS Hugh Purvis (DD-709)
		Hugh Purvis was born in Philadelphia in 1943 and enlisted in the Marine Corps 27 October 1869.
		For his inspiring and heroic act, private Purvis was awarded the Medal of Honor.
		Hugh Purvis joined the quarantine line off Cuba, helping to force the withdrawal of the missiles--another dramatic example of the power of the fleet when firmly used in checking communism and keeping the peace.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd709.html (1144 words)

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