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  Richard Harlan Journals, American Philosophical Society
Harlan and two of his colleagues were dispatched to Montreal to observe the response of Canadian physicians, with hopes of devising more effective means of averting or treating the disease.
In many ways, Harlan is a transitional figure between the generation of early national scientists trained in medicine and operating in a field with diffuse disciplinary boundaries and the generation of specialists not only attuned to, but engaged in European currents of thought.
Harlan follows an account of a lavish native wedding, for example, with descriptions of the varieties of jugglers and street performers in Calcutta and of the British Fort William and the Royal Botanical Garden.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/h/harlan.htm   (2311 words)

  
 Richard Harlan
Harlan studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, but before he completed his program, in 1816-1817 he shipped aboard a vessel to Calcutta as a surgeon.
The plaster cast was “inscribed” in paint to Harlan, for presentation to the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia.
Harlan intended to remain in France, but he was disappointed with the state of French medicine; and when news came that his collections had been destroyed in a fire in Philadelphia, he returned home to his medical practice.
www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2751   (1057 words)

  
 West Virginia Veterans Memorial - Harlan G. Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harlan was working in the C. Borchert Glass Company factory in Weston when he was drafted into the U.S. Army by the Harrison County Draft Board in Clarksburg in March 1942.
Harlan was the tail gunner on one of the planes in the squadron that attacked Wake Island on July 24, 1943, and put the Japanese on the defensive.
From Richard's vantage point he could see Harlan's plane and saw a kamikaze come up from the water and hit Sergeant Davis' plane at a wing causing Davis' plane to spin out of control towards the ocean, descend quickly, and explode into bits upon impact.
www.wvculture.org /hiStory/wvmemory/vets/davis/davis.html   (873 words)

  
 The Harlan Tribune - News - Top Stories
Emilee, 3, and Erica, 1, are the daughters of Travis and Ruth Rust of Harlan.
HARLAN -- City officials are forming a committee to discuss the feasibility of a construction project calling for a new police department addition connected to the fire hall on Cyclone Ave.
HARLAN -- Voters in Shelby County once thought the idea of a one-cent School Infrastructure Local Option Tax was a good idea, voting to implement it overwhelmingly in a 1998 vote of county residents.
zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=901&dept_id=130071&...&PAG=461&rfi=9   (835 words)

  
 Richard Harlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796 - September 30, 1843) was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist.
Harlan was the author of Fauna Americana (1825) and American Herpetology.
He was born at Philadelphia and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Harlan   (104 words)

  
 Richard D. Wilson - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Charles was counted in a census in 1860 in Harlan.
Sarah was born in 1841 in Harlan County, Kentucky.
Rosanna WILSON [scrapbook] (William, Richard D.) was born in 1840 in, Harlan County, Kentucky.
users.ev1.net /~dhoskins/web/richarddw/pafg04.htm   (1814 words)

  
 Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson has been called "one of the most important writers of the 20th century" by Ray Bradbury, and his work has inspired many other notable authors.
Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey on February 20, 1926.
As previously mentioned, Richard Matheson's first published story was "Born of Man and Woman." This oft-reprinted tale of a mutant child born to normal parents originally appeared in 1950 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
www.scifistation.com /matheson/matheson_index.html   (5284 words)

  
 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Coal Mine Fatal Accident Investigation Report: Fatality #28 - October ...
Harlan and Ryan Jeran, Section Electrician, set three breaker posts in the No. 1 entry just outby the No. 20 block, when the roof began to work and fall behind the gob curtains in the No. 2 entry.
Harlan remained in the intersection while Jeran traveled inby to the No. 2 entry gob curtain to assess the roof inby the breaker posts.
As Harlan reached the No. 3 entry through the No. 9 row of cross cuts, he was struck by a roof fall that extended from the pillared area, outby for approximately 1½ crosscut.
www.msha.gov /FATALS/2003/FTL03c28.HTM   (3702 words)

  
 Academy of Natural Sciences - Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection - Philadelphia Paleontology
Harlan was arguably the most professional and dedicated of the five and the most ardent supporter of Cuvier and his methods (f4).
Richard Harlan was an ardent admirer of Georges Cuvier and did much to expose American naturalists and scientists to his methods and theories.
Joseph Leidy (1823-1891) is known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology." He identified the first dinosaurs in the Americas and was the first paleontologist to study the Western fossils that led to the ascendancy of American paleontology on the world stage.
www.ansp.org /museum/jefferson/otherPages/phila_paleo.php   (1132 words)

  
 Richard Hatch, September 3, 1998
Richard: ABC was not receiving the additional revenues brought in by the movies and the merchandising
Richard: Sheba is going to develop more and more in the direction of becoming annie oakley in space.
Richard: She is a strong funny bawdy, and sexy character and she has a permanent place in the battlestar galactica universe
www.scifi.com /transcripts/1998/RichardHatch.html   (2149 words)

  
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Richard Scruggs made a motion to elect Mike King as Vice-Chairperson.
Richard Scruggs nominated Kim Collier to serve as Secretary/Treasurer.
Guests Representatives were present from the two off-road clubs in Harlan County, the Harlan County Ridge Runners and the Kentucky Mountain Crawlers.
www.harlancountytrails.com /minutes/3-7-05.doc   (345 words)

  
 Cleburne News - Izella Prudy Harlan
Harlan, a Heflin native and lifelong resident, was a member of Heflin Baptist Church.
Harlan; a son, Timothy Harlan; and a grandson, Thomas Richard Harlan.
of Muscadine, and Joe Harlan and Richard Harlan, both of Heflin; a brother, Frank Blanton of Tulahoma, Tenn.; three sisters, Rose Blackburn and Margaret Tidwell, both of Atlanta, Ga., and Ozella Leo of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; 11 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
www.cleburnenews.com /obituaries/2003/cn-deaths-0918-0-3i18i5807.htm   (176 words)

  
 Living Fossils!
Even though Harlan was wrong in his taxonomic identification, he had toyed with the concept of extinction, but in the end refused to accept it; instead he sent Osteopera platycephala, alive, into the wilderness, perhaps to be yet discovered.
Richard Harlan, Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabiting North America (Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1825), 130-131.
Richard Harlan, "Refutation of Certain Misrepresentations Issued Against the Author of the ‘Fauna Americana,’ in the Philadelphia Franklin Journal, No. 1, 1826, and in the North American Review, No. 50," privately published, printed by William Stavely (Philadelphia, 1826), 21-22.
www.lewis-clark.org /disabled.asp?H=True&NextPage=/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2744   (1319 words)

  
 January 8, 2002
A motion by Shuck 2nd Peterson that all elected and appointed County officials are hereby authorized to attend the meetings of their respected association and committee meetings and funds are hereby appropriated from the County Revenue Fund to defray the cost of said officials in connection therewith was on vote unanimously adopted.
A motion by Falk 2nd Peterson to appoint Richard B. Larson with Harlan Madsen as alternate to the Planning Commission was on vote unanimously adopted.
A motion by Peterson 2nd Madsen to appoint Harlan Madsen to the Extension Committee was on vote unanimously adopted.
www.co.kandiyohi.mn.us /brdmin/BrdMin2002/brdmin010802.htm   (2321 words)

  
 Harlan Record Fall 2006
Harlan family members were invited to stroll the church grounds and cemetery on Saturday before dinner.
The last of the Harlan brothers to join the 1st Virginia was Jehu Scott Harlan (#2886), the youngest of the 12 children, who enlisted as a Private on May 23, 1862, in Company F. At the time of his enlistment he was 16 years old.
Nina Harlan Kohl got involved in an effort to save trees in her neighborhood last fall, and in the process, she won the title of “2005 Greenfield Superstar” from the Greenfield (WI) Observer as a representative of her entire neighborhood and its involvement in a successful grassroots campaign.
www.harlanfamily.org /record.htm   (5687 words)

  
 134th Infantry Regiment Richard Harlan Evans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Richard H. "Dick" Evans was assigned to the 35th division on Sept. 12, 1944, from a replacement depot at Verdun.
He was buried at Andilly Cemetery, and later reburied in his native Oklahoma City, OK. He left behind his wife, Nell; his daughter Paula (Pat); his son, Harlan; his parents, Jess and Lela; siblings and his office staff at American First Title and Trust Co., where he was an abstractor.
The plaque was instigated by Espace de Memoire Lorraine 1939-45 and financed by the associations of Espace de Memoire Lorraine 1939-45, Anciens Combattants of Flavigny and Souvenir Francaise of Flavigny, and the commune of Armaucourt.
www.coulthart.com /134/evans.htm   (250 words)

  
 Blogging the Nebulas | Columns | SCI FI Weekly
Harlan felt that was the instant that showed the man’s true soul, regardless of whatever else the actor had done in his life.
Harlan’s speech was warm and gracious, and as the banquet broke up we all headed to the evening’s parties, the consensus was that this had been one of the most entertaining Nebulas in memory.
The highlight of the evening was when Connie Willis persuaded Harlan to sit near the stage while she and many others, such as Michael Cassutt, Ginger Buchanan, Ellen Datlow, Peter David, came to the microphone to explain what Harlan meant to them.
www.scifi.com /sfw/column/sfw12694.html   (2849 words)

  
 Polk Group of the Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club
Harlan Herbert was elected "chapter president of the year" for Florida Audubon because of it.
Richard Coleman went ahead persevering for the next decade to assure and establish the restoration of the Kissimmee.
As we angled into a small cove past the bridge, dear Richard announced, "This is where I stashed the food last night!" Sure enough, a box under the bridge had French bread rolls, cheese to slice and a warm beer for Richard.
florida.sierraclub.org /polk/polk_newspage.asp?sep_03   (1700 words)

  
 Richard S. Harlan, Captain, United States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Retired Navy Captain Richard S. Harlan, 83, of Auburn, Alabama, and formerly of Annapolis, died of cancer October 26, 1998, at his home after a lengthy illness.
Captain Harlan was born in Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1938.
Surviving are his wife, Martha Corbinturberville Ball Harlan; one son, Richard S. Harlan Jr.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rsharlan.htm   (124 words)

  
 Harlan 1834
Notice of the discovery of the remains of the Ichthyosaurus in Missouri, N. Richard Harlan
Notice of the Discovery of the Remains of the Ichthyosaurus in Missouri, N.A. By Richard Harlan, MD., andc.
Harlan, R. On some new species of fossil saurians found in America.
www.oceansofkansas.com /Harlan1834a.html   (1637 words)

  
 Harlan Family Messages July 1998
Mary Harlan #310, of the sixth generation, daughter of Michael Harlan(5) and granddaughter of George Harlan (4).
A young lady in Oregon, Carol Ann Harlan Thayer, cthayer@macnet.com, took my advice and bought the Harlan book, but she can't seem to connect because her father, grandfather, and G GF are all too recently born to have been included in the Harlan book.
Subject: Re: Jim Harlan and Polly Milner of Lincoln Co,Ky In response to your query dated July 8th, regarding their children, the information is in A. Harlan's book, The History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, details on how to order it are in the Store page of this Site.
www.harlanfamily.org /mess9807.htm   (6741 words)

  
 Selected Families/Individuals - pafg06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Darwin Ketchum BONNER was born on 12 Jul 1915.
Richard Harlan KETCHUM [Parents] was born in 1876.
Dewey Richard KETCHUM was born on 16 Feb 1899.
www.hal-pc.org /~berrys/html2/pafg06.htm   (910 words)

  
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Mike King made a motion for the official trail system name to be “Kentucky Mountain Trails of Harlan County”.
Roger Fannin made a motion for Richard to check and see if the land lease can possibly be modified to allow hunting.
Roger Fannin announced that the Harlan County Chamber and the Harlan Daily Enterprise were creating a visitors guide for Harlan County.
www.harlancountytrails.com /minutes/3-31-05.doc   (511 words)

  
 Gudmunson/Cole Open House -- July 1, 2001
Harlan Barr points out items of interest to Carol and Richard Abate.
Harlan Barr lights up his Accucraft C-16, in bumble-bee livery.
Richard Mahr, Harlan Barr and Bob Wilkinson working on the railroad.
www.45mm.com /events/gte-010630   (264 words)

  
 Mallis Handbook
Cooper is a member of numerous organizations, including the New Jersey Pest Control Association, National Pest Management Association, Entomological Society of America, New Jersey Environmental Federation, and Pi Chi Omega, a pest control industry fraternity.
He has been a Board Certified Entomologist or its equivalent predecessor (A.R.P.E.) continuously since 1973, and is currently certified in both medical/veterinary and urban entomology, he is a current member of the honorary/service fratemities Ph Chi Omega and Sigma Xi.
Harlan has a rather broad base of experience in entomology, and has worked in applied situations with a variety of technical subjects, including Lyme disease and hantavirus.
www.mallishandbook.com /Cooper.htm   (243 words)

  
 Bird Name Biographies III
Harlan was also an amateur paleontologist and helped discover the first American plesiosaur.
In 1832 he was named to a commission to study the cholera epidemics in New York City and Canada.
(Richard Harlan above) Edward Harris bought several of Audubon's paintings, and gave him an extra $100 in appreciation of his talent.
www.uiowa.edu /~nathist/Site/whatsinanamebios2.html   (868 words)

  
 Richard Harlan
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HARLAN, Richard, naturalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 September, 1796; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, 30 September., 1843.
Previous to his graduation at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818, he made a voyage to Calcutta as surgeon of an East India ship.
www.famousamericans.net /richardharlan   (414 words)

  
 Harlan Pictures Page 3
Frances Bailey was the wife of James White Harlan and the mother of Thomas Samuel Harlan (from Elizabeth Harlan Strickler, Louisville, KY)
Mary was the great-granddaughter of Nancy Ann Perkins Harlan (from Elizabeth Harlan Strickler, Louisville, KY)
Aubrey was the grandson of Sarah Aliza Harlan (from Elizabeth Harlan Strickler, Louisville, KY)
www.hill-ky.org /Harlan_Pictures_3.htm   (348 words)

  
 Harlan's Buzzard
Long before I discovered this fine Hawk, I was anxious to have an opportunity of honouring some new species of the feathered tribe with the name of my excellent friend Dr. RICHARD HARLAN of Philadelphia.
This I might have done sooner, had I not waited until a species should occur, which in its size and importance should bear some proportion to my gratitude toward that learned and accomplished friend.
Length 21 inches; extent of wings 45; bill along the back 1 1/2, along the gap, from the tip of the lower mandible, 1 1/2; tarsus 1 3/4.
www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F2_G2d.html   (630 words)

  
 Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction Writer and Editor
Dowling, Terry, Richard Delap, and Gil Lamont, The Essential Ellison, Nemo, Omaha, Nebraska/Kansas City, Missouri, 1987.
Harlan Ellison, in I, Asimov, Doubleday, New York, 1994, 562 pp.
Ellison, Harlan, Introduction: The Fault in My Lines, in Slippage, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1998.
www.hycyber.com /SF/ellison_harlan.html   (172 words)

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