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  William B. Lenoir -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From 1964 to 1965, Lenoir was an instructor at MIT; and in 1965, he was named assistant professor of (The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication) electrical engineering.
Lenoir is a registered professional engineer in (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico) Texas.
Lenoir was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_b._lenoir.htm   (885 words)

  
 William B. Lenoir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenoir was backup science-pilot for Skylab 3 and Skylab 4, the second and third manned missions in the Skylab Program.
Lenoir resigned from NASA in September 1984, to assume a position with the management and technology consulting firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. in Arlington, Virginia.
Lenoir resigned from NASA in April 1992, to assume the position of Vice President of the Applied Systems Division at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_B._Lenoir   (701 words)

  
 The Lenoir City Cotton Mill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Lenoir City Cotton Mill was one of several mills built on Town Creek at Lenoir's Station by Major William B. Lenoir, the founder of Lenoir City.
Lenoir came from North Carolina in 1810 and the cotton mill was built ca.
A revised plan to continue the restoration was rejected by the Lenoir City Council, however the LCMA has preserved the mill ruins and are in the process in developing an interactive historic park.
www.lenoircity.com /lccottonmill.htm   (283 words)

  
 12/18/2004 - A.S. Lenoir Helped Lay Out City Of Chattanooga - Memories - Chattanoogan.com
Lenoir's daughter, Elizabeth, was one of the first white children born (Jan. 28, 1838) at the future Chattanooga.
Lenoir had a distinguished lineage, being the grandson of Waightstill Avery, who was North Carolina's first attorney general and was even better known for having dueled Andrew Jackson.
Lenoir became a major general in the North Carolina Militia and was elected to both houses of the state Legislature.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_60089.asp   (1444 words)

  
 LSU Libraries -- Women's History
Letter to Major General Braxton Bragg written while Chalmers was a colonel in the 9th Mississippi Regiment acknowledges on behalf of the officers of the unit receipt of a barrel of golden syrup from Mrs.
Autobiography, diary, and writings describe life in New England; with her brother, the Rev. William Kirtland Douglas, near Natchez, Mississippi, during the Civil War; at New Iberia, Louisiana; in various Mississippi towns; and in New Orleans.
Records of the law firm of William King, manuscript volumes of members of his family, and printed volumes of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union.
www.lib.lsu.edu /special/guides/womens.html   (13829 words)

  
 University of Tennessee Libraries: Special Collections Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William B. Lenoir, Campbel Station, Tenn. to Albert Lenoir, Greenville College, Greenville, Tennessee, 1819.
William B. Lenoir to A.S. Lenoir, Ross Landing, Tennessee, 1838.
I.T. Lenoir, Kingston, to W.B. Lenoir, Lenoir's, Tenn. 1844.
www.lib.utk.edu /spcoll/manuscripts/ms0165fa.html   (399 words)

  
 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Wi'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chattingham
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 Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 31
William Lenoir died on 6 May 1839 at age 87.
William Archibald Carter married Nina Pratt, daughter of James E. Pratt and Sophronia Cowan, in 1885.
Nina Pratt married William Archibald Carter, son of Littleberry Walker Carter and Mary Ann Diligent Seals, in 1885.
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 Dallas County, AL Queries | Jul-Dec 1999
William ROTHROCK (1817-1903) was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
William was known to be still living in Selma in 1890.
William (277) along with an Isaac Saddler (276) are listed in the 1850 Alabama census with Bogue Chitto as the town ship.
www.prairiebluff.com /algenweb/dallas/dallasqy4.htm   (2490 words)

  
 Summary description of Lenoir Family Papers, Mss. Dept., UNC-Chapel Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Albert Sobieski Lenoir (1803-1861) of Loudon County, Tenn., was one of the twelve children of William Ballard Lenoir (1775-1852), who moved from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1810.
William B. Lenoir was one of seven children, and his father, Gen. William Lenoir of North Carolina, was one of ten.
These papers consist largely of personal letters addressed to Albert S. and Catharine Lenoir and to George Lewis Welcker, from their large family connection in North Carolina and Tennessee and from Welcker's friends in the army.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/l/Lenoir_Family(Tenn.).html   (246 words)

  
 William B. Lenoir
Lenoir resigned from NASA in September 1984, to assume a position with the management and technology consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. in Arlington, Virginia.
Lenoir resigned from NASA in April 1992, to assume the position of Vice President of the Applied Systems Division at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland.
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www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_b__lenoir.html   (726 words)

  
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Mark Hess Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 30, 1992 (Phone: 202/453-4164) Release: 92-41 LENOIR ANNOUNCES PLANS TO LEAVE NASA Dr. William B. Lenoir, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight, today submitted his letter of resignation to NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly, to be effective May 4.
Lenoir left NASA in 1984 to join Booze, Allen and Hamilton where he was Vice President and a member of the board of directors.
Born in Miami, Fla., Lenoir received a B.S. in 1961, a M.S. in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1965 in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/missions/status/r92-41   (346 words)

  
 The Blues . The Songs & the Artists . Biographies . Alphabetic | PBS
Lenoir's recordings are also distinctive for their excellent saxophone arrangements and unconventional drumming (Alex Atkins and Ernest Cotton were often on sax with Al Gavin on drums).
Lenoir had successfully toured Europe and was likely about to achieve greater fame when he died in 1966 due to complications from a car accident.
In 1904 Rainey married William (known as Pa) Rainey, and the two of them performed together calling themselves "Assasinators of the Blues." Legend has it that during their travels Ma Rainey met Bessie Smith, and became somewhat of a mentor to the young singer.
www.pbs.org /theblues/songsartists/songsbioalpha.html   (14416 words)

  
 The Lenoir City Museum
Started in 1997, the museum was originally housed in Lenoir City's early city hall building on Broadway in downtown Lenoir City.
The Lenoir City Museum documents Lenoir City's past from its earliest settlement by Major William B. Lenoir in the early 1800's, to the arrival of the railroad at Lenoir's Station (as it was known until the 1900's), through the Civil War, and into Lenoir City's emergence as a city in 1907.
This building was built in 1890 to house the offices of the Lenoir City Company, which was formed by investors from Knoxville, New York City, and one from Lima, Ohio, to purchase the remaining holdings of General William Ballard Lenoir.
www.lenoircity.com /lcmuseum.htm   (274 words)

  
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After backup assignments on Gemini 10 and Apollo 9, he was lunar-module pilot on Apollo 12 and was the fourth man to walk on the moon, 19 Nov. 1969.
B.S. in statistics from Syracuse University, 1958; M.B.A. in operations analysis from University of California at Los Angeles, 1959; B.A. in chemistry from Marietta College, 1960; M.D. from Columbia Medical School, 1964; M.S. in biophysics from the University of Kentucky, 1966; studied physiology at University of Kentucky.
B.S. in physics, University of Utah, 1953; Ph.D. in high energy physics, University of California (Berkeley), 1964.
history.nasa.gov /SP-4208/app.e.htm   (843 words)

  
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28 Sept 1826 - William B. and Sally R. Kilpatrick (or) - Walter Dunn - 300 Ac $1500 - NS Neuse on Briary - adj to a tract purchased by Kilpatrick of Rolland Moore and Isaac Barwick b.
Richard Moore b 4 June 1775 - d 27 July 1844 md Jan 1806 to to Susannah Tull b 18 Dec 1779 - d 20 March 1845 - daughter of Charles Tull - proved by Tull records found in the Loveit Hines collection a.
Needham Moore - b 29 Oct 1806 - d 21 April 1880 - md Elizabeth Jackson b 10 Oct 1812 - d 30 Dec l882 - Elizabeth's last name is not provable - she was suppose to be daughter of Jesse Jackson *****MOORE LINES - FROM AVAILABLE RECORDS - Locations vary as specified A.
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 Where No Man Has Gone Before, Appendix 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
B.S. (industrial management), 1952, Carnegie Institute of Technology; B.S. (aeronautical engineering), 1961, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Sc.D. (aeronautics and astronautics), 1964, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.S., 1954, U.S. Military Academy; M.S. (aeronautics and astronautics) and Engineer of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1963, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.S. (mathematics), 1947; M.S. (astronomy), 1948, University of Virginia; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1954, University of Michigan.
lunar.arc.nasa.gov /archives/documents/SP4214/app6.html   (2955 words)

  
 Lenoir
This foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd length to which vicious specialisation will carry scientists working in thought-tight compartments.
SPECIAL HONORS: Sloan Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the Carleton E. Tucker Award for Teaching Excellence at MIT; awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1974), and NASA Space Flight Medal (1982).
EXPERIENCE: From 1964 to 1965, Lenoir was an instructor at MIT; and in 1965, he was named assistant professor of electrical engineering.
www.astronautix.com /astros/lenoir.htm   (1220 words)

  
 Welcker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Lewis Welcker (1807-1831) married (1823) MALINDA MITCHELL, daughter of JUDGE JAMES C. He and his friend RETURN J. read law under Judge Mitchell, and later practiced in Athens, Tennessee.
William Thomas married KATY ADAIR, daughter of Gen. JOHN D. William T. attended the Rittenhouse Academy at Kingston, and graduated 4th in his class at West Point Military Academy in 1849.
William B Hope also had at least one son by his first marriage to Mary
www.roanetn.com /welcker.htm   (1177 words)

  
 Shuttle Ready to Carry Telescope Aloft Today
At a news conference today, Dr. William B. Lenoir, NASA's chief of space flight, said, "In the intervening two weeks that the universe has grown older, I'm told that Hubble has not missed much."
The postponement also made it necessary to remove and recharge the six batteries in the Hubble spacecraft, a task that was completed on Saturday.
William E. Taylor, Hubble engineering manager at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said an inspection of the spacecraft showed that the maintenance work had caused no discernible contamination to the telescope.
partners.nytimes.com /library/national/science/nasa/042490sci-nasa-wilford.html   (506 words)

  
 Space Station User's Guide | SpaceRef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thus, the next flight, instead of being designated STS-10, became STS 41-B. The new numbering system was designed to be more specific in that the first numeral stood for the fiscal year in which the launch was to take place, the "4" being 1984.
Their primary mission was to deploy three commercial communications satellites and retrieve and repair IV-3 which was deployed during the STS 51-D mission in April 1985 and had malfunctioned.
The launch -- the first from Pad B at KSC's Launch Complex 39 -- occurred at ll:38 a.m.
www.spaceref.com:16080 /shuttle/newsref/stsover-missions.html   (8347 words)

  
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Crew members for the flight were Vance D. Brand, commander; Robert F. Overmyer, Pilot; and William B. Lenoir, and Joseph P. Allen, mission specialists.
The name Discovery preceding the flag represents the spirit of Discovery and exploration of new frontiers which have been a hallmark of American people even before they were formed together as a nation.
The crew members were Karol J. Bobko, commander; Donald E. Williams, pilot; Margaret Rhea Seddon, S. David Griggs, and Jeffrey A. Hoffman of NASA, mission specialists; and Charles D. Walker (representing McDonnell Douglas Corporation) and U.S. Senator Jake Garn (Utah), payload specialists.
www.textfiles.com /hamradio/FREQUENCIES/nasalogo.ham   (2685 words)

  
 Science News: Shuttles grounded by two sets of leaks - space shuttles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William B. Lenoir, NASA's chief of space flight, said the shuttles would remain grounded until engineers found, understood and fixed the leaks.
Engineers have been conducting tests of each craft's external tank and its piping, as well as of the "umbilical" connecting hoses and the fittings used to fill the tanks.
One involves a detailed analysis of how the pieces that make up the propellant-storage and delivery components were made.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n1_v138/ai_9178107   (506 words)

  
 Phillips Queries
If you're researching Phillips and Hardy, I'd like to know whether you are working on the Phillips line in Craven (1740-on) and in Lenoir.
Jemima Hardy is the grdaughter of JOHN PHILLIPS who left that long will in Craven County at the end of the 1700s.
Charles was either a deputy US Marshal or a TX Ranger late 1890's to bef 1904.
www.bjhughes.org /qphillips.html   (355 words)

  
 MIT has produced more astronauts than any other private university - MIT News Office
William B. Lenoir was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when he was selected as an astronaut in 1967.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman worked in the MIT Center for Space Research as project scientist for the HEAO-1 observatory prior to his selection as an astronaut in 1978.
Canadian payload specialist Robert B. Thirsk (SM 1978 in mechanical engineering, MBA 1998) flew aboard STS-78 in 1996.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2001/commnasanuts-0606.html   (522 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: The Crews of Columbia Rode Troubled Workhorse
Joe Henry Engle, commander of Columbia's second mission in November 1981, said the failure of fuel cells, which produce electricity used to operate the computers and the shuttle, cut short his flight.
A year later, the space suits malfunctioned on astronaut William B. Lenoir's mission.
Computer failures and a fire in the auxiliary unit occurred during astronaut Owen K. Garriott's 10-day mission in November 1983.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49153-2003Feb22?language=printer   (1001 words)

  
 History of Astronomy: Unsorted links (2)
William's experience as a science student and a tenured professor; How he became director of STScI; Why Hubble Space Telescope's popularity is so high among astronomers.
Presents a list of twenty-five amateur astronomers who have influenced and left their marks in the field of astronomy.
Contributions by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1887; Discoveries by William Bond in 1848 and 1850; Discoveries by Sherburne Burnham between 1870 and 1913.
www.astro.uni-bonn.de /~pbrosche/unsorted/unsorted_02.html   (845 words)

  
 Giddens Records from Burke and Wilkes Co., NC
1798 #23 William Lenoir e 50 ac fork Warrior fork Yadkin adj land Edward Gittings purchased of William Parham & Gittings Mill tract.
Wit: William Hulme, Abner Parr, William Hulme Jr.
July 1809 List of insolvents returned by William Hampton, Sheriff, and Richard Allen for the year 1808.
morphism314.tripod.com /family/gid02.html   (1901 words)

  
 Astronaut William B. Lenoir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is a signed 8 x 10 inch official NASA photo of Astronaut William B. Lenoir.
Also included with this photo is an official 4 inch NASA flight patch for the Columbia crew of STS-5 of which he was one of the two mission specialist.
This was the 5th space shuttle flight and the 5th flight of the Columbia (OV-102) and the only one for Dr. Lenoir.
www.nmia.com /~valorc/american/space/lenoir.html   (84 words)

  
 Example of "Genealog*" Catalog Database Search - Using the Melvyl® Legacy System: Section "L"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
History of Bethel, formerly Sudbury, Canada, Oxford County, Maine, 1768-1890 with a brief sketch of Hanover and family statistics /, compiled by William B. Lapham.
History of the town of Bethel, Maine /, William B. Lapham ; a facsimile of the 1891 edition with a new historical essay by Stanley Russell Howe.
Livingston, Noel B. Sketch pedigrees of some of the early settlers in Jamaica /, By Noel B. Livingston.
www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~vctinney/melvylcatl.htm   (14388 words)

  
 Space Cowboy Saloon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gerry Carr was born on August 22, 1932 in Denver, but considered Santa Ana, CA, his hometown.
He joined the Navy in 1949, and as an NROTC midshipman, attended the University of Southern California, where he graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering; he joined the Marines, and went into flight training after getting his commission.
Ed Gibson, for example, took a 53-week flight training program at Williams AFB in Arizona, earning his Air Force wings, and also going on to fly helicopters.
groups.msn.com /spacecowboysaloon/skylab4.msnw   (930 words)

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