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  William Hawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Hawkins (10 October 1777 – 17 May 1819) was the Democratic-Republican governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1811 to 1814.
Hawkins was born in Pleasant Hill, North Carolina, the son of a member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Hawkins retired from politics after the end of his term as governor, except for one term in the House of Commons in 1817.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hawkins   (252 words)

  
 John Hawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William was a confidant of Henry VIII of England and one of the principal sea captains of England.
Hawkins pretended to be part of the Ridolfi plot to betray Queen Elizabeth in 1571.
Hawkins came to the public's attention again in June 2006, almost four and a half centuries after his death, when his descendant Andrew Hawkins publicly apologised for his ancestor's actions in the slave trade.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Hawkins   (900 words)

  
 William Hawkins Polk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Hawkins Polk (1815–1862) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 6th congressional district of Tennessee.
He was the brother of President James Polk, who had represented the same district when he had served in the United States Congress.
William H. Polk was born in Maury County, Tennessee, on May 24, 1815.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hawkins_Polk   (274 words)

  
 The Hawkins Family
William was a sea Captain and owner of considerable property in Plymouth, where he was named Mayor in the 1530s and elected member of Parliament in 1539.
Hawkins is derived from the village of Hawkins, in the Hundred of Folkstone.
Osbert de Hawking, in the reign of Henry II, was an ancestor of Andrew Hawkins of Nash Court, near Fabersham, Kent, in the reign of Edward III.
www.geocities.com /awoodlief/hawkins.html   (1294 words)

  
 Raw Vision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sometime after he got over his initial shock at seeing Hawkins’ paintings in a small gallery in Columbus, Ohio, in 1984, Gary Schwindler realized that this was as close to an authentic genius as most of us ever get and decided to become William Hawkins’ amanuensis, recording an enormous amount of what he said.
Hawkins uses photographs to add a personal psychological dimension, the arc of his own human progress, to what is basically an archetypal image of darkness and light.
Hawkins did not always use photographs in such a complex way, but his instincts about when to paint and when to paste were uncanny.
www.rawvision.com /rawvision/back/hawkins/hawkins.html   (1699 words)

  
 Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - William M. “Trip” Hawkins III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William M. “Trip” Hawkins III cut his teeth at Apple Computer, founded video game software giant EA (Electronics Arts), and as of 1991, heads The 3DO Company, which develops video games and entertainment software for gaming consoles.
Games fascinated Hawkins from an early age, and his parents embedded a deep work ethic into him from his birth in Pasadena, Calif. His mother, Helen Hawkins, was a go-getter, earning a doctorate in American history, becoming an Emmy-award winning TV producer, and founding the San Diego County chapter of NOW (National Organization for Women).
His father, William Hawkins Jr., earned a physics degree from Dartmouth University and was a sales and marketing executive in the dawning electronics industry.
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 Hawkins
Captain William Hawkins, R.N., Lord of the manor ofSuttonValletort,Mayorof Plymouth, 1 5 3 2 ; M.P. for Plymouth, 1553.Heestablished Englishtrade with the South Seas.
William Hawkins, born 28 Feb 1586/87 in England; died Aft.25Jun1655 in Yor k C o.
Hawkins of Virginia, the Carolinas and Kentycky by DorothyFordWulford,p.48.
www.southern-style.com /hawkins.htm   (5829 words)

  
 CIC - William Hawkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William is the operations manager for the CIC Design Quality Indicator (DQI) initiative.
As well as the core DQI William is currently working on the DQI for Schools with the DfES, the Place Consultation Tool with CABE and the Whole Life Value Toolkit with Constructing Excellence.
William lives in Kentish Town in a flat built in the modernist revivalist style popular in the mid 1970's with his partner and their two year old son.
www.cic.org.uk /about/whawkins.shtml   (171 words)

  
 Admiral John HAWKINS (Sir)
In the period when Hawkins' business was sent to Hugh Tipton, the Duke of Feria, an adviser to Felipe of Spain, had an English wife and one of Hawkins' men, George Fitzwilliam, was a kinsman of hers; though such connections "did not ensure cargo delivery".
In 1571 Hawkins was involved in a plot with Felipe II to assassinate Elizabeth I.
Hawkins, Francis Drake and Martin Frobisher were chosen as the three other commanders of the fleet.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/JohnHawkins.htm   (1043 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Features - william hawkins: outsider, now very in
William Hawkins (1895-1990) was of mixed ancestry -- fl, white and American Indian -- and said that this heritage was one reason for his talent.
Hawkins' hefty Orange Moose (1989), his decoratively coiled yet menacing Rattlesnake #3 (1988) and his two blue boars, both from 1989, and which could not be more different, are all examples of his sensitivity to beasts.
Hawkins was in his 80s when he became more widely recognized, and was never shy about his abilities.
www.artnet.com /magazine_pre2000/features/karlins/karlins10-30-97.asp   (920 words)

  
 William B Hawkins/AKA/Yisrayl B. Hawkins
Hawkins, claims to be the descendant of a Jewish family that fled Europe because of persecution.
Hawkins would later say that his wife had cheated on him, but relatives remember that it was he who had violated his marriage bt breaking the seventh commandment.
Hawkins introduced Darlene to others as his wife and told his children that the reason there were no wedding pictures was because he and their mother had eloped.
jesus-messiah.com /apologetics/cults/yisrayl-hawkins.html   (4224 words)

  
 American Folk Art - WILLIAM HAWKINS
William Hawkins was one of the finest Self-Taught artists of the 20th century.
Although Hawkins had only a third grade education, he was a bright student of life from his early days on a farm in Northern Kentucky until his last vital painting years in Columbus, Ohio.
Hawkins began drawing pictures of horses as a boy while looking at photographs and engravings of horses that his grandfather owned.
www.kenygalleries.com /images/af-hawkins/hawkins-bio.html   (360 words)

  
 San Jacinto Museum of History—Biographies
HAWKINS, WILLIAM J. The compiler, in error, had the name William F. Haskins, put on the bronze plaque in the San Jacinto memorial monument on which are inscribed the names of the Texans who participated in the battle of San Jacinto.
William F. Hawkins is listed on page 173 as a member of Company B, first regiment of infantry, Captain Jacob Snively, on December 31, 1836 and he is shown as having enlisted April 21, 1836 for a period of two years.
Hawkins was living in Montgomery county, probably in that part now embraced in Grimes county, March 28, 1838 when he sold Headright Certificate No. 412 to John M. Stevens for $184.
www.sanjacinto-museum.org /Herzstein_Library/Veteran_Biographies/Browse_Biographies/biographies/default.asp?action=bio&id=3218   (335 words)

  
 Sir Richard Hawkins
In 1585 he was captain of a galliot in Sir Francis Drake's expedition to the Spanish main, in 1588 he commanded a queen's ship against the Armada, and in 1590 served with his father's expedition to the coast of Portugal.
Hawkins, however, in an account of the voyage written thirty years afterwards, maintained, and by that time perhaps had really persuaded himself, that his expedition was undertaken purely for the purpose of geographical discovery.
Hawkins was hopelessly outmatched, but defended himself with great courage.
www.nndb.com /people/192/000101886   (388 words)

  
 Surname 4
William Harvey, was born 09 November 1792 in Halifax County, North Carolina.
Alice Hawkins, was born 05 September 1871 in Illinois.
William G. Hawkins, was born 24 December 1867 in Illinois.
www.williamsonfamilytree.com /surname4.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Bridgepoint Group Ltd.
William Hawkins is a Senior Vice President of the Bridgepoint Group Ltd., where he manages the firm's Energy and Infrastructure industry verticals and Utilities sales channel.
Hawkins also served as Vice President of the Electricity Distributors Association (EDA), where he was responsible for leading the distribution industry's advocacy, external relations and policy analysis functions.
Hawkins worked at the provincial level of government as the Director of Issues Management and Department Head for Special Projects in the Office of the Premier of Ontario, where he focused on electricity market restructuring and the design of environmental and emergency health services policies.
www.bridgepointgroupltd.com /team/team_wh.html   (259 words)

  
 William Hawkins - TheBestLinks.com - May 17, North Carolina, October 10, Tuscarora, ...
William Hawkins - TheBestLinks.com - May 17, North Carolina, October 10, Tuscarora,...
William Hawkins, May 17, North Carolina, October 10, Tuscarora, United States...
William Hawkins (10 October 1777 -- 17 May 1819) was the Democratic-Republican governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1811 to 1814.
www.thebestlinks.com /William_Hawkins.html   (284 words)

  
 William R. Hawkins | AmericanEconomicAlert.org
ABOUT US HAWKINS is Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Education Foundation, where he specializes in international economics and national defense issues.
Hawkins also hosted the weekly radio program "In the National Interest" which was heard nationally on the Information and Entertainment America Network from 1997 to 2000.
Hawkins is the author of two monographs: "Importing Revolution: Open Borders and the Radical Agenda" (American Immigration Control Foundation, 1994), and "America's Economic Preeminence: Goals for the 1990s" (with Anthony Harrigan, USBIC, 1989).
www.americaneconomicalert.org /view_author_bio.asp?Prod_ID=38   (294 words)

  
 AAU - Powerlifting
Hawkins has been a member of the AAU for a number of years and competed in every major lifting competition in the world.
Hawkins lives in Henderson NC with his lovely wife of 9 years, Bonita.
Hawkins is also a member of the men's choir and a member of the Shiloh Baptist Missionary Association Youth Committee.
www.aausports.org /sprt_Powerlifting.asp?a=News-Stories/pg_News_Plift02.htm   (373 words)

  
 MOH Citation for William Hawkins
The first to disembark from the jeep lighter, 1st Lt. Hawkins unhesitatingly moved forward under heavy enemy fire at the end of the Betio Pier, neutralizing emplacements in coverage of troops assaulting the main beach positions.
At dawn on the following day, 1st Lt. Hawkins resumed the dangerous mission of clearing the limited beachhead of Japanese resistance, personally initiating an assault on a hostile position fortified by 5 enemy machineguns, and, crawling forward in the face of withering fire, boldly fired pointblank into the loopholes and completed the destruction with grenades.
Refusing to withdraw after being seriously wounded in the chest during this skirmish, 1st Lt. Hawkins steadfastly carried the fight to the enemy, destroying 3 more pillboxes before he was caught in a burst of Japanese shellfire and mortally wounded.
www.homeofheroes.com /moh/citations_1940_wwii/hawkins.html   (403 words)

  
 The Filson Newsmagazine - Volume 5, Number 4 - Colonel William Stewart Hawkins, CSA
Born in Madison County, Alabama in 1837, William Hawkins expressed an early interest in literature and poetry.
In response, Hawkins defended the expressions of his affection for Lucy and argued that he intended nothing but to acknowledge her cherished friendship.
According to several sources, at least two of Hawkins’ poems were published after the war, “The Letter That Came Too Late” and “The Bonnie White Flag.” The latter was set to music and became popular with the soldiers of Camp Chase.
www.filsonhistorical.org /news_v5n4_hawkins.html   (1272 words)

  
 DICKEY-HAWKINS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
was born 1842/43 and was the son of Mary Jane Dickey and William Hawkins.
She was the grand daughter of (Sarah) Jane Hawkins and would have been 20 years old when Jane died in 1912 therefore she would have personaly known Jane.
MARTHA A. - was born circa 1848/49 and was the daughter of Mary Jane Dickey and William Hawkins.
www.carrollscorner.net /Dickey-Hawkins.htm   (1656 words)

  
 Books : William Hawkins
The first book of paintings--122 reproductions--by a brilliant twentieth-century folk artist: a self-taught master, who began to paint when he was ten years old and won national recognition at the age of eighty-five.
William Hawkins was born and raised on a small Kentucky farm.
Here are wild animals--an elephant with a striped tusk and trunk...a stag, wide-eyed and startled, looking out from a masklike face; cityscapes; historical and modern landmark architecture; images made from photographs; a red Ferris wheel; a short humpbacked creature with a cone hat, a beak, and a single, pasted-on eye.
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 Excite - Search: William Hawkins
WILLIAM R. is Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Education Foundation, where he specializes in...
William Hawkins' amanuensis, recording an enormous amount of what he said.
Hawkins should not be confused with the songwriter of...
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 Amazon.com: "William Hawkins": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
An acknowl- edged "kinsman" of the Hawkins family, Francis Drake no doubt lived for several years in the house of William Hawkins.35 The group of cousin- brethren perhaps included his younger brothers John and Joseph Drake, young John Hawkins, and other boys...
William Hawkins senior, the patriarch of the family, was by any standards a remarkable man whose tough-minded, ambitious ways could hardly fail...
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 William Hawkins Youth Ministries Project Lift
William Thomas Hawkins III, a juvenile court counselor in Vance County, first formulated the idea after he started to introduce at-risks kids to competitive weightlifting.
Hawkins started out with about 8 to 10 kids.
William Hawkins Youth Ministries applied and received its non-profit status on March 18th, 1999.
www.robertuniverse.com /athleteofmonthhawkinsproject.htm   (325 words)

  
 William Hawkins 1817-1898 of Little Coxwell and Mary Jackson 1819-1889 of Faringdon
William Hawkins 1817-1898 of Little Coxwell and Mary Jackson 1819-1889 of Faringdon
The signature of the groom William Hawkins is identical to the signature of the first witness.
Either William inadvertently wrote his own name instead of that of the witness, or (less likely) the witness was also named William Hawkins.
www.littlecoxwell.com /family-history-o/william-hawkins-1817.php   (114 words)

  
 william hawkins
But, Hawkins was no slavish imitator waiting for his adult identity to arrive.
Hawkins, aided and abetted by his wife Sheila Hawkins, opened and closed the place every evening, ran the kitchen, introduced the acts and looked after visiting musicians the likes of young Gordon Lightfoot, Mark Spoelstra and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, which usually involved putting them up on their living room couch.
Toronto, 1965.) consists of Howith’s "The Seasons of Miss Nicky" and Hawkins’ "Louis Riel." Moved by George F.G. Stanley’s biography of Riel, Bill identified intensely (I believe) with the doomed Métis leader, and wrote a 36-page sequence of meditations on Riel’s visions, madness (the poem’s term) and execution.
www.poetics.ca /poetics05/05macskimming.html   (2825 words)

  
 Niobrara County Library - Kenneth William Hawkins
Kenneth William Hawkins was born January 26, 1907, at Plainview, Neb., the son of William T. and Viola Vanconett Hawkins.
Hawkins was affiliated with the Baptist Church and was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge.
He is survived by his wife of Powell; one son Richard of Riverton; one daughter Delores Baker of Torrington; one brother Elwood of Lusk; two sisters Irma Harris of Casper and Mary Porter of Crawford and two grandchildren.
www.niobraracountylibrary.org /obituaries/index.php?id=1474   (308 words)

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