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	William Sterling Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rear Admiral William Sterling "Deak" Parsons (November 26, 1901 - December 5, 1953) was an American military engineer, best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay (at the time, he had the rank of Captain) which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.
		Parsons crawled into the Arctic-cold bomb bay of the Enola Gay to arm the bomb.
		Rear Admiral Parsons was one of the early Navy men with expertise in the new atomic weapons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Sterling_Parsons (284 words)

	William Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867), Lord Rosse, Irish astronomer
		William Sterling Parsons (1901–1953), "Deak" Parsons, atomic bomb weaponeer on the Enola Gay, rose to Rear Admiral
		William Parsons (scientist), physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Parsons (151 words)

	Parsons
		William Sterling Parsons, born at Chicago III., 26 November 1901, was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1918 and commissioned Ensign upon graduating in June 1922.
		Parsons continued her training and service operations alternately with the 1st and 7th fleets until selected for conversion to a Guided Missile Destroyer and decommissioned at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard 19 January 1966.
		Parsons was reclassified (DDG–33) 15 March 1967 and recommissioned 3 November 1967, assigned to the CruiserDestroyer Force, Pacific Fleet.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p2/parsons.htm (628 words)

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		William Gardiner is one of the strongest advocates and workers in the prohibition party in White County.
		William Gay, the grandfather of George Gay, was born in Ohio and came to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1831.
		William Gibson was a democrat in his political belief and in every way was a conscientious, clean-minded, upright man, and an influential factor in the early times of White County.
	www.brookston.lib.in.us /WhiteCo/biographies-G.htm (12416 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Because the force had been organized under Colonel Parsons, served under him in 1863, and was again under him at the end of the war, it was generally known as Parsons's Brigade.
		While Parsons was in Louisiana with part of the brigade, Colonel Carter remained in command of the rest in Arkansas.
		Parsons held field command in this unsuccessful attempt to cripple the federal fleet, and in the midst of battle General Green was killed by enemy artillery fire.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/qkp1.html (1297 words)

	Amazon.ca: Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Parsons was at heart a line officer, with extensive experience in the surface fleet, who developed as an ordnance specialist in the line of duty.
		Parsons emerged as a sailor able to speak the language of scientists in a forced-draft environment that left no time for misunderstandings.
		Parsons became the postwar Navy's leading figure on nuclear issues, representing the interests of his service in the new contexts of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, before dying of a heart attack.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1557501203 (1169 words)

	Colonel Harlee's Notes on 122431 Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson
		Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson was born on the 23rd of August 1820 in Giles Co, Tennessee.
		This is to certify that Elijah Sterling C Robertson of the Municipality of Milam entered the Texian service as a ranger in my company on the 25th of July last and has served as a private in said company up to this date has faithfully discharged his duty and is hereby honorably discharged.
		Sterling C. Robertson in Texans Who Wore the Gray hereinbefore included as is also Gen. McCulloch's estimate of his services in a letter of 2 Jan 1863 among his papers which passed to his son.
	www.robertson-ancestry.com /122431-1.htm (9015 words)

	S D Jones:Deupree:William Deupree Jr.
		After his premature death, she remarried Daniel Parsons, and they moved to Missouri in 1839 with four of the five Deupree children, plus his children from his first marriage and two children they had together.
		William Overton Deupree (1842-1909) married (1) in 1867 Elzira Smithson (1850-1875), and (2) Ellen Jones Galloway.
		William Stephen Deupree (1823-1864) married in 1846 Sarah H. Williams (1826-1874) and moved from Lunenburg Co., VA, to Richmond before the Civil War.
	www.sdjones.net /deupree/overton.html (2758 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		WILLIAM Sterling Hebbard came to San Diego near the end of the 1880 boom decade to design the power plant for the San Diego Cable Company.
		William Curlett (1845-1914) was born in Ireland, studied art and architecture for two years in Manchester, England, spent three years in art school in Belfast.
		William Cuthbertson (1850-1925) was a native of England and came to San Francisco under the administrations of Mayor Phelan and Mayor Schmitz.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/87winter/hebbard.htm (11839 words)

	Jan Sterling at Brian's Drive-In Theater
		Sterling married actor John Merivale (who can be seen in Circus of Horrors) in 1941, but by the time she began doing films, the marriage was over and the couple divorced in 1948.
		Sterling's first film appearance of note came in the 1947 John Wayne film Tycoon, but she was not listed in the credits.
		In 1955, Jan Sterling won a Golden Globe for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954; with John Wayne) and was also nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the film.
	www.briansdriveintheater.com /jansterling.html (1821 words)

	Krafft Family - Person Page 46
		Hannah Parsons was born on 13 December 1701 at Hampden Co, Massachusetts.
		Hezekiah Parsons was born on 24 November 1673 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts.
		Hezekiah Parsons married Hannah Cooley, daughter of Eliakim Cooley and Hanna Tibboles, on 20 February 1701 at Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts.
	krafftfamily.org /Krafft-p/p46.htm (3566 words)

	BOWN DEEDS
		In 1823 William Bown the elder of Middlezoy, labourer, conveyed the premises to his sons, William, John and Thomas [14/1].
		In 1830 William and John conveyed their shares of the property to their brother Thomas Bown of Middlezoy, labourer [14/2].
		Refers to William senior having sold to William jun, John and Thomas for £15(According to the demise it was £10)
	dbown100.tripod.com /Bowndeeds.htm (460 words)

	ohiohistory.org / CIVIL WAR GUIDE PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		William Mills, Quartermaster, 74th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio.
		Letter stating that he received an official notice of his appointment or transfer (as the case may be) to the 61st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Assistant Surgeon; and accepting the post.
		Bears a note from M[ortimer] D. Leggett to Governor William Dennison, requesting that Waller be appointed recruiting officer of his regiment [78th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry].
	www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/civilwar/sa0147/14_2.cfm (939 words)

	The William C. Cook Collection: The War of 1812 in the South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		William C. Cook of Nashville; it was the largest collection of such materials in private hands prior to its acquisition by THNOC.
		Andrew Jackson, Headquarters, Nashville, to the Assistant deputy quartermaster [William B. Lewis], to furnish packhorses and axes to the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry and Volunteer Mounted Gunmen.
		[William B. Lewis was formerly Maj. and Adjutant Deputy Quarter Master General of the Tennessee Militia.] The portrait, an engraving (steel?) is a three-quarter length portait of Jackson shown seated facing lightly left with left arm resting on table next to him.
	www.hnoc.org /BNO/Mssguides/mss557.htm (12482 words)

	Four Temperaments Phantasm AVIE AV2054 [JV]: Classical CD Reviews- April 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Parsons is the choleric, who is quick to anger.
		Another item which particularly pleases me is the first piece of the programme: Tallis's 'A Solfing song', which was originally written for viol consort, but has a strongly vocal character, and could easily be sung on a given text.
		He was the most experimental of these four composers, and puts the performers to the test in his 'Ut re mi fa sol la': "The texture becomes 'untamed' in a moment of panicked frisson when all four players enter a distinct time zone (...), each forced to count in a way which disrupts the others.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Apr05/Phantasm_AV2054.htm (822 words)

	ARGY NAMED CAA WOMEN’S SOCCER ROOKIE OF THE YEAR\| News \| Women's Soccer \| JMU Sports
		William and Mary junior midfielder Lindsey Vanderspiegel, the leading scorer for a Tribe squad which finished on top of the CAA regular-season standings, was selected as the 2002 CAA Player of the Year.
		Representing VCU were Cormie, sophomore forward Jen Parsons, the CAA’s leading scorer with 16 goals, and junior midfielder Leah Robinson.
		Fourth-seed JMU faces top-seed and defending tournament champion William and Mary in a 7:30 p.m.
	www.jmusports.com /Team/Stories/19_445.asp?TeamID=19 (889 words)

	Braxton County History
		About 400 Union soldiers under the command of Captain William Mattingly (one account suggests that he led a force of just 124) held a relatively well-fortified position on a hill located on the Moses Cunningham farm overlooking Bulltown.
		William Newlon was appointed Clerk pro tempore of the Court (County Clerk).
		William and Robert Jackson built the town's first mill and sold groceries carried in on horseback from Clarksburg.
	www.polsci.wvu.edu /wv/Braxton/brahistory.html (2535 words)

	William H. Maddocks
		WILLIAM H. MADDOCKS, chief draughtsman of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, resides at Parsons, Labette county, Kansas.
		Maddocks attended the common schools, and afterward the grammar and technical schools of his native city, and was later apprenticed to the trade of machinist and draughtsman.
		Maddocks was called to Parsons, where he received ail offer from the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, and immediately assumed the duties of his present position.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/labette/1901/m/maddocwh.shtml (594 words)

	American Historical Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If a contract between Father Louis Hennepin, Récollect missionary, and William Boedelet, bookseller, of Utrecht, Holland, could be found, it would doubtless prove to be that sort of a contract in which every right is given to the party of the second part, and nothing to the party of the first part.
		As Dr. Manasseh Cutler was the director of the company, who, with a sagacity and ability unsurpassed, conducted this business before Congress, and made the land purchase, the main credit of the enactment of the Ordinance and of its beneficent results have been generally awarded to him.
		He was entitled to great praise but to his associate directors, Gen. Rufus Putnam and Samuel Holden Parsons and to prominent members of Congress—a majority of them Southern members—a large share of the honor is due.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/wfpoole.htm (6837 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Tomorrow's man
		He was commissioned to write a script for Alien 3 which was never filmed, he was involved in making a film of his short story "Johnny Mnemonic", which presciently starred Keanu Reeves but was apparently savagely recut by Sony before release, and he even co-scripted two episodes of The X-File s.
		With co-author Bruce Sterling, he wrote The Difference Engine (1991), about the computer age arriving in Victorian Britain, which was instantly labelled "steampunk".
		William Gibson's Pattern Recognition is published by Viking at £16.99.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,948208,00.html (3514 words)

	Amazon.com: Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb: Books: Al Christman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drawing upon an extensive collection of interviews, he traces Parsons's work at Los Alamos and at Tinian, the island that served as the point of departure for the bombing runs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Parsons personally assembled Little Boy aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945.
		He also contributed to the development of radar, the proximity fuse, nuclear-powered naval vessels, and rockets and missiles?all part of a revolution in weapon systems.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557501203?v=glance (1445 words)

	Internet Family Tree
		For the fact that Hugh Hughes was a child of William Parson Hughes and Mary Withers, I have relied on several family historians, notably Garry McLaughlin (www.gbso.net/~actor/actor.htm), Jacoby Hughes, and Susan Wedig (http://www.strato.net/~wedigs/genealogy.html).
		Parsons is not a name that is repeated in the descendants of William Hughes (wife unknown) who had children Hugh, Thomas, William, Evan, Mary Anderson, Sudrah Carpenter, Sarah Baker, Ellis, all mentioned in his will dated 30 Dec 1762, proved 9 Jun 1767.
		Hugh Hughes, a son of William and Sudra Hughes, was born in VA and married Susannah ---- there.
	www.changesurfer.com /Family/PS07/PS07_289.htm (975 words)

	St. Louis and the Civil War
		It is known as the "battle flag of Missouri" or the "Sterling Price flag".
		Sterling Price, Confederate General and former Governor of Missouri, regarded as a moderate, reluctantly sided against the Union after Gen. Nathaniel Lyon declared war on the State..
		In fact Gen. Sterling Price, Gen. Daniel Frost, Thomas S. Snead, Samuel Churchill and other future Confederate officers, at this time were opposed to such demonstrations.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/acw.htm (8016 words)

	Silver, Sterling : Coin Silver : All Items on Ruby Lane
		The shell bowl spoon is engraved HA Parsons on the handle and has English hallmarks on the back of the handle.
		It is coin silver, the same silver content as sterling, but has no markings.
		This sterling coin commemorates the royal visit to Bermuda, in February 1975, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
	search.rubylane.com /search/,id=72.5.html (1460 words)

	Internet Family Tree
		William Hughes was born in the late 1600's in VA or PA and died in 1767 in Hampshire Co., VA His will was probated 9 Jun 1767.
		William Hughes with his family, and some of his children with their families, together with some of the Frys, Bakers, Carpenters, Tanners, a Radcliffs bought into this Fairfax land and hit the trail northward from the region of the Roanoke and James Rivers.
		William Hughes was born in the late 1600's in VA or PA and died in 1767 in
	www.changesurfer.com /Family/PS07/PS07_291.htm (8640 words)

	Movie Info for 1984 on MSN Movies
		Edmond O'Brien is a government functionary satisfied with his lot, until he commits the illegal act of falling in love with Jan Sterling (a member of the anti-sex league).
		The lovers try to escape the all-powerful influence of Big Brother, but their every move is recorded by listening and viewing devices.
		Both are captured and sent to rehabilitation centers; preying upon O'Brien's and Sterling's innermost fears, the lieutenants of Big Brother break down their resistance and force them to betray one another.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=82227 (160 words)

	Keywords - The Last Wave from Port Chicago
		On December 23, 1999, President William Clinton granted presidential pardon to one of the two known surviving Port Chicago mutineers, Mr.
		With Capt. Parsons and Maurice M. Shapiro conducted extensive onsite investigations of the physical effects of the Port Chicago explosion in the immediate aftermath, which in comprehensive analysis were reported in several hundred pages transmitted by Capt. Parsons to Military Policy Committee member Adm. William R. Purnell between July 27, 1944 and October 1944 (surviving).
		Reynolds, conducted extensive onsite investigations of the physical effects of the Port Chicago explosion in the immediate aftermath, which were reported in several hundred pages of analysis transmitted by Capt. Parsons to Military Policy Committee member Adm. William R. Purnell between July 27, 1944 and October 1944 (surviving).
	www.portchicago.org /lastwave/keyword.htm (1536 words)

	Chenoweth: [JOHN: WILLIAM: JOHN] William Pugh
		William Pugh, the second son of "Revolutionary John", was born in Hampshire County, Virginia (now WV) and came as a young boy with his parents to Randolph County, where he would spend the rest of his life, dying there at age 71.
		The descendants of William Pugh are so well recorded that they form the 2nd largest known grouping of lines in the Chenoweth family from the fifth generation, surpassed only by his older brother Robert.
		William and Lydia are buried in the Arnold Hill cemetery, south of Elkins, Randolph Co., WV.
	www.chenowethsite.com /ch1jw0w.htm (4981 words)

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		In this paper, Willis suggests that "the main key to Boas as a person and as a scientist" was the conflict he felt between his personal politics and desire to professionalize anthropology as a discipline.
		William K. Gregory resigning as Chairman of the Galton society in protest against anti-Semitism and the Society's alignment with Germany.
		A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM S. [From "A Tribute to William S. Willis, Jr., paper presented by James P. Gallagher, at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 16-20, l983] 1955 Colonial Conflict and the Cherokee Indians, 1710-1760.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~psanday/willis.html (7953 words)

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