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3448557 | 1966 California gubernatorial election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1966%20California%20gubernatorial%20election | 1966 California gubernatorial election
a spot that eventually went to Hubert Humphrey. However, Brown's popularity began to sag amidst the civil disorders of the Watts riots and the early anti-Vietnam War demonstrations at U.C. Berkeley. His decision to seek a 3rd term as governor (after promising earlier that he would... | 31,000 |
3448557 | 1966 California gubernatorial election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1966%20California%20gubernatorial%20election | 1966 California gubernatorial election
outsider – actor Ronald Reagan. With Richard Nixon working tirelessly behind the scenes and Reagan trumpeting his law and order campaign message, Reagan received almost 2/3 of the primary vote over George Christopher, the moderate Republican former mayor of San Francisco, and went... | 31,001 |
3448557 | 1966 California gubernatorial election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1966%20California%20gubernatorial%20election | 1966 California gubernatorial election
school children that an actor, John Wilkes Booth, had killed Abraham Lincoln. The comparison of Reagan to Booth as being actors did not go over well and led to a further decline of the Brown campaign. Come election day, Reagan was ahead in the polls and favored to win a relatively... | 31,002 |
3448492 | Victoria River (Northern Territory) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria%20River%20(Northern%20Territory) | Victoria River (Northern Territory)
Victoria River (Northern Territory)
The Victoria River is a river in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory, Australia.
# Location and features.
Flowing for from its source, south of the Judbarra / Gregory National Park, until it enters Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in... | 31,003 |
3448492 | Victoria River (Northern Territory) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria%20River%20(Northern%20Territory) | Victoria River (Northern Territory)
river with two separating (at the Flora River tributary) European names. This great river was, until recently, deemed as two separate rivers due to the European naming conventions of the time. Its journey begins just south of Jabiru, high in the Arnhem Land escarpment as a trickle un... | 31,004 |
3448492 | Victoria River (Northern Territory) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria%20River%20(Northern%20Territory) | Victoria River (Northern Territory)
the river with forming suitable habitat for waterfowl breeding colonies and roosting sites for migratory shorebirds. Large areas of rice-grass floodplain grasslands are also found along the river.
Several large cattle stations are found along the length of the river including Rivere... | 31,005 |
3448492 | Victoria River (Northern Territory) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria%20River%20(Northern%20Territory) | Victoria River (Northern Territory)
rs later, in 1839, Captain J. C. Wickham arrived at the same spot in and named the river after Queen Victoria. Crew members of the Beagle followed the river upstream into the interior for more than .
In August 1855 Augustus Gregory sailed from Moreton Bay and at the end of September... | 31,006 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
Les Mystères du Nautilus
Les Mystères du Nautilus (French for ""The Mysteries of the Nautilus"") is a walkthrough attraction at Disneyland Paris in France. It is an updated version of the "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" walkthrough attraction that was at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in the early 1... | 31,007 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
The Ballasts Compartment: This is a dimly lit room, with an open safe at the center. Inside the safe is the treasure Captain Nemo has gathered from his many underwater explorations. Ned Land's guitar from the movie is visible among the coins.
- Captain Nemo's Room: This cabin, complete with a ... | 31,008 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
In the center of this small chamber is a trap door leading to the bottom of the ocean underneath. Diving suits stand along the wall.
- The Main Salon: This is the heart of the Nautilus. Books, artifacts, and numerous treasures of the sea are gathered here. The Captain's organ stands on the far... | 31,009 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
found here, along with the power unit on the opposite wall. The scene also showcases smoke effects.
# Special effects.
- The Giant Squid: In the Salon, guests can gaze at the sea when the window opens. Shortly after, the squid from the movie attacks. This squid is actually an animatronic in a... | 31,010 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
Trivia.
- Originally, a larger version of this walkthrough was intended, with more rooms and even an underwater restaurant. It was to be part of the never-built Discovery Mountain project, which was shelved when Disneyland Paris underwent financial troubles.
- Although guests may believe they... | 31,011 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
was awarded the name of "Admiral of the Nautilus" before the opening. Tim Delaney stated it was, for him, a dream come true.
- The squid attack was more developed in 1994. It began with the organ playing Johann Sebastian Bach'sToccata & Fugue in D Minor, and with Nemo's short speech about his ... | 31,012 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
but it would not unleash the submarine until zaps got stronger. Due to technical problems, this scene was shortened.
- The attraction is also present at Tokyo Disneysea. However it is merely the decorative exterior piece that is on display, lacking the interior counterpart seen at Disneyland P... | 31,013 |
3448579 | Les Mystères du Nautilus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les%20Mystères%20du%20Nautilus | Les Mystères du Nautilus
to technical problems, this scene was shortened.
- The attraction is also present at Tokyo Disneysea. However it is merely the decorative exterior piece that is on display, lacking the interior counterpart seen at Disneyland Paris.
# See also.
- Jules Verne
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under t... | 31,014 |
3448591 | Another Star in the Sky | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another%20Star%20in%20the%20Sky | Another Star in the Sky
Another Star in the Sky
Another Star in the Sky is an album released by David Arkenstone. It was released in 1994 on the Narada label. It was a groundbreaking album because up until this point, a lot of new age music didn't have lyrics or even vocals. David was able to create an album that succ... | 31,015 |
3448591 | Another Star in the Sky | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another%20Star%20in%20the%20Sky | Another Star in the Sky
the Wind" – 5:23
- 8. "Canyon of the Moon" – 5:47
- 9. "Naked in the Wind" – 5:20
- 10. "Ride into Midnight" – 6:47
- All songs composed and arranged by David Arkenstone except 4 & 9 arranged by David Arkenstone, Dan Chase and Eric Lindert
# Personnel.
- David Arkenstone – keyboards, piano... | 31,016 |
3448591 | Another Star in the Sky | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another%20Star%20in%20the%20Sky | Another Star in the Sky
:20
- 10. "Ride into Midnight" – 6:47
- All songs composed and arranged by David Arkenstone except 4 & 9 arranged by David Arkenstone, Dan Chase and Eric Lindert
# Personnel.
- David Arkenstone – keyboards, piano, acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass, bamboo flutes, percussion and al... | 31,017 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
Lucy Weston Pickett
Lucy Weston Pickett (January 19, 1904 – November 23, 1997) was a Mary Lyon Professor and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College.
Her research on X-ray crystallography and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy of organic molecules received numerous h... | 31,018 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
who also became a chemist. Both Lucy and Thomas led similar academic and professional lives, while still holding a close relationship.
# Education.
Lucy W. Pickett attended high school in Beverly and later entered Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1921 and graduated in 1925. ... | 31,019 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
Lucy earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois majoring in analytical chemistry with minors in both physical chemistry and physics. Her dissertation research explored the effects of X-rays on chemical reactions and the X-ray structures of organic compounds.
# Career.
Pickett taught at Illinoi... | 31,020 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
at Harvard.
As much as Lucy would have liked to have continued her work in X-ray crystallography, she returned to Mount Holyoke College to join in an active team of researchers, including Emma Perry Carr and Mary Sherrill, who were investigating molecular structures through spectroscopy. In 1939, P... | 31,021 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
of the benzenium ion.
Her colleagues and students created The Lucy Pickett Lectureship, a lectureship designed to bring outstanding speakers to the Mount Holyoke campus. The first speaker was Robert Mulliken, 1966 Chemistry Nobel laureate, with whom Pickett had published a paper in 1954. In the 197... | 31,022 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
Honorary D.Sc. from Ripon College in 1958
- Honorary D.Sc. from Mount Holyoke College in 1975
- Upon her retirement, colleagues, students, and friends honored Pickett's many contributions to Mount Holyoke by establishing a lectureship in her name. The chemistry department's Lucy W. Pickett annual ... | 31,023 |
3448533 | Lucy Weston Pickett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20Weston%20Pickett | Lucy Weston Pickett
leagues, students, and friends honored Pickett's many contributions to Mount Holyoke by establishing a lectureship in her name. The chemistry department's Lucy W. Pickett annual lecture series, which brings outstanding women scientist to campus, continues to this day.
- In 1975, awarded the honorar... | 31,024 |
3448559 | Nancy Kyes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Kyes | Nancy Kyes
Nancy Kyes
Nancy Louise Kyes (born December 19, 1949) is an American film and television actress. In most of her film appearances, she is credited under her stage name Nancy Loomis. She is best known for her role as Annie Brackett in "Halloween" (1978) and the sequel "Halloween II" (1981). She also played t... | 31,025 |
3448559 | Nancy Kyes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Kyes | Nancy Kyes
in "Halloween", she played Julie in the 1976 thriller "Assault on Precinct 13", also directed by Carpenter. In addition to acting, she served as this film's wardrobe mistress, but she used a different name for the film credits ("Louise Kyes" for the wardrobe mistress credit and "Nancy Loomis" for her acting ... | 31,026 |
3448559 | Nancy Kyes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Kyes | Nancy Kyes
"Halloween", and filmed a brief cameo appearance as the now-deceased Annie for "Halloween II". Kyes had a small role in "" (1982) as the ex-wife of the lead character, played by Tom Atkins. This made her the first person to appear in the first three "Halloween" films, although Jamie Lee Curtis did return for... | 31,027 |
3448559 | Nancy Kyes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy%20Kyes | Nancy Kyes
-wife of the lead character, played by Tom Atkins. This made her the first person to appear in the first three "Halloween" films, although Jamie Lee Curtis did return for a voice-only cameo as the voice of a telephone operator.
Although she has starred in a few TV movies, her only guest appearance on televi... | 31,028 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
Charismatic Episcopal Church
The Charismatic Episcopal Church, more officially known as the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (ICCEC), is an international Christian denomination established as an autocephalous communion in 1992. The ICCEC states that it is not a s... | 31,029 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
(Church of South India), Robert E. Webber (Anglican), Robert Jenson (Lutheran), and Thomas Oden (United Methodist); from the patristic fathers of the undivided Christian East and West; and from the doctrine and life of the early medieval priest-monks and bishops of Ireland, Scotland, Englan... | 31,030 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
succession via Timothy Michael Barker, the leader of the International Free Catholic Communion and the Rebiban line via the schismatic Roman Catholic bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, who founded the Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil.
The Charismatic Episcopal Church believes orthodox... | 31,031 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
the American Book of Common Prayer (1979). A new sacramentary, now in broad trial use, contains modified Roman, Anglican, and Eastern rites.
Pentecostal scholar H. Vinson Synan reports that the ICCEC is the first church emerging from the Pentecostal-Charismatic revivals of the last century... | 31,032 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
Howard, Robert E. Webber, Peter E. Gillquist and the ancient Christian writers and their communities. These men, along with theologians, scripture scholars, and pastors in a number of traditions, were calling Christians back to their roots in the primitive church.
On June 26, 1992, Randolp... | 31,033 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
Theosophy, non-traditional sexual ethics, and the ordination of women to the priesthood, all of which are contrary to ICCEC beliefs. In 1996, Adler was named the communion's first patriarch. In 1997, the ICCEC sought and acquired consecration and ordination of all of its clergy by the Brazi... | 31,034 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
to provide a home for all Christians who seek a liturgical-sacramental, evangelical, charismatic church and a foundation for their lives and gifts of ministry."
# Government.
In an attempt to reconstruct the ecclesiastical government of the undivided Christian church, the ICCEC operates u... | 31,035 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
of the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the undivided church, apostolic succession, the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the authority of scripture, and the validity of the charismatic revival as a genuine movement of God.
The ICCEC accepts a 66 book Old and New Testament as the Word ... | 31,036 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
as a starting point. The council's stated goal is that the new catechism will reflect the fullness of the ancient catholic and orthodox faith, and the Reformation, as it is expressed in the world today.
## San Clemente Declaration.
In 1999 the ICCEC issued The San Clemente Declaration, a ... | 31,037 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
the American version of the Book of Common Prayer (1979). A provisional sacramentary drafted by the Worship & Music Committee of the Northeast [US] Diocese, which includes Roman, Anglican and Eastern rites, is in wide trial use. Some parishes use other worship rites, such as the 1928 Book o... | 31,038 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
as prophetic messages, anointing and prayers for healing, and other charismatic gifts are active.
# Military ministry.
The ICCEC has US chaplains ministering to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, and US Coast Guard. There are also US reserve chaplains, US state guard cha... | 31,039 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
have ministered the Gospel and the sacraments to thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coast guardsmen serving in war zones. It is not uncommon for an ICCEC military priest to celebrate the Eucharist, preach, and minister the sacraments hundreds of times during a typical warti... | 31,040 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
since the late-1990s. The greatest growth has been in Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Brazil, where that nation's largest Anglican congregation joined the ICCEC in 2002. When the ICCEC admitted this Anglican congregation, however, they did so without the consent of the Brazili... | 31,041 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
aforementioned nations. In all, the ICCEC has established over 1,700 congregations outside of the United States.
In the United States, the ICCEC experienced rapid growth for the first ten years of its existence. However, the US growth rate plateaued in the present decade. In 2006 the US ch... | 31,042 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
the Patriarch's Council. In September 2006, the council issued a statement of its findings, which was then followed by several more US departures. Some of the departing clergy and congregations found new homes within the Antiochian Orthodox Church as Western-Rite clergy and parishes, some b... | 31,043 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
ICCEC. Archbishop Hines of the Philippines, as senior bishop on the patriarch's council, was appointed as acting patriarch (supervising bishop) for the ICCEC until a formal election could be held.
On January 9, 2008, Archbishop Hines announced that the patriarch's council, in accordance wi... | 31,044 |
3448472 | Charismatic Episcopal Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charismatic%20Episcopal%20Church | Charismatic Episcopal Church
e patriarch's council, was appointed as acting patriarch (supervising bishop) for the ICCEC until a formal election could be held.
On January 9, 2008, Archbishop Hines announced that the patriarch's council, in accordance with the canons, had elected Craig W. Bates as the ICCEC's new patri... | 31,045 |
3448575 | John Gardiner Austin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Gardiner%20Austin | John Gardiner Austin
John Gardiner Austin
John Gardiner Austin, CMG (; 7 August 1812 – 25 July 1900) was a British colonial administrator. He was Lieutenant-Governor of British Honduras 1864–1867, and Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1868 to 1879, acting as Administrator (acting Governor) of the colony in 1877.
#... | 31,046 |
3448575 | John Gardiner Austin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Gardiner%20Austin | John Gardiner Austin
(CMG) in March 1876, for his services in Hong Kong.
# Family.
Austin married, in 1836, Emma Wilday (1 February 1811 – 9 May 1879), and was the father of six sons and four daughters, including:
- Charles Wilday Austin (19 January 1837 – 1 December 1862)
- John Gardiner Austin (19 July 1838 – 8 M... | 31,047 |
3448575 | John Gardiner Austin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Gardiner%20Austin | John Gardiner Austin
, who in September 1901 was appointed a Member of the Barbados Legislative council. Sir Harold Austin was his son.
- Mehetabel Percy Austin (29 February 1840 – 27 December 1943), who married in 1862 (1826–1899), a member of the Swedish parliament of Scottish origin. She was one of few people born ... | 31,048 |
3448583 | Jovo Ivanišević | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jovo%20Ivanišević | Jovo Ivanišević
Jovo Ivanišević
Jovan Đurov Ivanišević (1861-1889) was a Montenegrin composer from Donji Kraj near Cetinje, Montenegro. While young he showed exquisite talent for music, and is most famous for composing the contemporary anthem of Principality of Montenegro and Kingdom of Montenegro, Ubavoj nam Crnoj Go... | 31,049 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Jerry Voorhis
Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County. He was the first politi... | 31,050 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
from Claremont Graduate School. In 1928, he founded the Voorhis School for Boys and became its headmaster. He retained the post into his congressional career.
In the House of Representatives, Voorhis was a loyal supporter of the New Deal and compiled a liberal voting record. His major legislative achieve... | 31,051 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
refused to run against Nixon in 1948.
During a writing career spanning a half-century, Voorhis penned several books. Following his defeat by Nixon, he retired from politics and worked for almost twenty years as an executive in the cooperative movement. He died in a California retirement home in 1984 at t... | 31,052 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
forced, halfway through, to give his son the only two dollars he could spare and advise him to get a job. Charles Voorhis took work in an investment company and as a semi-professional baseball player and rose to become an executive of the Kingman Plow Company. When that company dissolved, Charles Voorhis ... | 31,053 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
University, and subsequently attended Yale, graduating in 1923. Voorhis was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was president of the Christian Association, and was greatly influenced by the Social Gospel movement.
Voorhis resisted all encouragement toward a business or management career, much to his f... | 31,054 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
the college walls". However, once he graduated, Voorhis engaged a room at a boarding house and went to work as a receiving clerk, a job he soon exchanged for one as a freight handler. Later in 1923, he was laid off. In 1923 and 1924, he served as a traveling representative for the YMCA in Germany, though ... | 31,055 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
he met a social worker named Alice Louise Livingston and married her on November 27, 1924, in her hometown of Washington, Iowa. Resuming his blue-collar career after his marriage, Voorhis moved to North Carolina with his wife and went to work in a Ford plant in Charlotte until being offered work as a teac... | 31,056 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Pasadena, California. Jerry Voorhis responded by moving to California. In 1928, he founded and became headmaster of the Voorhis School for Boys in San Dimas, California, a post he retained after his election to Congress. In addition to academic tutelage, the Voorhis School's boys received training in farm... | 31,057 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Pomona. Voorhis remained in close touch with his school's alumni.
Voorhis also involved himself in the local community. He organized cooperatives among the local ranchers and farmers. When strikes occurred, he would walk the picket lines with the workers. Voorhis gave lectures at Pomona College from 1930... | 31,058 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Socialist to Democrat, but was defeated by popular incumbent Herbert Evans despite receiving the backing of writer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair. Two years later, he challenged incumbent John Hoeppel for the 12th district Democratic nomination. Hoeppel was weakened by a recent conv... | 31,059 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
initiatives, including Franklin Roosevelt's controversial court packing plan.
In January 1937, Voorhis's first legislative initiative was to propose a dramatic increase in spending for the Works Progress Administration in order to increase employment. While this effort was unsuccessful, Congress, faced w... | 31,060 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
by the member banks, as a way of financing government expenditures and briefly got President Roosevelt to support the measure until the President's advisers caused Roosevelt to change his mind. Voorhis later allied with future House Banking Committee chairman Wright Patman to force Federal Reserve Banks t... | 31,061 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
to other nations for war preparations would keep the United States out of war. In September 1939, when interviewed by "The New York Times" for his reaction to the President calling Congress into special session to consider amendments to the Neutrality Act, Voorhis stated that a special session should quic... | 31,062 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
the evacuations be done in as voluntary a manner as possible and that officials be appointed to administer their property to avoid forced sales at bargain prices. During the war, Voorhis advocated more efficiently taxing higher incomes and war profits, planning against postwar unemployment, and planning f... | 31,063 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
in the vast Elk Hills naval reserve in central California, then thought to be the richest oil reserve outside the Arabian Peninsula. The congressman in a speech from the House floor in May 1943 exposed the deal, which was soon cancelled. The "Washington Post" hailed him as a hero, and House Naval Affairs ... | 31,064 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
of the bill on Voorhis. Nixon biographer Roger Morris suggested that these stands led oil companies to give Nixon substantial, but surreptitious, financial assistance during the 1946 campaign against Voorhis.
## Record and campaigns.
Voorhis "temperamentally and philosophically loathed" Communism. He sp... | 31,065 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
for leftist lambs".
Voorhis was generally highly regarded by his colleagues and others in Washington. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois considered Voorhis "a political saint", and said of Voorhis that "[d]riven by conscience, he had a compulsion to master every subject that came before the House, and havi... | 31,066 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
However, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes described Voorhis's 1943 resignation from HUAC as the representative being "[w]obbly as usual".
Voorhis's 12th district leaned Republican, the more so after Voorhis survived an attempt, in 1941, to gerrymander him out of office by removing strong Democratic precin... | 31,067 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
crowd at a joint appearance. In 1940, he faced a military school principal, and his 1942 opponent, radio preacher and former Prohibition Party gubernatorial candidate Robert P. Shuler, "even embarrassed GOP regulars". In 1944, the 12th district Republicans were bitterly divided, and Voorhis easily triumph... | 31,068 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
a thank you letter for the pamphlet.
Aside from the act named for him, Voorhis succeeded in enacting few new laws, a fact Nixon used against him in 1946 when he argued that Voorhis's legislation had only "transferred jurisdiction over the raising of rabbits from one government department to another". "Th... | 31,069 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
are being directed toward building up a positive, progressive group of speeches that tell what we want to do, not what the Democrats have failed to do ... I'm really hopped up over this deal, and I believe we can win." However, "wheelhorse" Republicans deemed Nixon's campaign hopeless.
As was usual in Ca... | 31,070 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
pointed out that Voorhis's total percentage of the vote had decreased from 60% in 1944 to 53.5%.
Voorhis had the advantage of incumbency, but this was balanced by other factors favoring Nixon. Due to the press of Congressional business, Voorhis was able to devote only two months to the campaign, while Ni... | 31,071 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), its Communist principles, and its gigantic slush fund." The Nixon campaign distributed 25,000 thimbles labeled "Nixon for Congress/Put the needle in the P.A.C."
Voorhis's supposed involvement with and endorsement by the CIO's P.A.C., which was believed... | 31,072 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Committee that contained an endorsement of Voorhis. This was a different group, also affiliated with the CIO. While Voorhis's staff was aware of this endorsement, no one had told the representative. Voorhis, confronted with the bulletin, noted that these were two different groups. Nixon responded by readi... | 31,073 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
defeated Voorhis by over 15,000 votes and "Time" magazine praised the future president for "politely avoid[ing] personal attacks on his opponent".
The day after the election, Voorhis issued a concession statement, "I have given the best years of my life to serving this district in Congress. By the will o... | 31,074 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
cited as the start of a number of red-baiting campaigns by the future president that later elevated him to the Senate and the Vice-Presidency and eventually put him in position to run for president. Voorhis later deemed himself "the first victim of the Nixon-Chotiner formula for political success." In 195... | 31,075 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
as friends. Voorhis's final letter as a congressman, on December 31, was to his father, who had been his political adviser throughout his congressional career, "It has been primarily due to your help, your confidence, your advice ... above all to a feeling I have always had that your hand was on my should... | 31,076 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
consumer and producer cooperatives, had fallen on hard times in the postwar period. Under his leadership, the League's financial position gradually improved and some major cooperatives that had remained aloof from the League were persuaded to join. The League expanded its purview, founding the Group Healt... | 31,077 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
and ensuring his re-election.
In 1954, the former congressman led the U.S. delegation to the International Cooperative Alliance congress in Paris, successfully opposing Soviet plans to give greater representation to Eastern European countries, which was seen as a means of eventual communist control of th... | 31,078 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Stanley Dreyer, Voorhis's eventual successor as executive director, was put in charge of these international operations. In January 1967, Voorhis retired from the League.
Five days after Nixon's defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Voorhis appeared on TV as a Nixon detractor, with Murray... | 31,079 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
from underwriting the program, and "News and Comment" left the air in the spring of 1963.
Having spent 23 years in Winnetka, Voorhis moved back with his wife to the old 12th district to an apartment in Claremont. After almost a quarter century of silence on his defeat by Nixon, he wrote "The Strange Case... | 31,080 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
to criticize the man who beat me, but I just wouldn't be human if I said I liked spending the second half of my life as 'the man who Nixon beat'". After Nixon resigned as President, Voorhis, noted, "Here is the philosophy of doing-anything-to-win receiving its just and proper reward." Voorhis, believing h... | 31,081 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
Commission on Aging (appointed by Governor Jerry Brown) to working as a teacher's aide to Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy. Voorhis died at the retirement home from emphysema on September 11, 1984. In addition to his widow, he left two sons and a daughter. Fellow Nixon opponent and former Cali... | 31,082 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
and has named a park and an ecological reserve for him.
# See also.
- List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee
# Bibliography.
- "The Education of the Institution Boy" (M.A. thesis) 1928
- "The Story of Voorhis School for Boys". 1932
- "The Morale of Democracy". 1941
- "Out of ... | 31,083 |
3448446 | Jerry Voorhis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry%20Voorhis | Jerry Voorhis
hesis) 1928
- "The Story of Voorhis School for Boys". 1932
- "The Morale of Democracy". 1941
- "Out of Debt, Out of Danger. Proposals for War Finance and Tomorrow's Money". 1943
- "Beyond Victory". 1944
- "Confessions of a Congressman", 1947
- "The Christian in Politics". 1951
- "American Cooperati... | 31,084 |
3448605 | Radio Kaos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio%20Kaos | Radio Kaos
Radio Kaos
Radio Kaos is a multinational member rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992. The band currently features Claudio Pérez (lead Vocals and lyrics/music composer ) and David Pérez (back vocals and Guitar). The release of their first album "Botas Negras" (1995) under EMI Capitol was a success in Mexi... | 31,085 |
3448598 | Roy Brocksmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy%20Brocksmith | Roy Brocksmith
Roy Brocksmith
Roy Brocksmith (September 15, 1945 – December 16, 2001) was an American actor.
# Life and career.
Brocksmith was born in Quincy, Illinois, the son of Vera Marguerite ("née" Hartwig) and Otis E. Brocksmith, who was a mechanic. He graduated from Quincy University in 1970. He then moved to... | 31,086 |
3448598 | Roy Brocksmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy%20Brocksmith | Roy Brocksmith
a police sergeant possessed by Bill in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", principal Michael Oslo in "Picket Fences" and jovial mortician Irv Kendall in "Arachnophobia".
He died in 2001, aged 56, from complications of diabetes.
# Filmography.
- "Psycho (1998)"
- "Kull the Conqueror"
- "The Road to Wellvil... | 31,087 |
3448598 | Roy Brocksmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy%20Brocksmith | Roy Brocksmith
"King of the Gypsies"
- "The Squeeze"
# Television and guest roles.
- "3-2-1 Contact": Several episodes in "The Bloodhound Gang" segments, including "The Case of the Veiled Thief" and "The Case of the Secret Message"
- "A Walton Wedding"
- "Ally McBeal"
- "Babylon 5"
- "Coach"
- "Eerie, Indiana":... | 31,088 |
3448598 | Roy Brocksmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy%20Brocksmith | Roy Brocksmith
queeze"
# Television and guest roles.
- "3-2-1 Contact": Several episodes in "The Bloodhound Gang" segments, including "The Case of the Veiled Thief" and "The Case of the Secret Message"
- "A Walton Wedding"
- "Ally McBeal"
- "Babylon 5"
- "Coach"
- "Eerie, Indiana": "Just say no to fun"
- "Fathe... | 31,089 |
3448604 | Brian Andrews (actor) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian%20Andrews%20(actor) | Brian Andrews (actor)
Brian Andrews (actor)
Brian Andrews is an American actor who has appeared in movies and on television. He is best known for his role as Tommy Doyle in the classic John Carpenter horror movie "Halloween". He has also appeared in the films "The Great Santini", "Three O'Clock High" and "The Long Day... | 31,090 |
3448603 | Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgan%20Williams%20(Canadian%20rugby%20player) | Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player)
Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player)
Morgan Andrew Williams (born April 17, 1976 in Kingston, Ontario) is a rugby union scrum half.
A Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia native, Williams debuted on the world rugby scene at age 23 when he scored two tries for Canada against France duri... | 31,091 |
3448603 | Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgan%20Williams%20(Canadian%20rugby%20player) | Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player)
game in Twickenham.
Williams has scored 12 tries and 1 drop-goal for Canada in 58 caps. He has participated in three world cups (1999, 2003, and 2007). He has also played a number of times for Canada in rugby sevens, most notably at the 2001 & 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens and 200... | 31,092 |
3448603 | Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgan%20Williams%20(Canadian%20rugby%20player) | Morgan Williams (Canadian rugby player)
gby sevens team in 2009 where he led the team to a top 8 world ranking. Williams also coached Canada Men's 7s to a 3rd-place finish in the Work Games in Cali, Colombia.
In 2012 Williams joined Women's Sevens head coach John Tait as the skills coach for the Women's National Seven... | 31,093 |
3448628 | Independence, West Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Independence,%20West%20Virginia | Independence, West Virginia
Independence, West Virginia
Independence is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
- Independence, Barbour County, West Virginia
- Independence, Clay County, West Virginia
- Independence, Jackson County, West Virginia
- Independence, Preston C... | 31,094 |
3448617 | Frans Tengnagel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frans%20Tengnagel | Frans Tengnagel
Frans Tengnagel
Frans Gansneb genaamd Tengnagel van de Camp (1576 in Neede – 1 December 1622 in Vienna) was a Dutch nobleman.
He belonged to the nobel "Gansneb" family from Gelderland, later called ("genaamd") Tengnagel. This family had as their residence from 1553 to 1742 an estate called "De Camp" n... | 31,095 |
3448617 | Frans Tengnagel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frans%20Tengnagel | Frans Tengnagel
He belonged to the nobel "Gansneb" family from Gelderland, later called ("genaamd") Tengnagel. This family had as their residence from 1553 to 1742 an estate called "De Camp" near Neede, explaining the third part of Tengnagel's name. Part of his youth he spent with his maternal grandfather at Bocholt, s... | 31,096 |
3448620 | Donald Gallaher | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Gallaher | Donald Gallaher
Donald Gallaher
Donald Gallaher (June 25, 1895 – August 14, 1961) was an American actor who appeared in 25 films between 1903 and 1949. He also directed five films, including "Temple Tower" (1930). His name is sometimes misspelled "Gallagher".
Gallaher was born in Quincy, Illinois. After moving to New... | 31,097 |
3448620 | Donald Gallaher | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Gallaher | Donald Gallaher
in Lee De Forest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Later in life, he produced Broadway plays and directed films, including "Temple Tower" (1930), "June First" (1931), and "The Hot Spot" (1931).
In 1949, using the name Don Gallagher, he served as narrator of the "ABC Television Players", a short-lived... | 31,098 |
3448620 | Donald Gallaher | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Gallaher | Donald Gallaher
"Temple Tower" (1930), "June First" (1931), and "The Hot Spot" (1931).
In 1949, using the name Don Gallagher, he served as narrator of the "ABC Television Players", a short-lived dramatic anthology series broadcast from Chicago.
On April 13, 1917, Gallaher married actress Beatrice Noyes. They had a so... | 31,099 |
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