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and the spree of kidnappings for ransom of members of the local upper and middle class. The organisation's leader is currently being prosecuted with conspiracy to murder several of the group's former members who had spoken out publicly against the Jamaat al Muslimeen and its practices, and who were suspected of becoming witnesses in legal proceedings against its members. In 2005, The group was suspected of being linked to a series of bombings in Port-of-Spain and also for a group member arrested in the United States for attempting to ship 70 assault rifles from Fort Lauderdale to Trinidad. As of March 2007,
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three members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen have confessed to their role in the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a businesswoman, Vindra Naipaul-Coolman. Currently, these men are under surveillance by the local National Security Agency as well as the United States Central Intelligence Agency for suspected terrorist relations with the Middle East, as are two other Muslim factions. On 24 July 2015, they escaped and commenced in a shootout in the Country's capital Port of Spain and the Port of Spain General Hospital which put the capital on a lock down and caused the twin islands to be on
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high alert. One escapee was killed by the police during a later shoot-out at the Port of Spain general hospital. Abu Bakr was investigated in 2007 when the reports of an attempted bombing attempt at John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport linked JAM to one of the perpetrators, a Trinidadian national. The suspects reportedly asked Abu Bakr for assistance in carrying out this plot. Abu Bakr and JAM deny any connection to participating in the plot. In 2014, eleven JAM members allegedly participated in the assassination of Dana Seetahal, an independent senator. During the trial a Special Branch intelligence memo featuring an
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unconfirmed report was leaked to social media. The report indicated that law enforcement feared violence from JAM amid reports the group may have been moving arms in preparation for an attack on police stations. No attack materialised however. On 14 July 2015, JAM members launched an armed jailbreak of the suspected assassins in the Seetahal case. During a shoot out one police officer and one JAM member were killed. JAM and Abu Bakr’s influence has waned somewhat when the rise of ISIS has become known in the region. 89 Trinidadian and Tobagonians’ have already pledged allegiance to the group and a group
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of Salafists attempted to assassinate the prime minister.
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James A. McDougall
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James A. McDougall Early life James Alexander McDougall was born on November 19, 1817 in Bethlehem, New York and educated in the Albany grammar schools, where he excelled in mathematics and civil engineering. While still a young man, McDougall assisted the survey of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, later known as the Albany and Schenectady, one of the first railroads in the nation. McDougall began the study of law in Albany before moving westward, settled in Pike County, Illinois in 1838, married the daughter of a leading Jacksonville attorney, and joined the Democratic Party. He completed his study and began
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practicing law in Cook County, where McDougall soon made the acquaintance of another rising Chicago lawyer, Stephen A. Douglas. Illinois In January 1843 the 25-year-old McDougall was elected Illinois Attorney General; he was re-elected in 1844. "Small in stature, he had uncommon strength of constitution, as well as of mind. He was a brilliant speaker, skillfully wielding the weapons of repartee, humor, and sarcasm, and made himself one of the most noted speakers of the West." During his tenure in the state capitol, Springfield, Illinois, rising tensions in Nauvoo, Illinois gave way to violence when on June 27, 1844, the
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founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, Joseph Smith was killed by a mob after surrendering to the custody and protection of the state. McDougall was involved in the negotiations by which the Mormons agreed to leave Illinois. Following his two terms as state attorney general, McDougall returned to private practice in Chicago, establishing a law partnership with Ebenezer Peck. While traveling the circuit and serving as attorney general in Illinois, McDougall became friendly with many fellow lawyers, including Douglas, Edward D. Baker and Abraham Lincoln. By 1849, McDougall had been twelve years in the Prairie State of Illinois, and
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James A. McDougall
Illinois & California
had made himself "one of the most popular men of his state," but like many of his age was still looking westward. McDougall organized and accompanied an exploration of the Rio del Norte, Gila and Colorado Rivers reaching the headwaters of the Rio Grande in what would soon become southwestern Colorado Territory. Hearing news of the California Gold Rush, McDougall returned to Illinois, gathered up his family and possessions, and took the new steamship California to San Francisco. California Resuming his law practice, McDougall was elected California Attorney General in October 1850 but resigned after a year to accept a
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James A. McDougall
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seat in the state legislature. In 1852 McDougall successfully ran for Congress as a Democrat, pledging to get federal support for a railroad to the Pacific. He did introduce a Pacific Railroad bill, but it was opposed by Thomas Hart Benton. McDougall served a single term in the House before returning to law practice in San Francisco. The Democrats in California split into factions, and election of a California Senator in 1860 became entangled in the national crisis over secession. When it appeared that a secessionist Democrat might be elected, Republicans abandoned their own candidate and threw their support to McDougall.
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James A. McDougall
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Washington, D.C. While serving in the U.S. Senate during the Civil War, McDougall again worked on behalf of a Pacific railroad project, but alcohol abuse made him ineffective. By 1862, McDougall was making a spectacle of himself and neglecting his Senate duties. He fought against some of Lincoln's war measures, but he was mostly dysfunctional. Not once did he travel back to California during his entire six-year term. Later life Upon leaving office, McDougall retired to his boyhood home in Albany, New York, where he died on September 3, 1867, presumably of alcoholism. His body was
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James A. McDougall
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sent to California, per his wishes, and buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery in San Francisco, later renamed Calvary; his remains were reinterred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California in 1942.
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James B. Sanderlin
James B. Sanderlin James Bernard Sanderlin (January 2, 1929 – April 22, 1990) was a lawyer who, during the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, used litigation to fight for equality and against discrimination in Pinellas County, Florida. During this time Sanderlin was one of only five African American attorneys who practiced in racially divided St. Petersburg, Florida. Sanderlin devoted his career to unifying blacks and whites in his community in an effort to move toward social and legal equality. While living in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 1950s, Sanderlin felt compelled to move to the South to try
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to make a difference for minorities there. All of his life he had lived peacefully alongside whites, so it was not hard for him to envision an American society where the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision was implemented and equality was practiced and not just talked about. As an attorney, he argued cases for school desegregation, against employment and housing discrimination, and other related civil rights cases. In 1972, Sanderlin became the first black judge of Pinellas County. By 1976, his skill and reputation afforded him a seat on the circuit-level court where he presided for over ten
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James B. Sanderlin
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years. In 1985, then Governor Bob Graham appointed him to the Florida District Court of Appeals. He served on the court for two years, until he was forced to step down from the bench after developing Pick’s disease, a rare neurodegenerative disorder related to Alzheimer's disease. Three years after he stepped down from the bench, Sanderlin died from natural causes at the age of 61. Through his diligent work during the Civil Rights Movement, Sanderlin convinced many people that "important differences can be resolved through reasonable argument and law". Early life James B. Sanderlin was born in Petersburg, Virginia.
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He was the son of a Baptist minister, Willis Elijah Sanderlin, and a school teacher, Lillie Sanderlin. He had two older brothers, Willis, Jr., and Raymond. From the age of five, he was convinced of his desire to become an attorney. He had a relatively privileged childhood compared to other black children in the 1930s, growing up with two educated parents in a middle class integrated neighborhood, where they played freely with white children. The Sanderlin children attended a private all-black school but still interacted frequently with whites. James Sanderlin was influenced greatly by his parents. He was told stories about
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the importance of historical black figures like Fredrick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sojourner Truth. His parents instilled in him Christian values, the importance of making a positive contribution to society, and to strive to achieve whatever goals he set for himself. As James and his brothers grew older their neighbors became less friendly, and their frequent interactions dwindled. The Southern custom at that time was for white parents to permit their children to play and interact with black children until the children reached puberty. When his older brothers reached the ages of 15 and 12, Sanderlin's family
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James B. Sanderlin
Early life & Education
moved from Virginia to Washington, D.C. Education In 1950, James graduated from Howard University, the nation’s preeminent black college. Taking a hiatus from schooling, he worked at jobs ranging from helicopter repairs to working at the fish market owned by his brother Willis (Sandy) who opened it after earning his MBA from Howard U. James then went back to school and received a master’s degree in political science in 1957. While in graduate school, as he continued to work to pay for his tuition, he experienced first-hand the inequality between blacks and whites, both socially and financially. These experiences
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James B. Sanderlin
Education & Career
fueled his desire to attend law school and ultimately fight to make a difference. He went on to Boston University School of Law in 1958 where he enrolled under an enrollment quota and later graduated. He began to work with attorney Fred G. Minnis in 1963. Minnis was also an alumnus of Howard University, and recruited Sanderlin while traveling around some of the nation’s best colleges in pursuit of talented black law school graduates. Sanderlin clerked for Minnis until he was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1963, and began to be actively involved in the local civil rights movement. Career
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After a short time, Sanderlin left Minnis and Williams, P.A., and formed his own law practice with attorneys Frank White and Frank Peterman, known as White, Peterman and Sanderlin, P.A, located on 22nd Street South in St. Petersburg, Florida. At first the firm struggled, as most people around this time overlooked black attorneys and favored more established firms downtown. Sanderlin's first priority was desegregating Pinellas County Schools. Surprisingly, some of his most vocal opposition came from members of the black community, many of whom wanted to maintain Gibbs High School as an all-black school. Sanderlin received threats to boycott his office
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and even threats against his life. However, Sanderlin persevered and over the next ten years, with the help of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he went on to desegregate the schools in Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Sarasota counties. His arguments often focused on the inequalities that were apparent between white and black schools. His legal tactics were nearly identical to the strategies used by the NAACP. After the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Florida created legal measures to prevent integration. Governor LeRoy Collins started the Fabinski Committee to devise a strategic plan to avoid integration in Florida’s
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schools. The Pinellas County School Board also at that time engaged in strategic maneuvers to give the impression of integration instead of fully integrating. Sanderlin argued that the Pinellas County School board failed to integrate with "all deliberate speed", as the Brown v. Board of Education ruling stipulated. On January 15, 1965, District Court Judge Lieb ordered the Pinellas County School Board to come up with a desegregation plan that eliminated dual attendance zones and reassigned pupils, faculty and other personnel on a non-racial basis. In 1968 Sanderlin represented more than 200 city sanitation workers who were on strike for better
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working conditions. The city fired the workers, and they came to Sanderlin for help. On August 30, 1968, he not only got 86 of the 211 workers back their jobs, but also got the workers the better working conditions that they asked for. The workers who did not receive their jobs returned to their jobs later, or received other forms of employment during the strike. This case represented a dramatic shift in labor relations between the city and its workers. The case served to voice the concerns of ignored blacks and poor people during this time and unified many within
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James B. Sanderlin
Career & Legacy
the city. Legacy James B. Sanderlin became Pinellas County’s first black judge on September 12, 1972. After three years as a county judge, he ran and was elected as the first black judge to serve on the Circuit Court of Pinellas and Pasco Counties in 1976. Ten years later, on January 2, 1986, he was appointed judge on the Florida District Court of Appeals, the first black judge to hold that position. He was generally regarded as personable, warm and outgoing. While on the bench as a judge he often voiced his concerns for issues within the black community. He
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James B. Sanderlin
Legacy
was honored with the opening of James Sanderlin Elementary, located at 2350 22nd Ave South, St. Petersburg, Florida. He was also inducted into the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame in April 2013, where his brother Raymond Sanderlin and his niece Paula Sanderlin Dorosti received a standing ovation from the Florida House of Representatives in honor of his brother and her uncle’s work.
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James Butterfield
James Butterfield James "Jim" Butterfield (born 1 September 1950 in Hamilton, Bermuda) was a rower for Bermuda at the 1972 Olympics. As of 2015, is the only person to ever represent Bermuda in rowing at the Olympics. He also represented Bermuda in the marathon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, finishing 17th. His son Tyler Butterfield was a two-time Olympic triathlete for Bermuda while James himself finished 7th at the 1981 Ironman World Championship. He previously attended Northeastern University.
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James Carmichael Smyth (physician)
Life
James Carmichael Smyth (physician) Life He was born in Fife, Scotland, as James Carmichael, the only son of Margaret Smyth of Athenry and Thomas Carmichael of Balmedie. He later added his mother's surname to his own and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1764. Appointed physician to the Middlesex Hospital in 1768, he discovered a method for the prevention of contagion in cases of fever using nitrous acid gas, and wrote several treatises on this subject and on other medical matters. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1779,
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and was voted the sum of £5000 by Parliament in 1802 for his work. He was one of the physicians to King George III, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. The results (published in 1796) of an experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed were given in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, by James Carmichael Smyth, M. D. F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal
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College of Physicians, and Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty, published with the approbation of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty. His eldest son, James, initially an officer in the Royal Engineers and later Governor of the Bahamas and British Guiana, was created a baronet in 1821. A younger son, Henry, was stepfather to William Makepeace Thackeray.
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James Chowning Davies
James Chowning Davies James Chowning Davies (May 6, 1918 – March 30, 2012) was an American sociologist and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Oregon. Davies is perhaps best known for his so-called "J curve" theory of political revolutions, which seeks to explain the rise of revolutionary movements in terms of rising individual expectations and falling levels of perceived well-being. Davies asserts that revolutions are a subjective response to a sudden reversal in fortunes after a long period of economic growth. The theory is often applied to explain social unrest and efforts by governments to contain this unrest.
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This is referred to as the Davies' J-Curve, because economic development followed by a depression would be modeled as an upside down and slightly skewed J. Quote "Revolutions are most likely to occur when a prolonged period of objective economic and social development is followed by a short period of sharp reversal. People then subjectively fear that ground gained with great effort will be quite lost; their mood becomes revolutionary. The evidence from the Dorr Rebellion, the Russian Revolution, and the Egyptian Revolution supports this notion; tentatively, so do data on other civil disturbances. Various statistics—as on rural uprisings, industrial
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strikes, unemployment, and cost of living—may serve as crude indexes of popular mood. More useful, though less easy to obtain, are direct questions in cross-sectional interviews. The goal of predicting revolution is conceived but not yet born or matured." (From J. C. Davies: "Toward a theory of revolution") American Sociological Review 27(1962):5-19, also available via JSTOR.
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James D. Standish
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James D. Standish Early life and career Born in Australia, Standish has travelled widely and has lived in the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the US. He holds both Australian and US citizenships. James' first job was in fifth grade, selling newspapers to motorists at the six-lane intersection of Whitehorse Rd and the Maroonda Highway in Melbourne. At 15, he graduated to teaching English to Laotian refugees in eastern Thailand. He previously served as the Adventist Church's representative to the US Government in Washington DC, and the United Nations in New York and Geneva. From 2001-2008 and then 2009-2011, he was Director
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of Legislative Affairs for the Seventh-day Adventist Church World Headquarters. From 2008-2009, he was also executive director for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. During this time, he was presented twice at the White House and met President Obama and Vice President Biden. Standish has also met many other world leaders on behalf of the Adventist Church, including President Bush, Senators McCain, Kerry and Clinton, the Governor General of Papua New Guinea, Members of both the British House of Lords and House of Commons and the Prime Minister of Australia. He has a Juris Doctor degree with honors from
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Early life and career & Education
Georgetown University (Washington, DC), an MBA from the University of Virginia, and a BBA from Newbold College, England. Education Standish earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Georgetown University where he was president of the Georgetown University Church-State Law Forum and an editor of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy. He earned his MBA at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia where he was news editor of the Darden News. He also holds a BBA from Newbold College, England, where he was editor of the college newspaper and then served as president of the student
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Education & Personal life & Publications
association. Personal life James is married and has two daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys scuba diving, tennis, playing the guitar, composing songs, writing and recreational reading. Publications From 2009-2010, Standish wrote a column on the Newsweek/Washington Post's 'On Faith' site. He has authored numerous articles and reports, including scholarly articles for professional journals such as the American Bar Association's journal and the National Law Journal. Standish has also written several articles for Liberty magazine. As editor of RECORD, the official news magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he wrote regular editorials and features.
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James Eells
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James Eells James Eells (October 25, 1926, Cleveland, Ohio – February 14, 2007, Cambridge, UK) was an American mathematician, who specialized in mathematical analysis. Biography Eells studied mathematics at Bowdoin College in Maine and earned his undergraduate degree in 1947. After graduation he spent one year teaching mathematics at Robert College in Istanbul and starting in 1948 was for two years an instructor at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Next he undertook graduate study at Harvard University, where in 1954 he received his Ph.D under Hassler Whitney with thesis Geometric Aspects of Integration Theory. In the academic year 1955–1956 he was
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at the Institute for Advanced Study (and subsequently in 1962–1963, 1972–1973 and 1977). He taught at Columbia University for several years. In 1964 he became a full professor at Cornell University. In 1963 and in 1966–1967 he was at the University of Cambridge, and after a visit to the new mathematics department developed by Erik Christopher Zeeman at the University of Warwick Eells became a professor of mathematical analysis there in 1969. Eells organized many of the University of Warwick Symposia in mathematics. In 1986 he became the first director of the mathematics section of the Abdus Salam International Centre for
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James Eells
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Theoretical Physics in Trieste; for six years he served as director in addition to his appointment at the University of Warwick. In 1992 he retired and lived in Cambridge. Eells did research on global analysis, especially, harmonic maps on Riemannian manifolds, which are important in the theory of minimal surfaces and theoretical physics. His doctoral students included John C. Wood. In 1970 he was an invited speaker at the International Mathematical Congress in Nice (On Fredholm manifolds with K. D. Elworthy). He was co-editor of the collected works of Hassler Whitney. Eells's doctoral students include Peter Štefan (1941 - 1978), Giorgio Valli (1960
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James Eells
Biography
- 1999) and Pierre de la Harpe. Eells was married since 1950 and had a son and three daughters.
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Military service, appearance
James Hanham Military service, appearance Although a Mississippian, Hanham fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. He saw action at Fort Pickens and Baton Rouge, and was promoted to the rank of Major. After the war, he moved to Manhattan. A writer in the New York Times, describing the players in the Sixth American Chess Congress (1889), portrayed him as follows: Major Hanham is a little, nervous man, who hates to sit still. He won his title during the war of the rebellion. He was one of the dudes of the tournament, and was always dressed in the latest style,
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Military service, appearance & Chess career
with a carefully polished silk hat and neatly trimmed beard. Chess career Hanham played in many American and international chess tournaments between 1884 and 1899. At American tournaments, he finished second to Eugene Delmar in the 8th and 9th championships of the Manhattan Chess Club, both held in 1885, and at an 1886 New York Chess Club tournament. At Cincinnati 1888, the first United States Chess Association tournament, he tied for 2nd–3rd with 5.5/10, far behind winner Jackson Showalter. He finished 3rd with 3/6 at Lexington 1891, the fourth United States Chess Association tournament, behind Showalter and William Pollock, who
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Chess career
tied for first at 5/6. He won two tournaments at Skaneateles, New York in 1891. According to Chessmetrics, Hanham's best-ever performance was at Grove Spring 1898, where he scored 4.5/7 for the New York State team against the Pennsylvania team. At international tournaments, Hanham performed respectably but not spectacularly, usually finishing in the bottom half. At London and Nottingham, both in 1886, he finished 12th out of 13 with a 3.5/12 score, and 8th out of 10 with a 2/9 score, respectively. At the Sixth American Chess Congress at New York 1889, a double round robin that was one of the
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Chess career
longest tournaments in history, Hanham scored 14/38, finishing 16th out of 20 players; Mikhail Chigorin and Max Weiss tied for first with 29 points, edging out Isidor Gunsberg (28.5). At New York 1894, Hanham tied for 7th–9th with a 4/10 score; recently dethroned World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz won with 8.5/10. One of Hanham's best results was at New York 1893, where he scored 7.5/13 (finishing 6th of 14 players), beat the young Harry Nelson Pillsbury, and finished half a point ahead of him. Emanuel Lasker, who would become World Champion the following year, won with a perfect score. By Arpad Elo's calculation,
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Chess career & Opening innovations
Hanham's strength during his five-year peak was equivalent to an Elo rating of 2360. At the time of his death in 1923, Hanham was the oldest player of master rank in the United States. Opening innovations Hanham's name is best remembered today for the Hanham Variation of Philidor's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nd7). David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld note in The Oxford Companion to Chess that this line, which became a favorite of the great player and theoretician Aron Nimzowitsch, allows Black to maintain a defensive center and has become one of the main lines of Philidor's Defense. Larry
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Opening innovations
Kaufman writes that it is a "strategically rich variation" but is out of favor today because 4.Bc4! is awkward for Black, when 4...Ngf6? loses to 5.Ng5, 4...Be7? loses a pawn to 5.dxe5 Nxe5 (5...dxe5? 6.Qd5! wins) 6.Nxe5 dxe5 7.Qh5!, and 4...c6 (best) allows 5.0-0 Be7 6.dxe5 dxe5 (6...Nxe5? 7.Nxe5 dxe5 8.Qh5 wins a pawn) 6.Ng5! Bxg5 7.Qh5 Qe7 8.Qxg5, when White's bishop pair gives him a substantial advantage. To avoid this line, today Black often tries to reach the Hanham by different move orders, such as 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7, 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5
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Opening innovations
4.Nf3 Nbd7, or 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e5. Hooper and Whyld also credit Hanham with introducing a number of other opening lines, including the Grand Prix Attack against the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4), the Indian Opening (1.e4 e5 2.d3), and the Hanham Variation of the French Defense (1.e4 e6 2.d3), often referred to today as the King's Indian Attack.
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James McGirr Kelly
Education and career
James McGirr Kelly Education and career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kelly received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business in 1951 and was in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1953, serving as a gunnery officer. He received a Juris Doctor from Temple University School of Law in 1957, and served as a law clerk for Judge Edward J. Griffiths of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1958. He was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia from 1958 to 1960. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of
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James McGirr Kelly
Education and career
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1962. He was in private practice in Philadelphia from 1962 to 1983. He was a Master of the Jury Selection Board for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1963 to 1964. He was a special assistant commonwealth attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1964 to 1965. He was an adjunct professor of business law at Drexel University from 1965 to 1989. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission from 1967 to 1977. He was a Vice President of regulatory practices at American Water Works Company from 1977 to 1983.
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James McGirr Kelly
Federal judicial service
Federal judicial service Kelly was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on June 21, 1983, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Emanuel Mac Troutman. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 4, 1983, and received his commission on August 6, 1983. He assumed senior status on March 31, 1996. Kelly served in that capacity until his death, in Overbrook, a neighborhood in northwest Philadelphia.
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James McGranahan
James McGranahan James McGranahan was a nineteenth-century American musician and composer, most known for his various hymns. He was born 4 July 1840, in West Fallowfield or Adamsville, Pennsylvania, and died 9 July 1907 at his home in Kinsman, Ohio. He composed over 25 hymns. For example, in one work he is listed as the composer of three notable songs: "He Will Hide Me" by Mary Elizabeth Servoss, "Revive Thy Work, O Lord" by Albert Midlane, and "Come" by a "Mrs. James Gibson Johnson"; and he composed the music for at least 39 of the 79 hymns in a work co-authored
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with Ira D. Sankey. McGranahan composed most of the tunes for the lyrics of Major Daniel Webster Whittle, including EL NATHAN, the tune associated with Whittle's "I Know Whom I Have Believèd" (written 1883). The music of his hymn "My Redeemer," written for lyrics by P. P. Bliss, is used as the accompaniment for the Latter-day Saints hymn "O My Father." In Hawaii, McGranahan is noted for writing the music to the hymn "I Left It All With Jesus," which, when joined to the words "Hawaii Aloha" by the Rev. Lorenzo Lyons (an early missionary to Hawaii) became one of Hawaii's best
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known and best loved songs. In Hawaii the tune is called Hawaii Aloha and the words were penned by Lorenzo Lyons, a minister. Lyons was known as "Makua Laiana" or simply "Laiana." The song is often sung at the close of public political, spiritual, educational and sporting events.
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James Ormiston Affleck
Life
James Ormiston Affleck Sir James Ormiston Affleck FRSE (19 July 1840 – 24 September 1922) was a Scottish physician and medical author. Life Affleck was born in Edinburgh in 1840, but not to a medical family. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1867 with MB ChB. He completed his doctorate in 1869 and began practicing in the Stockbridge area of the city, operating from 12 Claremont Place. He also took on the role of public vaccinator at the New Town Dispensary. Sir Douglas Maclagan grew aware of his talents and chose Affleck as his assistant in the
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James Ormiston Affleck
Life
University and at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1877 Affleck became the official Assistant Physician. He was promoted to official Physician to the infirmary in 1885. He retired from the Infirmary in 1900 and took on the role of Consulting Physician for the City Fever Hospital, and also worked at the Longmore Hospital for Incurables. In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Douglas Maclagan, Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown and Sir Thomas Richard Fraser. In 1905 he served as President of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society. In later life he lived
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James Ormiston Affleck
Life & Family
at 38 Heriot Row, a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh’s New Town. The University of Edinburgh gave him a further honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1908. He was knighted at Holyrood Palace in 1911 by King George V for his services to medicine. He died at home on 24 September 1922, and is buried with his wife Agnes in the north-west section of the first north extension of Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. Family His son, also James Ormiston Affleck, was educated at Edinburgh Academy and later served as a Major in the Royal Engineers during the First World War.
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James Peake
Early life & Military career
James Peake Early life Peake was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a military family. His father began as an enlisted man in the Army, and became an officer who spent most of his 30-year career in the Medical Corps. Peake's mother was an Army nurse, and his brother was a naval aviator. Military career At the age of 18, he set upon his own Army career when he was accepted to West Point. Peake received his Bachelor of Science degree from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army
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James Peake
Military career
Infantry. Following service in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division where he was awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with "V" device and the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, Peake entered medical school at Cornell University in New York. He was awarded a medical doctorate in 1972. He retired from the Army in 2004, as a Lieutenant General. Peake served for four years as the United States Army Surgeon General. He also served as commander of several Army medical units. Previous key assignments include Commander, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School and Installation Commander, Fort Sam Houston; Deputy
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James Peake
Military career
Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Commanding General, Madigan Army Medical Center/Northwest Health Service Support Activity, Tacoma, Washington; Commanding General, 44th Medical Brigade/Corps Surgeon, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg; Deputy Director, Professional Services/Chief, Consultant, Office of the Surgeon General, Falls Church, Virginia; Commander, 18th Medical Command and 121st Evacuation Hospital/Command Surgeon, Seoul, Korea; Deputy Commander for Clinical Services, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Assistant Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Staff General Surgeon/Chief, General Surgery Clinic, DeWitt Army Hospital, Fort Belvoir; and General Surgery Resident, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam
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James Peake
Military career
Houston, Texas. Awards and decorations that Peake has received include the Distinguished Service Medal (with oak leaf cluster), Silver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with three oak leaf clusters), Bronze Star with "V" device (with one oak leaf cluster), Purple Heart (with oak leaf cluster), Meritorious Service Medal (with two oak leaf clusters), Air Medal, Joint Services Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal with "V" device (with one oak leaf cluster), Humanitarian Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Combat Medical Badge, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Joint Meritorious Unit Award (with one oak leaf cluster), Senior
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James Peake
Military career & Post-military career
Parachutist Badge, Pathfinder Badge, Ranger Tab and Army Staff Identification Badge. After Vietnam, he attended Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also a graduate of the United States Army War College, in 1988. Post-military career After retiring from the Army, Peake served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Project Hope, a non-profit international health foundation operating in more than 30 countries. While at Project HOPE he helped to orchestrate the use of civilian volunteers aboard the Navy Hospital Ship Mercy as it responded to the tsunami disaster in Indonesia and also as part of the Hurricane
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James Peake
Post-military career & Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Katrina response aboard the Hospital Ship Comfort. Just prior to his nomination as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Peake served as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for QTC, one of the largest private providers of government-outsourced occupational health and disability examination services in the nation. On December 17, 2009, CGI Group Inc., one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world, announced the hiring of Peake as Senior Vice-President for the Health Industry. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Peake's selection as VA secretary was announced on October 30, 2007. He was confirmed by the United States
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James Peake
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Senate on December 14, 2007 and sworn in at VA headquarters by Vice President Dick Cheney on December 20.
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James Spens (British Army officer)
Early life and sporting career
James Spens (British Army officer) Early life and sporting career Spens was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, where he represented the college cricket team from 1868 to 1870. Spens was a right-handed batsman who was an underarm bowler, although with which hand he bowled with and what style he bowled is unknown. After joining the Army, Spens played both cricket and rackets for Army teams, including a match at Lord's in 1887. He was a high scorer, at one point in 1882 hitting 386 in a match. His cricketing career was interrupted by military duties in 1879-80, when his
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Early life and sporting career
regiment served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, but after his return to England, Spens made his first-class debut for Hampshire against Kent in 1884. On debut, he scored his maiden first-class half century with a score of 60. Two years later Spens made his debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club, making his debut for the club against Derbyshire and playing two more matches against Lancashire and Nottinghamshire. In 1897, fourteen years after playing his last first-class match for Hampshire, Spens returned to county for the 1897 season, playing his first return match against Cambridge University and a second match in the same
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Early life and sporting career & Senior command
season against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, which gave Spens his maiden and only first-class century with a score of 118*. In 1898, Spens played seven first-class matches for Hampshire, with his final first-class match for the county coming against Sussex. Senior command Spens was sent to South Africa following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899. He initially commanded the 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, followed by a command of a mobile column in 1901–1902. He was promoted to the brevet rank of colonel during the war, and mentioned in despatches several times (including from Lord
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Kitchener dated 23 June 1902). After the end of the war in June 1902, he returned to the United Kingdom in the SS Dunottar Castle, which arrived at Southampton the following month. For his service in the war Spens was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the April 1901 South Africa Honours list (the award was dated to 29 November 1900) and he received the actual decoration from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902. He was placed on half-pay in August 1902, but was back in full service as commander of a
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second-class military district in India from 1903 to 1908, and in 1910 was given command of the Lowland Division in the Territorial Force. He relinquished command and retired from the Army in 1914. On the outbreak of the First World War, however, Spens was recalled to service, and given command of the newly raised 12th (Eastern) Division in the New Armies in August 1914. He commanded it through its training in England, relinquishing command in March 1915 before it was sent overseas, and in April 1915 was appointed to take over command of the ANZAC Training Depot in Egypt. He remained
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Senior command
here until November, when he became General Officer Commanding Cairo District. Spens left Cairo in April 1916. He was also a member of the British Fascists. Spens died at Folkestone, Kent on 19 June 1934.
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James Tassie
Life
James Tassie James Tassie (1735–1799) was a Scottish gem engraver and modeller. He is remembered for a particular style of miniature medallion heads, portraying the profiles of the rich and famous of Britain, and for making and selling large numbers of "Tassie casts" of engraved gems for collectors. Life He was born of humble parentage at Pollokshaws, in Glasgow. During his earlier years he worked as a stonemason, but, having seen the collection of paintings brought together in Glasgow by Robert Foulis and Andrew Foulis, the printers, he removed to Glasgow, attended the academy which had been established there by
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Life
the brothers Foulis, and became one of the most distinguished pupils of the school. Subsequently he visited Dublin in search of commissions, and there became acquainted with Henry Quin, who had been experimenting, as an amateur, in imitating antique engraved gems in coloured pastes. He engaged Tassie as an assistant, and together they perfected the discovery of an enamel, admirably adapted by its hardness and beauty of texture for the formation of gems and medallions. Quin encouraged his assistant to try his fortune in London, and thither he repaired in 1766. At first he had a hard struggle to make his
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way. But he worked on steadily with the greatest care and accuracy, scrupulously destroying all impressions of his gems which were in the slightest degree inferior or defective. Gradually the beauty and artistic character of his productions came to be known. He received a commission from the empress of Russia for a collection of about 15,000 examples; all the richest cabinets in Europe were thrown open to him for purposes of study and reproduction; and his copies were frequently sold by fraudulent dealers as the original gems. He exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1769 to 1791. In 1775, he published
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Life
the first catalogue of his works, a thin pamphlet detailing 2856 items. This was followed in 1791 by a large catalogue, in two volumes quarto, with illustrations etched by David Allan, and descriptive text in English and French by Rudolf Erich Raspe, enumerating nearly 16,000 pieces. This handwritten catalogue, titled "A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems, Cameos and Intaglios, Taken from the Most Celebrated Cabinets in Europe; and Cast in Coloured Pastes, White Enamel, and Sulphur" is widely accessible. However, the complete collection of impressions gems are known only at Tassie's home in
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Life
Edinburgh, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Tassie sent the gems impressions that produced for Catherine II of Russia, in four deliveries between 1781 and 1781. In addition to his impressions from antique gems, Tassie executed many large profile medallion portraits of his contemporaries, and these form the most original and definitely artistic class of his works. They were modelled in wax from the life or from drawings done from the life, and when this was impossible from other authentic sources. They were then cast in white enamel paste, the whole medallion being sometimes
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Life
executed in this material; while in other cases the head only appears in enamel, relieved against a background of ground-glass tinted of a subdued color by paper placed behind. His first large enamel portrait was that of John Dolbon, son of Sir William Dolbon, Bart., modelled in 1793 or 1794; and the series possesses great historic interest, as well as artistic value, including as it does portraits of Adam Smith, Sir Henry Raeburn, Drs James Beattie, Hugh Blair, Black and Cullen, and many other celebrated men of the latter half of the 18th century. At the time of his death, in
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Life
1799, the collection of Tassie's works numbered about 20,000 pieces. His nephew William Tassie followed him in the business. In the 1830s, Tassie's pieces continued to be sold, and H. Laing, engraver and manufacturer of James Tassie's composition seals was selling licensed copies of Tassie's work from a shop at 32 Princes Street in the centre of Edinburgh. Moreover, during the 19th century, Andrew Dickson White, the first president of the Cornell University bought and offered to the University an extensive Tassie's daktyliotheca, purchased from a German manufacturer called Gustav Eichler (1801–77). In 2008, a bar in the Shawlands area of Glasgow, was
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Life
renamed "The James Tassie" in his honour. This bar is affectionately known to most regular patrons as "The Tassies".
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James W. Newman
Biography
James W. Newman Biography James W. Newman was born March 12, 1841 in Highland County, Ohio, and moved soon thereafter to Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended public schools in that town and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1861, where he was Sigma Chi. He did not serve his country during the American Civil War. For 33 years he was editor and owner of the Portsmouth Times, and after, President of the Central National Bank of Portsmouth. Newman was active in the Democratic Party, serving as President of the Scioto County central committee, and as delegate to the state and national conventions.
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James W. Newman
Biography
He was elected in 1867 to represent Scioto County in the Ohio House of Representatives in the 58th General Assembly in 1868 and 1869. He was elected to represent the 7th District in the 60th and 61st General Assemblies in the Ohio Senate in 1872-1876. Newman defeated Republican Charles Townsend and two other candidates for Ohio Secretary of State with a majority of the vote in 1882, and served 1883 to 1885. He lost to James Sidney Robinson in another four way race in the 1884. Newman was Collector of Internal Revenue 1885 to 1889. Newman was married to Kate Moore October
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James W. Newman
Biography
24, 1871. They had one son, Howard Ott Newman. He was Exalted Ruler of the Portsmouth Elks Lodge. He died January 1, 1901 at Portsmouth, or perhaps January 1, 1902.
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James Whidden Allison
James Whidden Allison James Whidden Allison (December 1, 1795 – March 19, 1867) was a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Newport township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1836 to 1840. He was born in Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia (later Wolfville), the son of John Allison and Nancy Whidden. His family moved to Newport around 1804. In 1821, Allison married Margaret Elder. He died in Mantua, Newport township at the age of 71. His son David served as president of Mount Allison University. His son William Henry was a member of the provincial assembly and
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James Whidden Allison
the Canadian House of Commons.
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James Whitshed (died 1789)
James Whitshed (died 1789) James Whitshed (c.1716–1789) was an Irish politician who sat in the British House of Commons for 29 years from 1754 to 1783. Whitshed was the son of James Whitshed of Dublin and his wife Grace Dillon. He entered Trinity College, Dublin on 10 February 1733. He married Frances Bathurst daughter of Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst and widow of William Wodehouse MP on 5 December 1738. Later he married Frances Enery daughter of Thomas Enery of Bawnboy, county Cavan. Whitshed was MP for Wicklow in the Parliament of Ireland from 1747 to 1760. He became connected with
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James Whitshed (died 1789)
the Leicester House faction through his father-in-law, Lord Bathurst and before the general election of 1747 and was included in a list by Dr Ayscough of “persons to be brought into Parliament by his Royal Highness, who are not able to bring in themselves”. He did not stand until the 1754 general election when he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for St Ives on the Praed interest. In 1761 he was returned as MP for Cirencester after a contest on the Bathurst interest. He was re-elected at Cirencester in 1768, 1774 and 1780. In May 1783 he
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James Whitshed (died 1789)
resigned to allow Lord Bathurst’s son, Lord Apsley who had come of age to sit. There is no record of any speech by him during his 29 years in the House. Whitshed had residences at Hampton Court and at New Burlingston Street, London. He died in February 1789. There is a commemorative tablet to him in the church of St James, Piccadilly on the North vestibule wall. Under the terms of his will, his cousin James Hawkins-Whitshed was to assume the name and arms of Whitshed in addition to his own, and legislation was passed in the British and Irish
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James Whitshed (died 1789)
parliaments in 1791 to allow exemplification of his will.
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James Wilson (Indiana politician)
Biography
James Wilson (Indiana politician) Biography James Wilson was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1825. He graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville in 1842 at the age of 17. In 1845, he graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, with a degree in law. Wilson served in the United States military during the Mexican–American War from June 17, 1846, to June 16, 1847. After he turned to Crawfordsville in 1847, Wilson worked in the law office of Tilghman Howard (later the namesake of one of his sons), and he was admitted to the bar in 1848. Wilson became actively involved in politics
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James Wilson (Indiana politician)
Biography
in the mid-1850s, and he was a member of the newly formed Republican Party. In 1856, Wilson decided to run for the seat of 8th District Indiana Representative. During the election, Wilson defeated Daniel Wolsey Voorhees, and Wilson officially became a member of Congress on March 4, 1857. During the congressional election of 1858, Wilson was reelected. Wilson's time in Congress came to an end on March 3, 1861. He had served in the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Sixth Congresses of the United States of America. During the American Civil War, Wilson was appointed captain of Volunteers on November 26, 1862. He was
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James Wilson (Indiana politician)
Biography
honorably discharged from the military on December 6, 1865, with the rank of brevet lieutenant colonel. At the end of the war, Wilson returned to his law practice in Crawfordsville. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson appointed Wilson to the position of Minister Resident to Venezuela. He served in this capacity from 1866 until his death in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 8, 1867. Wilson is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
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Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress
Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress The People's Choice Award for Best Actress was one of the categories for the European Film Awards presented annually by the European Film Academy. It was first awarded in 1997, when the winner was Jodie Foster, and ceased after 2005. The winners were chosen each year by the general public. Kate Winslet won the award twice.
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Jan Bašta
Jan Bašta Jan Bašta (5 June 1860 in Poděbrady - 12 October 1936 in Prague) was a famous Czech engineer, writer, and researcher. He became director of Czech railways in 1918.
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Jan Kunc
Jan Kunc Jan Kunc (27 March 1883, Doubravice nad Svitavou – 11 September 1976, Brno) was a Czech composer, teacher, and writer. From 1898 to 1902 Kunc attended the teachers' college in Brno, as well as the Organ School (1901–3) where his teacher was the composer Leoš Janáček. He studied composition with Vítězslav Novák at the Prague Conservatory from 1905 to 1906. From 1919 until 1945, he was a professor at the Brno Conservatory, becoming director of that institution in 1923. Kunc composed music for piano, chamber music, mixed choir, and solo vocal, as well as symphonic poems. In 1933 he composed
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Jan Kunc
a new setting of the traditional chant Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat which became the interval signal for Vatican Radio, and in 1935 he created the official arrangement of the Czech state anthem.
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Jan Salestrand
Career
Jan Salestrand Career Salestrand was born in Växjö, Sweden. He attended platoon officers course from 1974 to 1975 and served as an instructor at the Västgöta Air Force Wing (F 6) in 1975. Salestrand attended company officers course from 1978 to 1979 and served as platoon commander at the Royal Västergötland Air Force Wing in 1979. In 1982 he became head of the General Department at the Royal Västergötland Air Force Wing and in 1984 he attended the Swedish Air Force War College (Flygvapnets krigshögskola, FKHS). Salestrand completed the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College's basic course from 1986 to 1987
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Jan Salestrand
Career
and served as company commander at the Royal Västergötland Air Force Wing in 1987. He then completed the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College's senior course from 1988 to 1990 and served as an Operational/Tactical Officer Education (op/ta) teacher at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College in 1990. Salestrand served as base commander at the Royal Västergötland Air Force Wing in 1992 and was head of the Base Section in the Air Force Command at the Swedish Air Force Headquarters in 1994. He attended the Air War College in United States from 1996 to 1997 and back in Sweden in 1997
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Jan Salestrand
Career
he was head of the Planning Department at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. Salestrand was appointed commanding officer of the Jämtland Air Force Wing (F 4) and commanding officer of Östersund Garrison on 1 October 2000. He served in this position until 2003 and during this time he also attended the civil management course at Solbacka in Södermanland in 2002. He was appointed Deputy Chief of General Training and Management (Ställföreträdande chef för Grundorganisationsledningen) on 1 October 2003 and then served as Chief of Training and Procurement (Förbandsproduktionschef) from 2005 to 2007. In 2007 he attended the management
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Jan Salestrand
Career
course at Solbacka in Södermanland. Salestrand served as Chief of Training & Development (Produktionschef) from 2007 to 2009. On 7 May 2009 he was appointed Director Joint Staff (Chef för ledningsstaben) and head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters. In this position he was also the head of the Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces and the Commandant General in Stockholm. Salestrand acted from 31 January 2013 until 18 March 2013 as Deputy Supreme Commander and Chief of Swedish Armed Forces. This because of Supreme Commander General Sverker Göranson's sick leave for exhaustion. Salestrand left his positions and retired from the military
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Jan Salestrand
Career & Personal life
in 2014. On 7 October 2014, Salestrand was appointed State Secretary to the Minister for Defence Peter Hultqvist. On 9 September 2018, he was appointed Chief of His Majesty's Military Staff, taking office on 1 October 2018. Personal life Salestrand has three children.
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Jan Vondráček
Jan Vondráček Jan Vondráček (born 16 August 1966 in Prague) is a Czech actor. He starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.
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Jane I. Wells
Career
Jane I. Wells Jane I. Wells is a documentary filmmaker and activist whose films focus on global human rights and social justice issues. She has produced over 40 short films including the award-winning shorts I'm a Victim, Not a Criminal (2010), Lost Hope (2012) and Native Silence (2013). She is also a producer of the feature documentary films The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), Tricked (2013), A Different American Dream (2016), and Lost in Lebanon (2017). Career In 2005 Wells became involved with The Devil Came on Horseback a feature-length documentary about the genocide in Darfur.