Andrew Lo asserts that Zhou Mi meant dominoes when referring to pupai, since the Ming author Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ) explicitly defined pupai as dominoes ( in regards to a story of a suitor who won a maiden's hand by drawing out four winning pupai from a set ).

When Election Day arrived, Andrew Jackson won, although narrowly, pluralities of the popular and electoral votes, but not the necessary majority of electoral votes.

In the election of 1832, the Jackson-Van Buren ticket won by a landslide ( heavily due to the fact that Andrew Jackson was a popular war hero ).

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

Andrew Jackson expected the House to vote for him, as he had won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes.

Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).

On 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and Andrew Moray won the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes in the Election of 1824, but still lost to John Quincy Adams when the election was deferred to the House of Representatives.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.

Historian Christopher Andrew, argued that help from the KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39, 000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast.

Calhoun served four years under John Quincy Adams, and then, in 1828, won re-election as Vice President running with Andrew Jackson.

1968 brought the first of a series of British-organised intercontinental rallies, the Daily Express London-Sydney Marathon, which attracted over 100 crews including a number of works teams and top drivers ; it was won by the Hillman Hunter of Andrew Cowan / Brian Coyle / Colin Malkin.

Animator Pete Docter, director John Lasseter, musician Randy Newman, producers Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim, production designer Ralph Eggleston, and writers Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon all won awards for " Best Individual Achievement " in their respective fields for their work on the film.

Salopek won his second Pulitzer for the Tribune in 2001 for international reporting, and that same year an explanatory reporting team — lead writers of which were Louise Kiernan, Jon Hilkevitch, Laurie Cohen, Robert Manor, Andrew Martin, John Schmeltzer, Alex Rodriguez and Andrew Zajac — won the honor for a profile of the chaotic U. S. air traffic system.

* In the 1993 film Amos & Andrew, Samuel L. Jackson's character has won the Pulitzer Prize for a play called Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?

He also joined the Anti-Jacksonians in opposing President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, and his opposition to Jackson caused his defeat when he ran for re-election in 1830 ; however, he won when he ran again in 1832.

Johnson's stands won him widespread popularity and endorsement by George H. Evans, Robert Dale Owen, and Theophilus Fisk for the presidency in 1832, but Johnson abandoned his campaign when Andrew Jackson announced he would seek a second term.

* Andrew Rein won the silver medal in freestyle wrestling ( lightweight class ) at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The company was founded in 2000 by Andrew Black and Edward Wray who subsequently won the Ernst and Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.

In 1963, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their contribution to understanding the mechanisms underlying the generation of action potentials in neurons.

* Stewart, David, O. Impeached: the Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy ( 2009 ) Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.

Also, although much of New York City was still without power, Belmont Park ( a racetrack that is literally on the border of Queens and Nassau County in Elmont, NY ) did stage their scheduled racing program that afternoon in front of a relatively sparse crowd as many thought racing would be cancelled that day due to the blackout ( this is famously described in Andrew Beyer's book My $ 50, 000 Year at the Races ).

* Jack Tworkov ; Andrew Forge ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jack Tworkov, Fifteen Years of Painting: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY 1982.

In 2007, he appeared in several episodes of the popular TV series CSI: NY as Andrew " Drew " Bedford, the 333 stalker.

The band formed in May 1986 by Andrew Sakowicz ( bass guitar, vocals ) and Dave Wilkinson ( drums ) under the name Rigor Mortis ( NY ).

Teachers in the USA include Fong Ha of Berkeley, CA ( student of Han Xing Yuan ), Andrew Plack ( Han Shi Yi Quan ), Glenn Pasion ( Han Shi Yi Quan ) of Hawaii, Sifu Gregory Fong of Portland, Oregon, Sifu John Koo of Portland, Oregon, and Master Wang Ren Gang ( 王仁刚, Queens, NY.

The Massachusetts sale of NY & NE stock was part of a deliberate policy on the part of Massachusetts to get out of owning railroads ; the sale of the Hoosac Tunnel line to the Fitchburg in 1887 was also done under this policy, a declared policy of Massachusetts Governor Andrew.

* On July 3, 2011, during the TV program " Newsmakers ", NY State Senator Greg Ball, speaking on the possibility of Governor Andrew Cuomo running for President of the United States in 2016 after his recent victories in Albany, was quoted as saying: " I think he is going to have a tough time running for president.

Mark Andrew Sudack ( born April 9, 1976 in New York City, NY, USA ) is an American record producer, talent manager and A & R.

Routledge, London & NY ) and, in 1998, with Andrew Markus, a series of papers which have now been published as a book entitled Coping with Loss ( BMJ Books ).

The company was founded in 1923 by Andrew Hubble Beardsley ( b Dayton Ohio 25 September 1864 ; d New York NY 10 October 1936 ) who was the president of Buescher Band Instrument Company, and Carl Dimond Greenleaf ( b Wauseon, Ohio 27 July 1876 ; d Elkhart 10 July 1959 ), president of C. G.

Meanwhile von Salza had to abandon his hope to establish an Order's State in the Burzenland region of Transylvania, which had led to an éclat with King Andrew II of Hungary.

Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause.

Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation against the doctrine of nullification, stating: " I consider … the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President ( 1833 – 1837 ) and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ( 1829 – 1831 ).

As Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State and then Vice President, Van Buren was a key figure in building the organizational structure for Jacksonian democracy, particularly in New York State.

" This approach informs Andrew Gamble's The Free Economy and the Strong State ( Palgrave Macmillan, 1988 ), and Colin Hay's The Political Economy of New Labour ( Manchester University Press, 1999 ).

Later he was involved in the " Corrupt Bargain " of 1824, after which he was appointed Secretary of State by newly elected President John Quincy Adams, earning the scorn of Andrew Jackson.

Around the western-central area is Independence Square and Promenade Gardens, the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, the National Library ( built by Andrew Carnegie ), the Bank of Guyana, Company Path Garden, the National Museum of Guyana and State House ( built 1852 ) where the President resides, and St. George's Anglican Cathedral.

The southern part of Indian Country ( what eventually became the State of Oklahoma ) served as the destination for the policy of Indian Removal, a policy pursued intermittently by American presidents early in the 19th century, but aggressively pursued by President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Andrew Sledd, president of the pre-existing University of Florida at Lake City, was selected to be the first president of the new University of the State of Florida.

* The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Andrew C. Lawson, chairman, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 87, 2 vols.

William Henry Seward ( May 16, 1801October 10, 1872 ) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

Secretary of State Andrew Oliver reported that, had the troops not been removed, " that they would probably be destroyed by the people — should it be called rebellion, should it incur the loss of our charter, or be the consequence what it would.

Andrew Gregg was elected to represent Lycoming County in the United States Congress, William Hepburn was voted to the Pennsylvania State Senate and Flavel Roan, Hugh White and Robert Martin served as representatives in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

In the State Legislature, Rowan is represented by Andrew C. Brock in the Senate, and by Fred Steen ( representing the 76th district ) and Harry Warren ( representing the 77th district ) in the House.

The following material is inscribed on a plaque erected by the State Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission in 1960, now located by the Andrew County Courthouse.

In August of 1861, 1, 500 soldiers from Andrew County and other counties joined the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard at Camp Highly in eastern Andrew County while others joined a large Union cap in adjacent Gentry County.

He was U. S. Secretary of State and later Vice President under President Andrew Jackson, and thus Van Buren is one of Michigan's " Cabinet counties ".

As one of Michigan's " Cabinet counties ", a group of counties whose names honor members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet, it is named after former U. S. Secretary of State Edward Livingston.

It was named after William Henry Seward, an American politician and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

He later served as Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State and as Minister to France.

Forsyth County was named for John Forsyth, Governor of Georgia from 1827 – 1829 and Secretary of State under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.