Though downplayed by the NFL as inferior, the AFL signed half of the NFL's first-round draft choices in 1960, including All-American Billy Cannon, perennial All-Star Johnny Robinson, and Hall of Famer Ron Mix.

* Billy Cannon, All-American football player, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.

Wentworth Castle and gardens ( Grade I listed gardens ), Cannon Hall Park and Museum, Cawthorne Jubilee Museum, Wortley Hall and gardens, and Wortley Top Forge ( 16th century Forge ).

* Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens

Barnsley Council operates four museums, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Cannon Hall, the Cooper Gallery and Worsbrough Mill.

* Cannon Hall, a residence dormitory at the University of Delaware is named in her honor.

The weir helped to oxygenate the water, and most of the fish had been washed downstream from Cannon Hall and Bretton Lakes.

Along with many other Livery Halls, Cordwainers ' Hall in Cannon Street was itself destroyed by enemy action in 1941 and since then the Curriers have been without their own hall.

Innholders ' Hall in College Street, near Cannon Street station.

Hall of Famers George Blanda and Billy Cannon benefited from his blocking as the Oilers won the first two AFL Championships.

Dr. William Abb " Billy " Cannon ( born August 2, 1937 ) is an All-American, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.

Cannon had been originally elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983, but the Hall rescinded the honor before his induction due to his confessed involvement in a counterfeiting scheme ( for more information on the scheme, see below ).

From here it is possible to see Cannon Hall, the Peak District National Park, Barnsley Town Hall and on clear days the cooling towers of the distant power stations of Drax and Eggborough.

In January 1866, City Hall was dedicated by George Q. Cannon, a prominent LDS leader.

It has a choral society, a brass band, a village museum, a stately home ( Cannon Hall ), and a Young Farmers Club.

Every four years the village also produces a Community Drama in the grounds of Cannon Hall involving the band, choral society and 100 actors from the village.

The village pub, the Spencer Arms is so-called in recognition of the village's association with the Spencer-Stanhope family who once owned large swathes of the local area: Their family home was situated at Cannon Hall, the park of which borders the village.

Cannon Hall is now a museum run by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

Nearby visitor attractions include Cannon Hall Farm.

After that the finery forges usually belonged to a network of ironmasters led by members of the Spencer family of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, but not between 1676 and 1690, when they were rented by other ironmasters.

In England paintings from his brush are to be found at the National Gallery and Wallace Collection, and, amongst others, in the collections of the Marquess of Bute and Colonel Holford, and several at Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens ( Barnsley, Yorkshire ).

Cannon Hall Museum in the village of Cawthorne

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By 1834, the trading post had grown in popularity and was relocated to the Straight River, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) upstream of its junction with the Cannon River, the site of modern-day Faribault.

* Cannon Air Force Base, official site

It is the site of the ancient London Stone, and of Cannon Street railway station.

* Salcombe B underwater archaeological site identified from Bronze age finds discovered on the Salcombe Cannon Wreck site.

The First Haymarket Theatre or Little Theatre was built in 1720 by John Potter, carpenter, on the site of The King's Head Inn in the Haymarket and a shop in Suffolk Street kept by Isaac Bliburgh, a gunsmith, and known by the sign of the Cannon and Musket.

Cannon atop Pilot Knob aimed at the site of Johnsonville

Although there was a house on the site when the Domesday Survey of 1086 was conducted, Cannon Hall picked up its current name from the 13th-century inhabitant Gilbert Canun.

The Salcombe Cannon Wreck of the 1630s is a notable site.

Cannon Hill Common covers 21 hectares of open space, and is a site of borough importance – Grade 1 for Nature Conservation.

The site of the Patty Cannon House in Reliance, MD, mid-1930s — Cannon's house was not on this lot ; however, she owned the land on which this house is built.

In April 1873, a local benefactor, Miss Louisa Ann Ryland ( 1814-89 ) of Barford Hill House, Warwickshire, gave of meadow land, known as Cannon Hill Fields, to the Corporation and paid for the draining of the site to create a public park.

In September 1960, the school began holding classes on the current site of Cannon Campus.

Cannon Street station occupies the site now.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

Cannon in general have the form of a truncated cone with an internal cylindrical bore for holding an explosive charge and a projectile.

Modern gay Christian leader Justin R. Cannon promotes what he calls " Inclusive Orthodoxy " ( not to be confused with the Eastern Orthodox Church ).

Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

Cannon was born in Guilford, Guilford County, North Carolina, and in 1840 moved with his parents to Annapolis, Indiana, about 30 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana.

Asked by Terre Haute politician and lawyer John Palmer Usher, future Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, to testify in a slander case, Cannon became fascinated with the law.

" Uncle Joe ", as he was known, often clashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who Cannon remarked had " no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license ".

Cannon wielded the office of Speaker with unprecedented power.

As such, Cannon effectively controlled every aspect of the House's agenda: bills reached the floor of the house only if Cannon approved of them, and then in whatever form he determined — with he himself deciding whether and to what extent the measures could be debated and amended.

When Cannon supporters proved difficult to find ( many of the staunchest were Irish and spent the day at various St. Patrick's Day celebrations ), the filibuster continued for 26 hours, with Cannon's present friends making repeated motions for recess and adjournment.

" Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon nevertheless characterized her as a " reliable " and " solid " performer who held her own in performances with better-known actors.

* Through the merger with Viacom, they gained U. S. rights to the majority of the Cannon Films library ( except Lifeforce, where some of said rights are owned by Sony via its initial US theatrical distribution by TriStar, once posting it on the website Crackle ), owned for other media by MGM ( who also posted Lifeforce on Hulu and Netflix ).

Late 16th c. illustration of Cannon with gabions.

From 1971 until the end of 1987, Warner's international distribution operations were a joint venture with Columbia Pictures, and in some countries, this joint venture also distributed films from other companies ( like EMI Films and Cannon Films in the UK ).

William Howard Taft was nominated with 702 votes to 68 for Knox, 67 for Hughes, 58 for Cannon, 40 for Fairbanks, 25 for LaFollette, 16 for Foraker, 3 for President Roosevelt, and one abstention.

( Although familiarly known as the ' London Stone ', it is not to be confused with the more famous ( and probably more ancient ) London Stone in Cannon Street in the City of London ).

The first five bills, proposed in the years 1901, 1902, and 1908, met with defeat because of opposition from Speaker Joe Cannon.

Heinlein's original title for the novel was The Brass Cannon, replaced with the final title at the publisher's request.

A similar superweapon, the Space Colony ARK ( with the Eclipse Cannon ), appears in Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog.

The voice-over and the show's organization into " acts " with an epilogue was homage to Quinn Martin police dramas including The Fugitive, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The F. B. I., and Cannon.

The album consists of a run through of a baker's dozen of his old hits with Cannon interjecting comments and telling stories about the songs.

As a result, the opposition to Pablo eventually rose to the surface, with an open letter to Trotskyists of the world, by Socialist Workers Party leader James P. Cannon.

In the wake of the World Congress, the line of the International Leadership was generally accepted by groups around the world, including the U. S. SWP whose leader, James P. Cannon, corresponded with the French majority to support the tactic of entrism sui generis.