* 1974 – Earl C. Poitier, American actor

Confederate cavalry raiders Bedford Forrest and Earl Van Dorn stalled Grant's advance by breaking communications, while the Confederate army led by John C. Pemberton concentrated and repulsed Sherman's direct approach at Chickasaw Bayou.

Pickens appeared in numerous television guest shots, including three episodes of NBC's The Wide Country ( 1962 ) with Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine and one appearance on ABC's The Legend of Jesse James, The Fugitive and a first-season episode of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ..

* Matthew, H. C. G. " Asquith, Herbert Henry, first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( 1852 – 1928 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online

The name comes from three daughters of Guy C. Earl, president of the Great Western Power Co .: " Alice ", " Martha ", and " Elinor ".

Slipher and Earl C. Slipher, astronomers

The titles of a few of the films released in 1907 and distributed to nickelodeons by the Miles Brothers ( Herbert, Harry and Earl C .) partially illustrate this diversity.

The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 3, 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles.

" Later, in 1848, Brooke is alleged to have formed a relationship with 16 year old Charles T. C. Grant, grandson of the seventh Earl of Elgin, who reciprocated.

* " Everybody Two-Step " w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer

* " On Mobile Bay " w. Earl C. Jones m. Neil Moret

Alexander's major break in acting came in 1967 when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope at Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. Like her co-star, James Earl Jones, she went on to play the part both on Broadway ( 1968 ), winning a Tony Award for her performance, and in the film version ( 1970 ), which earned her an Oscar nomination.

Software contractor Frank C. Earl claims to hold the porting rights for the entire Myth series and says he will port it to Linux.

* C ' mon and Dance with Earl Bostic ( 1956 )

Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.

* Earl, D. C.

Other significant collections include the Nathaniel C. Moak library and the Edwin J. Marshall Collection of early works on equity and the Earl J. Bennett Collection of Statutory Material, a print collection of original colonial, territorial, and state session laws and statutory codes.

In 1966, Morgan State, of Baltimore, Maryland under head coach Earl C. Banks, a member of the NCAA College Football Hall of Fame, became the first historically black college ( HBCU ) to play in and win the Tangerine Bowl game by defeating West Chester State ( Pa .), finishing the season undefeated for the second straight year.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

Bench at Earl Long grave inscribed, but blocked from view by the glare, with words of the C. Austin Miles hymn " In the Garden ( 1912 song ) | In the Garden " ( 1912 )

I was at Earl Shilton R. C.

As an example of the mixed style of Humphry Repton's gardens, Alton Towers ' garden was begun, circa 1814 by the eccentric 15th Earl of Shrewsbury, of whom J. C. Loudon ( who was consulted on design features of which there were many ) relates that he consulted every artist, only to avoid ' whatever an artist might recommend '.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

Before he made that retreat, he telephoned Earl Blackman in Kansas City and asked him to come to Europe with him.

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

Earl agreed, and Lewis said that it would have been very different if his wife had been with him.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

A few professional baseball players cultivated eccentricities, with the encouragement of the press, so that they might see their names in big black print, along with Daddy Browning's, Al Capone's, Earl Sande's, and the Prince of Wales'.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

pianists Leon Fleisher, Ruth Slenczynka and Stephen Bishop and conductor Earl Bernard Murray.

* Hess, Earl J.

* 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( d. 1604 )

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

The present building sits on the site of a hunting lodge built by the Earl of Cavan in the 19th century.

* 1584 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician ( d. 1640 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier ( d. 1888 )

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

* Hinz, Earl R .; The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring, Rev.

* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier ( d. 1649 )

The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.