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Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.
The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
Elios P. Anderlini, Attilio Beronio, Leo M. Bianco, Frederic Campagnoli, Joseph Cervetto, Armond J. De Martini, Grace Duhagon, John P. Figone, John P. Figone Jr., Stephen Mana, John Moscone, Calude Perasso, Angelo Petrini, Frank Ratto, and George R. Reilly.
The Newport Playhouse presents `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, directed by Wallace Gray.
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.
On July 2, 1863, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Doubleday with Maj. Gen. John Newton, a more junior officer from another corps.
George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner
This same dynamic between Arminianism and Calvinism can be seen in the heated discussions between friends and fellow Methodist ministers John Wesley and George Whitefield.
Buffalo City Hall | City Hall in Buffalo, New York | Buffalo, New York ; John Wade with George Dietel, built 1929 1931
Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.
* 1694 John George IV, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1668 )
As of January, 2012, some commentators have characterized the unprecedented changes in the global economy as " turbo-capitalism " ( Edward Luttwak ), " market fundamentalism " ( George Soros ), " casino capitalism " ( Susan Strange ), " cancer-stage capitalism " ( John McMurtry ), and as " McWorld " ( Benjamin Barber ).
A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.
After George Frederick's death in 1603, the Polish king Zygmunt Waza appointed Joachim Frederick as regent in 1605, and permitted his son, John Sigismund, to succeed him in 1611.
Married John George I, Elector of Saxony.
The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students.
His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

John and Brown
So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.
On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.
Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.
During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.
On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.
`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.
In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.
The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.
A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.
He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.
Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.
Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

John and 1831
* 1831 John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1901 )
* 1831 John Abernethy, English surgeon ( b. 1764 )
* 1831 Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.
The two groups united at High Street Meeting House, Lexington, Kentucky, with a handshake between Barton W. Stone and " Raccoon " John Smith, on Saturday, December 31, 1831.
* 1831 John Aaron Rawlins, American soldier, civil servant, and 29th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1869 )
* 1831 John Bell Hood, American general ( d. 1879 )
* 1831 John Pemberton, American chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola ( d. 1888 )
Monroe's health began to slowly fail by the end of the 1820s and John Quincy Adams visited him there in April 1831.
# John Brown Abbott ( November 29, 1831 May 24, 1839 )
* John Henry Hobart Brown ( 1831 1888 ), Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac
John Abernethy ( 1764 1831 ).
John Abernethy FRS ( 3 April 1764 20 April 1831 ) was an English surgeon.
* John Henry Walker ( 1831 1899 ), Canadian engraver and illustrator
* 1906 John McAllister Schofield, former U. S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U. S. Army ( b. 1831 )
The town is named after the river, which is presumed to be named after Margaret Whicher, cousin of John Garrett Bussell ( founder of Busselton ) in 1831.
* 1831 The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Additionally, John Quincy Adams, elected President as a Democratic-Republican, later became a National Republican and then a Whig after he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1831.
Another remnant led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay formed the National Republicans in 1828 ; It held its first convention in late 1831 in Baltimore.
Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed deep social discontent about slavery and its role in the plantation economy.
* March 4 John Schofield, American general ( b. 1831 )
** John Macoun, Irish born naturalist ( b. 1831 )
* August 16 John Stith Pemberton, American founder of Coca-Cola ( b. 1831 )
* April 3 John Abernethy, English surgeon ( d. 1831 )

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