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Seven Republican senators William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.
Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, making a sudden entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe, after going unmentioned in the film's advertisements and opening credits.
Wilberforce was also urged by his close friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to make the issue his own, and was also given support by reformed Evangelical John Newton.
* In 1947, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBC Stage Series broadcast a radio adaptation of the Pitt play starring Mavor Moore as Todd, Jane Mallett as Mrs. Lovett, John Drainie as Tobias, Lloyd Bochner as Mark Ingesterie and Arden Kaye as Johanna Oakley.
In April 1757 Pitt was dismissed from office on account of his opposition to the continental policy and the circumstances surrounding the court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng.
* John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham ( 1756 1835 ), who married The Hon.
After British General John Forbes occupied Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War, he ordered the site's reconstruction and named it after then-Secretary of State Pitt.
It ended in disaster after the Army commander, John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Antwerp.
From 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian John Lubbock who was married to Pitt Rivers ' daughter, Alice.
According to biographer John Ehrman, Pitt inherited brilliance and dynamism from his father's line, and a determined, methodical nature from the Grenvilles.
* John Pitt Kennedy ( 1796 1879 ), British military engineer
Pitt engaged John Soane to enlarge the house and Humphrey Repton to improve the grounds.
The village, John Day's Bridge, that had been settled in 1710, adopted the name of Chatham in 1773 when New Jersey was an English province to honor William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
In 1773, John Day's Bridge, a village governed by the English township of Morris since its settlement in 1710, was renamed as, Chatham, in honor of Sir William Pitt, a British prime minister and the first Earl of Chatham who was most favorable toward the colonists of the Province of New Jersey in issues with the British government.
The brothers Samuel and John Pringle were English soldiers serving in the French and Indian War ( Seven Years ' War ) who in 1761 deserted their post at Fort Pitt ( present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ).
To observers such as John Rickman, " Charley Fox eats his former opinions daily and even ostentatiously showing himself the worse man, but the better minister of a corrupt government ", and who further claimed that " He should have died, for his fame, a little sooner ; before Pitt ".
John Reith, the general manager of the BBC, invited the opera company's musical director, Percy Pitt, to become the BBC's part-time musical adviser from May 1923.
* John Williams ( Pitt County, NC ) ( c.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities such as Diana Ross, Christopher Reeve, Belinda Carlisle, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan, Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Francesco Clemente, George Clooney, Cher, Mel Gibson, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts, Steven Hawking, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton, Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, Annette Benning, Antonio Banderas, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Cindy Crawford, and Tina Turner.
In a 1979 monograph, John I. Pitt divided Penicillium into four subgenera based on conidiophore morphology and branching pattern: Aspergilloides, Biverticillium, Furcatum, and Penicillium.
He was one of the few prime ministers ( others include William Pitt the Younger, Sir Winston Churchill, George Canning, Spencer Percival, William Ewart Gladstone, Edward Heath, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ) who never acceded to the peerage.
* John Taylor ( Pitt Principal ), President of University of Pittsburgh
The procedure was invented by John Pitt, who wanted to vacate his seat for Wareham in order to stand for Dorchester but could not be a candidate while he was still an MP.
Canning married Joan Scott ( later 1st Viscountess Canning ) ( 1776 1837 ) on 8 July 1800, with John Hookham Frere and William Pitt the Younger as witnesses.

John and Crow
To the north of the Blue Mountains lies the strongly tilted limestone plateau forming the John Crow Mountains.
Where the higher elevations of the John Crow Mountains and the Blue Mountains catch the rain from the moisture-laden winds, rainfall exceeds per year.
* Crow, John A.
In addition, Baez recorded a duet of " Jim Crow " with John Mellencamp which appears on his album Freedom's Road ( 2007 ).
* Crow, John, Anastasia Yarzuktina, and Oksana Kolomiets " American traders and the native people of Chukotka in the early 20th Century " 2010 International Conference on Russian America, Sitka, AK August 18 22.
The final scene shows Hatcher carrying Charles ' body with Max limping next to him who was shot in the leg before the film ends with Jimmy Cliff's John Crow in the credits.
In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.
* John David Crow, Heisman Trophy Winner 1957
* Red Crow ( MÉKAISTO, also known as Captured the Gun Inside, Lately Gone, Sitting White Buffalo, and John Mikahestow, * about 1830-d. 28 Aug. 1900 ), nephew of PEENAQUIM, Chief of the Fish Eaters band ( Mamyowis ) of the Kainai, after signing Treaty 7, he centralized the control of several bands and became the leading Head Chief of the Kainai
The tune became very well known not only in the United States but internationally ; in 1841 the US ambassador to Central America, John Lloyd Stephens, wrote that upon his arrival in Mérida, Yucatán, the local brass band played " Jump Jim Crow " under the mistaken impression that it was the US national anthem.
Other voice actors include the perennial Sterling Holloway in a cameo role as Mr. Stork, Cliff Edwards, better known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, as Jim Crow, the leader of the crows, and John McLeish, best known for narrating the Goofy " How To " cartoons, providing the opening narration.
Cliff appeared in the film Marked for Death in 1990, performing " John Crow " with the Jimmy Cliff Band.
He played a substantial role as John Crow in Santee ( 1973 ), starring Glenn Ford.
VH1 catered to adult top 40, including musicians such as Ace of Base, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Seal, and other slightly more rock-oriented popular music than what it had originally played, though favorites such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Cher, Elton John, Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Céline Dion, still received heavy play as well.
He is also credited with what is often called the first country music recording, Fiddlin ' John Carson's " Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane "/" That Old Hen Cackled and The Rooster's Goin ' To Crow ".
Abrus precatorius, known commonly as " Gunja ", Jequirity, Crab's Eye, Rosary Pea, John Crow Bead, Precatory bean, Indian Licorice, Akar Saga, Giddee Giddee or Jumbie Bead in Trinidad & Tobago, is a slender, perennial climber that twines around trees, shrubs, and hedges.
At the 2008 CNWP conference a discussion forum was hosted by the campaign which was addressed by RMT general secretary Bob Crow, PCS Vice-President John McInally, Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist, Labour left Simeon Andrew and RESPECT representative Rob Hoveman.
The Loop is the home of the St. Louis Walk of Fame, a series of brass plaques embedded in the sidewalk along Delmar Boulevard commemorating famous St. Louisans, including musicians Chuck Berry, Miles Davis and Tina Turner, John Goodman, Sheryl Crow, bridge-builder James Eads and sexologists Masters and Johnson.
* 1874 Edwin John Crow
The history of Gilwell Park can be traced to 1407, when John Crow owned Gyldiefords, the land that would eventually become Gilwell Park.
* Crow, John A., The Epic of Latin America, ( London, 1992 )
Gordon G. Thiessen, ( born August 14, 1938 ) was the sixth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001, succeeding John Crow.
John William Crow ( born 22 January 1937 ) was the fifth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1987 to 1994, succeeding Gerald Bouey.
* John William Crow at The Canadian Encyclopedia

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