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Many people credited Kirkwood ’ s speech and subsequent work with the success of the Republican Party in Iowa ; that year he was elected to the Iowa Senate serving from 1856 to 1859.

In 1860, Kirkwood ’ s first year in office, the John Brown raid on Harpers Ferry further polarized the nation over slavery, and Kirkwood was clearly on the side of the militant abolitionists.

The Students ' Union also encourage participation within the local community, through their RaG ( Raise and Give ) group for instance, who raise thousands of pounds a year for both national and local charities and the American Football team who do several charity events a year for local charity Kirkwood Hospice.

Manitoba's official tartan was designed in 1962 by Hugh Kirkwood Rankine, and officially adopted by the province in " The Coat of Arms, Emblems and the Manitoba Tartan Act ", which received Royal Assent on May 1 of that year.

After Kelly decided not to return to the group, Kirkwood remained in the role for an additional year.

Kirkwood awards approximately $ 2 million in scholarships annually ; roughly 60 % of students utilize federal financial aid in a given school year.

* Morar is the birthplace of BBC weather forecaster Carol Kirkwood.

Leonard J. Farwell, a fellow boarder at the Kirkwood House, awoke Johnson with news of Lincoln's having been shot at Ford's Theater ; Johnson rushed to the President's deathbed for a brief time, commenting, " They shall suffer for this.

The fall line approximately follows the Robert Kirkwood Highway between Newark and Wilmington ; south of this road is the Atlantic Coastal Plain with flat, sandy, and, in some parts, swampy ground.

In the late 70's, drummer Derrick Bostrom played with guitarist Jack Knetzger in a band called Atomic Bomb Club, which began as a duo, but would come to include bassist Cris Kirkwood.

Derrick and Cris began rehearsing together with Cris ' brother Curt Kirkwood by learning songs from Bostrom's collection of punk rock 45s.

The Kirkwood brothers had always had a legendary appetite for illegal substances and during the tour to support Too High To Die with Stone Temple Pilots, the easy availability of drugs was too much for Cris.

On March 24, 2006, Curt Kirkwood polled fans at his MySpace page with a bulletin that asked: " Question for all!

The first song was played with Curt Kirkwood and Cris Kirkwood along with Army of Anyone's Ray Luzier and Dean DeLeo.

Then the second song was played with original members Curt and Cris Kirkwood and new Meat Puppets drummer Ted Marcus.

* Interview with Curt Kirkwood by Jarrod Dicker

* A Conversation with Meat Puppets ' Curt Kirkwood ( 9 / 2007 )

* Interview with Curt Kirkwood on groundcontrolmag. com

* The Second Supper Interview with Curt Kirkwood

A chart of the distribution of asteroid semimajor axes, showing the Kirkwood gap s where orbits are destabilized by resonances with Jupiter.

* In the asteroid belt within 3. 5 AU from the Sun, the major mean-motion resonances with Jupiter are locations of gaps in the asteroid distribution, the Kirkwood gaps ( most notably at the 3: 1, 5: 2, 7: 3 and 2: 1 resonances ).

Most recently lap style slide has been re-born via artists like Jack White, Sean Kirkwood and Xavier Rudd-both players of weissenborns, the former using original early 1900s instruments long with modern day variations such as his own co-designed Asher signature model, the latter using modern reproductions of weissenborn.

* Paul Kirkwood ( played by Michael Rapaport ) — Snow plower who is obsessed with centerfold models.

( 1960 ), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line ( 1976 ), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Jonathan Larson's Rent ( 1996 ), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal ( 2010 ).

A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of main-belt asteroids with semi-major axis ( or equivalently their orbital period ).

The gaps were first noticed in 1857 by Daniel Kirkwood, who also correctly explained their origin in the orbital resonances with Jupiter while a professor at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

* James Kirkwood, any of several men with the name

Zack Kirkwood, a cattle rancher who had settled in the area, opened an inn, named Kirkwood's, in 1863 with the opening of the Amador / Nevada Wagon Toll Road, the primary route through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Downtown Bloomington, located at Kirkwood and Walnut, offers buildings and shops filled with unique apparel as well as restaurants that introduce diverse tastes and cuisines from many cultures.

In his James Kirkwood biography Ponies & Rainbows, Sean Egan traces the genesis of the play, which had its roots in a series of burglaries at Kirkwood ’ s West 58th St New York apartment.

To mobilise the workers of Clydeside against World War I, the Clyde Workers ' Committee ( CWC ) was formed, with Willie Gallacher as its head and David Kirkwood its treasurer.

Of note are its " K streets ": Kensington, Kenwood, Keystone, and Kirkwood Places N.

Kirkwood traces its beginnings to residential development begun in the 1870s.

Today, Downtown Kirkwood has become what neighbors call " the small town in the big city ," hosting its own post office, newly constructed fire station, police precinct and public library.

In addition to the large stock of historic homes, one of Kirkwood ’ s greatest attributes is its capacity for new homes that meet the needs of modern living while maintaining the traditional fabric of the surrounding community.

* James Kirkwood, Jr., author ; his novel Good Times Bad Times is set at Brewster, although the school and its buildings are renamed.

Important roads include portions of Interstate 95, Centre Road ( Delaware Route 141 ), Kennett Pike ( Delaware Route 52 ), Montchanin Road ( Delaware Route 100 ), Lancaster Pike ( Delaware Route 48 ), the Kirkwood Highway ( Delaware Route 2 ), and the old main highway between Wilmington and Baltimore, now Maryland Avenue and its extension, Newport-Stanton Pike ( Delaware Route 4 ).

Kirkwood Community College has its own hotel, " The Hotel at Kirkwood Center ".

For almost all of its history Dumbarton Burghs was represented by David Kirkwood of the Labour Party, an important Red Clydesider.

* Kirkwood Wine Stroll: The Kirkwood Business Owners Association hosts an annual Wine Stroll each summer where attendees can sample wines from around the world at local businesses.