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Agnew and soon
An exhibition of 312 prints was soon on show in London, in the gallery of publisher Thomas Agnew.

Agnew and found
He also helped found the Irwin & Agnew Iron Foundry in 1846.
Students of Professor John F. Banzhaf III from the George Washington University Law School, collectively known as Banzhaf's Bandits, found four residents of the state of Maryland willing to put their names on a case and sought to have Agnew repay the state $ 268, 482 — the amount it was said he had taken in bribes.
Leakey and her team of these footprints therefore settled the issue proving that the hominids found at Laetoli were fully bipedal before the evolution of the modern human brain, and were even bipedal close to a million years before the earliest stone tools .< ref > Agnew, Neville and Demas, Martha.

Agnew and role
In theatre, the pseudonyms George or Georgina Spelvin, David Agnew, and Walter Plinge are used to hide the identity of a performer, usually when he or she is " doubling " ( playing more than one role in the same play ).

Agnew and so-called
Johnston was responsible for a number of the TMS traditions, including the creation, often using the so-called Oxford "- er ", of the nicknames of fellow commentators ( for example, Jonathan Agnew is still known as " Aggers ", Henry Blofeld as " Blowers " and the late, lamented Bill Frindall as " the Bearded Wonder " (" Bearders ").

Agnew and silent
In the months leading up to Nixon's 1969 speech, his vice-president Spiro T. Agnew said on May 9, " It is time for America's silent majority to stand up for its rights, and let us remember the American majority includes every minority.

Agnew and ",
In line with what would later be called Nixon's " Southern Strategy ", Agnew was selected as a candidate because he was sufficiently from the South to attract Southern moderate voters, yet was not identified with the Deep South, which might have alienated Northern centrists come election time.
In 1980, Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to " go quietly … or else ", the memoir's title.
The revised script, now titled The Curse of the Sephiroth, was credited to " David Agnew ", a standard pseudonym used by the BBC and which had been previously used on Doctor Who for the season fifteen serial The Invasion of Time.
The founders of the group, which was initially called the " United Unionist Assembly Party ", were Fraser Agnew, Boyd Douglas and Denis Watson ( all of whom have since left the grouping ).
* Frobenius, G. " Über das Pfaffsche probleme ", J. für Reine und Agnew.
* Sam Agnew, nicknamed " Slam ", professional baseball player
In letters home soldiers had called the original valley " The Valley of Death ", and Tennyson's poem used the same phrase, so when in September 1855 Thomas Agnew put the picture on show, as one of a series of eleven collectively titled Panorama of the Plateau of Sebastopol in Eleven Parts in a London exhibition, he took the troops '— and Tennyson's — epithet, expanded it as The Valley of the Shadow of Death with its deliberate evocation of Psalm 23, and assigned it to the piece ; it is not the location of the famous charge, which took place in a long, broad valley several miles to the south-east.
They include: " In Florida ", about the 2000 election ; " Without DeLay ", a song about the former congressman ; " Bobbitt ", about John and Lorena Bobbitt ; " Little Bitty Gun ", which lampoons Nancy Reagan ; " I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler ", about the federal loan guarantee to Chrysler in 1979 ( which was rewritten in 2008 as " I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae " about the 700 billion dollar " bailout of the U. S. financial system "); " The Ballad of Spiro Agnew ", and " Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation " ( which became " George W. Told the Nation " in 2007 ).
* Agnew, James B., " General Barnard Bee ", Civil War Times Illustrated, 14 ( December 1975 ): pp. 4 – 8 & 44-46.
* Gil Scott-Heron's famous piece, " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", mentions figures such as " General Abrams and Spiro Agnew " eating " hog maws confiscated from the Harlem sanctuary ..."

Agnew and by
In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.
The Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins
Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.
In 1969 President Richard Nixon formed the Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy.
" Many Democrats opposed to segregation then crossed party lines to give Agnew the governorship by 82, 000 votes.
As late as early 1968, Agnew was a strong supporter of Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents, but by June had switched to supporting Nixon.
After two appeals by Agnew, he finally resigned himself to the matter and a check for $ 268, 482 was turned over to Maryland State Treasurer William S. James in early 1983.
Agnew also wrote a novel, The Canfield Decision, about a Vice President who was " destroyed by his own ambition.
Agnew always maintained that the tax evasion and bribery charges were an attempt by Nixon to divert attention from the growing Watergate scandal.
In 1996, when Agnew died, Nixon's daughters returned the favor by attending Agnew's funeral.
" color :# c20 ;"> Red </ span > denotes states won by Nixon / Agnew, < span style =" color: darkblue ;"> Blue </ span > denotes those won by McGovern / Shriver.
Although the pictures he acquired via the Internet turn out to be not very explicit, Douglass, on being confronted by Agnew, commits suicide by hanging himself in the toilet — in a way that seems to have been meticulously planned.
* Certicom ( acquired by Research In Motion )-founded by two Waterloo professors, Scott Vanstone and Gordon Agnew
Laird was reportedly the elder statesman chosen by the Republicans to convince Vice President Spiro Agnew to resign his position after Agnew's personal corruption became a public scandal.
The work referred to is La jeune fille à l ' agneau ; some commentators have described this as a pun by Doyle upon the name of Thomas Agnew of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a famous painting stolen by Adam Worth, but were unable to prove the claim.
It was written by " David Agnew " a pseudonym for David Fisher, Douglas Adams, and Graham Williams and directed by Michael Hayes.

Agnew and late
Williams also occasionally took part in Christian Death reunions during the late 1980s and early 1990s with Rikk Agnew, the guitarist on the band's first album.

Agnew and 1969
Richard Nixon ( 36th ), Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew incoming Vice President ( 39th ), and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( 38th ), January 20, 1969
Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).
Spiro Agnew is sworn in as vice-president in 1969.
Spiro T. Agnew, who was the Governor of Maryland from 1967 – 1969, later served as the Vice-President of the United States for a time under President Richard M. Nixon, and Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander in the history of the United States.
When Nixon took the Oval Office in 1969, Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon and vice president Spiro Agnew.
On August 6, 1969, a vote to suspend funding of the development of ABMs failed in the Senate by a vote of 50 – 51 ; Vice-President Spiro Agnew cast the tie-breaking vote.
Mandel was chosen as speaker of the house in 1963 and served in that position until 1969, at which point he was elected Governor by the Maryland General Assembly following the resignation of Spiro Agnew.
In November 1969, Spiro Agnew, then Vice President under Richard Nixon, made a landmark speech denouncing what he saw as media bias against the Vietnam War.

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