Ellis shared the secretary position at the Society of Antiquaries from 1848 with John Yonge Akerman, who took over in 1853.

In 1846, Akerman was hired as a tutor for John M. Berrien's, children in Savannah, Georgia.

Having become interested in law Akerman studied and passed the bar in Georgia in 1850 ; where he and an associate practiced law.

Akerman also ruled on the United States first federal Civil Service Reform law implemented by President Grant and the U. S. Congress.

After he resigned office, Akerman continued in his thriving law practice in Georgia and was highly popular in the state.

Akerman passed the Georgia Bar in 1850, moved to Peoria, Illinois where his sister resided, and briefly practiced law.

Akerman returned to Georgia and practiced law in Clarksville.

Eventually, Akerman opened a law practice in Elberton, Georgia with Robert Heston.

In addition to practicing law, Akerman also started a farm and owned eleven slaves.

Akerman believed that freedmen deserved federal protection from the law and that he endorsed their enfranchisement at the ballot.

Gen. Akerman ruled on the newly formed Civil Service Commission passed by Congress on March 3, 1871 and signed into law by President Grant on March 4.

Akerman also had the legal authority to prosecute under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Grant on April 20, 1871.

The result of Akerman and Bristows prosecutions and President Grant's willingness to enforce the law to stop the Klan, led to massive African American voting turnouts in 1872.

* Akerman Senterfitt, a Miami-based law firm

After the Civil War ended in 1865, Akerman joined the Republican Party during Reconstruction and became an outspoken attorney advocate for African American civil rights in Georgia.

At Anthology Film Archives in New York, Akerman became impressed by the work of Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Michael Snow, and Andy Warhol.

In 2011 Akerman became a Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Film / Video Program of the City College of New York.

MacDonald lost his seat in the 1963 provincial election and the NDP would not win another until Jeremy Akerman became party leader and won the riding of Cape Breton East in the 1970 election.

Akerman returned to his visual art background and became a painter, Lynch initially pursued a solo music career ; while Knight became a successful jazz singer.

Notable pioneering video artists also emerged more or less simultaneously in Europe and elsewhere with work by Domingo Sarrey ( Spain ), Juan Downey ( Chile ), Wolf Vostell ( Germany ), Slobodan Pajic ( France ), Wolf Kahlen ( Germany ), Peter Weibel ( Austria ), David Hall ( UK ), Paul Wong ( Artist ) ( Canada ), Lisa Steele ( Canada ), Colin Campbell ( Canada ), Miroslaw Rogala ( Poland ), Danny Matthys, Chantal Akerman ( Belgium ), Akram Zaatari ( Lebanon ), Mireille Astore ( Lebanon / Australia ) and others.

He worked with Congress to create the Department of Justice and Office of Solicitor General, led by Attorney General Amos Akerman and the first Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, who both prosecuted thousands of Klansmen under the Force Acts.

However, the long production of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf had forced her to turn down several significant roles in international productions including The Double Life of Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Night and Day by Chantal Akerman and Beyond the Aegean an aborted project with Elia Kazan.

Upon graduation Akerman worked with young boys as Headmaster in North Carolina and as a tutor in Georgia.

Interestingly, Akerman was the “ only person from the Confederacy to reach cabinet rank during Reconstruction .” Having become attorney general shortly after the creation of the new Justice Department, Akerman dealt with legal issues from the Department of the Interior, such as the question of whether competing railroad companies deserved more land in the West in return for expanding the country ’ s transportation system.

He put together a quality coaching staff ; adding Steve Sucic who had coached with the team in the early 1960s and kept Gord Akerman and Frank " Blackie Johnston " from former coach Bob Shaw's staff.

Amos T. Akerman was largely involved with the prosecutions of these klansmen.

* 1991: Contre l ' oubli with Chantal Akerman, René Allio

Narrative cinema is usually contrasted to films that present information, such as a nature documentary, as well as to some experimental films ( works such as Wavelength by Michael Snow, Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, or films by Chantal Akerman ).

Farber's writing was distinguished by its " visceral ," punchy style and inventive approach towards language ; amongst other things, he is credited with coining the term " underground film ," and was an early advocate of such filmmakers as Howard Hawks, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, William Wellman, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, Michael Snow, Chantal Akerman, George Kuchar and Andy Warhol.

Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General Amos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner.

Grant's two Attorney Generals Amos T. Akerman and George H. Williams, in addition to Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, effectively prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 through the use of the Force Acts passed by President Grant and Congress.

Grant's prosecution of civil rights cases under both his Attorney Generals Akerman and George H. Williams, lasted from October 1871 to the Spring of 1873 during his second term in office.

According to David Akerman, Ludo de Witte and Kris Hollington, the firing squads were commanded by a Belgian, Captain Julien Gat ; another Belgian, Police Commissioner Verscheure, had overall command of the execution site.

In 1996, Binoche appeared in her first comedic role since My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister a decade before ; A Couch in New York was directed by Chantal Akerman and co-starred William Hurt.

One skeptic, Christer Akerman, the chief geologist of the Geological Survey of Sweden, remarked, " here is every reason to stay calm and await the analysis of what they have found.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

The Telegraph's most high-profile columnists, among them Piers Akerman, are politically conservative.

Columnists include Piers Akerman, Tim Blair and education specialist Maralyn Parker.

Amos Tappan Akerman ( February 23, 1821 – December 21, 1880 ) served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1870 to 1871.

A native of New Hampshire, Akerman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1842.

After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.

He took advantage of the antagonism between aggressive assertiveness and anxiety and found a relatively rapid disappearance of anxiety when the former attitude was established.

Meanwhile, fishermen took advantage of them to pull up whoppers.

The Yanks also took advantage of three Cincinnati errors.

the sly female cowbirds took instant advantage of nests without sentinels.

The buddies invariably took advantage of him.

It seems that the Greeks took advantage of the observations of some older civilizations in the East and managed to work them up rationally.

The transition to other methods began as manufacturers took advantage of the opportunities that the aforementioned machining developments presented.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Johnson took advantage of this opportunity to express his strong views in favor of the measures in question, as well as popular instruction.

Many games took advantage of this, gaining storage by leaving non-graphical data in the disabled area.

Other companies took advantage of the SCC's ability to use external clocks to support higher transmission speeds up to 1 Mbit / s.

Arnulf took advantage of the problems in West Francia upon the death of Charles The Fat to secure the territory of Lorraine, which he converted into a kingdom for his son, Zwentibold.

Arnulf then took advantage of the fighting that followed between Odo and Charles in 894, taking territory from West Francia and transferring it to his dominion.

In the first year of his reign, Abd ar-Rahman took advantage of the rivalries between the Banu Hayyay lords of Seville and Carmona to force them to submit.

Zeus appeared to her disguised as Artemis, or in some stories Apollo, gained her confidence, then took advantage of her ( or raped her, according to Ovid ).

It had the advantage that it was fairly well known to the young designers and computer hobbyists who took an interest in microcomputers.

In the late 2nd century, the Historia Augusta mentions that in the rule of Marcus Aurelius ( 161-80 ), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the Costoboci took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube ( the Marcomannic Wars ) to invade Roman territory.

Quickly rising to prominence among the Pro-Boers was David Lloyd George, a relatively new MP and a master of rhetoric, who took advantage of having a national stage to speak out on a controversial issue to make his name in the party.

They feel that the Western-Cape based Afrikaners — whose ancestors did not trek eastwards or northwards — took advantage of the republican Boers ' destitution following the Anglo-Boer War and later attempted to assimilate the Boers into a new politically based cultural label as " Afrikaners ".

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

Sabun's successors were less able than he, and Darfur took advantage of a disputed political succession in 1838 to put its own candidate in power.

Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

Nabopolassar took advantage of the chaos gripping Assyria, and seized the city of Babylon in 620 BC with the help of its native inhabitants.