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Allen Nease, an American pioneer of reforestation and conservation efforts in Florida in the mid-20th century, planted over 55 million pine trees and was nicknamed “ Johnny Pine nut .” Another tireless promoter of tree-planting is Marthinus Daneel, Ph. D., Professor of African studies at Boston University and founder of ZIRRCON ( Zimbabwean Institute of Religious Research and Ecological Conservation ).
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* Allen Nease, a forester who planted millions of pine trees and was nicknamed " Johnny Pine nut "
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Since retiring as a player, Matthews has become the head coach of the Allen D. Nease Senior High School football team.
Matthews was hired as the head coach of the Panthers football team of Allen D. Nease Senior High School on January 16, 2012.
Allen and American
* 1866 – Allen Lard, American golfer ( death date unknown )
* 1945 – Tom Allen, American politician
* 1947 – Rex Allen, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1943 – Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer
* 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
* 1989 – Michael Allen Martinez, American drummer ( Allstar Weekend )
* 1893 – Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director ( d. 1969 )
* 1999 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter ( b. 1920 )
* 1935 – Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
* 1921 – Steve Allen, American comedian ( d. 2000 )
In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance " whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial ," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 19th century.
Donald Allen Wollheim ( 1 October 1914 – 2 November 1990 ) was an American science fiction ( sf ) editor, publisher, writer, and fan.
* 1962 – Ginger Lynn ( Ginger Lynn Allen ), American adult film actress
Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789 ) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.
When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
Less than a week after the Westminster convention ended, while Allen and the committee worked on their petition, the American Revolutionary War began.
On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.
His grandson, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and was claimed by his mother to bear a strong resemblance to her father.
* 1913 – Mel Allen, American sports reporter ( d. 1996 )
* 1898 – Allen Woodring, American runner ( d. 1982 )
* 1975 – Chad Allen, American retired baseball player
Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.
Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, that aired from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999.
The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.
* 1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer ( d. 1991 )
Allen and pioneer
Simon was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, creating with Allen Newell the Logic Theory Machine ( 1956 ) and the General Problem Solver ( GPS ) ( 1957 ) programs.
Davis Allen, a pioneer in corporate interior design, had a forty-year tenure at SOM.
* Allen B. DuMont, American inventor, industrialist, and pioneer in the early years of television
* William Allen ( 1770-1843 ), Quaker, philanthropist, scientist, abolitionist, and pioneer of girls ' education – lived most of his life in Stoke Newington.
Cockrell Hill was established by the pioneer Brentwood Allen Cockrell and his son, Woodrow.
* John Whitby Allen, photographer and model railroading pioneer
* Ebenezer Allen, soldier, pioneer, and member of the Vermont General Assembly ; founder of Poultney.
Like his fellow sports pioneer Mel Allen, Barber also gained a niche calling college and professional football in his primary market of New York City.
Allen Harvey " Rick " Woodward, chairman of Woodward Iron Company and grandson of pioneer Birmingham industrialist Stimpson Harvey Woodward, purchased a majority share of the Birmingham Coal Barons baseball team from J. William McQueen in 1909 while he was still in his 20s.
* John Allen ( pioneer ) ( 1796 – 1851 ), American pioneer and a co-founder of Ann Arbor, Michigan
George Kennedy Allen Bell ( 4 February 1883 – 3 October 1958 ) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester, member of the House of Lords and a pioneer of the Ecumenical Movement.
These are Jethro Tull, mentioned above, Sir Francis Sykes, James Morrison who bought the Isle of Islay in 1854 for nearly half a million pounds, and his elder son Charles, and Captain Allen Francis Gardiner, the missionary pioneer, who started the first missionary station at Port Natal, Zululand and co-founded the City of Durban in South Africa.
James Allen ( November 28, 1864 – 1912 ) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement.
Mr. Allen was a pioneer in the field of model railroading-as a professional photographer he had the artistic talent and attention to detail to create and document incredibly realistic scenes, and did so in numerous articles featured in Model Railroader, the NMRA's Scale Rails and Railroad Model Craftsman magazines.
The Allen C. Mason Intermediate School was the fifth of eleven middle schools built in Tacoma, Washington, thanks to funding from the 1923 bond issue and was named after a local pioneer.
Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon did pioneer work in analyzing the protocols of individual human problem solving behavior on puzzles.
Other famous former CW staffers include longtime New York Yankees broadcaster Mel Allen, Crazy in Alabama author Mark Childress, and New Journalism pioneer Gay Talese.
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