Northumberland was returned to parliament for the rotten borough of Bere Alston in 1799, a seat he held until 1830, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.

Jonathan Alston and Randy Mitchell currently coach the debate program at Science maintaining its national prominence.

The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.

The subject matter of the next single, 1962's " He Hit Me ( It Felt Like a Kiss )" ( written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and sung by Alston ), resulted in limited airplay with the track only " bubbling under " the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at # 123.

Alston struck out in his only major league at bat on three pitches – although the second strike was a long fly ball with home run distance that curved foul at the last second.

This will leave only the Alston to Carlisle bus in operation.

In 1962 when the Dodgers led the NL for most of the season ( only to find themselves tied with the hated Giants at the season's end ) it was Snider and third-base coach Leo Durocher who reportedly pleaded with Manager Walter Alston to bring in future Hall of Fame pitcher ( and Cy Young award winner that year ), Don Drysdale, in the ninth inning of the third and deciding play-off game.

Consett town centre is around 885 feet ( 270m ) above sea level making it only slightly lower than the town of Alston in Cumbria which is said to be the highest market town in Britain.

A few rural districts consisted of only one parish ( for example, Tintwistle Rural District, Alston with Garrigill Rural District, South Mimms Rural District, King's Lynn Rural District, Disley Rural District and Crowland Rural District ).

The Currie / Harvie / Alston / Cummings / Saleh line-up proved to be a stable and successful one for the group, as they stayed together for the recording of the follow-up album Change Everything, which was released in 1992 and became the band's biggest ever chart success, reaching No. 2 in the UK, being held off top spot only by The Best of Lionel Richie.

Once home to numerous pubs, the village now only has one public house, The Edgcumbe Hotel, located on Fore Street. Now, there is a beautiful modern cafe opened called Hope Cottage next door to Bere Alston United Church.

Many of the bus services to and from Alston are operated by Wright Brothers Coaches, which has depots at Nenthead, three miles from Alston and at Blucher, near Newcastle upon Tyne, and operates an 82-mile route linking Newcastle with Keswick via Hexham, Haydon Bridge, Alston and Penrith from July to September each year.

In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as reformed epistemology.

In August 2005, Alston made national, and indeed international, news headlines regarding the town's apparent lack of women.

In 2002, New South Wales Police Minister Michael Costa attempted, without success, to shut down three protest websites by appealing to the then-communications minister Richard Alston.

As a result of their success in Nashua, Bavasi, Campanella, and Alston all were promoted to teams in higher-level leagues in 1947, and Newcombe followed in 1948.

Patron Lemoine Pierce said of Alston's work: " Never thought of as an innovative artist, Alston generally ignored popular art trends and violated many mainstream art conventions ; he produced abstract and figurative paintings often simultaneously, refusing to be stylistically consistent, and during his 40-year career he worked prolifically and unapologetically in both commercial and fine art.

Clatskanie is surrounded by many small unincorporated communities, including Alston, Delena, Clatskanie Heights, Inglis, Kerry, Marshland, Mayger, Quincy, and Woodson.

In the 10th century, Alston Moor was part of The Liberty of Tynedale which was an estate of the Scottish Kings within England, a situation that resulted in many years of confusion over the sovereignty of the area.

The community has its own website which is a result of the Cybermoor Project ( cybermoor. org ), which has brought the Internet to almost every home on Alston Moor, and broadband to many.

One of the many walking routes in the North Pennines is Isaac's Tea Trail is a circular route of around the area, running from Ninebanks via Allendale, Nenthead and Alston.

It has caught out many walkers traversing the plateaux around Cross Fell, the Eden Valley fellside, and the valleys in between Alston and Dufton.

Other artists who had an impact on the label, or on one of its many subsidiary labels, include Betty Wright ( on Alston ), Benny Latimore ( Glades ), Peter Brown ( Drive ), Foxy, Kracker ( Dash ), Jimmy " Bo " Horne ( Sunshine Sound ), Timmy Thomas ( Glades ), Gwen McCrae ( Cat ), T-Connection ( Dash ), Bobby Caldwell ( Clouds ), and Anita Ward ( Juana ).

Theorists include Ashanti Alston, Lorenzo Kom ' boa Ervin, Kuwasi Balagoon, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Greg Jackson, Shaka N ' Zinga, Roger White, Martin Sostre and many former members of the Black Panther Party.

Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance ; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

Alston was introduced to African art by the poet Alain Locke.

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

Originally hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

In the late 1940s Alston became involved in a mural project commissioned by Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company which asked the artists to create work involving African American contributions to the settling of California.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

More importantly, he attended classes at the Harlem Art Workshop, taught by the African American artist Charles Alston.

In his first at-bat, despite chants of " We want Slaughter ", he belted a home run against the Cubs ; in the same game Tom Alston became the first African American to play for the Cardinals.

Alston continued to explore the relationship between monochromatic hues throughout the series which Wardlaw describes as " some of the most profoundly beautiful works of twentieth-century American art.

The artworks, which are considered " priceless contributions to American narrative art ", consists of two panels: Exploration and Colonization by Alston and Settlement and Development by Woodruff.

" Writer June Jordan described Alston as " an American artist of first magnitude, and he is a Black American artist of undisturbed integrity.

* Charles Henry Alston Papers from the Archives of American Art

* 1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball manager ( d. 1984 )

* 1976 – Rafer Alston, American basketball player

William Payne Alston ( November 29, 1921, Shreveport, Louisiana – September 13, 2009, Jamesville, New York ) was an American philosopher.

Like most American philosophers, Alston is counted among the analytic philosophers.

Alston was president of the American Philosophical Association in 1979 and was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the philosophy of religion.

Peter Alston, the son of American counterfeiter, Philip Alston who through his father, became a river pirate and highwayman at Cave-In-Rock and made the acquaintance of Samuel Mason and Wiley Harpe, following them to Stack Island and Natchez.

* Philip Alston, prominent plantation owner and early American outlaw

* Jazz Lee Alston ( Rhyme Cartel / American )

American philosopher William Alston attempted to defend divine command from the Euthyphro dilemma by considering what it means for God to be morally good.