Smith was an avid genealogist and family historian and was named National Vice President of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1922.

Cooke fished for trout there — he was an avid outdoorsman throughout his life — and he annually brought gifts such as pocket knives and scissors to the small school established there for the workers ' children.

Since his release, Chong has been an avid critic of the case that has been brought against him.

Throughout this brief period, however, Catholic missionaries continued their avid proselytization, converting entire clans of Subanen, Samals, Yakans and Tausugs to Catholicism, adding to the growing Visayan populations brought in primarily from Cebu and Panay.

He brought art into the Harvard curriculum through his avid support for the Carpenter Center.

He was an artistic advisor to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, an avid supporter of the American Academy in Rome, and part of the McMillan Commission, which brought into being L ' Enfant's long-ignored master-plan for the nation's capital.

The experience with his son's drug addiction turned Robinson, Sr. into an avid anti-drug crusader toward the end of his life.

From this experience, she became an avid gospel singer.

While some claim that Hồ Chí Minh Thought is used as a veil for the Party leadership since they, according to this version, have stopped believing in communism, contrary to this version, Hồ Chí Minh was an avid supporter of Vladimir Lenin and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

1824-María de las Mercedes Barbudo, a political activist who was the first female from Puerto Rico " Independentista ", meaning that she was the first Puerto Rican woman to become an avid advocate of Puerto Rican Independence, and who joined forces with the Venezuelan government, under the leadership of Simon Bolivar, to lead an insurrection against the Spanish colonial forces in Puerto Rico., was held captive in the fort pending her exile to Cuba.

DikuMUD had a key influence on the early evolution of the MMORPG genre, with EverQuest ( created by avid DikuMUD player Brad McQuaid ) displaying such Diku-like gameplay that Verant developers were made to issue a sworn statement that no actual DikuMUD code was incorporated.

Initiated by Thomas Henry Huxley, the group consisted of such important scientists as Joseph Dalton Hooker, Herbert Spencer, and John Tyndall, along with another five scientists and mathematicians ; these scientists were all avid supporters of Darwin ’ s theory of evolution as common descent, a theory which, during the latter-half of the 19th century, received a great deal of criticism among more conservative groups of scientists.

Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus of Caesarea, an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30, 000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Jerome and others came and studied there.

A group of avid readers began a volunteer library which was housed in the basement of Katz Corner School once located on Burnham Avenue.

He was an avid U. S. Civil War buff and kept on the mantelpiece in his large library a piece of wood that was supposed to have come from Abraham Lincoln's original log cabin.

Byrom, who was an avid collector of books, declined the offer but after his good friend, Robert Thyer, became Librarian in 1732, frequently acted as an agent for the library, purchasing books at London auctions.

Because she had been an avid reader, especially of poetry, the Rogers decided that they would build and donate to the town of Fairhaven a library named for her and given in the names of her sisters and brother.

Because she had been an avid reader, especially of poetry, the Rogers decided that they would build and donate to the town of Fairhaven a library named for her and given in the names of her sisters and brother.

Many of the master tapes had been destroyed in the fire, but as an avid collector, Carter had collected almost every NRC recording, and was able to digitally re-create the library.

The library is the result of the philanthropy of avid collector Dr. Thomas Hocken, who donated his private collection to the university in trust for the New Zealand public.

From the time he was a boy he was an avid reader, and throughout his life he had collected some 6000 to 7000 volumes in his personal library.

Florence was also an avid reader, collecting an estimation of 1, 000 books in her personal library.

* Peter Huang ( 黃文雄 ): famous for his failed assassination attempt against Chiang Ching-kuo in 1970 ; erstwhile National Policy Advisor on human rights issues to the President of the Republic of China ; avid supporter of the party since it was founded.

An avid chamber musician, Zheng founded the “ Eastman Triana ” with Eastman alumni Julianne Kirk and Anyango Yarbo-Davenport ( violin and clarinet ).

An avid sportsman, Shields never lost his love of rowing and founded the Power Ten New York, an organization dedicated to the sport, in 1980.

The museum was founded by Helene Kröller-Müller, an avid art collector who was one of the first to recognize Van Gogh's genius and collect his works.

He founded the Nashir Library and Museum, as he was an avid photographer, art collector and philanthropist.

A lover of horses and an avid polo player, Shutt, along with teammate Larry Robinson and local veterinarian Dr. Gilbert Hallé, founded the Montreal Polo Club at Sainte-Marthe, Quebec.

The company was founded in 1963 by avid diver Dick Long.

Jamba Juice was conceived and founded in April 1990 by Kirk Perron an avid cyclist and healthy lifestyle advocate, who opened his first store in San Luis Obispo.

Originally an avid fan of video games, college dropout Ledford founded a company, Gametronix, in 1990 as an importer of video game systems and cartridges.

He had always been an avid collector, and his contributions to Berlin's Royal museum was so copious that a second museum, the Museum of Folkart, was founded largely as a result of Bastian's contributions.

It was founded by Michael Eller, a former Bay Village resident who is a fan of Owen and an avid showdown player.

Rusczyk founded and serves on the board of the nonprofit Art of Problem Solving Foundation, which he created to find ways to create opportunities for avid students of mathematics.

Koevoet was founded under the name " Operation K " by Colonel Hans Dreyer, a veteran of the Rhodesian Special Air Service and an avid scholar of counter-insurgency combat.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

Despite his enthusiasm for film, Jarmusch, an avid reader in his youth, had a greater interest in literature, a pursuit in which he was encouraged by his grandmother.

) He continued to read the Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket.

Taking an interest in literature, Foucault was an avid reader of the book reviews authored by the philosopher Maurice Blanchot ( 1907 – 2003 ), which were published in the Nouvelle Revue Française.

Two weeks after the match former President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid boxer and fan, wrote an article for The Outlook in which he supported banning not just moving pictures of boxing matches, but a complete ban on all prize fights in America.

Another element is that Paris has the highest density of cinemas ( movie theaters ) in the world: biggest number of movie theaters per inhabitants, and that in most " downtown Paris " movie theaters, foreign movies which would be secluded to " art houses " cinemas in other places, are shown alongside " mainstream " works as Parisians are avid movie-goers.

Bank teller and avid bookworm Henry Bemis ( Meredith ) works at his window in a bank, while reading David Copperfield, which causes him to shortchange an annoyed customer.

The Empire beach boasts the Robert H. Manning Memorial Light, which was built in 1991 by O ' Brien Brothers Construction as a memorial to Robert H. Manning, a lifelong resident of Empire and avid fisherman.

Another popular fishing and hunting place is Sweetgum, located north of Zalma on Route H then about west on Bollinger County Road 708, which contains of forest and woodlands for avid hunters.

Elisabeth slept very little and spent hours reading and writing at night, and even took up smoking, a shocking habit for women which made her the further subject of already avid gossip.

The group, which went on tour in late 2008 and early 2009, is now integrated by Karlo Vidal and Jonathan Amabilis as well as Gustavo, Fernando and Adolfo, who are avid autograph signers.

During his time with Led Zeppelin, Bonham was also an avid collector of antique sports cars and motorcycles, which he kept on his family's farm called The Old Hyde.

Boortz was an avid listener and regular caller to the morning show, which was hosted by Herb Elfman.

Schuricht said of this time " The German public was no more avid than any other for the novelties which I wanted to give it.

There remains in the popular media and urban law enforcement agencies an avid interest in gangs, reflected in daily headlines which emphasize the criminal aspects of gang behavior.

The Cult of Reason, of which Chaumette was an avid follower alongside Jacques Hébert, emphasized so called natural facts.

Don was from Chicago and was an avid reader of Bill Holman's strip which was run daily in the Chicago Tribune.

Australian composer Percy Grainger, an avid Kipling reader wrote a Jungle Book cycle, which was published in 1958.

" Anderson himself is an avid fan of The Simpsons, and even provided his voice for an episode of the show titled " Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore ", which first aired April 6, 2006, where Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson after he admits that he never liked doing MacGyver and only did the show for the money.

He was an avid chess player, whom Andrew Harley called " a strong player, touching first-class amateur level, which he had attained by practice at the Glasgow Club in earlier days ".

Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922, he was an avid supporter of the Little Entente, formed between Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia to fend off Hungarian irredentist claims ( Hungary claimed Transylvania, which Romania had been awarded after World War I ) and prevent the Habsburg dynasty from returning to power in Central Europe.

Quesada states he is an avid fan of the Peter and MJ relationship, and in several interviews has claimed that the alternate MC2 universe, in which Peter and Mary Jane are happily married, is a " natural progression " of the characters.

An avid reader of British war comic during his formative years, Ennis did not read superhero comics until his late teens, at which point he found them ridiculous.