Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

Based on this evidence, Armstrong was acquitted.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

It was powered by a two-chamber Armstrong Siddeley Stentor Mark 101 rocket engine, burning a combination of hydrogen peroxide and kerosene.

One of the earliest rifled cannon was the breech-loading Armstrong Gun — also invented by William George Armstrong — which boasted significantly improved range, accuracy, and power than earlier weapons.

The British military adopted the Armstrong gun, and was impressed ; the Duke of Cambridge even declared that it " could do everything but speak.

" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.

Realizing that iron was more difficult to pierce with breech-loaded cannon, Armstrong designed rifled muzzle-loading guns, which proved successful ; The Times reported: " even the fondest believers in the invulnerability of our present ironclads were obliged to confess that against such artillery, at such ranges, their plates and sides were almost as penetrable as wooden ships.

In 1906, he was appointed to the " Armstrong Insurance Commission " to investigate the insurance industry in New York as a special assistant to U. S. attorney general.

In 1954, he was featured on the cover of Time ( magazine ), the second jazz musician to be so honored ( the first was Louis Armstrong on February 21, 1949 ).

The soundtrack album, which featured Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Carmen McRae was recorded in 1961 ; the musical itself was performed at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival.

Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.

Davenport was established on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire, and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war.

A. H. Armstrong identified the so-called " Gnostics " that Plotinus was attacking as Jewish and Pagan, in his introduction to the tract in his translation of the Enneads.

The first version was developed by Joe Armstrong in 1986.

On return to Australia, Armstrong was greeted by large enthusiastic crowds and acclaimed at many public receptions.

Allmovie gave the film 3 / 5 stars, with reviewer Derek Armstrong saying that while the film sticks to the same formula which made the Barbershop films so successful, it still " bursts with life, having attracted a spectrum of enthusiastic performers and a script that exceeds broad character types.

Running subplots include: Turtle's laziness and quest for marijuana ; Drama's struggle to follow in his younger brother's footsteps ; E dating Ari's assistant Emily ( Samaire Armstrong ); and Vince's many and varied girlfriends.

In 2007 Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Jeff Gordon, Mia Hamm, Tony Hawk, Andrea Jaeger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded the charity Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and aims to inspire all people to volunteer and support their communities.

Armstrong alluding to Gnosticism being a Hellenic philosophical heresy of sorts, which later engaged Christianity and Neoplatonism.

In 2003, some of the members from Devo were alleged to have partaken in a side project called The Network, which featured Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool and Jason White of Green Day.

Armstrong and De Forest fought a protracted legal battle over the rights to the " regenerative " oscillator circuit which has been called " the most complicated patent litigation in the history of radio ".

Emily Smith first met John Armstrong in the North Presbyterian Church, which was located at 31st Street and Ninth Avenue.

At the age of eight Armstrong contracted a disease that was known as St. Vitus ' Dance, which left him with a lifelong tic when excited or under stress.

In order to improve his health the Armstrong family moved in 1902 from the Upper West Side into a house at 1032 Warburton Avenue in Yonkers, which overlooked the Hudson river.

The Philosophy Hall at Columbia University, which housed the basement laboratory where Armstrong developed FM radio.

Armstrong managed to demonstrate the advantages of FM radio despite Carson's skepticism in a now-famous paper on FM in the Proceedings of the IRE in 1936, which was reprinted in the August 1984 issue of Proceedings of the IEEE.

RCA's momentous victory in the courts left Armstrong unable to claim royalties on any FM receivers, including televisions, which were sold in the United States.

Armstrong bought a Hispano-Suiza motor car before the wedding, which they drove to Palm Beach, Florida for their honeymoon.

In particular, the regenerative circuit, which Armstrong patented in 1914 as a " wireless receiving system ," was subsequently patented by Lee De Forest in 1916 ; De Forest then sold the rights to his patent to AT & T.

In both Universals and Scientific Realism and Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, Armstrong describes the relative merits of a number of nominalist theories which appeal either to " natural classes " ( a view he ascribes to Anthony Quinton ), concepts, resemblance relations or predicates, and also discusses non-realist " trope " accounts ( which he describes in the Universals and Scientific Realism volumes as " particularism ").

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

The world's first single engined turboprop aircraft was the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba-powered Boulton Paul Balliol, which first flew on 24 March 1948.

The philosophy department split over the issue to become the Traditional and Modern Philosophy Department, headed by Armstrong and following a more traditional approach to philosophy, and the General Philosophy Department, which follows the French continental approach.

In addition, Gioia highlights Beiderbecke's precise timing, relaxed delivery, and pure tone, which contrasted with " the dirty, rough-edged sound " of King Oliver and his protégé Armstrong, whose playing was often more energetic and whose style held more sway early in the 1920s than Beiderbecke's.

During a period when he was between recording contracts, he made records with Louis Armstrong ( Roulette ), Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane ( both for Impulse ) and participated in a session with Charles Mingus and Max Roach which produced the Money Jungle ( United Artists ) album.

Gene Green ’ s 1917 " From Here to Shanghai ", which featured faux-Chinese scatting, and Gene Rodemich's 1924 " Scissor Grinder Joe " and " Some of These Days " also pre-date Armstrong.

The tank only moved at ten to twelve miles per hour, which Vic Armstrong said made it difficult to film Indiana riding a horse against the tank while making it appear faster.