Jackson did manage to find a telegraph office and wired back to San Francisco for replacement tires to be transported to them along the journey.

* In the Rick Riordan series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Mount Othrys had been transported to Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California, and features in the story as a phantom fortress that slowly but surely became solid as the Titans gained in power.

The ship though soon loses contact with Scott and Sulu ; Jackson is transported back to the ship, but immediately falls from the platform dead.

MVM officers met the shipment at the St. Louis riverfront, and transported it to Camp Jackson, six miles inland.

Chief Nurse Marion Olds and nurses Leona Jackson, Lorraine Christiansen, Virginia Fogerty and Doris Yetter were taken prisoner on Guam shortly after Pearl Harbor and transported to Japan.

Once in the courtroom, Jackson armed the black defendants and took Judge Harold Haley, the prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

Although by nature rather withdrawn, Housman formed strong friendships with two roommates, Moses Jackson and A. W. Pollard.

The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Somers decided to trade Jackson midway through the 1915 season for two players and $ 31, 500, one of the largest sums paid for a player at the time.

Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of The Jackson 5's " Never Can Say Goodbye " and two other songs, " Honey Bee " and " Reach Out ( I'll Be There )".

Jackson argues that there are two kinds of dualism.

Coleman was cast in the role of Arnold Jackson in the television sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes, portraying one of two young black brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in Manhattan.

Monroe sent in General Andrew Jackson who pushed the Seminole Indians south, executed two British merchants who were supplying weapons, deposed one governor and named another, and left an American garrison in occupation.

It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, which is to the city's east.

* 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U. S. Congress ; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

On March 23, the Saints announced that the team's two 2006 preseason games were to be played at Shreveport, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. After a $ 185 million renovation of the historic stadium, on April 6 the Saints released their 2006 schedule, with all home games scheduled to be played at the Superdome.

In 1909, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, an astronomer with a reputation as an egocentric contrarian, opined " that there is certainly one, most likely two and possibly three planets beyond Neptune ".

As a result, it was cut down to only two sites ( Albrecht and Jackson 2009 ).

In spite of inflicting heavy German casualties and destroying two tanks with sticky bombs ( explosives stuffed into socks and then coated with axle grease ), most of the Americans — including Jackson, Mellish, and Horvath — are killed.

After backup quarterback Gary Kubiak scored Denver's only touchdown with less than two minutes to go, the Bills then clinched the victory when defensive back Kirby Jackson forced and recovered a fumble from running back Steve Sewell on Denver's final drive of the game.

The selection of Jackson for the halftime show was in response to sagging interest in recent performances, notably in the two years immediately prior.

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

With Willis and Samuel L. Jackson specifically in mind for the two leading characters, Shyamalan began to write Unbreakable as a spec script during post-production on The Sixth Sense.

Barry Vincent Jackson staged a modern-dress production for the Birmingham Rep in 1923, two years before his influential modern-dress Hamlet.

Within months after the inauguration of John Quincy Adams in 1825, the Tennessee legislature renominated Jackson for president, thus setting the stage for a rematch between these two very different politicians three years hence.

Incumbent president Andrew Jackson decided to retire after two terms and supported his vice-president, Martin Van Buren.

Clay, the party's most prominent congressional leader, was chosen on the first ballot despite having lost two prior presidential elections: in 1824 to John Quincy Adams as a Democrat-Republican, then in 1832 to Andrew Jackson as a National Republican.

On December 21, 1971, Shakur was named as one of four suspects by New York City police in a hand grenade attack that destroyed a police car and slightly injured two patrolmen in Maspeth, Queens ; a 13-state alarm was issued three days after the attack when a witness identified Shakur and Andrew Jackson from FBI photographs.

Because of the unusually large number of candidates receiving electoral votes, no candidate secured a majority and the tie between the two front runners, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, was broken in the House of Representatives.

There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.

The support of Sharpton and other Black religious / political leaders ( e. g. Harvard's Peter Gomes, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King ) is especially helpful for Black gays and lesbians who are negotiating the challenges of being gay in black communities.

Meet the Feebles is a 1989 black comedy film written and directed by Peter Jackson.

Among Noonan's backers was a former slave, George B. Jackson, a businessman in San Angelo often called " the wealthiest black man in Texas " in the late 19th century.

( in 1972, Jackson joined his Jewish teammates on the A's, Ken Holtzman and Mike Epstein, in wearing black armbands for the rest of the postseason after the Munich Massacre ).

An assistant football coach tried to break up the couple because Jackson was black and Campos was considered white.

* Winner: Academy Award, Original Music Score, Georgie Stoll ( although the contributions of one of the first black composers and pianists in the MGM music department, Calvin Jackson, went uncredited, this was not uncommon even for white studio musicians )

The Perry County town of Marion was the site of a 1965 killing of an unarmed black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by a white state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, which sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches.

Having destroyed the major Seminole and black villages, Jackson declared victory and sent the Georgia Militia and the Lower Creeks home.

The victims and accused alike had all hitched rides on a passing train on the Southern Railroad freight route from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931, which just happened to stop in Jackson County, Alabama where these women made their accusations to the local officials against these black youths.

By the mid-19th century, the small town of Jacob was Jackson County's first black community.

Legend holds that the town was originally called Bear Corners for the many wild black bears crossing nearby Thompson's Creek, and that it eventually took its name from General Andrew Jackson, who reportedly camped there with his troops on a return trip north after the 1815 Battle of New Orleans

Despite the description of Minas Tirith's outermost wall as a black, indestructible wall, Jackson depicted all of the walls as white, and many of them were easily destroyed.

In white gospel, there is a large Gospel Music Association and a Gospel Music Hall of Fame, which includes a few black artists, such as Mahalia Jackson, but which ignores most black artists.

The crossover appeal of early contemporary R & B artists in mainstream popular music, including works by Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Anita Baker and The Pointer Sisters became a turning point for black artists in the industry, as their success " was perhaps the first hint that the greater cosmopolitanism of a world market might produce some changes in the complexion of popular music.

He went to Jackson, Mississippi, to train but he was dismissed from the base after many fistfights with fellow soldiers as well as an altercation with two Lieutenants when he defended a black woman being harassed on a public bus.

* Lieutenant Jackson Flap — the strip's first black character, often touchy and suspicious — but effortlessly cool, introduced in 1970.

Randy received one prototype — a black offset V hardtail which is the base for today's RR line of Jackson guitars — but died before the guitar went into production.

* Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States.