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For instance the prolific Clarissa Ross and Marilyn Ross were pseudonyms for the male writer Dan Ross and Frank Belknap Long published Gothics under his wife's name, Lyda Belknap Long.
It is named for Dr. Jeremy Belknap, a renowned preacher, historian, and author of The History of New Hampshire.
Midlands was built in 1913 for a member of the locally-prominent Belknap Family.
* Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China ( Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 ), esp.
She won all of the counties except for Carroll, Belknap, and Rockingham counties.
* Center Harbor, a small town in Belknap County which serves as the winter home for the MS Mount Washington.
General Orville E. Babcock, the private secretary to the President, was indicted as a member of the ring — for this reason, President Ulysses S. Grant, although not directly involved in the ring, came to be seen as emblematic of Republican corruption, and later scandals involving his Secretary of War William W. Belknap only confirmed that perception.
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. volumes, biographical sketches of 1, 359 women who died before January 1, 1951 ; includes bibliographies for each entry.
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980. volume, biographical sketches of 442 women who died between January 1, 1951, and December 31, 1975 ; includes bibliographies for each entry.
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 2004. volume, biographical sketches of 483 women who died between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 1999 ; includes bibliographies for each entry.
Recorded in: American Colonial Painting, Materials for a History by Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. ( ref: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959 ) p. 238, “ Gov.
Black was also briefly Counsel for President Johnson in his trial on his Article of Impeachment before the United States Senate, and for William W. Belknap, United States Secretary of War from 1869 to 1876, who in 1876 was impeached on a charge of corruption ; he also represented Samuel J. Tilden during the contest for the presidency between Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Although Belknap served with distinction in the Civil War, his tenure as President Grant's Secretary of War was controversial, for having indirectly sold weapons to France and for accepting illicit kickbacks in exchange for making a tradership appointment.
Belknap requisitioned portrait paintings by various artists for previous Secretaries of War to be displayed in honor of the United States Centennial.
When the Civil War broke out in spring 1861, Belknap joined Union Army and was eventually promoted Brevet Maj. General in 1865 for his gallantry during Maj. Gen. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign earlier in 1864.
A Congressional investigation in 1876 revealed that Belknap had received kickback payments in return for a lucrative contract.
Starting in 1870, Belknap and two successive wives had taken quarterly payments for the award of a Fort Sill " tradership " position, immediately after Belknap had been given sole authority to appoint post-traderships by Congress.
Belknap was tried in the Senate, but was acquitted when the vote for conviction failed to achieve the required two-thirds majority.

Belknap and victims
Belknap aided Chicago Fire victims in 1871 and pardoned James Webster Smith, America's first African American cadet at West Point.

Belknap and promptly
Belknap ordered military officers around the nation to send supplies to Chicago " liberally and promptly ".

Belknap and took
Vigorously fighting in hand to hand combat, Col. Belknap crossed the breastworks, physically captured Confederate Col. Harris D. Lampley, 45th Alabama Infantry, dragged him over to the Union line, and took him as prisoner.

Belknap and action
In March 1862, Maj. Belknap and the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry were finally mustered into military action.
In terms of Reconstruction, historian Jean Edward Smith, notes that Grant, former General of the Army, supervised the use of the U. S. military and that Belknap " had less freedom of action then other cabinet members.
Stained Class received unfortunate negative attention due to the infamous 1990 civil action brought against the band by the family of a teenager, James Vance, who entered a suicide pact with his friend Ray Belknap after listening to " Better By You, Better Than Me " on 23 December 1985.

Belknap and on
The metal band Metallica recorded a song inspired by " The Call of Cthulhu ", an instrumental titled " The Call of Ktulu ", a song based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth titled " The Thing That Should Not Be ", and a song based on Frank Belknap Long's " The Hounds of Tindalos ", titled " All Nightmare Long ".
* Frank Belknap Long's Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside ( Arkham House, 1975, ISBN 0-87054-068-8 ) presents a more personal look at Lovecraft's life, combining reminiscence, biography and literary criticism.
Thoreau moved out of Emerson's house in July 1848 and stayed at a home on Belknap Street nearby.
The expedition against the Sioux was originally scheduled to leave Fort Abraham Lincoln on April 6, 1876, but on March 15, Custer was summoned to Washington to testify at Congressional hearings regarding the scandal involving U. S. Secretary of War William W. Belknap and President Grant's brother Orville.
After Belknap was indicted, Custer secured release and left Washington on April 20.
Since nothing could be decided, Belknap, Montgomery, and McCool each wrote a name on a slip of paper.
Situated on Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford is home to Governors Island, Ellacoya State Beach, Belknap Mountain State Forest, Gunstock Mountain Ski Resort, and Meadowbrook U. S. Cellular Pavilion, a seasonal outdoor concert facility.
In 1832, the Belknap Mill was built to manufacture textiles ; largely unaltered, the structure is today a museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest, unaltered brick textile mill in the country.
Tilton is a town located on the Winnipesaukee River in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States.
* West Middlebury – A hamlet on the north border of town, east of Belknap Crossing.
* Frank Belknap Long – Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nitghtside
On January 28, 1887, while he was still married to Clara, Holmes married Myrta Belknap in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; their daughter, Lucy Theodate Holmes, was born on July 4, 1889 in Englewood, Illinois ( in adult life, Lucy was to become a public schoolteacher ).
After graduation, while on internship in the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in early 1995, Saakashvili was approached by Zurab Zhvania, an old friend from Georgia who was working on behalf of President Eduard Shevardnadze to enter politics.
Hawley was born on a farm in the old Belknap settlement near Monroe in Benton County, Oregon, on May 5, 1864.
The campus lies almost entirely south of Eastern Parkway on the Belknap Campus ( main campus ) of the University of Louisville and consists of the following buildings:
The first cast sculpture can be found in front of Grawemeyer Hall on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus in Louisville, Kentucky.
Belknap was born on September 22, 1829 in Newburgh, New York to career soldier William G. Belknap, who had fought with distinction in the War of 1812 and the Mexican American War.
Belknap remarried a third and final time on December 11, 1873 to Amanda Tomlinson Bower, widow of John Bower and Carita's sister.

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