Polk ran against fellow Tennessean John Bell for Speaker, and, after ten ballots, Bell won.

However, in 1835, Polk ran against Bell for Speaker again and won.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

In March 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers ( CIW ) won a landmark victory in its national boycott of Taco Bell for human rights.

Bell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for their new invention: " Semiconductor Triode ", " Solid Triode ", " Surface States Triode ", " Crystal Triode " and " Iotatron " were all considered, but " transistor ", coined by John R. Pierce, won an internal ballot.

He received 913, 664 write-in votes ( 3. 4 %), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 %, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the U. S. His time in prison also inspired Debs to write a series of columns deeply critical of the prison system, which appeared in sanitized form in the Bell Syndicate and appeared in his only book, Walls and Bars, with several added chapters.

Osvaldo César Ardiles ( born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province ), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team.

De Mille won the Tony Award for Best Choreography, and Bell and Mitchell won the Theatre World Award.

Former Roanoke mayor Ralph Smith won the 2007 election in the neighboring 22nd Senate district after defeating incumbent Brandon Bell for the Republican nomination in the primary election and Democrat Michael Breiner in the general election.

This achievement won the 2005 Gordon Bell Prize.

Important evidence for the Big Bang was discovered at another Bell Labs facility in Holmdel by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, both of whom won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work here.

Researchers Robert Benner, John Gustafson and Gary Montry of the Parallel Processing Division of Sandia National Laboratory first won the Karp Prize ($ 100 ) and then won the first Gordon Bell Prize in 1987 using the nCUBE 10.

The Olin Partnership was hired to create a new master plan for Independence Mall ; its team included architect Bernard Cywinski, who ultimately won a limited design competition to design what was called the Liberty Bell Center ( LBC ).

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, winning out over luminary efforts as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie, and Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy.

In 1982, the veteran Labour MP for Middlesbrough, Arthur Bottomley announced that he would step down at the next General Election, so Bell stepped up to the plate and subsequently won the selection process to fight the seat at the 1983 General Election.

That year, he met some very important fighters, like former world champion Ike Williams, who beat him by decision in ten, Tommy Bell, against whom Gavilan won by decision, Sugar Ray Robinson, who beat him by decision in ten, and Tony Pellone, with Gavilan obtaining a decision against Pellone.

** teammates Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell won, driving a Porsche 936

Hersey's first novel A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, was adapted into the 1945 film A Bell for Adano directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney.

* 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Derek Bell / Hans-Joachim Stuck / Al Holbert driving a Porsche 962C

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.

" Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as ' Old Bloomsbury ' Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions ".

Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf were sisters, and their brothers, the older Thoby and the younger Adrian, can also be considered original members of the group, ( as were some other Cambridge figures-indeed, to some, " Bloomsbury was really Cambridge in London ").

E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell had independent incomes.

At Trinity in 1899 Strachey, Woolf, Sydney-Turner and Bell became good friends with Thoby Stephen, who introduced them to his sisters Vanessa and Virginia in London, and in this way the Bloomsbury Group came into being.

Clive Bell married Vanessa in 1907, and Leonard Woolf returned from the Ceylon Civil Service to marry Virginia in 1912.

Subsequent biographies of Strachey then Virginia Woolf, Forster, Keynes, Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Grant removed all veils.

It starred David Brooks as Tommy, George Keane as Jeff, Marion Bell as Fiona, Lee Sullivan as Charlie, Virginia Bosler as Jeannie, James Mitchell as Harry, and Pamela Britton as Meg.

* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Breckinridge lost to Douglas in Missouri and lost to Constitutional Union Party nominee John Bell in Virginia, Bell's home state of Tennessee, and even Breckinridge's own home state of Kentucky.

* Vanessa Bell ( 1879 – 1961 ), painter, sister of Virginia Woolf lived at 46 Gordon Square.

The convention president, Matthew Fontaine Maury of Virginia, preferred strict private financing, whereas John Bell and others thought that Federal land grants to railroad developers would be necessary.

In 1969 Burke had a small hit with his second release for Bell, a reworking of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Proud Mary " b / w " What Am I Living For " ( Bell 783 ), which was co-produced by singer Tamiko Jones ( born 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia ), who was being rehabilitated after a bout of polio, and was at the time Burke's fiance and manager.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf

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Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin – The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.

* The Bell Witch of Tennessee ( 1817 – 1872 )

* November 22 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General Sherman from Georgia.

In December, during the disastrous Franklin-Nashville Campaign, he fought alongside General John Bell Hood, the newest ( and last ) commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee in the Second Battle of Franklin.

" He was one of only two Southern senators ( the other was John Bell of Tennessee ) to vote against the act.

* Montgomery Bell Academy, a college preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

He attended Ramsay High School in Birmingham and is a graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.

After the fall of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood led his Army of Tennessee from the Atlanta battlegrounds to the north and west in an attempt to lead General William Tecumseh Sherman's Army of the Cumberland away from Atlanta and out of Georgia.

In the 1860 presidential election, Tensas Parish supported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U. S. Senator John Bell of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United States, the Union, and the " enforcement of the laws.

After the fall of Atlanta in September 1864, President Davis considered replacing John Bell Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee and he asked Robert E. Lee to find out if Beauregard would be interested.

Owingsville is the birthplace of Civil War general John Bell Hood, Indiana governors Henry S. Lane and Claude Matthews and Tennessee governor Alvin Hawkins.

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Public utilities are provided by Chattanooga Gas Company, Tennessee American Water Company, Bell South, EPB and Comcast.

Wheeler's raid was described by historian Ed Bearss as a " Confederate disaster " because it caused minimum damage to the Union while denying Gen. John Bell Hood, now in command of the Army of Tennessee, the direct support of his cavalry arm.

The origins of Fuel were formed in 1989 in Brownsville, Tennessee by guitarist / songwriter Carl Bell and drummer Jody Abbott.

Singer / guitarist Brett Scallions joined the group after Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie saw him in a bar in Jackson, Tennessee in 1993.

Madison Smartt Bell ( born August 1, 1957 Nashville, Tennessee ) is an American novelist.

A fourth candidate, Senator John Bell of Tennessee, was fielded by the Constitutional Union Party, mostly former Whigs and Know Nothings from the Upper South who favored the status quo.