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Davis and later
That evening, as I learned later, the students, enjoying that spontaneous immodesty in action known only to university students, surged out onto the streets of Strasbourg, overturning empty streetcars, marking up store fronts, and shouting imprudently, `` Garry Davis to power ''!!
Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.
This animal, initially given the name the Elmendorf Beast, was later determined by DNA assay conducted at University of California, Davis to be a coyote with demodectic or sarcoptic mange.
Many years later in a letter to Davis ( ca 1965 ), Gödel would confess that " he was, at the time of these lectures, not at all convinced that his concept of recursion comprised all possible recursions ".
Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.
Davis later realized that Garfield and Jon could " communicate nonverbally ".
Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory, a school operated by the Dominican Order in Washington County, Kentucky.
Davis was indicted for treason a year later.
He later emigrated to the United States and established his own research laboratory in New York City but licensed the exclusive production rights for Takadiastase to one of the largest US pharmaceutical companies, Parke Davis.
Davis later suggested that his father's instrument choice was made largely to irk his wife, who disliked the trumpet's sound.
Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.
This was bitterly noted by Davis, who claimed the invention of the cool style and resented the success that was later enjoyed — in large part because of the media's attention — by white " cool jazz " musicians ( Mulligan and Dave Brubeck in particular ).
This was the last time Evans and Davis made a full album together ; despite the professional separation, however, Davis noted later that " my best friend is Gil Evans.
A few weeks later, seventeen-year-old drummer Tony Williams and pianist Herbie Hancock joined the group, and soon afterward Davis, Coleman, and the new rhythm section recorded the rest of Seven Steps to Heaven.
On returning to the United States later that year, ever the musical entrepreneur, Davis ( at Jackie DeShannon's urging ) was instrumental in getting The Byrds signed to Columbia Records.
In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: MGM promotional material in 1949 said that her " greatest ambition " was to have a " successful happy marriage "; decades later, in 1975, she would say, " I was never really a career woman but one only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry.
During her Hollywood career Davis dated many actors, including Clark Gable, Robert Stack, and Peter Lawford ; she later called Gable the nicest of the stars she had met.
It also played a central role in the development of the musical style later referred to as Piedmont blues ; indeed, much of the music played by such artists of the genre as Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker, could be referred to as " ragtime guitar.
Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a Southerner who would later serve as president of the Confederate States of America, was concerned that the pileus would be taken as an abolitionist symbol.
The halftime show was later shown on tape delay after the game ( at around 10: 40 EST and 9: 40 CST ), although most ABC affiliates ran the first episode of Davis Rules following the Super Bowl, and may have televised the remaining parts  of the halftime show later.
The octant and later the sextant, replaced the Davis quadrant as the main instrument for navigation.
Several decades later, Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow ( 1985 ) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie ( 1988 ).

Davis and recalled
In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.
Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in Britain, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to " come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money ".
Director Vincent Sherman recalled the intense competitiveness and animosity between the two actresses, and Davis often joked that she held back nothing in a scene in which she was required to shake Hopkins in a fit of anger.
Joseph Graham " Gray " Davis, Jr. ( born December 26, 1942 ) is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003.
Since being recalled, Davis has worked as a guest lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and as an attorney at Loeb & Loeb and sat on the Board of Directors of the animation company DiC Entertainment.
On October 7, 2003, Davis was recalled with 55. 4 % of the votes in favor of the recall and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected to replace him as governor.
Davis joined Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, who was ousted in 1921, as the only governors in American history to be recalled.
Olivier criticized Governor Schwarzenegger for passing a budget that was “ 30 % larger than the one that got Governor Davis recalled just three years ago .” Olivier's main earned media was talk radio, advertising his opposition to illegal immigration.
In 2003, Governor Gray Davis of California was recalled over the state budget.
* October 7: In California, Democratic Governor Gray Davis is recalled.
Occasional, much-younger co-star Bette Davis recalled that Chatterton was " very kind " to her at Warners when Davis was starting out on her career.
One of his sons, Bill Simon, was the Republican nominee for governor of California in 2002, having been defeated by the Democrat Gray Davis, who was subsequently recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The defeat at Chattanooga was the last straw and Bragg was recalled in early 1864 to Richmond, where he became the military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Along with Frazier, the second and most-recent governor to be successfully recalled is Gray Davis of California in 2003.
He was also the only one, until California's Gray Davis was recalled in 2003.
After several legal and procedural efforts failed to stop it, California's first-ever gubernatorial recall election was held on October 7, and the results were certified on November 14, 2003, making Davis the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U. S. history.
Before the successful recall of Gray Davis, no California statewide official had ever been recalled, though there had been 117 previous attempts.
When Gray Davis was recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in October 2003, Schwarzenegger vowed that his first act as governor would be to revoke the vehicle license fee increase.
The first question asked whether Gray Davis should be recalled.
The first question was whether Davis, the sitting governor, should be recalled ; those voting on it were 55. 4 % in favor of recall and 44. 6 % opposed.
There were also more votes for Schwarzenegger than votes against recalling Davis, avoiding the theoretical scenario of the replacement having less support than the recalled governor.
Issa later said that his mission had been accomplished since Davis was recalled and he wanted to continue representing his district in Congress and work towards Middle East peace.
In his memoir Clive: Inside the Record Business, Davis recalled Nyro's audition for him: she'd invited him to her New York apartment, turned off every light except that of a television set next to her piano, and played him the material that would become Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.

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