Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

Church official Philip G. Davis noted that the administration and Colonnade buildings had not been fully used for many years and that vacancy increased after staff reductions in 2004.

Conversely, Davis noted that " the financial situation right now is excellent " and stated that the church was not facing financial problems.

Davis was noted as " one of the key figures in the history of jazz ".

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.

Crowther said that Davis " does nicely as the fiancée who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief ," while another noted critic, The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Richard L. Coe, said Davis " is splendid as the understanding widow.

Charles Pierce ( July 14, 1926 – May 31, 1999 ) was one of the 20th century's foremost female impersonators, particularly noted for his impersonation of Bette Davis.

The film was later described by Bosley Crowther as " interminable "; and he noted that " of all the miserable dilemmas in which Miss Davis has been involved ... this one is probably the worst ".

Critics of Hyman noted that Davis had financially supported the Hyman family for several years and had recently saved them from losing their house.

Time magazine noted that Davis was compulsively watchable even while criticizing her acting technique, summarizing her performance in Dead Ringer ( 1964 ) with the observation, " her acting, as always, isn't really acting: it's shameless showing off.

" In a 2000 review for All About Eve, ( 1950 ) Roger Ebert noted, " Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her excesses are realistic.

Marion is also noted for being the birthplace of legendary actor James Dean and famed cartoonist Jim Davis, though both were raised in nearby Fairmount.

In 1897 a crowd of 4, 000 gathered to watch a winning harness racing horse bred by noted Chicago theater manager Will J. Davis and his famous wife, contralto Jessie Bartlett Davis.

They had three children: Constance Davis Lodge ( b. 1872 ), noted poet George Cabot Lodge ( b. 1873 ), and John Ellerton Lodge ( b. 1876 ), an art curator.

GameSpot's Ryan Davis praised the game's minigame format, although he noted that " players who have already exhausted themselves on previous Mario Party titles may not find enough here to draw them back again ".

* Ashida Kim, believed by many to be Caucasian author and self proclaimed ninja Radford Davis ( alternate pen name Christopher Hunter ), who wrote numerous books on ninjutsu during the ' 70s and ' 80s, noted for refusing to provide details about his teachers, or the lineage of the martial art in which he claims expertise.

Capitol also developed a noted jazz line, including the Capitol Jazz Men, and issued the Miles Davis – led sessions called " Birth of the Cool ".

The studio had originally intended it as a vehicle for Bette Davis and Joan Crawford earlier but Davis had noted that she didn't want to make a " dyke movie " and turned it down.

Richard Davis noted in his diary of 14 January 1846, " Yesterday the news came that the Pa was taken on Sunday by the sailors, and that twelve Europeans were killed and thirty wounded.

Davis noted as evidence for this theory the improbability of a woman's mistaking a stranger for her husband, Bertrande's support for Arnaud until ( and even partially during ) the trial, and their shared story of intimacy, likely prepared in advance.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city.

Essendon had tough, but talented players with the likes of " Rotten Ronnie " Ron Andrews and experienced players such as Barry Davis, Ken Fletcher, Geoff Blethyn, Neville Fields and West Australian import Graham Moss.

Bob Davis acknowledges the possibility that had Coleman played, Essendon may well have won, given that Geelong had no true match for him, as Coleman was simply too skilled.

Davis quickly apologized for the poorly timed comic strip, claiming that it had been written a year in advance and that both his brother and son were veterans.

Bogart's disputes with Warner Bros. over roles and money were similar to those the studio had with other less-than-obedient stars, such as Bette Davis, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland.

Davis believed that his company had paid too much for Infocom and initiated a lawsuit against them to recoup some of the cost, along with changing the way Infocom was run.

Bolstered by this success, Brown recruited a new band, consisted of saxophonist J. C. Davis, guitarist Bobby Roach, bassist Bernard Odum, trumpeter Roscoe Patrick, saxophonist Albert Corley, drummer Nat Kendrick and his old band mate Bobby Byrd, who had rejoined Brown's band on organ.

Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).

Both of Davis ' paternal grandparents had immigrated to North America from the region of Snowdonia in the North of Wales ; the rest of his ancestry can be traced to England.

Reportedly the chief liked Davis because of the kind treatment he had shown.

By early 1836, Davis had purchased 16 slaves.

That same year, Davis met Varina Banks Howell, then 17 years old, whom his brother Joseph had invited for the Christmas season at Hurricane plantation.

Within a month of their meeting, the 35-year-old widower Davis had asked Varina to marry him.

Jefferson and Varina Howell Davis had six children ; three died before reaching adulthood.

He had not served a year when he resigned ( in September 1851 ) to run for the governorship of Mississippi on the issue of the Compromise of 1850, which Davis opposed.

As Davis explained in his memoir The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, he believed that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.

Davis had expected this but waited until he received official notification ; then on January 21, the day Davis called " the saddest day of my life ", he delivered a farewell address to the United States Senate, resigned and returned to Mississippi.

Anticipating a call for his services since Mississippi had seceded, Davis had sent a telegraph message to Governor Pettus saying, " Judge what Mississippi requires of me and place me accordingly.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In 1848 Senator Davis introduced the first of several proposed amendments to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; this one would annex most of northeastern Mexico and failed with a vote of 44 to 11.

Guitarists such as Pat Martino, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, John Scofield and Mike Stern ( the latter two both alumni of the Miles Davis band ) fashioned a new language for the guitar which introduced jazz to a new generation of fans.

Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream ( usually via a wound ).

The Wade – Davis Bill emerged from a plan introduced in the Senate by Ira Harris of New York in February, 1863.

Isaac Davis ( Woody Allen ) is introduced as a man writing a book about his love for New York City.

Paul K. Davis writes that " Pydna marked the final destruction of Alexander ’ s empire and introduced Roman authority over the Near East.

Davis even introduced his own sketches, strutting across a bare stage in Judge regalia and chanting in couplets (" If your lawyer's sleepin ', better give him a nudge!

They discussed marriage ; at one point he introduced her to Davis as his fiancée.

A performance at New York's Rockefeller Center introduced EWF to Clive Davis, then the President of Columbia Records.

He became friends with James T. Aubrey, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and was introduced to celebrities such as financier Kirk Kerkorian, Chris-Craft chairman Herb Siegel, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., and The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson.

Davis introduced this version of retributive justice in the early 1980s, at a time when retributive justice was making a resurgence within the philosophy of law community, perhaps due to the practical failings of reform theory in the previous decades.

In 1969 Davis fully introduced the electric instrument approach to jazz with In a Silent Way, which can be considered Davis's first fusion album.

In 1989, the tiebreak was also introduced into Davis Cup competition.

The Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 introduced Hawaiian steel guitar to mainland country music artists, and by the 1930s country stars Hoot Gibson and Jimmy Davis were making records with Hawaiian musicians.

Based in New York City, musicians such as Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane introduced modal improvisation and experimented with atonality and dissonance.

The " Three-step Analysis " of the fertility process was introduced by Kingsley Davis and Judith Blake in 1956 and makes use of three proximate determinants:

When Sebastian Cabot became ill, Giles's brother, Nigel " Niles " French ( John Williams ) was introduced, working for the Davis family for nine episodes in 1967 while Giles is said to be in England visiting the Queen.

* A second back door pilot was made for a series that would have featured Greg Antonacci and Gene Davis as Eugene Conigliaro and Mickey Long, two humorously incompetent characters who were introduced in the Rockford episode " The Jersey Bounce " ( the same character names are used in both episodes but they are clearly different characters as both of them and Rockford do not even know each other in the second episode, " Just A Coupla Guys ").

Chris Guthrie joined Davis, and introduced him to Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres, who were working on a more strategic offshoot of Empire called Conquest.

George Harrison owned one of their MS500 models, which were introduced in 1957 and famed British session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan owned and used a Maton ' Cello ' guitar for many years during the peak of his career, playing it on recordings with Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Keating and his Big Band and Neil Finn from Crowded House.

Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes ( her ex-husband with whom she performed as Suckdog ), Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many.

On the policy front, the Davis administration introduced regional governments for Durham, Hamilton-Wentworth, Haldimand-Norfolk, and Waterloo but shelved further plans in response to popular protests.

In June 2008 Davis announced his intention to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary by Dominic Grieve, the surprise move seen as a challenge to the changes introduced under Cameron's leadership.

Davis was introduced to snooker by his father Bill, a keen player, who took him to play at his local working men's club at the age of 12, and gave him Joe Davis's instructional book How I Play Snooker.