The Panthers wound up spending $ 6 million during the season — three times what USFL founder David Dixon recommended that a team spend in a single season.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Historian and biographer William Hepworth Dixon considered that Bacon's name could be included in the list of Founders of the United States of America.

Kentucky Whig Archibald Dixon believed that unless the Missouri Compromise was explicitly repealed, slaveholders would be reluctant to move to the new territory until slavery was actually approved by the settlers, settlers who would most likely hold free-soil views.

A US newspaper reported that an alleged gang member of Juggalo Rydas, Dewey W. Dixon, " will be serving a mandatory 15-year prison sentence for shooting up an apartment with a Mac-10 " in September 2008.

When the deal was reached a week earlier, Dixon strongly suggested to Rozelle that the announcement be delayed until then.

Dixon told an interviewer that he even cleared the name with New Orleans ' Archbishop Philip M. Hannan: " He thought it would be a good idea.

* June 27 – Canadian-born boxer George Dixon defeats the British bantamweight champion in London, giving him claim to be the first black world champion in any sport.

That boundary would finally be settled in 1763 when surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon incorporated the line as the definitive boundary between Delaware and Maryland.

The 1976 – 77 season would be memorable for the 76ers ; as a result of the terms of the ABA-NBA merger they acquired Julius Erving from the New York Nets, soon after the team was purchased by local philanthropist Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., grandson of George Dunton Widener and heir to the Widener fortune.

The stones may be a few to a few hundred feet east or west of the point Mason and Dixon thought they were ; in any event, the line drawn from stone to stone forms the legal boundary.

Dixon observed from the evidence available that Aboriginal myths regarding the origin of the Crater Lakes might be dated as accurate back to 10 000 years ago.

Higher education can be attained within a reasonable driving distance at either Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, IL or the nearest four-year institution, Ashford University in Clinton, IA ( about 35 – 45 minutes away ).

When Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon conducted a survey of the order in the 1760s, Rising Sun was found to be located in Maryland.

It was in 1949 that Warner first played the role for which he would be remembered, PC George Dixon, in the film The Blue Lamp.

On 12 April 2006 Geoff Dixon, CEO of the Qantas Group, announced that the group would be focusing its two-brand strategy, Qantas and Jetstar brands, and as such Australian Airlines brand would cease to exist from July 2006.

Along with his friend Henry Horatio Dixon, Joly also put forward the cohesion-tension theory which is now thought to be the main mechanism for the upward movement of water in plants.

In one of the few times that Dixon is seen to lose his temper, he furiously declares there to be nothing worse than " a bent copper ", and forces Carr to take off the uniform jacket he is " not fit to wear "; only once Carr has done this does Dixon arrest him.

Actor Ivan Dixon of Hogan's Heroes and Car Wash fame can be seen toward the end of the film in the crowd that follows Claudine as she hops into the police truck.

The character of Dixon has further scenes filmed but, from Anderson's reactions, appear not to be working.

In Parker v The Queen ( 1963 ), Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon led a unanimous judgment which rejected a precedent of the House of Lords in DPP v Smith saying, " I shall not depart from the law on this matter as we have long since laid it down in this Court and I think that Smith's case should not be used in Australia as authority at all "; the following year the Privy Council upheld an appeal, applying the House of Lords precedent.

However, Dixon later abandoned his proto-Australian proposal, and Foley's ideas need to be re-evaluated in light of recent research.

There were several conditions, one was that the Carl Dixon character be written out as if he had never existed.

Telluric currents, along what are effectively ley lines, are discovered to be a means of mysterious communication in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon and are associated with the book's Chinese-Jesuit subplot.

It was dug out of the sand in which it had been buried for nearly 2, 000 years and was encased in a great iron cylinder, long and in diameter, designed by the engineer John Dixon and dubbed Cleopatra, to be commanded by Captain Carter.

Yet the writer of the series always maintained to the end of the programme's time that stories were based on fact, and that Dixon was an accurate reflection of what goes on in an ordinary police station.

In Grady v. Corbin ( 1990 ), the Court held that a double jeopardy violation could lie even where the Blockburger test was not satisfied, but Grady was overruled in United States v. Dixon ( 1993 ).

Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters and settings with invented history and fantasy, as in the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon respectively.

* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.

If Dixon was known to the public, the actor Jack Warner was even better known.

This has been a great topic of debate among musicologists for decades, and it has even been suggested by Graham Dixon that Monteverdi ’ s setting of the Vespers is more suited towards use for the feast of Saint Barbara, claiming, for example, that the texts taken from Song of Songs are applicable to any female saint.

Dixon's birthdate was often reported as 1918 and Dixon would offer this date to reporters, at one point even producing a passport to this effect, but she once testified in a deposition that she was born in 1910.

It was the progenitor of the long-running television series Dixon of Dock Green ( even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film ).

The police in The Sweeney were far removed from the cosy BBC world of Dixon of Dock Green, or even from the BBC's slightly more realistic Z-Cars ( which itself had been co-created by Troy Kennedy-Martin ).

Huw Dixon and Claus Hansen showed that even if only part of the economy has sticky prices, this can influence prices in other sectors and lead to prices in the rest of the economy becoming less responsive to changes in demand.

Democrats, desirous to defeat Crittenden and embarrass the Whigs, pledged to vote against him at all costs, even if it meant electing Dixon.

He also had an international reputation, with Lord Denning stating " I would rank him as one of the greatest of your chief justices, rivalling even Sir Owen Dixon.

Dixon was a marauding right back, ever willing to support his winger David Rocastle and his attacking skills were still noted even though his main job ( and the main priority of the side as a whole ) was to defend.

The 2008 IndyCar season was even stronger for the Chip Ganassi Racing team with eventual champion Scott Dixon taking wins at Homestead, Indianapolis, Texas, Nashville, Edmonton, and Kentucky, and teammate Dan Wheldon finishing 4th overall after winning again at Kansas and Iowa.

Huw Dixon and Claus Hansen showed that even if menu costs applied to a small sector of the economy, this would influence the rest of the economy and lead to prices in the rest of the economy becoming less responsive to changes in demand.

By the mid-20th century, some speakers applied the word to any American born north of the Mason – Dixon Line, though usually with a specific focus still on New England.

Similarly, Nancy Drew mystery books are published as though they were written by Carolyn Keene, The Hardy Boys books are published as the work of Franklin W. Dixon, and The Bobbsey Twins series are credited to Laura Lee Hope, although several authors have been involved in each series.

Other such experiments, though limited in depth, had been done by: George Dixon in 1780 in Cockfield, Jean-Pierre Minckelers in 1785 in Louvain, and Archibald Cochrane in 1787 at his estate Culross Abbey.

Dixon thus provides a data-driven account of the prototypical ‘ more compact ’ and ‘ less compact ’ causatives ( though noting that these prototypes are somewhat artificial, chiefly in that many causative constructions in the languages surveyed involve only some subset of the criteria above ), and calls for broader typological surveys to test his model — a call which I have taken into account when selecting the languages for my preliminary survey.

The reasons for this remain a mystery, though Dale Cockrell surmises that Hawks likely did not want to face further defamation of character in trial and may have paid Dixon off ; Dixon himself claimed as much in 1841.

It was created for the opening of the hotel in 1926 by Maynard Dixon and Frank Von Sloun, and has been called " the first embodiment of Queen Califia " though criticized as showing her " haughty and aloof ".

Even though this point is within the Twelve Mile Circle, the western boundary of Pennsylvania was to be five degrees of longitude west of it, and Mason and Dixon were to survey the Maryland line to Pennsylvania's western border.

He retained his England place, having seen off long-term rival Viv Anderson ( who had held the slot from the late 1970s up to the mid 1980s ), though had to contend with the emergence of Paul Parker of Queens Park Rangers as a serious rival for his place and also faced competition from Arsenal's Lee Dixon.

With England international Kenny Sansom at left back, the equally left-sided Nigel Winterburn had been a guarded success in the unfamiliar right back role, though Dixon did make his debut against Luton Town in February 1988 and played six times in total before the season ended.

In his research of the Comayagua Valley region, Dixon finds evidence of large quantities of cross-cultural relationships and many remains have been found linking settlements together though ceramics.

In addition, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson, Bill Paterson, Roy Hudd and Jonathan Pryce, who had roles in the TV adaptation or the original radio series, all returned, though Dixon and Paterson both play new roles.

On his 1973 album Stompin ' Tom and the Hockey Song, Stompin ' Tom Connors released the song The Last Fatal Duel, written by Freddy Dixon, detailing the battle ( though accidentally referring to Lyon as William, not Robert ).

Even though Foyt was passed a few laps later by Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon, he managed to hold on the rest of the way and drive to a career-best 3rd place finish, the first Top-5 finish of his career.