Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

The latest death reported was that of 4-year-old Claude Douglas Maynor of Calvary.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph ( `` Shadow of Greatness '' ) Douglas was quoted as saying: `` I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes ''.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

As Douglas and the other candidates went through with their campaigns, Lincoln was the only one of them who gave no speeches.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

The airframe was developed by Douglas Aircraft Company.

The EHV was initially formed with two Douglas C-47 Skytrain and three MH. 1521M Broussard aircraft.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.

Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee.

The connection was firmly cemented by the time Lancaster and Douglas reteamed for their final movie, Tough Guys.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

* 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

The airplane he chartered for a New Year's Eve flight, a Douglas DC-7, had a history of mechanical problems and sub-par flight personnel, and it was overloaded by 4, 200 pounds.

* December 1 – A chartered Yugoslavian McDonnell Douglas MD-81 operating as Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308 crashes into Mount San Pietro on Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

* September 13 – The flight crew of Spantax Flight 995, a chartered McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 with 394 people on board, aborts their takeoff at Málaga, Spain, after feeling a vibration and loses control of the aircraft, which rolls off the end of the runway, strikes vehicles while crossing a four-lane highway, and bursts into flames in a field.

* December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a chartered McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF, crashes shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland ( now Newfoundland and Labrador ), while taking 248 soldiers of the United States Armys 101st Airborne Division from West Germany to the United States for Christmas, killing all 256 people on board.

The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF, was chartered to carry U. S. service personnel, all members of the 101st Airborne Division, United States Army, from a six-month deployment in the Sinai, where they had served in the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping mission, back to their base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

* July 31 – A chartered Philippine Airlines Douglas DC-4 ferries 40 American servicemen to Oakland, California, from Nielson Airport in Makati City, Manila, in the Philippine Islands with stops at Guam, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, and Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii.

* March 12 – Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a chartered Douglas C-54G-1-DO, crashes into Mount Sanford in the Territory of Alaska, killing all 30 people on board.

* August 19 – A Transair Douglas Dakota chartered by the British National Union of Students and carrying 29 British students and a crew of three strays off course and crashes in the Montseny mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, killing all on board.

* July 1 – Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A, a chartered Douglas DC-8 Super 63CF carrying 214 American troops on their way to South Vietnam and a crew of 24, strays into Soviet airspace during a flight from Seattle, Washington, to Yokota Air Base in Japan.

* October 30 – A chartered Yugoslavian McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 operating as Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes in the suburb of Suchdol while on final approach to land at Prague, Czechoslovakia, in foggy weather, killing 75 of the 120 people on board.

West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a chartered West Caribbean Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft heading from Panama to Martinique in the Caribbean, crashed in remote western Venezuela, killing all 160 aboard, mostly French nationals.

The island's largest town and administrative centre is Douglas, the population of which is 23 000, nearly a third of the entire population of the island.

Douglas, the largest town on the Isle of Man is its capital and seat of government, where the Government offices and the parliament chambers ( Tynwald ) are located.

The Douglas County, Kansas | Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, the town where much of " The Day After " takes place.

Archibald Douglas attempted to relieve the town in July, but was defeated and killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill.

In 1962 and 1963, Wilder lived twenty months in the small town of Douglas, Arizona, apart from family and friends.

* Sarah Douglas, actress, best known for her film and TV career, was born and raised in the town.

Crosses the Massachusetts state line into the town of Douglas as Southwest Main Street.

From the Douglas town line to the intersection of Massachusetts Route 122, it is known as Hartford Avenue West ; from Route 122 to the Mendon town line, it is known as Hartford Avenue East.

One of the world's tallest Douglas fir trees ever recorded was in the town of Mineral within Lewis County, attaining a height of.

In an episode of the television series Bonanza ( Look to the Stars, broadcast March 18, 1962 ), Ben Cartwright ( Lorne Greene ) helps the 16-year-old Albert Abraham Michelson ( portrayed by 25-year-old Douglas Lambert ( 1936 – 1986 )) obtain an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, despite the opposition of the bigoted town schoolteacher ( played by William Schallert ).

The location of this new town seemed to satisfy most of the residents of Douglas County to be their point of county government.

Douglas is a town in Marshall County, Alabama, in the United States.

The United States Army established Camp San Bernardino in the latter half of the 19th century near the presidio and in 1910 Camp Douglas was built next to the town.

Douglas was founded as an American smelter town, to treat the copper ores of nearby Bisbee, Arizona.

The town is named after mining pioneer Dr. James Douglas, and was incorporated in 1905.

* Douglas Avenue, a neighborhood just northeast of town with a mix of housing styles, including ranches, two-stories, townhomes, and a few apartments.

* Frank Douglas Garrett-Born July 19, 1944-University Dean, Speaker, Author-All Marine Basketball 1964-66, JUCO All American Basketball, 1967-69-Honored by town of Odon at Old Settler's of 2006.

The city was the subject of Douglas Bauer's popular reminiscence of change in small town Iowa from the 1950s through the 1970s, Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home.

Douglas Mountain has an elevation of above sea level, the highest point in both the town and southwestern Maine.

Members of the town council are Todd A. Benner ( 2013 ), Douglas Myers ( 2013 ), Daniel C. Riley ( 2013 ), Tammy Black ( 2015 ), and Vincent C. Pacelli.

Douglas is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

The name of Douglas was first given to the territory of the town in the year 1746.