Brown owes its founding to the support of learning among a Baptist Church association but in 1762, the Baptist Minister Morgan Edwards was at first ridiculed for suggesting the founding of a college.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

Also doing his army service in Shrewsbury at the same time was his United team-mate Duncan Edwards.

In the American colonies the First Great Awakening of the 1740s greatly expanded the movement ; it was based on revivals led by Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and Methodist George Whitefield.

" Edwards suggested that the pyramid was entered by robbers after the end of the Old Kingdom and sealed and then reopened more than once until Strabo's door was added.

Mullan was actively involved in the scheme to create the first monument to a goalkeeper in the Western World with the assistance of Banks ' legendary teammate Terry Conroy and emerging local sculptor Andrew Edwards.

He was soon noticed by Blake Edwards, who in 1958 cast him as a neurotic harried navy yeoman in Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.

Operation Petticoat proved to be a breakout role for MacLeod, and he was soon cast in another Edwards comedy, High Time, with Bing Crosby.

It was converted to a program on its own right by panasync ( Colten Edwards ).

Wielding a large butcher knife, Dahmer forced Edwards into the bedroom, where Edwards saw pictures of mangled bodies on the wall and noticed the terrible smell coming from a large blue barrel ; the barrel was filled with potent acid which dissolved human bodies to sludge for disposal via the apartment toilet.

However, Edwards remembered that the knife Dahmer had threatened him with was in the bedroom.

Dahmer was not charged in the attempted murder of Edwards.

After U. S. ownership of the region was confirmed in the Treaty of Ghent ( 1814 ), the U. S. built or expanded forts along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, including adding to Fort Bellefontaine, and constructing Fort Armstrong ( 1816 ) and Fort Edwards ( 1816 ) in Illinois, Fort Crawford ( 1816 ) in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin, Fort Snelling ( 1819 ) in Minnesota, and Fort Atkinson ( 1819 ) in Nebraska.

The first bridge to cross the Murray, which was built in 1869, is in the town of Murray Bridge, formerly called Edwards Crossing.

Henry was " slightly effeminate " with " homosexual tendencies ", according to biographer Anne Edwards.

With the Giants trying to secure a win against the Philadelphia Eagles, they chose to call a running play — which resulted in a fumble that was returned for a game-winning touchdown by the Eagles ' Herman Edwards.

Lauda was saved by the combined actions of fellow drivers Arturo Merzario, Guy Edwards, Brett Lunger, and Harald Ertl, rather than by the ill-equipped track marshals.

According to Edwards, ‘ Hawke was unprepared to attack it and responded with windy rhetoric ’.

The concept of emission and transmission tomography was introduced by David E. Kuhl, Luke Chapman and Roy Edwards in the late 1950s.

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona ( Edwards ) and James McCauley, a teacher and a carpenter, respectively.

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.

Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ( Vostok 1 ), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, daughter of Sharon ( née Morrison ) and Clarence Edwards.

When the family reaches Indian Territory, they meet Mr. Edwards, who is extremely polite to Ma, but tells Laura and Mary that he is " a wildcat from Tennessee.

On election night, Edwards gave public credit to the African American New Orleans political organization SOUL for his extremely narrow victory, stating that the 12, 000 vote lead SOUL had brought him in New Orleans had put him over the top.

The Kennebec River before the construction of Edwards Dam was extremely important as a spawning ground for Atlantic fish.

Landowners ' concerns about public liability resulted in suitable land for gatherings being extremely difficult to find and DTE consequently purchased land on Gulpa Creek near Deniliquin in NSW in 2002 and held ConFest on that site until DTE purchased a property on the Edwards River near Moulamein in 2006, which has since been the home of Confest.

Edwards played live with and appeared on albums of Tom Waits.

In 1996 the American Library Association selected Blume for its Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contributions to young adult literature.

Edwards joined the band on guitar and often made contributions to lyrics with Wire, designing record sleeves and other artwork, and driving the band to and from gigs.

When questioned about receiving illegal campaign contributions, he replied that “ It was illegal for them to give, but not for me to receive .” He also insisted he saw no problem with investing in a proposed New Orleans office building called " One Edwards Square " ( it was never actually named that ) while still governor, and demonstrated his gambling prowess to the press on one of his frequent gambling trips to Las Vegas.

He later made contributions to the ELO II album and performed on the hit singles " Roll Over Beethoven ", " Showdown " and " Ma-Ma-Ma Belle " playing alongside cellists Colin Walker and Mike Edwards.

As of the April 15 filing, LaRouche had 7834 individual contributions, of those who have given cumulatively, $ 200 or more, as compared to 6257 for John Kerry, 5582 for John Edwards, 4090 for Howard Dean, and 2744 for Gephardt.

In June 2011, CREW criticized the Justice Department's prosecution of Democratic politician John Edwards for allegedly receiving and hiding illegal campaign contributions.

It featured contributions from Alex Pascall OBE, Professor Gus John, filmmaker Menelik Shabazz, spoken word artists El Crisis and Zena Edwards, novelist Courttia Newland and musicians Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson.

Historians such as Edwards and Harold Schechter have said this was the elder Colt's way of letting the world know that the boy was his own son without directly saying so.

Judge Edwards interrupted the second psychiatrist, saying the purpose of the hearing was to determine the sentence and that there was no question of Chapman's criminal responsibility, drawing applause from the courtroom.

While at Edwards, Cooper was intrigued to read an announcement saying a contract had been awarded to McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri to build a space capsule.

" On February 8, John Edwards addressed the writings of the staffers, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, saying ' that kind of intolerant language will not be permitted from anyone on my campaign, whether it's intended as satire, humor or anything else.

" Planning director Richard Edwards defended the decision by saying, " It will bring new homes which are needed in the area.

In 2004, Edwards filed for divorce from his second wife Candy, saying that Mrs. Edwards had " suffered enough " during his incarceration.

According to collaborator Earl Shuman, one day while collaborating with Edwards in the Brill building, where publishers provided music rooms for the songwriters, Edwards left mid-song saying something to the effect that he " wasn't into the rock songs any more " and that he had an idea for a show and was going home to write it.

John Edwards first mentioned Canada towards the end of the Vice-Presidential debate saying that the Bush administration " blocked allowing prescription drugs into this country from Canada.

At 5PM on Thursday, September 9, CBS News released a statement saying the memos were " thoroughly investigated by independent experts, and we are convinced of their authenticity ", and stating, " this report was not based solely on recovered documents, but rather on a preponderance of evidence, including documents that were provided by unimpeachable sources ," In an interview, CBS News spokesperson Kelli Edwards said, " CBS verified the authenticity of the documents by talking to individuals who had seen the documents at the time they were written.

Cheney's claim is disputed by FactCheck. org as wrong, saying that " Edwards was mostly right " when talking about " Cheney's responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles ".

Host Alan Colmes asked if he was " saying that Edwards voters are bigots?

During the post-race interview on Victory Lane, Edwards commented on the race, saying, " This is the biggest win of my career ".

However, Mark Edwards from Stylus Magazine gave it a scathing remark by saying " Listening to the first tracks on Ultimate Kylie, you want to skip straight through, because early songs like “ I Should Be So Lucky ” and “ Locomotion ” are unlistenable — horribly naff, squeaky songs " and criticized Stock, Aitken and Waterman songs they produced in the 80's by stating " songs transport the listener back to a time when every single in the UK charts was either written by Stock, Aitken and Waterman or sung by an Aussie soap star, or both.