`` Also, that Mr. Ferguson was here.

At that moment, Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was about.

Ferguson, working at the Fort Qu ' Appelle Sanatorium in Saskatchewan, was among the pioneers in developing the practice of vaccination against tuberculosis.

Reliever Tim Stoddard ( 10 – 6 3. 82, 7 saves ) was acquired the same day for a minor leaguer ; veteran pitcher Ferguson Jenkins was released.

Another notable honorable mention was given to the two men who attempted to burgle the home of footballer Duncan Ferguson ( who had four convictions for assault and had served six months in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison ) in 2001, with one burglar requiring three days ' hospitalization after being confronted by the player.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

He and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed what he called a ' science of man ', which was expressed historically in works by authors including James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behave in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awareness of the determining forces of modernity.

Sir George Ferguson Bowen was governor from 1879 to 1883.

Ferguson was subsequently knighted for his services to football.

Homer Lenoir Ferguson was a manager when Hopkins died, and assumed the presidency the following July.

As a result of this method, care must be taken in the interpretation of Ferguson's three factors, as factor analysis will output an abstract ' factor ' whether an objectively real factor exists or not .< reF > SAS ( R ) 3. 11 Users Guide, Multivariate Analysis: Factor Analysis Although replication of the Nationalism factor was inconsistent, the finding of Religionism and Humanitarianism had a number of replications by Ferguson and others.

In 1850 James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory, noted that he had " lost " a star he had observed, GR1719k, which Lt. Matthew Maury, the superintendent of the Observatory, claimed was evidence that it must be a new planet.

Indeed, Stevens's definition of measurement was put forward in response to the British Ferguson Committee, whose chair, A. Ferguson, was a physicist.

On one occasion when Askin was supposed to drive a new Holden from the factory assembly line during a visit, Askin arranged for his driver, Russ Ferguson, to be hidden on the car floor working the controls while Askin held the wheel.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Rookie of the Year, Billy Martin was named Manager of the Year, Jeff Burroughs won American League MVP, and Ferguson Jenkins was named the Comeback Player of the Year after winning 25 games, a club record to this day.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

However, probably the most important work on polynomial curves and sculptured surface was done by Pierre Bézier ( Renault ), Paul de Casteljau ( Citroen ), Steven Anson Coons ( MIT, Ford ), James Ferguson ( Boeing ), Carl de Boor ( GM ), Birkhoff ( GM ) and Garibedian ( GM ) in the 1960s and W. Gordon ( GM ) and R. Riesenfeld in the 1970s.

Financial historian Niall Ferguson writes that what made the Great Depression truly ' great ' was the European banking crisis of 1931.

" For his talent there were no conservatories to get stuffy in, no high-trumpet didoes to be learned doggedly, note-perfect as written ," Ferguson wrote, " because in his chosen form the only writing of any account was traced in the close shouting air of Royal Gardens, Grand Pavilions, honkeytonks, etc.

The mayor of New Albany is Nancy Ferguson, who was elected in 2003.

In a follow-up election in 2010, Scott Ferguson was elected mayor.

Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband, Dennis McCarthy, was killed by Ferguson, and whose son, Kevin McCarthy, was severely injured, was subsequently elected to the United States Congress, on a platform of gun control.

Other entertainers who have traveled to the Middle East to perform include Al Franken ( who made six USO tours in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan before being elected a United States Senator from Minnesota ), Craig Ferguson, Gary Sinise, Zac Brown, Jessica Simpson, Carrie Underwood, Drowning Pool, Toby Keith,

In 1884 Munro Ferguson was elected to the House of Commons.

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At the 2010 election Laurie Ferguson became the first new member for Werriwa elected at a general election since 1934.

Ferguson was elected to the municipal council, serving three years as reeve of Kemptville.

First elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1905 election, Ferguson served as Minister of Lands, Forest and Mines in the government of William Hearst from 1914 to 1919.

In the federal Parliament, Ferguson was elected to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in March 1996 and was Shadow Minister for Immigration in 2004-05.

At the local level the majority Greek membership, largely resulting from heavy branch stacking, was likely to support a candidate other than Ferguson, but no local candidate was likely to receive support from the fifty per cent vote in the preselection panel elected by the Victorian ALP State Conference.

Ferguson was elected to the Opposition Shadow Ministry in March 1996 and was Shadow Minister for Regional and Urban Development and Shadow Minister for Transport and Infrastructure 2001 – 04.

After receiving intelligence on the oncoming attack, Ferguson elected to retreat to the safety of Lord Cornwallis ' host ; however, the Patriots caught up with the Loyalists at Kings Mountain on the border with South Carolina.

Ferguson was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and was reelected in 1948, serving from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1955.

" A common campaign slogan was, " Me for Ma, and I Ain't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa ." Against the odds, Ma Ferguson was elected governor, becoming the first female chief executive of Texas.

Hobby was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1914 and after James Edward Ferguson was removed from office in 1917, he became the youngest governor in the history of the state up to that point.

In 2004 Ferguson was elected to an Honorary Fellowship there.

Formerly, Ferguson was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, serving as President during 2008-2009, an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the New America Foundation.

In 1992 Beerling was the first non-broadcaster to receive the Ferguson Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio from the Radio Academy and in 1992 he was elected President of the Television and Radio Industries Club of Great Britain.

In the 1995 provincial election, Carroll was elected in the riding of Chatham — Kent over Liberal Mike Ferguson by 546 votes ( New Democrat Randy Hope finished third ).

This is the closest challenge Ferguson has faced since being elected.

The Ontario Conservative Party, led by George Howard Ferguson, was elected for a third consecutive term in government with an increased majority in the Legislature.

In the 2008 election, Mike Ferguson ( who had first been elected in 2000, replacing Bob Franks ) did not seek another term.

In 1948, he made an unsuccessful bid to be elected the United States Senate, losing to Republican Homer Ferguson.