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Harrison went on to victory in 1840, defeating Van Buren's re-election bid largely as a result of the Panic of 1837 and subsequent depression.
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Harrison, a dual Australian Champion Beach Sprinter who went on to row in the coxless four at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, had been introduced to rowing after a chance meeting with one of the fathers of modern athletic physiological training and testing, and the coach of the Leichhardt Guinea Pigs, Professor Frank Cotton.
In 1730 Harrison created a description and drawings for a proposed marine clock to compete for the Longitude Prize and went to London seeking financial assistance.
Harrison Storms, the North American designer who was responsible for the X-15 rocket plane, and went on to head the effort to design the Apollo Command / Service Module and Saturn V launch vehicle's second stage was moved by the launch of Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America.
Tom Petty's involvement came by chance, as Harrison had left his guitar at Petty's house and Harrison went to get it and Petty came back with Harrison.
* Michael R. Harrison – developed the initial techniques for fetal surgery and performed the first fetal surgery in 1981, and then went on to establish the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, which was the first of its kind in the United States.
Harrison was a hopeful for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President, but was unable to negotiate his way through a tangle of conflicting loyalies to different Party bosses ; the nomination went to Alton B. Parker, who was soundly defeated by Theodore Roosevelt.
As a result, the nomination went to Harrison.
A spy he had hired, Henry Thomas Harrison who went by just " Harrison ", was instrumental in warning the Confederates that the Union Army of the Potomac was advancing north to meet them more quickly than they had anticipated, prompting Lee to order the immediate concentration of his army near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Harrison and Reid went on to lose the 1892 election, to Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic candidates.
Old US 65 went through Omaha, causing travelers from further south in Arkansas ( such as Harrison ) to go through Omaha on the way to Missouri, and likewise for travelers heading further south from Missouri.
Harrison then went on to rebuild the medieval Shire Hall in neoclassical style.
He was originally chosen to play Julius Caesar in Cleopatra ( 1963 ) and filmed scenes in London, but when the film was postponed he withdrew ; the role instead went to Rex Harrison.
While he went on to make a splash with his series of West Coast Computer Faires, subsequent DDJ editors like Marlin Ouverson, Hank Harrison, Michael Swaine and Jonathan Erickson appear to have focused on the journalistic and social aspects of the young but growing microcomputer industry.
Harrison commented, " Now, historically, there's the story that something went on that shouldn't have done — but nothing did ".
He took over the collection of basic slag ( a waste product of steelworks used as fertiliser ) when local company Harrison Ivinson went out of business, and purchased two Ford Thames Trader trucks which were also painted in his favourite colours with his logo on the doors.
Around this time, a phone call went out to Mick Jagger, who was forced to turn down Harrison ’ s invitation to perform, due to The Rolling Stones ' precarious situation as tax exiles in France.
The profits from the event went to the Material World Charitable Foundation, an organization set up by Harrison.
In spring 2005, Bettany went to Vancouver to film Firewall, a thriller starring Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen, which reunited him with Wimbledon director Richard Loncraine.
When the Senate majority leader ’ s job opened up in 1937, Harrison went after it.
With search warrants in hand they went to the Ohio Medical College, where they discovered not Devin ’ s body but the naked body of John Scott Harrison hanging from a rope down a chute beneath a trap door.
With the approval of his Jesuit superiors, McElroy went about raising funds and in 1857 purchased land for " The Boston College " on Harrison Avenue in the Irish neighborhood of South End, Boston, Massachusetts.
Harrison and on
image: Ap17 schmitt falls. ogg | Astronaut Harrison Schmitt falls while on a Moonwalk.
image: Ap17 strolling. ogg | Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.
image: Harrison Schmitt inside LM on surface, Apollo 17. jpg | Schmitt in the lunar module after EVA 3.
Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.
Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, now a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher who had some association with the Grateful Dead ; consequently, Love was included in a group picture on the back of the band's album Aoxomoxoa ( 1969 ).
Cromwell, aided by Thomas Harrison, forcibly dismissed the Rump on 20 April 1653, for reasons that are unclear.
Flockhart has been in a relationship with actor Harrison Ford since their meeting at the Golden Globe Awards on January 20, 2002.
* 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) of the Apollo 17 mission.
This was repeated by Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke on Apollo 16, and by Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17.
Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).
Major-General Thomas Harrison, who had commanded the troop which aided Oliver Cromwell in dissolving the Rump, suggested that there be a ruling body based upon the Old Testament Sanhedrin of 70 selected " Saints ", which was based on his beliefs, as a Fifth Monarchist, that the rule of the Saints would usher in the reign of Christ on Earth.
After the Restoration on 14 October 1660 Major-General Thomas Harrison was the first person to be found guilty of the regicide of Charles I.
File: Ap17 schmitt falls. ogg | Harrison Schmitt falls while on a Moonwalk.
The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 14, 1914.
George Harrison ( of the Beatles ) played the sitar on the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )" in 1965, which sparked interest from Shankar, who subsequently took Harrison as his apprentice.
The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).
In 1991, George Harrison played on Lennon's album Help Yourself but was not directly credited.
It is not often recognized that in his earlier work on the " Sea clocks " Harrison was continually assisted both financially and in many other ways by George Graham, the watchmaker and instrument maker who lent him a large sum on the basis of trust even after Harrison's first visit to Graham in 1728 to explain how his timekeeper worked.
Following Harrison, the marine timekeeper was reinvented yet again by John Arnold who while basing his design on Harrison's most important principles, at the same time simplified it enough for him to produce equally accurate but far less costly marine chronometers in quantity from around 1783.
Harrison and victory
His victory made him one of only two Whigs to be elected President before the party ceased to exist in the 1850s ; the other was William Henry Harrison, who had also been a general and war hero, but died a month into office.
* The historical novel Macbeth: An Historical Novel of the Last Celtic King ( 2011 ) by Robert Harrison, opens with the victory of Malcolm II of Scotland over his predecessor Kenneth III.
Hanna hoped to prevent the President's selection on the first ballot, but the Twelve Apostles succeeded in carrying Harrison to victory.
When McKinley led the delegation of Republican dignitaries sent to formally advise Harrison of his convention triumph, the President, angered over the " profusion of McKinley buttons, placards and streamers that littered path to victory ", had only a cold formal greeting for the Ohio governor.
* November 3-December 7, 1836: 1836 presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeated William Henry Harrison, but Virginia's electors refused to vote for Van Buren's running mate, thereby denying victory to any Vice Presidential candidate.
In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannock in their victory in a war against the English Province of Maryland ( led by General Harrison II ).
After his narrow victory over Grover Cleveland in 1888, Benjamin Harrison told Quay that " Providence has given us the victory.
With quarterback Peyton Manning, wide receiver Marvin Harrison, and running back Edgerrin James, the Colts had scored 79 points in their 2 playoff victories against the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs, including a 38-31 victory over the Chiefs in the first puntless game in NFL playoff history.
At the Battle of the Thames ( also called " Battle of Moraviantown "), General Harrison, with 4500 infantry intercepts the retreating British and Indian forces and win a decisive victory.
Harrison, thereafter nicknamed " Tippecanoe ", eventually became the President of the United States largely on the memory of this victory.
At the Olympic Games in London, he thought he had won the 100 m only to learn the victory was given to teammate Harrison Dillard.
Now a Major General, Shelby led the volunteers to join Harrison in a campaign that culminated in the American victory at the Battle of the Thames.
The Battle of Fort Harrison is considered the first land victory of the United States during the War of 1812.
After Oliver Hazard Perry's victory in the September 10, 1813, Battle of Lake Erie, William Henry Harrison called on Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby, a popular Revolutionary War hero, to recruit troops in Kentucky and join him in his invasion of Canada.
In October, 1813, in the aftermath of the American naval victory of the Battle of Lake Erie, an American army under Major General William Henry Harrison recovered Detroit ( which the British had captured early in the war ), captured the abandoned British post at Fort Malden at Amherstburg, and defeated a retreating British and Native American force at the Battle of the Thames.
" Harrison won the mayoral election and attributed his victory to strong support from cyclists, and rewarded his supporters with a bike path along Sheridan Road from Edgewater to Evanston.
The 2001 – 02 season began well with the lifting of the Joe McGorian Cup after a 2 – 1 victory at league champions Stourport Swifts, however in November 2001 the club parted company with Mark Harrison, with the former Bilston Town boss Joe Jackson taking over as manager.
In the general election, he defeated Republican William B. Harrison by what was then the largest margin of victory in Kentucky gubernatorial history.
In the general election, Laffoon defeated Harrison by a margin of just over 72, 000 votes, the largest margin of victory for any Kentucky governor at the time.
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