He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1875 to 1877, and visited Venice with Duveneck and William Merritt Chase.

In October 2008, Merritt delivered an audit of various overseas trips Governor Mike Easley and his wife Mary had taken.

They recruited the final two members of the band, Healy and Merritt, who had played together in various bands such as Jimmy Vivino & The Black Italians and The Vivino Brothers Band.

Although he played outside the band on various occasions over the years, Speer effectively worked with Merritt for the rest of his life.

Vajda's ideas on the relationship of Athabaskan – Eyak – Tlingit and Yeniseian have found support independently in works of various authors, including Heinrich K. Werner or Merritt Ruhlen.

Lisa Soulé, Anita Merritt, Angela Aames, Lisa Hunter and Suzanne Regard later appeared in various movies and television series as well as Mint Hotel and Casino advertising campaigns.

While living at his rented villa on Lake Merritt in Oakland, London met poet George Sterling and in time they became best friends.

By 1955 he encountered the rock ' n ' roll of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley ; after leaving school in 1956, aged 15, Merritt formed The Meteors with friends Ross Clancy ( sax ), Peter Patonai ( piano ), Ian Glass ( bass ) and Pete Sowden ( drums ).

Merritt was struggling with his health and finances, so his manager, Wal Bishop, along with Australian music industry friends organised a Concert for Max held at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria, Melbourne on 21 October 2007, and raised $ 200, 000.

Their friends Marshall Blechtman ( John Femia ) and Johnny " Slash " Ulasewicz ( Merritt Butrick ) are a pair of lovable geeks.

In 1975 when Richard Fulton was elected mayor to succeed Briley and resigned as Congressman, Allen entered the crowded Democratic primary field in the ensuing special election, and won, beating the incumbent district attorney Thomas Shriver, legislator Mike Murphy, and attorney ( later federal Sixth Circuit judge ) Gilbert Merritt, largely because of having far more name recognition than any other candidate and because of his populist attack on high rates being charged by local electric and gas utilities.

Named by US-ACAN for Merritt R. Helfferich, USARP worker in the field of ionospheric physics at South Pole Station, 1967-68.

* Dené – Caucasian superfamily: Based on the possible Caucasian link, some linguists, for example John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen, have proposed including Basque in the Dené – Caucasian superfamily of languages, but this proposed superfamily includes languages from North America and Eurasia, and its existence is highly controversial.

* The American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.

Haggard's Lost World genre influenced several key pulp writers, including Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy and Abraham Merritt.

In 1938, outside scientists including H. Houston Merritt and Tracy Putnam discovered phenytoin's usefulness for controlling seizures, without the sedative effects associated with phenobarbital.

Concurrently, a strong City Beautiful movement, promoted by Mayor Frank Kanning Mott, was responsible for creating and preserving parks and monuments in Oakland, including major improvements to Lake Merritt and the construction of Oakland Civic Auditorium, which cost $ 1M in 1914.

Lake Merritt is surrounded by residential and business districts, including downtown and Grand Lake.

There he studied for six years, with teachers including William Merritt Chase, who instructed him in oil painting.

Despite radio's relucatance to play American soul / R & B originals, these styles were avidly adopted by local performers however and covers of soul / R & B standards were staples in the setlists of many acts including Max Merritt and the Meteors, Doug Parksinon, Jeff St John, The Groop, The Groove, The Twilights, Renee Geyer and many others.

During this period a wave of acts also came from New Zealand, including Ray Columbus & the Invaders, Max Merritt & The Meteors, Dinah Lee, Larry's Rebels and The La De Das.

His tonalism had a profound effect on many American artists, including John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and Willis Seaver Adams ( whom he befriended in Venice ).

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

This version of the Jazz Messengers, including pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt, recorded the classic The Freedom Rider album.

It is known for its liberal arts education, including its Great Books and Seminar programs, its business program, which in recent years has become the college's most popular program, as well as the nursing program, partnered with Samuel Merritt University, whose campus is in Oakland, and the school of education.

The music of Stephin Merritt can also be heard throughout the series, including songs from his projects The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and The Gothic Archies.

Stratford is served by several major highways, including Interstate 95 ( Connecticut Turnpike ), U. S. Route 1 ( Boston Post Road ) ( Boston Avenue and Barnum Avenue ), the Merritt Parkway ( Route 15 ), Route 108 ( Nichols Avenue ), Route 110 ( East Main Street and River Road ), Route 113 ( Lordship Boulevard and Main Street ), and Route 130 ( Stratford Avenue and Ferry Boulevard ).

Merritt Island acts as an administrative centre for a number of other NWRs in central Florida, which are operated as satellites from it, including:

The Roxy hosted one of New York City's largest weekly gay dance night, Roxy Saturdays, promoted by John Blair Productions, which has featured many famous DJs including Junior Vasquez, Manny Lehman, Hex Hector, Victor Calderone, Frankie Knuckles, Merritt, Offer Nissim, Hector Fonseca and Peter Rauhofer.

In New York, he was a member of the Tilers, a group of prominent artists and writers, including Winslow Homer ( his wife's fourth cousin ), William Merritt Chase and Arthur Quartley.

Lyttelton's cricketing career proper ended with the outbreak of war, but ( now listed on the scorecard as Lord Cobham, having succeeded to the title in 1949 ) he played for an " MCC New Zealand Touring Team " against a strong " London New Zealand Club " side in 1954, taking two wickets including that of Bill Merritt.

Bruno was a renowned jazz and rock drummer, playing drums in many bands, including Max Merritt & The Meteors, Quincy Conserve, Blerta, and The Crocodiles.

Cox was also a teacher with numerous students including William Merritt Chase.

The initial delegation, including ten Class Day officers and led by Edwin Albert Merritt, all members of the Class of 1884, had met in secret during their senior year, with the aid of members of Class of 1883 who were " eager to start a society provided the evil features of the old societies would be eliminated.

Central Florida also has a wide variety of natural attractions including the Wekiwa Springs State Park, Blue Spring State Park, Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Canaveral National Seashore, and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

The roster of Cosmos writers included many of the leading lights of SF, fantasy, horror, and adventure fiction in that era, including A. Merritt, E. E.

Other members included Vincent Gaddis, Ivan T. Sanderson, A. Merritt, Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller.

He moved to New York in 1907 and began attending the Art Students League where he studied with William Merritt Chase and Frank Vincent Du Mond, and in 1909 took life classes with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art, which he found of great importance to his formative style.

Merritt Ruhlen notes that this definition is not properly taxonomic but amorphous, since there are broader and narrower degrees of relatedness, and moreover, some linguists who broadly accept the concept ( such as Greenberg and Ruhlen himself ) have criticised the name as reflecting the ethnocentrism frequent among Europeans at the time.

The best-known such vocabulary list is that of John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen ( 1994 ), who identify 27 " global etymologies ".

The remaining members added two new guitarists to the band ; Rob Cannavino who had been Gustafson's guitar technician, and Merritt Gant.

With the help of friend Claudia Gonson, who had played in Merritt's band The Zinnias during high school, a live band was assembled in Boston, where Merritt and Gonson lived, to play Merritt's compositions.

Merritt has never met his father, folk singer Scott Fagan, who had a brief affair with Merritt's mother.

The train station was built in 1870 on the lands of Issac Merritt, who laid out the streets soon thereafter.

They were soon joined by a handful of London acts such as Bees Make Honey, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Ducks Deluxe, The Amber Squad and Brinsley Schwarz who had been victims of the prevailing big-venue system.

One of the former Tally Ho jazz players, Barry Richardson, was so impressed he formed Bees Make Honey, who were also given a Tally Ho residency, alongside a mix of new and existing bands, such as Max Merritt and the Meteors and Brinsley Schwarz.

Merritt Butrick appears as David Marcus, Kirk's son, a scientist who had helped develop the Genesis Device.

The Merritt family arrived after this time being late Loyalists who had re-established themselves after the American Revolution, in the Carolinas, New York and New Brunswick.

James Merritt Ives, who was born on March 5, 1824 in New York City, married Caroline Clark in 1852.

The Levon Helm Band featured his daughter guitarist Amy Helm, along with Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Jim Weider ( the Band's last guitarist ), Jimmy Vivino, Mike Merritt, Brian Mitchell, Erik Lawrence, Steven Bernstein, Howard Johnson ( tuba player in the horn section who played on The Band's " Rock of Ages " and " The Last Waltz " live albums ), Byron Isaacs, and blues harmonica player Little Sammy Davis.

It featured songs of " Tonight: Franz Ferdinand " played by Peaches, LCD Soundsystem, Stephin Merritt, ESG and Debbie Harry ( who recorded in duet with the band ).

Matthew Hale Carpenter ( born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter ; December 22, 1824February 24, 1881 ), was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869 – 1875 and again from 1879 – 1881.

Those who required access to Trinity and Merritt halls ( where chemistry and physics classes were held ), the library, and the chapel traveled there on public sidewalks along the campus perimeter.

Otis assumed command of the VIII Corps, replacing Merritt who had become the military governor of the Philippines.

Over the next few years, the band worked with a series of drummers: Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod, local Raleigh percussion professor Merritt Partridge, Stanton Moore of Galactic and Reed's former drum technician Jason Patterson, who previously played drums in the Raleigh-based rock band Cry of Love.

Shade, as always, wishes peace for Opal, and also does not like Merritt, the human guardian of the poster, who has gained immortality for his protection of it, and consequently become the inspiration for Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Merritt of murdering his own father on their return, changes his mind and decides that it would be better to forget about it and let the world remember the general not as a nutcase who tried to sabotage the flight but as a brave man " sacrificin ' his life as he did, to bring his ship and his crew safely to a landing on the rocky desert of a new planet!

Stewie Speer ( Stewart Speer, 26 June 1928 – 16 September 1986 ) was an Australian jazz and rock drummer who is best known as a member ( 1967 – 1976, 1980 ) of the Australasian group Max Merritt & The Meteors.