An all-star version of " America the Beautiful " performed by country singers Trace Adkins, Billy Dean, Vince Gill, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Toby Keith, Brenda Lee, Lonestar, Martina McBride, Jamie O ' Neal, Kenny Rogers and Keith Urban reached number 58 in July 2001.

Also in a stern wheeler steamboat " Explorer ", after two months and 350 miles ( 560 km ) of difficult navigation, his party reached Black Canyon some two months after George Johnson.

On April 23, 1964, in the top of the ninth inning of a scoreless game in Colt Stadium, Rose reached first base on an error and scored on another error to make Houston Astros Ken Johnson the first pitcher to lose a complete game no-hitter.

Circulation under Johnson reached record levels – as high as 70, 000 by the time he left the magazine in 2005 to join David Cameron ’ s Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Higher Education.

Mail and supplies reached Johnson County from the Bluegrass region by horseback and steamboat.

" In round twelve of that fight, Ketchel reached Johnson with a right to the chin that sent Johnson to the canvas.

" At the end of November, the campaign reached its climax when Johnson summoned Westmoreland and the new U. S. Ambassador, Ellsworth Bunker, to Washington, D. C., for what was billed as a " high level policy review ".

Here he made the acquaintance of Bonnell Thornton, the parodist, and together they founded The Connoisseur ( 1754 – 1756 ), a periodical which, although it reached its 140th number, " wanted weight ," as Johnson said.

In making the additional request, Johnson informed a House appropriations subcommittee that " in the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

Otis ' composition " Strawberry Letter 23 " ( as recorded by The Brothers Johnson ) topped the Billboard R & B chart and reached # 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.

Both the album and single reached the Billboard Top 200 and caught the attention of Brothers Johnson guitarist George Johnson, who then played it for producer Quincy Jones.

Sandberg was only the third second baseman to hit 40 home runs ; Rogers Hornsby and Davey Johnson hit 42, and no American League second baseman has yet reached forty.

In 1980, Steven Greenberg and Cynthia Johnson, recording as Lipps Inc. at Sound 80, recorded " Funkytown ," which reached number 1 on both the U. S. and disco charts.

The live album, Stupidity, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart, but although Johnson played on Dr. Feelgood's first 5 single releases, including " Roxette " and " Back in the Night ", the only single to chart during his membership of the band was " Sneakin ' Suspicion ".

In a September 27, 1992 game against the Texas Rangers, with Ryan the opposing starting pitcher, Johnson struck out 18 batters in eight innings while throwing 160 pitches, a pitch count that has not been reached in an MLB game since.

The apex of Johnson's career was reached in 1971, with Johnson winning an Academy Award for his performance as ' Sam The Lion ' in The Last Picture Show, directed by Peter Bogdanovich co-starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, and Cybill Shepherd.

Johnson reached out to Hague, who feared the Democratic candidate, H. Otto Wittpenn, a reformer whose election would threaten Hague's control of Hudson County.

Samuel Johnson defined a patron as " one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ".

When the demonstrators reached Dallas City Hall, Johnson poured kerosene on the flag and set it on fire.

In determining the case, the court first considered the question of whether the First Amendment reached non-speech acts, since Johnson was convicted of flag desecration rather than verbal communication, and, if so, whether Johnson's burning of the flag constituted expressive conduct, which would permit him to invoke the First Amendment in challenging his conviction.

In the next season he retained the Scottish Professional Championship title and reached the quarter-finals of both the Grand Prix and World Championship, losing 12 – 13 to defending champion Joe Johnson, and the semi-finals of the Mercantile Credit Classic.

Johnson reached the final of the World Amateur Snooker Championship in 1978, losing to Cliff Wilson.

Johnson had a poor season as world champion, reaching only one semi-final, but he defied expectations at the 1987 World Championship and reached the final again, again meeting Davis but this time losing 18 – 14.

* The World Atlas of Wine, resource on wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

Key among these during the post World War II period are Electa and Irving Johnson, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, Bernard Moitessier, Peter Pye, and Eric and Susan Hiscock.

In 1993, Bob Johnson established the first Deist organization since the days of Thomas Paine and Elihu Palmer with the World Union of Deists.

In 2009, the World Union of Deists published a book on deism, Deism: A Revolution in Religion, A Revolution in You written by its founder and director, Bob Johnson.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Despite being known more for his defensive abilities, Johnson led the Marlins in the 1997 World Series with 10 hits.

After World War II, many relatively affluent residents left for suburbs like Johnson County, Kansas and eastern Jackson County, Missouri.

Twenty three candidates stood for the presidential election, with George Weah, internationally famous footballer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and member of the Kru ethnic group, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former World Bank economist and finance minister, Harvard-trained economist and of mixed Americo-Liberian and indigenous descent.

Working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, including a notable 1974 Hovis advert, " Bike Round " ( featuring New World Symphony ), filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

* Stride piano-A style of piano which emerged after World War I, developed by and dominated by black East coast pianists ( James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie ' The Lion ' Smith ).

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.

In 1942 during World War II, a team headed by Revolite's Johnny Denoye and Johnson & Johnson's Bill Gross developed a new adhesive tape for the US military, intended to seal ammunition cases against moisture.

He was born Lionel Boyd Johnson in 1891 and attended the London School of Economics to study Political Science, only to have his education cut short by World War I.

At the beginning of World War II, Lockheed – under the guidance of Clarence ( Kelly ) Johnson, who is considered one of the best known American aircraft designers – answered a specification for an interceptor by submitting the P-38 Lightning fighter plane, a somewhat unorthodox twin-engine, twin-boom design.

Samuel Johnson & his World.

World heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson ( boxer ) | Jack Johnson, nicknamed the " Galveston Giant "

After America entered World War II in December 1941, Johnson, still in Congress, became a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve, then asked Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal for a combat assignment.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Until at least 1908, the British took the Macdonald line to be the boundary, but in 1911, the Xinhai Revolution resulted in the collapse of central power in China, and by the end of World War I, the British officially used the Johnson Line.

* Denis Johnson: The Name of the World

Johnson won his first title on February 3, 1903, beating Denver Ed Martin on points in a 20-round match for the World Colored Heavyweight Championship.

After Johnson became the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World on December 26, 1908, his World Colored Heavyweight Championship was vacated.