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Lewis himself jumped 8. 91m moments before Powell's record-breaking jump with the wind exceeding the maximum allowed ; this jump remains the longest ever to win Olympic or World Championship gold medal, or any competition in general.
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On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.
Lewis himself later referred to Philidor as a grandmaster, and the term was also applied to a few other players.
Lewis bought a small house and dug a swimming pool, prompting Whale to have his own pool dug, although he did not himself swim in it.
Lewis, arguing that Jesus was claiming to be God, uses logic to advance three possibilities: either he really was God, was deliberately lying, or was not God but thought himself to be ( which would make him delusional and likely insane ).
Lewis also explains morality as being composed of three layers: relationships between man and man, the motivations and attitudes of the man himself, and contrasting worldviews.
Allen supported " popular sovereignty " and the presidential candidacy of Lewis Cass, identifying himself as a " Peace Democrat " and opposing the U. S. Civil War.
An Army clerk accidentally transposed his first and middle names, and Willkie did not correct it, thereafter calling himself Wendell Lewis Willkie.
Lewis Hyde remarks in The Gift that Christianity considers the Incarnation and subsequent death of Jesus to be the greatest gift to humankind, and that the Jataka contains a tale of the Buddha in his incarnation as the Wise Hare giving the ultimate alms by offering himself up as a meal for Sakka.
Lewis himself was a strong believer in the intrinsic value of nature for itself, rather than as a resource to be exploited.
Indeed the candidate Lewis Valentine, the party ’ s first president, offered himself in Caernarvonshire on a platform of demonstrating Welsh people's rejection of English dominion.
* In one episode of the science fiction novel Perelandra by C. S. Lewis, the protagonist ( a philologist from Cambridge transported to the planet Venus ) finds himself " shouting a line out of ' The Battle of Maldon '" as he fights the Un-Man, a demon-possessed scientist.
* The Lost World ( 1925 ; Arthur Conan Doyle dinosaur epic in which Beery portrayed Professor Challenger ) with Lewis Stone ( and Doyle himself in a frontispiece )
In the confusion over land ownership after the Hedgcoxe War, Basdeal Lewis purchased Holford's Prairie in 1853 and renamed it after himself.
Lewis adopted a battered top hat for sentimental, hard-luck tunes ( he called himself " the high-hatted tragedian of song ").
He also influenced many rock guitarists such as The Rolling Stones ' Brian Jones ( Keith Richards writes in his book that at the time he met Brian Jones, Brian called himself Elmo Lewis, and that he wanted to be Elmore James ) and Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer.
In his essay Is Theology Poetry, Lewis himself summarises the argument in a similar fashion when he writes:
After completing almost 30 years within the ranks of the law school, Lewis eventually devoted his powers to founding the American Law Institute, in 1925, which was seated in the law school and was chaired by Lewis himself.
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Buffalo jumped to a 14-3 halftime lead with running back Roosevelt Leaks ' 1-yard touchdown run and quarterback Joe Ferguson's 9-yard pass to Frank Lewis.
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Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944 ) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940.
The Hunting of the Snark ( An Agony in 8 Fits ) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) in 1874, when he was 42 years old.
On 8 September 1936, the bombing school building was set on fire and in the investigations which followed Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine, and D. J.
* Fortes, Meyer ( 2005 ) Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan ISBN 0-202-30802-2 pp. 7 – 8
West died on June 25, 2008, and he was succeeded in January 2009 by fellow Republican Tryon D. Lewis, who unseated West in the April 8 primary election.
He was succeeded in January 2009 by fellow Republican Tryon D. Lewis, who had defeated West for the Republican nomination in the April 8, 2008, primary election.
Located just below the large rotunda, this 8, 200-square-foot education facility provides classes and lectures about the visual and performing arts and opportunities to interact with the museum's collections and special exhibitions through its labs, exhibition spaces, conference rooms and the Peter B. Lewis Theater.
Col. Thomas C. Devin ’ s dismounted Union cavalry brigade attacked about 8: 00 a. m. By mid-afternoon, with Buford ’ s cavalrymen running low on ammunition and gaining little ground, Col. Lewis A. Grant ’ s First Vermont Brigade of infantry arrived and jabbed at the Confederate center less than one mile away.
On December 8, 1884 a post office was established at Bedford Center and was named Temperance with Lewis Ansted as the first Postmaster.
Task Force Olympia's subordinate units included the 3d Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, which deployed for Iraq on November 8, 2003, and returned to Fort Lewis after one year of combat duty, and the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, which departed Fort Lewis on September 15, 2004, for one year and returned September 2005.
On October 8, 2010, Myra Lewis, the District Finance Manager, died at the Hospital after being transported from Johnson's home after collapsing.
In 1990 he dropped decisions to Tyrell Biggs and Bruce Seldon, then travelled to the UK for two fights losing an 8 round decision to Lennox Lewis and scoring an upset when stopping Jess Harding in 8 rounds.
While Lewis has only one town, Stornoway, with a population of approx 8, 000, there are also several large villages and groupings of villages on Lewis, such as North Tolsta, Carloway and Leurbost with significant populations.
* May 8 – The British Commonwealth comes closer than it ever had, or would, to a clean sweep of the US Hot 100's top 10, lacking only a hit at # 2 instead of " Count Me In " by the American group Gary Lewis & The Playboys.
He was the son of Lt. William Lewis of Locust Hill ( 1733 – November 17, 1779 ), who was of Welsh ancestry, and Lucy Meriwether ( February 4, 1752 – September 8, 1837 ), daughter of Thomas Meriwether and Elizabeth Thornton who were both of English ancestry.
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