Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco and great-grandfather of long-time Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, spent summers with his family at their estate that is now Waveny Park next to Talmadge Hill and the Merritt Parkway.

Merritt began her professional career with her band The Carbines playing small clubs in Chapel Hill and Raleigh such as The Cave, Cat's Cradle, and the front porch of the General Store in Bynum, NC.

The Summit Campus was previously three separate facilities in the same " Pill Hill " neighborhood immediately north of downtown Oakland: Providence Hospital ( founded in 1904 by the Sisters of Providence ), Peralta Hospital ( founded by local Oakland doctors in the 1920s ) and Samuel Merritt Hospital.

Bush, Sam Chauncey, Alexander Smith Cochran, Erastus Corning 2nd, William Clay Ford, Sr., Paul Goldberger, A. Whitney Griswold, Ashbel Green Gulliver, Edward Harkness, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Charles Edward Ives, Dick Jauron, Rasheed Khalidi, Lewis Lehrman, Christopher Lydon, Edwin Merritt, Clark Millikan, Douglas Moore, Paul Moore, Paul Moore, Sr., Edward John Phelps, Philip W. Pillsbury, Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Sam Wagstaff.

* 1925-1937 Henry Merritt Wriston, president

After earning degrees in economics and accounting from North Carolina State University and becoming a Certified Public Accountant, Merritt served as the president of the Zebulon Lions and Rotary clubs, and of the Zebulon Elementary School PTA.

Professionally, he served as president of Merritt, Petway, Mills & Hockaday, an accounting & auditing firm with offices in Zebulon and Raleigh, prior to being elected State Auditor.

After the incident, an inspector comes up from Earth and ( after being questioned over the moonship's inclusion of wings ) gives Merritt fresh orders from the president: not only is Merritt being promoted to General, but the so called moonship is going to Mars instead.

Asked what her experience has been with regard to safety regulations in the Bush administration, Merritt says, ' The basic disappointment has been this attitude of no new regulation.

Many of the former apprentice singers have returned to perform major roles with the company, notably in recent years, Mark Doss in the 2011 Faust, Joyce DiDonato in the 2006 Cendrillon, Chris Merritt also in 2006 in The Tempest, and Carl Tanner in the 2005 production of Turandot.

In 1924, the company received a contract to provide lumber for the first bridge between Titusville and Merritt Island.

When Merritt and company invited the engineering community to bid for the bridge project, they encountered heavy criticism.

Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..

* 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.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville on Florida's Space Coast.

Kyle Merritt MacLachlan () ( born February 22, 1959 ) is an American actor.

Eurasiatic, a similar but not identical grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 ) and endorsed by Merritt Ruhlen: it is taken as a subfamily of Nostratic by Bomhard ( 2008 ).

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 ".

Lake Merritt, an urban estuary near downtown, is a mix of fresh and salt water draining in and out from the Oakland Harbor at the San Francisco Bay and one of Oakland's most notable features.

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

The Magnetic Fields ( named after the André Breton novel Les Champs Magnétiques ) is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt.

Stephin Raymond Merritt ( born 1966 ) is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles ( formerly in New York City ), best known as the principal singer and songwriter in the band The Magnetic Fields.

Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines ; examples include the song " When My Boy Walks Down the Street ", which contains the lyric " and he's going to be my wife ," and on the single " Andrew in Drag ", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, he sings, " A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag.

Merritt is known for having a dry personality, embracing a persona and life that is very different from the traditional rock star image.

Merritt is the subject of a documentary, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, which premiered in March 2010.

The county is named after Merritt H. Day, pioneer and 1879 Dakota Territory legislator.

Pub rock is usually traced back to the " Tally Ho ", a former jazz pub, where Eggs over Easy started playing in May 1971, and were soon joined by Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Ducks Deluxe and others.

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.

The town is served by the Merritt Parkway and by a spur line of the Metro-North Railroad.

While not passing through any part of Wilton, the Merritt Parkway ( Route 15 ) also serves the town via the Route 33 exit ( Exit 41 ) which is signed for Wilton, as well as the Route 7 exits ( Exits 39B & 40B ) which are signed for Danbury.

On April 14, 1985, Evan Merritt, caught a 41 pound Long Nose Gar in Lake Panasoffkee, Florida, this is the largest long nose gar caught in the state of Florida.

After starting the season 0-8 with a 4. 96 ERA, Merritt was moved into the bullpen.

Merritt started the season in the bullpen, but moved into the starting rotation in June.

Greil Marcus, in a critical analysis of the song's history, has written that Price's was an enthusiastic hard rock version with a screaming saxophone. In all of these early recordings of Lloyd Price, Merritt Mel Dalton was the lead Sax Man on the recordings of " Personality, Stagger Lee, I'm gonna get married etc ..," Merritt, was in the traveling band as well and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show with Lloyd Price .< ref >

In Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1896 updated version of the Boston Cooking School Cook Book, she uses the same recipe and calls the cake " Angel Food Cake.

She spent part of 2010 as a co-host to Tom Merritt on a daily podcast in the TWiT. tv network called Tech News Today.

View of Lake Merritt looking southwest from the northeastern tip of the lake

East Oakland, which includes the East Oakland Hills, encompasses more than half of Oakland's land area, stretching from Lakeshore Avenue on the east shore of Lake Merritt southeast to the San Leandro border.

Originally a marsh-lined wildlife haven, Lake Merritt was dredged and bordered with parks from the 1890s to the 1910s.

Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River.

Since many U. S. spacecraft are launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, the terms " Cape Canaveral ," " Canaveral ", or " the Cape " have become metonyms that refer to both as the launch site of spacecraft.

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.

The band released their debut and best known single " 100, 000 Fireflies " in 1991, which was typical of the band's earlier career characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway ( and then by Stephin Merritt himself from The House of Tomorrow EP onwards ).

Merritt suffers from a hearing condition known as hyperacusis ; any sound heard louder than normal begins to " feedback " in his left ear at increasingly louder volumes.

The town was first settled by Europeans in the mid-18th century by Zachariah Merritt and others, from New England, Westchester County, or the Fishkill area.

On March 8, 1907, the Wyandanch post office was moved from the LIRR depot to Anthony Kirchner's General Store and Hotel on Merritt Avenue diagonally across from the railroad station.

In 1796, Thomas Merritt arrived to benefit from the favours of his former Commander and Queen's Ranger, John Graves Simcoe, now the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.

His friendships with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck date from this time.

The launch, on November 9, 1967, was the first from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.

He is the father of a bassist Mike Merritt from Conan.

as well as a 7 " vinyl single for Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket ( 1993 ) ( from the Wasps ' Nests ' LP ) that contains a B-Side, Rot in the Sun, a humorous take on Los Angeles, sung by Merritt himself.

Bands from this popular music scene include Flat Duo Jets, Corrosion of Conformity, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, The Rosebuds, Love Language, Tift Merritt, Ben Folds Five, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Lords of the Underground, The Apple Juice Kid, Between the Buried and Me, Foreign Exchange, The Justus League and Little Brother.

Portrait of William Merritt Chase from 1900