But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

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 ).

She was the second oldest of seven children — Guelma Penn ( 1818 – 1873 ), Hannah Lapham ( 1821 – 1877 ), Daniel Read ( 1824 – 1904 ), Mary Stafford ( 1827 – 1907 ), Eliza Tefft ( 1832 – 1834 ), and Jacob Merritt ( 1834 – 1900 ).

However, camp director Ralph Merritt later allowed Miyatake to photograph freely within the camp, even though he was not allowed to actually press the shutter button, requiring a guard or camp official to perform this simple task.

Brooklyn, a large municipality southeast of Lake Merritt, was part of what was then called the Brooklyn Township.

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.

The Black Panther Party was founded by Oakland City College ( later Merritt College ) students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

At one point, a second encampment was established at Snow Park on Lake Merritt.

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

One construction project was the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, the bridges of which were each designed as architecturally unique.

Having died in the line of duty for NASA, Carter's name was added to the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida.

In 1837, Fort Ann was established on the eastern shore of the Indian River on a narrow strip of land on Merritt Island.

* Merritt Butrick ( actor ) was HIV positive.

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 ).

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.

Realism was released in January 2010, concluding what Merritt termed the " no-synth " trilogy ( following i and Distortion ).

Merritt told fans on his website, " I was very happy to be using synthesizers in ways that I had not done before.

Mould's response was, " He's never met Stephin Merritt, obviously.

In 1912, Hulett C. Merritt founded Tagus Ranch, which at 7, 000 acres was the largest fruit ranch in the world.

The community was founded by Charles Bert Merritt in 1908 and named for him by railroad surveyors.

Merritt was a childhood hometown of Burt Reynolds.

Hibbing is the home to the world's largest iron ore mine, which was discovered by Leonidas Merritt.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, his art education included training at the Art Institute of Chicago ( where he enrolled at Saturday classes at the age of 11 ), the Art Students League of New York, and in the atelier of William Merritt Chase.

* 1975 – Tift Merritt, American singer songwriter ( The Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt )

* 1975 – Tift Merritt, American singer-songwriter ( The Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt )

He and Merritt visited various friends in the entertainment field including Gene Vincent and Ross Hagen ( who starred on the late 1960's hit television show Daktari ), and who worked with Patterson on his Bigfoot song they recorded in Hollywood.

Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.

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.

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

Late in 1995, both Cannavino and Gant decided to leave the band ; Rob Cannavino to focus on motorcycle racing, and Merritt Gant to spend more time with his family.

William Merritt Chase complained of his sitting for a portrait by Whistler, " He proved to be a veritable tyrant, painting every day into the twilight, while my limbs ached with weariness and my head swam dizzily.

A theatrical adaptation, with music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt and book by David Greenspan, premiered on May 6, 2009, produced by MCC Theater and True Love Productions Off-Broadway at The Lucille Lortel Theatre.

A more traditional band later materialized, currently composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms.

According to an article: " To celebrate the release of Distortion, Merritt and The Magnetic Fields played mini-residencies in cities around the country, culminating with six shows at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music.

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

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.

Two other captains — Wesley Merritt and Elon J. Farnsworth — were promoted along with Custer, although they did have command experience.

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.

The city shares common borders with Essexville and the townships of Bangor, Frankenlust, Hampton, Merritt, Monitor, and Portsmouth.

The Merritt post office, with ZIP code 49667, serves most of northern Butterfield Township and nearly all of Enterprise Township to the north as well as small portions of Norwich Township ( north of Enterprise ) and Aetna Township to the west of Butterfield.

Merritt Memorial School with 297 students in grades PreK-5,

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 >