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Milton James Rhode Acorn ( March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986 ), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.
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Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.
But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics that fully support a basic income include Herbert A. Simon, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Solow, Milton Friedman, Jan Tinbergen, James Tobin
In England James Harrington, Algernon Sydney, and John Milton became some of the first writers to argue for rejecting monarchy and embracing a republican form of government.
The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.
Other historical non-Sabbatarians from more recent times include the Anglicans Peter Heylin, William Paley and John Milton ; the nonconformist Philip Doddridge ; the Quaker Robert Barclay ; and Congregationalist James Baldwin Brown.
CONTENTS ( James Bacque contributions ): “ The High Snow ,” p. 67-72 ; “ A small Film ,” 73-80 ; “ Sun and Earth for a Dollar ,” 81-88 ; “ the truth shall make you wierd ,” 88-97 ; “ On the morning of the death of Colonel Alexander Ramsay, O. B. E .,” 98-114 ; “ The Nancy Poems ,” 115-119 ; “ A Conversation with Milton Wilson ,” 120-146.
From 1950 to 1954 Phillips recorded the music of James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton, Bobby Blue Bland, and others.
The original group of boys that made up Troop # 1 were Charles Booth, George Booth, Gerald Brock, Carl Burgess, Earl Burgess, Dr. Stanton Burgess, Raymond Cave, William Cheeney, Clarence Geake, James Grearson, Walter Grearson, Douglas Inglis, Harry Kent, George Murray, Milton Rollins, Craig Rollins ( or Ronald Cragg?
As stated in the Heritage of Alexander County, published by the Alexander County Genealogical Society: A commission of William Dula of Caldwell Co., Dr. James Calloway of Wilkes, Co., Milton Campbell of Iredell Co., and Robert Allen, Reuben Watts and Robert L. Steel of Alexander County were named to select a site as near the center of the county as possible for the seat of justice.
The Woodside house of Milton is not to be confused with Woodside ( also known as James Pinckney Henderson House ) in Lincolnton, North Carolina.
People of note born in Wynnewood include musician Roy Milton, General Tommy Franks, who commanded the invasion forces of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq, and Donna Shirley, who led the Mars Pathfinder project at JPL and James Allen, former NFL running back for the Chicago Bears and Houston Texans.
* James Pollock ( September 11, 1810-April 19, 1890 )-Congressman ( 1844 – 1849 ); Governor of Pennsylvania ( 1855 – 1858 ); Director of the Philadelphia Mint ( 1861 – 1866 and 1869 – 1873 ); buried in Milton Cemetery.
* Several Cato Institute-affiliated scholars have achieved academic distinction, including Nobel laureates F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, James M. Buchanan, and Vernon L. Smith.
Examples of actors appearing in one episode only included Cyril Shaps, George Baker, George A. Cooper, James Cossins, Richard Wilson, Peter Jeffrey, Bernard Hepton, Christopher Timothy, Elisabeth Sladen and Milton Johns.
Pratt has cited authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, James Oliver Curwood, Zane Gray, Kenneth Roberts, Joseph Conrad, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Jack London as influences, along with cartoonists Lyman Young, Will Eisner, and especially Milton Caniff.
In the 1950s, Chess Records ' commercial success grew with artists such as Little Walter, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and Chuck Berry, and in the ' 60s with Etta James, Fontella Bass, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Laura Lee, and Tommy Tucker, as well as with the subsidiary labels Checker, Argo, and Cadet.
Texaco Star Theaters next hosts included James Melton ( 1944 – 1947 ), Tony Martin ( 1947 – 1948 ), Gordon MacRae ( 1948 ), Jack Carter ( 1948 ), and Milton Berle ( 1948 – 1949 ).
The album was produced by Michael Kapp ; the recording engineer was C. R. Fine ; the tape editor was Donald Van Gordon ; liner notes were provided by Paul Myers ; package designer was Irving Werbin ; package production by Milton Sincoff ; re-recording engineers-John Quinn ( stereophonic ) and Grant Ellerbeck ( monophonic ); and, cover illustration provided by James Cunningham.
" Although John Milton and James Thomson seem to have interested him and a few of his verses show slight inspiration from Shakespeare and Thomas Gray, it would be an exaggeration to say Chénier studied English literature.
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From the state line in Tiverton, Rhode Island to Milton, Route 138 runs as an extension of Rhode Island Route 138, which is itself an extension of Connecticut Route 138.
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" The award is $ 250 ( since raised to $ 500 ) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.
" Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes the form of a wake.
Others such as Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, and Earle Birney, already published, produced some of their best work during this period.
* You Are Not Who You Claim-( Beach Holme, 1990 ) ( winner of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award )
The paper was founded as an alternative newspaper in May 1967 by Pierre Coupey, Milton Acorn, Dan McLeod, Stan Persky, and others, and originally it operated as a collective.
In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn People ’ s Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day.
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