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.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

Hamilton was asked by President George Washington to serve after first having asked Robert Morris ( who declined, recommending Hamilton instead ).

A few years later, Morris returns from California, having made nothing of himself and eyeing the Slopers ' luxurious house with more obvious eagerness.

However, in October 1767, at Dunkard Creek near Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, nearly west of the Delaware, their Iroquois guides refused to go any further, having reached the border of their lands with the Lenape, with whom they were engaged in hostilities.

Cinnaminson was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 15, 1860, from portions of Chester Township ( now known as Maple Shade Township and having no connection to the Morris County community that still bears that name ).

Thus Frannie Morris had the honor of having the town being given her name.

Keith Morris has stated " These kids that are on the Warped Tour, they should have no choice but to go into the military, and go off to some desert somewhere and spend some time in the desert, rather than having some big, ultra mega record company giving them lots of money and paying for their hotels and buses, making sure their hair is trendy, and that they are wearing the proper clothes that all the kids like and wear, and all that fun shit.

Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris.

Famous fans include Stephen Morris of the band New Order, singer Mutley Mclad of the band Macc Lads, actor Marshall Lancaster, Amateur Football Alliance Director Jonathan Leese and ex-wrestling star Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson ( having randomly picked Macclesfield Town as his team out of the hat on Soccer AM ).

Incidentally, just before Bryant begins work as a prostitute, she admits to Helen Smart that she is a 40-something virgin ( having also told Tracey Morris in episode 154 that she has NEVER slept with a man ) – towards the end of the same season, her adult daughter arrives searching for her birth mother.

Rockefeller won re-election in November 1968, having defeated Marion H. Crank ( 1915 – 1994 ), a state legislator who had won the Democratic nomination in a heated fight with Virginia Morris Johnson, wife of Jim Johnson and the first woman ever to seek the office of governor of Arkansas.

We first encounter Maurice Hall ( pronounced " Morris ") aged fourteen having a discussion about sex and women with his prep-school teacher, Ben Ducie, which takes place just before he progresses to his public school.

O ' Hanraha-hanrahan is highly incompetent and petulant, and his reports end with him having to admit their fundamental inaccuracy to an intolerant Morris.

The band's line-up during the recording of their first album in 1999 also featured Mark Prator, who was the drummer on a few Iced Earth albums, and Jim Morris doing most of the guitar solos, Morris also having worked with Iced Earth in the past.

Fenris State University professor Dr. Barry Mehler cited for example a quote from a 1969 dissertation by Sheldon Morris Neuringer titled American Jewry and United States immigration policy, 1881-1953 where MacDonald surmised that noted that when Neuringer noted Jewish opposition in 1921 and 1924 to the anti-immigration legislation at the time was due more to it having the “ taint of discrimination and anti-Semitism ” as opposed to how it would limit Jewish immigration, MacDonald wrote, “… Jewish opposition to the 1921 and 1924 legislation was motivated less by a desire for higher levels of Jewish immigration than by opposition to the implicit theory that America should be dominated by individuals with northern and western European ancestry .” “ It seems to me Mr. MacDonald is misrepresenting Mr. Neuringer in this case and I posted my query hoping that a historian familiar with the literature might have a judgment on MacDonald's use of the historical data ,” Mehler wrote, citing other examples.

The Braves were more than familiar with Morris, having faced him three times in the 1991 World Series.

At the 1992 Conservative Party conference, Cameron had difficulty trying to arrange to brief the speakers in the economic debate, having to resort to putting messages on the internal television system imploring the mover of the motion, Patricia Morris, to contact him.

Morris was well-known throughout much of his life for having many affairs, with both married and unmarried women, and he recorded many of these adventures and misadventures in his diary.

" Maid Marian " of the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is played by a man, and the Maid Marians referred to in old documents as having taken part in May Games and other festivals with Morris dancers would most probably also have been men.

The CCF has drawn harsh criticism for having taken its startup funding from the Philip Morris tobacco company and for lobbying on behalf of the fast food, meat, and tobacco industries while claiming to represent consumers.

After several shows that followed, Reagan Jones and Matthew Morris started having arguments about their musical direction.

Originally encompassing Morris County and parts of both Sussex and Warren County, Hanover Township became too unwieldy for a single local government as time passed.

Along with the river, the proximity of the old Morris and Sussex Turnpike, which passed through the region shortly after 1801, and the coming of the Morris Canal, in 1831, made the site a favorable one for development.

Abingdon has a very old and still active Morris Dancing tradition, passed on by word of mouth since before the folk dance and song revivals of the 1800s.

Boston painter William Morris Hunt was an admirer of Allston's work, and in 1866 founded the Allston Club in Boston, and in his arts classes passed on to his students his knowledge of Allston's techniques.

In 1927, in competition against — amongst others — Herbert Austin, Morris purchased the bankrupt Wolseley Motors and the company passed into his personal control.

This marked the beginning of the second stage of the war in which, according to Benny Morris, the Haganah passed from the defensive to the offensive.

The Cardinals had one of their best player drafts the following year, and several future stars, including Matt Morris, passed through Augusta in 1995.

The car was rebuilt, and passed into the ownership of the sons of Arthur Conan Doyle, but was quickly retired as a racing car, and was later bought for spare parts by John Morris, the Maybach engine being offered to W. Boddy, editor of Motor Sport.

The United States Naval Academy, to a huge extent, was created due to Matthew Maury's " Scraps From The Lucky Bag " that were published under noms de plumes in newspapers, copied, and passed around in flyers in and outside of the USN to stir people to action for changes in the Navy and transcribed by William Maury Morris for these modern times.

Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub revealed her role in the upcoming seventh season: “ I show up, time has passed and I have a 4-year-old and a wedding ring, I'm calling Morris ( Carlo Rota ) while I ’ m busy.

Morris Atkins passed on the newspaper to his daughter Elaine in the 1940s.

On May 6, 1836 an act was passed in New York authorizing the construction of the Genesee Valley Canal, running from the Erie Canal in Rochester southwest along the Genesee River valley to Mount Morris, Portageville, and Belfast, and then cross-country to the Allegheny River at Olean, with a branch from Mount Morris paralleling the Canaseraga Creek to Dansville.

After a slow start to the season under the coaching of former ( then VFL ) premiership player Kevin Morris, the team won 9 of its last 11 games to reach the finals in 5th place.

West would reach a best of 3rd in 1998 under coach Michael Taylor ( who replaced Morris in 1996 ) while full-forward Adam Richardson became the first West Adelaide player since Ron Phipps in 1957 to lead the SANFL in goal kicking when he kicked 80 in the regular season and 5 in the finals to finish with 85 for the year.

Both Deborah Norville and Karen Morris Gowdy took part in the 2001 finals, with Norville hosting the finals and Gowdy handling the preliminary round.

( Morris, who in previous seasons had been used primarily as a kick returner, took over the starting halfback position from Kiick, who had been the starter the previous four years.

Among the coauthors of this 1990 paper were Kip Thorne, Mike Morris, and Ulvi Yurtsever, who in 1988 had stirred up renewed interest in the subject of time travel in general relativity with their paper Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition, which showed that a new general relativity solution known as a traversable wormhole could lead to closed timelike curves, and unlike previous CTC-containing solutions it did not require unrealistic conditions for the universe as a whole.

The first Trustees on the school's Board were James W. Reid ( who had done the most to shepherd the authorization bill through the legislature ), Norman B. Willey ( who had just stepped down as Idaho governor ), Benjamin Wilson ( a previous gubernatorial candidate ), J. Morris Howe, and C. W. Schaff.

One completely written chapter of " Secret Wars " involved the X-Men, but transporting the X-Men cast to L. A. ( where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based ) from Canada ( where the X-Men animated series was based ) was too costly in the previous episodes the X-Men appeared in, so the episode was dropped and only Storm was used for the rest of the chapters of Secret Wars due to the fact that Iona Morris ( who was the first voice of Storm ) lives in L. A. Hulk and She-Hulk weren't used in these episodes because the Hulk show was on UPN.

Current Councilmembers include Genoveva Garcia Calloway, Kathy Chao-Rothberg, and previous Mayor Paul V. Morris.

The current Morris is the fifth generation, three of the previous versions succumbed to fire, mischievous kidnapping and age and the fourth was refurbished with a fiberglass body.

A man alleged to be a soldier in the Maryland State Militia was detained in Fort McHenry, and Judge Giles in Baltimore issued a writ of habeas corpus, but the fort's commander, Major W. W. Morris, wrote in reply, " At the date of issuing your writ, and for two weeks previous, the city in which you live, and where your court has been held, was entirely under the control of revolutionary authorities.

* Charles Morris Hall student accommodation renovations started with the demolition of the previous Mary Ogilvie House, the existing 108 bed student accommodation block, and construction of a new 500-bed, £ 27. 1 million building began in March 2009, the new halls were completed in the summer of 2010, with the first students moving in for the new academic year in September 2010.

His agent, Pat Morris, had reportedly wanted a similar deal to that of fellow Islanders prospect Brett Lindros – a five-year, $ 6. 7 million contract signed the previous summer.

Among the passengers is Morris Chalfen, producer of the Holiday on Ice skating shows, whose wife and three children had died the previous day on Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710.

Featured on the show were the comedic stylings of Steven Jacobs, as well as Ann-Maree Biggar and Julia Morris, who was best known for presenting " The Morris Report ", a comedic take on the news events of the previous week.

* 1832 – Mrs. Frances Trollope *, publishes in " Domestic Manners of the Americans " her account of a visit the previous year to see one of the inclined planes of the Morris Canal.

The Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners appointed Morris as justice of the peace after the previous justice, R. S. Barr, resigned in protest of Wyoming Territory's passage of the women's suffrage amendment in December 1869.

The previous minister was the Very Rev William Morris, who was minister from 1967 until retiring in November 2005.

Morris ' previous works for the RWB include the highly successful full-length classical ballet Peter Pan ( 2006 ) and Moulin Rouge-The Ballet ( 2009 premiere ).

According to Harper's magazine's October 2002 " Harper's Index ," Nixon masks were the best-selling political mask for the previous five years for top U. S. costume wholesaler Morris Costumes.

Dawkins & Krebs criticised previous ethologists, such as Nikolaas Tinbergen and Desmond Morris among others, for supporting the view that such displays were used " for the good of the species ".

* Jan Morris ( born 1926 ) author of many works, especially about cities ; prior to the 1970s, her work was published under her previous name, " James Morris.

" Again, in the words of a critic, Arthur McCalla, the growth in young-earth creationism occurred not only because modern fundamantalists were more ignorant than in previous generations, but also because young-earth creationism " better defended a plain-sense reading of the inerrant Bible than did the old-Earth creationism of Ramm and the earlier Fundamentalists .... Legions of Bible believers responded gratefully to Whitcomb and Morris because their system eliminated once and for all the need for interpretative contortions that twist and bend the words of the Bible in order to reconcile them with the findings of modern science.

The mill was built 1810 ; at one time it was used for needle pointing but not for scouring ; from the 1850s the mill was held by the Morris family from whom previous owner, John Stewart, was descended.

Map showing the positions of the Confederate Army and that of the Federal Army at midnight on the 18th of September, 1863, the night previous to the general engagements of the 19th and 20th Sept., or the Battle of Chickamauga ... by Walter J. Morris ... ( with ) Map of the engagement at Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28th and 29th, 1863 and of the operations of the 11th and 12th Army Corps preliminary thereto.