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Systems Concepts ( now the SC Group ) is a company co-founded by Stewart Nelson and Mike Levitt focused on making hardware products related to the DEC PDP-10 series of computers.
Criticisms of the work focused on Mahan's handling of Nelson's love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton, but it remained the standard biography until the appearance of Carola Oman's Nelson fifty years later.
Requiem for a Heavyweight, Rod Sterling's 1956 Emmy Award-winning teleplay for Playhouse 90 directed by Ralph Nelson ( who also won an Emmy ), focused on down-and-out former heavyweight boxer Harlan ' Mountain ' McClintock.
Upon its formation in 1947, Imperial focused on the release of rhythm & blues / R & B, country, and Mexican music including recordings by such R & B artists as Fats Domino, Frankie Ford, and Ricky Nelson as well as those by yodeling country singer, Slim Whitman.
Nelson focused on safe issues, portraying himself as a bipartisan centrist problem-solver.
Research conducted by Holly Nelson ( from the University of New Hampshire ) and Glenn Geher ( State University of New York at Platz ), individuals who chose their romantic partner reported more mutual grooming than others who focused in other types of relationships.
Like its radio predecessor ( which finally ended in 1954 ), the series focused mainly on the Nelson family at home, dealing with run-of-the-mill problems.
The Ecologic Foundation ( Ecologic Foundation Incorporated, also referred to as Ecologic ) is an independent not-for-profit Think Tank based in Nelson, New Zealand focused on environmental policy research and analysis, consultancy and advocacy.
In the 1930s the initial investigation about the identity of Albert Johnson primarily focused on an obscure individual named Arthur Nelson.
Many of the 12 tracks focused on dark themes, but there were also lighter songs such as " One With the Sun " ( inspired by a conversation she had with Willie Nelson ).
Ellis and Nelson argue that much constitutional thought from Madison to Lincoln and beyond has focused on " the problem of majority tyranny.
" The next day, Salieri visits the Emperor's court to submit Mozart's Requiem as her own, but the court is already focused on Ludwig van Beethoven ( Nelson ).
This station focused on artists like Elvis Presley, Everly Brothers, Crystals, Fats Domino, Ricky Nelson, Frankie Lymon, Drifters, Jackie Wilson, Roy Orbison, early Motown music, and others.

Nelson and fire
To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.
At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.
There, the Nelson Valve Company began an in-house fire brigade to meet the needs of the dangerous industrial mechanisms used to make hydraulic valves.
Under Nelson ’ s command, Ball took part in the Battle of the Nile, and his ship, the Alexander, was the second British ship to fire on the French Admiral's flagship, L ’ Orient, which later blew up during the battle.
Nelson said that he ' must either send on shore and stop this irregular proceeding, or send in our fire ships and burn them ' and went to his cabin to write a note to the Danes.
Blair died with Nelson in the airplane fire.
According to legend, he urged General Washington ( or, in some versions, the Marquis de Lafayette ) to fire on his own home, the Nelson House, where Cornwallis had his headquarters, offering five guineas to the first man to hit his house.
Ewell blamed the plundering mobs of civilians for burning a tobacco warehouse, which was a significant source of the fire, but Nelson Lankford, author of Richmond Burning, wrote that " Ewell convinced few people that the great fire had nothing to do with his men or their deliberate demolition of the warehouses and bridges through military orders passed down the chain of command.
One of those weapons was a. 38 Colt automatic pistol that had been modified to fire fully automatic ( Nelson used this same gun to murder Special Agent W. Carter Baum at Little Bohemia Lodge several months later ).
In the robbery, which netted around $ 49, 000 ( figures differ slightly ), Nelson severely wounded motorcycle policeman Hale Keith with a burst of sub-machinegun fire as the officer was arriving at the scene.
Nelson, who had been outside the lodge in the adjacent cabin ( he ultimately was irked that Dillinger got a better room )), characteristically attacked the raiding party head on, exchanging fire with Purvis, before retreating into the lodge under a return volley from other agents.
As Newman, the driver was getting out, Nelson, apparently detecting a suspicious movement, opened fire with a custom-converted machine gun pistol, severely wounding Christensen and Newman and killing Baum, shot three times in the neck.
Also outside the bank, Nelson exchanged fire with a local jeweler, Harry Berg, who had shot him in the chest-ineffectively, because of Nelson's bullet-proof vest.
As Nelson regained his feet, Hollis, possibly already wounded, moved to better cover behind a utility pole while drawing his pistol, but was killed by a bullet to the head before he could return fire.
However, the film still portrays Nelson as getting up and continuing to fire immediately after being shot several times.
The volume of fire rapidly began to increase, and enemy vehicles could be seen moving towards the villa from the nearby woods ; this in particular worried Frost, as the radio sets the force had been issued failed to work, giving him no means of communication with his other detachments, including ' Nelson ' who were tasked with clearing the evacuation beach.
Having secured the radar equipment and under heavy enemy fire, Major Frost gave the order for the three detachments to withdraw to the evacuation beach ; it quickly became apparent, however, that the beach had not been secured by ' Nelson ' when a machine-gun opened fire on the airborne troops, severely wounding a Company Sergeant Major.
Actor and theater director Charles Nelson Reilly, who was thirteen years old at the time, survived the fire and dramatized it in the film of his stage show, " The Life of Reilly ".
* Charles Nelson Reilly dramatizes the fire in a clip from " The Life of Reilly "
Actor and theater director Charles Nelson Reilly, who was thirteen years old at the time, survived the fire and dramatized it in the film of his stage show, " The Life of Reilly ".
Like Nelson, the model for both Hornblower and Harrington by admission of both authors, she becomes a living legend by using those skills in several major engagements — battles for which the press nicknames her " The Salamander " for always seeming to be " where the fire is hottest.

Nelson and on
And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.
Irving Granville and Nelson Rector who travel widely calling on business firms.
Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".
A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.
For more than two months, Nelson chased the French, on several occasions only missing them by a matter of hours.
On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.
Incorrectly believing the French to be five days ahead rather than two, Nelson insisted on a direct route to Alexandria without deviation.
Making rapid time on a direct route, Nelson reached Alexandria on 28 June and discovered that the French were not there.
After a meeting with the suspicious Ottoman commander Sayyid Muhammad Kurayyim, Nelson ordered the British fleet northwards, reaching the coast of Anatolia on 4 July and turning westwards back towards Sicily.
On 28 July at Coron, intelligence was finally obtained describing the French attack on Egypt and Nelson turned south across the Mediterranean.
Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.
Nelson ordered the fleet to slow down at 16: 00 to allow his ships to rig " springs " on their anchor cables, a system of attaching the bow anchor that increased stability and allowed his ships to swing their broadsides to face an enemy while stationary.
Nelson subsequently ignored Jefferson's instructions to remain inactive, returning to the quarterdeck shortly before the explosion on Orient to oversee the closing stages of the battle.
Nelson, who on surveying the bay on the morning of 2 August said " Victory is not a name strong enough for such a scene ", remained at anchor in Aboukir Bay for the next two weeks, preoccupied with recovering from his wound, writing dispatches and assessing the military situation in Egypt using documents captured on board one of the prizes.
The wounded officers taken prisoner were held on board Vanguard, where Nelson regularly entertained them at dinner.
Historian Joseph Allen recounts that on one occasion Nelson, whose eyesight was still suffering following his wound, offered toothpicks to an officer who had lost his teeth and then passed a snuff-box to an officer whose nose had been torn off, causing much embarrassment.

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