* Nelson's Pillar, a 36. 8 m ( 121 ft ) granite Doric column erected in 1808 in honour of Admiral Lord Nelson, formerly stood at the centre of the street on the site of the present day Spire.

After noting that, unlike Lee, his fellow Virginian, Thomas stood by the Union, Sherman wrote: Sherman concluded that Grant and Thomas were " heroes " deserving " monuments like those of Nelson and Wellington in London, well worthy to stand side by side with the one which now graces our city of ' George Washington.

After having been involved in the National Party since his university days, Smith stood in the 1990 elections as the party's candidate in the Tasman electorate ( based around Nelson ).

107. 1 went on the air in the 1960s as WNRE which stood for the young owner's name, Nelson Embry.

He also served in the councils of Nelson Province and Canterbury Province, and unsuccessfully stood for the superintendency of both.

He stood as one of seven candidates for the Nelson Provincial Council in 1853 in the Town of Nelson electorate, where five seats were elected.

Eyeing the vice presidency in 1968, Kirk stood alone in the Florida delegation at the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach by supporting Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, rather than the clear frontrunner, Richard Nixon.

In 1994-95, he became interim head coach of the Golden State Warriors for 37 games after Don Nelson stood down, in which he compiled a 12-25 win-loss record.

At approximately 20: 30, Nelson was struck over his blinded right eye by an iron splinter fired in a langrage shot from Spartiate.

On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, ( later 1st Earl of St Vincent ) and Horatio Nelson ( later 1st Viscount Nelson ) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.

Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.

* 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

Population is estimated to be over 20, 000, distributed through the more mountainous parts of northwest Nelson, the northern West Coast, and the Southern Alps.

Mark Nelson, frustrated over many cranks trying to claim having invented a magic compression algorithm appearing in comp. compression, has constructed a 415, 241 byte binary file () of highly entropic content, and issued a public challenge of $ 100 to anyone to write a program that, together with its input, would be smaller than his provided binary data yet be able to reconstitute (" decompress ") it without error.

Critic Dana D. Nelson believes presidents over the past thirty years have worked towards " undivided presidential control of the executive branch and its agencies.

Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.

Muppet performers over the course of the show include Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Fran Brill, Eren Ozker, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, and John Lovelady.

In the first season the narrator was usually voiced by John Lovelady, but Jerry Nelson performed the role in both the Harvey Korman and Rita Moreno episodes, before taking over the role permanently from the Phyllis Diller episode.

Staines was a site for a horse change on The Trafalgar Way in 1805, announcing the victory over the combined French and Spanish fleet and the death of Nelson.

They wintered over at the mouth of the Nelson River, and in the spring of 1613 continued north.

Following a tour of Europe and the United States, both Brown and Damiani announced they were leaving Cake, which led to speculation about the band's future ; McCrea eventually recruited Xan McCurdy to take over on guitar, and persuaded Nelson to return.

Other early hit series on ABC during this period which helped establish the network included The Lone Ranger ( ABC's only Top 10 show before Disneyland ), The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, ( starring the real-life Nelson family ), Leave It To Beaver ( which moved over from CBS ), The Detectives and The Untouchables.

His brother, David Rockefeller, also joined the museum's board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency when Nelson took up position as Governor of New York in 1958.

In addition, Nelson, after a slow start, developed into a talented player, taking over the starting point guard position.

Then a foot injury to Nelson forced him to sit out over a month.

During the 2006 offseason, Golden State announced that it had bought out the remaining two years of head coach Mike Montgomery's contract and hired previous Golden State and former Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson to take over in his place.

Larry Riley, longtime assistant coach to Don Nelson, took over as General Manager and drafted Stephen Curry with the 7th lottery pick.

Works in the 1880s, funded by the publisher William Nelson and carried out by Hippolyte Blanc, saw the Argyle Tower built over the Portcullis Gate, and the Great Hall restored after years of use as a barracks.

* Author Stephen L. Nelson — Author " Quicken for Dummies " and 150 other books in the series, over 5 million copies sold worldwide.

* Rabun County is a prominent location in Larry Burkett's 1991 novel The Illuminati ( Thomas Nelson )-Clayton and Rabun County are the refuge of the book's protagonists once the powers that be begin to exert their control over the American economy-Clayton is safe due to the antiquated analog communications gear and general out-of-the-wayness that has fomented the popular perception of this remote area.

Then, during a cooking segment with Shore and Charles Nelson Reilly, Clifton dumped a pan of eggs over Shore's head.

Six bullets from Cowley's submachine gun eventually struck Nelson in the chest and stomach before Nelson mortally wounded Cowley with bullets in the chest and stomach, while pellets from Hollis's shotgun struck Nelson in the legs and momentarily downed him.

Nelson had been shot a total of seventeen times ; seven of Cowley's submachine gun slugs had struck his torso and ten of Hollis's shotgun pellets had torn into his legs.

Graham ’ s father-in-law, L. Nelson Bell, mailed a fiery ten-page letter to most members of the BJU faculty and student body ( as well as to thousands of pastors across the country ) accusing Jones of “ hatred, distortions, jealousies, envying, malice, false witnessing, and untruthfulness .”

* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall of the Greenwich Hospital prior to his funeral.

It turns out that he did not leave Nelson deliberately ; he bit into a chocolate bar, not knowing it had peanuts and had an allergic reaction that gave him neurofibramatosis which impacted his wisdom tooth in the upper left corner with a large bone coming out of the jaw which went into his spine, covering 90 % of his body with large tumors of chronic bronchitis.

While designing a scanner for reactor fuel elements in 1957, Argonne physicist William Nelson Beck put his own arm inside the scanner and obtained one of the first ultrasound images of the human body.

A musket bullet fired from the mizzentop of the Redoutable struck Nelson in the left shoulder and passed through his body lodging in his spine.

File: PuckCartoon-TeddyRoosevelt-05-23-1906. jpg |" The Infant Hercules and the Standard Oil serpents ", May 23, 1906 issue ; depicting U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt " grabbing the head of Nelson W. Aldrich and the snake-like body of John D. Rockefeller ".

In 1947, Noguchi began a collaboration with the Herman Miller company, when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture ever produced, including the iconic Noguchi table which remains in production today His work lives on around the world and at the Noguchi Museum in New York City.

After defeating the French in the Battle of the Nile in 1798 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Nelson, of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body, on 6 November 1798.

After defeating the Danish fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801 Nelson was further honoured when he was made Viscount Nelson, of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body, on 22 May 1801.

On 18 August of the same year he was created Baron Nelson, of the Nile and of Hillborough in the County of Norfolk, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his father and the heirs male of his body, and failing them to the heirs male of the body severally and successively of his sisters Mrs Susannah Bolton and Mrs Catherine Matcham.

When Nelson was 11 years old, the family moved to Fort Worth, where he barely survived typhoid fever after losing nearly half his body weight to the disease, which also left him unable to sire children.

In 1928, the International Council of Religious Education ( the body that later merged with the Federal Council of Churches to form the National Council of Churches ) acquired the copyright from Nelson and renewed it the following year.

Prior to his tenure as host, Nelson played various parody " guest star " characters such as Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate, Morrissey, body builder and Hercules star Steve Reeves, and continued to play the occasional side character even after he became host.

Nelson, realizing that display and advertising type ( rather than the body type that was set so efficiently by the new line-casters ) would be the mainstay of the foundry type business, immediately began an extensive advertising campaign and commissioned the production of new type designs.

Assigned in August 2007, Nelson is currently a member of the Church Boards of Trusteees / Education, the governing body of the Church Educational System.

These included services such as The Elvis Society ( a dating service for " pillows ") and products such as " The Totally Ian Roberts Bar ", a confectionery item ( referring to gay rugby league player Ian Roberts ), the HG Nelson Butchery -- " still doing things with meat other butchers only dream of " -- " Roy's Rectal Ring Balm " ( a rectal ointment ) and " Happy Jack's Ta-taa Packs " ( a body bag ) -- as well as innumerable parody books, films and TV series.

Nelson stashed the body of 14-year-old Lola Cowan under his bed in a rooming house, luring her to his room on the pretense of buying flowers from her.

However, Lisa tells Homer that, despite Nelson beating up the girls who made fun of her butt and eating something after days of starvation, she still thinks she is fat and ( like many women and girls in real life ) will never be content with her body image.

John Nelson Darby held a formidable body of doctrine on the subject of the biblical significance of the dispensation of the fulness of times.

Members of the Corps escorted the barge carrying the body of Lord Nelson along the Thames in small boats during his state funeral in 1806.

Storms in the English Channel meant that Nelson ’ s body did not arrive by sea in London until January 1806.