In 2010, a Siena College Research Institute survey of 238 presidential scholars ranked Harding 41st among the 43 men who had been president, between Franklin Pierce ( 40th ) and James Buchanan ( 42nd ); Andrew Johnson was adjudged the worst.

* Originally based on writing by Christopher Mahan as a Pierce College English 101 assignment: christophermahan. com

For the community college near Tacoma, Washington, see Pierce College, for the 4 year college in Philadelphia see Peirce College.

Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College, Pierce, is a community college that serves more than 23, 000 students in the northern Chalk Hills of Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

Nine years later, in 1956, the school was renamed to Los Angeles Pierce College, retaining the name of its founder, Dr. Pierce, as well as his commitment to agricultural and veterinary study.

The western rural Farm Area, at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles | Woodland Hills.

Pierce College comprises amidst a dense metropolis, an area larger than many university campuses, including that of UCLA.

The Pierce College farm houses small herds of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, a small poultry flock, as well as a llama and an alpaca for its students to learn from.

The Associated Students Organization ( ASO ) is the official Student Government of the 23, 000 students at Los Angeles Pierce College.

Since the approval of Los Angeles County Propositions A and AA, Pierce College has been undergoing large-scale renovation.

Pierce College prides itself as an environmentally-forward institution, with a 191-kilowatt solar generation system that has 1, 274 photovoltaic panels and a 360-kilowatt, natural gas co-generation system.

Pierce College is one of the nine colleges of the Los Angeles Community College District, and is accredited through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, a nationally recognized accrediting agency.

In April 2010, after securing a $ 100, 000 grant, Pierce College launched a 24-hour student-run online radio station, KPCR, airing a mix of music, sports, drama, and locally-produced news and features.

In April of every year, the Foundation for Pierce College hosts Farmwalk, an outdoor festival including animals, activities, displays, games and music.

The Farmwalk also includes face-painting, a petting-zoo and hayrides for children, all to benefit the Pierce College farm.

During a slew of fires in Southern California in 2007, Pierce College sheltered and fed more than 150 horses under the direction of the L. A. County Volunteer Equine Response team.

She later has a final conversation with Donald Pierce who offers to save her in return for his release, stating that he has since grown to appreciate Sooraya and their conversations.

Metro Transit offers a trip planner on its web site that provides information for public transit in Seattle and surrounding areas ( King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties ), including Sound Transit's Regional Express bus routes, Sounder commuter rail, Washington State Ferries, and the Seattle Center Monorail.

Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences.

Franklin Pierce also offers students master's degrees, doctoral degrees, and a few graduate certificate programs.

Franklin Pierce offers 17 varsity sports which compete at the NCAA Division II level and compete in the Northeast-10 Conference ( with the exception of the rowing programs ): field hockey, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, women's cross country, men's golf, men's and women's tennis, men's ice hockey, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's and women's lacrosse and men's and women's rowing.

* Pierce College-HWNI offers a Summer neuroscience research program for Pierce undergraduate students to work with a student or faculty mentor on supervised research projects.

Physicist and investigator Stanton Friedman was only able to substantially verify that Lazar took electronics courses in the late 1970s at Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles.

This resort will be unique as it will host an Elite Academy of Tennis led by Gabriel Jaramillo former tennis director of the Nick Bollettieri Academy and who coached # 1 and famous ATP and WTA players, Agassi, Sharapova, Pierce, Rios, Haas, Kournikova ...) and Golf Academy with 16 golf courses led by Brad Brewer for the Golf Channel.

* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

* Don Pierce, Beading on a Loom.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce ’ s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.

President Pierce signed the bill into law on May 30.

Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter ( a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance ) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh's getaway car was hidden.

* Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, stage play by William Moncrieff based on Pierce Egan's journal

Wilson's Pierce Arrow, which is on display in his hometown of Staunton, Virginia.

Pierce also appeared on an early episode of the hit 80's TV sitcom Designing Women as a steward on a cruise ship.

Most Muckleshoots now live on or near the 15. 871 km² ( 6. 128 sq mi ) Muckleshoot Reservation, between the White and Green rivers southeast of the city of Auburn ( at in King County and Pierce County ).

Pierce and running mate William R. King went on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott and his vice-presidential nominee, William Alexander Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42.

Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, a former Congressman and Senator, did not get on the board until the 35th ballot, when the Virginia delegation brought him forward as a compromise choice.

The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!

In October the Foundation sponsors an annual Harvest Festival, featuring tons of pumpkins grown on the Pierce farm, a five-mile ( 8 km ) corn maze, rock climbing, games and rides for the children, a petting zoo, live music and Halloween frights for the whole family.

In her first appearance on this series, Aida Pierce portrayed her elderly alter ego, Virginola, who drinks a bottle of youth serum, and then performs a striptease, taking off her sweater, skirt, scarf, and even her wig, revealing a black sheer bodysuit and pants ... and Pierce herself.

In interviews, Pierce called Hunter " more realistic " and described his rationale for writing it as taking the reader through "... an educational process ".

He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States, many of them cinema classics, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Dodge City, The Sea Hawk, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas.

In 2006, an informal survey by The News Tribune found that 36 % of respondents, more than for any other single area of the 21 listed, believed Lakewood to be the most difficult area of Pierce County to navigate.

After this defeat, Secretary Davis and southern senators pressed Pierce to add more provisions to the treaty including:

Kember's liner notes explain that the alternative mixes represent the more multi-layered versions which he and Pierce agreed not to use because they would be unable to satisfactorily reproduce their sound live.

Hints of her more complex role are indicated when she and Xavier are kidnapped by Donald Pierce, a renegade member of the club, with grudges against both organizations.

In 1903 Pierce decided to concentrate on making a larger, more luxurious car for the upscale market, and the Pierce-Arrow car was born.

She cited Mary Pierce, Jennifer Capriati, and Andre Agassi as inspirational figures for her to follow towards her goal of reaching the highest echelons of tennis once more.

Led by flamboyant singer and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club merged the contemporary genre of punk rock with the more traditional genres of blues, rockabilly and country music.

Stevens chose to add one more duty as he traveled west to the territory he would govern: the government was calling for a surveyor to map an appropriate railroad route across the northern United States, and with Stevens ' engineering experience ( and likely the favor of Pierce yet again ) he won the bid, and spent most of 1853 moving slowly across the prairie, surveying his way to Washington Territory, where he took up his post at Olympia as governor in November that year.

After more than two years in the making, while Pierce was undergoing experimental chemotherapy for a liver disease, and including a year long period of mixing, Sweet Heart Sweet Light was released in April 2012, on Double Six Records.

Sinclair admits to Ivanova that they do not have a jamming device, however the bluff will discourage Pierce from sending down any more ships to the planet for a while.

Mo ' Width was issued in July 1994 by Au Go Go Records and made-up of out-takes from the Extra Width-era featuring covers of " There Stands The Glass " ( Webb Pierce ), " Beat of The Traps " ( Teri Rodd & MSR Singers ) and Ole Man Trouble ( Otis Redding ), an alternate mix of " Afro " with a much more prominent organ solo and " Rob K " features Rob Kennedy from The Workdogs and the song was later titled " Rob K is President " on the Mute Records 2000 reissue.

The backlash from the Ostend Manifesto also caused Pierce to abandon further expansionist plans, and has been described as part of a series of " gratuitous conflicts ... that cost more than they were worth " for Southern interests intent on maintaining the institution of slavery.

The sole dissenter in the court, Justice Pierce Butler, a devout Catholic, did not write a dissenting opinion: the practice of a Justice's noting a dissent without opinion was much more common then than it would be in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

On the Court, Roberts was a swing vote between those, led by Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Harlan Fiske Stone, as well as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who would allow a broader interpretation of the Commerce Clause to allow Congress to pass New Deal legislation that would provide for a more active federal role in the national economy, and the Four Horsemen ( Justices James Clark McReynolds, Pierce Butler, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter ) who favored a narrower interpretation of the Commerce Clause and believed that the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protected a strong " liberty of contract.

However, Brooke wanted to devote more time to Jamie and Laura, so she broke up with Pierce.

The source of the river is the Lower Pierce Reservoir, and at more than 10 kilometres, it is the longest river in Singapore.

Jeremy Pierce, observing that " Schaeffer ’ s main influence in evangelicalism is in opposing anti-intellectualism and calling on evangelicals to think through their worldview and the worldviews of those around them ," and that Schaeffer's legacy of " bringing evangelicals to care about theology, philosophy, and intellectual endeavor " is generally considered more significant than his political work, further observed that Schaeffer explicitly rejected the theonomist views of Rushdoony.