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The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison and on February 16, 1862, Brig.
Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.
Memorable television commercials that aired during the game included Sony Pictures trailer for Spider-Man and Budweiser ’ s “ Picking a Card .” ADBOWL ranked M & M ’ s “ Chocolate on our Pillow ” as the best commercial of the year.
After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.
* June 4 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for U. S. Army troops to capture Memphis, Tennessee.
On April 12, 1864, General Forrest led his forces in the attack and capture of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee.
Fort Pillow State Park is home to a museum and also has reconstructed fortifications on the original site of the fort.
Over the next hundred years, the new name slowly took hold, and on November 2, 1965, the residents voted to change the official name of the town to Pillow.
In 2008, Scarface collaborated with rapper Tech N9ne on his album Killer on the song " Pillow Talkin '".
* Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot-( France )
He followed on this success with short stories, such as Rondon tō (" Tower of London ") in 1905 and the novels Botchan (" Little Master "), and Kusamakura (" Grass Pillow ") in 1906, which established his reputation, and which enabled him to leave his post at the university for a position with Asahi Shimbun in 1907, and to begin writing full-time.
Doris Day sings three songs in the film: " Pillow Talk " during the opening credits, " Roly Poly " in the piano bar with Hudson, and " Possess Me " on the drive up to Jonathan's cabin.
* Article on " Pillow Talk "-Bright Lights Film Journal
* Article on " Pillow Talk "-DorisDay. Net
Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in February 1967 on RCA Victor, catalogue LPM / LSP 3766 in either mono or stereo.
" Pillow Talk " has been called an early example of prototypical disco music and went on to sell two million copies.
He has released a number of albums on his own Pillow Mountain label, including solo works and various duets.
A series of six low-budget Universal Horror movies starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and based on the radio show was produced in the 1940s: Calling Dr. Death ( 1943 ), Weird Woman ( 1944 ), Dead Man's Eyes ( 1944 ), The Frozen Ghost ( 1945 ), Strange Confession ( 1945 ) and Pillow of Death ( 1945 ).
February 1990 brought their last UK No. 1 single, Kylie Minogue's cover of " Tears on My Pillow ", and a top 10 hit with new recruit Lonnie Gordon.
Fans also took part in " Bowie's Largest Pillow Fight ", which took place on the field following the game.
" Somebody to Love " was also a track on their influential album released in February 1967, Surrealistic Pillow.
It is also shown that he is currently quite stuck on the study of poo, having read many books written by one Miss Felicity Beedle, whom he knows as " the poo lady ", and who has also written such books as Where's My Cow ?, The World of Poo, Melvin and the Enormous Boil, Geoffrey and the Magic Pillow Case and The Little Duckling Who Thought He Was an Elephant.
Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, acting on orders from Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, occupied Columbus.

Pillow and Pacific
After the war, he served as assistant adjutant general of the Pacific Division, but resigned his commission in 1853 ; his military reputation had been damaged when he testified against his former commander, General Scott, in the court-martial for insubordination of Gideon Pillow.
Leckie's war memoirs, Helmet for My Pillow, along with Eugene B. Sledge's book With the Old Breed, formed the basis for the 2010 HBO series The Pacific, the successor to Band of Brothers.
The Pacific is partially based on Leckie's book, Helmet for My Pillow ( 1957 ), but there is no mention of Snookums in Leckie's book.

basalts and on
Based on data from marine magnetic profiles, a pulse of unusually rapid plate motion begins at the same time as the first pulse of Deccan flood basalts, which is dated at 67 Myr ago.
Large igneous provinces ( LIP ) such as Iceland, the Siberian Traps, Deccan Traps, and the Ontong Java Plateau are extensive regions of basalts on a continental scale resulting from flood basalt eruptions.
However, the largest volumes of basalt on land correspond to continental flood basalts.
While most of the Moon's basalts erupted between about 3 and 3. 5 billion years ago, the oldest samples are 4. 2 billion years old, and the youngest flows, based on the age dating method of " crater counting ," are estimated to have erupted only 1. 2 billion years ago.
Compared to other rocks found on Earth's surface, basalts weather relatively fast.
* A. Y. Ozerov, The evolution of high-alumina basalts of the Klyuchevskoy volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, based on microprobe analyses of mineral inclusions.
Some noted rock formations involve giant boulders exposed by erosion, such as the Devil's Marbles in Australia's Northern Territory, the Horeke basalts in New Zealand, where an entire valley contains only boulders, and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.
Unlike most other basins on the Moon, Orientale is relatively unflooded by mare basalts, exposing much of the basin structure to view ; the central portion of Mare Orientale is covered by a thin layer of mare basalt probably less than 1 kilometer deep, much less than in other nearside mare basins.
The age of the Orientale basin has not been directly determined, though it must be older than 3. 72 Ga ( based on Upper Imbrian ages of mare basalts ) and could be as old as 3. 84 Ga based on the size-frequency distributions of craters superposed on Orientale ejecta.
The slab gap hypothesis goes on to state that the upwelling can form very deep cracks, which in turn lets very fluid basalt lava quickly spread over the land surface forming shield volcanoes and vast volcanic plains called " flood basalts ".
The Apollo 12 mission landed north of Copernicus on mare basalts of Oceanus Procellarum that were believed to have been in the path of one of the crater's rays, and scientists hoped cosmic ray exposure ages of soil samples would help constrain the crater age.
" Ocean-island basalt " is also similar to basalts found throughout the oceans on both small and large seamounts ( thought to be formed by eruptions on the sea floor that did not rise above the surface of the ocean ).
These extremely rapid, large scale eruptions of basaltic magmas have periodically formed continental flood basalt provinces on land and oceanic plateaus in the ocean basins, such as the Deccan Traps, the Siberian Traps the Karoo / Ferrar flood basalts of Gondwana ,< ref > and the largest known continental flood basalt, the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province ( CAMP ).
The difference between these two rock types is: basalt rock forms on eruption of lava, that is, on the surface ( either out of a volcano, or through massive fissures — as in the Deccan basalts — in the ground ), while granite forms deep within the Earth.
" The Aristarchus plateau is one of the most geologically diverse places on the moon: a mysterious raised flat plateau, a giant rille carved by enormous outpourings of lava, fields of explosive volcanic ash, and all surrounded by massive flood basalts ," said Mark Robinson, principal investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera at Arizona State University.
During late Miocene and early Pliocene times, one of the largest flood basalts ever to appear on the earth's surface engulfed about of the Pacific Northwest, forming a large igneous province.
) Furthermore, tidal despinning is predicted to have occurred quickly ( on the order of 10s of millions of years ), whereas the majority of mare basalts erupted about 1 billion years later.
The reason that the mare basalts are predominantly located on the near-side hemisphere of the Moon is still being debated by the scientific community.
Mare basalts are generally grouped into three series based on their major element chemistry: high-Ti basalts, low-Ti basalts, and very Low-Ti ( VLT ) basalts.

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