Burnside, whose reputation had suffered from his 1862 defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg and his poor performance earlier that year at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, gave Pleasants the go-ahead.

** James Pleasants ( DR ), from December 10, 1819

According to the American music critic Henry Pleasants, the author of The Great Singers from the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time ( first published 1967 ), she gave between 25 and 35 performances each season at the Met alone.

After college, he instructed high school students as a biology teacher in St. Marys, West Virginia in Pleasants County from 1943 to 1946.

James Pleasants, Jr. ( October 24, 1769November 9, 1836 ) was an American politician who served in the U. S. Senate from 1819 to 1822 and was the 22nd Governor of Virginia from 1822 to 1825.

Pleasants was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to December 14, 1819, when he resigned, having been elected a United States Senator.

Other discs of arias singled out for praise by Pleasants, Steane and / or Scott include Ruffo's acoustic Victor / HMV versions of the following arias: " Pari siamo ", " Urna fatale ", " Credo in un Dio crudel ", " Tremin gl ' insani ", " Buona Zazà, del mio buon tempo ", " Nemico della partria " and the " Prologo " from Pagliacci.

* Pleasants, Henry, The Great Singers from the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time, Macmillan Publishers, London ( 1983 ) ISBN 0-333-34854-0

Finally, Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps, offered a novel proposal to break the impasse.

Pleasants attempted to put the puzzle of Johnson's life together, however, questions on Johnson's race, life dates and even his last name ( Johnson or Johnston ) remained.

Contemporary sketch of Col. Pleasants supervising the placement of powder in the mine.

* Pleasants, Henry ( 1969 ) Serious Music and All That Jazz, Simon & Schuster.

In prison he met Eric Pleasants and the two became friends.

As Henry Pleasants has observed, she has a wider range than most opera singers, and many of the latter, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, are among her biggest fans.

Henry Pleasants, an American classical-music critic, wrote this about her: She has a lovely voice, one of the warmest and most radiant in its natural range that I have heard in a lifetime of listening to singers in every category.

They quickly lost interest and Pleasants soon found himself with few materials for his project, to the extent that his men had to forage for wood to support the structure.

Pleasants lit the fuse accordingly, but as with the rest of the mine's provisions, they had been given poor quality fuse, which his men had had to splice themselves.

Pleasants, who had no role in the battle itself, received praise for his idea and the execution thereof.

* In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South, Pleasants proposes and enacts his plan for a similar battle when the South engages in war with their time-traveling benefactors.

* Pleasants, Henry.

Pleasants County is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1851 and named for US Senator and Virginia Governor James Pleasants, Jr. Pleasants County is included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio ( part ) Metropolitan Statistical Area.

* Edward Ormerod, mining engineer and inventor of the Ormerod safety link for use in coal mines

The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.

In Philadelphia, Beaux's aunt Emily married mining engineer William Foster Biddle, whom Beaux would later describe as " after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life.

The translation was made by Herbert Hoover, then an American mining engineer ( better known to history for his later term as a President of the United States ), and his wife Lou Henry Hoover.

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.

Anthony Francis Lucas, an experienced mining engineer and salt driller, drilled a well to find oil at Spindletop Hill.

Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author.

" He served as a geologist and mining engineer while searching the Western Australian goldfields for investments.

In February 1681, Johann Wilhelm Vogel, a Dutch mining engineer at Salida, Sumatra ( near Padang ), on his way to Batavia ( modern Jakarta ) passed through the Sunda Strait.

Finally they prospected the Tarua River south past the tributary which flows to Waipai, once more without success and on the advice of mining engineer Seale, it was decided there was nothing to justify further exploration.

After leading the first expedition, Sam Freeman did not return and Reg Beazley became party leader of the second expedition, with Pontey Seale mining engineer, Bill MacGregor and Beazley prospectors and recruiters, and Ernie Shepherd in charge of transport and supplies, prospecting when opportunity arose.

The only exception was the mining engineers, which called themselves bergsingenjör (" mountain engineer ").

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

The word " turbine " was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the Latin turbo, or vortex, in a memoir, " Des turbines hydrauliques ou machines rotatoires à grande vitesse ", which he submitted to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

** Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician ( b. 1839 )

* December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician ( b. 1854 )

The German Franz Xaver von Baader ( 1765 – 1841 ) was a mining engineer at that time and, in a mining journal, he advocated a conical-shaped space at the forward end of a blasting charge to increase the explosive's effect and thereby save powder.

Later, the manager of the Chrysolite mine fooled an outside mining engineer into overestimating the ore reserves of that mine.

* Harvey Seeley Mudd, famous mining engineer and founder of Cyprus Mines Corporation.

In 1903, mining engineer and businessman Daniel M. Barringer suggested that the crater had been produced by the impact of a large iron-metallic meteorite.

* Richard Smith ( mining engineer ) ( 1783 – 1868 ), English-born mining engineer and politician in Nova Scotia