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He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.
The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.
Andrew Powell appeared as arranger of orchestra ( and often choirs ) on all albums except Vulture Culture, when he was composing the score of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke.
When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.
Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.
" One notable pupil was Enoch Powell.
The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame — Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.
Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.
* In 1991, Powell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush.
* In 1991, Powell was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.
* On September 30, 1993, Powell was awarded his second Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.
* On November 9, 1993, Powell was awarded the second Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, by President Ronald Reagan.
* On December 15, 1993, Colin Powell was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
* The 2002 Liberty Medal was awarded to Colin Powell on July 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* The Coat of Arms of Colin Powell was granted by the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh on February 4, 2004.
* Colin Powell was initiated as an honorary brother in Sigma Phi Epsilon.
On July 5, 2009, Colin Powell told CNN said that the policy was " correct for the time " but that " sixteen years have now gone by, and I think a lot has changed with respect to attitudes within our country, and therefore I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed.
Edwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953 ) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.
Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.
David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.
The Fifth Monarchists were also a significant opponent to the Rump Parliament and leading Fifth Monarchists like Vavasor Powell were annoyed at the Rump's failure to renew certain pieces of legislation, such as the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, because they believed that the Rump was not fulfilling what the Fifth Monarchists perceived to be its aim, that is to turn England into a more ' godly ' nation.
The arrest of Feake and Powell was sufficient for a time to dampen their ardour, but many of the delegates to Barebone's Parliament were from congregations with Fifth Monarchist sympathies.
Meanwhile he was still writing reviews of books and plays and at this time met the novelist Anthony Powell.

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Enoch Powell was born in Stechford, Birmingham, England.
" Later in the speech Powell said, " I was born a Tory, am a Tory and shall die a Tory.
* Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. ( 1865 – 1953 ), was born to Sally Dunning, a free woman of color, and reared here.
* Ottie Cline Powell ( 1890 – 1894 ), born in Amherst County four year old boy who died after getting lost collecting firewood outside his schoolhouse.
Famous people born in Morrow County include ( 1 ) Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, who was born near Blooming Grove, Ohio, in northeast Morrow County ; ( 2 ) Quaker abolitionist Richard Dillingham, who was born in Peru Township ; ( 3 ) Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus, cleryman, writer and educator ( see Illinois Institute of Technology ), who was born in Chesterville, Ohio ; and ( 4 ) writer Dawn Powell, who was born in Mount Gilead.
Casey Powell was born in 1976 in West Carthage, NY.
Ernest Giles was born in Bristol, England, son of William Giles, a merchant, and Jane Elizabeth, née Powell.
Robert Powell ( born 1 June 1944 ) is a British television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay.
Powell was born in Salford, Lancashire the son of Kathleen ( née Davis ) and John Wilson Powell.
Earl Rudolph " Bud " Powell ( September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966 ) was a jazz pianist who was born and raised in Harlem, New York City.
Wainwright was born at Fort Walla Walla, an army post now in Walla Walla, Washington, and was the son of Robert Powell Page Wainwright, a U. S. Army officer who had served as a 2nd Lt in the US 1st Cavalry in 1875, commanded a squadron at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and in 1902 was killed in action in the Philippines.
Powell was born in Bekesbourne, Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and then at Dulwich College.
The O ' Jays are an American R & B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert ( born June 16, 1942 ), Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1943 ), William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ), Bobby Massey and Bill Isles.
The original members were Reg King ( lead vocals ) ( born Reginald King, 5 February 1945, Paddington, West London, died, 8 October 2010, Belvedere, Kent ), Alan ' Bam ' King ( lead guitar, vocals ) ( born Alan King, 18 September 1945, Muswell Hill, North London ), Mike " Ace " Evans ( bass guitar, vocals ) ( born Michael Evans, 10 July 1944, Henley, Berkshire, died 15 January 2010, London ) and Roger Powell ( drums ) ( born 4 July 1945, Camden Town, North West London ).
Slade come from the Black Country area of the West Midlands: both the drummer Don Powell, and bass guitarist Jim Lea were born and raised in Wolverhampton, lead vocalist Noddy Holder was born and raised in the nearby town of Walsall, and lead guitarist Dave Hill was born in Devon and moved to Wolverhampton while a child.

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" From Different Liberal Perspectives: Fiorello H. La Guardia, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Civil Rights in New York City, 1941 – 1943 ," The Journal of Negro History, Vol.
* Cecelia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence ( New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1987 )
U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and President of Zambia Levy Mwanawasa meet in New York during the 59th UN General Assembly.
Powell cut out and retained all his life an article from the New Statesman newspaper of 13 November 1943, in which the American Clare Boothe Luce said in a speech that Indian independence would mean that the " USA will really have won the greatest war in the world for democracy ".
After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.
These include: Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico ; Lake Ouachita, Lake Norfork, Beaver Lake ( Arkansas ) and Lake Hamilton in Arkansas ; Lake Powell, Lake Pleasant, and Lake Havasu in Arizona ; Castaic Lake, Lake George in Florida, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake, Diamond Valley Lake, East Fork State Park Lake near Cincinnati Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama, Lake Cumberland, and Lake Murray in California ; Lake Lanier in Georgia ; Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee ; and Lake Mead, Nevada ; Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Buchanan in Texas ; Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania ; and in Virginia Smith Mountain Lake.
* 1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
* Powell, Jason ( 2006 ) Jacques Derrida: A Biography ( London and New York: Continuum )
* L. P. Powell ( editor ), in Historic Towns of the Southern States, ( New York, 1900 )
He then went on to make more musicals throughout the 1950s: Let's Dance ( 1950 ) with Betty Hutton, Royal Wedding ( 1951 ) with Jane Powell, Three Little Words ( 1950 ) and The Belle of New York ( 1952 ) with Vera-Ellen, The Band Wagon ( 1953 ) and Silk Stockings ( 1957 ) with Cyd Charisse, Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ) with Leslie Caron, and Funny Face ( 1957 ) with Audrey Hepburn.
In 1967 while living and studying in New York, Meredith decided to run as a Republican against the incumbent Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in a special election for the Congressional seat in Harlem, but withdrew.
In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell.
* Howard Zinn, Historian, is Dead at 87, By Michael Powell, New York Times, January 28, 2010
* Christopher D. O ' Sullivan, Colin Powell: American Power and Intervention From Vietnam to Iraq, New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, ( 2009 )
Anthropologist Joseph Powell of the University of New Mexico was also allowed to examine the remains and his conclusions were contradictory.
* Nicole Powell, basketball player in the WNBA team New York Liberty
* Wesley Powell ( 1915 – 1981 ), 70th Governor of New Hampshire
* Clifford Ross Powell ( 1893 – 1973 ), politician who served as Acting Governor of New Jersey in 1935.
Among its trustees in the early decades was Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York.
In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's " The Farewell Murder ", Nick ( William Powell ) and Nora ( Myrna Loy ) Charles are back in New York with Asta and a new arrival-Nicky Jr.
He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in 1935 in The Casino Murder Case, but his major role came in 1943's Watch on the Rhine, when he played a man working against the Nazis ( he had played the same role on Broadway in 1941 ).
In 1963, Powell contracted tuberculosis, and the following year returned to New York with Paudras for a return engagement at Birdland.
Powell was hospitalized in New York after months of increasingly erratic behavior and self-neglect.
Steve Powell, owner and president of New England Broadcasting, had the tower for WZPK ( known as " The Peak ") built higher than the other structures on the summit ; it became the highest point east of the Mississippi and north of the Carolinas.

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