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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.

Powell and willing
With Montogomery unavailable, Capra approached James Cagney and William Powell, but neither of their respective studios was willing to allow them to work on the project.
* Secretary of State Colin L. Powell says that the United States is willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.
His old friend Nova, not willing to believe Powell could be a murderer, tracks him to the planet Shard, which is in danger of falling into a rift in space known as the Fault.

Powell and act
Realizing he needed to act quickly, Powell began beating Frederick over the head with the barrel of his gun.
When not making films, Powell traveled to theaters around the country doing a vaudeville act, which she hated
Powell was a regular guest on a TV variety shows in Australia when she visited there to perform her nightclub act.
In 1993, President Clinton signed into law an act of Congress renaming the Federal courthouse at Richmond, Virginia in his honor, the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. United States Courthouse.
Marsh lobbied John Wesley Powell to act against Cope and attempted to persuade Hayden to " muzzle " Cope's publishing.
Atkins began polishing the Marvelettes ' dance moves while Powell taught the group to be more graceful telling them and every other Motown act that they would " perform in front of kings and queens ".
They would both act as producers, perhaps Pressburger slightly more so than Powell, since he could soothe the feathers ruffled by Powell's forthright manner.
Powell originally trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths, University of London, but instead chose to act in repertory theatre.
Powell distinguished between those who commit crimes because they believe, " however mistaken ", that they are thereby helping to safeguard their country's integrity and their right to live under the Crown, and those who commit crimes " with the intention of destroying that integrity and rendering impossible that allegiance ": the two were described as " extremist " but Powell believed that " the former breaches the peace ; the latter is executing an act of war ".

Powell and ;
During their most productive years, the Orioles saw three of its players named MVP: ( Frank Robinson in 1966 ; Boog Powell in 1970 ; and Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1983 ).
In 1932, the vice-president of Sears, Elkan Harrison Powell, assumed presidency of the Britannica ; in 1936, he began the policy of continuous revision.
The medal may be awarded to an individual more than once ( John Kenneth Galbraith and Colin Powell each have received two awards ; Ellsworth Bunker received both of his awards With Distinction ), and may also be awarded posthumously ( for example, Cesar Chavez, Paul " Bear " Bryant, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon Johnson ).
* Powell v. McCormack, – Congressional authority to exclude members who have met qualifications to serve is not a political question ;
In another letter to his parents in June 1939, before the beginning of war, Powell wrote: " It is the English, not their Government ; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors ".
After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".
Powell advocated the privatisation of the Post Office and the telephone network as early as 1964, over 20 years before the latter actually took place ; and he both scorned the idea of " consensus politics " and wanted the Conservative Party to become a modern business-like party, freed from its old aristocratic and " old boy network " associations.
This nationalist analysis attracted millions of middle-class Conservatives and others, and as much as anything else it made Powell the implacable enemy of Heath, a fervent pro-European ; but there was already enmity between the two.
During its second reading, Powell warned of passing legislation " in haste and under the immediate pressure of indignation on matters which touch the fundamental liberties of the subject ; for both haste and anger are ill counsellors, especially when one is legislating for the rights of the subject ".
Powell claimed that the debate was now more political than military ; that Britain did not possess an independent deterrent and that through NATO Britain was tied to the nuclear deterrence theory of the United States.
Writing in The Guardian on 18 October, Powell asserted that due to the Falklands War, " Britain no longer looked upon itself and the world through American spectacles " and the view was " more rational ; and it was more congenial ; for, after all, it was our own view ".
On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?
Powell wrote, " He says to the Sovereign: I no longer am leader of the majority party in the House of Commons ; but I am carrying on as your Prime Minister.
; Doctrines: Truman Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine, Clinton Doctrine, Bush Doctrine, Powell Doctrine, Wolfowitz Doctrine, Obama Doctrine,
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.

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