Scott captured Mexico City in September 1847, and Taylor won a series of victories in northern Mexico.

Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).

They won a dramatic NLCS in six games over the Houston Astros which they needed to win to avoid facing Mike Scott in Game 7.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

The smash film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor George C. Scott ( he refused the Award ).

William Lyon Mackenzie King greeting Barbara Ann Scott, who won a gold medal in figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, at Ottawa

Scott was nominated on the 53rd ballot by a margin of 159 – 112 ( with 21 for Webster ), again with a highly sectional vote ; Scott won the North by a 142 – 11 vote ( with 21 for Webster ) while Fillmore won the South by a margin of 101 – 17.

Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.

The role was then given to George C. Scott, who won a Best Actor Oscar.

Hanson subsequently won the election easily, defeating Scott with 54 % of the two-party vote — a 19. 3 % swing to the Coalition.

Scott Niedermayer, the only player on the team who had previously won a Stanley Cup, was awarded the second Conn Smythe Trophy in Ducks history.

Geelong won by 3 points, after a controversial advantage was not paid to Magpie Scott Pendlebury in the dying minutes.

In 2006, Governor Ed Rendell and Bob Casey Jr. both carried Centre and Democrat Scott Conklin decisively won the State House seat left open by the retirement of Republican Lynn Herman in the 77th district.

Julie Christie won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Diana Scott.

Unable to reconcile these differences Scott resigned in 1947 ; a competition was held and won by Basil Spence with an uncompromisingly modern design.

* Tom Campbell Black, who with C. W. A. Scott won the MacRobertson London to Melbourne Air Race in 1934 ;

He won the 1997 Indianapolis 500 from the pole over Treadway Racing teammate Scott Goodyear.

Scott Pruett won the drivers ’ championship.

Ross won the seat in a special election in May 2010 to fill the term left vacant by Scott Brown after his election to the United States Senate.

* Scott Goldblatt ( born 1979 ), swimmer who won a Gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a Silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, with both medals earned in the 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay.

They were won by Betty Gonzalez, Juan M. Acevedo, Diana Murillo, and James G. Scott.

The game is best remembered for Bills placekicker Scott Norwood's last-second field goal attempt which went wide right of the uprights, leading to a Giants victory, and starting a four-game losing streak in the Super Bowl for the Bills.

Traditionally, however, the deliberate cultivation of a particularly wide, pervasive vibrato by opera singers from the Latin countries has been denounced by English-speaking music critics and pedagogues as a technical fault and a stylistic blot ( see Scott, cited below, Volume 1, pp. 123 – 127 ).

Pastoral Scott Valley in the western part of the county has many wide, tree-lined meadows, supporting large cattle ranches.

One of the largest items is the Hereford Screen, weighing nearly 8 tonnes, 10. 5 metres high and 11 metres wide, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1862 for the chancel in Hereford Cathedral, from which it was removed in 1967.

Among the notable national players included Scott McCready, an English wide receiver who played some preseason games for the New England Patriots, the Claymores ' wide receiver Scott Couper, who played a pre-season game for the Chicago Bears, Constantin Ritzmann, a German defensive end who had played for the University of Tennessee, and Rob Hart, an English rugby player who became a placekicker ; he kicked barefoot.

Super Bowl XXV proved equally exciting as the Giants used tough defense, and a ball-control and power-running Erhardt – Perkins style offense to stop the Buffalo Bills, 20 – 19, whose own last-second 47-yard field goal attempt by Scott Norwood missed wide right.

Scott Fetzer Companies – The Scott Fetzer Companies are a diversified group of 21 businesses that manufacture and distribute a wide variety of products for residential, industrial and institutional use.

After scrambling around in his own endzone, Bulldog quarterback Buck Belue found wide receiver Lindsay Scott open in the middle of the field near the Georgia 25-yard-line, and hit him with a 25-yard pass.

Murkowski had filed, and won, a lawsuit requiring election officials to have the list of names of write in candidates distributed at the polls and subsequently won the election with a wide enough margin over both Miller, and Democratic Party candidate Scott T. McAdams, to make moot the write-in ballots that had been challenged by Miller.

* 1950 DA-an approximately 1-km wide asteroid with a possible Earth impact in 2880 ( initially studied by Ostro, Jon Giorgini, Lance Benner, and Scott Hudson ).

In addition to hockey, the JLC is host to national-level events, such as the 2005 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts ( curling ), the 2007 World Synchronized Skating Championships, 2011 Tim Hortons Brier, as well as a wide variety of family entertainment such as Disney on Ice, the Harlem Globetrotters, Monster Jam and Stars on Ice.

The town has wide streets set in a sweeping pastoral landscape, and St Alban's Anglican church in the town was designed by famous English architect Giles Gilbert Scott.

He has lent his distinctive guitar style to albums by a wide variety of artists, including Roy Orbison, Tim Finn, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Joan Armatrading, Blancmange, The Pretenders, Scott Walker and Talk Talk's 1985 hit " Life's What You Make It ".

He shared Spartan Outstanding Underclass Back Award honors with tailback Sedrick Irvin and wide receiver Gari Scott.

Leverett Glacier in Antarctica is about 80 km ( 50 mi ) long and 4 to 6 km ( 3 to 4 mi ) wide, draining northward from the Watson Escarpment, between the California and Stanford Plateaus, and then trending WNW between the Tapley Mountains and Harold Byrd Mountains to terminate at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf close east of Scott Glacier.

It was Milo who introduced Scott to a wide, appreciative audience and helped him hone his posing and photographic persona: that of the " boy next door.

Richard Scott Proehl ( born March 7, 1968 in Bronx, New York ) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League.

* James Scott ( American football ) ( born 1952 ), NFL wide receiver

In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s Scott continued to play a wide range of roles on stage and screen.

The vision of the agency and director Ridley Scott stipulated an actress capable of running up to a large video screen, swinging a sledgehammer in a wide spin, and releasing it at the video screen.