The world's first radio disc jockey was Ray Newby, of Stockton, California.

Richard Stockton was later a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1821, a parliamentary bill was passed to allow the building of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( S & DR ).

The railway was intended to connect various collieries situated near Bishop Auckland to the River Tees at Stockton, passing through Darlington on the way.

This was followed by a role as pimp Seymour " Kingston " Stockton in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie ( 1998 ).

Learning that war with Mexico was underway, Stockton made plans to capture Los Angeles and San Diego and to proceed on to Mexico City.

A Mexican courier was captured en route to Sonora, Mexico carrying letters to General Jose Castro that reported a Mexican revolt that had retaken California from Commodore Stockton.

However, since the 1960s, hereditary peerages have generally been eschewed, and life peerages have been preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton.

Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington railway ( S & DR ) was built primarily to transport coal from several mines near Shildon to the port at Stockton-on-Tees.

These new journals comprise the Nature Publishing Group, which was created in 1999 and includes Nature, Nature Research Journals, Stockton Press Specialist Journals and Macmillan Reference ( renamed NPG Reference ).

Frank Richard Stockton ( April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902 ) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.

Born in Philadelphia, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters ' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like " The Griffin and the Minor Canon " ( 1885 ) and " The Bee-Man of Orn " ( 1887 ), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be ( according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5 ).

The current league was founded in 1941, and contained teams in Anaheim, Bakersfield, Fresno, Merced, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Stockton.

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS ( 10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986 ) was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.

Macmillan finally accepted a peerage on 10 February 1984 and was created Earl of Stockton and Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden.

A private funeral was held on 5 January 1987 at St Giles ' Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, where Lord Stockton had regularly worshipped and read the lesson.

Stockton was buried beside his wife, Lady Dorothy, and next to the graves of his parents and of his son, Maurice Macmillan.

The 1st Earl was succeeded instead by his grandson, Maurice's son, Alexander, Lord Macmillan, who became the 2nd Earl of Stockton.

Randall Evan Stonehill was born in Stockton, California on March 12, 1952, the son of Leonard N. Stonehill ( born September 19, 1920 ), a high school teacher, and his wife, Pauline Correia ( born February 18, 1921 ), a school teacher of Azorean Portuguese heritage, and the younger brother of Jeffrey Dean Stonehill ( born October 28, 1949 in Alameda County, California ).

Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr., the 1990 Republican gubernatorial nominee, was reared in Fort Stockton but resides in Midland.

United States Army outpost, Fort Stockton, was established in 1858 at Comanche Springs to guard the San Antonio-El Paso Mail.

The town of Fort Stockton began near the Fort Stockton army post at Comanche Springs as St. Gall, but was renamed in 1880.

That August, when elections were held for the state governments of the new nation, Stockton and William Livingston each received the same number of votes to be the Governor of New Jersey on the first ballot.

Robert Stephenson constructed a number of well-known bridges to carry the new railway lines, following the experience of his father on the Stockton and Darlington line.

In the past, Stockton had been classified as a national liberal arts college, but because U. S. News & World Report revised the categories early in 2007, it resulted in placements in a different category for a number of institutions, including Stockton.

A number of bus services operate in Stockton and most services pass through High Street.

Stockton also provides a number of restaurants, amusement arcades, a bingo hall, a snooker club, and health and fitness facilities.

Stockton has a number of public parks and nature reserves.

Stockton Heath is home to a number of modern bars and restaurants, as well as traditional public houses.

In their final days of EWS ownership, 31110 ( scrapped at TJ Thompson's, Stockton in April 2007 ) was repainted into BR green in the summer of 1999 and featured its original number D5528 to mark the end of their working lives with EWS and worked the last EWS class 31 hauled railtour.

According to Hiatt and Stockton ( p. 8 ), Flexner sought to shrink the number of medical schools in the USA to 31, and to cut the annual number of medical graduates from 4, 400 to 2, 000.

After the building of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, a number of ambitious projects for long-distance lines between cities had been mooted.

He was then employed as a retained architect for the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( S & DR ), and built stations and railway buildings for a number of lines, including the Wear and Derwent Junction Railway ( 1845 ), the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway ( 1846 ) and finally the recently re-opened Weardale Railway ( 1847 ).

However, in most traditions there is no limit on the number of divisions allowed, and the records of the College of Arms include a shield of 323 quarterings for the family of Lloyd of Stockton.

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