During his twenty-five years at president, Dr. Taylor oversaw the transformation of the former Louisiana Polytechnic Institute into Louisiana Tech University.

As church president, Taylor oversaw the expansion of the Salt Lake community, the further organization of the church hierarchy, the establishment of Mormon colonies in Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona as well as in the Canadian province of Alberta and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and the defense of plural marriage against increasing opposition.

Taylor also oversaw the issuance of a new edition of the Doctrine and Covenants.

Taylor oversaw the surrender of Black Hawk in Prairie du Chien.

" Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra ( 1963 ) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the creation of Century City.

By the time of the rebel headquarter's surrender, the South Staffordshire Regiment under Colonel Taylor had advanced only down the street at a cost of 11 dead and 28 wounded.

Taylor, still facing a larger army in enemy territory, negotiated a two month armistice in return for the surrender of the city.

Canby accepted the surrender of the Confederate forces under General Richard Taylor in Citronelle, on May 4, 1865, and those under General Edmund Kirby Smith west of the Mississippi River on May 26, 1865.

One week after the surrender at Appomattox Court House, Taylor returned to Richmond with General Lee, picked up his bride, and drove her back to Norfolk in a buggy.

Many of the officers and men, including Forrest and Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor, escaped before the surrender.

When the Mexican-American War began Worth was serving under Zachary Taylor in Texas and negotiated the surrender of the Mexican city of Matamoros.

Their service was, however, short-lived, after a major confrontation with Taylor forces in Vahun, Lofa County on 28 May 1992, when six were killed when a crowd of NPFL supporters surrounded their vehicle and demanded they surrender their jeep and weapons.

When general Taylor checked the surrender document, noted that the place of surrender was written city " Elbogen, Sudetenland ".

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

The RSA's Patron is currently HM Elizabeth II, the RSA's President is HRH The Princess Royal ( who replaced her father, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 2011 ), its Chairman is Luke Johnson ( businessman ), and its Chief Executive is Matthew Taylor.

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

The current Chief of Police is Colonel Edgar Taylor.

John Taylor of Willistown, who settled in the West and was the Chief Judge of the Superior Court of Mississippi for a number of years.

* Harry Taylor, US Army major general and USACE Chief of Engineer

Other famous former and current residents include actress Alice Ghostley ( Bewitched, Grease, Designing Women ), as well as rodeo favorites Jim Shoulders and Terry Don West and it is the birthplace of Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven W. Taylor.

Former Oklahoma Governor George Nigh and Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven W. Taylor also hail from McAlester.

* Chief Michael Taylor ( 2003 ), Chief of Police.

Sampson's most notable roles were as " Chief Bromden " in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as " Taylor the Medicine Man " in the horror film Poltergeist II.

Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, ordered that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years.

In August Telford Taylor, the U. S. Chief Counsel for War Crimes, formally advised the British Attorney-General, Hartley Shawcross, of his intentions.

They have recorded Chicago blues greats such as Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hound Dog Taylor and Eddy " The Chief " Clearwater.

Taylor believed that evidence from American history gave proof of state sovereignty within the union against the arguments of nationalists such as U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall.

Within days of speaking out on the program, Morrison was informed by former New Labour cabinet minister Ann Taylor that he was to lose his job as Chief Investigator to the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Johnson later allied with Charles Taylor as part of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ), serving as the NPFL's Chief Training Officer.

* Detective Bob Taylor, the " Chief " investigator and semi-host of British TV series The Murder Game

After a £ 110m loss in 2005 pressure from the UK financial and business leaders led to Smallwood becoming merely a general manager of the company, Taylor becoming Chief Executive and former British Airways chief executive Bob Ayling being installed as the new Chairman.

* Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth ( 1930 – 1997 ), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 1992 – 1997

The Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution was Telford Taylor and the chief prosecutor was James M. McHaney.

Ridgway retired from the US Army on June 30, 1955 and was succeeded by his one-time 82nd Airborne Division Chief of Staff, Maxwell D. Taylor.

Davis was still in Mississippi during the Black Hawk War of 1832 but, at its conclusion, his colonel Zachary Taylor assigned him to escort the chief Black Hawk to prison.

The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members-John Deacon ( on bass ), Brian May ( on guitar ) and Roger Taylor ( on drums )-along with guest singers and guitarists, including Elton John, Roger Daltrey ( of The Who ), Tony Iommi ( of Black Sabbath ), David Bowie, Mick Ronson ( of Spiders from Mars ), James Hetfield ( of Metallica ), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant ( of Led Zeppelin ), Joe Elliott and Phil Collen ( of Def Leppard ), Axl Rose and Slash ( of Guns N ' Roses ), Liza Minnelli, and others.

Performers at the concert included Shawn Colvin, Philip Glass, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, and Stevie Wonder as well as Simon's former collaborator Art Garfunkel.

" Among the performers who paid tribute to Simon were Stevie Wonder, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, Dianne Reeves, Marc Anthony, Yolanda Adams, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

The county is divided into forty-eight townships: Banner, Beaver Creek, Black, Brunson, Bull Creek, Carter, Colome, Condon, Curlew, Dog Ear, Elliston, Greenwood, Holsclaw, Huggins, Ideal, Irwin, Jordan, Keyapaha, King, Lake, Lamro, Lincoln, Lone Star, Lone Tree, McNeely, Millboro, Pahapesto, Plainview, Pleasant Valley, Pleasant View, Progressive, Rames, Rosedale, Roseland, Star Prairie, Star Valley, Stewart, Sully, Taylor, Valley, Weaver, Willow Creek, Wilson, Witten, Wortman, and Wright ; and one area of unorganized territory: Gassman.

In 2008, headliners included Hank Williams Jr., ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Trace Adkins, and in 2009, headliners included Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Charlie Daniels, Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, The Black Crowes, Kid Rock and many more.

Going east from High Street are Spring, Liberty, and Locust Streets ; going west are Plum, Black, Taylor, and Dean Streets.

Black, Taylor and Dean were named for three Blair County judges born in Williamsburg.

Little Black is a town located in Taylor County, Wisconsin.

The album features a number of guest vocalists ( including Lemmy, Chuck D, Corey Taylor, Ice-T, Tom Araya, Rancid and others ) singing Black Flag's songs.

# " Black Gold Fever " ( Taylor )

* 1995: Elizabeth Arden " Black Pearls " with Elizabeth Taylor

Nonetheless, the band spent 2006 touring throughout Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand on the Black And White Tour ( with Mark Taylor on keyboards ).

; Zack Taylor: The original Black Ranger ; portrayed by Walter Emanuel Jones.

Both the record label and production company were named after 19th century opera star Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, who was known as the Black Swan.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Taylor ’ s two shops in Paternoster Row, London, were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship, and became the publishing house premises.

René has performed and recorded as a leader and featured sideman with the crème de la crème of Black Musical tradition, to name a few — Jackie McLean, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Lionel Hampton-All Stars, Tito Puente Orchestra, Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Dr. Bill Taylor, Baba Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Gonzales ' Forte Apache Band, Hamza El Din, as well as in collaboration with premier poet-activist Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones ).

Col. Zachary Taylor, who later became the 12th U. S. President, was the commanding officer at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

* Zachary Taylor 12th President of the United States, was the commanding officer of Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

As an African-American, Taylor was banned from bicycle racing in Indiana once he started winning and made a reputation as " The Black Cyclone.

Letters indicated that he was " tamper ... with the science vulgarly known as Black Magic ", and to his former tutor Colin Taylor, Heseltine enthused about " the most illuminating and altogether wonderful book I have ever read "; this was Eliphas Levi's History of Transcendental Magic, which includes procedures for the invocation of demons.