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Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.
Vernon was consummately fond of oysters, and Manning's had been famous for them since the Civil War.
The merit of the pie, Vernon believed, was due more to its making than to the waning heat of the oven.
Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.
* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.
Here Vernon and Irene Castle were important, and so was a generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and Victor Silvester.
The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny.
In 2003, Nicholas Liverpool was elected and sworn in as president, succeeding Vernon Shaw.
Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.
My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.
Thomas ' obituary in the Times was written by fellow poet and long-time friend, Vernon Watkins.
Vernon was nicknamed " Nub City " because its residents participated in a particularly gruesome form of insurance fraud in which they deliberately amputated a limb in order to collect the insurance money.
White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, a piano manufacturer, and Jessie Hart.
Washington's retirement to Mount Vernon was short-lived.
Most Americans assumed he was rich because of the well-known " glorified façade of wealth and grandeur " at Mount Vernon.
On December 18, 1799, a funeral was held at Mount Vernon, where his body was interred.
Southern opposition to the plan defeated the measure because they felt it was best to have his body remain at Mount Vernon.
In the words of Pentecostal scholar Vernon L. Purdy, " Because sin leads to human suffering, it was only natural for the Early Church to understand the ministry of Christ as the alleviation of human suffering, since he was God's answer to sin ...
Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

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Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp.
My friend often breakfasted with Vernon on the morning of the regular tallyho run.
Vernon would tilt his hat over one ear as he lounged with his feet on the dashboard, indulging in a huge cigar.
Her effort to put the home of living Presidents on the same basis as Mount Vernon and Monticello recognizes no party lines.
In 2003, Mitchell set up a web site on which he posted most all of the publications of Victor T. Houteff, Ben and Lois Roden, and his own new studies, including a detailed presentation of what he calls The Warfare of Vernon Howell ( a. k. a. David Koresh ) and others against the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, in which he gives a detailed and documented overview of the controversy regarding the church and its adversaries.
In 2010 the New York Guitar Festival commissioned new scores on some of Chaplin's silent films from a number of contemporary artists, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Marc Ribot, David Bromberg, and Alex de Grassi.
During a notorious game on March 26, 1997, a brawl ensued between Colorado goalie Patrick Roy and his Detroit counterpart Mike Vernon.
After spending two weeks in Vernon, Morris returned to Berkeley and began working on a script for a work of fiction that he called Nub City.
Lawrence Washington inherited another family property from his father, a plantation on the Potomac River which he later named Mount Vernon.
Hani Hanjour arrived in San Diego in early December 2000, joining Hazmi, but on December 10, they were seen leaving their Mount Vernon address leaving for Phoenix, Arizona where Hanjour could take refresher flight training.
In 1915, Gordon appeared as an extra in silent films that were shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, including as a dancer in The Whirl of Life, a film based on the lives of Vernon and Irene Castle.
In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.
Vernon Clark speaks on USS Wisconsin Clark ( left ) relieving Johnson as Chief of Naval Operations
" His first doctoral student, Murray Vernon King, pinned the label on him, and it was quickly adopted by other students, who wanted to use an appellation that showed informal respect.
Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, Sir Richard Venables and Sir Richard Vernon were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered in Shrewsbury on 23 July and their heads publicly displayed.
** The Mount Vernon Square ( WMATA station ) stop on the Yellow and Green lines of the Washington Metro
Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.
So, again with the aim of probing the Spanish defenses of that city, on March 7, 1740 Vernon left Port Royal in command of two fire-ships, three bombards and a steamer, reaching waters of Cartagena on March 13.
Having not seen any reaction from the Spanish, the 18th Vernon bombards ordered three open fire on the city, with the intention of provoking a response that he might get an idea of the defensive capacity of the Spanish.
After the destruction of Portobelo in November last year, Vernon proceeded to remove the last Spanish stronghold in the area, attacking the fortress of San Lorenzo el Real Chagres, on the banks of the Chagres River and near Portobelo.
At 3 pm on March 22, 1740, an English fleet composed of ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the Diamond frigate, the bombards Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transport Goodly and Pompey, under command of Vernon himself, began to bombard the Spanish fortress.
After taking this Vernon news, immediately sent four ships to its fleet to intercept Spanish ships, finally getting these English circumvent controls and enter the port of Cartagena on April 21, 1740, landing there the new governor and several hundred of valuable veteran soldiers.
Given the extremely disadvantaged position in which the English were, Vernon ordered a retreat but not before throwing some 300 bombs on the city.

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