While in Germany, Villard became involved in investments in American railroads, and returned to the U. S. in 1874 to oversee German investments in the Oregon and California Railroad.

From 1887 until 1893 Henry Villard returned to the board of directors.

In 1989 in California, Del Villard was diagnosed with lung cancer and returned to the island to receive treatment for her condition.

Sawmills became widespread in medieval Europe again, as one was sketched by Villard de Honnecourt in c. 1250.

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe New York: Villard Books, 1994.

The article reviews and disagrees with the claims that same-sex unions were approved of by the early Christian Church in the book Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell ( Villard Books ).

European investors in the Oregon and San Francisco Steamship Line, after building new vessels, became discouraged, and in 1879 Villard formed an American syndicate and purchased the property.

Seattle's first attempt to build its way into the national rail network — the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad — never got out of King County, although it did make a decent profit for its investors when Henry Villard bought it out in 1883 during his brief tenure at the head of Northern Pacific.

In the few short years prior to 1880, Villard intervened on the behalf of these interests in several transportation systems in Oregon.

Within a decade of his return, Henry Villard became the head of a transportation empire in the Pacific Northwest that had but one real competitor, the ever-expanding Northern Pacific.

Villard, who had been building a monopoly of river and rail transportation in Oregon for several years, now launched a daring raid.

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In the first field he was in a part of his work connected with the Hemenway Archaeological Expedition and in the second worked for Henry Villard of New York, and for the American Museum of Natural History of the same city.

Also in the 1880s, Villard acquired the New York Evening Post and The Nation, and established the forebear of General Electric.

Villard had also aided the inventor Thomas Edison, and merged the Edison Lamp Company of Newark, New Jersey, and the Edison Machine Works at Schenectady, New York, to form the Edison General Electric Company, the forebear of General Electric.

Henry Villard died of a stroke at his country home, Thorwood Park, in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

In 1881, newspaperman-turned-railroad-baron Henry Villard acquired The Nation and converted it into a weekly literary supplement for his daily newspaper the New York Evening Post.

Thereafter, he remade The Nation into a current affairs publication and gave it an anti-classical liberal orientation: Oswald Villard welcomed the New Deal and supported the nationalization of industries – thus reversing the meaning of " liberalism " as the founders of " The Nation " would have understood the term, from a belief in a smaller and more restricted government to a belief in a larger and less restricted government.

Settling in Illinois, the well-educated Hilgard became a journalist and editor, covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates, then the American Civil War for the larger New York papers, changing his name to Henry Villard along the way.

Villard: New York.

His oldest son was Henry Hilgard Villard who was head of the economics department at the City College of New York and the first male president of Planned Parenthood of New York City.

New York: Villard.

* Henry Villard Memorial – Sleepy Hollow, New York, 1904

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New York: Villard Books.

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Upon graduating, Del Villard traveled to New York City and enrolled in the City College of New York.

In the East Village of New York City, there is the Sylvia Del Villard Program of the Roberto Clemente Center, a Spanish day treatment program named after her.

For example, Oswald Garrison Villard, writing in 1939, characterized his former mentor Horace White ( 1834 – 1916 ) as " a great economic conservative ; had he lived to see the days of the New Deal financing he would probably have cried out loud and promptly demised.

Villard was born in Waipahu, Hawaii and grew up in Spencerport, New York.

* William Stevenson, Intrepid ’ s Last Case ( New York: Villard Books, 1983 ).

He co-authored ( with Gloria G. Brame and William D. Brame ) the book Different Loving: An Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission ( published by Villard Books, New York, 1993.

Before becoming Towner in 1886, the county seat was Villard from 1884 to 1885 and Scriptown from 1885 to 1886.

However, in 1900 the French scientist Paul Villard discovered a third neutrally charged and especially penetrating type of radiation from radium, and after he described it, Rutherford realized it must be yet a third type of radiation, which in 1903 Rutherford named gamma rays.

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File: Villard de Honnecourt-Sketchbook-14. jpg | Sketch by Villard de Honnecourt ( c. 1230 )

* 1953 – Tom Villard, American actor ( d. 1994 )

This symbol for the photon probably derives from gamma rays, which were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard, named by Ernest Rutherford in 1903, and shown to be a form of electromagnetic radiation in 1914 by Rutherford and Edward Andrade.

In 1900 the French scientist Paul Villard discovered a third neutrally charged and especially penetrating type of radiation from radium, and after he described it, Rutherford realized it must be yet a third type of radiation, which in 1903 Rutherford named gamma rays.

Villard de Honnecourt ( Wilars dehonecort, fol.

The traditional view, since the discovery of the portfolio in the mid-19th century, is that Villard was an itinerant architect / mason / builder, but there is no evidence of him ever working as an architect or in any other identifiable profession.

Villard tells us, with pride, that he had been in many lands ( Jai este en mlt de tieres ) and that he made a trip to Hungary where he remained many days ( maint ior ), but he does not say why he went there or who sent him.

Among the mechanical devices Villard sketched are a perpetual-motion machine, a water-driven saw, a number of automata, lifting devices, war engines ( a trebuchet ) as well as a number of anatomical and geometric sketches for portraiture and architecture.

" Villard de Honnecourt ", essay, pp. 61 – 69, in Pevsner on Art and Architecture, by Nikolaus Pevsner, ed.

* Villard de Honnecourt draws the first known image of a sawmill.

In winter 1891 –' 92, railroad financier Henry Villard led a strong effort to repeal the act, which failed, according to his memoirs, by a few votes.

In 1878, the company was sold off to out-of-state owners and renamed the Oswego Iron Company, and in 1882, Portland financiers Simeon Gannett Reed and Henry Villard purchased the business and renamed it the Oregon Iron and Steel Company.

* Easy-to-construct " interference-reducing " antennas for shortwave portables: U. S. International Broadcasting Bureau and K3MT ( the " Villard antenna ")

Villard is a city in Pope County, Minnesota, United States.

Villard Township is a township in Todd County, Minnesota, United States.

Henry Villard, then president of the NP, was pushing hard for the transcontinental connection.