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The government of Tivoli is made up of five elected officials, who meet at the Watts dePeyster Hall.
Only six black Republicans have been elected to Congress since the caucus was founded: Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, Representative Gary Franks of Connecticut, Delegate Melvin H. Evans of the Virgin Islands, Representative J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, Representative Allen West of Florida, and Representative Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Academics who were elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy ( Ireland's highest ranking academic body ) while based at Ulster include: Bertie Ussher ( Classics ), Norman Gibson ( Economics ), Amyan Macfadyen ( Biology ), Bill Watts ( Chemistry ), P G ( Gerry ) McKenna ( Biomedical Sciences, Genetics ), Sean Strain ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Marshall McCabe ( Geology ), Peter Flatt ( Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes ), Séamus MacMathúna ( Celtic Studies ), Bob Welch ( Literature ), Vani Borooah ( Economics ), Máréaid Nic Craith ( Celtic Studies ), Graham Gargett ( French ), Helene McNulty ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Pól Ó Dochartaigh ( German ), Robert McBride ( French ), Ullrich Kockel ( ethnography ) and John McCloskey ( Geosciences ).
Watts became a Baptist minister and was elected in 1990 to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission as the first African American in Oklahoma to win statewide office.
Watts delivered the Republican response to Bill Clinton's 1997 State of the Union address and was elected Chair of the House Republican Conference in 1998.
Watts was elected as a Federalist to the 3rd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1793, to March 3, 1795.
In 1863 Watts was elected Governor of Alabama.
After his reelection, the Senate Republican caucus elected him assistant president pro tempore, the third ranking post in the GOP leadership, defeating fellow a Franklin County senator, Eugene Watts of Dublin, who sought another term in that post.

Watts and join
Siouxsie Sioux directly approached Watts and requested to join the lineup as well.
According to Watts, judgement is " to compare ... ideas together, and to join them by affirmation, or disjoin then by negation, according as we find them to agree or disagree ".
Watts changed the name of the promotion to Mid-South Sports and declined to join the NWA.
The party's new leadership, around Secretary Albert Inkpin, Treasurer Alf Watts, and key labour leader John Maclean maintained the desire to join the Second International.
Ring Announcer Gene Summers at the Sportatorium in 1981Lowrance was also the ring announcer at the Sportatorium for several years before moving to TV full-time ; he was originally hired in 1980 to replace Boyd Pierce, who had been with the group since the 1960s and left to join Bill Watts ' Mid-South Wrestling promotion.
" However, Harman revealed in a 2003 interview that he actually auditioned for a character called " Tim ", and had no idea that he was set to join the Watts family as the unknown son of the soap's most " iconic " figure, Den Watts.
This group ended, due to Arn Anderson's stabbing incident with Sid Vicious during a tour of England in October, and Paul Roma turning on Erik Watts during a tag team match to join Paul Orndorff as the tag team of Pretty Wonderful.
In 2004 Oberman moved away from comedy to join the BBC's long running soap drama EastEnders, after she was cast as Chrissie Watts, the second wife of " one of the best-loved villains in soap history ", ' Dirty ' Den Watts.
Her character, Sam, having escaped possible imprisonment for being an accessory in the murder of Den Watts, left to join her brother, Grant Mitchell, in Brazil.
Following the announcement, several people were rumoured to be in the running to join the judging panel as Sandilands ' replacement, including Australian recording artists Delta Goodrem and Natalie Bassingthwaighte, radio presenters Merrick Watts and Jackie O, and international recording artists Melanie Brown, George Michael and Brian McFadden.
Watts and drummer Motokatsu of The Mad Capsule Markets would join them on stage only a few songs into the setlist.

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The group included, at various times, such influential musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith.
Robert Watts ' Fluxatlas, 1973, for instance, contains small rocks sent by members of the group from around the world.
Robert Watts, a member of the Fluxus group, became the first artist to create a full sheet of postage stamps within a fine art context when he produced a perforated block of 15 stamps combining popular and erotic imagery in 1961.
The Vibrators were a new group that had only recently begun to write their own music and, at the encouragement of Ron Watts, they decided to back Chris Spedding for the show ( who was booked to play the second night but didn't have a band behind him ).
In 1966 SME was formed with Watts and Rutherford and the group moved into the Little Theatre Club at Garrick Yard, St. Martin's Lane, London to develop their new music.
He also played in a number of other groups, drumming in Watts ' group Amalgam and later forming bands like Freebop and Fast Colour, for example, but the SME remained at the centre of his activities.
He also contributed significantly to Trevor Watts ' group Amalgam and Frode Gjerstad's Detail, as well as collaborating with Bobby Bradford on several occasions.
Stewart loaded gear into his van, drove the group to gigs, replaced guitar strings and set up Watts ' drums the way he himself would play them.
* Community organizer " Sweet Alice " Harris ( born 1934 ) and her activist group Parents of Watts are based in Watts.
* In 2001, Watts and KMFDM frontman Sascha Konietzko teamed up with Japanese musicians Sakurai Atsushi and Imai Hisashi ( also of Schaft and Buck-Tick ) to form the project super group Schwein.
The Superheist website no longer exists and Norton, Sanders and DeSilva reactivated Walk the Earth in 2007 with vocalist Adam Kingsley and bass player Steve Watts ( from the thrash band Manticore ), although both Sanders and Watts have since departed the group.
Two members of the Chicago Brass Quintet can arguably be credited with helping plant the seed for today's success of the brass quintet medium: Arnold Jacobs, tubist of the CBQ was teacher to the two founders Daellenbach and Watts of the Canadian Brass, while Renold Schilke, trumpet player in the CBQ and master craftsman, was mentor to the entire group, successfully crafting the first-ever matched set of gold-plated quintet brass instruments.
Shortly before the release of the single " Love Me And Leave Me ", it was announced that drummer Andy Watts was leaving the group to spend more time with his family.
During 1990 and 1991 John F. Stanton, Jürgen Gauss, and John D. Watts, all of them at that time postdoctoral researchers in the Bartlett group, supported by a few students, wrote the backbone of what is now known as the ACES II program package.
He formed a group called Next Generation with fellow second generation stars David Flair and Erik Watts.
The group began in the early 1970s, when members of several backup bands from the Watts and Inglewood areas of Los Angeles united under the name Total Concept Unlimited.
The Watts Writers Workshop was a creative writing group initiated by screenwriter Budd Schulberg in the wake of the devastating 1965 Watts Riots in South Central Los Angeles ( now South Los Angeles ).
The group was composed primarily of young African Americans in Watts and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Well-known writers to emerge from the Workshop include Quincy Troupe, Johnie Scott, Eric Priestley, Ojenke, Herbert Simmons, and Wanda Coleman, as well as the poetry group Watts Prophets.

Watts and because
Isaac Watts has been called " the father of English hymnody ," but Erik Routley sees him more as " the liberator of English hymnody ," because his hymns, and hymns like them, moved worshipers beyond singing only Old Testament psalms, inspiring congregations and revitalizing worship.
In 1965, at age ten, he endured the Watts Riots with his family, recalling that, " We had to sleep on the floor because of all the sniping and looting going on.
However, because of the fervent promotion of the technique by Freeman and Watts, those numbers increased sharply towards the end of the decade.
Off-screen, the film's director David O. Russell introduced them both, and Watts has said about Hedren, " I was pretty fascinated by her then because people have often said that we're alike.
Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C " rating and lamented Watts's performance: " I'm disappointed to report that Hudson and Watts have no chemistry as sisters, perhaps because Watts never seems like the expatriate artiste she's supposed to be playing ".
Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " I'm disappointed to report that Hudson and Watts have no chemistry as sisters, perhaps because Watts never seems like the expatriate artiste she's supposed to be playing ".
Their families decided against an interracial marriage because of contemporary racial attitudes and Watts ' family took care of the child until she could be adopted by Watts ' uncle, Wade Watts, a Baptist minister, civil rights leader and head of the Oklahoma division of the NAACP.
The music was adapted and arranged to Watts ' lyrics by Lowell Mason in 1839 from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel, not least because the theme of the refrain ( And heaven and nature sing ...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio.
Watts later claimed that he was actually asked to leave by the band's manager Steve Atherton at a meeting with the band's accountants, on behalf of the band, because they did not approve of the drummer's excessive behaviour on tour, and felt he did not fit in with the desired image for the band.
They were replaced not because of equipment failure but because of relaxed rules permitting daytime only stations operating on clear channel frequencies to increase power and operate at night with 1000 Watts power and more.
Gambino associate Joseph Watts wanted Gotti to kill Bilotti's brother Joseph because he might seek revenge.
Arn Anderson, in an interview video with RF Video referred to the Dangerous Alliance as one of the greatest gatherings of talent ever, but opinioned that it never became a memorable team because of WCW's incompetence in promoting stars ( i. e. Jim Herd, Kip Allen Frey, and Bill Watts ).
) Watts also suggested that the police should wear baby blue uniforms because, he asserted, this would make them less likely to commit acts of police brutality than if they were wearing the usual dark blue uniforms.
In this case a typical radiation efficiency of around 1 % is acceptable because signal paths can be established with 1 Watt of radiated power or less when a transmitter generating 100 Watts is used.
Externally the appointment was at first welcomed as a sign that Shell was going to move aggressively to reduce costs, however Watts soon fell into disfavour with Shell's institutional investors, in large part because he was seen as aloof and uncommunicative.
* Vivica Shaw ( Rolanda Watts ) – Vivica is Ray's ex-girlfriend, who Ray broke up with because she was cheating on him.
The Watts were seen by Holland as integral to the shows success, partly because he had already guessed that the pub was going to be a monstrous battleground where emotions would run high on a regular basis, and also because the occupants would be providing the majority of the drama.
The town, sometimes also called Wattstown because Chickamauga leader, John Watts, used it as his headquarters, was founded during the Chickamauga wars, and later served as the council seat of the Lower Cherokee well into the 19th century.

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