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Webb County was named after James Webb, who served as secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, and Attorney General of the Republic of Texas, and later United States District Judge in the State of Texas.
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Webb was educated at Town Farm Junior School Stanwell, Ashford County Grammar School, Middlesex, Slough Grammar School and Brooklands Technical College.
Encinal County was established on February 1, 1856 and was to consist of the eastern portion of Webb County, Texas.
Although Texas as a whole voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won 33, 435 votes ( 71 percent ) of the ballots in Webb County.
Nearly 57, 000 registered voters in Webb County did not cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election.
Webb County also voted for the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, State Representative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent John Cornyn.
Dimmit County was officially established in 1858 from parts of Bexar, Webb, Maverick, and Uvalde counties.
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I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??
A site was chosen in Houston, Texas on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961.
On November 14, it was announced that RHP Brandon Webb was the recipient of the Cy Young Award for the National League.
However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.
Universal Cheerleaders Association: Universal Cheerleaders Association was founded in 1974 by Jeff Webb.
At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.
In United States v. Doremus, 249 U. S. 86 ( 1919 ), the Supreme Court ruled that the Harrison Act was constitutional, and in Webb v. United States, 249 U. S. 96, 99 ( 1919 ) that physicians could not prescribe narcotics solely for maintenance.
In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.
His first project for Webb and Knapp was an apartment building with funding from the Housing Act of 1949.
The National Stadium, which was also known as the Welsh National Rugby Ground, was designed by Osborne V Webb & Partners and built by G A Williamson & Associates of Porthcawl and Andrew Scott & Company of Port Talbot.
The first Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University was Alexander George Mitchell, who held the position until December 1975, when he was replaced by Edwin Webb, who served until 1986.
In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb was brought in to remove the open roof, put in a flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above.
The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.
Following suggestions by Francis W. Webb, the Mechanical Engineer for the London and North Western Railway at Crewe Works, rails were laid along a stretch of the towpath near Worleston, and a small steam locomotive borrowed from Crewe Works was used to tow boats.
The canal's engineer, G. R. Webb, produced a report on the expected costs of laying rails along the towpaths, but nothing more was heard of the project, and the advent of steam and diesel powered boats offered a much simpler solution.
" The Word was re-uttered in 1996 by Don Webb in the more focused translation " I have come into being.
One writer ( whom Williams thought was Mel Webb, who Williams called a " grouchy old guy ", although the identity of the writer remains unknown ) completely left Williams off his ballot, who would have tied DiMaggio or won if one writer who had voted Williams as second had voted him first.
was built for Morris to designs by Webb ; it was Webb's first building as an independent architect Red House featured ceiling paintings by Morris, wall-hangings designed by Morris and worked by himself and Jane ; furniture painted by Morris and Rossetti, and wall-paintings and stained-and painted glass designed by Burne-Jones.
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