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William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.
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On the other hand, an assessment of data collected and analyzed by David Neumark and William Wascher did not initially contradict the Card / Krueger results, but in a later edited version they found that the same general sample had a small negative effect on employment.
Please also note that while William Card would have been 67 when the Battle of Bennington was fought, that does not mean that he would have been unable to contribute to the fighting.
The New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of the International Radical Left Edited by Tariq Ali Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-79860 William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York 1969
Guest speakers such as Jay Thomas, authors Pat Conroy, Tony Hillerman, Sister Helen Prejean, Orson Scott Card, Dana Gioia, Chaim Potok, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, former New Orleans Mayor and alumnus Marc Morial, actor Jim Caviezel, theologian George Weigel, Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach, ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, theologian and former U. S. Ambassador Michael Novak, and United States President William Howard Taft have addressed the student body.
It is believed that the first transmission of the 120-or 125-line system — probably the first telecast in Minnesota — occurred on August 4 of that year, featuring a handshake between WDGY station personality Clellan Card and Minneapolis mayor William Kunze.
William " Bill " Rafferty ( June 17, 1944 – August 11, 2012 ) was a comedian and impressionist who hosted the game shows Every Second Counts ( 1984, syndicated ), Card Sharks ( 1986 – 87, syndication ), and Blockbusters ( 1987, NBC ).
He got his start when his professor and mentor, Dr. William Lane, asked Card to write some music to accompany weekly sermons at their church.
* The Walk: A Moment in Time When Two Lives Intersect ( 2001 ) ( ISBN 0-7852-7750-1 ) — Chronicles the 20-year relationship between Card and his mentor, Dr. William Lane, until Lane's death.
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The latter married her to Frederick William, Duke of Courland in November 1710, but on the return trip from Saint Petersburg in January 1711, her husband died.
Boonton Township's recorded history began about 1710 when William Saget Penn, the Quaker land speculator, located in the northern valley his Lot No. 48, which contained by actual survey 1, 430 prime field and woodland acres.
The village, John Day's Bridge, that had been settled in 1710, adopted the name of Chatham in 1773 when New Jersey was an English province to honor William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
In 1773, John Day's Bridge, a village governed by the English township of Morris since its settlement in 1710, was renamed as, Chatham, in honor of Sir William Pitt, a British prime minister and the first Earl of Chatham who was most favorable toward the colonists of the Province of New Jersey in issues with the British government.
* Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn ( c. 1665 – 1740 ), Welsh politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Denbigh, 1708 – 1710
Never countenancing the continuation of the nonjuring schism, Dodwell returned to the Church of England in 1710, following the death of William Lloyd, the deprived bishop of Norwich and Thomas Ken's decision to relinquish his claim to the see of Bath and Wells.
Sketch for the Painted Ceiling of the Great Hall, Greenwich Hospital: William and Mary Presenting the Cap of Liberty to Europe, about 1710, Sir James Thornhill V & A Museum no.
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG ( 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790 ) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading center of medical education in the English-speaking world.
Swift had used Benjamin Tooke previously when publishing for Sir William Temple, he would use Tooke for both the fifth edition of the Tale ( 1710 ) and later works, and it was Tooke's successor, Benjamin Motte, who published Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
; 1710: Frederick William I of Prussia abolished the mandatory Jewish yellow patch in return for a payment of 8, 000 thaler ( about $ 75, 000 worth of silver at 2007 prices ) each.
* William Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon, 1st Viscount Courtenay ( 11 February 1709 / 1710 – 16 May 1762 ) ( created Viscount Courtenay 1762 )
Dolben's two sons died abroad in his lifetime ( William, the elder, whose portrait was painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1709 and engraved by Smith in 1710, dying in 1709, aged 20 ), and Mary, one of his three daughters, died on 24 June 1710, aged 8.
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* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )
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