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| Bradley Beecher |
Bradley Beecher was the Commanding Officer of the Connecticut State Police Casino Licensing and Operations Unit. As such he developed and operated the law enforcement operations in the two largest casino/resort facilities in the world. Starting in 1990 the Unit opened and functioned first at Foxwoods, the world's largest facility of it's type. Subsequently the Unit opened in the second largest facility, Mohegan Sun. The law enforcement operations conducted all police functions within the two resorts. In addition the Unit conducted all background investigations for the required State licensing of principles, management and employees. The involvement of the Connecticut State Police is mandated by two gaming compacts, documents negotiated by the State of Connecticut and the two individual Native American Tribes, The Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans. They are the only two Federally recognized Tribes within the State of Connecticut. The Casino Licensing and Operations Unit has been the model for law enforcement with mandated responsibilities within Native American gaming operations throughout the United States. (references) |
| Catharine Beecher |
Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 - May 12, 1878), the daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a very active supporter for the cause of women's education. In 1824 she opened the Hartford Female Seminary, a private school for girls (including Harriet). She taught classes there and started to lobby for woman's rights. She left the school in 1831. She was engaged to be married to Professor Alexander Fisher of Yale College in 1841, but he died before the wedding. Beecher published A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School, which emphasized the importance of women's work and role in society. She founded the American Woman's Educational Association in 1852. In addition, Beecher was instrumental in the founding of women's colleges at Burlington, Iowa, Quincy, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (references) |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856 - 1939) was an American geneticist and zoologist. Wilson, is credited as America's first cell biologist, in 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships, by observing spinal cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells, he concluded that all these organisms must have a common ancestor. He also discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905, Nettie Stevens also described the system in 1905. (references) |
| Franny Beecher |
Franny Beecher (b. 1921), also known as Frank or Francis Beecher, was lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos combining elements of country music and jazz. At 84 years old, he is still performing and touring the world with The Comets. (references) |
| Henry Beecher Dierdorff |
Henry Beecher Dierdorff (b. 1851 - d.1935) was an American inventor in the field of mining. (references) |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| John Beecher |
John Beecher, 1904-1978, was an activist poet who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movement. Beecher was extremely active in the American labor and Civil Rights movements. During the McCarthy era, Beecher lost his teaching job for refusing to sign a state loyalty oath; seventeen years later the California Supreme Court overturned this and reinstated him. Beecher's books included Report to the Stockholders, To Live and Die in Dixie, In Egypt Land, and a 1974 Macmillian edition of his collected poems. (references) |
| Lyman Beecher |
Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 - January 10, 1865) was a Presbyterian clergyman, abolitionist, and father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, and Catherine Beecher. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Beecher attended Yale, and graduated in 1797. He spent 1798 in Yale Divinity School under the tutelage of his mentor Timothy Dwight, and was ordained a year later, in 1799. He began his religious career in Long Island. He gained popular recognition in 1806, after giving a sermon concerning the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. He moved to Litchfield, Connecticut in 1810 and started to preach Calvinism. A few years later after moving to Boston's Hanover Church, he began preaching against Unitarianism, which he thought to be evil. (references) |
| Michael Beecher |
Michael Beecher (1939 - 1994) (born Michael Becher) was an Australian character actor who shot to fame as the debonair hospital superintendent, Dr Brian Denham in television's The Young Doctors; a role he played from the programme's inception in 1976 until leaving the series (shortly before its demise) in 1982. (references) |
| Tobias Beecher |
Tobias, or Toby, Beecher is a character, played by American actor Lee Tergesen, on the television show Oz. (references) |
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