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| A. E. Douglass |
A. E. (Andrew Ellicott) Douglass (July 5, 1867, Windsor, Vermont - March 20, 1962, Tucson, Arizona) was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle. (references) |
| Bishop Douglass RC High School |
Bishop Douglass RC High School is a mixed secondary school in East Finchley, London, United Kingdom. It falls under the London Borough of Barnet Local Education Authority. (references) |
| Brian Douglass |
Brian Douglass was a man who used to live in Santee, California. He now resides in Ontario, California. He used to be cool and drink with friends. Now he has found Jesus and has grown boring and mundane. But he is still loved. He had his wedding and many friends attended and had a night of debauchery to the point of becoming drunk in his honor. (references) |
| C. Douglass Buck |
Clayton Douglass Buck (Known as C. Douglass Buck (1890-1965) was an American engineer, and politician from "Buena Vista" near New Castle, Delaware, in New Castle County. He was a member of the Republican Party and served as Governor of Delaware and U. S. Senator from Delaware. (references) |
| David Douglass |
David H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester. Douglass is considered a global warming skeptic and his research appears to focus on the role of natural forces and the debunking of anthropogenic climate change. Douglass is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the NY Academy of Sciences. (references) |
| Dorothea Douglass Chambers |
Dorothea Katherine Douglass Lambert Chambers (September 3, 1878 - January 7, 1960) was a British-American female tennis player who was born in Guayamas, Ealing, England. (references) |
| Douglass (lunar crater) |
Douglass is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of Frost crater and south-southwest of the large Landau walled plain. (references) |
| Douglass Adair |
Douglass Adair (died May 2 1968) was an American historian and historiographer. He attended the University of the South, Harvard University, and Yale University, and taught at Princeton and the College of William and Mary. He is particularly noted for his work in researching the authorship of disputed numbers of the Federalist Papers, and work in the historiography of republicanism in general. He committed suicide in 1968. (references) |
| Douglass College |
Douglass College is the Women's College of Rutgers University. It is the largest public women's college in the United States. It was founded as the New Jersey College for Women in 1918. Douglass is compared to Barnard College (with its affiliation to Columbia University) except Douglass is part of Rutgers University. (references) |
| Douglass High School |
Frederick Douglass High School is located in Northwest Atlanta, Georgia in the community of Center Hill. As of 2002 the school principal is Dr. Eldrick H. Horton. (references) |
| Douglass Loop |
Douglass Loop is a neighborhood five miles southeast of downtown Louisville Kentucky USA. The area was originally part of a 200 acre estate belonging to Mississippi plantation owner Stark Fielding, referred to as the 'Woodbourne Estate'. In 1870, the land was bought by then Western Union president George Douglass, for whom the area is named. His original home still stands, located behind Douglass Boulevard Christian Church. The large Greek Revival mansion was originally built by Fielding in the 1830s, and from the 1930s until 1949 was Rugby University School, an exclusive boy's preparatory school. (references) |
| Douglass North |
Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient of the 1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He joined the faculty of Washington University in Saint Louis in 1983 as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of Economics, and served as director of the Center for Political Economy from 1984 to 1990. In 1992, he became the first economic historian ever to win one of the economics profession's most prestigious honors, the John R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors Society in Economics in 1965. Along with Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, he helped found the International Society for the New Institutional Economics which held its first meeting in St. Louis in 1997. His current research includes property rights, transaction costs, and economic organization in history as well as economic development in developing countries. (references) |
| Douglass Watson |
Douglass Watson (February 24, 1921 - May 1, 1989) was an American actor, born in Jackson, Georgia. (references) |
| Frederick Douglass |
United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge |
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It was completed in 1941 and named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. (references) |
| Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W St., SE in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C.. Perched high on a hilltop, this Douglass estate offers a sweeping view of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington D.C. skyline. (references) |
| Mike Douglass |
Mike Douglass is an American urban planner and social scientist noted for his analyses of rural-urban linkages, migration and international economic competition, globalization and the rise of civil society in Asia. He is the Director of the Globalization Research Center and Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii. He received a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at UCLA. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, U.K. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, UCLA, and Thammasat University. A specialist in urban and regional planning in Asia, he has lived and worked for many years in East and Southeast Asia. He has joined numerous research and planning projects throughout the region and has frequently been a consultant to international agencies and national and local government in Asia in areas related to his interests. (references) |
| Paul Douglass |
Paul Douglass was president of American University from 1941 until 1952. His ascent to the office marked a change in the title from Chancellor to President. (references) |
| Sara Douglass |
Sara Douglass (Born 2 June 1957 in Penola, South Australia) is the pen name of Australian fantasy writer Dr. Sara Warneke, who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Her works include the Axis trilogy, the Wayfarer Redemption trilogy, the Crucible trilogy and the Troy Game series. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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