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cruiser "Valkyrien" and the former island legislature. The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, less than a week after securing the islands. Oliver was confirmed by Congress on April 20 and relieved Pollock as governor. During the war, Pollock was appointed as captain on , a German cruise liner which was seized by the United States government for use as a military transport ship. She was rechristened "George Washington" in September 1917 and Pollock was given her command on October 1, 1917. That December,
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Edwin Taylor Pollock (October 25, 1870June 4, 1943) was a career officer in the United States Navy, serving in the Spanish–American War and in World War I. He was later promoted to the rank of captain. Like many naval officers, his name was often abbreviated using initials: Pollock. As a young ensign, Pollock served aboard during the Spanish–American War. After the war, he rose through the ranks, served on several ships, and did important research into wireless communication. In 1917,
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On November 30, 1921, Pollock was transferred from command of "Oklahoma" to become the Military Governor of American Samoa. Events both personal and political had led to a previous governor, Warren Terhune's, suicide on November 3, 1920, and the appointment of Governor Waldo A. Evans to conduct a court of inquiry into the situation and to restore order. Pollock succeeded Evans, who had successfully restored the government and productivity of the islands after a period of unrest. At this time, American Samoa was administered by a
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was promoted to commander in March 1911. On his promotion, Pollock commanded and , before being transferred to the United States Naval Observatory. During his command of "Kearsarge", Pollock briefly commanded for a world-record setting wireless experiment. For this feat, "Salem" was outfitted with 16 different wireless telegraph technologies and sailed to Gibraltar, with Pollock commanding. On arrival, they tested these technologies and set a world-record for longest wireless telegraph distance, , using a "Poulsen Apparatus", based on principles
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January 24, 1925, Pollock commanded the dirigible on a flight from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to photograph a solar eclipse from an altitude of . This was the first time an eclipse had been photographed from the air. Pollock retired from service in 1927 and was replaced as superintendent by Captain Charles F. Freeman. In 1930, Pollock and his wife purchased a summer home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, while continuing to maintain their main residence in Washington, D.C. In 1932, he was made a director of the Jamestown Historical Society
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she set out with her first load of troops. During the war, Pollock successfully transported 60,000 American soldiers to France in 18 round trips. In 1918, "George Washington" was tasked to deliver President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference, though Pollock would not make the trip. He was reassigned on September 29, 1918. While on board "George Washington", Pollock and Chaplain Paul F. Bloomhardt edited a daily newspaper. After the war, stories from the paper were assembled and published in 1919 by J. J.
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board "Brooklyn", until its return home in May 1902. After a brief leave, Pollock was assigned to the USS "Chesapeake" (as the watch and division officer), a position he held for more than one year. He was transferred to , serving for another year, and then to Cavite Naval Base. At Cavite, he was promoted to lieutenant commander in February 1906. His first duty as a lieutenant commander was on , as the navigator. In 1910, Pollock was reassigned to , where he
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from Mount Gilead, Ohio, Pollock attended the United States Naval Academy and, as a midshipman, was assigned to and . He graduated with a rank of ensign in 1893. After graduation, Pollock returned to Ohio and married Beatrice E. Law Hale on December 5. Two weeks later, he was assigned to the cruiser during its initial shake-down. He was subsequently assigned to the gunboat for an expedition to China. He remained in China for two and a half years as part of the Asiatic Squadron, then transferring
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and the honor of being the first Acting Governor of the United States Virgin Islands was decided in an unusual way. Both Pollock, commanding , and B. B. Blerer's were dispatched to the Islands in a race. The commander of the ship that arrived first would officiate at the transfer ceremony and be acting governor. Pollock arrived first and the transfer ceremony took place on March 31, 1917, on Saint Thomas. Blerer officiated at a smaller ceremony on Saint Croix. Present for the handover was the crew of the Danish station
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was not permitted by Evans to enter the port at American Samoa and returned to exile in California, where he later became the mayor of Richmond. After being appointed as governor, Pollock's continued the colonization work started by his predecessor. Prior to traveling to the territory, he met with Ripley in San Francisco, California. Although Ripley maintained that American "occupation" of Samoa was usurpation, he agreed to allow Pollock to govern unfettered and to provide him with copies of his letters. Almost immediately after arriving on the island
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on July 26, 1923. Immediately on leaving Samoa, Pollock was appointed superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., replacing outgoing Rear Admiral William D. MacDougal. On August 22, 1924, Mars came within of Earth. The US Naval Observatory made no formal observations of the planet, but Pollock and the son of astronomer Asaph Hall ceremonially re-enacted Hall's 1877 discoveries of the moons Phobos and Deimos with his original telescope. They also made observations to calculate the masses of the two moons. On
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by Valdemar Poulsen. Experiments were also conducted to determine wireless characteristics during inclement weather and during both the day and night. In 1916, he was put in command of , the ship on which he had been the navigator. In the final days before the entrance of the United States into World War I, the US military was concerned that Germany was planning to purchase or seize the Danish West Indies for use as a submarine or zeppelin base. At the time, Charlotte Amalie on Saint Thomas was considered the best port in
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the Caribbean outside of Cuba, and Coral Bay on Saint John was considered the safest harbor in the area. Although the United States was not yet at war with Germany, the US signed a treaty to purchase the territory from Denmark for 25 million dollars on March 28, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson nominated James Harrison Oliver to be the first military governor. The United States announced plans to build a naval base in the territory to aid in the protection of the Panama Canal. Oliver was unable to travel immediately to the Islands
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, Pollock and Secretary of Native Affairs S. D. Hall met with representatives of the Mau, becoming the first governor to do so. Shortly afterwards, some members of the Mau disbanded, though the movement would continue in some form for another 13 years. Pollock's remaining time as governor was less eventful. While exploring Tonga in May 1923, he discovered a turtle which had been branded by Captain Cook on his expedition there in 1773. The turtle was thus known to have lived more than 150 years. He was ordered home
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Little & Ives co. as "Hatchet of the United States Ship "George Washington"". A short review of the work by "Outlook" magazine called the book "readable" and "admirably illustrated". It "abounds in clever bits of fun, queer and notable incidents, and sound and patriotic editorials." After the war, he was eventually reassigned to the battleship , to serve in the Pacific fleet. On November 10, 1920, Pollock was awarded a Navy Cross for his services during the war.
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had grown to include several prominent officers of former Governor Terhune's staff, including his executive officer. It culminated in a proclamation by Samuel S. Ripley, an American Samoan from an "afakasi" or mixed-blood Samoan family, with large communal property in the islands, that he was the leader of a legitimate successor government to pre-1899 Samoa. Evans also met with the high chiefs and secured their assent to continued Naval government. Ripley, who had traveled to Washington to meet with Secretary of the Navy Edwin C. Denby,
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Edwin A. Pollock


Edwin Allen Pollock (21 March 1899 – 5 November 1982) was a general in the United States Marine Corps and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and Korea; he commanded both the 1st and 2d Marine Divisions and is the only man to have served as commanding general of both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Marine Force. He had been advanced to the rank of general upon retirement by reason of having been specially commended in combat. Edwin A. Pollock was born on 21 March 1899 in Augusta, Georgia. He
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Edwin A. Pollock


attended the local Summerville Academy, South Carolina. He spent one year at Staunton Military Academy, Virginia, before he enrolled at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, during the summer of 1918. Graduating with the class of 1921, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and subsequently was appointed a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve that June. Pollock resigned his army commission to accept appointment as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps on July 1, 1921. He was subsequently sent for further education to the Marine
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capacity during the Battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945 and received Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his merits and also second Navy Presidential Unit Citation. In November 1945, Pollock was again ordered to Quantico. He served there successively as commanding officer of the Basic School, executive officer of the Marine Corps Schools, and chief of staff of the Marine barracks. Subsequently assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., he was appointed military secretary to the commandant of the Marine Corps in June 1948. In July 1949
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to before returning home in 1897. On his return home, the Spanish–American War was heating up and he was reassigned to "New York", to see service in Cuba and Puerto Rico, eventually taking part in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. In January 1900, he was promoted to lieutenant and assigned to . Over the following year he served on and . On board "Buffalo", he returned to the Asiatic Squadron near China and was finally transferred to , the squadron's flagship. He remained on
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traditionally been associated with the abstract expressionist movement. Pollock's patterns had previously been referred to as “natural” and “organic”, inviting speculation by author John Briggs in 1992 that Pollock's work featured fractals. In 1997, Taylor built a pendulum device called the Pollockizer which painted fractal patterns bearing a similarity to Pollock's work. Computer analysis of Pollock's work published by Taylor et al. in a 1999 Nature article found that Pollock's painted patterns have characteristics that match those displayed by nature's fractals (specifically,
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team of twelve officers and a governor, with a total population of approximately 8,000 people. The islands were primarily important due to the excellent harbor at Pago Pago. Beginning in 1920, a Mau movement, from the Samoan word for "opposition", was forming in American Samoa in protest of several Naval government policies, some of which had been implemented by Terhune but which were not revoked following his death, which natives (and some non-natives) found heavy-handed. The movement itself may have been inspired by
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James Harrison Oliver


to Commander. He was promoted to Captain in 1910 and Rear Admiral in 1916, just prior to the United States entrance into World War I. He was subsequently elevated to Chief of Naval Intelligence by 1917. On March 28, 1917, he was appointed as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands by President Woodrow Wilson. (Edwin Taylor Pollock was made acting-Governor until his arrival.) He remained as Governor for two years, until 1919. Oliver was quickly granted a loan of $200,000 ($3.4 million,
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. Voss's 1998 study of Chinese art was the first demonstration of using fractal analysis to distinguish between the works of different artists. Following Taylor's 1999 Pollock publication, Art conservator Jim Coddington proposed that fractal analysis should be explored as a technique to help authenticate Pollock paintings. In 2005, Taylor and colleagues published a fractal analysis of 14 authentic and 37 imitation Pollocks suggesting that, when combined with other techniques, fractal analysis might be useful for authenticating Pollock's work. In the same year, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation requested
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Edwin Taylor Pollock


less than a week before the United States entered World War I, he won a race against a fellow officer to receive the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark, and served as the territory's first acting governor. During the war, he was promoted to captain and a vessel under his command transported 60,000 American soldiers to France, for which he was awarded a Navy Cross. Afterward, he was made the eighth Naval Governor of American Samoa and then the superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, before retiring in 1927. Originally
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a different and older Mau movement in nearby Western Samoa, against the German and then New Zealand colonial powers. Some of the initial grievances of the movement included the quality of roads in the territory, a marriage law which largely forbade natives from marrying non-natives, and a justice system which discriminated against locals in part because laws were not often available in Samoan. In addition, the United States Navy also prohibited an assembly of Samoan chiefs, whom the movement considered the real government of the territory. Surprisingly, the movement
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compelled Taylor to posit that the same "basic trademark" of nature's pattern construction also appears in Pollock's work. Since some natural fractals are generated by a process known as "chaos", including fractals in human physiology, Taylor believed that Pollock's painting process might also have been chaotic, and could therefore leave behind a fractal pattern. Taylor's hypothesis seems to be reflected in Pollock's statement "I am nature", which he made when asked if nature was a source of inspiration for his work. Furthermore
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Special Operations Volunteer Force


, although a military one, was controlled by the Special Branch. It was formed from surrendered communist insurgents. The goal was to put the guerrilla's experience to work for the British. SEP/CEP volunteers to the SOVF committed to serving for 18 months. They were paid at the same rate as the junior police officers and were based in the same police compounds from which other government forces operated. SEP/CEP volunteers were formed into platoons and placed under the command of a British police officer. At the start of
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Edwin A. Pollock


Battle of the Tenaru at the end of August 1942. During the Japanese attack in the night of 20–21 August, 2nd Battalion under Pollock's command hold defensive positions on Tenaru River. Pollock left his command post and advanced through severe enemy mortar and machine-gun fire to a position in the front line, where he directed the defense of his forces for next twelve hours. The men under his command destroyed practically the entire enemy force of seven hundred. For his courage and leadership during the battle, Pollock was decorated with
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the seasons or the tides. Furthermore, Taylor observed several visual similarities between the patterns produced by nature and those produced by Pollock as he painted. He points out that Pollock abandoned the use of a traditional frame for his paintings, preferring instead to roll out his canvas on the floor; this, Taylor asserts, is more compatible with how nature works than traditional painting techniques because the patterns in nature's scenery are not artificially bounded. The perceived similarities between the processes and patterns involved in Pollock's paintings and those of nature
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.] Pollock says his paintings are no accident, and that he was able to control the flow of paint onto the canvas. Taylor points to two aspects of Pollock's painting process that have the potential to introduce fractal patterns. The first is Pollock's motion as he moved around the canvas, which Taylor hypothesized followed a Levy flight, a type of chaotic motion that is known to leave behind a fractal pattern. More specifically, a number of studies have shown that the motions associated with human balance have fractal characteristics.
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he served as commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, from December 1957 until his retirement on 1 November 1959. In 1965, he was instrumental in helping found the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas, and served as the school's first president and commandant, he later served as chairman of the board of visitors at The Citadel and was named chairman emeritus upon the completion of his term. The auditorium at the headquarters of the Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia, is named
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Edwin A. Pollock


Marine Detachment aboard the cruiser USS "Galveston". He sailed with that ship to the Panama Canal and participated in the watchful cruises between Balboa and Corinto. Following his return in June 1930, Pollock was assigned to the staff of the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico. During his time there, he spent a period of intensive training aboard the battleship USS "Arkansas", while attached to the 1st Marine Regiment. At the beginning of August 1934, Pollock was transferred to the cruiser USS "Salt Lake City", where
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Edwin F. Taylor


Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist known for his contributions to the teaching of physics. Taylor was editor of the American Journal of Physics, and is author of several introductory books to physics. In 1998 he was awarded the Oersted Medal for his contributions to the teaching of physics. Edwin Floriman Taylor was born in 1931 in Oberlin, Ohio and was the son of Lloyd William Taylor, chairman of the Oberlin College physics department from 1924-1948, and Esther Bliss Taylor. Taylor completed an A.B. degree at Oberlin College in
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Andrew Sterett


off the coast of Brazil, Sterett and Pollock opened their instructions. To his horror Sterett discovered that Taylor's orders to Pollock gave Pollock control over not only the cargo but operational control of the vessel as well; they stated that the ship was to proceed to the west coast of South America, where Pollock was to engage in trade as he saw fit. These orders, different from those given to Sterett and in violation of the articles of employment signed by the crew, caused a violent argument between Sterett and Pollock.
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Edwin Edwards (artist)


Edwin Edwards (6 Jan 1823 – 15 Sep 1879) was an English landscape painter, etcher and lawyer. Edwin Edwards was born in Framlingham, Suffolk in 1823 the son of a Norfolk squire. He trained as a lawyer and held the legal post of the King's Proctor and Examiner of the Courts of Civil Law and the High Court of Admiralty courts until 1861, when at the age of 38 he retired from the profession and devoted himself to art. In 1847, Edwards published "A treatise on the jurisdiction of
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characteristics identified by Taylor et al. are also present in crude sketches made in Adobe Photoshop, and deliberately fraudulent poured paintings made by other artists Thus, according to Jones-Smith and Mathur, labeling Pollock's paintings as "fractal" is meaningless, because the same characteristics are found in other non-fractal images. However, Taylor's rebuttal published in Nature showed that Taylor's group's fractal analysis could distinguish between Pollock paintings and the crude sketches, and identified further limitations in Jones-Smith and Mathur's analysis.
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he assumed command of the Marine detachment aboard. While in this capacity, he was promoted to the rank of captain in November 1934. During June 1936, Pollock was assigned to the Marine barracks at Naval Ammunition Depot St. Julien's Creek, Virginia and spent there one year of duty, before he was ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he was appointed as officer in charge of the Publicity Bureau. He was promoted to the rank of major during September 1938 and finally left Philadelphia in June 1939. Pollock was subsequently
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in July 1943. Pollock was promoted to the rank of colonel in November 1943 and then served in this capacity during the Battle of Cape Gloucester in December 1943. He later earned the Legion of Merit with Combat "V" for his part in the battle. He was transferred to the United States in March 1944 and appointed an instructor at the Army and Navy Staff College. Pollock joined 4th Marine Division under his old superior, Major General Clifton B. Cates in December 1944 and was appointed operations officer. He served in that
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Transfer Day


the American flag was raised. As a last gesture, Admiral Henri Konow of Denmark and Admiral Edwin T. Pollock of the United States Navy drew their ceremonial swords.[4] The Virgin Islands now have annual celebrations in honor of transfer day. According to a St. Croix website, “Transfer Day is commemorated annually with a military parade and various ceremonies and cultural events across all of the islands”[5]. The celebration varies by year, for example in 1987, “A reenactment of the transfer will begin at 4 p.m. Tuesday on the lawns
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Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet


saddler David Pollock, of Charing Cross, and Sarah Pollock (née Parsons); his elder brother was the lawyer and politician Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet. The Pollock family were a branch of that family of Balgray, Dumfriesshire; David Pollock's father was a burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and his grandfather a yeoman of Durham. His business as a saddler was given the official custom of the royal family. Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet, great-great-grandson of David Pollock, stated in
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-scales and time-scales dominated by chaotic dynamics". Since Taylor's initial Pollock analysis in 1999, more than ten research groups have used various forms of fractal analysis to successfully quantify Pollock's work. In addition to analyzing Pollock's work for fractal content, some groups such as that of computer scientist Bruce Gooch, have used computers to generate Pollock-like images by varying their fractal characteristics. Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (who invented the term fractal) and art theorist Francis O’Connor (the chief Pollock scholar) are well
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Henry W. Buse Jr.


. Buse was replaced by Colonel Lewis W. Walt on June 14, 1953, and transferred back to the United States the following month. His next assignment was again with the Plans and Operations Section at Headquarters Marine Corps. In July 1954, Major General Edwin A. Pollock was appointed commanding general of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina and, aware of Buse's skills as an staff officer, chose him as his chief of staff. Buse worked with Pollock for the next three years. When General Pollock was
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attached to the Senior Course at the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico and following his graduation, he remained in Quantico Schools as Assistant Instructor in the Base Defense Weapons and Reserve Officers' courses. Following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Pollock was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in January 1942 and subsequently assumed command of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment under Colonel Clifton B. Cates. The 1st Marines went overseas as a part of the 1st Marine Division in June 1942 and Pollock subsequently led his troops on Guadalcanal during the
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Complex. Shortly after returning from Korea, the general reported to Quantico in July 1953 as director of the Marine Corps Educational Center. A year later, he assumed command of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina. In January 1956, Pollock was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed commandant of the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico. Pollock left Quantico in August 1956 to assume duty the following month at Camp H. M. Smith as commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, Honolulu, T.H. Following this assignment,
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Corps Schools within Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia. Pollock attended Company Officers' Course and following his graduation in November 1922, he was assigned to the Marine Barracks Parris Island, South Carolina. His first tour of expeditionary duty began in 1923, when he sailed with 2nd Marine Brigade to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Upon withdrawal of the Marine troops at the end of December 1924, Pollock served with West Coast Expeditionary Forces at San Diego, California until September 1926, when he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and
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Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet


Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, PC (23 September 1783 – 28 August 1870) was a British lawyer and Tory politician. Pollock was the son of saddler David Pollock, of Charing Cross, London, and the elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet. The Pollock family were a branch of that family of Balgray, Dumfriesshire; David Pollock's father was a burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and his grandfather a yeoman of Durham. His business as a saddler was given the official
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1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election


. Black leaders in the party threatened to follow Bradley and organize their own nominating convention, as they believed Taylor represented the "lily-white" branch of the party. Taylor attempted to hold the party together by making one of the black leaders permanent secretary of the convention and promising to appoint other black leaders to his cabinet if elected. He also tried to bring Bradley back to the convention by promising to nominate Bradley's nephew, Edwin P. Morrow, for secretary of state. Bradley refused the offer. In the face
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Jackson Pollock


-sized painting (15 by 28 1/2 in) was found to contain yellow paint pigments not commercially available until about 1970. The suit was settled in a confidential agreement in 2012. In 1999, physicist-artist Richard Taylor used computer analysis to show similarities between Pollock's painted patterns and fractals (patterns that recur on multiple size scales) found in natural scenery, reflecting Pollock's own words "I am Nature". His research team labelled Pollock's style Fractal Expressionism. In 2003, 24 Pollockesque paintings and drawings were
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Pollock Medal


of the Second World War, the training course ceased. In 1947 the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and Royal Military College at Sandhurst were amalgamated to become the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Sandhurst now presents the top cadet with the Queen's Medal. The following is the roll of Pollock Medallists until February 1875 as recorded on tablets fixed on the walls of the great dining hall of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich: The above two lists are taken from the "Memoir to Illustrate the Origin and Foundation of the Pollock Medal"
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Camp Edwin F. Glenn


Camp Edwin F. Glenn is a national historic district located at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana. It encompasses 19 contributing buildings and 360 contributing structures in a former military camp. The district developed between about 1925 and 1941. It originally served as a Citizens' Military Training Camp from 1925 to 1941, a camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1933 to 1941, and a Prisoner of War camp from 1944 to 1945. The district includes six warehouses, five mess halls, five lavatories, a branch exchange, butcher shop
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Taylor Branch


Humanities Medal in 1999. In 2008, he received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses. In 2013, he co-produced "" based on his 2011 book "The Cartel". in 2015, he received the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization, for his contributions to the art and craft of biography. Branch has stated that Black Hebrew Israelites were denied citizenship under the Israeli law of return because of alleged anti-Black sentiment among Israeli Jews.
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Pollock Medal


The Pollock Medal is a prize awarded to the best cadet of the season, in commemoration of Sir George Pollock's exploits in Afghanistan, first at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, and later at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1844, the British inhabitants of Calcutta raised a subscription of 11,000 rupees to commemorate General George Pollock’s victories in Afghanistan after the disastrous retreat of the British army of occupation from Kabul in January 1842. This was to consist of a medal to be presented twice a year
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Pollock Medal


. The medal was valued at twelve guineas, and part of the inscription recording the services of Sir George Pollock and his army was omitted. The new version continued to have the portrait of Sir George Pollock but with the inscription: Pollock, Cabul, 1842 And on its reverse: Pollock Prize, Royal Military Academy Founded by the British inhabitants of Calcutta to commemorate the eminent services of Major-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.B., and awarded to the most distinguished Cadet of the season Although Sir George Pollock was not consulted over
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Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet


Resident at Lucknow in December 1843 and military member of the Council of India in September 1844. In 1844 the British residents in Calcutta created the Pollock Medal to commemorate Pollock's achievements. This medal was to be awarded to the "best cadet of the season" at the Addiscombe Military Seminary. After returning to England in 1846, Pollock benefited from an annuity of £1,000 per annum from the East India Company and lived at Clapham Common. He was promoted to lieutenant general on 11 November 1851 and became a member of the
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they demonstrate a statistical self-similarity quantified by a non-integer dimension over a magnification range of 1.5-2 orders of magnitude). This analysis supported clues (see below) that Pollock's patterns are fractal and reflect "the fingerprint of nature". Taylor noted several similarities between Pollock's painting style and the processes used by nature to construct its landscapes. For instance, he cites Pollock's propensity to revisit paintings that he had not adjusted in several weeks as being comparable to cyclic processes in nature, such as
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a fractal analysis to be used for the first time in an authenticity dispute, The analysis identified “significant deviations from Pollock’s characteristics.” Taylor cautioned that the results should be “coupled with other important information such as provenance, connoisseurship and materials analysis.” Two years later, materials scientists showed that pigments on the paintings dated from after Pollock's death. In 2006, the use of fractals to authenticate Pollocks stirred controversy. This controversy was triggered by physicists Katherine Jones-Smith and Harsh Mathur who claimed that the fractal
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Edwin J. Taylor


Edwin J. Taylor (October 22, 1869 – February 9, 1956) was a North Dakota public servant and politician with the Republican Party who served as the North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1911 to 1916. After serving two terms, he did not seek re-election to the office in 1916. Edwin J. Taylor was born in 1869 in Waddington, New York, where he grew up and was educated in the public schools. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in 1890, and moved
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Kemper Military School


reopened the school as the “Kemper & Taylor Institute” in partnership with his wife's brother, Edwin H. Taylor. It was one of only a few schools in the state to remain open during the Civil War, partly due to Professor Kemper's willingness to accept female students for the first time. Kemper prudently chose to keep a guarded neutrality throughout the war. However, it was widely known that his brother was Confederate General James L. Kemper, who gained fame as a primary participant in Pickett's Charge at the Battle
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Gerald Lenox-Conyngham


. When he was aged ten, his family moved to Edinburgh, where he attended Edinburgh Academy. He went to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich when he was seventeen years old and passed out first with the sword of honour and the Pollock medal. Attached to the Royal Engineers as a lieutenant, he spent two years at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham before being posted to India. In 1889 he joined the trigonometrical branch of the Survey of India. He became assistant to Sidney Burrard who, that same year,
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Edwin A. Pollock


transferred to Quantico, he joined the 11th Marine Regiment and sailed for Nicaragua. Pollock later joined the staff of the 2nd Marine Brigade under General Logan Feland and sailed for expeditionary duty in Nicaragua. He served during the combats against the Sandino's insurgents and participated the famed Coco River patrol under then-Captain Merritt A. Edson. In late 1927, he returned to the United States and was assigned to the Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia. The next orders for sea duty came in August 1928, when he was attached to the
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Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet


Time's Chariot (1950) that David was, 'perhaps without knowing it', Pollock of Balgray, the senior line of the family (Pollock of Pollock or Pollock of that ilk) having died out. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Pollock was commissioned as a lieutenant-fireworker in the Bengal Artillery on 14 December 1803. Promoted to lieutenant on 19 April 1804, he saw action at the Battle of Deeg in November 1804 and at the Siege of Bhurtpore in Spring 1805 during the Second Anglo-
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Lloyd Pollock


all players except goaltenders in midget age groups and younger. In May 1963, the Northern Ontario Hockey Association applied to the CAHA to become an equal branch to the OHA. When the request was denied by the CAHA, Pollock stated that measures needed to be put in place to prevent the migration of players southwards to the more populated OHA, and preserve the leagues in Northern Ontario. Pollock was elected the second vice-president of the CAHA, on May 23, 1964, serving under Lionel Fleury as president. Pollock sat
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George Edwin Taylor


Star edition of "Florida Times-Union" of Jacksonville, Florida, the largest newspaper in Florida at the beginning of the twentieth century. Taylor was a Mason, a community organizer, and a supporter of Free Silver and Anti-Imperialism. He was a popular and humorous speaker. He died in Jacksonville, Florida. The only known biography of Taylor is "For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, his historic run for the White House, and the making of Independent Black Politics", by
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Ormond R. Simpson


under Brigadier General Oliver P. Smith and served for next three years as an instructor within Logistics section. He was detached from Quantico in June 1949 and ordered to the Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., as special assistant to the director of plans and policies under Brigadier General Edwin A. Pollock. While in this capacity, Simpson was promoted to the rank of colonel in November 1951. General Pollock subsequently assumed command of 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune and Simpson followed him in January 1952 as commanding officer of the 6th Marine Regiment
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Herman Nickerson Jr.


Cates, and was appointed director, Advance Base Problem Section. Nickerson served in this capacity until June 1954, when he was appointed director of the Senior School, which served as the training facility for senior marine officers in the field of amphibious warfare. In July 1956, he was ordered back to Pearl Harbor for duty as assistant chief of staff for operations (G-3), Fleet Marine Force, Pacific under Lieutenant General Edwin A. Pollock and following the transfer of Pollock to the Command of Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic at Norfolk
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William G. Joslyn


December 1954. He served in that capacity until June 1955, when he was sent for instruction to the Amphibious Warfare School at Quantico. Upon completing the junior course in July 1956, Joslyn was ordered to Hawaii, where he joined the headquarters, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. He served as Aide-de-Camp to the commanding general, Edwin A. Pollock, and following Pollock's transfer to Norfolk, Virginia, as commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic in November 1957, Joslyn continued as his aide until November
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USS Hancock (AP-3)


Danish Government was to transfer the islands to the United States. She sailed the next day, embarking a Marine Detachment at Santo Domingo before arrival at St. Thomas, 30 March 1917. On 31 March 1917, "Hancock's" captain, Comdr. Edwin T. Pollock, USN, took over the islands in the name of the United States of America. At 1600 hours when the transfer became effective, Commander Pollock assumed the position of Acting Governor of the Virgin Islands. On 6 April 1917 the United States declared war on
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Edwin A. Pollock


the second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat, Navy Cross. He also received his first Navy Presidential Unit Citation, which is awarded for gallantry and determination of the whole unit. His Navy Cross citation states in part: ""When the troops under his command were subjected to a powerful and determined surprise attack at the Tenaru River, Lieutenant-Colonel Pollock, immediately leaving his Command Post, advanced through severe enemy mortar and machine-gun fire to a position in the front line, and while thus constantly exposed
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Edwin A. Pollock


to extreme danger, directed the defense of our forces for a period of twelve hours. As a result of his excellent judgment and superb leadership, the men under his command destroyed practically the entire enemy force of seven hundred."" Pollock was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel William W. Stickney on 23 September 1942 and was subsequently appointed executive officer of the 1st Marines. He was later transferred to the staff of the 1st Marine Division under Major General William H. Rupertus and appointed assistant chief of staff (G-3) for plans and operations
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Edwin A. Pollock


, with his promotion to brigadier general, he became director of plans and policies at Headquarters Marine Corps. Pollock was promoted to major general in October 1951. That December, he became commanding general of the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. In August 1952, he arrived in Korea to assume command of the 1st Marine Division. The Distinguished Service Medal was awarded to him for outstanding service in this capacity during the Korean War from August 1952 to June 1953 during bitter engagements on the Reno-Carson-Vegas
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Henry Pollock


, Pollock had an accidental fall in his home at No. 367, the Peak. He broke his thigh heavily and could not assume his duties in the councils. As a result, another member of the Legislative and the Executive Council, Sir Shouson Chow, temporarily replaced him as Senior Member during his incapacity. Pollock recovered from the fall in December and reassumed his duties again. Besides his duties in the two councils, Pollock had served as chairman of the Hong Kong Branch of the Navy League, the Chess Club,
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Sam Pollock (labor leader)


Depression began on 1929, Pollock became deeply involved in the Ohio Unemployed League, a branch of the American Workers Party (AWP). The goal of the League was to organize jobless workers, advocate for higher relief payments for the unemployed, and help the unemployed resist employer calls to take striking workers' jobs. On April 1934, Pollock became a leader in the bitter and violent strike by automobile parts workers at the Electric Auto-Lite plant in Toledo. Pollock and fellow League organizer Ted Selander essentially ran the strike along
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George Edwin Taylor


George Edwin Taylor (August 4, 1857 – December 23, 1925) was a Black American who was the candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party for the office of President of the United States in 1904. Taylor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to Amanda Hines and Nathan Taylor (who was enslaved). When the State of Arkansas passed the Free Negro Expulsion Act in 1859, Hines took infant George to Alton, Illinois. Hines died of Tuberculosis in 1861 or 1862. In 1865, at age 8, orphaned
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George Edwin Taylor


Bruce L. Mouser (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012). George Edwin Taylor was born the free Black son of Amanda Hines, a free Black, and Nathan Taylor, who was enslaved, in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 4, 1857. The precise statuses of Hines and Taylor are unknown. In 1859, Arkansas enacted a Free Negro Expulsion Bill which required all free Blacks to leave the state or be seized, and, if they refused to leave after one year, be enslaved. Amanda Hines took
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George Edwin Taylor


, language, and rhetoric. Taylor left Wayland before completing his three-year curriculum for health and financial reasons. Taylor returned to La Crosse in 1879 and changed his middle name from Edward to Edwin. On October 15, 1885, he married Mary Hall of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, who was mentioned only once in located records. There were no known children from this marriage. Taylor wrote articles for several of La Crosse's newspapers and for Chicago's "Inter Ocean". During this first year, he also
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Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet


at the small British garrison at Jalalabad and Pollock was appointed Commander of the Force sent to relieve the garrison: he advanced through the Khyber Pass and relieved the garrison in April 1842. He then set about an unauthorised but ultimately successful mission to rescue the British hostages who had been left behind in Kabul prior to the retreat. In 1844 the Pollock Medal was created to commemorate Pollock's achievements: this medal was to be awarded to the "best cadet of the season" at the Addiscombe Military Seminary. Pollock was son of
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Pollock (film)


Pollock that he should move out. Soon afterward, Pollock meets and takes an interest in artist Lee Krasner. Later, at dinner, he learns that his brother is moving to Connecticut to take a job building military gliders to avoid the draft. Unable to handle conflicting feelings, Pollock goes on a drinking binge and is found in a disheveled state by Lee and Sande. Lee learns from Sande that Pollock is diagnosed as "clinically neurotic"; still, Lee takes him home and decides to be his manager. One day
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H. Charles McBarron Jr.


Marine Corps History Division, United States Army Center of Military History, the Smithsonian Institution, various military museums, and individual branches of the US Armed Forces. He also consulted with "Encyclopædia Britannica" and "World Book Encyclopedia". McBarron served as a mentor, resource, and guide to many devotees, illustrators, and historians. Mr. McBarron made uniform illustrations for the Military Collector & Historian, journal of the Company of Military Historians, from the work of Lieutenant Colonel Edwin North McClellan, USMC ("Uniforms of the
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Edwin Hammond


Edwin Pollock Hammond (November 26, 1835–January 27, 1920) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana from May 14, 1883 to January 6, 1885. Born in Brookville, Indiana to Nathaniel and Hannah H. (Sering) Hammond, he was educated in the common schools of Brookville and Columbus, Indiana, where his family moved when he was fourteen. He was also a student in the Seminary of Columbus, Indiana. In 1854 he accepted a position in Indianapolis, but soon afterward entered the law office of
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Gale Pollock


National Defense University, and an honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Maryland. She is also a Fellow at the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE). Pollock's military education includes the Department of Defense CAPSTONE Program; the Senior Service College at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; the Air War College; the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives; the Military Health System CAPSTONE program; the Principles of Advanced Nurse Administrators; and the NATO Staff Officer Course. Pollock's last position was Chief,
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Hugh Alexander Pollock


Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock (29 July 1888 – 6 November 1971) was a British publishing editor, who served as a soldier in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the First World War and in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War. Married three times, he was the first husband of Enid Blyton, and then Ida Pollock, both writers. Hugh Alexander Pollock was born in Ayr, Scotland, the elder of the two sons of bookseller and publisher William Smillie Pollock (1858–1942) and his wife Jessie Smith
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Alonzo Edwin Branch


Alonzo Edwin Branch (April 30, 1874 – December 15, 1925), also known as A. Edwin Branch, was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Nebraska in 1899 and at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1900, compiling a career college football record of 1–11–1. In 1899, Branch led the Nebraska to an exhibition win against Lincoln High School and one victory over Drake. Nebraska had their first losing season under Branch and after the season, he was replaced by Walter
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Friedrich Pollock


in the International Labour Organization to establish a Geneva branch of the Institute. In 1933, Pollock and Horkheimer moved into exile, first in Geneva, then to London, Paris, and finally New York City. In 1950, he was finally able to return to Frankfurt, taking part in the reestablishment of the Institute, again taking the role of director. From 1951 to 1958 he was professor of economics and sociology at the University of Frankfurt. In 1959, Pollock and Horkheimer moved to Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland, although
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Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding Company


bridge builders for the production of small and medium ships. George Pollock received US government contracts also because he met the United States Department of War's requirement that manufacturing of strategic military materiel be produced 60 miles or more from the Ocean in order to be outside the range of naval gunfire. George Pollock and his brother Gordon Pollock leased 50 acres on the north side of the Stockton Channel near Louis Park and started the Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding Company. The Navy need large floating dry docks to repair ships in the Asiatic-Pacific
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Edwin Alexander


Edwin John Alexander RSA RSW RWS (1870–1926) was a Scottish artist known for his pictures of animals and birds. He was born in Edinburgh in February 1870 the eldest son of the artist Robert Alexander and his wife. In 1887 and 1888 he accompanied his father on a trip to Tangiers with Joseph Crawhall III and Pollock Nisbet. On his return to Britain he studied art formally in the RSA school (the Royal Institution in Edinburgh) and then under Emmanuel Fremiet in Paris but did not receive any formal qualifications. In 1892
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James Pollock (artist)


S. Army Vietnam Combat Artists Program. He was accepted into the program and from 15, August 1967 through December 31, 1967 he served on U. S Army Vietnam Combat Artist Team IV (CAT IV). Art completed by Pollock during his assignment as a Vietnam soldier-artist is in the permanent U.S. Army Art Collection, maintained by the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH), Washington, D.C. Pollock's art has been included in traveling exhibits organized by the U.S Army Center of Military History. The collection of
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Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856


by Charles Pasley (Colonial Engineer) in the Council on 16 October 1854 Rutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855 Splatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854 Stevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854 Alexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854 James Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by
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Michael Taylor (glass artist)


materials. Taylor has expressed admiration for the modern artists Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp and Louise Nevelson as much for the revolutionary effect of their ideas on the course of art history as for the formal and visual qualities of their oeuvres. In a general way the structural model of DNA and electronic circuitry bear a visual resemblance to Taylor's constructions in glass. Taylor says that his work represents no one technology, but refers to modern technology as a whole. In addition to the 1970 Tiffany Foundation grant that allowed him
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Sep Lambert


though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921. In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland and also his top first-class score. He took ten catches and no stumpings. Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland
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Lloyd Pollock


was put in charge of the schedule between the Niagara Falls Flyers and the Estevan Bruins. He chose to schedule a game at the Montreal Forum to increase profits for CAHA, due to the smaller size of the Flyers' Niagara Falls Memorial Arena, and Maple Leaf Gardens not being available. Pollock and Fred Page chose to hold a special meeting with the CAHA executive and the CAHA branch presidents in advance of the upcoming general meeting. Pollock summarized the meeting as reiterating the CAHA stance on the change of age limit for junior players
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Edwin Taylor (British politician)


Edwin Taylor, JP (13 February 1905 – 25 September 1973) was a British master baker and politician from Bolton. Taylor was educated at St John's School, Wingates, and Bolton Technical College. He left school when he was 13 and later on (30), he went into the bakery business and eventually opened his own bakery and confectioners' shop in his home town; keen to promote the business, he founded the Bolton and District Master Bakers' Association of which he became Chairman and eventually President. He
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Union Shield – 2011


Union Shield – 2011 () is a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, which took place from Sep 16 until Sep 22, 2011. Russian Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov officially announced that the joint military exercise "Union Shield" is to take place in September 2011 after the meeting with his counterparts - Mykhailo Yezhel (the Ukrainian Defence Minister) and Yuri Zhadobin (the Defence Minister of the Republic of Belarus), which was held in Minsk, April, 2011. The concept for the exercise was being developed jointly by the
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Edwin Moses


every level, and also to promote the use of sport as a tool for social change around the world". Several dozen Olympic and world champion athletes, through the Laureus Sports for Good Foundation, work to assist disadvantaged youths around the world. In 2008, Moses presented the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award to Martin Luther King, Jr., biographer Taylor Branch. In May 2009, the University of Massachusetts Boston awarded Moses an honorary doctorate for his efforts to maintain the integrity of Olympic sports and for his use
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Dayton Literary Peace Prize


the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War. In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium. In 2008, Martin Luther King, Jr. biographer Taylor Branch joined Studs Terkel and Elie Wiesel as a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses. The 2008 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on September 28, 2008. Nick Clooney, who hosted the ceremony
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Addiscombe Military Seminary


the best cadet of the training season. The award was named after Field Marshal George Pollock. The Pollock Prize was transferred to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich after Addiscombe was closed. Following the Indian Rebellion (or First War of Independence) of 1857, the East India Company was wound up in 1858. The College passed into government hands, becoming known as the Royal Indian Military College, Addiscombe, but continued to perform much the same function. With the amalgamation of the Royal and Indian services in 1861, there was
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Francis Pollock


his second wife, Zella Taylor retired to Georgetown, Ontario. Pollock is the author of the short story "Finis", published in the June 1906 issue of "The Argosy" magazine, and his work has been anthologized several times. Briefly, "Finis" is the story of a new star that is discovered which turns out to be a new, hotter sun. It is a short hard hitting story which shows a man and woman, who stay up the night to watch the expected new star arise. Though
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Andrew Sterett


were rumors that the ship was actually headed to the West Indies or South America with a cargo of contraband). Taylor selected Procopio Pollock, son of Revolutionary War financier Oliver Pollock, as the "Warren's" supercargo (cargo master). Both men were given sealed orders that were not to be opened until a certain point in the voyage. On 12 September the "Warren" sailed out of Baltimore with a complement of about 112 men, including four officers (all previously known to Sterett. In early December,
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Syed Ata Hasnain


. His unique and innovative approach defined as "Playing Friend Not God" has been widely appreciated as the new HR management mantra across domains in and outside the military. On 7 Sep 2013, Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain was awarded his first civilian honor by the Capital Foundation Society of Delhi. He received the award from the Vice President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari. The award was for Military leadership of an exceptional order. On 9 Sep 2013, the General Officer spoke at the Global Town Hall organized by the US
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Nuremberg and Vietnam


characteristically unbiased fashion shows the difficulty in determining whether or not crimes were committed by the United States. Taylor also raises domestic problems with regard to the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. According to Taylor, it remains to be seen whether the United States Congress or the Executive branch of government held responsibility for officially declaring military action in Vietnam. It is the opinion of Taylor that both the President and the Congress bear responsibility, and that the Vietnam War could only be ended by an act of national will, rather
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