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6 unusual facts about James H. Wilson


Baños de Coamo

General James H. Wilson ordered the 3rd and 4th Regular Pennsylvania Artillery to provide artillery support for the frontal assault on the Baños, while Troop C covered the right side against flanking.

Bragg-Mitchell Mansion

That plantation and all of the furnishings were subsequently burned when Wilson's Raiders went through that area, the irony being that Mobile itself never became a battleground as had been anticipated.

J. H. Wilson

James H. Wilson (1837–1925), American topographic engineer, a Union Army Major General in the American Civil War and later wars, a railroad executive, and author

James H. Wilson

Grant promoted him to brevet major general on May 6, 1864, and had him assigned to command a division of cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, which he did with boldness and skill in numerous fights of the Overland Campaign and in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

Maplesville, Alabama

In 1865, the train depot was destroyed in a raid by Union general James H. Wilson, as Wilson’s Raiders marched on to Selma.

Waldo Covered Bridge

The bridge was used as an access route in April 1865 by Wilson's Raiders during the American Civil War, a cavalry group led by Union Army General James H. Wilson.


2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season

On October 15, 2011, team owner C. J. Wilson said that he would miss the season due to its interference with the 2012 Major League Baseball season.

Andrew Wilson

Andrew P. Wilson (1886–after 1947), British director, playwright, teacher, and actor

Angela K. Wilson

She helped create the CASCaM program with funding and support from the University of North Texas, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Department of Education, and the United States Department of Energy.

Bennett Jones

1959 – Partners James V.H. Milvain and James H. Laycraft win the last Canadian appeal before the Privy Council in London, England (Wakefield v. Oil City 1959 29 W.W.R. 638)

Big Robot

Rossignol says that Fallen City is based around the "broken windows theory" of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, which says that keeping an area in good-repair changes a populations outlook and so prevents further vandalism and prevents a descent into more serious crimes.

Clark L. Wilson

He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and served in the submarine force in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Silver Star and Gold Star.

E. B. Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson, American mathematician and pioneer in vector analysis

Edward Banker Willis

From San Diego, Willis marched with James H. Carleton's expedition across New Mexico Territory and was involved in the capture of Tucson, an old Spanish presidio defended by a handful of milita.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

Edwin Wilson

Edwin P. Wilson (1928–2012), American intelligence official and CIA officer

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

However, despite his impressive record, his one loss had been a third round knockout against Darroll "Doin' Damage" Wilson on HBO the previous year which halted his momentum and hurt his status as one of the premier up-and-coming heavyweights.

Glen Wilson

Glen P. Wilson (1923–2005), executive director of the National Space Society

Hugh Wilson

Hugh E. Wilson, American college football, baseball and basketball coach

Ian E. Wilson

With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution.

Ian Wilson

Ian E. Wilson (born 1943), chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada

James A. Wilson

James Arthur Wilson is a mathematician working on special functions and orthogonal polynomials who introduced Wilson polynomials, Askey–Wilson polynomials and the Askey–Wilson beta integral.

James Britton

James H. Britton (1817–1900), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, United States

James Davenport

James H. Davenport (born 1953), professor of information technology at the University of Bath

James Fowler

James H. Fowler (born 1970), political science professor at the University of California, San Diego

James H. Coffman, Jr.

After bandaging his hand, Colonel Coffman picked up AK-47s from Commando casualties and fired them with his other hand until each ran out of ammunition.

James H. Davis

Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis, 1899–2000), American singer and governor of Louisiana

James H. Dooley

His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.

James H. Ellis

When, a few years later, Diffie and Hellman published their 1976 paper, and shortly after that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman announced their algorithm, Cocks, Ellis, and Williamson suggested that GCHQ announce that they had previously developed both.

James H. Hays

His first mine was opened in 1828, at the mouth of Street's Run, where it empties into the Monongahela River.

James H. MacLafferty

MacLafferty was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Elston.

James H. Madole

The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6)

James H. Morey

Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrases.

James Peck

James H. Peck (1790–1836), American judge in Missouri impeached for abuse of power

James Wallis

James H. Wallis (1861–1940), Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, editor and Patriarch

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

Kevin R. Wilson

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

L. D. Knox

In 1978, Knox and then Louisiana Secretary of State James H. "Jim" Brown of Ferriday in Concordia Parish, running as Democrats, unsuccessfully challenged the reelection of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Jerry Huckaby.

MacLafferty

James H. MacLafferty (1871-1937), a U.S. Representative from California

Marie Arana

For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post, during which time she instituted the partnership of The Washington Post with the White House (First Lady Laura Bush) and the Library of Congress (Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress) in hosting the annual National Book Festival on the Washington Mall.

Medal of Honor Aircraft

Some aircraft were recognized following their crew's award but were not preserved, including Butch O'Hare's F4F, which wasn't stricken until two and one half years after his MoH action, as well as Maj. James H. Howard's "borrowed" P-51, whose identity remains a mystery.

Michael Jon Hand

Efforts to arrange deals included incorporating a company in Pretoria, South Africa, and sending Bernie Houghton with two Nugan Hand employees to the United States to meet Edwin P. Wilson.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

"Cerebral growth" is also a pun, as one of the objects of the museum is a human horn.

Myron H. McCord

The governor quickly responded by recommending James H. McClintock and Buckey O'Neill be appointed company commanders with Alexander O. Brodie recommended for the position of battalion commander.

Quagmire's Baby

The episode featured guest performances by Luke Adams, John Bunnell, Max Burkholder, Noah Gray-Cabey, Christine Lakin, Brittany Snow, Mae Whitman, and Tom Wilson, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.

Risch algorithm

The case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport.

Robert A. Rushworth

Rushworth was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and in 1975 received the SETP's James H. Doolittle Award for "outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering achievement in aerospace technology".

Scottsdale Football Club

The Scottsdale team of 1973, which had been captain-coached by Bob Wilson, was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the first club to receive such an honour.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

Social network analysis software

Christakis, Nicholas and James H. Fowler "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," New England Journal of Medicine 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007)

State of the Planet

It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond.

Symbolic integration

It was first implemented in Reduce in the case of purely transcendental functions; the case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport; the general case was solved and implemented in Axiom by Manuel Bronstein.

The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha! is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson and Anna C. Long published in August 2008.

Thomas Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 1935), information scientist researching information-seeking behaviors

Tug Wilson

Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921-2009), British Army colonel and founder and first commander of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force

Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?

William Edward Arnal and Michel Robert Desjardins in their Whose Historical Jesus? (1997) cites the book while comparing the different hypotheses on the "Qumranites", citing other scholars such as James H. Charlesworth (Jesus and the Dead Scrolls, 203) who judges that the Qumranites were one of the Essenes groups, and Hartmut Stegemann.


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