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Clarence King
Clarence King 1842-1901, American geologist, b. Newport, R.I., grad. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1862. After serving as a volunteer assistant in the California state geological survey (1863-65, 1866), he persuaded Congress to appropriate funds for the Fortieth Parallel Survey (1867-72), of... Read more |
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Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons Saxophonist, singer, songwriter Jammed on the Jersey Shore Productive Partnership With Springsteen Most at Home With His Saxophone Selected discography Sources For almost two decades Clarence Clemons was the source of the driving tenor saxophone riffs in Bruce Springsteen’s... Read more |
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George duke of Clarence
George Clarence, duke of 1449-78, son of Richard, duke of York, and brother of Edward IV . In defiance of Edward, Clarence married Isabel Neville and joined her father, Richard Neville, earl of Warwick , in rebellion against the king in 1469-70. He deserted that party in 1471, however, and was... Read more |
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Clarence Decatur Howe
Clarence Decatur Howe , 1886-1960, Canadian civil engineer and cabinet minister, b. Waltham, Mass. He went to Canada in 1908 as professor of civil engineering at Dalhousie Univ. He founded (1916) an engineering firm that became internationally famous for its design and construction of grain... Read more |
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Clarenceux
Clarenceux in heraldry, (in the UK) the title given to the second King of Arms, with jurisdiction south of the Trent. Recorded from Middle English and coming from Anglo-Norman French, the position is named after the dukedom of Clarence created for the second son of Edward II, married to the... Read more |
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United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey bureau organized in 1879 under the Dept. of the Interior to unify and centralize the work already undertaken by separate surveys under Clarence King, F. V. Hayden, George W. Wheeler, and J. W. Powell . The functions of the bureau cover the exploration of the country... Read more |
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statutes of Kilkenny
Kilkenny, statutes of, 1366. Lionel, duke of Clarence, second son of Edward III, was appointed the king's lieutenant in Ireland in 1361. In 1366 he summoned a parliament at Kilkenny, which passed a number of statutes intended to buttress the position of the English. They were not to use the Irish... Read more |
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John de la Pole 1st earl of Lincoln
Lincoln, John de la Pole, 1st earl of (c.1462–87). Pole's mother was Edward IV's sister Elizabeth: his father, John de la Pole, 2nd duke of Suffolk. He was given a peerage in his own right at the age of 5 and married a niece of the king. Under Richard III he was in high favour. Though... Read more |
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Edmund de Mortimer 3d earl of March and 1st earl of Ulster
Edmund de Mortimer, 3d earl of March and 1st earl of Ulster , 1351-81, English nobleman. He succeeded (1360) his father, Roger, 2d earl of March, married (1368) Philippa, daughter of Edward III's son Lionel, duke of Clarence, and on Lionel's death (1368) inherited his estates and the title of earl... Read more |
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treaty of Bourges
Bourges, treaty of, 1412. This agreement between Henry IV, king of England, and a group of French lords headed by the duke of Orléans arose out of the French civil war. In return for Henry's aid against the Burgundians, Orléans was prepared to accept English claims to sovereignty over the... Read more |
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King, Clarence
King, Clarence (1842–1901), born at Newport, graduated from Yale (1862), after which he made a horseback trip across the continent... |
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Lionel of Clarence
Lionel of Clarence (1338–68), king's lieutenant 1361–6, the third son of Edward III, held large estates in Ireland through his marriage to the heiress of the earldom... |
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Clarence, Thomas, 1st duke of
Clarence, Thomas, 1st duke of (1388–1421). The second son of Henry...Normandy, sometimes in charge of successful detached operations. Clarence was lieutenant for the king's absence in England. Raiding Maine, he advanced with his... |
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Henry VI, King, Parts 1, 2
Henry VI, King, Parts 1, 2 and 3, sections of...Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt’. Shakespeare's...of Anjou, daughter of the king of Naples, vowing ominously...Gloucester, and George, duke of Clarence. King Henry, imprisoned ... |
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Clarence, George, 1st duke of
Clarence, George, 1st duke of (1449...drowned in a butt of malmsey, Clarence was the younger brother of...VI was restored and in 1471 Clarence abandoned Warwick to help...insubordination exasperated the king. Arrested in 1477, and condemned... |
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Thomas, Clarence
Thomas, Clarence (b. Pin Point, Georgia, 23 June 1948...Supreme Court (third last in seniority), Clarence Thomas is the most widely recognized justice...Descended from slaves of the Thomas and King plantations in Georgia, Thomas was raised... |
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Geological Surveys
...geological and geographical surveys: Clarence King's Army‐sponsored Geological...Survey of the Territories (1873). King, Powell, and Hayden were all experienced...first under the direction of King, later under Powell, who made it... |
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geological exploration of the North American West
...swathes of country. The names of the leaders, Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler, are famous in the geology of the west. Professional geologists were among them, and Clarence King became the first Director of the US Geological Survey... |
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
...Nevada, sketches of explorations and experiences in the California mountains, by Clarence King, published in 1872 and revised from the author's notes in 1902. King had been employed in the U.S. Geological Survey since 1863, and the book gives... |
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Powell, John Wesley
...Geographical and Geological Survey was incorporated into the United States Geological Survey under the directorship of Clarence King. When King resigned his directorship in 1881, Powell was appointed his successor, carrying out the tasks associated with... |
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Kings Peak
Kings Peak, Utah/USA Named after Clarence King, a 19th‐century geologist. |
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Clarence
Clarence, Australia, New Zealand Australia (New South Wales): a river renamed after Albert Victor (1864–92), Duke of Clarence, the eldest son of the British King Edward VII. It was at first known as the Big River after its discovery in 1831. |
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Clarence, George, 1st duke of
Clarence, George, 1st duke of (1446...drowned in a butt of malmsey, Clarence was the younger brother of...had been restored in 1470, Clarence abandoned Warwick to help...insubordination exasperated the king. Arrested in 1477, he was... |
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Howe, Clarence Decatur
Howe, Clarence Decatur (b. 15 Jan. 1886, d. 31 Dec. 1960). Canadian politician...Liberal Party in 1935, and became Minister of Transport under Mackenzie King in 1936, becoming partially responsible for the creation of the Trans... |
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Malabo
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Clarence City/Port Clarence, Santa Isabel Founded in 1827 by the British Vice...Owen and named by him after William Henry, Duke of Clarence, the future King William IV†. When the island of Bioko, then known... |
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Kilkenny, statutes of
Kilkenny, statutes of, 1366. Lionel, duke of Clarence, second son of Edward III, was appointed the king's lieutenant in Ireland in 1361. In 1366 he summoned a parliament at Kilkenny, which passed a number of statutes intended to... |
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George V
George V (1865–1936), king of the United Kingdom of Great...George was not born to be king. His private education was...elder brother, the duke of Clarence, meant that he was now in direct...the fiancée of the duke of Clarence); the couple were, and remained... |
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Victoria
...1818. His elder brothers, the dukes of Clarence and Kent, were married in a joint ceremony a month later. Clarence's two daughters died as infants...palace.’ As news of the gravity of King William's illness emerged in 1837 she... |
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Eachtra Bhodaigh an Chóta Lachtna
...describes himself as the ‘Son of the King of Thessaly’. If the Fenians cannot defeat Ironbones...Silva Gadelica (London, 1892). James Clarence Mangan adapted it as one of the earliest...renaissance; see The Prose Works of James Clarence Mangan, ed. D. J. O'Donoghue (Dublin... |
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Pole, Reginald
...Salisbury, daughter of George, duke of Clarence: he was therefore of the blood royal. Intended...Windsor, but, increasingly opposed to the king's divorce policy, he went abroad again in 1532. Asked for his opinion by the king, Pole produced in 1536 a strong counter... |
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King, Clarence: Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception...
King, Clarence Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of...Mar. 9, 2009: 70. "A picture of Clarence King is well worth a thousand words...uneven task. Much more is known about Clarence King than about Ada Copeland. Sandweiss... |
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The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax - Clarence...
King, Clarence The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West. Robert Wilson. New York: Scribner, 2006. 303 pp. $26.00. "Although Wilson makes every effort to be honest with his... |
 "The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)")
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OBIT - KING, CLARENCE RANDOLPH
KING, Clarence Randolph, 83, of Fries, widower of Thelma Lowe King, died Tuesday, January 22, 2002, in Lynchburg, Va...Va. on June 10, 1918, to Glover and Nora Pearman King. He was preceded in death by a son, Bobby King. Surviving... |
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OBIT - KING, CLARENCE WILEY
KING, Clarence Wiley, 92, of Check, passed away Wednesday...preceded in death by his first wife, Eva Lucas King and an infant son. Survived by his wife of 54 years, Frances B. King, Check, Va.; son and daughter-in... |
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Memoir: Sarah Brown Politics/History/Martin Luther King: Clarence B Jones
...tour de force, this time from Clarence B Jones, one of the few remaining...that moment when Martin Luther King awoke the world to his electrifying...mesmerised his audience by making King's great powers of oratory...lightning captured in a bottle." Clarence ... |
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Obituaries for Margaret L. King, Librarian; Clarence N. Lee, Coast Guard Officer
Margaret L. King, 99, who held top positions...vascular dementia. Mrs. King joined the D.C. library...York City. -- Matt Schudel Clarence N. Lee, 87, a retired property...Korean at the U.S. Embassy. Clarence Nolan Lee was born in Honolulu... |
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King of the Hills: 50 years ago, Clarence King and his family took Blue Hills...
Byline: Randy King May 6--Compared to other...work was King's father, Clarence, who had been hired as...would have made it without Clarence and his family," which...out of North Carolina." Clarence and Billy King were ... |
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Aim is to be kings of the Clarence King's looking strong
...We won the Head of the Clarence last year in the eights but...will be broken this year," King's head coach Tom Courtney said. Courtney said King's has entered its biggest...said Director of Rowing at Kings, David Bellamy, said that...other regattas the Head ... |
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The pioneers of jazz: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Clarence Williams
...in New Orleans with such 'kings' as Freddie Keppard, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong...Armstrong. Jelly Roll Morton and Clarence Williams, a composer whose...The Parker/Red Hot CD Clarence Williams: New Orleans Composer...many years. The tracks on ... |
 "ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)")
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"The ruin of a bygone geological empire": Clarence King and the place of the...
...very souls to the status quo. Clarence King, "Catastrophism and Evolution...Adams believed that his friend Clarence King was the "best and brightest...Bryson goes on to note that Clarence King adopts Fremont's heroic model... |
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