Image Leonard Plukenet00.jpg thumb Leonard Plukenet circa 1691 Leonard Plukenet 1641 1706 was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Mary II of England Queen Mary . Plukenet published Phytographia London, 1691 1692 in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated with John Ray in the second volume of Historia Plantarum London, 1686 1704 . Paul Dietrich Giseke 1741 1796 compared Plukenet s species with those of Linnaeus in Index Linnaeanus Hamburg, 1779 . Pluk. mant. , refers to the third volume London, 1700 of the first edition of Historia Plantarum , the whole of which was published 1691 1705. botanist Pluk. Plukenet, Leonard See also List of florilegia and botanical codices References reflist Phytographia , sive stirpium illustriorum et minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa diligentia elaboratae, quarum unaquaque titulis descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et characteristicis desumtis insignita, ab aliis ejusdem sortis facile discriminantur, by Leonard Plukenet, London 1769. Codex Bentingiana , the catalog of the garden of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland Hans Willem Bentinck was a source for the Phytographia External links commonscat wikispecies Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Plukenet, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1641 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1706 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Plukenet, Leonard Category English botanists Category 1641 births Category 1706 deaths UK botanist stub de Leonard Plukenet es Leonard Plukenet pt Leonard Plukenet ... more details
Daniel Leonard 18 May 1740 27 June 1829 was a lawyer from Province of Massachusetts Bay colonial Massachusetts and a Loyalist American Revolution Loyalist in the American Revolution . Born in Norton, Massachusetts , Leonard was a member of a prominent family who made their fortune from their iron works in Taunton, Massachusetts . After graduating from Harvard College , Leonard began to practice law in Taunton. During the Revolutionary crisis, the Parliament of Great Britain British Parliament passed the Massachusetts Government Act , which, among other things, abolished elections for the Massachusetts Governor s Council and instead called for the councilors to be appointed by the royal governor. Leonard accepted an appointment by Governor Thomas Hutchinson governor Thomas Hutchinson to this new royal controlled Council. Massachusetts Patriot American Revolution Patriots were outraged, and attacked Leonard s house. He fled to British occupied Boston for safety. In 1774 and 1775, Leonard wrote a book in support of royal government under the name Massachusettensis , which were answered by John Adams writing as Novanglus . During the American Revolutionary War War of Independence , Leonard left with the British when they Boston campaign evacuated Boston in 1776. His property, like that of other Loyalists, was confiscated. Exiled from Massachusetts, he served as Chief Justice of Bermuda from 1782 to 1806. His 1829 death in London was possibly a suicide. References Berkin, Carol. Leonard, Daniel . American National Biography Online , February 2000. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Leonard, Daniel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician DATE OF BIRTH 18 May 1740 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 27 June 1829 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Leonard, Daniel Category 1740 births Category 1829 deaths Category Customs officers Category Loyalists in the American Revolution Category Harvard University alumni Category Members of the colonial Massachusetts Governor ... more details
Use dmy dates date January 2012 Bradford JohnLeonard 8 November 1979 &ndash is a New Zealand cricket er who made three appearances for Northern Districts cricket team during the 2005 06 season. A right arm medium fast bowler, he took two one day cricket one day wickets. External links cricketarchive ref Archive Players 97 97926 97926.html Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Leonard, Brad ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 8 November 1979 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Leonard, Brad Category 1979 births Category Northern Districts cricketers Category Living people ... more details
ARP warden LeonardJohn Miles was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the gallantry he showed in leaving his air raid shelter to warn others of an unexploded bomb nearby in Ilford in Essex on the 21st of September, 1940. He was fatally wounded when the device exploded. Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette on the 17th of January, 1941. ref Hissey, Terry Come if ye Dare The Civil Defence George Crosses , 2008 , Civil Defence Assn ISBN 9780955015328 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Miles, LeonardJohn ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1940 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Miles, LeonardJohn Category British recipients of the George Cross Category 1940 deaths Category British civilians killed in World War II WWII bio stub ... more details
fiction Westerns , crime fiction Elmore JohnLeonard Jr. born October 11, 1925 , better known as Elmore Leonard , is an United States American novel ist and screenwriter . His earliest published novels in the 1950s were western fiction westerns , but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction ... Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Leonard, Elmore ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonard, Elmore John, Jr. full ... Elmore Leonard image Elmore Leonard.jpg birth date Birth date and age 1925 10 11 mf y birth place ... as Jackie Brown film Jackie Brown . Leonard s short stories include ones that became the films ... series Justified . Biography Leonard was born in New Orleans , but because his father worked as a site ... finally settled in Detroit . Leonard has made the Detroit area his home ever since. In the 1930s, two ... in 1934 while winning it in 1935. Leonard developed lifelong fascinations with both sports and guns ... , after pitcher Dutch Leonard ref http www.maximumfun.org blog 2007 07 podcast tsoya elmore leonard.html ... Ewald Advertising agency, a position he kept for several years and wrote on the side. Leonard ... . ref Challen, Paul 2000 . Get Dutch A Biography of Elmore Leonard , p. 29. ECW Press. ISBN 1550224220 ... . Leonard now lives with his family in Oakland County, Michigan . Writing style Commended by critics for his gritty realism arts realism and strong dialogue, Leonard sometimes takes liberties with English grammar grammar in the interest of speeding along the story. In his essay Elmore Leonard ... Leonard, Elmore, Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle , in Smiley, Jane, et al. 2004 , Writers on Writing , Vol. II, p. 145. Macmillan. ISBN 0805075887. ref Elmore Leonard ... from that city however, Leonard has said, If I lived in Buffalo, New York Buffalo , I d write about ... Leonard at a Writers Guild of America, West Writers Guild event in Beverly Hills in 1998. ref . Martin Amis Interviews Elmore Leonard at the Writers Guild Theatre, Beverly Hills, January 23, 1998 http ... more details
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Leonard Mascot Blumenthal February 27, 1901 &ndash August 1984 was an United States American mathematician . He received his Ph.D. in 1927 from Johns Hopkins University , under the supervision of Frank Morley his dissertation was titled Lagrange Resolvents in Euclidean Geometry . ref name mathgenealogy He taught for the majority of his professional career at the University of Missouri and was the author of A Modern View of Geometry . ref W. H. Freeman, 1961, and Dover Publications, 1980, ISBN 9780486639628. ref According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project , he had 18 Ph.D. students at Missouri, among them Leroy Milton Kelly and William Arthur Kirk he is the academic genealogy academic ancestor of over 80 mathematicians. ref name mathgenealogy mathgenealogy id 8199 name Leonard Mascot Blumenthal . ref The Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Missouri was established in 1992 in honor of Blumenthal. This endowed chair is given on a five year rotating basis to Missouri mathematics professors the Blumenthal Professors at Missouri have included John Beem, Mark Ashbaugh, Alex Koldobsky, and Zhenbo Qin. ref http www.math.missouri.edu alumni blumenthal.html Leonard M. Blumenthal Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics , University of Missouri Department of Mathematics. ref References reflist Works Blumenthal L.M. Theory and applications of distance geometry 1953 , Oxford At the Clarendon Press Geoffrey Cumberlege , XI, 347 p. Blumenthal L.M. Theory and applications of distance geometry , 2nd edition, 1970 , Bronx, New York Chelsea ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Blumenthal, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE ..., Leonard Category 1901 births Category 1984 deaths Category American mathematicians Category Johns Hopkins University alumni Category University of Missouri faculty US mathematician stub ht Leonard Blumenthal pl Leonard Blumenthal ... more details
Other persons Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc name Patrick Leonard image caption Patrick Leonard birth date 1955 age 56 57 birth place Chicago , Illinois , U.S. death date death place occupation Songwriter, keyboardist, music producer genre movement notableworks influences influenced spouse Olivia d Abo 1995 present 1 child website Patrick Raymond Leonard born 1955 is an American songwriter , keyboardist and music producer , known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna entertainer Madonna on many different recordings. He gained his entry into the music business with late 1970s Chicago based pomp rock band Trillion, which also featured future Toto singer Dennis Fergie Frederiksen on lead vocals. Leonard has worked with a wide variety of artists, including ... , Bryan Ferry , Elton John , Anna Vissi , Jody Watley , Rod Stewart , Madonna entertainer Madonna ... Richard Page . In 1997 Leonard released the New Age music new age album Rivers on his own record ... Leonard last Phares first Heather publisher Allmusic accessdate 17 June 2010 ref Leonard has three ... Your Heart Madonna song Open Your Heart . Madonna I Am Because We Are Leonard scored the music ... Years Elton John The Road to El Dorado soundtrack producer and co writer of Someday Out Of The Blue ... on There Comes a Time Leonard Cohen , Show Me the Place 2011 , co writer and musician Leonard Cohen ... Patrick Leonard http patrickleonardmusician.com Patrick Leonard Official Website Use dmy dates date August 2010 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Leonard, Patrick ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1955 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Leonard ... Category 1955 births Category Living people ca Patrick Leonard de Patrick Leonard es Patrick Leonard fr Patrick Leonard it Patrick Leonard ka nn Patrick Leonard pl Patrick Leonard pt Patrick Leonard ru , fi Patrick Leonard ... more details
Tom Leonard or Thomas Leonard may refer to Tom Leonard Irish politician 1924&ndash 2004 , Fianna F il politician from Dublin, Ireland Tom Leonard poet , Scottish poet Thomas J. Leonard 1955&ndash 2003 , founder of Coach University Tom Leonard Mining Museum , in Cleveland, England, see National Coal Mining Museum Tom Leonard tennis , American former tennis player Thomas D Arcy Leonard See also intitle Thomas Leonard hndis Leonard, Tom ... more details
, his biographer John S. Hilbert, states, based on Leonard s military records, that recent evidence ... have been JohnLeonard, a cabinet maker, and his wife Eleanor. Leonard also had a brother Joseph, about two years his junior. ref name Hilbertp.3 Chess career Leonard learned chess at age 16 or 17 ... 0 679 13200 7. ref In 2005, a biography of Leonard by chess historian John S. Hilbert was published, entitled The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard, 1841 1862 . ref John S. Hilbert ...Infobox chess player name James A. Leonard image Leonard1.jpg caption James A. Leonard birthname James A. Leonard country Ireland, then USA IRL , USA birth date Birth date 1841 11 6 birth place Ireland ... Master worldchampion womensworldchampion rating peakrating chess notation James A. Leonard November ... and Jeremy Gaige Jeremy Gaige s book Chess Personalia A Biobibliography state that Leonard was born in New York City. ref name Hilbertp.3 John S. Hilbert, The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard, 1841 1862 , McFarland, 2005, p. 3. ISBN 978 0786422982. ref ref Jeremy Gaige , Chess ..., D.C., File Designation Leonard, James A., Co. F, 88th New York Infantry . ref Leonard grew up in New ... Myron Hazeltine remarked that Leonard was the Rooms light and lustre . In the summer of 1860, he won ..., visited New York and played Leonard, giving him chess handicap rook odds . ref David Lawson, Paul ... of the game is unknown. ref name Winter 1999, p. 139 Winter 1999, p. 139. ref In 1861, Leonard visited ... of chess cultures. Leonard wrote of Dwight, to Hazeltine, OH GOLLY ain t he a slow player ... He considers 3 moves a side every hour as getting along very fast . The Philadelphians treated Leonard ... in such a column. ref name Brennen The match was a disaster for Leonard, whose Glossary of chess Second second stole his money, leaving him penniless. ref name Brennen Leonard returned to New York ... PA10&lpg PA10&dq leonard perrin chess&source bl&ots p VgVNTyCj&sig TP6aDvJUyVJTwUJp5r1nhY3WVE4 ... more details
Leonard Swett 1825 1889 was a civil and criminal lawyer who advised and assisted Abraham Lincoln throughout the president s political career. Early life Swett was born in 1825 near Turner, Maine and educated at North Yarmouth Academy and Colby College , although he did not earn a degree. ref name Virtualogy http virtualology.com apleonardswett Leonard Swett ref Swett read law in Portland, Maine and enlisted in the army to serve in the Mexican American War . After the war, he settled in Bloomington, Illinois . In 1865, he settled in Chicago . He was appointed by United States Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher to negotiate disputed claims to New Almaden New Almaden Quicksilver Mine . ref http www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org inside.asp?ID 53&subjectID 2 Leonard Swett 1825 1889 Abraham Lincoln s White House Bot generated title ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Swett, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1825 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1889 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Swett, Leonard Category 1825 births Category 1889 deaths Category People from Androscoggin County, Maine Category People from Bloomington, Illinois Category American lawyers Category Colby College alumni US law bio stub ... more details
Leonard Horner 17 January 1785 &ndash 5 March 1864 , Scotland Scottish geologist , brother of Francis Horner , was born in Edinburgh . Horner was a radical educational reformer who was involved in the establishment of University College School . ref http www.edinburghacademy.org.uk curriculum history enlightenment.htm Early history of The Edinburgh Academy Bot generated title ref Early life and education His father, John Horner, was a linen merchant in Edinburgh, and Leonard, the third and youngest son, attended the Royal High School Edinburgh Royal High School and entered the University of Edinburgh in 1799. There in the course of the next four years he studied chemistry and mineralogy , and gained a love of geology from Playfairs Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory . At the age of nineteen he became a partner in a branch of his father s business, and went to London . Career In 1808 he joined the newly formed Geological Society of London and two years later was elected one of the secretaries. Throughout his long life he was ardently devoted to the welfare of the society he was elected president in 1846 and again in 1860. In 1811 he read his first paper On the Mineralogy of the Malvern ... will never be forgotten. Memoir of Leonard Horner , by Katherine M Lyell 1890 privately printed ... Persondata . NAME Horner, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 17 January 1785 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 5 March 1864 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Horner, Leonard Category 1785 births Horner, Leonard Category 1864 deaths Horner, Leonard Category Academics of the University of London Horner, Leonard Category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Horner, Leonard Category Fellows of the Royal Society Horner, Leonard Category People associated with University College London Horner, Leonard Category People from Edinburgh Category People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Category Scottish geologists Horner, Leonard Category Presidents of the Geological Society of London ... more details
. Awards French won the Sir John Sulman Prize Sulman Prize in 1960 with The Burial , and the Blake Prize ... cv french bio.html Biography http cs.nga.gov.au Leonard French in National Gallery of Australia http www.australianart.com.au artists.php?ID 73 Leonard French at Australian Art http www.ballarat.edu.au curator collection view.php?id 214 Leonard French, image of Tapestry in the University of Ballarat collection Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME French, Leonard ALTERNATIVE ... DEFAULTSORT French, Leonard Category 1928 births Category Living people Category Australian painters ... Empire Australia painter stub de Leonard French fr Leonard French nl Leonard French ... more details
BLP sources date September 2008 Lee Leonard born in New York City on April 3, 1929 is an Television in the United ... television networks ESPN and CNN . Early life Leonard was a midday radio personality on New ... , Sterling Yates , Bill Mazer , Brad Crandall and Long John Nebel and hosted a competition quiz show for listeners called Fortune Phone . At CBS and NBC In the early 1970s, Leonard was part of an even ... changed, Leonard and Whitaker were eventually succeeded by The NFL Today with Brent Musburger ... television rights. As for Leonard, he would move to NBC and be teamed with Bryant Gumbel on its The NFL ... stay until just before ESPN launched. Also during the mid 1970s, Leonard hosted Midday Live , the daily ..., Leonard was one of the original co hosts with Bill Mazer of Sports Extra considered a pioneering ... 2cIgAAAAIBAJ&sjid kWoFAAAAIBAJ&pg 2878,1316494&dq lee leonard espn&hl en title ESPN celebrates 20 ... GXADAAAAIBAJ&pg 6690,772889&dq lee leonard softball&hl en title 20 years later, ESPN no longer ... April 2010 ref Leonard also made occasional appearances on SportsCenter . ref cite news url http news.google.com newspapers?id 04UUAAAAIBAJ&sjid 0QMEAAAAIBAJ&pg 6301,2720350&dq lee leonard sportscenter&hl ... Blade accessdate 30 April 2010 location Toledo, Ohio ref A year later 1980 , Leonard moved to CNN ... in its coverage of Hollywood red carpet premieres and many breaking stories including the death of John ... and Famous . Leonard stayed at CNN until 1982, when CNN hired veteran talk show host Mike Douglas . Recent activities From 1996 to approximately 2002, Lee Leonard hosted Jersey s Talking Jersey s Talking on News 12 New Jersey. As of 2004, Leonard hosts a Public affairs programming public affairs program on the New Jersey based cable network CN8 . Personal Leonard is married to actress Kelly ... , the actress. He has one daughter, named Norma Sheryl Leonard. He also has a grandson named Jacob Lee Leonard. References Reflist Sportscenter Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Leonard ... more details
Refimprove date March 2011 Infobox artist bgcolour 6495ED name Leonard Bahr image imagesize caption birth name birth date Birth date 1905 5 12 birth place death date death date and age 1990 7 25 1905 5 12 death place nationality usa American field Painting training Maryland Institute College of Art movement works patrons influenced by influenced awards Leonard Marion Bahr May 12, 1905 July 25, 1990 was a prolific painter of portraits and murals, an illustrator, as well as a highly regarded painting professor for 52 years at the Maryland Institute College of Art MICA . In 1930, Leonard started his professional painting career while still a student, beginning with two portraits of Baltimore s Mayor Preston. Leonard, a Christian, painted Biblical themes throughout his life. Among them was a commission for an altar painting of Christ at Gethsemane, which was installed in Our Savior s Evangelical ... and published in 1933. It is important to Baltimore history that Leonard also painted murals ..., by John Wollaston painter John Wollaston , of Daniel Carroll to be installed at the State House. Leonard served on art boards and juries and exhibited his work widely, winning many prizes for his artistic eye. In 1980, Leonard retired from MICA with honors for service, and a few years later was subsequently filmed for a video entitled A Painter s Portrait. Leonard s history and artworks have ... Society, of Leonard painting outdoors, photographed by family friend and Maryland photographer ... , whom he married in 1934 , Leonard was a humble man who saw the best in most people and sought the understanding of higher truth to life s situations and challenges. Leonard died of heart failure ... about the lives and art of Leonard and Florence Riefle Bahr include findagrave.com sailor.com mhs.org ... as other source sites. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bahr, Leonard ALTERNATIVE ... PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bahr, Leonard Category 1905 births Category 1990 deaths Category American ... more details
Other people Bill Leonard Deleted image removed Image BillLeonard.jpg right Bill Leonard William R. Leonard born 1947 is a Republican Party United States Republican United States U.S. politician who served as a member of the California State Board of Equalization from 2002 until his resignation in March 2010. Life and career After earning his Bachelor of Arts B.A. in history from the University of California, Irvine , Bill Leonard worked in real estate and property management . Leonard served on the board of directors Board of Directors of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District before being elected to the California State Assembly in 1978 on the List of political metaphors coattails of California Proposition 13 1978 Proposition 13 . In 1988, after serving five terms in the Assembly, he was elected to the California State Senate State Senate , representing an convert 11,000 sqmi km2 adj on district. During his time in the Senate, Leonard was the longest serving Republican Caucus Chairman, holding the post from 1990 until term limit s forced him to leave the Senate in 1996. During his time in the Senate, Leonard wrote California s Leonard Law , the only law in the United States to extend First Amendment to the United States Constitution First Amendment rights to students ... returned Leonard to the Assembly, where he served as Republican Floor Leader Leader from 1997 ... race. After term limits forced Leonard to leave the Assembly in 2002, he won election to represent ... with 59 of the vote. He was re elected in 2006 with 55.8 of the vote. Leonard resigned from the State ... Leonard To Enter Schwarzenegger Administration, Alby Will Become Acting BOE Member Just In Time For Filing ... years 1978 1982 after John Lewis California politician John R. Lewis succession box before Dick Mountjoy ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Leonard, Bill ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician DATE OF BIRTH 1947 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Leonard, Bill ... more details
Leonard Bailey may refer to Leonard Bailey inventor 1825 1905 , inventor toolmaker and patentor of the Plane tool Leonard L. Bailey born 1914 , Surgeon who transplanted heart of baboon into Baby Fae DEFAULTSORT Bailey, Leonard da Leonard Bailey hndis name Bailey, Leonard ... more details
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Leonard Hanson Nicholson , Order of Canada OC , Order of the British Empire MBE June 8, 1904 March 22, 1983 served as the tenth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , from May 1, 1951 to March 31, 1959. Leonard Hanson Nicholson had only a primary school education leaving school to assist his family. He served as a Provost marshal in World War II . Legacy The Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters building in Ottawa, Ontario was named after Leonard Nicholson. http www.legionmagazine.com features canadianreflections 98 05.asp He is the highest declerated RCMP officer in Canadian history and his medals are currently located at the RCMP headquarters in Regina. In 1955 he received an honorary LL.D. from the University of New Brunswick . In 1967 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada . He is a Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE . He was a knight Grand Cross of the Canadian priory of the Venerable Order of Saint John . References cite web url http www.britishempire.co.uk forces armyunits canadiancavalry rcmpnicholson.htm title Leonard Nicholson accessdate June 25, 2006 start box s civ pol succession box title Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police before Stuart Wood after Charles Rivett Carnac years 1951 1959 end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Nicholson, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1904 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1983 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Nicholson, Leonard Category 1904 births Category 1983 deaths Category Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners Category Officers of the Order of Canada Category Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Category Members of the Order of the British Empire Category Bailiffs Grand Cross of the Order of St John Category Royal Military College of Canada alumni Category Article Feedback 5 NorthwestTerritories politician stub ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2011 Leonard Uhr 1927 &ndash October 5, 2000 was an United States American computer scientist and a pioneer in computer vision , pattern recognition , machine learning and cognitive science . He was an expert in many aspects of human neurophysiology and perception , and a central theme of his research was to design artificial intelligence systems based on his understanding of how the human brain works. He was one of the early proponents of incorporation into artificial intelligence algorithms of methods for dealing with uncertainty . Uhr published seven books as author and or editor and nearly 150 journal and conference papers. His seminal work was an article written in 1963 with Charles Vossler, A Pattern Recognition Program That Generates, Evaluates, and Adjusts Its Own Operators , reprinted in Computers and Thought edited by Edward Feigenbaum and J. Feldman which showcases the work of the scientists who defined the field of artificial intelligence. He was a Ph.D. .... Major works Vasant Honavar and Leonard Uhr. Ed. Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Steps Toward Principled Integration . New York Academic Press. 1994. ISBN 0 12 355055 6 Leonard Uhr. Multi ... York Wiley. 1987. ISBN 0 471 84979 0 Leonard Uhr Ed. Parallel Computer Vision . Boston Academic Press. 1987. ISBN 0 12 706958 5 Leonard Uhr. Algorithm Structured Computer Arrays and Networks Architectures for Images, Percepts, Models, Information . Boston Academic Press. 1984. ISBN 0 12 706960 7 Leonard ... 13 654095 3 Leonard Uhr Ed. Pattern Recognition . New York Wiley. 1966. ISBN 0 471 89600 4 Leonard Uhr and James Miller Ed. Drugs and Behavior . New York Wiley. 1960. ISBN 0 471 89595 4 John C. Pollard, Leonard Uhr, Elizabeth Stern. Drugs and phantasy Boston Little Brown and Company. 1965 External links ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Uhr, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1927 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2000 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Uhr, Leonard Category ... more details
Infobox person name Sheldon Leonard image Sheldon Leonard in Another Thin Man trailer.jpg caption from the trailer for the film Another Thin Man 1939 birth name Sheldon Leonard Bershad birth date birthdate ... spouse Frances Bober 1931 97 his death 2 children yearsactive 1934 96 Sheldon Leonard born Sheldon Leonard Bershad February 22, 1907 January 10, 1997 was a pioneering American film and television Television producer producer , director, writer, and actor. Biography Leonard was born Sheldon Leonard ... Leonard Independent, The London Find Articles at BNET.com Dead link date August 2010 bot RjwilmsiBot ref ref http movies.yahoo.com movie contributor 1800033936 bio Sheldon Leonard Biography Yahoo Movies Bot generated title ref As an actor, Leonard specialized in playing supporting characters, especially ... accent, usually delivered from the side of his mouth. In the cult classic Decoy film Decoy , Leonard uses his heavy persona to create the hard boiled police detective Joe Portugal. In the 1950s, Leonard ... . Sheldon Leonard Bershad graduated from Syracuse University in 1929. In radio, Leonard played ... was Who knows about horses? Leonard was part of the ensemble cast of the Martin and Lewis radio show. ref cite book title On the air the encyclopedia of old time radio author John Dunning publisher Oxford ... sometimes in more positive roles. File Big eddie 1975.JPG left thumb 200px Leonard, Sheree North ... Show 1960 68 , The Dick Van Dyke Show 1961 66 , and I Spy 1965 TV series I Spy 1965 68 . Leonard also ... of The Andy Griffith Show . Leonard is informally credited with developing the practice of using ... for a new show. Leonard also has the distinction along with author Mickey Spillane of being ... of The Hungry Heifer, Norm Peterson s favorite eating establishment. Leonard died at 89, and was buried ... of Sheldon Leonard in one track of his 1966 hit comedy album Wonderfulness . The track, Niagara Falls , describes Sheldon Leonard s honeymoon at Niagara Falls . His name served as a namesake for the characters ... more details
orphan date June 2010 Image Leonard Sharland while in Sudan.jpg thumb Leonard Sharland standing beside his car while on trek in Sudan Leonard William Chapple Sharland LTh MA 1904 1978 was a pioneer missionary amongst the Dinka people Dinka people with the Gordon Memorial Mission of the Church Missionary Society CMS in southern Sudan in the middle of the 20th century. Early Life Leonard Sharland was born ... Exeter to Exmouth not long before Leonard was born. They then moved to a terraced house in Clifford Road, Wallasey on Merseyside in 1911. Leonard left school at 14 years old during the 1st World War to work as an office boy for an estate agent. Despite leaving school so young, Leonard studied in the evenings ... of Theology in 1929. He then went on to complete a Master s Degree at St John s College, Durham St John s College , Durham . He was the first member of the family to go on to further education. Ordination and Curacies Leonard was ordained a deacon 1930, and ordained Priest in 1931 in Chester . He ..., and followed his calling to become a missionary. A Missionary in Sudan In 1932 Leonard s brother ... in Lainya, west of Juba, Southern Sudan Juba . Two years later Leonard followed him. Leonard joined ... Cathedral in 1951. ref http reed.dur.ac.uk xtf view?docId ead sad sharllwc.xml ref Leonard returned from leave in England in 1951 with a wife and when he left in 1958 had three sons. From 1946 1955 Leonard ..., Leonard spent a year in Limpsfield , Surrey working on manuscript of the Bible translated into the Dinka ... Mandeville , near Yeovil, Somerset . When he retired in 1976 Leonard returned with his family ... at a mission conference at Lee Abbey , Lynton , North Devon. Family Leonard Sharland married Faith ... in Uganda and China . Leonard and Faith had four sons, Peter born 1952 , Roger born 1953 , Andrew ... Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sharland, Leonard ALTERNATIVE ... Sharland, Leonard Category 1904 births Category 1978 deaths Category Christian missionaries in Sudan ... more details
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