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- For the geologist and U.S. explorer, see John Wesley Powell.
John Powell is a film score composer based in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles.
He is one of the best known former member of the Remote Control team of film score composers and has a scoring style that incorporates both traditional orchestral and more modern, synthesized elements.
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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.
The Talk of the Town
Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
DesertUSA: John Wesley Powell - A detailed biographical overview.
Meta Description: [ The life and times John Wesley Powell, a one-armed college professor with a thirst for knowledge who explored the deserts of the American Southwest. ]
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John Wesley Powell - Government reports, including scanned images from Powell's reports to Congress concerning his exploration of the West.
Meta Description: [ University of North Texas Libraries ]
Major John Wesley Powell - Biography of the explorer of the Colorado River, from the John Wesley Powell Memorial Museum.
Meta Description: [ Biography of Major John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River. ]
The American Experience: Lost in the Grand Canyon - Companion site to the PBS series about Powell's Colorado River journey. With timeline, maps, and program information.
The Powell Expedition - A map and account of the events of the Colorado River expedition.
The Story of Major John Wesley Powell - A biography from Canyon Country Online.
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