What did Sherman Alexie and Charles Olson have in common?
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Charles Olson Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the language school, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist of morning."
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Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Albert Victor Olson Albert Victor Olson (1884-1963) was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator. He was born May 26, 1884 in Kingston, Minnesota.
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Jimmy Sherman James Benjamin Sherman (August 17, 1908, Williamsport, Pennsylvania - October 11, 1975, Philadelphia) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.
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Sherman Square Sherman Square is a diminutive public space bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue, and West 70th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, just south of Verdi Square. Acquired by the city in 1849, the small parcel of land was named in 1891 for William Tecumseh Sherman, who had once lived nearby.
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Charles Brady King Charles Brady King (February 2, 1868 – June 22, 1957) was an American engineer and entrepreneur remembered as an automotive pioneer, artist, etcher, musician, poet, architect, mystic, industrialist and inventor.
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Charles Nelson Pray Charles Nelson Pray (April 6, 1868 – September 12, 1963) was a U.S. Representative from Montana.
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Chessie (train) The Chessie was a proposed streamlined passenger train developed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in the late 1940s. The brainchild of C&O executive Robert R. Young, the "Chessie" would have operated on a daylight schedule between Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio. The train's luxury lightweight equipment was built new by the Budd Company. A revolutionary new steam turbine locomotive would have provided power, including speeds up to 100 mph . Although the equipment was delivered, a worsening financial outlook led to the cancellation of the train before it operated in revenue service.
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Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario. He was known honorifically as "the Bourgeois" — a term the voyageurs of old used of their trusted leaders.
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Stanford Sherman Stanford Sherman was born in Akron, Ohio and is an American film and television writer best known for such productions as "Any Which Way You Can", "Krull", "Ice Pirates", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Batman".
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Sherman C. Bishop Sherman Chauncey Bishop (1887–1951) was a herpetologist and arachnologist from New York. He studied at Cornell University and, with Cyrus R. Crosby, gave the Spruce-fir moss spider its scientific name. His "Handbook of Salamanders" (1943) was the first serious and comprehensive treatment of North American salamanders since Cope (1889).
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Charles S. Drew Charles Stewart Drew (April 2, 1825 – 1890), also known as C.S. Drew, was a representative in the legislature of the Oregon Territory of the United States and quartermaster general of the territorial militia in the 1850s. During the American Civil War, he was a Union Army officer, serving in the 1st Oregon Cavalry regiment. He eventually reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1864, he led an Army reconnaissance party into southeastern Oregon. The expedition, known as the Owyhee Reconnaissance, traveled through uncharted country from Fort Klamath to Fort Boise and back. Drew was the author of two historically important military reports; one documented Indian attacks on American settlers in the Oregon Territory and the other was his report of the Owyhee Reconnaissance.
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Joseph Massie (American football) Joseph Anderson "Ike" Massie (September 24, 1871 – September 24, 1922) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC)—now known as Virginia Tech—in 1894 and at the University of Virginia in 1898, compiling a career college football record of 10–7. He was later City Attorney of Newport News, Virginia. He died on his birthday, in 1922.
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C. Elmer Anderson Clyde Elmer Anderson (March 16, 1912 – January 22, 1998), more commonly known as C. Elmer Anderson, was an American politician who served as the 28th Governor of Minnesota from September 27, 1951 to January 5, 1955. Anderson also served as the Lieutenant governor of Minnesota on two occasions, from 1939 to 1943 and again from 1945 to 1951.
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Alexander Vasiliev (historian) Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев ; 4 October 1867 – 30 March 1953) was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. His "History of the Byzantine Empire" (vol. 1–2, 1928) remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on the par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky.
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Charles Augustus Semlin Charles Augustus "Charlie" Semlin (4 December 1836 – November 2, 1927) was a British Columbia politician and rancher.
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Floyd Chalmers Floyd Sherman Chalmers, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (September 14, 1898 – April 26, 1993) was a Canadian editor, publisher and philanthropist.
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Wilson–Kautz Raid The Wilson–Kautz Raid was a cavalry operation in south central Virginia in late June 1864, during the American Civil War. Occurring early in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, the raid was conducted by Union cavalry under Brigadier Generals James H. Wilson and August Kautz, who were ordered to cut railroads between Lynchburg, Virginia, and the vital Confederate rail supply center at Petersburg. While the raid had the intended effect of disrupting Confederate rail communications for several weeks, the raiding force lost much of its artillery, all of its supply train, and almost a third of the original force, mostly to Confederate capture.
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Charles Sherman (artist) Charles Sherman (born 1947) is an American artist best known for his continuum sculptures based on a three-dimensional form of the Möbius strip. Sherman’s work is included in museum and public collections, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, and the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Asia. His sculpture and jewelry designs have appeared in contemporary design and architectural publications. "Serenity" (2006), part of his monumental ceramic "Infinity Ring" body of work, is installed lakeside at the "Fountain Park Sculpture Garden" in Fountain Hills, Arizona, and also in the front of the "John Entenza House" in Santa Monica, California, a precursor to the Case Study Houses.
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Charles W The F/V "Charles W", also known as Annie J Larsen, is a historic fishing schooner anchored in Petersburg, Alaska. At the time of its retirement in 2000, it was the oldest fishing vessel in the fishing fleet of Southeast Alaska, and the only known wooden fishing vessel in the entire state still in active service. Launched in 1907, she was first used in the halibut fisheries of Puget Sound and the Bering Sea as the "Annie J Larsen". In 1925 she was purchased by the Alaska Glacier Seafood Company, refitted for shrimp trawling, and renamed "Charles W" in honor of owner Karl Sifferman's father. The company was one of the pioneers of the local shrimp fishery, a business it began to phase out due to increasing competition in the 1970s. The "Charles W" was the last of the company's fleet of ships, which numbered twelve at its height. The boat was acquired in 2002 by the nonprofit Friends of the "Charles W".
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Charles Murray (political scientist) Charles Alan Murray ( ; born January 8, 1943) is an American Libertarian, political scientist, author, and columnist. His book "Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980" (1984), which discussed the American welfare system, was widely read and discussed, and influenced subsequent government policy. He became well-known for his controversial book "The Bell Curve" (1994), written with Richard Herrnstein, in which he argues that intelligence is a better predictor than parental socio-economic status or education level of many individual outcomes including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely wasted.
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Petersburg, Nebraska Petersburg is a village in Boone County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 333 at the 2010 census. Petersburg is the site of a memorial to Logan Fontenelle, an Omaha chief who was killed nearby, in a skirmish with Brulé and Arapaho in 1855, at the site of the present-day Olson Nature Preserve.