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Murder of Adam Anhang. Adam Joel Anhang Uster (March 8, 1973 – September 23, 2005) was an entrepreneur and real estate developer; he was murdered at the intersection of Calle San Justo and Calle Luna in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico in September 2005. He was leaving the Pink Skirt Nightclub/Dragonfly Club with his estranged wife, Áurea Vázquez ...
John Quincy Adams (1848–1922) was an American newspaper editor and publisher, educator, civil rights activist, and politician. [1] [2] [3] He served from 1887 to 1922 as the newspaper editor and later the owner of The Appeal of St. Paul, Minnesota. [1] He served as an officer in the National Afro-American Council. [4]
Abraham Shakespeare. Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 24, 1966 – c. April 7, 2009) was a casual laborer from the US who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing, and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance.
John Bailey Goodman (born 18 September 1963) is an American businessman and polo player whose wealth originates in the family appliance and air conditioning businesses, Goodman Manufacturing Company. A Houston, Texas , native, he became more widely known in the United States for his legal difficulties stemming from a manslaughter conviction in ...
Sir John Eldon Bankes. GCB. Caricature of Sir John Eldon Bankes, published in Vanity Fair, 29 March 1906. Lord Justice of Appeal. In office. 1915–1927. Sir John Eldon Bankes, GCB, PC (17 April 1854 – 31 December 1946) was a Welsh judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and later the Lord Justice of Appeal. [1]
The Court of Appeal was established in 1965, replacing the former appellate Full Court of the New South Wales Supreme Court, [2] and commenced operations on 1 January 1966 with the appointment of the President, Sir Gordon Wallace, and six Judges of Appeal, Bernard Sugerman, Charles McLelland, Cyril Walsh, Kenneth Jacobs, Kenneth Asprey and John ...
Political party. Republican. Education. University of Nebraska–Lincoln ( AB) University of Michigan ( JD) John Robert Brown (December 10, 1909 – January 23, 1993) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1950s and 1960s, one of the "Fifth Circuit Four" pivotal in the civil rights ...
The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution 's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.