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Cadets Watson and Thomas, "Tall and Short", ca. 1870
No full text"Tall & Short". Jabez C. Watson (right) & John S. Thomas, Class of 1874
John Watson letter, MSS.1705
No full textAbstract: A letter from John Watson, Deputy Magistrate of Georgia, to Acting Georgia Governor William Rabun, protesting the Executive's interference in the execution of his legal duties in the case of 59 Africans who were allegedly seized under Executive orders and later sold.Scope and Content Note: This collection consists of a single letter by Watson to William Rabun, President of the Georgia Senate and Acting Governor, 1817-1819. Watson's letter is a protest to the governor regarding a matter concerning 59 "African negroes." Watson had been given a writ of arrest signed by J. Bullock, clerk of the Admiralty Court for the District of Georgia, for the Africans, but was prevented by force from taking them into his custody by "Dr. Charly Williamson and others, acting or claiming to act as the agent of the Executive of Georgia, declaring himself to have the said negroes in his possession as agent of aforesaid, & the said Dr. Charly Williamson is now actually about to expose the said negroes to sale." Watson protests both Williamson's actions and "against the conduct of the Executive of Georgia-." An addendum to the letter, in another hand and signed John C. Cash, states that it was actually written by Georgia politician Thomas W. Cobb (1784-1830), who, it is stated, was in Milledgevillle (then Georgia's capital) with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Crawford (with whom Cobb read law), and that Crawford advised the sale of the Africans. This cannot be corroborated.Biographical/Historical Note: Magistrate of Georgia, August 17, 1818
Governor Watson C. Squire draft of message to the citizens of Washington Territory declaring martial law to handle anti-Chinese riots, Februrary 7, 1886
No full textThis letter was written at time of anti-Chinese sentiment in Seattle and surrounding areas -- approximately 1885-1886. Watson C. Squire, Governor of Washington Territory, drafts this message to instruct the people of Washington to "desist from breaches of the peace." Interested persons may join the King County Sheriff in order to help keep peace, and all military companies in Seattle are to report to the Sheriff so that martial law may come into effect.The letterhead is that of Judge Thomas Burke, who, along with Seattle Mayor Henry L. Yesler, tried and failed to contain the riots with local Seattle resources.
On February 7, 1886, a throng of workers rounded up virtually every Chinese in Seattle and herded them to Ocean Dock for passage out of town on a waiting steamer. Police and a contingent of the volunteer Home Guard met the mob and its frightened charges at the pier. A stalemate ensued when territorial governor Watson Squire prevented the ship from leaving. The next morning, as authorities attempted to escort people home, the mob rioted, and five agitators were shot, one fatally. (http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1057)
Watson Carvosso Squire, 1838-1926, was an attorney, Civil War veteran, industrialist, and governor of Washington Territory from 1884-1887
A building-block Royal Road where crossover is provably essential
No full textOne of the most controversial yet enduring hypotheses about what genetic algorithms (GAs) are good for concerns the idea that GAs process building-blocks. More specifically, it has been suggested that crossover in GAs can assemble short low-order schemata of above average fitness (building blocks) to create higher-order higher-fitness schemata. However, there has been considerable difficulty in demonstrating this rigorously and intuitively. Here we provide a simple building-block function that a GA with two-point crossover can solve on average in polynomial time, whereas an asexual population or mutation hill-climber cannot
Thomas Pynchon: Realism in an Age of Ontological Uncertainty?
No full textThis paper considers literary realism in the novels of Thomas Pynchon as a means to examine the ways in which realism is embedded within a post-modern context. After first considering some of the problems surrounding the concept of realism – its historical lineage, conflation with philosophical realism and the changing nature of reality itself – I discuss Pynchon’s novels in terms of his technological construction of reality effects within a context of ontological doubt. I suggest that in Pynchon we arrive at what might be called a ‘baroque realism’, which draws on the Deleuzian metaphor of the fold, and is concerned with questions of illusion and reality, paradox and complexity in tune with the ontological uncertainty that characterises the age
Other Voices piece by Thomas C. Ewell, executive director of the Maine Council
No full textOther Voices piece by Thomas C. Ewell, executive director of the Maine Council of Churches, on the Maine Outdoor Heritage Game. The spring 1996 Maine Audubon Society magazine Habitat implies that the game is the revenue of choice for the environmental movement. The author says environmentalists should not brag about relying upon gambling to save the state\u27s precious natural resources
An open reply to "What is going on at the Library of Congress?" by Thomas Mann
No full textThis is an open response to a report by Thomas Mann at the Library of Congress concerning changes in cataloging. The author contends that, although the current changes at the Library of Congress are suspect, changes are imminent and experienced catalogers must offer positive suggestions for change, otherwise they will be ignored by management
Private P.E. Stone, Private G.W. Reichle, Sergeant Bill Watson, and Private Claude Thomas Jr. work on trucks
No full textPrivate P.E. Stone, Private G.W. Reichle, Sergeant Bill Watson, and Private Claude Thomas Jr., all of Battery C, 130 First Field Artillery, work on trucks that will move men from Armory, 201 E. Lancaster Avenue, to Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, 01/07/1941https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/6446/thumbnail.jp
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