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Horace Miller (politician) in the 1850s
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Horace or Horrie Miller may refer to: * Horrie Miller (aviator) (1893–1980), Australian aviation pioneer * Horrie Miller (rugby league) (1882–1967), Australian rugby league footballer and administrator * Horace Miller (cricketer) (born 1989), Jamaican cricketer * Horace Miller, fictional character in the musical, ''Miss Liberty'' * Horace Miller, American football player in the 2014 Carolina Panthers season * Horace A. Miller, part owner of the original Pacific Gas and Electric Company * Horace H. Miller, United States Ambassador to Bolivia The following is a list of envoys, ministers, and ambassadors that the United States has sent to Bolivia. As a point of note, the first Ambassador of the United States to Bolivia was John Appleton, who served as the ''charge d'Affaires'' fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrie Miller (aviator)
Horace Clive Miller OBE (30 April 1893 – 1980) was a pioneering Australian aviator and co-founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA). He flew in the 1929 Western Australian Centenary Air Race, winning handicap honours. The main road to the Perth International Airport Terminal 1 is named Horrie Miller Drive in honour of the aviator. See also * West Australian Airways Footnotes References * ''Access road to new International Airport to be named "Horrie Miller Drive" in honour of WA pioneer aviator'' The West Australian, 1 Dec. 1984, p. 40 * Dunn, Frank, (1984) ''Speck in the sky : a history of Airlines of Western Australia'' Perth, W.A: Airlines of W.A * Lewis, Julie (1987) ''Interview with Dunbar Hooper, and Horrie Miller'' (reference to Woods, Jimmy, 1893-1975 and WA Airways ) Battye Library Oral History transcript * Miller, Horace Clive (Horrie) (1968 or 1976) ''Early birds : magnificent men of Australian aviation between the wars'' Adelaide : Rigby, Series S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrie Miller (rugby League)
Horrie Miller (1882-1967) was an Australian rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. He played as a with the Eastern Suburbs club in 1908 and 1909, the first years of the new code. Playing career Miller was a champion runner who was rated the fastest runner in the league's inaugural season. He headed the League's try-scoring list in that first season - he scored a hat trick of tries in that year's semi-final and followed that up with a further two in the final. He was also the League's top point scorer in season 1908. His only representative match came in that first year when he was selected to represent Sydney in a match against a touring New Zealand Maori side. Post playing The wing three-quarter also served as Eastern Suburbs secretary in the club's first season. In addition, that year Miller was appointed secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Football League on a temporary basis, following the dismissal of J J Giltinan. The posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Miller (cricketer)
Horace Miller (born 26 October 1989) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays for the Jamaican national side in West Indian domestic cricket, and has also represented the Jamaica Tallawahs franchise in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). He is a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. Miller played for the West Indies under-19s at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. He made his senior debut for Jamaica in the 2008–09 WICB Cup, a limited-overs competition, and his first-class debut against Trinidad and Tobago in the 2009–10 Regional Four Day Competition.First-class matches played by Horace Miller – CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 January 2016. In the match, Miller scored 66 runs in his team's first innings, which remains his highest first-class score to date. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Liberty
''Miss Liberty'' is a 1949 Broadway musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World'') in 1886. The score includes the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor", a musical setting of Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus" (1883), which was placed at the base of the monument in 1903. Plot In 1885, ''New York Herald'' publisher James Gordon Bennett assigns novice reporter Horace Miller to find the woman who served as Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty. In the artist's Paris studio, Miller sees a photograph of Monique DuPont and mistakenly believes she was the one. Bennett arranges for her and her grandmother to accompany Horace back to New York City, where she becomes a media darling. When rival publisher Joseph Pulitzer discovers it was Bartholdi's mother who actually posed for him, he exposes Monique as a fraud in his ''New York World'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Carolina Panthers Season
The 2014 season was the Carolina Panthers' 20th in the National Football League and their fourth under head coach Ron Rivera. The Panthers captured their second straight NFC South division title and qualified for the postseason for the first time in back-to-back years despite failing to improve on a 12–4 record and finishing with a losing record of 7–8–1. Additionally, they became the first team in NFC South history to have back to back division titles and also became the second team to win a division title with a sub-.500 record after the 2010 Seattle Seahawks, and would be followed by the 2020 Washington Football Team, a team that Rivera also coached. The Panthers defeated the Arizona Cardinals in the Wild Card round, but lost to Seattle in the Divisional round. The Panthers' four-game winning streak to close out the regular season, combined with a 14–0 start the following year, was tied with the 2003–2004 New England Patriots for the third longest regular season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Gas And Electric Company
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building, in San Francisco, California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County, almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines. Overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E is the leading subsidiary of the holding company PG&E Corporation, which has a market capitalization of $3.242 billion as of January 16, 2019. PG&E was established on October 10, 1905 from the merger and consolidation of predecessor utility companies, and by 1984 was the United States' "largest electric utility business". PG&E is one of six regulated, investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) in California; the other five are PacifiCorp, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, Bear Valley Electric, and Liberty Utili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
