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California State Route 271

The southern portion of SR 271 begins at an interchange with US 101 in the community of Cummings.


AR-10

With the AR-10 in short supply, Cummings left his personal demonstrator rifle with Nicaragua's chief military commander, General Anastasio Somoza, who would personally conduct the endurance test trial.

Arizona Pioneers' Home

Kate, once the common-law wife of Doc Holliday and later the wife of blacksmith George M. Cummings for only a year, had first gained notoriety as the madam of a brothel.

Bart Cummings

James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM (born 14 November 1927) is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers.

Big Wheel Recreation

It was formed in the fall of 1994 by Rama Mayo (at the time a student at Northeastern University) and Richard P. Cummings.

Bush Terminal Company Building

They were the Union Stove Works, the William Wrigley Jr. Company, the Boyd Steel Spring Company, the Cummings Machine Company, and A.C. Agar & Co.

Candy Cummings

According to a 2002 article by ESPN's Steve Wulf, Cummings was "fairly well-connected" in baseball, as evidenced by his position with the International Association, and this might explain why he received credit for inventing the pitch.

Central Asian Survey

Other scholars serving on the editorial board include Touraj Atabaki, Sally Cummings, Bhavna Dave, and Olivier Roy, among others.

Charles Halpern

Prior to joining the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Halpern lectured throughout Asia on behalf of the United States Information Agency regarding public interest law and new directions in legal education.

Connie Purdue

Connie Soljak was the daughter of Miriam Soljak (née Cummings), a New Zealand-born feminist, communist and unemployed rights activist mother of Irish descent, and Peter Soljak, a Croatian gumdigger.

Constance Cummings-John

During these years Cummings-John gained a licenciate from the London College of Preceptors, and in 1952 the Governor of Sierra Leone, Sir George Beresford-Stooke, appointed her to the Freetown Council.

Crime Patrol

The Crime Patrol, a 1936 American film directed by Eugene Cummings

Danny Cummings

The last Dire Straits album On Every Street featured Cummings as a percussionist and he also contributed to Knopfler's solo album releases All the Roadrunning, Kill to Get Crimson and Get Lucky.

His playing is particularly well showcased on "Ocean Drive" by The Lighthouse Family, and on the cabaret-tinged "Shag Tobacco" by vocalist Gavin Friday (on which Cummings recorded more than 60 overdubs).

Delta Sigma Chi

The founding fathers include Harold Hughes of Medicine Hat, Canada; J.D. Hills of Detroit, Michigan; John Reardon of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harry Cummings of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and S.E. Julander of Des Moines Iowa.

Digital Eel

James Cook, Greg Costikyan, Chris Cummings, Bob Dalgliesh, James Ernest, Thomas & Zoe Flint, Bruce Ladewig, Chris Laskowski, Kevin Matheny, Duncan McPherson, Deanna Molinaro, Joe Pallai, Jim Price, Richard Rouse III, Amy Schrader, Colton Sears, Corbin Sears, Chris Siegel, John Slade, James Sterrett, Brian Uhrig, Thom Wetzel, Ed Zavada

Edith Cummings

Cummings' classmates included fellow Chicago socialite Ginevra King, future philanthropist Katharine Ordway, Isabel Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller family, a granddaughter of William Rockefeller), and Prescott Bush's sisters Mary and Margaret (aunts to U.S. President George H.W. Bush and great aunts to George W. Bush).

Her literary fame, however, would endure because in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, the character of Jordan Baker was modeled directly after Cummings, just as the character Daisy Buchanan was modeled after Cummings' friend King.

First Time Around

First Time Around is the first video released with Bachman & Cummings since The Guess Who played at Sars Fest in 2003.

Fort Cummings

Fort Cummings (1863–1873), (1880–1884 ), (1886) a former U. S. Army post located near Cooke's Springs, in Luna County, New Mexico.

Fred N. Cummings

Cummings was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1941).

Freedom Downtime

Several notable and iconic figures from the hacking community appear in the movie, including Phiber Optik (Mark Abene), Bernie S (Ed Cummings), Alex Kasper, and (director) Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley).

George Cummings

In the 1960s, Cummings was a member of the Chocolate Papers, along with Ray Sawyer, Bill Francis, Bobby Dimingus, Popeye Phillips and Jimmy "Wolf Cub" Allen.

Glenn Cummings

Cummings currently works for the Goodwill Hinckley School in Fairfield, Maine as President and Executive Director.

Greenville Goodwin

The dean, Byron Cummings, suggested that he study at the University of Arizona.

Huntley N. Spaulding

Huntley Nowel Spaulding was born in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts in 1869, to Jonas Spaulding and his wife, Emaline Cummings.

Infiltration Art

Artists whose work incorporates elements of infiltration include Banksy, Christian Cummings, Nikki S. Lee, Taryn Simon, Jeffrey Vallance, David Hildebrand Wilson, Fred Wilson.

James H. Cummings

James Harvey "Mister Jim" Cummings (1890–1979) was a Tennessee farmer, attorney, and political figure.

Joan Bonvicini

She coached many talented players at Long Beach, including LaTaunya Pollard, the 1983 Wade Trophy winner, 3-time 1st team All-American, 1980 Olympic Team member, and member of the women's basketball hall of fame; 2-time 1st team All-American and 1988 U.S. Olympic Team member Cindy Brown; 1985 1st team All-American Kirsten Cummings; and 2-time 1st team All-American Penny Toler, the current general manager of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

Attorney General Cummings received novel advice from Princeton University professor Edward S. Corwin in a December 16, 1936 letter.

La Ferté-Macé

Cummings' experiences in the camp at La Ferté-Mace were later related in his novel, The Enormous Room.

Little Pine State Park

Five major rock formations from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods are present in Little Pine State Park and Cummings Township.

Milton K. Cummings

Although Duckett left AMC in the mid-1960s for a leading position with the Central Intelligence Agency, their relationship continued until Cummings’ death.

Miriam Soljak

Miriam Soljak (née Cummings) (1879 – 1971) was a pioneering New Zealand feminist, communist, unemployed rights activist and supporter of family planning efforts.

Nathan Cummings Foundation

His endowment created the Nathan Cummings Arts Center at Stanford University and the Joanne and Nathan Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College in New London.

The Nathan Cummings Foundation was endowed by Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), founder of Consolidated Foods, now called Sara Lee Corporation.

Obuse, Nagano

The event is organized by Sarah Marie Cummings Staples, managing director of the local Masuichi-Ichimura brewery, who was named Nikkei Woman of the Year in 2002, the first foreigner to achieve the honor.

R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.

The video was directed by Mellencamp and Faye Cummings, was filmed using a kinescope camera, featured an African American-vocal group and a Caucasian-instrumental group with the two groups playing together at the end of the video.

Russell B. Cummings

Cummings joined the Houston Jaycees, or United States Junior Chamber and in 1960 was elected president of the chapter.

Salvia shannoni

The plant was named by botanist John Donnell Smith in 1893 for William Cummings Shannon, who collected it in the wild.

Tan Chin Nam

He owns at least a share in most of Cummings's well known horses including Think Big, winner of back-to-back Melbourne Cups in 1974 and 1975, as well as the multiple Group One winner, Saintly.

The Bob Cummings Show

A decade after The Bob Cummings Show left the air, Davis went on to play the housekeeper Alice in The Brady Bunch; in the 1995 film The Brady Bunch Movie, which featured another actress playing Alice, Davis reprised the role of Schultzy for a cameo that suggests the character went on to become a truck driver.

The character's interest in aviation and photography mirrored Cummings' own, with his character's name the same as the role he played in the film You Came Along (1945).

The Dismemberment Plan

Axelson, Caddell, Morrison and original drummer Steve Cummings formed the band in college, knowing each other from attending northern Virginia high schools (Axelson, Cummings, and Morrison attended Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia).

The Enormous Room

When they finally did arrive, they agreed to allow Cummings, as an official "suspect", a supervised release in the remote commune of Oloron-Sainte-Marie.

Tobias Cummings

In 2004, Cummings released an EP, You Incomplete Me though Bruce Milne's renowned record label In-Fidelity.

VMFA-333

It was during this deployment that the squadron got its only air to air kill when Major Lee T Lasseter, USMC along with his RIO, Capt. John D. Cummings shot down a MiG-21 over North Vietnam, near Hanoi.

William Slater Brown

Cummings was released in December 1917 after intervention from his father; however, Brown was not released at the same time, and in fact was transferred at that time to a prison in Précigné.

In September 1917 Brown and Cummings were arrested on suspicion of espionage and were imprisoned at the La Ferté-Macé detention camp, Orne, Normandy.


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