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James J. Metcalfe, in a collage of FBI Special Agents from 1934. His poem, "We Were the G-Men," may be seen at center. Metcalf is at center in the far left column. James J. Metcalfe (September 16, 1906 – March 1960) was an American poet whose "Daily Poem Portraits" were published in more than 100 United States newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s.
James Lawrence (October 1, 1781 – June 4, 1813) was an officer of the United States Navy. During the War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon, commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his last words, "Don't give up the ship!", uttered during the capture of the Chesapeake.
Martin F. Tupper aged 10 (Arthur William Devis)Martin Farquhar Tupper was born on 17 July 1810 at 20 Devonshire Place, London.He was the eldest child of Dr. Martin Tupper, an esteemed doctor from an old Guernsey family, and his wife Ellin Devis Marris, the daughter of landscape painter Robert Marris (1749–1827) and granddaughter of Arthur Devis.
James Black, then Exxon’s senior scientist, told a company top management committee in 1977 “there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing ...
That is a fight I will never give up.” SAUL LOEB - Getty Images Harris, who would have been the United States’s first female president had she won on Election Day, has mostly avoided talking ...
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
Kehinde founded Lidya — a financing platform for small businesses in emerging ecosystems — in 2016 with Ercin Eksin, his current co-CEO and former colleague at Jumia. While enjoying the ...
James McAuley. James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax.