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  2. Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Complaints were raised in 1912 about dust from the quarries in Nichols Canyon. The City Council ordered the road closed, but "this was not satisfactory." The quarry owners agreed to "furnish free of cost and spread upon the street the necessary gravel and crushed rock, and the city will oil the street."

  3. Detroit City (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Detroit City" is a song written by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis, made famous by Billy Grammer (as "I Wanna Go Home"), [1] country music singer Bobby Bare and Tom Jones. Bare's version was released in 1963 .

  4. Ernest Fox Nichols - Wikipedia

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    Nichols served as a professor of physics at Colgate University from 1892 to 1898, at Dartmouth College from 1898 to 1903, and Columbia University from 1903 to 1909. Nichols was awarded the Rumford Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1905 for his proof that light exerts pressure .

  5. Tracy R. Norris - Wikipedia

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    Major General Tracy R. Norris was the Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard from 2019 to 2022. Norris was the first female commander of the Texas Military Department, an organization composed of the Texas Air National Guard, Texas Army National Guard, and the Texas State Guard.

  6. Carl J. Nichols - Wikipedia

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    Nichols received a Bachelor of Arts in 1992 from Dartmouth College, where he majored in philosophy and graduated with high honors. He spent one year as a paralegal at a law firm before attending the University of Chicago Law School , where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review .

  7. John Fowler Trow - Wikipedia

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    John Fowler Trow (30 January 1810, in Andover, Massachusetts – 8 August 1886, in Orange, New Jersey) was a printer and publisher in New York City. Life [ edit ] Born in Andover, Massachusetts , he moved to New York in 1833.

  8. John Fetzer - Wikipedia

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    John Earl Fetzer (March 25, 1901 – February 20, 1991) was an American radio and television executive who was best known as the part-owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1956 to 1961 and sole owner from 1961 through 1983. Under his ownership, the 1968 Tigers won the World Series.

  9. The Sterile Cuckoo (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1965 novel by John Nichols. It tells the story of a quirky young couple – eccentric, imaginative Pookie Adams and conventional, unimaginative Jerry Payne – whose relationship deepens despite their differences, but eventually falls apart. It is largely set at an eastern college in the early 1960s.