Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Powell served as the second Director of the United States Geological Survey, a post he held from 1881 to 1894.This photograph dates from early in his term of office. John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) [1] was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural ...
John Powell (September 6, 1882 – August 15, 1963) was an American pianist, ethnomusicologist and composer. Along with Annabel Morris Buchanan , he helped found the White Top Folk Festival , which promoted music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains . [ 1 ]
Joseph Powell (painter) (1780–1833), English artist and teacher, sometimes called "John Powell" John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American geologist and explorer John Powell (musician) (1882–1963), American pianist, composer, and eugenicist who promoted white separatist ideologies
John Powell (fl. 1770–1785?) was a British portrait painter. Biography. Powell was a pupil and assistant of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and an inmate of his house ...
John Enoch Powell was born in Stechford, within the city of Birmingham, on 16 June 1912, and was baptised at Newport, Shropshire, in St Nicholas's Church, where his parents had married in 1909. [10] He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell, a primary school headmaster, and his wife, Ellen Mary.
John Joseph Powell (September 22, 1925 – September 24, 2009) was a Jesuit priest and author, and brother of Rita Donlan and William Powell. He received elementary-school education at the John B. Murphy public school in Chicago.
John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing the scores for films such as Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax ...
John Wesley "Boog" Powell (born August 17, 1941) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left fielder from 1961 through 1977, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1966 and 1971.