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Isaac Erwin Avery (December 20, 1828 – July 3, 1863) was a planter and an officer in the Confederate States Army. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Avery is most remembered for a poignant blood-stained note that he wrote as he lay dying on the slopes of Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg.
An index card in a library card catalog.This type of cataloging has mostly been supplanted by computerization. A hand-written American index card A ruled index card. An index card (or record card in British English and system cards in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.
Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659 – Disappeared: June 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, [a] was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s.
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (/ ˈ eɪ v ə r i /; February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor.He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation.
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 was released on Blu-ray on February 18, 2020, and on DVD on December 1 with 19 shorts. All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive) and digitally restored.
A burnt-out Avery left MGM in 1953 to return to the Walter Lantz studio. Avery's return to the Lantz studio did not last long. He directed four cartoons in 1954-1955: the one-shots Crazy Mixed-Up Pup and Shh-h-h-h-h , and I'm Cold and The Legend of Rockabye Point , in which he defined the character of Chilly Willy the penguin .
After the Anglo-Irish treaty, the Irish Free State government invited John Lavery to create an image of a female personification of Ireland for the new Irish banknotes. Such a personification harks back to figures in ancient Irish mythology and has been exemplified in recent centuries by women such as James Clarence Mangan 's Dark Rosaleen and ...
December 28, 1995: Charlie Hayes was signed as a free agent by the Pirates. [2] February 2, 1996: John DeSalvo was released by the Pirates (Injury). [3] February 4, 1996: Danny Darwin was signed as a free agent by the Pirates. [4] February 17, 1996: Zane Smith was signed as a free agent by the Pirates. [5]