The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is a federal court in the Ninth Circuit.
Walter Beaman Jones Sr.,was an American Democratic politician from the state of North Carolina who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1966 until his death from natural causes in Norfolk,Virginia,in 1992.
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Herbert Eugene Bolton was an American historian who pioneered the study of the Spanish-American borderlands and was a prominent authority on Spanish American history. He originated what became known as the Bolton Theory of the history of the Americas which holds that it is impossible to study the history of the United States in isolation from the histories of other American nations,and wrote or co-authored ninety-four works. A student of Frederick Jackson Turner,Bolton disagreed with his mentor's Frontier theory and argued that the history of the Americas is best understood by taking a holistic view and trying to understand the ways that the different colonial and precolonial contexts have interacted to produce the modern United States. The height of his career was spent at the University of California,Berkeley where he served as chair of the history department for twenty-two years and is widely credited with making the renowned Bancroft Library the preeminent research center it is today.
Herbert Charpiot Jones was an officer in the United States Navy who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Herbert John Webber was an American plant physiologist,professor emeritus of sub-tropical horticulture,first director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station,and the third curator of the University of California Citrus Variety Collection. Webber was the author of several publications on horticulture,member of numerous professional horticultural and agricultural associations. He coined the word "clone" in 1903 and was the first to use it to describe a colony of organisms derived asexually from a single progenitor.
Plains Miwok and Sierra Miwok traditional narratives include myths,legends,tales,and oral histories preserved by the Miwok people of the central California,specifically those of Sacramento Valley and Sierra Mountains. These Miwoks are the linguistically related speakers of the Plains and Sierra Miwok languages and their descendants. At the time of European entry,local groups that spoke these languages participated in the general cultural pattern of central California.
Sir Alfred Edward Herbert KBE was an English industrialist and museum benefactor. He moved to Coventry in 1887 to manage a small engineering business which grew to become Alfred Herbert Limited,one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of machine tools.
USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
Herbert Prior was an English silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1934. He was born in Oxford,Oxfordshire,and died in Los Angeles,California.
David B. Jones was president and chairman of the board of directors of the Mineral Point Zinc Company and considered a founder of the Zinc industry in America. When ill,he chartered a special train whose speed rivaled the time of the Scott Special.
The Jones Tract is an island containing Lower Jones Tract and the Upper Jones Tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta,fifteen kilometres west of Stockton. The 4,900 ha island is bounded on the north by Empire Cut,on the northeast by Whiskey Slough,on the southeast by Trapper Slough,and on the west,Middle River. The tracts are bifurcated by the parallel running Mokelumne Aqueduct,West Lower Jones Road,and a railroad originally built by the Achison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad,which now carries freight trains of the BNSF Railway and Amtrak California's San Joaquin. It is in San Joaquin County,and managed by Reclamation District 2039. It appears on 1913 and 1952 United States Geological Survey maps of the area.
Clara Stanton Jones was the first African-American president of the American Library Association,serving as its acting president from April 11 to July 22 in 1976 and then its president from July 22,1976,to 1977. Also,in 1970 she became the first African American and the first woman to serve as director of a major library system in America,as director of the Detroit Public Library.
Herbert Henry "Hub" Huebel was an American football player,coach,and official. He played at the halfback and quarterback positions for the University of Michigan in 1911 and 1912.
Jerome Vinograd was an American biochemist who developed density gradient ultracentrifugation and analytical band centrifugation,and contributed to the understanding of DNA supercoiling.
Marshall Black was an American politician. He was born in Ohio in 1870,and attended Ohio Wesleyan University and Stanford University. He served in the California State Assembly for the 57th district from 1903 to 1905 and California Senate for the 28th district from 1907 to 1913.
The Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Sheffield,responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the six area deaneries.
The Empire Tract is an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County,California,United States. It has been used for agriculture since the 1800s;in the early 20th century it was used to plant potatoes,and United States president Herbert Hoover operated a beet farm there. In the 1960s,natural gas deposits were discovered beneath the island. In 1936,it was connected to the mainland by the Eight Mile Road Bridge,across King Island. As with many islands in the Delta,the Empire Tract has experienced considerable subsidence,and is well below sea level.
