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Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64,an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System,a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure,negative development,and printing.
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas,with its headquarters in El Paso,Texas. Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853),a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor,Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2);it is the largest installation in FORSCOM and second-largest in the Army overall. The portion of the post located in El Paso County,Texas,is a census-designated place with a population of 8,591 as of the time of the 2010 census. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract of restricted airspace in the Continental United States,used for missile and artillery training and testing,and at 992,000 acres boasts the largest maneuver area. The garrison's land area is accounted at 1.12 million acres,ranging to the boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Fort Bliss also includes the Castner Range National Monument.
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Tasker Howard Bliss was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army during World War I,from September 22,1917 until May 18,1918. He was also a diplomat involved in the peace negotiations of the war,and was one of the co-signatories of the Treaty of Versailles for the United States.
Bliss,originally titled Bucolic Green Hills,is the default computer wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of California's Wine Country. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights in 2000. It is estimated that billions of people have seen the picture,possibly making it the most viewed photograph in history.
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D. L. Bliss State Park is a state park of California in the United States. It is located on the western shore of Lake Tahoe just north of Emerald Bay State Park.
Good Morning,Miss Bliss,also retroactively known as Saved by the Bell:The Junior High Years,is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on the Disney Channel from 30 November 1988 until 18 March 1989. Starring Hayley Mills as a teacher,the series takes place at the John F. Kennedy Junior High School in Indianapolis,Indiana. After one season on the air on the Disney Channel,the show was retooled as Saved by the Bell,which aired on NBC.
William Beaumont Army Medical Center is a Department of Defense medical facility located in Fort Bliss,Texas. It provides comprehensive care to all beneficiaries including active duty military,their family members,and retirees. The hospital is located in the Central/Northeastern part of El Paso,and provides emergency department services for Northeast El Paso. The current 1.1-million-square-foot,6-building medical complex opened July 10,2021 on East Fort Bliss. WBAMC is affiliated with the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine which is also located in El Paso,Texas. WBAMC is also a participating hospital for medical residents from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and nursing students from the University of Texas at El Paso School of Nursing and the El Paso Community College Nursing School. The current commander of WBAMC is Colonel Brett Venable.
Lawrence Steven Bliss is an American educator and former politician from the state of Maine. A Democrat,he served in the Maine House of Representatives (2000–2008) and the Maine Senate (2008–2011). He resigned as a senator on April 15,2011 after accepting a position as an administrator at California State University,East Bay,and leaving the state of Maine.
The state of Rhode Island during the American Civil War remained loyal to the Union,as did the other states of New England. Rhode Island furnished 25,236 fighting men to the Union Army,of which 1,685 died. The state used its industrial capacity to supply the Union Army with the materials needed to win the war. Rhode Island's continued growth and modernization led to the creation of an urban mass transit system and improved health and sanitation programs.
The 1904–05 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its seventh season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith,the game inventor,who served his 7th year. The Jayhawks finished the season 5–6. Future Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen played for the team.
Wendameen is a historic schooner normally berthed at the Maine State Pier on Commercial Street in Portland,Maine. She is a two-masted auxiliary rigged schooner,designed in 1912 by the noted naval architect John G. Alden. She is now owned and operated by the Portland Schooner Company,which offers sailing tours of Casco Bay,using Wendameen and Bagheera. Wendameen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Matt Bliss is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2021,who also served from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota,Bliss represents District 2A in northern Minnesota,which includes parts of Becker,Beltrami,Cass,Clearwater,Hubbard,Itasca,and Mahnomen Counties.
The 79th Massachusetts General Court,consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives,met in 1858 during the governorship of Nathaniel Prentice Banks. Charles Wentworth Upham served as president of the Senate and Julius Rockwell served as speaker of the House.
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