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Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose white power skinheads,neo-fascists and other political racists,particularly if they identify themselves as skinheads. SHARPs claim to reclaim the original multicultural identity of the original skinheads,hijacked by white power skinheads,who they sometimes deride as "boneheads".
Matthew Kelly Sharp is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Until 1998,he was the bassist for the rock band Weezer,which he co-founded in 1992. He appears on their first two albums,the Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996). In 1994,Sharp founded Rentals,who have released five albums. Sharp has also released an EP and an album as a solo artist.
Granville Sharp was a British scholar,philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham,he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance. His involvement in abolitionism began in 1767 when he defended a severely injured slave from Barbados in a legal case against his master. Increasingly devoted to the cause,he continually sought test cases against the legal justifications for slavery,and in 1769 he published the first tract in England that explicitly attacked the concept of slavery.
John Sharp Williams was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s,and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908.
Cecil James Sharp was an English collector of folk songs,folk dances and instrumental music,as well as a lecturer,teacher,composer and musician. He was a key figure in the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to Roud's Folk Song in England,Sharp was the country's "single most important figure in the study of folk song and music".
Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns,and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways,yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He has been selected to receive the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.
Solomon Porcius Sharp was an American lawyer and politician,serving as attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky General Assembly. His murder by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825 is referred to as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy or "The Kentucky Tragedy."
Graeme Marshall Sharp is a Scottish former professional football player and manager. Sharp played as a forward for Dumbarton,Everton,Oldham Athletic and Bangor City. He enjoyed great success with Everton,helping them win English league championships in 1985 and 1987,the FA Cup in 1984 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1985. He made 12 international appearances for Scotland,and was selected in their 1986 World Cup squad.
General Glory is the name of two DC Comics characters. The persona is mostly used by writers as a parody of Marvel's Captain America with exaggerated "patriotic values" and a sidekick called Ernie,who was similar to Bucky. General Glory first appeared in Justice League International #46 as a 1940s style hero placed in a modern world,resulting in cultural differences and personality issues. Whereas Captain America is patriotic,heroic,and rational,General Glory is so blindly patriotic that it approaches the point of fault,unwilling and psychologically unable to believe that his country or international peacekeeping organizations have a dark side. He was introduced as a comic foil for the jingoistic Green Lantern corps member Guy Gardner in the early 1990s.
Scott Sharp is an American professional racing driver in the United SportsCar Championship. He is the son of six-time SCCA champion Bob Sharp. Sharp is best known for his years as a competitor in the Indy Racing League.
In the American education system,a superintendent or superintendent of schools is an administrator or manager in charge of a number of public schools or a school district,a local government body overseeing public schools. All school principals in a respective school district report to the superintendent.
Philip Riley Sharp is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Indiana from 1975 to 1995.
Billy Louis Sharp is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League Two club Doncaster Rovers.
David Sharp was an English mountaineer who died near the summit of Mount Everest. His death caused controversy and debate because he was passed by several other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying,although several others tried to help him.
They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 American biographical western war film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn,Olivia de Havilland and Arthur Kennedy. It was made and distributed by Warner Bros. and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Robert Fellows,
Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists,of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos,New Mexico,which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser. He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life,as well as Western landscapes. President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned him to paint the portraits of 200 Native American warriors who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. While working on this project,Sharp lived on land of the Crow Agency,Montana,where he built Absarokee Hut in 1905. Boosted by his sale of 80 paintings to Phoebe Hearst,Sharp quit teaching and began to paint full-time.
Lauriston Sharp was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university,and he created its Southeast Asia Program,research centers in Asia and North and South America,a multidisciplinary faculty and strong language program. He was a founding member of the Society for Applied Anthropology and a founding trustee of the Asia Society.
A sharpshooter is one who is highly proficient at firing firearms or other projectile weapons accurately. Military units composed of sharpshooters were important factors in 19th-century combat. Along with "marksman" and "expert","sharpshooter" is one of the three marksmanship badges awarded by the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps. The United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard use a ribbon with an attached "S" device to note a sharpshooter qualification.
Robert Phillip Sharp was an American geomorphologist and expert on the geological surfaces of the Earth and the planet Mars. Sharp served as the chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1952 to 1968. He built the modern department and especially recruited new faculty in geochemistry,tectonic geomorphology,planetary science,and field geology.
The Seminole in the American Civil War were found in both the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters. The Seminole Nation in the Trans-Mississippi Theater had split alliances. However,the majority of the tribe in the Western territories joined the Union Army under the leadership of Billy Bowlegs. Others,such as John Jumper,supported the Confederacy. The Florida Seminole participated in some skirmishing in central Florida. They were likely at the Battle of Olustee in February 1864.
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- ↑ Sharp, James Roger; Sharp, Nancy Weatherly (Jan 1, 1999). American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313302138 . Retrieved Sep 22, 2019– via Google Books.
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