Williamsburg is an independent city in Virginia,United States. As of the 2020 census,it had a population of 15,425. Located on the Virginia Peninsula,Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is bordered by James City County on the west and south and York County on the east.
Hampton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 137,148 as of the 2020 census,making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area,the 37th-largest in the United States,with a total population of 1,799,674 in 2020. This area,known as "America's First Region",also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake,Virginia Beach,Newport News,Norfolk,Portsmouth,and Suffolk,as well as other smaller cities,counties,and towns of Hampton Roads.
Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He is the longest-serving governor in United States history. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Tuskegee University is a private,historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee,Alabama. It was founded on July 4th in 1881 by Lewis Adams,and Booker T. Washington with help from the Alabama legislature via funding from two politicians seeking black votes.
Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) is a public university in University Center,Michigan in Saginaw County. It was founded in 1963 as Saginaw Valley College. It is located on 748 acres (303 ha) in Saginaw County's Kochville Township,approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of downtown Saginaw.
Hampton University is a private,historically black,research university in Hampton,Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The campus houses the Hampton University Museum,which is the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia. First led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong,Hampton University's main campus is located on 314 acres in Hampton,Virginia,on the banks of the Hampton River.
Fred Hampton Jr. is an American political activist,based in Chicago. He is the president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee and the Black Panther Party Cubs. He is the only child of Fred Hampton,the Black Panther Party leader assassinated by police in Chicago on December 4,1969,with his fiancée,now known as Akua Njeri.
Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. is an American political philosopher. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University,where taught from 1962 until his retirement in 2023. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2004,he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007.
Alan Seth Chartock is a former president and chief executive officer of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio,a National Public Radio affiliate,from 1981 to 2023. He was professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and is a professor emeritus of communications at the State University of New York (SUNY),and is executive publisher and project director for the Legislative Gazette,a weekly newspaper staffed by college intern reporters covering New York State government.
William Kent Brewster was an American pharmacist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Brewster was a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district from 1991 to 1997 and served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990.
William James Beal was an American botanist. He was a pioneer in the development of hybrid corn and the founder of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden.
Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink. It was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco,Texas,and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. It is now also sold in Europe,Asia,North and South America. In Australia,New Zealand and South Africa,Dr Pepper is sold as an imported good. Variants include Diet Dr Pepper and,beginning in the 2000s,a line of additional flavors.
Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland was an American university president and diplomat. He was the first African American to play college football at Cornell University,and was chosen as an All American in 1937 and 1938. He was also the first African American to chair the American Red Cross Board of Governors,which named its Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences in his honor. He was the first African-American to sit on the board of the New York Stock Exchange (1972),and the first appointed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's governing body,"The Corporation".
Sir D'Arcy Power,was a British surgeon,medical historian,and contributor of some 200 articles on famous surgeons and other related figures to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Richardson Timmons IV is an American attorney,entrepreneur,and politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district since 2019. His district is in the heart of the Upstate and includes Greenville,Spartanburg,and most of their suburbs. A member of the Republican Party,Timmons served as a South Carolina state senator from 2016 to 2018.
Billy C. Hawkins is an American academic administrator,and teacher. He served as a past president of Talladega College. Hawkins also serves as a board member of the United Negro College Fund and is a past member of the White House Board of Advisors on historically black colleges and universities.
The Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art is an art museum at Talladega College in Talladega,Alabama in the United States. The museum,which is named after donor and alumni William R. Harvey,includes the Amistad Mutiny murals by Hale Woodruff.
William Adams Brown was an American minister,professor and philanthropist.
The chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is the chief administrator of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is selected by the University of Nebraska System president and confirmed by the Nebraska Board of Regents. The position has been held by Rodney D. Bennett since July 2023.
