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1. Dallas Symphony Orchestra -- Carnegie Hall
   For first time symphony visitors, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra offers prelude performances that begin one hour prior to the start of the concert. These performances are free to ticketed guests and provide information that helps newcomers recognize key things to listen for during the concert. Also helpful is the "Tips for Beginners" section of the program provided for free at the entrance to the symphony hall.
2. Andrew -- United States
   Andrew Peters’ paintings are the result of a life spent in nature. Growing up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was usually hunting and fishing with his father in the Missouri River Valley. At nearby Fontenelle Forest he was mentored in ecology by naturalist James Malkowski. He drew birds from life and Audubon prints, and studied academic painting in the studio of Fran Day. He earned a bachelor of Sciences degree from Iowa State University with a minor in art, and won the Iowa Duck Stamp competition at the age of 22 which launched his fine art career.
3. Andrew Davis -- Lyric Opera
   In the 2006–07 season, in addition to numerous operas at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in concerts in Pittsburgh and at Carnegie Hall, as well as on a European tour. He conducts the London Philharmonia in London and on tour in an Elgar celebration, and makes appearances with the Toronto, Dallas, Detroit, and BBC smphony orchestras. Sir Andrew made his New York Philharmonic debut in 1974, and most recently performed with the Orchestra in January 2004.
4. Andrew Johnson -- Works
   Andrew Johnson will serve as staff director, one of the most unusual jobs in the Senate. Unlike most other committees, the intelligence panel does not have a majority and minority staff, and it works in great secrecy in an office with no windows and a guard out front.
5. Colorado National Monument -- Car
   The river defines the southern end of Arches National Monument which exhibits a number of impressive arches cut into the Entrada Sandstone. It then drops into the desert Mecca of Moab, Utah. You can follow the river by car as far as the Potash Plant below Dead Horse Point. Traveling further requires permits and a boat.
6. Robber Barons -- John D. Rockefeller
   At the turn of the twentieth century, crusading journalists and other critics scornfully labeled the leading business titans of the age, the "Robber Barons." The term grew from the overwhelming power these industrial giants wielded over many aspects of society and the resentment those suffering under their yoke felt. Disgust with the power of corporate America and individuals like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan led to the growth of the Progressive Movement and to reform efforts, including antitrust legislation, and investigative journalism, or muckraking.
7. Dunfermline -- Dunfermline Abbey
   Dunfermline is Fife's largest town if Rosyth is included (2001 population, 51,657). Chosen as the site of a Benedictine Abbey, the city was for three centuries the seat of the Scottish kings. It is well known as the burial place of King Robert the Bruce, and as the birthplace of Charles I (the last monarch born in Scotland), but its greatest son was undoubtedly Andrew Carnegie who became the USA's greatest steel manufacturer and the world's most renowned philanthropist. To this day, Andrew Carnegie's generosity to his home town is very apparent. Once renowned for its linen, Dunfermline is now a centre for electronics, distribution and financial services. A large scale easterly expansion of the town, involving a considerable range of private house builders, is currently in progress.
8. Medal -- United States
   The Medal of Valor is Awarded by many governments and organizations around the world including Police Officers, Firefighters and Military. The Medal of Valor is recognized in many countries with the same Honor, Reverence and Dignity as is the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom is in the United States.
9. William Davidson -- Miramichi Valley
   A large portrait of William Davidson felling trees on the Miramichi hangs on an internal staircase of the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta. This is very appropriate as Davidson was a native of Moray, very near the boundary with Banffshire, Scotland.
10. Conan -- Sir Arthur Conan
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died at his home "Windlesham" in Crowborough, Sussex, on 7 July 1930. He was first buried in the rose garden of Windlesham. When "His Beloved, His Wife" Jean died in 1940 he was reinterred to rest with her, "reunited", in the Minstead churchyard of Hampshire, England. His grave memorial in part reads "Steel True, Blade Straight, Arthur Conan Doyle, Knight, Patriot, Physician, & Man of Letters."

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