Powell
Encyclopedia

Companies

  • Powell's Books
    Powell's Books
    Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Oregon's Portland metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and...

    , largest independent seller of new and used books in the world
  • Powell Motor Company
    Powell Motor Company
    Powell Manufacturing Company was a company based in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It was best known for its line of motor scooters that peaked in popularity in the late 1940s. From September 1954 to March 1957, Powell manufactured "Sport Wagon" pickup trucks and station...

    , defunct American motor vehicle company
  • Powell Peralta
    Powell Peralta
    Powell Peralta is an American skateboard company founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in 1978. The company rose to prominence in the 1980s as skateboarding began maturing as a sport. The company featured the Bones Brigade, a team of the era's top competitors...

    , skateboard company, that changed its name to Powell Skateboards

Places in the United States

  • Powell, Alabama
    Powell, Alabama
    Powell is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 926. Powell is located on top of Sand Mountain.-Geography:Powell is located at .According to the U.S...

    , town in DeKalb County
  • Powell, Missouri
    Powell, Missouri
    Powell is an unincorporated community in eastern McDonald County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route E about ten miles east of Pineville. It is located on Big Sugar Creek in a scenic area. The community includes some homes, a couple of businesses, and a post...

    , unincorporated community in McDonald County
  • Powell, Ohio
    Powell, Ohio
    As of the census of 2000, there were 6,247 people, 1,975 households, and 1,789 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,057.3 people per square mile . There were 2,032 housing units at an average density of 669.2 per square mile...

    , city in Delaware County
  • Powell, Tennessee
    Powell, Tennessee
    Powell is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, United States. The United States Geographic Names System classifies Powell as a populated place. The area is located in the Emory Road corridor, just north of Knoxville, southeast of Clinton, and east of Oak Ridge...

    , unincorporated community in Knox County
  • Powell, Texas
    Powell, Texas
    Powell is a town in Navarro County, Texas, United States. The population was 105 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Powell is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....

    , town in Navarro County
  • Powell, Wisconsin
    Powell, Wisconsin
    Powell is an unincorporated community located in the town of Sherman, Iron County, Wisconsin, United States. Powell is located near Wisconsin Highway 27 south-southeast of Hurley....

    , an unincorporated community
  • Powell, Wyoming
    Powell, Wyoming
    Powell is a city in Park County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 5,373 at the 2000 census. Powell is an All-America City and home to Northwest College.-Geography:Powell is located at ....

    , city in Park County
  • Powell Creek
    Powell Creek
    Powell Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Powell Creek is formed by the junction of its North and South forks southwest of Carsonville...

    , tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
  • Powell Symphony Hall
    Powell Symphony Hall
    Powell Symphony Hall is the home of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. It was named after Walter S. Powell, a local St. Louis businessman, whose widow donated $1 million towards the purchase and use of this hall by the symphony...

    , home of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Powell Observatory
    Powell Observatory
    Powell Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near Louisburg in Miami County, Kansas, near Kansas City. It features several large telescopes and is available for public viewing, for private use of Astronomical Society of Kansas City members, and for ongoing research projects.The...

     of Louisburg, Kansas
    Louisburg, Kansas
    Louisburg is a city in Miami County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,315.-19th century:Prior to the American Civil War, the land of what is now called Louisburg was part of that reserved for members of various tribes of Native Americans that were ceding...

  • Powell Gardens
    Powell Gardens
    Powell Gardens is a botanical garden in Kingsville, Missouri, USA, east of Kansas City. It features 6,000 varieties of plants, with 225,000 plants in seasonal displays, and is open to the public, for a fee, during daylight hours....

     of Kansas City, Missouri
  • Lake Powell
    Lake Powell
    Lake Powell is a huge reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona . It is the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing of water when full...

    , man-made reservoir on the Colorado River


Other

  • Powell v. Alabama
    Powell v. Alabama
    Powell v. Alabama was a United States Supreme Court decision which determined that in a capital trial, the defendant must be given access to counsel upon his or her own request as part of due process.-Background of the case:...

    , U.S. Supreme Court case regarding capital punishment and due process
  • Powell v. McCormack
    Powell v. McCormack
    Powell v. McCormack, was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 1969. It answered the question of whether Congress has the authority to exclude from being sworn in and enrolled upon its rolls a person who has been duly elected or appointed by the people or the executive authority of his/her...

    , U.S. Supreme Court case regarding seating of a member of the House of Representatives
  • Powell's method
    Powell's method
    Powell's method, strictly Powell's conjugate gradient descent method, is an algorithm proposed by Michael J. D. Powell for finding a local minimum of a function. The function need not be differentiable, and no derivatives are taken....

    , algorithm for finding the minimum of a non-differentiable function
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