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100 unusual facts about Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith


2006 Michigan State vs. Northwestern football game

The comeback was thought to save John L. Smith's career at Michigan State, but on November 1, 2006 the university announced that Smith would not be brought back after the season as the Spartans finished with four more losses after this game.

A. C. H. Smith

Orghast at Persepolis: An account of the experiment in theatre directed by Peter Brook and written by Ted Hughes (1972) ISBN 0-413-28830-7 and (1973) ISBN 0-670-52835-8

A. J. M. Smith

As early as 1939, Smith applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the preparation of an anthology of Canadian poetry.

Amos Zereoué

Zereoué set Long Island records of 5,360 yards and 59 touchdowns at Mepham, earning Street & Smith All-America recognition.

Arden R. Smith

On July 1, 2012, Smith was appointed to the Volapük Academy by the Cifal, Brian R. Bishop, for his work with conlangs in general and provision of internet resources for Volapük in particular.

Barry C. Smith

He has previously been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at the École Normale Supérieure, and was the writer and presenter of the BBC World Service radio series, The Mysteries of the Brain.

C. R. Smith

He fostered a close relationship with Douglas Aircraft that led American to become a key adopter of the Douglas DC-3 and DC-6: he was also one of the early proponents of what is now LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

C. S. Smith

Smith remained a Democrat, but was a close personal friend of Republican Gov. Goodwin Knight.

Capillary electrophoresis

Capillary electrophoresis was first combined with mass spectrometry by Richard D. Smith and coworkers, and provides extremely high sensitivity for the analysis of very small sample sizes.

Cedric Smith

Cedric C. Smith (1895–1969), All-American football player for the University of Michigan and the Buffalo All-Americans

Center for Competitive Politics

The CCP's mission statement is "through legal briefs, studies, historical and constitutional analyses, and media communication, to educate the public on the actual effects of money in politics, and the results of a more free and competitive electoral process." It was founded in 2005 by former Federal Election Commission Chairman Bradley A. Smith and Stephen M. Hoersting, formerly an aide to Smith and later General Counsel at the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Charles S. Keith House

After the sale of the house, Charles Keith later went on to gain additional public notoriety when he accepted the position of interim mayor of Kansas City in 1940 between Bryce B. Smith's resignation and the inauguration of John B. Gage.

Chester J. Roberts

After his coaching career employed by several companies in the paper and automobile industries in Wisconsin including Tuttle Press Co. in Appleton, Northern Paper Mills of Green Bay, Wisconsin, A. O. Smith of Milwaukee, and Nash Motors of Milwaukee.

Clipper Smith

Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1898–1984), coach at Gonzaga, Santa Clara, Villanova, San Francisco, and Lafayette and for the Boston Yanks of the NFL

Clive A. Smith

Since leaving Nelvana, Smith founded Musta Costa Fortune with Melleny Melody.

Clyde Smith

Clyde B. Smith (1906–1976), American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator

Craig S. Smith

In 2008, he joined Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li Tzar Kai's financial news venture as executive editor and subsequently became senior vice president of Li's Pacific Century Group.

He joined The New York Times as Shanghai bureau chief in 2000 and wrote extensively about the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners in China.

He is married to Anna Esaki, daughter of Nobel laureate Dr. Leo Esaki, and they have two sons named Sky and True.

D. M. Smith

Smith is recognized by the D. M. Smith Building named in his honor, one of twelve structures comprising the Georgia Institute of Technology Historic District.

Darrell M. Smith

After finishing his studies he went on to do numerous off-broadway plays, such as with "The Potomac Theatre Company" in Washington D.C. and with the "Negro Ensemble Theatre Company" in New York.

David Boston

Despite his sterling on-field performance, Chargers GM A.J. Smith traded Boston to the Miami Dolphins for a sixth round draft choice, citing his moody personality and lackadaisical practice habits.

David E. Smith

These benefit concerts, organized by Smith and Bill Graham in the early years of the Clinic, included bands such as Big Brother and the Holding Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, The Charlatans, Blue Cheer, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Donna Cheatham

Her 1989 squad was ranked 13th nationwide by USA Today, and her 1990 team was ranked 10th in the country by Street & Smith.

Duncan Smith

Duncan J. D. Smith, British travel writer, photographer, historian, and explorer

Elaine C. Smith

For many years she was a regular in pantomime at the Kings' Theatre, Glasgow, starring alongside Gerard Kelly in performances such as Aladdin, Mother Goose and Sleeping Beauty.

During Christmas 2009, Smith played Fairy Godmother in the pantomime Cinderella in Aberdeen and returned there over Christmas 2010 to play the Evil Queen Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty.

Elbert Smith

Elbert A. Smith (1871–1959), American leader of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Eugene Smith

Eugene P. Smith (1871–1918), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

Frank E. Smith

He was unsuccessful for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.

G. O. Smith

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics, a scholarly group based in Wiesbaden, describes him as "the most brilliant, indeed perfect, footballer in the world around the turn of the century".

Gary Smith

Gary T. Smith (born 1954), American screenwriter, actor and director

Gary T. Smith

The 90s brought more opportunities as he co-developed and directed the television series Prep Sports + for Georgia Public Television, and directed the internationally broadcast program Praise the Lord for the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

George P. Smith

Smith first ran for election to the Alberta Legislature in the 1909 Alberta general election winning the new Camrose district with a comfortable plurality.

Georgia v. Smith

The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986.

Glen Smith

Glen J. Smith, United States Virgin Islander educator and teacher

Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

A steering committee was then formed consisting of Teaching Elders Paul G. Settle, John C. Neville, Jr., and Morton H. Smith and Ruling Elders J. Ligon Duncan, Jr. and C. Stuart Patterson.

Hala Strana

Hala Strana (Bulgarian for "salt beach") is the name of a recording project of American musician Steven R. Smith.

Hamilton O. Smith

Currently, Smith is scientific director of privately held Synthetic Genomics, which was founded in 2005 by Craig Venter to continue this work.

Harvey Smith

Harvey C. Smith (1874–1929), Republican politician in the U.S. state of Ohio

Henry C. Smith

He was re-elected to the 57th Congress in 1900, serving from March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1903.

Ian T. Smith

Halsbury’s Laws of England, Vols 16 (1A) and 16 (1B), Title ‘Employment’ (2005)

J. R. Smith

On July 31, 2009, the Denver Post reported that Smith was released from jail after serving 24 days of his sentence.

J.L.B. Smith

From 1922 to 1937 he was married to Henrietta Cecile Pienaar, who was a descendant of Andrew Murray, and whose father was a minister of the NG Kerk at Somerset West.

Jack W. Smith

Perhaps for this reason, he moved to Ellistown in Coalville, where he was elected agent for the Leicestershire Miners' Association (LMA), replacing Levi Lovett, and he was soon elected onto the executive committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), where he was a supporter of A. J. Cook.

Jaclyn A. Smith

Smith is also a professional dancer, having studied with the Toronto Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre and Kirov Academy of Ballet.

Jacob Smith

Jacob W. Smith (1851–1926), businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada

James A. Smith

James Alexander Smith (1881–1968), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross

James C. Smith

In 1986, he ran for Governor, but narrowly lost the Democratic runoff to liberal state Representative Steve Pajcic.

James W. Smith

A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he

Jason T. Smith

Emerson left her elected position in order to accept the presidency of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Jennifer M. Smith

Smith led her party to victory in parliamentary elections in November 1998, in which the United Bermuda Party, which had dominated elections since autonomy was gained in 1968, suffered an unprecedented defeat.

Jewelled Antler

The Jewelled Antler Collective is a term that has been applied to a larger group of musicians working with Chasse and Donaldson or on their own in similar areas: Steven R. Smith, Rob Reger, Donovan Quinn, Christine Boepple, Greg Bianchini, Keith Evans, Eleanor Harwood and Kerry McLaughlin.

John Pendry

In 2006 he came up with the idea of bending light in such a way that it could form a container around an object which effectively makes the object invisible and produced a paper with David R. Smith who demonstrated the idea at the frequency of microwaves.

Johnny Vincent

He signed up Huey "Piano" Smith and his group who was able to develop a New Orleans shuffle style distinctive from the Fats Domino jumping boogie rhythm.

Johnson C. Smith

After he died in 1919, his wife, Jane Berry Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gave funds to build a theological dormitory, a science hall, a teachers' cottage, and a memorial gate at the Biddle University, an historically black university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Jonathan Z. Smith

His research includes the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Māori cults in the 19th century, and the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

Julian C. Smith

In August 1915, he began a tour of expeditionary duty in Haiti, and in April 1916, was transferred to Santo Domingo with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade.

Julie K. Smith

She had an early starring role in the 1986 sex comedy Pretty Smart alongside Patricia Arquette as a rich sexpot at a private school in Greece, but her other roles in mainstream films of the late 1980s and early 1990s (The Last Boy Scout, Disorderlies) were minor.

K. C. Smith

He became a member of the early environmental group the League of Conservationists, explored the Coast Mountains and the Rockies, worked as a camp cook for a trail guide outfit and later as a park naturalist at Wasa Lake Provincial Park.

Kenneth Smith

Kenneth B. Smith (1931–2008), Chicago-area community leader and minister

LeRoy Carhart

In the Gonzales v. Carhart case, his attorney was Priscilla J. Smith.

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm C. Smith, Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge

Manor St. George

George's Manor was a large tract of land purchased by William "Tangier" Smith in the 17th century on Long Island, in central Suffolk County, New York.

Mark S. Smith

He also began to explore the representation of deities and divinity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman period.

Mark W. Smith

Smith has appeared in New York “society” publications such as Gotham, Hamptons, Avenue and New York Social Diary.

Martin A. Smith

They have performed around London with such act as Detritus, James Banbury of The Auteurs, and various members of Lou Reeds band as well as members of The Fall.

Martin F. Smith

Smith was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses).

He was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Hoquiam, Washington.

He moved to Hoquiam, Washington, in 1911 and completed law studies commenced in Chicago.

Matt Smith

Matt "Money" Smith (born 1973), Southern California radio personality

Mike Scifres

Scifres was drafted by the Chargers in 2003 at the recommendation of Kyle Smith, the son of former Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith.

Nels H. Smith

Ranch A in Crook County, bought by Smith and two partners from the estate of Moses Annenberg in 1942 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nicholas Smith

Nicholas G. Smith (1881–1945), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Nightmare Theatre

KIRO-TV and The Count found themselves facing competition from KTVW-TV and horror host Robert O. Smith aka Dr. ZinGRR, during 1972-74..

Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (ISBN 0-89526-085-9) is a 2004 book written by Mark W. Smith.

Oliver H. Smith

He is also believed to have been born at the Smith Family Farmstead in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Paving Wall Street

Paving Wall Street: Experimental Economics and the Quest for the Perfect Market (later reprinted under the title Experimental Economics: How We Can Build Better Financial Markets) is a book about finance, experimental economics and market design, written by Ross Miller (forward by Vernon L. Smith), published in 2002.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The Dangerous Memoir of Citizen Sade (2000) by A. C. H. Smith (A biographical novel, an account of the period of the Terror in the French Revolution, told by two writers who were incarcerated together and loathed each other: Laclos and the Marquis de Sade.)

Price County, Wisconsin

Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county.

Purgatorio

Franz Liszt's Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia (1856) has a "Purgatorio" movement, as does Robert W. Smith's The Divine Comedy (2006).

Ray V. Smith

1999 also brought about an expansion to the series and "The Women of Hip Hop was born. Artists such as Da Brat, Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Yo-Yo and Lisa Lopes (aka Left Eye) were featured. 2000 saw another version of "The Men of Hip Hop" and a "Woman of Music" co produced by Sebastian Charlton with artists such as Monica, Mýa, Eve and Aaliyah.

Raymond W. Smith

Smith serves on the following civic boards: the Royal Shakespeare Company, Curtis Institute of Music Advisory Board, Central Park Conservancy, George Mason Life Sciences Advisory Board, the Library of Congress, the American Research Center in Egypt - Presidential Appointee, and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Robert C. Smith

In January 1999, at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, Smith announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States (at the time the front-runner was Texas Governor George W. Bush).

Robert P. Smith

Robert Smith is also the model for the character “Sammy the Spread”, who deals in third-world debt (Emerging market debt), in John D. Spooner’s book Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Spooner 2000 ).

Ruth P. Smith

In 1962, she moved into a two-bedroom apartment in The Dakota on 72nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and she continued to live in this fifth-floor home for the next 50 years.

Samuel A. Smith

He resigned this position in 1832, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham.

Simon Kurt Unsworth

Creature Feature (with Guy N. Smith and William Meikle), Ghostwriter Publications, 2009.

Smitty Smith

William "Smitty" Smith (August 30, 1944–November 28, 1997), a keyboardist and session musician

Spandan Daftary

Spandan "Spoon" Daftary (born April 13, 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a 2-time Emmy Award–winning associate producer, whose most recent work includes ESPN2's Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, which was cancelled by the network in January 2007.

Steven S. Smith

Smith's monographs include Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings), Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, and The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (Princeton), with Thomas Remington.

Supersnipe

Supersnipe is a fictional character who appeared in a series of comic books published by Street & Smith from 1942 to 1949.

The Boxing Lesson

It's the first track being released from the upcoming Big Hits LP produced by Chris "Frenchie" Smith (Trail of Dead, Meat Puppets, Ume).

Thomas A. Smith

He is also an active member of the Houston Geologic Society, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Seismological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.

Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale

The programme makers tracked down many of the musicians who played there, including Mark E. Smith of the Fall, Steve Hillage and Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column.

Warren Smith

Warren J. Smith (1922–2008), president of the Optical Society of America, 1980

Wesley J. Smith

Smith is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, having appeared on national programs such as Good Morning America and Nightline, as well as internationally on BBC Radio 4.

WIXE

Atkins had previously played country music as a DJ on WMAP in Monroe, As a musician, he played steel guitar with Arthur Smith and Bill Hefner.

Zulfikar Ghose

He became a close friend of British experimental writer B. S. Johnson, with whom he collaborated on several projects, and of Anthony Smith.


1936 Democratic National Convention

South Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith walked out of the convention hall once he saw that a black minister was going to deliver the invocation.

Black Toast Records

Since its launch, the company has placed music in television series (including “True Blood,” “Dexter,” “Treme,” and “The Wire,” and others), motion pictures (including “Arthur” with Russell Brand, “When In Rome” with Kristen Bell, “I Love You, Phillip Morris” with Jim Carrey, “Dead Silence,” “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood,” and others).

Brent Bourgeois

In recent years, Bourgeois has become more well known in the Contemporary Christian Music world for his songwriting and production work for such acts as Michael W. Smith, Jars of Clay, 4Him, Jaci Velasquez, Michelle Tumes, and Cindy Morgan.

Chauncey Billups

Billups chose the number 7 jersey to honor Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, since two of his other favorite numbers, 1 and 4, were already worn by J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin, respectively.

Christian radio

Popular artists on Christian radio stations with this format include Third Day, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Mercy Me, Steven Curtis Chapman, Carman, Sandi Patty, TobyMac, Relient K, Chris Tomlin, Switchfoot, Colton Dixon, and the Bill Gaither Trio.

Efren Ramirez

Ramirez has starred in a number of films, including Napoleon Dynamite as Pedro Sánchez, Employee of the Month with Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard, Crank and Crank: High Voltage with Jason Statham, Searching for Mickey Fish with Daniel Baldwin, All You've Got with Ciara, and HBO's Walkout and made cameos in Nacho Libre and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Elevator music

This style of music is sometimes used to comedic effect in mass media such as film, where intense or dramatic scenes may be interrupted or interspersed with such anodyne music while characters use an elevator (e.g. The Blues Brothers, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and Spider-Man 2).

Frank J. Dodd

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, Senate President Joseph P. Merlino, Attorney General John J. Degnan, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

George A. Gillett

George Gillett and Arthur 'Bolla' Francis rescued Anglo-Welsh (British Lions) player Percy Down who had fallen into the sea, keeping him afloat until a rope was lowered from the ship upon which Down was about to return to Great Britain.

Henry Franklin

In addition, Franklin has played and recorded with Gene Harris & the Three Sounds, Hampton Hawes, Freddie Hubbard, Bobbi Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Archie Shepp, O.C. Smith, Count Basie, Stevie Wonder and Al Jarreau.

Jeanne Campbell

Her younger daughter, Cusi Cram (born 1967), is also an actress (she portrayed Cassie Callison on the soap opera One Life to Live from 1981 until 1983), a Herrick-prize-winning playwright, and an Emmy-nominated writer for the children's animated television program Arthur.

Pineapple Press

Its catalogue includes non-fiction titles such as "Baseball in Florida" and "Florida's Birds" (a reference book with artwork by Karl Karalus) as well as compilations such as "Cracker literature", books on historic homes, lighthouses, Gulf Coast islands, and fiction including historical novels from Patrick D. Smith and a mystery by Virginia Lanier ("Death in Bloodhound Red" set in in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp).

Rocketown Records

Rocketown Records was an independent record label which was started in 1996 by Michael W. Smith.

Roy Green

Green led the Cardinals in receiving in 1983, 1984 and 1988 (during those intervening years, veterans Pat Tilley and J. T. Smith split time leading the team in receiving).

T. O'Conor Sloane

Nevertheless, he published first stories by luminaries such as Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell, Jr., Clifford D. Simak, and E.E. "Doc" Smith.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii

In response Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow of the quorum of the 12 were sent to take over the leadership of the mission with the assistance of Joseph F. Smith who had been a missionary in Hawaii fro much of the 1850s.

WLFJ-FM

Programming includes music by such artists as Casting Crowns, TobyMac, MercyMe, Michael W. Smith, Mark Harris, Laura Story, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Avalon, Toby Mac, and Mark Schultz, as well a few family ministries such as those of Dr. James Dobson and Charles Stanley.