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19 unusual facts about Bill "Wee Willie" Webber


A. R. F. Webber

Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1 January 1880 - 29 June 1932) was a Caribbean author from Trinidad and Tobago.

Action for Global Health

The network was initiated through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of their support for global health advocacy.

Amos R. Webber

He was reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress and served from November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1907.

Andrew Haines

Under his leadership the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine received the 2009 Award for Global Health from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worth $1m, for sustained commitment to improving the health of poor people, having been selected from 106 nominations worldwide by an international jury of experts.

Ashok Alexander

Ashok Alexander is a former consultant with McKinsey and set up the India operations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Barshi

It has state-of-the-art facilities and is funded privately (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) as well as by the government.

Bering Strait School District

The district, working with the Alaska Staff Development Network, the Re-inventing Schools Coalition, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has created a standards-based curriculum and abolished grade level groupings.

Centurion guard

There were many different releases and versions of this product, and many were distributed in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation computers that were donated to libraries.

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Doug Pagitt

Webber, Robert E. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives (Zondervan, 2007) ISBN 978-0-310-27135-2

Fullerton Public Library

The Main Library received a generous gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for new public computers and a technology lab.

George W. Webber

During the same period, he also engaged in lumbering on the Little Muskegon River with Fred Hall under the name Hall & Webber.

Grassroot Soccer

Grassroot Soccer has partnered with corporations and organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nike, and many others.

Niels de Ruiter

On the darts circuit his nickname is The Excellent Dude, which is a reference from the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Nizari

It has active working relationships with NGO's like the UN, the EU, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and government bodies including the United States Agency for International Development, Canadian International Development Agency, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, and Germany's Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany).

Noel C. Taylor

A Republican, he was elected mayor in 1976, after having been appointed to complete the term of Roy L. Webber after his death in 1975.

Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

At the September United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, AusAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dfid and USAID adopted the 100 million metric as a cornerstone of their International Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health.

Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

IWS was conceived of in the 1990s by worship theologian Robert E. Webber, who intended to provide doctoral-level theological training to Worship Leaders and Music Ministers, who often complete Master degrees in areas like music or theology, and thus lack the divinity credentials to enroll in Doctor of Ministry programs.

Shripat Pimpri

But most of the villagers rely on hospitals located in Barshi where state-of-art healthcare system is available with a cancer hospital funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and linked with Tata Memorial Centre.


Anti-pharming

In March 2005, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, a bill that proposes a five-year prison sentence and/or fine for individuals who execute phishing attacks and use information garnered through online fraud such as phishing and pharming to commit crimes such as identity theft.

Bipartisanship

The adjective bipartisan can refer to any bill, act, resolution, or other political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice.

Caleb S. Layton

He was strongly opposed to slavery, and, as a member of the Legislature, caused the first abolition bill to be introduced in the State of Delaware.

California Space Authority

The California Space and Technology Alliance was established in 1996 as a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization to foster development of space industry and was officially recognized by the state when Governor Pete Wilson signed Assembly Bill 1475 into law in October 1997.

Carl Whitney

In 1942, Whitney played as a reserve outfielder for the New York Black Yankees, a team co-owned by financier James "Soldier Boy" Semler and famed toe-tapper Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.

Climate change in California

It is the successor bill to AB 1058, was enacted on July 22, 2002 by Governor Gray Davis and mandates that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) develop and implement greenhouse gas limits for vehicles beginning in model year 2009.

Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

In March 2009 a bill, the Clean Water Protection Act, was introduced in Congress by Frank Pallone and Dave Reichert.

Evil Alien Conquerors

Evil Alien Conquerors is a film directed by Chris Matheson (who co-wrote Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) in 2003, and is a blend of science-fiction and comedy.

Forced Abortion Condemnation Act

Forced Abortion Condemnation Act is a bill, introduced at the 105th United States Congress on September 29, 1997 by the Republican sponsor Tillie Fowler.

George White's 1935 Scandals

Reportedly, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson filmed a dance routine for this film, but it was cut.

Get down

Use of the term by white Americans since the middle-20th century, though, is credited to the influence of a Caucasian disc jockey, Bill "Hoss" Allen, who used it on his nightly soul music shows on Nashville, Tennessee station WLAC.

Gina Green

Gina has performed on the same stage with Gospel artists Tonex, J Moss, TBN's Bill & Rene Morris, The Gospel Gangsters, two-time Dove Award nominees God's Original Gangstaz, Brent Jones and many others.

GlobalScholar

The sessions occurred on GlobalScholar’s website, which provides an online whiteboard, audio/video IM, archiving, and billing.

Inchcolm

An inventory of 8 January 1548 lists the English armaments on the island as; one culverin; one demi-culverin; 3 iron sakers; a brass saker; 2 iron falcons; 3 brass falcons; 4 fowlers; 2 port pieces; 14 bases; 90 arquebuses, 2 chests of bows; 50 pikes; and 40 bills.

Joe Langworth

His partner is James Matthew Jones, a leading global public health consultant who served as press secretary to Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and as executive vice president of The Vaccine Fund, a multi-billion dollar charity founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Joseph McNamara

However, McNamara remained independent and, in 1921, made an alliance with M.M. MacBride, a dissenting member of the Independent Labour Party who had left the governing caucus, to move a Bill which would have introduced an eight-hour day.

Julie Dozier

In the musical, the character of Julie is given two of Show Boat's most memorable songs, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Bill.

June 2006 in video gaming

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates announces he will be stepping down from day-to-day responsibilities to be more active in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Parliamentary ping-pong

The rule is that before a Bill can receive the Royal Assent and become law, it must be passed in its final form by both the Commons and the Lords without changes.

Posthumous sperm retrieval

New York senator Roy M. Goodman proposed a bill in 1997 requiring written consent by the donor in 1998, but it was never passed into law.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico

In the early 2000s, Enoé Uranga, an openly lesbian politician and activist, unsuccessfully pushed a bill that would have legalized same-sex civil unions in Mexico City under the name Ley de Sociedades de Convivencia (LSC; "Law for Coexistence Partnerships").

Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act

The Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, commonly known as the RAVE Act, was a bill proposed in the United States Senate during the 107th Congress.

Stackdriver

Advisors to Stackdriver include George Kassabgi (Co-Founder, Keas.com, serial entrepreneur), Tom Roloff (Senior Vice President, EMC), Dale Christian (CIO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and Shmuel Kliger (Founder & CTO, VMTurbo).

Tony Steedman

Tony Steedman (21 August 1927 - 4 February 2001) was an English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s and for his role as Socrates in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act

The bill was introduced by MP Sam Iduri, Minister for Peace and Reconciliation, then adopted by Parliament on August 28, 2008.

United Nations Reform Act of 2005

On June 17, 2005, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R.2745, a bill to cut funds to the United Nations in half by 2008 if it did not meet with certain criteria laid out in the legislation.

University Scholars Program

The University Scholars Program was created in 1998 by the Office of the Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Studies with a gift of $20 million from Duke University Trustee Emerita Melinda French Gates and her husband Bill Gates, through the William H. Gates Foundation, now called the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

William Webber

Bill "Wee Willie" Webber (1929–2010), Philadelphia TV and radio personality

Willie Nile

Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Nile came from a musical family—his grandfather was a vaudeville pianist who played with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Eddie Cantor; his uncles played boogie-woogie.

World Justice Forum

Among others, the Forum featured remarks from: Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe; William H. Gates, Sr., Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Cherie Blair, Co-Founder of the Africa Justice Foundation; and Adama Dieng, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.