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Birmingham Post-Herald

Toward the end of its existence, the Post-Herald adopted a niche of emphasizing more detailed local stories and featuring well-known local columnists, including Paul Finebaum.


Accurate News and Information Act

Shortly before the election, the Herald began to run cartoons by Stewart Cameron, a virulently anti-Aberhart cartoonist.

Al Burt

Florida author David Nolan said he used to buy the Herald just so he could read Al Burt's column.

Alan Hardwick

Hardwick left Derbyshire to become a sub-editor with the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald in Swindon in 1969, then moved on to become a news editor for the now defunct Lincolnshire Chronicle.

Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home

Home attacked Dunbar Castle, then captured the Chief Herald, the Lyon King of Arms at Coldstream and held him ransom for his mother who was a prisoner of Albany's lieutenant Antoine d'Arces.

Anton Janežič

In 1858, the magazine merged with the journal Vaje edited by Simon Jenko, Valentin Zarnik, and Janez Mencinger, to form the magazine Slovenski glasnik (The Slovene Herald), which attracted the collaboration of many important authors, including Fran Erjavec and Josip Jurčič.

Arthur Baker-Clack

He was a journalist the The Register before moving to the Perth Morning Herald covering the Western Australian goldfields.

Bahá'í Faith in Moldova

During that time the history stretches back to 1847 when the Russian ambassador to Persia, Prince Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, requested that the Báb, the herald to the Bahá'í Faith who was imprisoned at Maku, be moved elsewhere; he also condemned the massacres of Iranian religionists, and asked for the release of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.

Bursey

Cathy Bursey-Sabourin, Fraser Herald at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa, Canada

Carlton E. Morse

From 1922 to 1928, Morse was employed at the Sacramento Union, the San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald, The Seattle Times, Vancouver Columbian, Portland Oregonian and The San Francisco Bulletin.

Chicago Great Western Railroad

Nicknamed the "Corn Belt Route" because of its operating area in the midwestern United States, the railroad was sometimes called the "Lucky Strike Road", due to the similarity in design between the herald of the CGW and the logo used for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Chicago Record-Herald

H. H. Kohlsaat, owner of the Times-Herald, bought the Chicago Record from Chicago Daily News publisher Victor F. Lawson in 1901 and merged it with the Times-Herald to form the Record-Herald.

Christian Specht Building

In 2001 the Omaha Performing Arts Society, led by the publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, John Gottschalk, proposed building an arts center adjacent to the Specht Building.

Corvette leaf spring

Many small European cars such as the Opel GT,Fiat 128, the Yugo, and the Triumph Motor Company small chassis cars (Herald, Vitesse, Spitfire, GT6) used transverse steel springs in similar fashion.

Dart Group

In 1985 a third Dart Herald aircraft was bought, which flew an overnight parcels service from Birmingham International Airport to Nuremberg and Hanover.

Dick Frahm

Herald Samuel Frahm (April 11, 1906 – October 19, 1977) was an American football halfback for the Staten Island Stapletons, the Boston Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the St. Louis/Kansas City Blues of the 1934 version of the American Football League.

Evening Herald

The life of Herald music critic Chris Wasser was threatened by fans of boy band The Wanted in 2012 following the publication of his review of their gig in Dublin.

Fortunato Teho

During this time, Teho also began writing regular gardening columns for newspapers throughout the state of Hawaii, including the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, the Hilo Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the Maui News and the Kauai Garden Island.

Francis D. Nichol

F. D. Nichol was born 14 February 1897 in Thirlmere, New South Wales, Australia to John and Mary Nichol who became Adventists after reading a discarded copy of the Review and Herald (now the Adventist Review).

Frank Brower

The New York Herald on December 4, 1842 called Brower "the perfect representation of the Southern Negro characters".

Funny Bunnies

Funny Bunnies was first published in March 2006 in The Ottawa Herald of Ottawa, Kansas and is now available on the Ottawa Herald's website and on its own official website.

Georgia Republican Party

"The moral of the fable is that although a fool may disguise his appearance, his words will reveal his true nature. To Nast, the New York Herald is not a roaring lion to be feared, but a braying ass to be ridiculed. The reference in the citation to “Shakespeare or Bacon” is a jibe at Bennett’s contention that Shakespeare’s works were actually written by Sir Francis Bacon."

Harrison Carroll

He had feuds with the leading gossip columnists of the day, including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and his fellow Herald columnist Jimmy Starr: all of them appeared as themselves in the 1947 crime movie The Corpse Came C.O.D..

Hastings, New Zealand

Exactly who chose the name has been disputed, although Thomas Tanner claimed that it was him (see Hawke's Bay Herald report 1 February 1884) and that the choice was inspired by his reading the trial of Warren Hastings.

Herald

(l-r) Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary (Michael Siddons), Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary (David White), Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary (John Robinson), York Herald of Arms in Ordinary (Henry Paston-Bedingfeld), Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary (William Hunt).

Herald Tribune

International New York Times, widely read international newspaper, based in Paris since 1887, and called the International Herald Tribune from 1967 to 2013

Herald Young Leader

Herald Young Leader is a Hindi language newspaper published in Surat, India.

Javelin Boot

Additional, their music has been used in television episodes of Melrose Place and Party of Five (reference: Chicago Daily Herald).

John Espinoza

Espinoza has shared his insights via regular programs on Sanilac, Michigan County radio station WMIC and written contributions to the Sanilac County News and the Port Huron Times-Herald.

John Gibler

Gibler has also reported from Oaxaca for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the international edition of the Miami Herald.

John Katzenbach

Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News , and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine.

Keith Farnsworth

Recruited by the Sheffield Telegraph in December 1963, he later had spells with the Birmingham Post and the Sheffield Star before rejoining what was now the Sheffield Telegraph as a sports writer/sub editor in April 1966, and becoming sports editor in 1971.

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

The Examiner was the first newspaper to break the story of the dismemberment murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who was ultimately dubbed the Black Dahlia by Los Angeles Herald-Express crime reporter Bevo Means.

McGeehan

W. O. McGeehan (November 22, 1879 - November 29, 1933) was a famous sportswriter and editor of the New York Herald Tribune.

Mitch Traphagen

He is currently the publisher and editor of The East Iowa Herald based in Victor, Iowa.

Moncreiffe Island

This tragedy led to the chiefship of the great Scottish herald and historian Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet.

Moonta Herald

The Moonta Herald and Northern Territory Gazette was a newspaper produced on the vessel SS Moonta that was sailed by George Goyder in 1868 and 1869 from Port Adelaide to Darwin, Northern Territory.

Newfoundland Herald

The Herald frequently cross-promotes with sister media outlets NTV and OZ FM; NTV programs are featured frequently (sometimes, in the case of NTV's newscasts, multiple times a year) on the Heralds front cover, whereas competing channels' shows are seldom featured.

Norfolk Herald Extraordinary

Beginning in 1539 this officer was a herald to the dukes of Norfolk, though the first holder, John James, was paid a salary by King Henry VIII.

Pantha

Pantha joined the team of Beast Boy, Más, Herald and Jericho to launch an assault on the Brotherhood of Evil's main headquarters, and then took part in the final battle against the various supervillains assembled by the Brotherhood of Evil; in said battle, she defeats a rival Mexican super-powered wrestler in league with the Brotherhood and claims his mask as per the code of Lucha Libre.

Ponteland Observer

From 5 July 1984 it became a broadsheet newspaper 'incorporated with the Morpeth Herald - meaning that the Observer was effectively an edition of the Herald, with the front page and some interior pages changed.

Review and Herald

Adventist Review, the official church newspaper, formerly known as the Review and Herald

Southgate Shopping Center

In August 2007, the News-Herald reported that the center was a candidate to house a Wal-Mart supercenter, which would be the 50th supercenter in Michigan, but only the third in Metro Detroit.

Springfield, Colorado

According to the Plainsman Herald from March 1988, the town was settled in 1888 or 1889 by Frank Pierce Tipton (DPOB 10 December 1852, Gallipolis, Ohio) who had travelled to Springfield from Moulton, Iowa, via Springfield, Missouri, in 1886 or 1887 in a covered wagon.

Take a Thief

Skif figures that being a Herald is better than nothing, and travels with his new Companion, Cymry, to the Herald's Collegium.

Tea tape scandal

John Key and the National Party said that it appeared that the Herald had deliberately recorded the conversation, and described it as "News of the World-style tactics", however journalists argued that that the recording was in the public interest and should therefore be released.

The Marshall News Messenger

The Texas Republican and the Tri-Weekly Herald, both published by Robert W. Loughery, were credited with aiding the election of Marshall citizens J.P. Henderson, Edward Clark, and Pendleton Murrah to the Governor's office and Louis T. Wigfall to the U.S. Senate.

Victor Kiam

In 1990, Lisa Olson, a Boston Herald reporter sued Kiam and the Patriots when Zeke Mowatt allegedly exposed himself and made lewd comments to her in the team change room.

William Lane

He died on 26 August 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, having been editor of the Herald from 1913 to 1917, much admired, having lost one son Charles at a cricket match in Cosme in Paraguay, and another Donald on the first day of the ANZAC landings (25 April 1915) on the beaches of Gallipoli.

William Mark Forster

Forster then gathered the newsboys of the city together in a room in Little Collins Street, and started the Herald Boys' Try Excelsior Class, afterwards known as the City Newsboys' Society.


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