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unusual facts about Charles H. Turner



1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak

Senator Charles Percy and Illinois Governor Otto Kerner visited to speak with victims and thank the recovery volunteers.

Alfred De Sève

His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson.

Buckeye gasoline buggy

Charles H. Black reported that he completed and tested his first steam engine "chug buggy" in 1891.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Carreg Cennen Castle

Ownership of the castle passed to the Vaughan and Cawdor families, and from the 18th century it started to attract artists (Turner sketched the castle in 1798).

Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

CWGCS research has been supported through grants by the United States Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of State (DoS), the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and other government agencies, private foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Charles Brower

Charles H. Brower (1901 - 1984) American advertising executive, copywriter, and author

Charles Ewing

Charles H. Ewing (c. 1866–1935), president of the Reading Company, 1932–1935

Charles H. Carroll

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

Charles H. DuPont

Nevertheless, he traveled to the Midwest to recruit immigrant labor to Florida, and became seriously ill in Minneapolis.

Charles H. Gerhardt

The division's most famous combat operations were the Omaha Beach landings of June 6, 1944 (his 49th birthday), D-Day and the taking of the French crossroads town of Saint-Lô in July 1944.

Charles H. Griffin

Griffin was elected as a Democrat to the Ninetieth Congress in a special election triggered by Williams' successful bid for governor of Mississippi.

Charles H. Henry

Henry's entire professional career was spent in the research area of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Charles H. Mason

:For the founder of the Church of God in Christ, see Charles Harrison Mason.

Charles H. Purcell

When the commission finished its work, Purcell was appointed by Governor Jim Rolph as the Chief Engineer responsible for the design and construction of the bridge.

Charles H. Schneer

Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law

In 1967, the Secretary of the Navy officially designated the academic post as the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law in honor of Rear Admiral Charles Stockton, a former faculty member and President of the Naval War College, who had been the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in International Law.

Charles H. Treat

In 1896 President William McKinley appointed him the collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street District, Elihu Root and Cornelius N. Bliss being his sponsors.

Charles H. Wacker

His father was Frederick Wacker, a brewer, who was born in Württemberg Germany.

Charles H. Wesley

In 1965, Wesley became the Director of Research and Publications for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Charles H. Winfield

Winfield was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867) but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1866 and resumed his legal practice.

Charles Nesbitt

Charles H. Nesbitt, former Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly

Charles Pinkham

Charles H. Pinkham (1844–1920), Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War

Charles Upton

Charles H. Upton (1812–1877), politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia

Claude Crépeau

In 1993, together with Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Richard Jozsa, Asher Peres, and William Wootters, Prof. Crépeau invented quantum teleportation.

Day G. Turner

On that day, in Dahl, Luxembourg, Turner led his squad in the defense of a house against an intense German attack.

Flying Hawk

Three years later, U.S. Commissioner for Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke was asked to resign for the Oklahoma scandal.

Fort Walton Mound

The Fort Walton Mound was probably built around 800 CE, although Charles H. Fairbanks who excavated the mound in 1960 believed it was built between 1500 and 1650 based on pottery sherds he uncovered and analyzed.

Frederick W. Turner

He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography.

George D. Ruggles

His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his uncle, Charles H. Ruggles, who was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.

Hadoard

Charles H. Beeson, The Collectaneum of Hadoard, Classical Philology, Vol.

Harry Turner

Harry E. Turner (1927–2004), member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Honeywell 316

The H-316 was used by Charles H. Moore to develop the first complete, stand-alone implementation of Forth at NRAO.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Joseph Gandy

His architectural fantasies owe a clear debt to Piranesi and play upon historical, literary and mythological themes with a feeling for the sublime that is the equal of his contemporaries J. M. W. Turner and John Martin.

Laurence Iannaccone

David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-8852-9

Lubbock High School

Morris W. Turner, Class of 1950 (1931–2008), businessman; mayor of Lubbock, 1972–1974

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

He was hence part of the council, along with Mayor Jim Granberry, charged with the rebuilding of Lubbock after the widespread destruction caused by the storm.

Oregon Executive MBA

Formerly a partnership of Oregon State University, Portland State University, and University of Oregon, Oregon Executive MBA is now solely a program of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Reinagle wrote the scientific and explanatory notices to Turner's Views in Sussex published in 1819, and the life of Allan Ramsay in Allan Cunningham's Lives of the British Painters.

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

Samuel William Reynolds

He also engraved a great number of portraits and compositions by Dance, Jackson, William Owen (1769–1825), Stephanoff, Bonington, Sir Robert Ker Porter, and others, and was one of the artists employed by Turner on his Liber Studiorum.

Santa Maria della Salute

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent and Francesco Guardi.

Sister Parish

In addition to the White House, Parish's clients included the philanthropist Jane Engelhard and the socialite and art collector Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, Annette de la Renta, Alice Rogers, Mrs. Charles Percy, were also clients.

Takeuchi Seihō

After returning to Japan he established a unique style, combining the realist techniques of the traditional Japanese Maruyama–Shijo school with Western forms of realism borrowed from the techniques of Turner and Corot.


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