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unusual facts about Charles K. Sumner


Charles K. Sumner

He received a traveling scholarship to Europe and the Middle East and was hired by McKim, Mead and White in New York, working for Charles Follen McKim.


Charles A. Sumner

After an unsuccessful attempt in 1878, he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885).

He moved to Virginia City, Nevada where he served as member of the state senate 1865-1868 and served as president pro tempore for one session.

Charles Armstrong

Charles K. Armstrong, academic, historian, and professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University

Charles Graham

Charles K. Graham (1824–1889), sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and brigadier

Charles K. Eastman

He shared Esquire magazine's Best Screenplay of the Year award with Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem.

Charles K. Feldman

Feldman held considerable sway in the making of some films, it was Feldman who suggested to Jack Warner (as a friend) that he recut Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep and add scenes to enhance Bacall's performance, which he felt was more-or-less a 'bit part' in the 1945 cut.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

From his early fascination with the banjo, he wrote his first song "Since Maggie Learned To Skate" for the play The Skating Rink by Nat Goodwin in 1885.

Charles K. Johnson

Originally an airplane mechanic in San Francisco, Johnson took on the running of the Society from Samuel Shenton on the latter's death in 1972, from his base on a ranch near Edwards Air Force Base.

He claimed the Apollo moon landings, and space exploration in general, were faked to lead people away from the truth of the Bible, which, in his opinion, taught that the Earth is flat.

Charles K. Tuckerman

Tuckerman returned to the United States after his Greek posting, but died in Florence, Italy.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Tuckerman was educated at that city's Latin School.

Charles K. Wiggins

He was elected to the court in 2010, defeating incumbent Richard B. Sanders.

Charles K. Williams

Williams died in Rutland on March 9, 1853, and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland, Vermont.

Chinese University of Hong Kong

As of 2013, four Nobel Prize winners are associated with the University, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and former University President Charles K. Kao.

Cid Ricketts Sumner

She only attended one year of medical school before marrying one of her professors, Nobel Prize winner James B. Sumner, on July 10, 1915.

Gangster Stories

Gangster Stories (and its companion, Racketeer Stories) quickly came under censorship pressure in New York state, instigated by John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a state entity empowered to recommend obscenity cases to prosecutorial authorities.

Home in Indiana

In March 1942, agent Charles K. Feldman planned on making a film adaptation of the Chamberlain novel, with Howard Hawks as a proposed producer.

J. D. Sumner

As of 2011, he has been surpassed only three times by the following vocalists: Dan Britton (1984), Tim Storms (2002 and once more in 2012), and Roger Menees (2011).

James B. Sumner

Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson.

Cid Ricketts Sumner went on to become an author, writing books that included Tammy Tell Me True, which was made into the movie Tammy and the Bachelor, and Quality, which became the movie Pinky.

James Sumner

James B. Sumner (1887–1955), American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

John Sumner

John S. Sumner (1876–1971), headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

J. D. Sumner (1924–1998), American gospel singer, songwriter and music promoter

L. W. Sumner

Sumner received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1965, with a thesis supervised by Stuart Hampshire and Joel Feinberg.

Leroy Drumm

Leroy Maxey Drumm (September 26, 1936 – November 26, 2010) was born in Algonac, Michigan is an American and a bluegrass/country music songwriter who served in the United States Navy, in the 3rd Division as a sonar man aboard the USS Soley (DD-707), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer and deployed to the Mediterranean from July 1956 to February 1957.

Standard Telecommunication Laboratories

It is now recognised as the birthplace of optical fibre communications, for it is here that Sir Charles K. Kao, George Hockham and others pioneered the use of single-mode optical fibre made from low loss glass.

Valentine S. McClatchy

Former Editor of The Sacramento Bee, now The McClatchy Company, Valentine S. McClatchy was also the co-owner of the company with his brother Charles K. McClatchy.

Vocal fry register

Singers like Tim Storms, J.D. Sumner, Mike Holcomb and various other gospel basses use this technique to create sub harmonics the current record at G-7, or 0.189 Hz is held by Tim Storms which he achieved by amplified vocal fry.


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