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unusual facts about Charles L. Henry


Charles L. Henry

Henry was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898.


Aharon Amir

Amir translated over 300 books into Hebrew, including English and French classics by Melville, Charles Dickens, Camus, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Emily Brontë and O. Henry.

Ajeeb

A particularly intriguing piece of faux mechanical technology (while presented as entirely automated, it in fact concealed a strong human chess player inside), it drew scores of thousands of spectators to its games, the opponents for which included Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and O. Henry.

Alan Maitland

Some "Fireside Al" segments continue to air on the program to this day, particularly his Christmas Eve readings of stories by Frederick Forsyth, notably The Shepherd, and O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi.

Alias Jimmy Valentine

The film is based on the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation", which was turned into the 1910 play Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong.

B. G. Henry

Glynn Henry was well known in Cookham Berkshire during the 1950s and 1969s where he owned the chemist shop on the High Street for over twenty years, 'The Old Apothecary'.

Bolte

Charles L. Bolte (1895–1989), U.S. Army general and World War I and World War II veteran

Carl Henry

C. J. Henry (born 1986), or Carl Henry, Jr., athlete, son of the basketball player

Charles H. Henry

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

Charles Knapp

Charles L. Knapp (1847–1929), member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

Charles L. Brieant

He was also renowned by members of the bar for his Rollie Fingers-style mustache.

Investigation determined that the chocolates had been sent by John Buettner-Janusch, the former chairman of the New York University (NYU) Anthropology Department, who had been sentenced to prison by Judge Brieant after being convicted of making illegal drugs.

Charles L. Copeland

In addition, he remains involved with the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, and the Mount Cuba Center.

Charles L. Glazer

Mr. Glazer, formerly the Republican National Committeeman for Connecticut, served on the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee and was the Sergeant-at-Arms at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Mr. Glazer served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Investment Professionals, in addition to serving on the board of directors of many civic and charitable organizations, including Arch Street, The Greenwich Teen Center, Connecticut, of which he was the founding chairman.

Charles L. Scott

The severity of his leg pain caused him to resign his commission in 1862, after the Battle of Seven Pines.

Charles L. Sullivan

An attorney from Clarksdale, Mississippi, Sullivan ran in Texas for President of the United States in the 1960 presidential election as the candidate of the Constitution Party.

Charles L. Tutt

Charles Leaming Tutt (III), born 26 January 1911, died 3 November 1993.

Charles L. Venable

Venable also served five years (2002–2007) as deputy director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and then five years as the Director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY.

Charles Sullivan

Charles L. Sullivan (c.1925-1979), Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, 1968–1972, general in the United States Air National Guard

Charles Swain

Charles L. Swain (1866–?), Democratic politician from Ohio, United States

Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

The undersigners came from a variety of evangelical Christian denominations, and include James Montgomery Boice, Carl F. H. Henry, Kenneth Kantzer, J. I. Packer, Francis Schaeffer, and R. C. Sproul.

Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes

The congregation engaged the noted Baltimore firm of Dixon and Carson, and the cornerstone was laid June 9, 1874.

David Spergel

shared the 2010 Shaw Prize in astronomy with Charles L. Bennett and Lyman A. Page,Jr. for their work on WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe).

Harold A. Henry

Henry was active in the development and beautification of Wilshire Boulevard and the Miracle Mile.

HD 209458

Soon after the discovery, separate teams led by David Charbonneau and Gregory W. Henry were able to detect a transit of the planet across the surface of the star making it the first known transiting extrasolar planet.

History of modern banana plantations in the Americas

Since banana exports came to dominate the overseas trade and most of the foreign exchange earnings of Central American countries, and the companies could use their financial clout as well as carefully established connections with local elites, they had great influence over politics in those areas, leading O. Henry, who lived in Honduras (which he called "Anchuria") in 1896-97 to coin the term banana republic for them.

Karl August Nerger

This was followed by Bavaria's Military Order of Max Joseph (28 March 1918), Knight's Cross of Saxony's Military Order of St. Henry (25 February 1918), Württemberg's Military Merit Order, and Baden's Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order.

Katherine Anne Porter

Her family tree can be traced back to American frontiersman Daniel Boone, and the writer O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter) was her father's second cousin.

L. B. Henry

A businessman in Pineville, Henry served on the Rapides Parish Police Jury (equivalent to county commission in other states) from, first, 1956–1960, and, again, from 1968-1992.

For ten years, he provided use of his L. B. Henry Rodeo Arena for the annual Kiwanis rodeo.

Lucien Ballard

They would work together on several films, including: Diplomatic Courier (1952), O. Henry's Full House (1952), Prince Valiant (1954), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Nevada Smith (1966), and True Grit (1969).

Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles

Harold A. Henry Park, named after the former city councilman, at Ninth Street and Plymouth Boulevard.

O. Henry

"A Retrieved Reformation", which tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, recently freed from prison.

While holed up in a Trujillo hotel for several months, he wrote Cabbages and Kings, in which he coined the term "banana republic" to describe the country, a phrase subsequently used widely to describe a small, unstable tropical nation in Latin America with a narrowly focused, agrarian economy.

Patrick T. Henry

Henry left government service in 2001 and founded the Henry Consulting Group, becoming its president.

Paul Henry

Paul B. Henry (1942–1993), U.S. Congressman and political scientist

Percy Humphrey

A 1951 album, New Orleans Parade, features Humphrey, trombonists Charles "Sunny" Henry and Albert Warner, and saxophonist Emanuel Paul.

Ron Kavana

During this era, Kavana and members of the band toured and recorded with many legendary American acts, including Big Jay McNeely, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Willie Egan, Dr. John, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers and Flaco Jiminez, Wallace Davenport, Gatemouth Brown, Memphis Slim, Champion Jack Dupree, and Slim Gaillard.

Servant Girl Annihilator

William Sydney Porter, better known as the short story writer O. Henry, was living in Austin at the time of the murders.

St. Henry's College Kitovu

Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere - Former leader of the Ugandan Democratic Party, from 1980 until 2005 and former Ugandan Presidential Candidate, 1980 & 1996

Sukanta Chaudhuri

This was part of a project on cultural mobility carried out by the scholar Stephen Greenblatt and the off-Broadway dramatist Charles L. Mee.

Summit, Alabama

Summit, along with its many caves, is the setting of O. Henry's short-story "The Ransom of Red Chief."

The Smart Set

His replacement, Charles Hanson Towne, was the magazine’s first editor to actively push for new literary talent such as O. Henry and James Branch Cabell.

Tukar

Gravrand, Henry, "La Civilisation Sereer, vol. 1, Cosaan : les origines", Nouvelles éditions africaines, Dakar; Présence africaine, Paris, 1983, ISBN 2-7236-0877-8

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1940

Roosevelt and Wallace defeated the Republican nominees, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of Indiana and his running mate Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

William W. Henry

He became a Mason in 1858, was a member of the I.O.O.F, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and the Knights of Pythias.


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