X-Nico

unusual facts about Edward L. Palmer


Edward Palmer

Edward L. Palmer (1933–1999), media educator, researcher, author, and advocate


. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him

The story first appeared in the May 1974 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction and the 1974 anthology Final Stage, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry Malzberg.

Afton Down

It was the site of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, where the Guinness Book of Records estimates 600,000 to 700,000, and possibly 800,000 people, flocked to see the musical talents of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Free, The Who, The Doors, Ten Years After and Jimi Hendrix.

B. J. Palmer

The house that B.J. and Mabel Palmer lived in is located at 808 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa.

Charles A. Canfield

In 1892, he partnered with Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935) to develop the first gusher in Los Angeles, at the intersection of Patton and Colton streets on Crown Hill, just northwest of today's Downtown Los Angeles.

Colorado School of Mines

The honorary named Colorado School of Mines buildings commemorate Dr. Victor C. Alderson, Edward L. Berthoud, George R. Brown, Dr. Regis Chauvenet, Dr. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Cecil H. and Ida Green, Simon Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, Arthur Lakes, Dr. Paul D. Meyer, Winfield S. Stratton, and Russell K. Volk.

Curse of the Faceless Man

It was directed by Edward L. Cahn who also directed Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959).

Delta Sigma Chi

On November 6, 1913, B.J. Palmer was initiated into the brotherhood of Delta Sigma Chi.

Eboardmuseum

Among the exhibits there are numerous preliminary models and unique items such as a Hohner Clavinet, Rhodes Piano, Mellotron as well as original instruments from international stars like Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), Geoff Downes (Asia), Peter Wolf (Frank Zappa) and Tangerine Dream.

Edward Beach

Edward L. Beach, Sr. (1867–1943), U.S. Navy officer, author, and educator

Edward Bowen

Edward L. Bowen (born c.1942), American author of books on Thoroughbred horse racing

Edward L. Alperson

Alperson's last film of note was acquiring the film rights to Irma La Douce for Mirisch Productions that was filmed in 1963 by Billy Wilder but without the music.

What promised to be Alperson's good fortune turned out to be his downfall when he befriended James Cagney then on suspension from Warner Bros.

Edward L. Atkinson

In 1916 he served on the Western Front and fought at the Somme, receiving the Distinguished Service Order.

Edward L. Baker, Jr.

Baker is the maternal grandfather of jazz saxophonist and Oscar nominee Dexter Gordon.

Edward L. Berthoud

He came to the United States in 1830 with his parents and spent his childhood along the Mohawk River and in Oneida County in Upstate New York.

In the early 1850s he worked as a surveyor on the Panama Canal.

Edward L. Burlingame

In 1879, he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed founding editor-in-chief of Scribner's Magazine, where he served until his resignation in 1914.

Edward L. Deci

Deci is also Director of the Monhegan Museum (in Monhegan, Maine) where he spends his summers writing about psychology and art (though rarely at the same time).

Edward L. Ferman

He continued as editor until 1991, when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and continued as publisher of F&SF until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000.

Edward L. Hamilton

Hamilton was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 4th congressional district to the 54th United States Congress and subsequently re-elected to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1921.

He was chairman of the Committee on Territories in the 58th through 61st Congresses.

Edward L. Jackson

In 1925, Stephenson had been arrested and tried for the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer.

Edward L. Keithahn

He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working "in the Indian service," as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people.

Edward L. Masry

The case was adapted into the highly successful film, Erin Brockovich, with Albert Finney portraying Masry.

Ed Masry has a non-speaking cameo in the film Erin Brockovich as a diner patron sitting behind Julia Roberts, the same diner that cameos Erin Brockovich as a waitress.

Edward L. O'Neill

He was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.

He served in the United States Navy from 1919–1923, after which he became engaged in the real estate business in Newark.

Edward L. Pierce

He was a member of the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant Treasurer of the United States, but declined.

Edward L. Taylor, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Guitar Garden

Guitar Garden's latest album is Secret Space (2006), inspired by the many progressive rock and jazz-rock bands of the 1970s, such as Yes, ELP, and Mahavishnu Orchestra, as well as contemporary acts like The Flower Kings.

Hinkley groundwater contamination

Erin Brockovich, a legal clerk to lawyer Edward L. Masry, investigated the apparent elevated cluster of illnesses in the community linked to hexavalent chromium.

Hoedown

"Hoe-Down" has been covered by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on their album Trilogy and by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones on their albums Outbound and Live at the Quick.

Irwin I. Shapiro

In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.

Joseph Palmer

Joseph B. Palmer (1825–1890), American lawyer, legislator, and Confederate general in the American Civil War

Katzenbach

Edward L. Katzenbach (1878–1934), New Jersey Attorney General, brother of Frank S. Katzenbach, father of Nicholas Katzenbach

Motoaki Takenouchi

He has cited King Crimson, Yes, Frank Zappa and Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer as some of his favorite musicians and influences.

Mount Aldaz

Not only does Aldaz have a mountain named in association with him, but he also has a main-belt minor planet named in his honor, 13004 Aldaz (provisional designation: 1982 RR), discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station in Coconino County, Arizona, on September 15, 1982.

Ogden Mills Phipps

Dinny Phipps and his father were two of the subjects in the 2003 book Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders by race historian Edward L. Bowen that chronicled the history of Thoroughbred racing's most influential breeders.

Paul Trousdale

In 1954, he purchased the Doheny Ranch from Mrs Lucy Smith Doheny Battson, wife of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (1893–1929), son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), and developed it into Trousdale Estates, later home to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Ray Charles.

Raymond A. Palmer

An unsuccessful operation on Palmer's spine stunted his growth (he stood about four feet tall), and left him with a hunchback.

Self-determination theory

Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan later expanded on the early work differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and proposed three main intrinsic needs involved in self-determination.

Students for a Libertarian Society

Others active in the organization were Williamson Evers, Chris Sciabarra, Mark Brady, Mark Joffe, Eric Garris, and David Beito, who were members of the national board, and Paul Jacob, a prominent draft registration resister, Tom G. Palmer, and Dave Nalle, the publications director and editor of Liberty magazine.

Temple Lea Houston

The film was written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn.

The Breakfast

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

The Three Fates

The Three Fates is a three-part suite, written and performed by Keith Emerson, which opens the second side of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's eponymous debut album released in 1970.

Tony Tyler

Back in London in 1969, he became publicist for EG Management, who cared for the careers of T. Rex, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.


see also