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unusual facts about Emory


Frankie Newton

Frankie Newton (William Frank Newton, January 4, 1906 – March 11, 1954) was a jazz trumpeter from Emory, Virginia.


303rd Military Intelligence Battalion

Commanded by Captain Emory L. Jones, the 3253rd trained until 8 June at Wincham Hall, Cheshire and then moved to quarters at Burton Bradstock, Dorset.

Boni Homines

It is said that they controlled Ashridge Priory and Edington Priory in England, but this has been completely repudiated in an article by Richard Emory in the journal Speculum (1943), who attributes the original connection to Helyot's Dictionnaire des Ordres Religieux, which was compiled in Paris between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Boone and Crockett Club

Among the most noteworthy contributions are "The Vanished Game of Yesterday" by Madison Grant, "An Epic of the Polar Air Lanes" by Lincoln Ellsworth, "Aeluropus Melanoleucus" by Kermit Roosevelt, "Taps for the Great Selous" by Frederick R. Burnham, "Volcano Sheep" by G.D. Pope, "Three Days on the Stikine River" by Emory W. Clark, and "Giant Sable Antelope" by Charles P. Curtis.

C. emoryi

Carex emoryi, the riverbank tussock sedge or Emory's sedge, a plant species

Criticism of marriage

John Witte, Jr., Professor of Law and director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University, argues that contemporary liberal attitudes toward marriage produce a family that is "haphazardly bound together in the common pursuit of selfish ends" exactly as prophecized by Nietzsche.

CSLR

Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Druid Hills, Georgia

Public bus transportation is provided by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, while Emory University runs an extensive fleet of shuttles, called the "Cliff".

Emily Saliers

Saliers has co-written a book with her father, Don Saliers, a retired theology professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, called A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice.

Emory College

Emory College, an academic division of Emory University, located in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, in the Atlanta area

Oxford College of Emory University, a two-year residential college of Emory University located in Oxford, Georgia, USA.

Emory Leon Chaffee

Emory Leon Chaffee (April 15, 1885 – March 8, 1975) was an American physicist and a former professor at Harvard University from 1911 to 1953.

Emory S. Bogardus

Emory S. Bogardus (born near Belvidere, Illinois, February 21, 1882 – August 21, 1973) was a prominent figure in the history of American sociology.

Felman

Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University

Frank Alexander

Frank S. Alexander, professor of law at the Emory University School of Law

Fred Allison

After several years there (teaching at Emory and Henry and working on his Ph.D. in alternate years) he switched to the University of Virginia, and receiving his Ph.D. in physics in 1920 while working with Jesse Beams.

Jacob Broughton Nelson

Over the next few years, he oversaw the chartering of Phi Kappa chapters at the Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia (Gamma Beta) and at the Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi (Mu Theta).

James T. Laney

He has received medals for distinguished service from the United States and Korea, the Wilbur L. Cross Medal from Yale, the Emory medal, and the General James Van Fleet award from the Korea Society.

Jimmie Foxx

James Emory "Jimmie" Foxx (October 22, 1907 – July 21, 1967), nicknamed "Double X" and "The Beast", was an American professional baseball player.

Jody Schulz

When Fast could still not convince Schulz, he called Emory, and, during a snowstorm, flew in to Kent Island, Maryland, where Schulz lived.

Kenneth W. Stein

In 1997, Stein was a recipient of the Emory Williams teaching award, given as a highest honor of excellence in teaching at Emory University.

Lake Fork Reservoir

It consists of 27,690 acres (112 km²), situated in Wood and Rains County in Northeast Texas, between the towns of Quitman, Alba, Emory, and Yantis, Texas.

Maury Klein

Klein taught for a year at Emory before accepting a job at the University of Rhode Island in September 1964.

Max Lake

Max Emory Lake, OAM (24 July 1924 – 14 April 2009) was an Australian winemaker and surgeon, who is generally regarded as the "father of the Australian boutique wine industry".

Mel Sharples

Melvin Emory Sharples (commonly known as Mel) is a fictional character in the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the television sitcom series, Alice.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

Through research and collaboration with Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to identify the mummy as pharaoh Ramesses I.

Michael J. Perry

Before coming to Emory, Perry was the inaugural occupant of the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University School of Law (1990-97), where he taught for fifteen years (1982-97).

Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

Faculty members hold positions at such schools as the University of Notre Dame, Duke Divinity School, Wheaton College (Illinois), the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Northwestern College, College of the Ozarks, Indiana Wesleyan University, the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Northern Seminary.

Silas House

In 2010 House was selected as the focus of the Silas House Literary Festival at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.

The Joykiller

The Joykiller were formed in 1995 by Jack Grisham and Ron Emory after the disbanding of their previous band T.S.O.L., they then went on to recruit Billy Persons (The Weirdos/Gun Club) on bass, Ronnie King on Keyboards, and Chris Lagerborg on drums.They recorded one album on Epitaph records "The Joykiller." Ron Emory left Late in 1996.

The President's Council on Bioethics

James W. Wagner, the president of Emory University, was appointed vice chairperson.

United States Navy Dental Corps

In October 1912, Emory Bryant and William Cogan were the first two dental officers to enter Active Duty with the United States Navy.

William H. Emory

The first specimens of this snake species were collected by John H. Clark and Arthur Schott at Howard Springs, Texas, under Emory's leadership during the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.


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