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2 unusual facts about Ephraim


Mount Pleasant, Utah

The old settlement was burned down by local Native Americans, so when a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned to the area in 1859, a new, permanent townsite was laid out in its present location—one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City and twenty-two miles northeast of Manti.

Presbyornis

recurvirostris is a disputed species possibly synonymous with P. pervetus; it is known from a partial wing (KUVP 10105) found in Colton Formation Eocene sediments of the Wasatch Plateau near Ephraim, Utah.


Arkona, Ontario

In 1857 it was renamed 'Arkona' after the rugged cape on the Baltic Island of Rügen, a name suggested by resident cabinet maker Ephraim Brower and possibly by the incumbent postmaster Levi Schooley.

Canute Peterson

The Canute Peterson House, a house he built in Ephraim, is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Chima Okorie

Chima Ephraim Okorie (born 8 October 1968 in Izomber, Abia State) is a Nigerian former professional football striker who was renowned for his goalscoring prowess in the Indian leagues.

David Hawley

Hawley's grandfather was Gideon, his great grandfather was Ephraim and his great great grandfather was Joseph Hawley, a shipbuilder and the first of the name in America.

Dictionnaire de Trévoux

From its much expanded second edition (1721) onward, the Dictionnaire de Trévoux came to be respected and widely used, becoming an important source for Ephraim Chambers´ Cyclopaedia (1728) and the Encyclopédie (1751–72) among other works.

Eagle Bluff Light

The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin.

Edward E. Cross

Edward Ephraim Cross (April 22, 1832 – July 3, 1863) was a newspaperman and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Ephraim Avea Nsoh

Ephraim Avea Nsoh is a Ghanaian politician and the Upper West Regional Minister of Ghana.

Ephraim Faience Pottery

Ephraim Faience Pottery is an art pottery company founded in 1996 in Deerfield, Wisconsin, United States by Kevin Hicks and two partners who have since left the company.

Ephraim Kholmyansky

Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky (born 1950, in Moscow) is an Israeli refusenik, activist in the Jewish revival movement in Russia, and teacher of Hebrew.

Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar

Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar (born 1739 in Vienna - died 1802 in London) was the second Baron d'Aguilar, a Barony of the Holy Roman Empire.

Ephraim of Bonn

Ephraim of Bonn (1132–1200) was a Jewish writer who documented the massacre of the Jews in the city of York in 1190.

Ephraim Porter Felt

Ephraim Porter Felt (7 January 1868 Salem - 14 December 1943) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera

Ephraim Shay

Ephraim served in the Western Theatre of the war, under General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Ephraim Wilson

Ephraim King Wilson II, U.S. senator from the state of Maryland and son of Ephraim King Wilson

Goetzea

It was originally placed by H. Wydler in the family Ebenaceae and named for his teacher the Rev. Johann August Ephraim Goetze.

Hannah Luce

The plane burst into flames when it crashed, killing most people on board including the pilot, Luke Sheets, of Ephraim, Wisconsin, Stephen Luth, of Muscatine, Iowa, Garrett Coble, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Austin Anderson, of Ringwood, Oklahoma.

Harvey Dinnerstein

He has been a very influential instructor for several generations of students at The National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, including Ephraim Rubenstein, Nomi Silverman and Gregory Frux.

Immanuel

The setting is the Syro-Ephraimite War, 734 BC, which saw Judah pitted against two northern neighbours, Israel (called Ephraim in the prophecy) and Syria (also known as Aram or Aram-Damascus or Syria-Damascus).

Isaac of Antioch

Several writers identify him with Isaac, the disciple of St. Ephraim, who is mentioned in the anonymous Life of that father; but according to the patriarch Bar Shushan (d. 1073), who made a collection of his homilies, his master was Ephraim's disciple Zenobius.

Johann August Ephraim Goeze

Johann August Ephraim Goeze (28 May 1731—27 June 1793) was a German zoologist from Aschersleben.

Kishon

Sara Kishon (1931 – 2002), Israeli pianist, art collector, and the wife of Ephraim Kishon

Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

Ephraim (Kyriakos) is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tripoli, al-Koura and Dependencies of the Church of Antioch.

Miriam Leslie

She divorced Ephraim Squier on May 31, 1873, to marry publisher Frank Leslie.

Shmuel Ehrenfeld

His casket was then flown to London, where his students in England paid their respects, and proceeded to Israel, where he was eulogized by Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, Rabbi Ephraim Fishel Klein, and his grandson, Rabbi Yitzchok Yechiel Ehrenfeld.

Solio Ranch

It is reported that the Government bought the land following instructions from First Lady Lucy Kibaki and local area member of parliament Ephraim Maina Mwangi, who were both touched by the plight of squatters, who had for years been residing on a roadside in Kagochi area of Nyeri East District.

Tenor cornett

For example, see: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni à 10 by Giovanni Gabrieli and Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn SWV 40 (from the great Psalmen Davids of 1619) by Heinrich Schütz, both of these works feature low cornetto lines written in the C tenor clef.

Willard House and Clock Museum

The Willard House and Clock Museum, located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA, is the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers (Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron), who made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they moved the business to Roxbury, where they became pillars of the emerging American clockmaking industry.


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