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unusual facts about Estil C. Ball


Estil C. Ball

From the mid-1950s until 1975, Ball performed with his wife Orna and their Friendly Gospel Singers in churches and on the radio, especially on WKSK (AM) in West Jefferson, North Carolina and WBOB (AM) in Galax, Virginia.


Arthur E. Nelson

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but was elected fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949).

Autumn Reeser

She has also appeared in a number of films including the 2008 sequel of a 1980s cult classic, Lost Boys: The Tribe, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, The Girl Next Door, and a movie musical by the High School Musical producers, called "The American Mall."

C.F. Ball

Ball had left Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in August 1903 to work as Assistant and later Foreman at the Irish National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, Dublin.

A cultivar of the South American shrub Escallonia is named ‘C.F. Ball’ in his memory, a beautiful shrub with dark green leaves and bright red flowers, excellent for bees.

“A delightful companion, unassuming, sincere and a most lovable man…” quoted from a short and touching obituary (and portrait) was also published in The Garden (October 16, 1915, p.514) by his friend and fellow soldier , the editor Herbert Cowley (who had been invalided out of the army).

Clinical linguistics

The journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics is the major research journal of the field and was founded by Martin J. Ball.

David W. Ball

David Wadsworth Ball (born September 12, 1949) is an American author whose novels include Empires of Sand (1999), China Run (2002) and Ironfire (2004).

Ernest Ball

His grandson was the guitar string entrepreneur Ernie Ball, great-grandson is singer-songwriter-content producer Sherwood Ernest Ball and his great-great-granddaughters are actress Hannah Marks and singer/songwriter Tiare' Ball.

Harry O'Donovan

The character Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".

Herbert Cowley

His Kew Guild Journal obituary in 1968 mentions prewar plant hunting trips to the Dolomites and a notable visit to Bulgaria as a guest of King Ferdinand in the company of Kew contemporary C.F. Ball of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in Dublin.

Sadly this prewar lecture lists contain the names of some of other Kew staff including C.F. Ball who would soon be killed on active service.

Jelly Roll Blues

He recorded it first as a piano solo in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924, and then with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago two years later, titled as it was originally copyrighted: "Original Jelly-Roll Blues." It is referenced by name in the 1917 Shelton Brooks composition "Darktown Strutters' Ball".

Joseph A. Ball

Joseph Arthur Ball (August 16, 1894-August 27, 1951) was an American inventor, physicist, and executive at Technicolor.

Joseph H. Ball

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Minnesotans came to appreciate their foresighted senator.

When Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on August 31, 1940, Ball was the surprise appointment to fill the unexpired term.

Ball was elected to the Senate in the 1942 election, receiving 47% of the vote against Farmer-Labour, Independent and Democratic opposition.

Oddly, Ball played the role in 1944 that Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska had done in 1932, when Norris broke with U.S. President Herbert Hoover over domestic policy and instead supported the first election of FDR.

Manifold Destiny

On August 22, 2006, Sir John M. Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, made reference to the article and rushed publication of the Cao/Zhu paper at a speech given at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Post-earnings-announcement drift

This was initially proposed by the information content study of Ray J. Ball & P. Brown, 'An empirical evaluation of accounting income numbers', Journal of Accounting Research, Autumn 1968, pp.

Ted Mulry

Over the next few years they achieved a string of hit singles including a rocked up version of the old jazz song, "Darktown Strutters' Ball", "Crazy", "Jamaica Rum" and "My Little Girl".

Terry Ball

Terry B. Ball, dean of religious education at Brigham Young University

Thomas Ball

Thomas R. Ball (1896–1943), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Timeline of time measurement technology

1893 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers

William L. Ball

He was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation in January 2002 .


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