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2 unusual facts about F. A. Harper


Antony Fisher

Cockett wrote, "In 1981, to co-ordinate and establish a central focus for these institutes that Fisher found himself start up all over the world, he created the Atlas Economic Research Foundation which in 1987 joined up with the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) founded by the Mont Pelerin member F. A. Harper in 1961) to provide a central institutional structure for what quickly became an ever-expanding number of international free-market think-tanks or research institutes".

F. A. Harper of the FEE introduced Fisher to former colleagues from the Agriculture Department of Cornell University, who showed him intensive chicken farming techniques with which Fisher was very impressed.


16th Street Baptist Church

Michael S. Harper's poem American History talks about the church bombing

David Harper

David M. Harper (born 1953), American architect and design/build entrepreneur

David M. Harper

Upon his graduation from the University of Miami in 1975, Harper was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal.

David Harper's firm, HKS, Inc., is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Don L. Harper

Harper’s first CD, Dream and Variations, is a hybrid of jazz, Americana, rock, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass.

He has also recorded the soundtrack for Tokyo DisneySea's version of Fantasmic, which is scheduled to premiere on April 28, 2011.

The production included a 32-member choir, session musician Dan Higgins on soprano saxophone, jazz pianist Russell Ferrante of The Yellowjackets, notable string players Dave Stone (upright bass), Sid Page (violin), and Steve Erdody (cello).

Gary Darnell

Several of Darnell's assistant coaches have gone on to be head coaches, including Dennis Franchione, Gary Patterson, Bill Cubit, Jim Knowles, Dan Enos, and J. C. Harper.

Herb Cornuelle

With F. A. "Baldy" Harper, Cornuelle helped found the Foundation for Economic Education in New York in 1946, and later became head of the William Volker Fund (where he hired Murray Rothbard as an academic consultant).

James C. Harper

In 1870, Harper was elected to the 42nd United States Congress as a Democrat or "Conservative," as some North Carolina Democrats were calling themselves at the time.

Joseph H. Harper

Harper remained in the Army, reaching the rank of Major General and serving as Commandant of the United States Army Infantry School.

The Joseph Smith Papers

Mark Ashurst-McGee, Ronald O. Barney, Alexander L. Baugh, Joseph I. Bentley, Joseph F. Darowski, Kay Darowski, Karen Lynn Davidson, Steven C. Harper, William G. Hartley, Andrew H. Hedges, Robin Scott Jensen, Gordon A. Madsen, Max H. Parkin, Alex D. Smith, Steven R. Sorensen, Morris A. Thurston, Grant Underwood, Jeffrey N. Walker, David J. Whittaker, Robert J. Woodford.

Upper division college

In the late 19th and early 20th century, educational leaders such as William R. Harper and David Starr Jordan sought to separate the preparatory portion of college studies from "real" university work undertaken in the third and fourth years of study.

Wasagamack First Nation

J.J. Harper former Chief of Wasagamack and current head of the Island Lake Tribal Council.


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