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4 unusual facts about Faber


Counts of Castell

Through the marriage of Count Alexander Castell-Rüdenhausen (1866–928) with Ottilie Baroness von Faber from a well-known family of industrialists the branch of Faber-Castell was created in 1898.

Faber

Eberhard Faber, German art supply manufacturer best known (in the United States) by their brand of pencil

Kaspar Faber

He was the founder of the well-known stationery company Faber-Castell.

The Monroe Institute

The Monroe Institute (TMI) is a nonprofit education and research organization devoted to the exploration of human consciousness, based in Faber, Virginia, United States.


Al Iaquinta

After his team lost the first two matches, Iaquinta earned the first win for Team Faber by defeating Myles Jury via split decision after three rounds.

Alastair Swinnerton

Alastair Swinnerton is a UK writer/producer known mostly for his involvement with Lego Bionicle, which he co-created with Bob Thompson and Martin Andersen of Lego and Christian Faber of Danish advertising agency Advance.

Andreas Faber-Kaiser

Andreas Faber-Kaiser (Barcelona, 5 April 1944 - Barcelona, 14 March 1994) was a Catalan esoteric writer of German descent.

Anne Ridler

Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poetess, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941).

Arch of Constantine

Kitzinger, Ernst, Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century, 1977, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0571111548 (US: Cambridge UP, 1977)

Bishnodat Persaud

In 1994, the Inter-American Development Bank appointed him joint leader with Mike Faber of the University of Sussex, of a team to prepare a comprehensive report on socio-economic problems of Guyana.

Chess problem

Lipton, Michael, Matthews, R. C. O. and Rice, John (1963), Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art, Faber.

David MacLeod Black

He is author of six collections of poetry and is included in British Poetry since 1945, Emergency Kit (Faber), Wild Reckoning (Calouste Gulbenkian), Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (Faber) and many other anthologies.

David Pownall

The Dream of Chief Crazy Horse (1973, epic play for children; pub. London: Faber and Faber, 1975)

Eberhard Faber

Eberhard Faber GmbH was founded in 1922 in Neumarkt, near Nuremberg, Germany, as a pencil factory.

Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had his pencil durability test published in The Economist magazine for the 3 March 2007 issue.

Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber

Faber was the eldest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.

Fine Sounds Group

Fine Sounds Group is an Italian holding specialized in audio hi end and owns the brands Audio Research, McIntosh Laboratory, Sonus faber, Wadia Digital, Sumiko and Fine Sounds Asia.

Francis Oliver Haddock

The robbery and aftermath was featured as “The Millen-Faber Case” in Issue #24 of True Crime Comics, published in November, 1942.

Friends School, Saffron Walden

Matthew Evans, chairman and former managing director of Faber and Faber Ltd.

German Grand Prix

There was a medical team there, but it took them 2 and a half hours to get to the site of the accident, of which driver Otto Göbel was badly injured and his co-driver Ludwig Faber, who was pinned under their Adler was already dead.

Heinrich Faber

Heinrich Faber (before 1500 – 26 February 1552) was a German music theorist, composer, and Kantor.

Howbery Park

Other owners of Howbery Park were Henry Bertie Williams-Wynn (who purchased the house in 1867), Harvey du Cros (in 1902) and George Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham.

Jack Faber

Faber continued to employ his predecessor's pass-oriented "Byrd system" and hired Richmond head coach Frank Dobson as an assistant.

Jacob Faber

Jacob Faber is a German form of what was presumably his original name, Jacques Lefèvre, a common French name – the equivalent of John Smith – shared by several other figures active in similar circles at the period; the main ones are mentioned below.

James Vick

For the first official fight of the show, he was chosen to fight Team Faber's third pick Daron Cruickshank.

John D Morton

Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (1991), Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-13975-0

John Eberhard Faber

John Eberhard Faber (sometimes Johann Eberhard Faber) (December 6, 1822 – March 2, 1879), was born in Stein, Bavaria, Germany.

Karen Christensen

Karen Christensen is an American entrepreneur, environmentalist, and author who cofounded Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1998, after working in London at Blackwell Scientific Publications and Faber & Faber.

Klaus Wennemann

He was best known for his roles as the Chief Engineer (the LI) in Das Boot and as Faber in the TV series Der Fahnder.

Lykele Faber

Faber and Tazelaar installed themselves with radio equipment onboard a yacht hidden in the reed along the edges of the Lytse Wiid and Nannewiid lakes.

Marc Faber

He was the subject of a book written by Nury Vittachi in 1998 entitled Doctor Doom - Riding the Millennial Storm - Marc Faber's Path to Profit in the Financial Crisis.

Matthias Faber

Faber joined the faculty of the Jesuit university in Tyrnau (which became the University of Budapest), then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Trnava in Slovakia.

Maurice Reckitt

Prospect for Christendom: Essays in Catholic Social Reconstruction (Faber and Faber, 1945) editor, with F. N. Davey, V. A. Demant, E. L. Mascall, T. S. Eliot, Philip Mairet, Patrick McLaughlin, T. M. Heron, Ruth Kenyon, David G. Peck, William G. Peck, Charles Smyth, Cyril E. Hudson, Henry Balmforth, Rosalinde Wilton, P. E. T. Widdrington

Minor Details

Minor Details is a 2009 film by John Lyde of MainStay Productions and written by Sally Meyer and Anne M. Edwards starring Kelsey Edwards, Caitlin EJ Meyer, Danielle Chuchran, Lauren Faber, Jennette McCurdy, Emma Duke, Savannah Jayde Gipson, Brady Edwards, Andrew Cottrill, and Elijah Thomas playing students at the boarding school Danforth Academy who try to solve the mystery of why different groups of students are getting sick for no apparent reason.

MV Peter Faber

In the Fall of 2008 the Peter Faber will be laying a telecommunication cable connecting Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland.

Octave Lapize

The following year he went head-to-head with Alcyon teammate Faber who led comfortably until colliding with a dog at the foot of the Pyrenees.

Oscar Faber

The Institution named an award after him, the Oscar Faber Medal, one of which was presented to Fazlur Khan in 1973.

Philip Faber

Philip Faber (Fabri) (1564, Spinata di Brisighella, FaenzaPadua, 28 August, 1630) was an Italian Franciscan theologian, philosopher and noted commentator on Duns Scotus.

Quedlinburg Itala fragment

Kitzinger, Ernst, Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century, 1977, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0571111548 (US: Cambridge UP, 1977),

Red Faber

As a teenager, Faber attended college prep academies in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.

Report on Probability A

A leitmotif added by Aldiss in the Faber edition of the novel is The Hireling Shepherd, a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt which is thought to have multiple interpretations and possibly a hidden meaning.

Roland Faber

Roland Faber (born 1960) is an author and Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Process Studies at Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University.

Sandra Faber

Faber was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 and the American Philosophical Society on 29 April 2001.

Simon Boulton

He first worked under Professor Nick Dyson of the MGH Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, then under Professor Marc Vidal of the Dana Faber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.

Steve Faber

Faber is writing and executive producing a film for writer/director James L. Brooks, as well as adapting the screen version of journalist A. J. Liebling's Telephone Booth Indians.

Walter Vavasour Faber

Faber was the youngest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.

WEC 28

WEC 28: Faber vs. Farrar was the fourth mixed martial arts event held by the World Extreme Cagefighting under Zuffa management.

WEC 31

WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC).


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