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4 unusual facts about Forster


Bruce Greensill

He played club rugby for the College Rifles Club in Auckland and the Eastwood Rugby Club and founded the Forster-Tuncurry club on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales.

Campaign furniture

In 1903, the Secretary of State for War, H. O. Arnold-Forster said that "The British Army is a social institution prepared for every emergency except that of war."

Classical unified field theories

These efforts, along with those of Forster, involved making the metric tensor (which had previously been assumed to be symmetric and real-valued) into an asymmetric and/or complex-valued tensor, and they also attempted to create a field theory for matter as well.

H. O. Arnold-Forster

After Cox's death, he married Ruth Mallory, widow of George Mallory the mountaineer.


1985 Grand National

The winner was owned by Anne, Duchess of Westminster and trained by Captain Tim Forster in Letcombe Bassett, Oxfordshire.

Adam Forster

Adam Forster aka Carl August von Wiarda (5 April 1848 Emden, East Frisia - 11 April 1928 Sydney), was a botanical illustrator and naturalist, who after a lengthy stay in South Africa, eventually emigrated to Australia.

Arnold Förster

Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884.

Bachia

:"Bachia" as described by Förster in 1869 is now the gelinine wasp genus Bachiana.

Brian Forster

Forster is the stepson of actor Whit Bissell, step-grandson of actor Alan Napier, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the Batman television series (1966–1968), and the great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

Bruce Greensill

In 2003, he founded the Forster-Tuncurry Dolphins and was active in golden oldies rugby with first the Manning Mongrels of Taree and the Derelict Dolphins.

California Gull

Seriously threatened birds that share the same South Bay habitat include the Snowy Plover and California Least Tern, while less-threatened birds including Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, Forster's Terns, and Caspian Terns are also preyed upon by the abnormally large flocks of California Gulls.

Commissar Order

Jürgen Förster: "The Wehrmacht and the War of Extermination Against the Soviet Union" pages 494-520 from The Nazi Holocaust Part 3 The "Final Solution": The Implementation of Mass Murder Volume 2 edited by Michael Marrus, Westpoint: Meckler Press, 1989 ISBN 0-88736-255-9.

Dewas

E.M.Forster wrote a Travelogue named -The Hill of Devi in 1953.The Hill of Devi is his non-fictional account of him.

Eohippus

Its similarities with fossils described by Richard Owen were formally pointed out in a 1932 paper by Sir Clive Forster Cooper.

Felton, Northumberland

Forster, by his own account, used Acton House as a model for Cadover in his own favourite novel The Longest Journey (1907).

Friedrich Christoph Förster

Friedrich Christoph Förster (24 September 1791, Münchengosserstädt on the Saale - 8 November 1868, Berlin) was a German historian and poet.

Garey Forster

On leaving the legislature, Forster was succeeded by another Democrat, who later turned Republican, but one more liberal than most Louisiana Republicans, Melinda Schwegmann, who in 1991 was elected to a single term as lieutenant governor.

Giraudia

Giraudia (Hymenoptera) – Giraudia Förster, 1868, a genus of an ichneumon wasps in the subfamily Gelinae within Ichneumonidae

Harold Forster

Forster himself was killed in action at Bouleuse Ridge, near Ventelay, Marne on 29 May 1918, he was initially only reported missing, and it took until 23 March 1919 for his death to be confirmed.

Howards End

Forster based his description of Howards End on a house at Rooks Nest in Hertfordshire, his childhood home from 1883 to 1893.

However, Forster's conception of it owed a great deal to 1, All Souls Place, where the sisters of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson lived.

Jake Forster-Caskey

During April 2011, Forster-Caskey was announced in the 18-man squad to represent England at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship in Serbia, commencing on 3 May.

Forster-Caskey was also selected to represent England under-17s at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico.

Kaspar Förster

Kaspar Förster (also Caspar Foerster) (baptized 28 February 1616, Danzig - died 2 February 1673, Oliva, near Danzig) was a German singer and composer.

Lucy Briers

Coincidentally, she appeared in an episode of Game On with Pride and Prejudice cast member Crispin Bonham-Carter, with Victoria Hamilton (Pride's Mrs Forster) in a stage production of As You Like It, and with Tom Hollander (Mr Collins in the 2005 version) in a stage production of Don Juan.

Ludwig Ferdinand Huber

Huber, enamoured of the talented young wife, gave up his diplomatic post, broke off his engagement to Dora Stock, removed with the Forster family to Switzerland, and on the death of her husband in 1794 married Thérèse Forster in Bôle.

Ludwig Förster

Ludwig Christian Friedrich (von) Förster (October 8, 1797, Ansbach - June 16, 1863, Bad Gleichenberg, Steiermark) was a German-born Austrian architect.

Margaret Forster

'Margaret Forster: An Introduction' by Kathleen Jones, published by Northern Lights 2003 ISBN 0-905404-92-0

Michael Forster

Forster's English relatives enrolled him at Calcutta’s La Martinière School until around 1921, when he was sent to England to complete his education at Lancing College in Sussex.

Monitum

On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.

Pauline Forster

Pauline Forster (born 1949, Carlisle) is an English artist, performer, musician, designer and landlady of The George Tavern in the East End of London.

Dog On was a clamped, mirrored Capri which Forster slept in for three nights outside the Tate Modern starting on the day of its grand opening.

Pauline Forster was born in Carlisle 1949, the Lake District, daughter of Jack Forster and Meg Arbury, the fourth of six siblings.

Rahona

The name was inadvertently used again in 1998 for a fossil species of Mesozoic bird, Rahona ostromi, by Catherine Forster and colleagues.

Raymond Robert Forster

Forster was an entomologist at the National Museum in Wellington from 1940 to 1947, with an interruption for military service during World War II.

Romnalda

Cooper Creek (P.I.Forster+ PIF4402) Qld Herbarium – only found in a few isolated locations around Cooper Creek, Wet Tropics region, north-eastern Queensland; and has obtained the Queensland government's official conservation status listing of "vulnerable" species.

Sammlung für Völkerkunde

The collection consists of approximately 17,000 items and focuses on the South Pacific with the Cook-Forster collection, containing items from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, and New Zealand, and on Siberia and the polar regions with the Baron von Asch collection.

Second voyage of James Cook

On his return to England Forster claimed that he had been granted exclusive publication rights to the history of the voyage by Lord Sandwich: a claim that Sandwich vehemently denied.

Shadow Fury

Markov, Forster and Hillier, and creates a clone that is the perfect killing machine, Takeru (Funaki), a killer ninja clone.

Solar handbag

These components were developed through a joint research effect between Forster Rohner AG and the University of Applied Science Rapperswil and the NTB Interstate University of Applied Sciences of Technology, Buchs, Switzerland.

St Paul's Church, Whitley Bay

A former organist, John Percival Forster, was killed in the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916.

Tanna Ground Dove

Forster records a native name mahk, almost certainly from the Kwamera language.

William Mark Forster

Forster then gathered the newsboys of the city together in a room in Little Collins Street, and started the Herald Boys' Try Excelsior Class, afterwards known as the City Newsboys' Society.

Forster arrived in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) on 18 October 1852 on the Ellen with his parents when he was six years old and was educated at St Luke's school, South Melbourne.

William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester

#Lady Mary Louisa Elizabeth Montagu (Kimbolton Castle, 27 December 1854 – 10 February 1934), married firstly at Kimbolton Castle, 10 December 1873 William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton and had issue, and secondly 20 July 1897 to Robert Carnaby Forster of Easton Park, Wickham Market, Suffolk (d. 23 June 1925), without issue.

Zurich.minds

Members of the board are: Rolf Dobelli (Chairman), Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, Pascal Forster, Michael Hengartner, Thomas Ladner, Hans Jürg Rufener and Alexander Wassmer.


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