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4 unusual facts about Goddard


Henry Goddard

Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957), American psychologist and eugenicist

Richard Goddard

Rick Goddard, retired U.S. Air Force general and candidate for Congress

Dick Goddard (born 1931), American television meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist

Spike Goddard (Richard Goddard, born 1992), Australian racing driver


Alexa Goddard

On 13 March 2010, Goddard registered a YouTube channel under the username "AlexaMusicTV" with her manager and producer Stewart "Stew Mac" McLean.

Alexa Goddard (born 21 December 1990) is an English pop and R&B singer from Blackwater, Hampshire.

Camden Crescent, Bath

In July 1951 Number 1 Camden Crescent was the scene of an abduction when John Straffen took five-year-old Brenda Goddard and later killed her.

Catawba language

Red Thunder Cloud, apparently an impostor born Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, claimed to speak the language until he died in 1996 (Goddard 2000).

Comparison microscope

Colonel Goddard was the key forensic expert in solving the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in which seven gangsters were killed by rival Al Capone mobsters dressed as Chicago police officers.

Coronal loop

The Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE) was launched in April 1998 from Vandenberg Air Force Base as part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Small Explorer (SMEX) project.

Covalent organic framework

Omar M. Yaghi and William A. Goddard III also reported COFs as exceptional methane storage materials.

Omar M. Yaghi and William A. Goddard III reported COFs as exceptional hydrogen storage materials.

Dick Goddard

Goddard began his weather career while taking classes on meteorology during a stint with the United States Air Force from 1949 through the early 1950s.

After returning to Cleveland, Goddard also took a job with the NFL's Cleveland Browns as the team's official statistician for home games.

Educating Yorkshire

Before filming began Twofour advised Mitchell to get into contact with Vic Goddard, headmaster of Passmores Academy, the school in which Educating Essex was set.

Fay Templeton

The Goddard sank in a storm on October 22, 1901 in Lake Laberge Yukon and was first found in 2009; the recordings were discovered a year later, after exploration of the vessel.

Frank B. Wynn

Dr. Goddard became world famous for his introduction of IQ testing in America, and he had correspondence with Dr. Albert Einstein.

Fred Espenak

He is co-author with Jean Meeus of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 2006.

Goddard and Townsend

John Goddard made a famous six-shell desk-bookcase for Providence merchant Nicholas Brown.

However, this alone is not proof of Goddard or Townsend origin- recently rediscovered cabinetmakers such as Benjamin Baker (1734–1822) of Newport or Grindal Rawson (1719–1803) of Providence are also known to have used the carved shell pattern when constructing case furniture.

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

In November 2004, Climatologists Drew Shindell and Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, received Scientific American magazine's Top 50 Scientist award.

Good Morning, Miss Bliss

Other characters include Gabriel Damon as Bradley; Samantha Mills as Wendy; Julie Ronnie as Lonnie Maple; Matt Shakman as Georgie Winslow; Charles Siebert as Charlie Davis; Britton Elliott as Janet Hillhurst; Josh Goddard as Steven; and Andrea Messersmith as Laurie.

Harold Clarke Goddard

The Meaning of Shakespeare is the only book of Dr. Goddard's that is currently in print.

Hartham Park

In 1790, following the death of her husband Commodore Sir William James, Chairman of the East India Company, Lady Anne James's (née Goddard) decided to move from Eltham, London to Wiltshire.

High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment

HAWC is a joint collaboration between a large number of American and Mexican universities and scientific institutions, including UNAM, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Inertial navigation system

Dr. Goddard's systems were of great interest to contemporary German pioneers including Wernher von Braun.

Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast

As the water drains into the floor, a very angry King Goobot shows up and traps Jimmy and Goddard in a floating bubble while forcing the audience and Carl to listen to the Chicken Dance as the seats move and bounce to the song.

Lake of Stars Music Festival

The festival headliners were The Maccabees, SWAY, Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, Radioclit presents The Very Best, Tayo, Radio 1’s Nihal, Fabric’s Ali B, Ross Allen and Dekker & Johan, with many African acts including The Black Missionaries, Lucius Banda and Tay Grin.

Mary Katherine Goddard

Mary Goddard took control of the journal in 1774 while her brother was traveling to promote his Constitutional Post; she continued to publish it throughout the American Revolutionary War until 1784.

Maurice K. Goddard State Park

Maurice K. Goddard State Park is just off exit 130 of Interstate 79 on Pennsylvania Route 358.

Melissa Goddard

One of Goddard's film properties is the feature film, My Name is Jody Williams.

Miles Regis

Also shaping Miles's creativity was producer and musician Pelham Goddard who accompanied Miles on several of his early performances as well as his uncle, Jamaican writer and playwright Trevor Rhone whose film The Harder They Come and subsequent artistic ventures undoubtedly was a huge influence, as he witnessed the success of the author on the world stage.

Monster Mansion

Over the Fall and Winter of 2008, the Monster Plantation was completely overhauled by Goddard's company, the The Goddard Group.

In April 2008, impressed with the newly opened Glow in the Park Parade at Six Flags Mexico, Six Flags management approached designer Gary Goddard about the possibility of renewing the popular-but-rundown Monster Plantation dark ride at Six Flags Over Georgia, which Goddard had originally created over 25 years earlier.

Natural semantic metalanguage

The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s (Wierzbicka 1972), and Cliff Goddard at Australia's Griffith University (Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002).

Phil Hermanson

After graduating Goddard High School, five miles from Wichita, Kansas, he joined the United States Navy and served as a deep sea diver from 1983-1990.

Reg Sinfield

However, he had a long career with Gloucestershire prior to achieving higher representative honours, during which his steadiness provided a contrast with the attacking style of cricket provided by batsmen like Hammond and Barnett or bowlers like Goddard.

Rick Goddard

In 2003, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue appointed Goddard to the Board of Directors of the Georgia Military Coordinating Committee, which is chartered to provide direct support to Georgia’s military installations and military servicemembers in Georgia.

Goddard commanded two aircraft maintenance squadrons and two FB-111 fighter/bomber squadrons, the 380th Bomb Wing at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, New York and the 27th Fighter Wing at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis, New Mexico.

Roy McCardell

Goddard supervised the new supplement, made by Outcault and McCardell, and the first Sunday paper comic supplement in color was the November 6, 1896 issue of the Sunday World, featuring The Yellow Kid.

Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr.

Goddard's campaign symbol, the Arizona roadrunner, became familiar throughout the state, and it helped bolster his reputation as a man of energy who got things done.

The Meaning of Shakespeare

After the book was finished and had been accepted for publication, Dr. Goddard died without having named it; the title was provided by the publisher, the University of Chicago Press.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

In the American novel The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich man Tom Buchanan says that "civilization's going to pieces", based upon his reading of The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by "this man Goddard"; allusions to Lothrop Stoddard's book of scientific racism, and to Henry H. Goddard, a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist.

The Trisha Goddard Show

The Trisha Goddard Show (also stylized as Trisha) is an American syndicated tabloid talk show hosted by Trisha Goddard.

Theodore Goddard

Goddard went straight to Downing Street to see Baldwin, as a result of which he was provided with an aeroplane to take him directly to Cannes.

Trisha Goddard

For a What Not to Wear Christmas special aired on 22 December 2004, Goddard was given a fashion makeover by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine.

WestStar TalkRadio Network

The network also distributes Goddard's Gold and The 70s, two oldies/classic hits syndicated series hosted by KOOL-FM long-time Phoenix-based on-air radio broadcaster Steve Goddard, and An American Christmas, an annual special hosted by Mannheim Steamroller.

Xtrac Limited

Endean, together with Chris Goddard, who had been working on the electronic components essential to the system, in 1983 developed the first ever so-called Xtrac 4WD system for Norwegian rallycross star Martin Schanche.


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