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96 unusual facts about Greg "Fingers" Taylor


A. R. Taylor

In January 1947 Arnold began the career which dominated his life, gaining a lectureship in the English Department at the University of Leeds, where he succeeded Bruce Dickins (who had himself succeeded Arnold's tutor E. V. Gordon when Gordon left Leeds for Manchester) in teaching medieval English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic Studies.

Ahava

In the United States, the largest overseas market for Ahava products, the company signed distribution deals with Lord & Taylor, Nordstrom and the beauty-supply chain Ulta.

Alan Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor (Alan John Percivale Taylor, 1906–1990), British historian

Alfred A. Taylor

Taylor was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee, the second son of Nathaniel Green Taylor, a congressman, Methodist minister, and poet, and Emaline Haynes Taylor, an accomplished pianist.

The commission negotiated the Medicine Lodge Treaty with the southern Plains Indians, bringing about their removal to reservations in Indian Territory.

Amos J. Taylor

Taylor's life story was featured in the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from Band of Brothers.

Arthur H. Taylor

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Arthur R. Taylor

In 1985, Fordham University named him dean of its Graduate School of Business Administration.

B. E. Taylor Christmas 2

E. Taylor Christmas 2 is the third album by solo artist B. E. Taylor.

Benjamin I. Taylor

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and instead resumed the practice of law in Port Chester, New York.

Bernard Taylor

Bernard J. Taylor, South African writer and composer of stage musicals

Blade element theory

Blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process originally designed by William Froude (1878), David W. Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to determine the behavior of propellers.

Can't Believe

It was written and produced by Sean Combs and Mario Winans for Evans' third studio album Faithfully (2001) and is built around a sample of "Phone Tap" as performed by The Firm and penned by Nas, Anthony Cruz, Chris Taylor, Jermaine Baxter, and Dr. Dre.

Charles P. B. Taylor

He reported from numerous countries around the world, providing coverage of major events including the Vietnam War, the Nigerian Civil War, and the Arab–Israeli conflict.

Charles V. Taylor

In 1961, he moved to Butere in Western Kenya to a teaching position at Chadwick Teachers' College, where he later became Principal.

Chester W. Taylor

Taylor was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, serving from October 25, 1921 to March 3, 1923.

Claude Taylor

Claude D. Taylor (1911–1970), real estate agent and political figure in New Brunswick

Daniel Taylor

Daniel C. Taylor (born 1945), American scholar and practitioner of social change

David G. P. Taylor

He did his National Service in the Royal Navy after which he was posted to RAF China Bay at Trincomalee, in modern day Sri Lanka, as a sub-lieutenant (special) in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves.

Dislocation

In 1934, Egon Orowan, Michael Polanyi and G. I. Taylor, almost simultaneously realized that plastic deformation could be explained in terms of the theory of dislocations.

Don L. Taylor

After completing one term, the 31st Canadian Parliament, Taylor was defeated in the 1980 election by James Manly of the New Democratic Party.

Edward L. Taylor, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1913).

Edward W. Carmack

Carmack failed to secure reelection to a second Senate term, being succeeded by former governor of Tennessee Robert L. Taylor, and returned to the practice of law.

Emergent organization

Alternatively, James R. Taylor wrote in 2000 his seminal book, The Emergent Organization, where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text.

Estelle Lefébure

Over the years, she has appeared in advertisements for Guess?, Cartier, Christian Dior, Revlon, Lord & Taylor, and Samsung.

Ezra B. Taylor

He served as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Fifty-first Congress) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892.

He was reelected to the Forty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from December 13, 1880, to March 3, 1893.

Fingers, Inc.

Ron Wilson is also known for his work with the Chicago house group in the mid-1980s, and popular solo tracks produced by Larry Heard such as 'Prove It To Me'.

Frankie Knuckles

Then came more production work, including Jamie Principle's "Baby Wants to Ride", and later "Tears" with Robert Owens (of Fingers, Inc.) and (Knuckles' protégé and future Def Mix associate) Satoshi Tomiie.

Fred Gardiner

The trunk sewers and sewage treatment plant for the Don Mills development was financed by its developer, E. P. Taylor, when North York Township could not.

G. I. Taylor

In the 1930s he invented the 'CQR' anchor which was both stronger and more manageable than any in use and which was used for all sorts of small craft including seaplanes.

In 1934, Taylor, roughly contemporarily with Michael Polanyi and Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be explained in terms of the theory of dislocations developed by Vito Volterra in 1905.

Garnet Sixsmith

Just before the game began, Portage Lakes' William "Lady" Taylor told Garnet; "I'm going to break your break tonight".

George A. Taylor

George Arthur Taylor was born in the small village Flat Rock, Illinois, in the southeast of Illinois.

George P. Taylor

General Taylor was a chief flight surgeon and board certified in aerospace medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

He served as the Command Surgeon for Air Combat Command where he molded the Air Force medical support for the response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and for Operation Noble Eagle and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Herman L. Taylor, Jr.

District 14 includes parts of Silver Spring, Calverton, Colesville, Cloverly, Fairland, Burtonsville, Olney, Brookeville, Laytonsville, Damascus, Ashton and Sandy Spring in Montgomery County.

Horacena J. Taylor

Starting in the early 1970s, Taylor has worked extensively as a stage manager on numerous productions for the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) including The Sty of the Blind Pig, The First Breeze of Summer and The Brownsville Raid.

Isaac M. Taylor

Isaac Montrose Taylor (June 15, 1921 – November 3, 1996) was the dean of the Medical School of the University of North Carolina from 1964 until 1971, and the father of James Taylor, the singer and guitarist, and four other children, Alex, Livingston, Hugh, and Kate.

J. V. S. Taylor

Joseph van Someren Taylor was born on 3 July in 1820, Bellary, Mysore.

Jim B. Taylor

Taylor was present when in 1867 Prince Alfred, son of Queen Victoria, called at the Cape aboard the screw frigate HMS Galatea (1859–1883) on his voyage around the world.

John C. Taylor

He died in Anderson, South Carolina on March 25, 1983 and was interred in Garden of Memories, Honea Path, South Carolina.

John G. Taylor

He was an Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College London and Guest Scientist of the Research Centre at the Institute of Medicine in Jülich, Germany.

In 2011, Prof Taylor co-founded Commonwealth Capital Management LLP together with Nathaniel Philip Rothschild and Mehraj Mattoo.

Joseph T. Taylor

His battalion was committed to combat in the European Theater of Operations and he fought at the Battle of the Bulge.

The school motto is "We teach the 'whole child.' Our desire is that our children become 'masters of the universe.'" The Flanner House, now a United Way agency, houses the Center for Working Families, Children's Bureau, Marion County Public Library Branch, Indianapolis Metro Police Department, IPS Adult Basic Education and GED training program.

Judith Mappin

Mappin is the daughter of businessman E. P. Taylor, and is also a trustee of the Charles Taylor Prize for Canadian non-fiction literature, named after her late brother Charles.

Julien Dubuque

In 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked forensic artist Karen T. Taylor to create a facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque.

Karen E. Taylor

A graduate of Churchill area High School and later of Grove City College, her first love was the theater, but now she admits that writing is better; "You get to write all the lines and play all the parts."

Karen T. Taylor

In early 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked Taylor to create a 2D facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque, founder of Dubuque, Iowa.

Taylor, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, developed an early aptitude for drawing and sculpting faces.

Kenneth D. Taylor

After the film was previewed at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, criticism arose that the film unfairly minimized the participation of the Canadian government, and Taylor, in the extraction operation.

Kevin E. Taylor

He has provided album artwork for numerous bands including The Fresh & Onlys, Magic Trick, Ned Oldham, as well as illustrated a T. Coraghessan Boyle short story for Playboy Magazine.

L. D. Taylor

L. D. Taylor championed the issue of amalgamating South Vancouver and Point Grey with Vancouver, and oversaw a variety of public works projects in the rapidly developing city, including the opening of the airport at Sea Island and the Burrard Street Bridge.

Lawrence Moore Cosgrave

Cosgrave was the son of Lawrence J., founder of Cosgrave & Sons Brewery Company, and brother of James, a partner with E. P. Taylor in horse racing's Cosgrave Stables.

Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo

Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo, is a musical by Bernard J. Taylor that had its world premiere stage production at the Josephine Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, in 2000.

Listen to Britain

A.J.P. Taylor believes Britain's war socialism represented genuine unity, allowing Jennings to admit these tensions given the public's distaste for overt propaganda.

Lucas Fox

Fox was drummer for six months before being replaced during their first album recording sessions by Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor.

Mall St. Matthews

The mall expanded again in 1995 with a new wing and the addition of Dillard's, and in 1997 Lord & Taylor followed suit.

Mariah A. Taylor

Mariah A. Taylor, MSN, RN, CPNP (born 1 October 1939, in Atlanta, Texas), is the founder of the North Portland Nurse Practitioner Community Health Clinic in Portland, Oregon.

Mark Taylor

Mark C. Taylor (born 1945), professor of religion at Columbia University, author

Mark P. Taylor, professor in economics and international finance and dean of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick

Martin Taylor

Sir Martin J. Taylor (born 1952), British mathematician and past Vice-President of the Royal Society

Maynard L. Taylor, Jr.

He was employed by the Civil Aviation Administration and the Alaska Railroad, and taught at the newly founded Anchorage Community College, the predecessor to the University of Alaska Anchorage.

He went on to found the community of Basher in what would eventually come to be known as the Stuckagain Heights neighborhood of Anchorage, in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains.

Mike P. Taylor

To date, he has published 13 paleontological papers and is co-credited with naming two genus of dinosaur (Xenoposeidon in 2007 with Darren Naish, and Brontomerus in 2011).

Minkowski diagram

Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler (1963) Spacetime Physics, pages 27 to 38, New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, Second edition (1992).

Nathaniel Taylor

Kenneth N. Taylor (1917–2005), American publisher and author, better known as the creator of the The Living Bible and the founder of Tyndale House

Nkore-Kiga language

The main resource for Nkore-Kiga is a book written by Charles V. Taylor titled simply Nkore-Kiga.

Noel C. Taylor

A Republican, he was elected mayor in 1976, after having been appointed to complete the term of Roy L. Webber after his death in 1975.

Norfolk, Connecticut

Norfolk also boasts important examples of regional architecture, notably the Village Hall (now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880s Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level); the Norfolk Library (a Shingle Style structure by George Keller, 1888/9); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety of styles, designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor (of the New York firm Taylor & Levi) in the four decades before the Second World War.

Pemetrexed

The molecular structure of pemetrexed was developed by Edward C. Taylor at Princeton University and clinically developed by Indianapolis based drug maker, Eli Lilly and Company in 2004.

Peter Karrie

He also created roles in three Bernard J. Taylor musicals (see below) and received excellent reviews.

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

The original Board members were Carol E. Dinkins, of Texas, Chairwoman; Alan Charles Raul, of the District of Columbia, Vice Chairman; Theodore B. Olson, of Virginia; Lanny Davis, of Maryland, and Francis X. Taylor, of Maryland.

They were Daniel W. Sutherland, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security, to serve a six-year term as chair of the board; Ronald D. Rotunda, professor of law at George Mason University, to serve a four-year term as a member of the PCLOB; and Francis X. Taylor, a former member of the board, to a serve a two-year term.

Rakesh Aggarwal

As with successful entrepreneurs such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s Jack C. Taylor, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Pret A Manger’s Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe, Aggarwal insists customer service is the guiding principle of his business philosophy.

Samuel A. Taylor

He was often contracted to write drafts for Hitchcock's later films, such as Torn Curtain (1966), though Taylor's only other Hitchcock screenplay (apart from Vertigo) was for Topaz (1969).

Samuel M. Taylor

Taylor was subsequently elected to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph T. Robinson.

He was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 15, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 13, 1921.

Sassafras Mountain

The North Carolina side of the mountain was owned by former Congressman Charles H. Taylor.

Steven Taylor

Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), American politician, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice

T. L. Taylor

T.L. Taylor is a sociologist who specialises in researching the culture of gaming and online communities, in particular, e-sports and MMOGs such as EverQuest and World of Warcraft.

Ted Taylor

Teddy B. Taylor, U.S. diplomat, United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, accredited to Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

The Blum Store

The store was comparable in quality, style, and reputation to larger chains Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor and was one of the premier chains headquartered in Philadelphia, selling women's clothing and accessories and children's clothing.

Thomas H. Taylor

Thomas Hart Taylor (July 31, 1825 – April 12, 1901) was a Confederate States Army colonel, brigade commander, provost marshal and last Confederate post commander at Mobile, Alabama during the American Civil War (Civil War).

Torso Fragment

The other two works are a commissioned fictional bust of the patron saint of nurses, St. Camillus de Lellis installed in the School of Nursing and another bust, of Dr. Joseph T. Taylor, the first dean of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

Travis Taylor

Travis S. Taylor, American science fiction author, scientist, and host of Rocket City Rednecks television show

Walter C. Taylor

He entered the newspaper business in 1890, purchasing Towner News, a small newspaper from Towner, North Dakota.

He relocated to LaMoure, North Dakota, and edited their newspaper, The Chronicle in 1894.

Walter H. Taylor

He was the son of Walter H. Taylor Sr. and Cornelia Wickham Cowdery, and was a descendant of English colonist Adam Thoroughgood and his wife Sarah.

The project had been surveyed and laid out before the American Civil War by William Mahone, who also later served under General Lee.

Walter Taylor

Walter C. Taylor (1870–1929), North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor

Walter H. Taylor (1838–1916), Virginia lawyer, businessman, and soldier, aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee

Washington Navy Yard

In 1898, David W. Taylor developed a ship model testing basin, which was used by the Navy and private shipbuilders to test the effect of water on new hull designs.

WMSI-FM

Mississippi artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Greg "Fingers" Taylor and Paul Davis were played, and occasionally saw their songs achieve local hit status.


Ali McMordie

After Stiff Little Fingers disbanded in 1983, McMordie formed Friction Groove with a group of Reading musicians who were in a successful local band, Between Pictures.

Ancient Greek medicine

He is given credit for the first purple description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.

Boris Schapiro

They conferred with Alan Truscott, the The New York Times bridge editor, and agreed they would all observe Reese–Schapiro and record how many fingers were visible when each held his cards in each hand.

Canape

Canapé, a small, prepared and usually decorative food, held in the fingers

Classical guitar technique

In the tremolo technique, the thumb plays a bass note followed by the fingers which play the same treble note three times: pami, pami, pami etc. (Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega is a famous example of this technique).

E. V. Gordon

1927 An Introduction to Old Norse, Revised edition 1956, revised by A.R. Taylor; Reprinted 1981, Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd edition

Eric Luedtke

In 2010, Luedtke ran for the House of Delegates after then-Delegates Herman L. Taylor, Jr. and Karen S. Montgomery decided to run for higher offices.

He dropped out of the Senate race, but in early 2010 two seats in the House of Delegates became open when incumbent Delegate Karen S. Montgomery decided to challenge Kramer and Delegate Herman L. Taylor, Jr. began a campaign against Congresswoman Donna Edwards.

Fico

Fig sign, a sign of contempt, rejection or refusal made with the fingers

Golpe

Golpe (guitar technique) is a Flamenco guitar technique where one uses the fingers to tap on the soundboard of the guitar, from the Spanish "golpe", meaning to strike.

John Roberts Reading

Reading presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Forty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1869, to April 13, 1870, when he was succeeded by Caleb N. Taylor, who contested his election.

Juicy Couture

The line is sold in department stores (Bloomingdale's, Gus Mayer, Lord & Taylor, Bergdorf Goodman, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue), as well as Juicy Couture "flagship" stores and boutiques.

Lighter

In August 2011 Stephen Fry chose the lighter as the greatest gadget in his Channel 4 programme Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets, one of the 100 Greatest strand, describing it as "fire with a flick of the fingers".

Markus Grosskopf

He regularly uses a pick for the more straightforward, simple bass lines, as in I Want Out or Just a Little Sign, and fingers for more lead-type playing, as on Eagle Fly Free or Halloween.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Notable wrestlers who wrestled in the building during this time include then WWF Champion Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, André the Giant, Bret Hart, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, Ken Patera, Tito Santana and Rowdy Roddy Piper (who also hosted his "Piper's Pit" segment on the show).

MIT class ring

Iron Man: Lieutenant Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes (played by Terrence Howard) and Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) both wear the Brass Rat, visible on their fingers.

Nathaniel D. Mann

"Climb de Golden Fence : (oh my! wicked piccaninny)", lyrics by Hattie Starr, M. Witmark & Sons, 1895, interpolated into a production of C.W. Taylor's 1852 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Northern Soul 2007

# Carol Jiani – "Work My Fingers to the Bone" (Levine, Scott, Carol Jiani)

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Pushing Buttons

In the United States, the EP was not released, but "Black Friday" and "More Than You Are" ended up on Guide to Better Living and "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" ended up on an ECW compilation released by Earache Records.

Tatou

"Tatou Strip Tease", a Dusty Fingers track from their Dusty Fingers Volume 15 album

Tea cosy

In the 2000 film Snatch, a tea cosy is placed over Franky Four Fingers' (Benicio del Toro's) head in place of a blindfold, when he is held captive by pawnbrokers-turned-robber-abductors Vinnie (Robbie Gee) and Sol (Lennie James).

Unvarnished New Testament

English-speaking Christians such as Helen Barrett Montgomery, Clarence Jordan, Olaf M. Norlie, Kenneth N. Taylor, Jay P. Green and Richard Francis Weymouth have long expressed dissatisfaction with older, archaic-sounding Bible translations.

William Astbury

Interestingly, Neurath's paper and Astbury's data inspired H. S. Taylor (1941,1942) and Maurice Huggins (1943) to propose models of keratin that are very close to the modern α-helix.

Yanghwajin Foreigners' Cemetery

Albert Wilder "Bruce" Taylor (1875–1948) American gold mining executive and UPA (later UPI) correspondent, lived in Korea for the majority of his life with his wife, Mary Linley Taylor.