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unusual facts about Henry O. Pollak


Henry O. Pollak

He authored near forty papers, many of these with David Slepian and Henry Landau on


1650 in Ireland

21 July - Henry O'Neill, son of Owen Roe O'Neill, executed by the English Parliamentarians after the Battle of Scarrifholis.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 drama feature film directed by Wayne Wang starring Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.

Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond

Barnabas married Mary, youngest daughter of Sir George Fermor and widow of James, lord Sanquhar, by whom he had one son, Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond, his successor (1621–1691); and one daughter, Penelope, who married Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough.

Bernard Segal

In 1981, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review devoted a unique issue to Segal, with tributes from Supreme Court Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judges Arlin M. Adams and Louis H. Pollak and other legal luminaries.

Cyrus K. Holliday

He is portrayed in the 1940 movie "Santa Fe Trail" by Henry O'Neill as a promoter of commerce and development in the American West of his time.

Ealy Mays

He followed in the footsteps of other African American artists, performers, and intellectuals such as Victor Séjour, Henry O. Tanner, Ira Aldridge, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, and others who, since the mid-19th century, have chosen Paris and elsewhere in France and Europe for study or expatriate life.

Henry O. Talle

After the 1956 elections (in which Talle prevailed over Democrat Leonard Wolf but received only 52.3 percent of the vote), he was the ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee.

Henry O'Brien

Henry L. O'Brien (c. 1869–1935), American politician from New York

Henry Joseph O'Brien (1896–1976), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond

After Anne's death, he married Sarah Russell, daughter of Sir Francis Russell, and widow of Sir John Reynolds.

Henry O'Brien, Lord Ibrackan

He is a major character in The Piccadilly Plot, the seventh in the Thomas Chaloner mystery novels by Susanna Gregory.

He died of disease while in camp with his regiment in Flanders.

He married Katherine Stuart, 7th Baroness Cifton, daughter of George Stuart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny and Lady Katherine Howard: the Aubigny Stuarts were a junior branch of the royal family.

Henry O'Farrell

The Prince was hospitalised for two weeks, and cared for by six nurses trained by Florence Nightingale, who had arrived in Australia that February under Matron Lucy Osburn.

He had been briefly employed by his brother, a Melbourne solicitor, who also had offices in Ballarat, and is therefore sometimes described as a law clerk.

Henry O'Neil

Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817–1880), historical genre painter and minor Victorian writer

Howard Shelanski

After graduating from law school he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.

La Bisbal d'Empordà

In the Battle of La Bisbal, Spanish General Henry O'Donnell crushed the French forces of General François Xavier de Schwarz on 14 September 1810.

Louis James O'Leary

Born in Richibucto, New Brunswick, the son of Henry O'Leary and Mary O'Leary, O'Leary received his higher education from St. Joseph's College in Memramcook before going on to study at the Grand Seminary in Montreal.

Newry Cathedral

The cathedral was enlarged and beautified by Bishop Henry O'Neill, who succeeded Bishop McGivern in 1901.

Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak

The Capital Transit Company was a privately owned public utility that operated a street car and buss transit system in the District of Columbia.


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