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7 unusual facts about Hopkins


1942 Belize hurricane

About 90% of structures in San Pedro Town were destroyed, while Newtown was completely obliterated, causing its residents to relocate and establish the village of Hopkins.

Albert Frederick Mutti

Mutti was born in Hopkins, Missouri, the son of Albert Frederick Mutti, Jr. and Phyllis M. (Turner) Mutti.

Brandon Jamison

Brandon Leon Jamison (born July 31, 1981 in Hopkins, South Carolina) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat

Hopkins had collaborated with Hayman and Reginald Ernest Moreau in the publication of “The type-localities of some African mammals” in The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1946.

Judy Cheng-Hopkins

Cheng-Hopkins hails from Penang where she attended St. George's Girls' School.

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Butler-Hopkins has studied chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, and Budapest String Quartets, and received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven with Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University.

Richard Seymour

At Lower Richland High School in Hopkins, South Carolina, Seymour won first team All-Region honors, won first team All-Area honors, and as a senior, was voted the team's best defensive lineman, was a team captain, won an All-Area Player of the Week award, led his team to four All-Area Team of the Week honors, and finished the season with 8 sacks and 83 tackles.


AgustaWestland AW609

On 6 December 2002, the first ground tests of the BA609 prototype began, and the first flight took place on 6 March 2003 in Arlington, Texas, flown by test pilots Roy Hopkins and Dwayne Williams.

Antony Hopkins

Hopkins has written extensively for films, including Here Come the Huggetts (1948), The Pickwick Papers (1952), Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), and Billy Budd (1962).

Atlantic history

The organization of Atlantic History as a recognized area of historiography began in the 1980s under the impetus of American historians Bernard Bailyn of Harvard University and Jack P. Greene of Johns Hopkins University, among others.

Bob Cessna

His domestic partner and beloved companion of 44 years is the Woodstock artist and founding member of the singing duo Twinn Connexion Gerald "Jerry" Hopkins.

Brad Hopkins

In basketball, Hopkins played power forward, and was in the same lineup as future Iowa shot-blocker and NBA first-round draft pick Acie Earl.

David Patten

Patten played football at Lower Richland High School in Hopkins, South Carolina, where he caught passes from future Major League Baseball player Pokey Reese.

Digby Mackworth Dolben

Hopkins's biographer Robert Bernard Martin asserts that Hopkins’s meeting with Dolben, "was, quite simply, the most momentous emotional event of his undergraduate years, probably of his entire life".

Dunston Checks In

It was written by John Hopkins and Bruce Graham and directed by Ken Kwapis.

Edward Henty

Henty was born in Tarring, West Sussex, England, the fourth surviving son of Thomas Henty, who came of a well-known Sussex banking family, and his wife Frances Elizabeth Hopkins of Poling, West Sussex.

Edward M. Bernstein

The Ed Bernstein Show is a talk show that has featured such noteworthy guests as former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former boxing great George Foreman, actor Anthony Hopkins, CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer, as well as a bevy of entertainers such as Kelsey Grammer, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Urich, Regis Philbin, Leslie Nielsen, and many more.

El Primero

The yacht's original owner was Edward W. Hopkins, heir to the wealth of his uncle, Mark Hopkins, for whom the Mark Hopkins Hotel is named.

Frances Anne Hopkins

In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America.

Frank Hopkins

Hopkins' life and the story of the race were the inspiration for the 2004 film Hidalgo, written by John Fusco, directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Viggo Mortensen.

George William Brown

Hopkins selected Brown as one of the trustees of the university (but not of the hospital) who would oversee the construction and founding of the institutions now known as the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Geraint the Snakeman

Hopkins has been a controversial figure politically standing up for local causes including the fight to save the Prince Phillip Hospital A&E department and the neurosurgery at Morriston Hospital.

Girl Heroes

Hopkins also explores the roles of figures such as supermodels, magical girls, Carmen Sandiego, Britney Spears, Lara Croft, Xena, the Charlie's Angels (2000s), Sabrina Spellman, Mulan, and Buffy Summers.

Gladys Dick

Dick's years at Johns Hopkins and Berlin "marked her introduction to biomedical research" and provided opportunities to study experimental cardiac surgery and blood chemistry with Harvey Cushing, W.G. MacCallum, and Milton Winternitz.

JHU Politik

Professor Steven R. David and Professor Daniel Deudney, both of Johns Hopkins, were joined by Professor Colin Dueck of George Mason University.

John Charles Fields

Fields taught for two years at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

John Christian Hopkins

John Christian Hopkins (born 1960) is a Narragansett journalist, author, poet and public speaker who resides in Tuba City, Arizona, United States.

John Unsworth

In 1990, at North Carolina State University, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse).

Jonathan Simons

Simons completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical fellowship in medical oncology at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center.

Kosaraju

S. Rao Kosaraju (or Kosaraju Sambasiva Rao), a professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".

Love on Wheels

A daily commuter on a Green Line bus from the suburbs to Central London Fred Hopkins romantically pursues a fellow passenger Jane with the help of Briggs the bus conductor.

Maharashtra Cricket Association Cricket Stadium, Pune

The stadium is an astute addition to Hopkins Architects' already impressive portfolio: the prestigious practice also has notable work at London's Lord's and Hampshire County Cricket grounds, and the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton (completed February 2007), along with its recent London Velopark win.

Matthew Hopkins in popular culture

Sarum, the 1987 novel by Edward Rutherfurd, features Hopkins making a brief appearance in Wiltshire, where he becomes involved in a family quarrel and in an apparent attempt to frame Margaret Shockley as a witch.

Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

Hopkins successfully completed negotiations, and Borden constructed this creamery, designed by William D. Kyser, Superintendent of the Borden Creamery in Fairport, New York in Mount Pleasant.

Page Hopkins

Most recently, Hopkins interviewed Randy Roberts Potts on growing up with his grandfather Oral Roberts and then later revealing his homosexuality in his adult life.

Pauline Hopkins

Hopkins's novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (with an introduction by Richard Yarborough) was reprinted as a part of this series.

Hopkins spent the remainder of her years working as a stenographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard Betts

Richard Bett, professor in philosophy and classics at Johns Hopkins University

Robert Govett

Well-known members of his congregation were Evan Hopkins and Margaret Barber.

Rous River

In its upper reaches, Rous River is fed by a minor tributary, Hopkins Creek, on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, south of Mount Merino; and downriver of Numinbah near the small villages of Chillingham, Jacksons Creek enters the river.

Searching For Heaven

After the single, the band, with Steve Hopkins as the only member of the line-up and Hannett rejoined on bass, released with John Cooper Clarke the album Zip Style Method, in 1982.

Sherburne Hopkins

On the one hand, American investors, especially Hopkins’ client Henry Clay Pierce, wanted to unseat oil tycoon Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray and his Científico puppets.

Sigma Nu

Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is an undergraduate college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute.

STSI

Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA-sponsored institute at Johns Hopkins University

The Children's Hour

Its film adaptations, These Three (1936) starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and The Children's Hour (film) (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner.

The First Gentleman

The First Gentleman is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins and Cecil Parker.

The Life of Clutchy Hopkins

The Life of Clutchy Hopkins is the debut album by musician Clutchy Hopkins.

The Tin Man Was a Dreamer

Further recording was carried out in Los Angeles, prior to Hopkins' participation in the Rolling Stones' 1973 Far East tour.

The Wreck of the Deutschland

The poem plays a major role in Anthony Burgess' third "Enderby" novel, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, in which Enderby pitches an idea for a movie adaptation of the poem and produces a script, only to be duly horrified when the resulting movie bears little resemblance to either his script or to Hopkins's poem.

Tina Kover

She has been selected to translate Benoit Peeters' biography of Hergé for publication by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011.

Whitridge

John Whitridge Williams (1866–1931), American obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital

William R. Brody

This was postponed to March 3, 2009 upon Hopkins naming Ronald Daniels, the provost of the University of Pennsylvania its next President.


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