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7 unusual facts about Howe


Bernard Hogan-Howe

He was brought up single-handedly by his mother, whose surname of Hogan he later added by Deed poll.

Howe, Norfolk

Howe, from the Old Norse word haugr, is a Middle English topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow.

Little Lost River

Along its course the Little Lost is used for irrigation, but the only settlement of any size is Howe, situated near the mouth.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell

On 4 September 1658, Thomas Wyberg Esq., of St Bees, Joseph Patrickson of Howe, and William Barwis of Paddigil signed a deed on behalf of their wives the three co-heiresses, transferring the Brayton Manorial Estates and other property valued at one thousand pounds to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel.

Stanghow

How or Howe, deriving from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill, is a common element in Yorkshire place name.

Yorkshire Wolds

A large round barrow called Willy Howe (Howe, a topographic name from Middle English, originated with the Old Norse word haugr meaning a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow.

Recently excavated long barrows at Fordon on Willerby Wold and at Kilham have been carbon dated to around 3700 B.C. A well-known round barrow of this period is the monumental Duggleby Howe, at the western end of the Great Wolds Valley, partially excavated in 1890 by J.R. Mortimer.


.35 Whelen

At the time Colonel Townsend Whelen was the commanding officer of the Frankford Arsenal, and James V. Howe was a toolmaker in the same establishment.

Alex Dimitrov

Since then, Dimitrov has hosted the following writers: John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Henri Cole, CAConrad, Michael Cunningham, Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Marie Howe, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Liu, Daniel Mendelsohn, Eileen Myles, Carl Phillips, Brenda Shaughnessy, David Trinidad, and Edmund White.

Andrew Carney

In 1863, Carney gifted Howe Mansion in South Boston, a $13,500 estate, to the Sisters of Charity for the establishment of a Catholic hospital in Boston to care for the sick and poor, irrespective of race, color or creed.

Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland

Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe.

Beemer, Nebraska

The earliest settlers in Beemer Township included M. Brayrerton, George Graham, Joseph S. Emley, Robert Fehlmann, Dr. H.H. Howe, Howard Howe, James and Michael McNamara, Judge Newburn, the Rabe family, W.S. Schneald, William Sharp and two sons Martin and Silas, Casper Schifferns, David Simons, Wm.

Bill Howe

The son of Brigadier General William Francis Howe, Bill Howe attended Phillips Andover Academy before going on to serve as a Second Lieutenant as a bombardier with the 15th Air Force in World War II.

Boston line letter

Howe's system was similar to raised letters designed by James Gall in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1820s.

British Columbia Highway 99

Highway 99 north goes through the downtown area by way of Seymour Street (southbound it uses Howe Street) and Georgia Street, through Stanley Park, and over the Lions Gate Bridge into West Vancouver at Marine Drive.

Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement

Other economists on the free-trade side included John Whalley of the University of Western Ontario and Richard Lipsey of the C.D. Howe Institute.

Charles Fielding

He accompanied Admiral Howe (with whom he had already served in American waters) to Gibraltar in September, 1782.

Christinus guentheri

It is found at Australia islands, at the Norfolk and Lord Howe Island, and has a common name Lord Howe Island Southern Gecko.

Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus

The Chorus has performed with guest artists such as George Howe, Mark Hardy, Tommy Femia, Julie Halston, and Julie Wilson, and has given joint performances with Another Octave/Connecticut Women’s Chorus, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Baltimore Gay Men’s Chorus.

Emanuel Scrope Howe

He was the fourth son of John Grubham Howe of Langar in Nottinghamshire; his older brother, Scrope Howe, was a prominent Whig politician and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Howe in 1701.

Firekites

They are based around Tim McPhee and Rod Smith with other members including Jane Tyrell (The Herd), Jason Tampake (Josh Pyke), Ben Howe and Pegs Adams.

George Buchanan McClure

His executor were his brother James Howe McClure and his stepmother's brother James Cholmeley Russell.

Glory, Glory

The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, an American patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe in 1861

Graeme Dell

Amongst the coaches he has worked for include Sir Bobby Robson, Roy Hodgson, Don Howe, Les Reed and England's most successful youth team Coach to date Ted Powell.

Herbert Alonzo Howe

Most of Howe's work at the observatory consisted of observations of neglected nebulae from the New General Catalogue, measurements of double stars, and positional work on comets and asteroids.

High Hollow

When Howe left Mellor, Meigs & Howe in 1928, he sold High Hollow to cigar mogul Samuel Paley (see La Palina) and his artist-philanthropist wife, Goldie Paley.

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

Isaac Gulliver

An extremely wealthy man, Gulliver was also able to build many grand houses, among them 'Howe Lodge', in Kinson, Bournemouth, a purpose built smuggling stronghold.

Jack Balmer

After the short journey across Stanley Park, Jack flitted in and out of the starting line-up during his first season at the club, fighting for the number 9 shirt with Fred Howe.

James Howe

In 2007, James Howe was the recipient of The E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books for his book Houndsley and Catina, illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay, and published by Candlewick Press.

John Howe, 4th Baron Chedworth

Born 22 August 1754, he was son of Thomas Howe (died 1776), rector of Great Wishford and Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire.

Kentucky Route 1072

KY 1072 begins at an intersection with Megellan Road/Howe Road near a Fidelity office building near Fort Wright, heading northwest on two-lane undivided Highland Pike.

LeAnne Howe

She has authored a book chapter on Choctaw history, contributed two important essays on her theory of "tribalography", and collaborated on literary criticism projects with Craig Howe (no relation), Harvey Markowitz, and Dean Rader.

In 2010-2011, Howe was a J. William Fulbright Scholar in Amman, Jordan where she taught American Indian and American literatures at the University of Jordan, Amman.

Lord Howe Thrush

The Lord Howe Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus vinitinctus), also known as Vinous-tinted Thrush or Vinous-tinted blackbird, is an extinct subspecies of the Island Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus).

Lucien Howe

Howe headed a committee of the American Medical Association, which collaborated with the Eugenics Record Office to register family "pedigrees" of blind people.

Marshall Otis Howe

Howe was a direct descendant of John Howe (1602-1680) who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from Brinklow, Warwickshire, England and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Mo' Money, Mo' 40z

All lyrics by Tony Lovato except for track 7 by J.Hicks, B.Howe and T.Lovato, tracks 8 and 15 by Steve Lovato and track 9 by Mest.

Nicholas Howe

Howe argued that the Anglo-Saxons, descendents of peoples who had traveled from continental Europe to settle Britain and then returned to Europe to convert their pagan forebears (Howe discusses Wilfrid, Saint Willibrord, and Saint Boniface, in connection with such poems as Beowulf and Exodus), were very conscious of their return to Europe and saw themselves as an integral part of and parallel to "the Israelite and Hebrew migration in biblical history".

OpenCrowd

Founded in 2005, it is headed by Sushil Prabhu as CEO, formerly CTO at Scient, with Bob Howe, founder of IBM’s consulting practice, and former CEO of Scient, serving as its Chairman.

Orion P. Howe

General Sherman wrote to Secretary of State William Stanton about Howe, and for his bravery President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the United States Naval Academy in July 1865 because he was too young for West Point.

Pennsylvania Navy

The Pennsylvania State Navy was responsible for defense of the river when Philadelphia was occupied by British General Sir William Howe, and the Royal Navy wanted to resupply Howe's army.

Peter Anton Howe

Howe came north to Saskatchewan with his parents, who settled near Foam Lake in 1904.

Ricky Ashworth

He had top scored during the heats to gain automatic qualification to the Grand Final Heat where he was up against the riders Ty Proctor, Darcy Ward and David Howe.

Russel Warren Howe

As an author, his books include "Theirs the Darkness" (1955), "The Power Peddlers" (1977), "Mata Hari" (1986), "Sleeping With the FBI" (1993), "False Flags" (1996) and "Don't Laugh, You're Next: The Irrepressible Wit & Humor of Russell Warren Howe" (2002).

Samuel Lyness Howe

He was born in St. Vincent township, Grey County, Ontario, the son of Andrew Howe and Margaret Lyness, and was educated at the Ontario College of Pharmacy.

Sour Howes

Sour Howes, which reaches a height of 483 m (1,585 ft) is mostly grassy although heather grows on the eastern slopes, a high dry stone wall crosses the top and links with the neighbouring fell of Sallows, which lies just over a kilometre to the north east, and with Sour Howe’s subsidiary top of Capple Howe (445 m, 1,460 ft) which is located 600 metres to the south east.

St Issey

On 28 December 1942 the British tug HMS St. Issey (Lt. J. H. W. Howe, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine (U-617) off Benghazi, Libya.

Strauss–Howe generational theory

In his review for the Boston Globe, Historian David Kaiser called The Fourth Turning "a provocative and immensely entertaining outline of American history." "Strauss and Howe have taken a gamble," argued Kaiser.

Tina Howe

-- Please tell us more about Howe's plays. -->In 2004, Howe penned English translations of Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and The Lesson, the latter of which was produced at the Atlantic Theater Company.

William Weston Patton

Where Patton only wrote "of the Christ we are to see", Howe testified that her eyes had already "seen the glory of the coming of the Lord".


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