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unusual facts about Isaacs


Mount Wanniassa

Mount Wanniassa is a mountain peak located in Canberra, Australia, nestled between the suburbs of Wanniassa, Farrer, Isaacs and Fadden.


Abram S. Isaacs

It became merged in The American Hebrew in 1903, at which time Isaacs withdrew from editorial work.

Avrom Isaacs

In 1955, he opened The Isaacs Gallery where he represented numerous Canadian artists, including Michael Snow, Graham Goughtry, Gordon Rayner, Jack Chambers, Joyce Wieland, Mark Prent, John Meredith, Robert Markle and Gathie Falk.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903), American state legislator and executive; son and law partner of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll; Democrat from Connecticut; served in state legislature and, from May 1873 to January 1877, as governor of Connecticut

Dan Santat

Since then he has illustrated for other authors, including Dan Gutman, Barbara Jean Hicks, and Anne Isaacs.

Harry Z. Isaacs

In 1986, Harry Isaacs acquired Long Branch Estate near Millwood, Virginia.

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

Ira Isaacs

Isaacs was born in The South Bronx and attended Taft High School.

Jacob Joseph

The dedication ceremony was attended by Mayor William O’Dwyer, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, Councilman Stanley Isaacs, and Captain Joseph’s father Lazarus Joseph – a Democratic Party leader who was a six time State Senator and New York City's Comptroller at the time.

James Monroe Trotter

Born free in 1842, she was a woman of color, the daughter of Tucker Isaacs and Ann-Elizabeth (Fossett) Isaacs from Charlottesville, Virginia.

Jeremy Isaacs

Ted Turner sought out Isaacs (confusing him with the actor Jeremy Irons) for the role of executive producer for his 1998 24-episode Cold War series.

In 1990, Isaacs named a four-hour dramatisation of an early Percy Bysshe Shelley Gothic horror novel, Zastrozzi (1986), as one of the 10 programmes of which he was most proud during his tenure as Channel 4's chief executive.

John Dove Isaacs

He became Full Professor at the University of California, San Diego, which honored him posthumously by creating the John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy.

John Fare

In 1985 Danny Devos wrote to Isaacs Gallery founder Avrom Isaacs enquiring about John Fare and his supposed performance in 1968.

Jorge Isaacs

Little is known about his childhood, but in some of his poems Isaacs portrays the Valley of the Cauca as an idyllic place where he spent his most of it.

Kate Is Enough

It was steasingly suggested that Isaacs prove his devotion to a radio show by having his character say "ukulele" onscreen, which was a case of "Challenge accepted!"

Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs

Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs (known familiarly as Nats), is the second child of the 4th Marquess of Reading, Simon Charles Henry Rufus Isaacs and Melinda Victoria Rufus Isaacs née Dewar.

Marconi scandal

The allegations included the fact that Isaacs' brother, Godfrey Isaacs, was managing director of the Marconi company.

Nathaniel Isaacs

Most of what has been written about Shaka comes from the accounts of Henry Francis Fynn and Isaacs who learned to speak the Zulu language fluently.

Princeton Glee Club

James Giddings became director in 1934, Timothy Cheney in 1940, J. Merrill Knapp in 1941, Russell Ames Cook in 1943, J. Merrill Knapp again in 1946, Elliot Forbes in 1952, Carl Weinrich in 1953, Walter L. Nollner in 1958, William Trego in 1992, Richard Tang Yuk in 1994, Robert Isaacs in 2009, and Gabriel Crouch since 2010.

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

Along with Alfred Mond and Herbert Samuel, Isaacs was a founding chairman of the Palestine Electric Corporation, precursor to the Israel Electric Corporation in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Sonya Isaacs

Isaacs grew up near Morrow, Ohio, and graduated from Little Miami High School in 1992.

Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942

Although King George V disapproved of Isaacs, the 1930 Imperial Conference upheld the procedure under the declaration, and so the King appointed Isaacs.

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Isaacs embarked upon a series of lectures in infant school education at Darlington Training College; in logic at Manchester University; and psychology at London University.

Isaacs was born in 1885 in Turton, Lancashire, the daughter of William Fairhurst, a journalist and Methodist lay preacher, and his wife, Miriam Sutherland.

T. Rice Holmes

In 1888, he married Isabel Isaacs, the daughter of Lionel Isaacs of Mandeville, Jamaica.

Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream

It included: Harry Smith/Herman Melville, Joan Larkin/Emily Dickinson, Zizwe Ngafua/Paul Laurence Dunbar, Enid Dame/Adah Isaacs Menken, Maurice Kenny/Pauline Johnson, Richard Davidson/Walt Whitman, Ellen Marie Bissert/Alice Carey, and Donald Lev/Edgar Allan Poe.


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