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unusual facts about J. N. Williamson


Bibliomancy

In The Book of Webster's (1993) by J. N. Williamson, the sociopathic protagonist Dell uses the dictionary to guide his actions.


Amphionides

It was not until 1969 that the adult form was observed to be that described by Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer in 1904, and only in 1973 was Amphionides placed in its own order by Donald I. Williamson.

Ben M. Williamson

Afterwards Williamson resumed the wholesale hardware business at Ashland, with residence in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and was interested financially in various other business enterprises.

Ben Williamson

Ben M. Williamson (1864–1941), Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky

Bettina Welch

In Sydney she won a competition that led to her being trained by J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and she began acting on Australian radio.

Carnegie School

Organizations, Administrative Behavior, and A Behavioral Theory of the Firm were three highly influential works done by researchers at the Carnegie School as well as work by Victor Vroom, Oliver E. Williamson and other faculty and graduate students.

Community management

Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson won the 2009 Nobel prize in economic science for work in this area, where they suggested that with good community management of shared resources, as found in successful firms, the "tragedy of the commons" can be avoided.

David J. A. Clines

Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J.A. Clines (ISBN 0826466869) included contributions by James Barr, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Walter Brueggemann, Brevard Childs, Patrick D. Miller, Rolf Rendtorff, Hugh Williamson, and Ellen van Wolde.

Duncraig, Western Australia

The only Gilbert and Sullivan performer with a street named after him is Bernard Manning (1888–1961), a performer with the J. C. Williamson company and founder of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Western Australia in Perth.

Frank S. Williamson

Percival Serle considered him a strange case of an educated man writing a fair amount of verse of small merit until in middle life 'something blossomed in him and he wrote half a dozen quite beautiful poems'.

Henry Bracy

After a season at the Sydney Opera House and touring in operettas, the Bracys joined the J. C. Williamson organization, in which he was employed until 1914 as a performer, stage manager, stage director and casting agent.

Investment outsourcing

Other early examples of pension fund investment outsourcing included Brown & Williamson, Weyerhauser, Maytag, ADM and K-Mart.

James Philip

Richard S. Williamson, President Ronald Reagan's chief of intergovernmental affairs, and former Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, deemed Pate "one of the most important Republicans in the Midwest".

Kevin D. Williamson

Williamson previously worked at the Bombay-based Indian Express Group, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Journal Register Newspapers, and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, where he directed the journalism and communication programs, and as an adjunct professor at The King's College.

Louisville Chorus

1984 Official Brown & Williamson sponsored “Light Up Louisville” Entertainment for the next 10 years

Michael Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson (born 1967), science fiction and military-fiction author

Mr. Butts

Mr. Butts was also a pseudonym (inspired by the Doonesbury character) of a then-anonymous informant who in 1995 sent 4,000 pages of incriminating Brown & Williamson tobacco company documents to researcher Stanton Glantz.

Penny to a Million

Penny to a Million was a primetime American television game show (at the time more commonly called a "quiz show") that aired on ABC from May 4 to October 19, 1955 on Wednesday nights, for alternate sponsors Brown & Williamson's Raleigh cigarettes, and W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company.

Regulative principle of worship

Those who oppose instruments in worship, such as John Murray and G. I. Williamson, argue first that there is no example of the use of musical instruments for worship in the New Testament and second that the Old Testament uses of instruments in worship were specifically tied to the ceremonial laws of the Temple in Jerusalem, which they take to be abrogated for the church.

Reynolds American

In July 2004 the U.S. business of British American Tobacco (Brown & Williamson) was combined with that of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (R. J. Reynolds), under the R. J. Reynolds name.

Rhipicephalus microplus

In Louisiana, Governor Ruffin Pleasant in 1917 signed legislation sponsored by freshman State Senator Norris C. Williamson of East Carroll Parish to authorize state funding to eradicate the cattle tick.

Richard S. Williamson

Williamson played a role in the slow resolution of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Richard Williamson

Richard S. Williamson (born 1949), US special envoy to Sudan and former Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party

Robin Bailey

In 1959 Bailey was engaged by the Australian theatrical producers J.C. Williamson Limited to play the part of Professor Henry Higgins in their production of the Lerner & Lowe musical My Fair Lady.

Robin C. N. Williamson

He is the son of a Fellow of the RSM, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Robin C. N. Williamson (1942-) is Professor and Head of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, London and a former Dean and president of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).

Ron Shand

Was in the Tivoli circuit for many years playing in revue and pantomime, before joining the J. C. Williamson theatre company for several seasons in musical comedy.

Royal Photo Company

Clients included Hillerich & Bradsby -- makers of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat—and other businesses such as Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and the Kaufman-Straus department store.

Ruffin Pleasant

In 1917, Pleasant signed into law a measure by the freshman state senator, Norris C. Williamson of East Carroll Parish, which authorized state funding for the eradication of the cattle tick pest.

Samuel T. Williamson

After receiving training at the Officers' Training School in Camp Upton, NY, Williamson received assignment to Company M with the 308th Infantry of the 77th Division.

Williamson then worked as an instructor at the Infantry Officers Training School in Valbonne.

Samuel Williamson

Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., American academic, President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Tar derby

Brown & Williamson 1959: Life: New Life's exclusive Millecel Super Filter absorbs for more tar and nicotine than any other filter.

The End is Near And It's Going To Be Awesome

The End is Near And It’s Going To Be Awesome is a 2013 non-fiction book by Kevin D. Williamson about the growing debt crisis in the United States.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Whicher seeks the help of his former colleagues in the Metropolitan Police, including 'Dolly' Williamson (William Beck) and Commissioner Mayne (Tim Pigott-Smith), but, with the exception of Inspector Lock (Shaun Dingwall), they warn Whicher off from interfering in what is a police matter.

Whychus Creek

Robert S. Williamson, a surveyor who camped there in 1855, said its Indian (Native American) name was Why-chus.

William D. Williamson

That same year he ran for and won a congressional seat in the seventeenth Congress.


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