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unusual facts about James D. Johnson


James D. Johnson

Johnson's life story and death were remarkably similar to that of an unrepentant segregationist leader in Louisiana, William M. Rainach of Claiborne Parish, a state legislator and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in his state's 1959 primary election.


2000 in Zimbabwe

23 November - Leading pharmaceutical company, Johnson and Johnson, relocate their manufacturing division to South Africa owing to continuing economic instability.

Alfred W. Johnson

Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, a US naval officer in the Spanish-American War and World War I

Americo-Liberian

In 2007 BET founder Robert Johnson called for "African Americans to support Liberia like Jewish Americans support Israel".

Anderson's salamander

Ambystoma andersoni is named after James Anderson, a herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History who did extensive fieldwork studying Ambystoma and other herp species in Mexico.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

B. S. Johnson

Many of these figures contributed to London Consequences, a novel consisting of a palimpsest of chapters passed between a range of participating authors and set in London, edited by Margaret Drabble and Johnson.

Bourke B. Hickenlooper

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to a congressional team to oversee the elections in the Republic of South Vietnam.

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry OST

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry by Luke Haines is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, based on a novel by B.S. Johnson and directed by Paul Tickell.

Constance Cary Harrison

According to her own account, one flag was given to General Joseph E. Johnson, one to Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard, and hers to Confederate general Earl Van Dorn.

David T. Johnson

In 1995, Johnson became Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House and Spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

Disaster!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the Star of Mutha Nature Although given no official character name, Johnson is seen as a lead role in Mutha Nature where he plays a park ranger who must save the world from hordes of disasters caused by an evil corporation.

Ellis Johnson

Ellis L. Johnson, Coca-Cola chair professor for Georgia Tech's School of ISyE

First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson also asked Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers, and Liz Carpenter to write a brief statement for him to read on the day's events, which he then edited slightly himself.

First State Heritage Park

The Johnson Victrola Museum was built in honor of Eldridge R. Johnson founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Fresca

American President Lyndon B. Johnson had a soda fountain containing Fresca installed in the Oval Office.

Glen Johnson

Glen D. Johnson, Jr. (born 1954), Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Investor Network on Climate Risk

In 2007, more than 20 leading companies, including Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and others, issued a formal call for national legislation calling for significant reductions in GHG emissions.

Ivan Loveridge Bennett

Bennett was Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Lyndon B. Johnson between 1967 and 1969.

J. C. Johnson

In the 1970s, he enjoyed the renewed interest in his songs, which appeared in many movies and revues and were recorded by artists such as Bette Midler, Bobby Short and Della Reese.

James LaBelle

James D. La Belle (1925–1945), United States Marine who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service during World War II

James Lynch

James D. Lynch (1839–1872), first African-American Secretary of State of Mississippi

James M. Hanley

During his Congressional career, Hanley was known as a liberal, and supported the Great Society program of Lyndon B. Johnson, expansion of Medicare and Head Start, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

James Taranto

President Lyndon B. Johnson – Johnson is mentioned in a frequently referenced scene and quote from the film Forrest Gump, in which a Vietnam War protestor assaults a woman and then apologizes with the line "Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson!" The quote is used to lampoon Johnson himself, or more usually any individual that blames a public figure or crisis for a mistake or poor judgment.

Jawn Murray

Murray offered commentary on Life After episodes on Jackee Harry, Kim Coles, Jayne Kennedy and A.J. Johnson.

Jazz Kitchen

Many acclaimed musicians have performed at Jazz Kitchen, including Larry Coryell, Lavay Smith, Pharez Whitted, Jon Faddis, Kathy Kosins, Yellowjackets, Frank Glover, Joey DeFrancesco, Terence Blanchard, J. J. Johnson, Simone (actress), Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Ray Brown (musician).

Jennifer M. Johnson

She became an executive story editor for the third and final season The Guardian in 2003.

Laurence Johnson

Laurence F. Johnson (born 1950), American futurist, author, and educator

Lee's Farewell Address

The following is taken from a letter dated September 27, 1887, to General Bradley T. Johnson from Colonel Charles Marshall, CSA.

Leon W. Johnson

He later received a master of science degree in meteorology from the California Institute of Technology.

Leroy Johnson

Leroy S. Johnson (1888–1986), leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Her corporate marketing career included stints at the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago and Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Louis Mazetier

Although Dr. Mazetier is influenced by earlier jazz pianists, such as Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Don Ewell, Johnny Guarnieri, Dick Wellstood, and Art Tatum, his greatest influence appears to be the American stride pianist, Donald Lambert, 1904 - 1962.

Michael Creeth

James Michael Creeth (3 October 1924 – 15 January 2010) was an English biochemist whose experiments on DNA viscosity confirming the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Montford Point Marine Association

The Montford Point Marine Association maintains a National Museum at Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, Jacksonville, North Carolina, and archives.

Pebbles cereal

WWE professional wrestler John Cena is now officially endorsed by Fruity Pebbles as the result of references to the cereal made by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson over the course of 2011.

Politics of the Southern United States

Legal changes came in the mid-1960s when President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Congress over the vehement objects of Southern Democrats the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Robert Savage

Confidence was so high even a press release was being written up in anticipation of an announcement until then Chairman Jim Robinson inexplicably changed his mind.

Robertson Ridge

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for James D. Robertson, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) geophysicist at Byrd Station, 1970-71 season; he participated in the geophysical survey of the Ross Ice Shelf in the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons.

Roy P. Johnson

His newspaper columns remain the most detailed and incisive chronicle of the history of the Red River of the North and its environs.

Scott C. Johnson

In 2004, Johnson was awarded an Overseas Press Club honorable mention for his reporting on economics in Latin America.

His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Guernica Magazine, Granta and various other outlets.

Ted Robert Gurr

In 1968 Professor Gurr was asked to join the staff of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, established by President Lyndon Johnson after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership

The Kravis Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Marie-Josée Kravis, and also includes Harry McMahon, Amartya Sen, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Ratan Tata, Surin Pitsuwan and James D. Wolfensohn.

The Negro Digest

The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.

Treatment of slaves in the United States

Historian Charles Johnson writes that such laws were not only motivated by compassion, but also by the desire to pacify slaves and prevent future revolts.

United States v. International Boxing Club of New York

In January 1949 James D. Norris and Arthur Wirtz, who controlled boxing at several major arenas including Madison Square Garden, Chicago Stadium and Detroit Olympia, paid the recently retired Joe Louis $100,000 for four fighters he managed.

Václav Chvátal

he studied a weighted version of the set cover problem, and proved that a greedy algorithm provides good approximations to the optimal solution, generalizing previous unweighted results by David S. Johnson (J. Comp. Sys. Sci. 1974) and László Lovász (Discrete Math. 1975).

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

Crick comments on various aspects of the DNA double helix discovery and gives a qualified endorsement to the 1987 television movie Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson and Tim Piggott-Smith as Francis Crick.

William Conrad Gibbons

He worked in Capitol Hill for both Senator Wayne Morse and Senator Mike Mansfield and also served as an advance man for presidential contender Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960.

William R. Johnson

He worked at Ralston, Frito-Lay and Anderson-Clayton Foods before joining Heinz in 1982 as general manager of new business.


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