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4 unusual facts about John E. Brooks


Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

Holy Cross could have joined the newly founded Big East Conference in 1980, but college President Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., vetoed the move for academic reasons.

John E. Brooks

A 2007 article in BusinessWeek suggested that "Brooks helped shape an exceptional group of overachievers", including Clarence Thomas and Edward P. Jones as chronicled in the 2012 book on the integration of Holy Cross, "Fraternity" by Diane Brady.

During his presidency, he and Peter Likins of Lehigh University were the two college presidents contacted by the Ivy League in the first stage of the formation of the Patriot League during the early-1980s.

Peter Likins

During his administration at Lehigh, he and the Reverend John E. Brooks, S.J. of the College of the Holy Cross were the two university presidents contacted by the Ivy League in the first stage of the formation of the Patriot League during the early-1980s.


1988 San Francisco 49ers season

SF- John Frank 5-yard pass from Joe Montana (Mike Cofer kick) SF 21–3

Aaron A. Brooks

-- Please only add associated acts where Aaron has been a full time member; one-offs don't count -->The Little Deaths, The Mars Bonfire, Laura Dawn, Moby, Duff McKagan, Circle Of Soul, Queen V

Aigburth Vale

Aigburth Vale house at 212 Aigburth Road in Towson was designed in 1868, by architects Niernsee & Neilson, as a country home for wealthy actor John E. Owens.

Dave Carley

He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks.

Eugene C. Brooks

He was named head of the Department of Education at Trinity College in 1907, where he served until 1919 when he was appointed state superintendent of public instruction by Governor Thomas Walter Bickett.

Franklin E. Brooks

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

George M. Brooks

Brooks was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George S. Boutwell.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

Harry J. Brooks

A first attempt launched on 24 January 1928, witnessed by Henry Ford, landed short in a forced landing at Asheville, North Carolina.

Idris Muhammad

In 1966, he married Dolores "LaLa" Brooks (former member of the Crystals; she converted to Islam with him and went for a time under the name Sakinah Muhammad).

Jake Corman

In early 2008, there was speculation that Corman would make a run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by John E. Peterson; however Corman declined to run.

John Connelly

John E. Connelly (1926–2009), Pittsburgh casino and riverboat owner

John E. C. Appleton

Judgment Day (Elmer Rice) assisting Doris Fitton for Independent Theatre at the Conservatorium of Music.

John E. Casida

In addition, he is described as being a "Highly Cited" researcher by ISI Web of Knowledge, and currently has in excess of 850 scientific publications.

John E. Dolibois

He graduated from Miami University and served in the United States Army during World War II where he was an interrogator during the Nuremberg Trials and became acquainted with many of the most significant Nazi war criminals.

John E. Douglas

Jack Crawford, a major character in the Thomas Harris novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, was directly based on Douglas.

John E. Frank

In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and in 2010, he became an Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolarygology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon.

John E. Heymer

In 1996, he published a book entitled The Entrancing Flame, which was about his personal experience of dealing with the results of SHC and attempted to analyse the phenomenon.

John E. Leonard

Leonard attended the public schools and was later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1863 and then earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1867.

John E. Lyle, Jr.

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

John E. Mack

He was illustrated by cartoonist Roz Chast in a four-page color strip, Aliens, Ahoy!, published in Duke University's DoubleTake magazine, Winter 1999 issue.

John E. Morgan

At the suggestion of his manager, Eddie Hearn, Morgan entered the PGA Tour qualifying school, and survived all three stages, finishing tied for 11th at the School finals to earn playing privileges in the United States.

John E. Murray, Jr.

A native of Philadelphia, Murray lives in Whitehall, Pennsylvania with his wife Liz, a Villanova graduate.

John E. Osborn

His father was a lawyer, and his maternal grandfather was a prominent airline industry executive who also worked in the Pentagon and was close to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson.

John E. Phelps

The former Springfield, Missouri-born grocer and cattle trader started his military career as a secret agent for Nathaniel Lyon in 1861.

John E. Pitts, Jr.

In 1951, Pitts served with the 136th Tactical Fighter Group in the Korean War, flying 100 missions in the F-84 Thunderjet fighter-bomber aircraft and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster.

John E. Simonett

Upon Simonett's mandatory retirement from the Supreme Court in 1994, Governor Arne Carlson appointed Paul H. Anderson, then Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, to take Simonett's place, and chose one of Simonett's daughters, Hennepin County District Court Judge Anne Simonett, to succeed Anderson as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

Steele served as a law clerk to the Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Detroit from 1972 to 1974.

John E. Swift

In 1950, after a Special Audience with Pope Pius XII, Swift instituted a fund for the purchase and construction of the last playground in Rome.

John E. Winkler

John E. Winkler (1941–2007) was an author and photographer of books, articles and calendars featuring the Adirondack and Shawangunk Mountains of New York State.

Other regions include the Three Ponds / Silver Lake Wilderness Area, Hudson River Gorge, Moose River Plains, Indian Lake area, regions north west of Saranac Lake, Whitney landholdings and Piseco Lake region and more.

John Hatley

:See John E. Hatley for the former US Army Master Sergeant serving a 40-year sentence in the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks for the murder of four Iraqi detainees.

John McDonough

John E. McDonough (born 1953), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1985–1997

John Sanders

John E. Sanders (born 1956), American evangelical Christian theologian

John Swift

John E. Swift, American judge and the ninth Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus

John Turnbull

John E. Turnbull, Canadian inventor of the first rolling wringer clothes washer, 1843

John Weeks

John E. Weeks (1853–1949), U.S. Representative from Vermont, and Governor of Vermont

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Mormonism in Norway

Knut Pedersen from Stavanger and Erik Hogan from Telemark were some of the many Norwegian members that migrated west to the Utah Territory after the death of Joseph Smith Jr. They were met in the mountains by a group heading east who had been called to open the Scandinavian Mission: Erastus Snow, the Swede John E. Forsgren, and the Dane Peter O. Hansen.

Nathan C. Brooks

Poe's "Ligeia", "A Predicament" (published as "The Scythe of Time"), and "The Haunted Palace" were all originally published in Brooks' magazine.

In 1831, he was elected principal of the Franklin Academy, located in Reisterstown, Maryland.

Nathan Covington Brooks, the youngest son of John and Mary Brooks, was born in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland on August 12, 1809.

Robert L. Caslen

Other generals that appeared in the video included Vincent K. Brooks and Air Force generals Peter U. Sutton and Jack J. Catton Jr.

South African National Bioinformatics Institute

SANBI is funded by several organisations including the South African Medical Research Council, the National Research Foundation of South Africa, the Claude Leon Foundation, the John E. Fogarty Foundation for International Health at the National Institutes of Health, and the European Commission.

St. Marys, Pennsylvania

The Decker's Chapel and John E. Weidenboerner House are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Steve Faber

Faber is writing and executive producing a film for writer/director James L. Brooks, as well as adapting the screen version of journalist A. J. Liebling's Telephone Booth Indians.

Will Lyons

It was while working for Justerini & Brooks in St James's street that Lyons received the opportunity to sell and taste a great many fine and rare wines particularly Bordeaux and Burgundy.


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