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2 unusual facts about John F. Carrington


John Carrington

John F. Carrington (born 1914), English missionary and expert on drum language

John F. Carrington

Carrington moved to Yalemba in 1951, where he found two drum languages corresponding to the Heso language of the Basoko people and the Topoke language of the Baonga villagers on the other side of the Congo.


1963 college football season

Most of the games that had been scheduled for November 23, 1963 were postponed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy the day before.

1963 World Ice Hockey Championships

A heavy defeat by Sweden prompted President John F. Kennedy to complain about their performance in a telephone call to David Hackett.

Bill Daniel

In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the position of governor of Guam, an office that he held from May 20, 1961 to January 20, 1963.

Blue-ribbon panel

Recent examples of high-level so-called blue-ribbon panels in the United States would be the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy Assassination, the 9/11 Commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Iraq Study Group assessing the Iraq War and the Clinton Administration's White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

Branchburg, New Jersey

Also within driving distance are Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE, formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport) near Allentown, Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport in New York, as well as the Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton and Princeton in Mercer County.

Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos

Valérian and Albert arrive at Kennedy Airport and travel to Schlomo Melsheim's house in Brooklyn.

Chaim Herzog

In recent years British historians headed by Simon Sebag-Montefiore have included this speech in a book on speeches that changed the world, which includes others by Martin Luther King, Jr, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy.

Chan Chandler

Chandler Chandler is the former pastor of East Waynesville Baptist Church who resigned after receiving national attention when nine members of his church who supported Democratic candidate John F. Kerry in the 2004 United States presidential election, took offense at his sermons pointing out Kerry's support of abortion and homosexuality, and left the church.

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

David Trick

Trick holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Master of Arts from Brandeis University, a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

E. R. Dodds

He had heard of the attempt to land an aircraft on Helvellyn earlier that month, but the flyers John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler had been delayed by weather and mechanic problems.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

ESTP

According to Keirsey, based on observations of behavior, notable Promoters might include John F. Kennedy, Teddy Roosevelt, Madonna, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

Frank Morales

He first became involved in politics after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as a member of the Assassination Information Committee.

Geoffrey Perret

He has published over thirteen books dealing with a variety of topics, among them the U.S. Presidency - including several biographies of iconic Presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Ulysses S. Grant - leading American military commanders such as Douglas MacArthur, and pivotal American military engagements.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Jack Worthington

He is best known for his claims that his mother confided to him, as a result of the discovery of a genetic illness of his presumed father later in life, that he is the illegitimate son of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Jacques Lowe

Jacques Lowe (January 24, 1930 – May 12, 2001) was a photographer and publisher best known for his role as U.S. President John F. Kennedy's official photographer during his election campaign and presidency.

Johannes Heisig

His large triptych "Be Berlin or: The Unifying Power of Music" shows musicians playing beside John F. Kennedy on his Berlin visit in the 1960s sitting in a car together with Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer.

John Dryden Kuser

John Dryden Kuser's grandfather, John Fairfield Dryden, was the founder of Prudential Insurance Company and a United States Senator from 1902 to 1907.

John F. Dickson

He remained in command of the precinct until Captain Joseph Dowling, who had formerly sided with Mayor Fernando Wood and the Municipal police force during the Police Riot of 1857, replaced Dickson upon joining the Metropolitan police in 1859.

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Although he was president for less than three years, John F. Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg.

John F. Kilkenny United States Post Office and Courthouse

a former judge of the District of Oregon and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

John F. McCarthy

During his tenure, he created and passed a bill for the formation of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in 1957.

John F. McIntosh

Born in Farnell, Angus, Scotland, in February 1846, MacIntosh would be famous for working at St. Rollox railway works, in Springburn, in Glasgow.

John F. Melby

Secretary of State Edmund Muskie restored Melby's security clearance in December 1980 and hired him to work as a consultant on the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict for several months.

John F. Peto

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

John F. Rider

The other and probably the best reason that force the end of John F. Rider, Publisher Inc, was that Howard W. Sams Publishing or SAMS Publishing of Indianapolis, IN developed and copyrighted the PhotofactTM service folder that had all the things that Rider provided but added large photographs to identify the parts along with much better written servicing instructions.

John F. Thorson

On that day, in Dagami, Leyte province, in the Philippines, Thorson was wounded while single-handedly attacking an enemy trench, then smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown hand grenade with his body.

John H. Rubel

John H. Rubel (born April 27, 1920) was a business executive in the early post-World War II years of the defense electronics industry, later serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration.

Joseph E. Slater

With the election of John F. Kennedy he was names deputy assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs where he wrote the blueprint for the Peace Corps.

Neithrop

The low rise flats called Kennedy House were named after U.S. President John F. Kennedy when they were built in the mid-1960s.

Northwestel

The microwave system on the Alaska Highway was inaugurated with a phone call from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, visiting Whitehorse, to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C..

Peter Rodgers Organization

Stephen Rodgers personally holds the copyright to several films, including The Unearthly (1957) and Beginning of the End (1957) He also owns O’Kennedy’s Ireland, a documentary about President John F. Kennedy’s visit to his ancestral home of Dublin, Ireland, where the O'Kennedy dynasty began, only months prior to his assassination in 1963.

Pilottone

The new technology of pilottone was brought to international attention by its use by Richard Leacock, former cameraman of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, in his documentary feature Primary (1960), documenting the competing Democrat presidential nominee candidates Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy.

Political scandals in Logan County, West Virginia

President John F. Kennedy once famously asked local political boss Raymond Chafin how much money he wanted so that Kennedy could carry Southern West Virginia in the 1960 Presidential Election, and Chafin replied "thirty five," meaning $3500.

Politics of New York

New York State gave small margins of victory to Democrats John F. Kennedy in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Michael Dukakis in 1988, as well as Republicans Herbert Hoover in 1928, Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Ronald Reagan in 1980.

President Kennedy School and Community College

It was originally to be called either Rookery Lane School or Holbrook High, but the assassination of President John F Kennedy during the approval stage resulted in the school being named after President John F. Kennedy and was founded in 1966.

Ray Roberts

On November 22, 1963, Congressman Roberts was in the Dallas motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Retenzija

It is bounded by the Boulevards of Mihajlo Pupin (west) and Nikola Tesla (east) and the streets of Prve pruge (north) and Džona Kenedija (south).

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially, the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, connecting Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west end.

Robert Bilheimer

Robert has also taught, lectured, and spoken at distinguished academic institutions around the world, including the Eastman School of Music, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Ruth Paine

Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle that he used to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ruth Paine's garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine.

Simon H. Rifkind

He was appointed by the United States Supreme Court to sort out the rival claims of various western states to the Colorado River, was tapped by President John F. Kennedy to investigate railroad labor issues, and helped create (and later served as General Counsel of) the Mutual Assistance Corporation for New York City during New York's bankruptcy crisis in the 1970s.

Space Task Group

President John F. Kennedy persuaded Congress to modify the law to give him the authority to appoint the Vice President to chair the council in his place.

Taylor Humphries

Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.

The Airport

Due to their having to rebook and a rerouting of their flight, George and Kramer go between JFK and LaGuardia to pick them up.

The Price of Power

Even in the assassination scene, Cuadra seems to emulate many of the same actions from Jackie Kennedy's last moments with John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.

Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956.

Tropico 4

The "loading" and "saving" screens have quotes from various dictators, leaders, politicians, and revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusto Pinochet, Nikita Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, Mobutu Sese Seko, Todor Zhivkov, Vladimir Putin, Josip Broz Tito, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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