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unusual facts about John G.F. Francis


QR algorithm

The QR transformation was developed in the late 1950s by John G.F. Francis (England) and by Vera N. Kublanovskaya (USSR), working independently.


Church and Convent of St. Francis

San Francisco houses over 3,500 works of colonial art, of varied artistic styles and techniques, most notably those of the famous Quito School of art, which had it genesis precisely here.

Colonial American military history

As a result of the war, Maine fell to the New Englanders with the defeat of Father Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to St. Francis and Becancour, Quebec.

Cullmann

John G. Cullmann (1823–1895), Bavarian-born political activist and founder of Cullman, Alabama

Emily Lyons

In 2005, Lyons appeared in a controversial advertisement opposing the nomination to the Supreme Court of John G. Roberts, who seven years before the bombing had filed a brief opposing the prosecution of abortion clinic blockaders under the federal Ku Klux Klan Act.

Fort Wayne Freedom

He had worked previously as an assistant coach at the University of St. Francis, an NAIA institution, and NCAA Division II Hillsdale College in Michigan.

George A. Gillett

George Gillett and Arthur 'Bolla' Francis rescued Anglo-Welsh (British Lions) player Percy Down who had fallen into the sea, keeping him afloat until a rope was lowered from the ship upon which Down was about to return to Great Britain.

Gerardus Odonis

After he had entered the Order of St. Francis, most probably at Châteauroux, and consequently had belonged to the Touraine province of the order, he became a member of the Aquitanian province and still belonged to this latter (without, however, being provincial minister) when he was elected minister general of the order, 10 June 1329, at the general chapter.

Hilda Neihardt

Hilda Neihardt (1916–2004) was one of her father John G. Neihardt's "comrades in adventure," and at the age of 15 accompanied him as "official observer" to meetings with Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose life stories were the basis for her father's book, Black Elk Speaks and for her own later works.

I due Foscari

Toye, Francis (1931), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf

I vespri siciliani

Toye, Francis (1962), Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works, New York: Knopf, 1931

Ida B. Robinson

African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography By Sherry Sherrod DuPree Published by Taylor & Francis, 1996 ISBN 0-8240-1449-9, ISBN 978-0-8240-1449-0, 650 pages

International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research

IAHR publishes the International Journal of River Basin Management together with the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and INBO and in partnership with Taylor & Francis.

Jefferson County, Idaho

In the 1972 Presidential election Richard Nixon won the county with then John Birch Society member John G. Schmitz reportedly receiving 27.51% of the county's vote.

John G. Burchill

He was the son of the late Senator George Percival Burchill & Jean Gordon Garden Burchill.

John G. Cawelti

The John G. Cawelti Book Award is annually presented in his honor by the American Culture Association to the author of a Noteworthy Book on American Culture.

John G. Cooper

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, but went on to serve as chairman of the Board of Claims, Ohio Industrial Commission from 1937 to 1945.

John G. Gertsch

John G. Gertsch went to high school in Sheffield Area Middle/Senior High School (SAMSHS) in Sheffield, Pennsylvania.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

John G. Linvill

John Linvill was Chairman of the board of TSI, served on the boards of other Silicon Valley corporations, and led technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA, and the IEEE.

John G. McKnight

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp from 1952 thru 1972, except for the years 1953..

John G. Sargent

Sargent died in Ludlow on March 5, 1939, and was buried at the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow, Vermont.

John G. Shedd

In 2002, The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, a community-based performing arts center and music school in Eugene, Oregon, was co-founded by one of his great-grandchildren.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

From there, he went to teach Modern Christianity (history, sociology, philosophy, and theology) in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, rising to the rank of Professor in 1997 and receiving the university's top awards for research and for outreach to the community (via his newspaper column and other media appearances).

John G. Talbot

He was serving as executive officer of Saginaw when that steamer grounded on a reef off Ocean Island in the mid-Pacific on 29 October 1870 and broke up.

John G. Taylor

He was an Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College London and Guest Scientist of the Research Centre at the Institute of Medicine in Jülich, Germany.

John G. Thomas

At the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Thomas struggled alongside other to-be-famous film students like George Lucas, Ron Howard, and John Carpenter.

John G. Warwick

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886.Warwick was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 14, 1892.He defeated William McKinley by 302 votes in an intensely fought race that gained national attention.

John G. Woolley

Woolley was born in Collinsville, Ohio, on February 15, 1850, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1871, later gaining admission to the Illinois bar.

John McNutt

John G. McNutt, professor of Urban Affairs at the University of Delaware

John Woolley

John G. Woolley (1850–1922), lawyer and public speaker; Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1900

Larry Arnhart

Arnhart has debated the leading advocates of intelligent designMichael Behe, William Dembski, John West, Jonathan Wells, and Richard Weikart—all of whom are fellows of the Discovery Institute.

Magnetic Reference Laboratory

In 1972 John G. McKnight was laid off from Ampex, as was Tony Bardakos, who was making the calibration tapes for Ampex at the time.

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Nichols Canyon was named after John G. Nichols who served as mayor of Los Angeles, California between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1856 to 1859.

Order of the Ladies of the Cord

This rope with knots had been added by her step-grandfather Francis I, Duke of Brittany to his arms in honor of St. Francis its patron saint and her father Francis II, Duke of Brittany had continued the emblem.

Peter Mayo

He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Transformative Education (Sage), Policy Futures in Education (Symposium), Encylopaideia (ClueB, Bologna) and Educational Philosophy and Theory (Wiley-Blackwell).

Postage stamps and postal history of Oltre Giuba

The same process was followed for the Italian commemorative issues of the time - the "Victor Emmanuel" issue, the "St. Francis" issue.

SEIU Local 1199NE

In Connecticut the union is closely identified with liberal Democratic politicians such as Governor Dannel Malloy and has clashed frequently with fiscally conservative Republicans such as former Governor John G. Rowland as well as the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, a free-market think tank.

Subodh Karnik

On January 1, 2007, Karnik replaced the previous CEO, John G. Denison, who stepped down but is continuing on as ATA's Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Subud

Pak Subuh accepted the invitation and visited the home of John G. Bennett in Coombe Springs.

The Flowers of St. Francis

8 - How Brother Francis and Brother Leon experienced those things that are perfect happiness.

Thomas Hezmalhalch

Lake and Hezmalhalch started their ministry at a rental hall in Doornfontein, a Johannesburg suburb, on 25 May 1908.

Warren H. Carroll

During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.

William B. Francis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Wolf of Gubbio

The wolf of Gubbio was a wolf that, according to the Fioretti di San Francesco, terrorized the city of Gubbio until it was tamed by St. Francis of Assisi acting on behalf of God.

Women's Centennial Congress

John G. Reid, Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979: a historian's biography, University of Toronto Press, 2005, page 97


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