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3 unusual facts about John Hooker


John Hooker

John Lee Hooker, (1912 – 2001), American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Daggett Hooker (1838-1911), social leader, amateur scientist and astronomer, donor of Hooker Telescope

Raphael Holinshed

Holinshed was only one contributor to this work; others involved in its production included William Harrison, Richard Stanyhurst, and John Hooker.


Chorography

William Lambarde, John Stow, John Hooker, Michael Drayton, Tristram Risdon, John Aubrey and many others used it in this way, arising from a gentlemanly topophilia and a sense of service to one's county or city, until it was eventually often applied to the genre of county history.


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Edward H. Gillette

Foreseeing westward expansion after the war, Francis Gillette and brother-in-law John Hooker had purchased shares in a concern which owned thousands of acres of sprawling Iowa landscape.