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unusual facts about John Knapp-Fisher


John Knapp-Fisher

As a result his favorite subjects are local to his studio, for example Porthgain Harbour.


Alfred Newman Gilbey

Educated by Jesuits at Beaumont College, he went on to study Modern History at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1920, during which time he became chairman of the Fisher Society at the chaplaincy.

Allison Fisher

Fisher was nicknamed "the Duchess of Doom" and gained a reputation similar to that of the fifteen-time darts world champion Phil Taylor and snooker players Joe Davis, Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry in the 1930s and 80s–90s, respectively.

Anthony Fisher

Fisher was named third Bishop of Parramatta by Pope Benedict XVI on 8 January 2010 and was installed on 4 March 2010 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta.

Antony Fisher

Cockett wrote, "In 1981, to co-ordinate and establish a central focus for these institutes that Fisher found himself start up all over the world, he created the Atlas Economic Research Foundation which in 1987 joined up with the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) founded by the Mont Pelerin member F. A. Harper in 1961) to provide a central institutional structure for what quickly became an ever-expanding number of international free-market think-tanks or research institutes".

Barb Fisher

Fisher ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new riding of Huron—Bruce, but lost to Helen Johns.

Broadchurch

Becca Fisher (Simone McAullay) – Becca is the owner of the local hotel, where Alec is staying during his time in Broadchurch.

Carl G. Fisher

Will Rogers remembered Fisher as a Florida pioneer with these words: Fisher was the first man to discover that there was sand under the water...sand that could hold up a real estate sign.

Charles Jundt

In 1932, Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, the estranged wife of cartoonist Bud Fisher, was awarded $5,000 damages after Jundt burned Fisher's ear while styling her hair.

Chatter Telephone

In 1985, Fisher-Price offered to donate a Chatter Telephone, Rock A Stack, and Activity Center to NASA for Senator Jake Garn to play with while on the STS-51-D space shuttle mission.

Christian Reid

Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (July 5, 1846 - March 24, 1920), who used the pen name Christian Reid, was a 19th-century American author who wrote over 50 novels including The Land of the Sky.

Darryl Fisher

Fisher played for, and later became the assistant coach of, the Hibiscus Coast Raiders in the Bartercard Cup.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Other writers that corresponded with Canfield Fisher included Henry Seidel Canby, Richard Wright, Heywood Broun, Witter Bynner, Isak Dinesen, and Robert Frost.

Fischer-Z

Fischer-Z (pronounced as a homonym of "fisher's head") were a British rock band formed in 1976 by John Watts and Steve Skolnik at Brunel University.

Fisher House Foundation

Separately, Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as Margaret Thatcher and the late Yitzak Rabin, recognized Mr. Fisher for his support of charitable organizations throughout the United States.

President George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush opened the second Fisher House at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Fisher River Cree Nation

Fisher River (Ochekwi-Sipi) is a Cree First Nations reserve located approximately 193 km north of Manitoba's capital city, Winnipeg.

Fisher's exact test

Fisher is said to have devised the test following a comment from Dr Muriel Bristol, who claimed to be able to detect whether the tea or the milk was added first to her cup; see lady tasting tea.

Fisher's z-distribution

It was first described by Ronald Fisher in a paper delivered at the International Mathematical Congress of 1924 in Toronto, entitled "On a distribution yielding the error functions of several well-known statistics" (Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematics, Toronto, 2: 805-813 (1924).

Francis Darwin

The whereabouts of the grave or cremated remains of his second wife, Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, née Crofts, a Fellow and lecturer at Newnham College is not yet known, but his third wife Lady Florence Henrietta Darwin, previously the widow of Frederick William Maitland, née Fisher, is interred in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge, opposite the grave of Sir Francis Darwin and his daughter Frances Cornford.

Francis William Topham

Topham also made designs for Fisher, Son & Co.'s edition of the Waverley Novels, some of which he engraved.

Garth Fisher

Garth Fisher, M.D. (born September 1, 1958), is an American plastic surgeon best known as the first doctor selected for the ABC television show Extreme Makeover, so bringing plastic surgery into the public domain through the media.

George J. Fisher

Fisher served as deputy Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America from 1919 to 1943, and as National Scout Commissioner from 1943 until his death in 1960.

Harvey Sid Fisher

Fisher was able to self-finance the recording of the album from the royalties he received from appearing in Lincoln Continental TV commercial.

Helen Schelle

Alongside businessman Herman Fisher and Price's wife, Illustrator Margaret Evans Price, the Fisher-Price Company was formally established later that year in East Aurora, New York.

Hollow Nickel Case

But it was not until KGB agent Reino Häyhänen (aka Eugene Nicolai Mäki) wanted to defect in May 1957 from Paris, that the FBI was able to link the nickel to KGB agents, including Mikhail Nikolaevich Svirin (a former United Nations employee) and Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher.

Homeless Not Toothless

The fundraiser event attracted the support of many celebrities including Sharon Stone, Antwone Fisher, William H. Macy, Larry King, Todd Black and others.

Illinois Route 142

In Mt. Vernon Illinois 142 passes the sole remaining Continental Tire North America manufacturing plant, becoming Fisher Lane for a short distance before intersecting IL 37 .

John Bradford Fisher

In 1982, Fisher enlisted in for the United States Navy; in 1983, he became one of the youngest Chiefs of Department of Plastic Surgery at the National Naval Medical Center, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Keith O'Conner Murphy

When he was a sophomore, the family moved to Sweetser, Indiana in Grant County, where his father worked at the local Fisher Body plant.

KUNP

On August 21, 2012, Fisher Communications signed an affiliation agreement with MundoFox, a Spanish-language competitor to Univision that is owned as a joint venture between Fox International Channels and Colombian broadcaster RCN TV, for KUNP and Seattle sister station KUNS to be carried on both stations as digital subchannels starting in late September.

Linda Fisher

Linda J. Fisher is a Vice President Safety, Health and Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer of DuPont.

Live at Caesars Palace

#"Lady Sings the Blues Medley: Lady Sings the Blues / God Bless the Child / Good Morning Heartache / 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do"" (Billie Holiday, Ervin Drake, Porter Grainger, Arthur Herzog Jr., Dan Fisher, Irene Higgenbotham) - 7:24

Matt Hadan

Reportedly Hadan was dropped from the Redline team along with teammate Wade Bootes after Redline management got word that both were negotiating with Trek/Gary Fisher.

Morgan Robertson

Episode 17 (segment "Titan") of the American television show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction tells the story of Robertson (Harris Fisher) writing Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan/Futility.

Mostar Round-Trip

A year after 17-year-old Yuval leaves home in Israel to attend the United World College in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, filmmaker David Fisher, his father, follows.

New England Art Union

The board included Everett, Dexter, and Longfellow, and a mix of prominent Bostonian businessmen, artists, and other notables: Joseph Andrews; Thomas G. Appleton; Edward C. Cabot; Alvan Fisher; Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham; James B. Gregerson; Chester Harding; Joshua H. Hayward; George S. Hilliard; Albert G. Hoit; Jonathan Mason; Benjamin S. Rotch; G. G. Smith; Charles Sumner; C. G. Thompson; and Ammi B. Young.

Nutation

The verb to nutate was used by MIT physicist Peter Fisher on the television show Late Night with Conan O'Brien on February 8, 2008.

Oliver Fisher

Fisher was coached from 9 years old until January 2009 by PGA Advanced Professional Chris Jenkins who is co-owner of Crowlands Heath Golf Club.

Payne Fisher

Fisher died in poverty in a coffee-house in the Old Bailey 2 April 1693, and was buried 6 April in a yard belonging to the church of St. Sepulchre's.

Proceratium google

Fisher is also the executive director of the Madagascar Biodiversity Center, a project of the Bibikely Biodiversity Institute, which focuses on the systematics and preservation of species endemic to Madagascar.

Robert F. Fisher

Robert F. Fisher, (February 18, 1879 Plymouth, England - July 20, 1969 Carlotta, California) served in the California legislature and during the Spanish-American War he served in the United States Army.

Samuel Rowland Fisher

Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London.

Seth Fisher

Becker and Mayer publishers posthumously released a project titled Backpack Alarm, written by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone and featuring illustrations by Fisher.

Solicitor General of Ohio

Cordray, who served under then-Attorney General Lee Fisher until Betty Montgomery won the position in 1994, argued a technical criminal case on Halloween day in 1993 when the post was created.

Tanya Donelly

The album release featured Donelly on vocals, guitars and keyboards, Rich Gilbert (of Human Sexual Response, Goober & the Peas, Blackstone Valley Sinners) on pedal steel, Fisher on bass, and drummers David Lovering (formerly of the Pixies) and Jones.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Although Fisher manages to capture Sadono, Third Echelon learns that a rogue CIA operative, Norman Soth has acquired the last smallpox-armed ND133, and intends to detonate it inside Los Angeles International Airport.

Sadono initiates a suicide bombing and follow up attack on the U.S. Embassy in Dili, capturing a number of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel including Douglas Shetland, an old friend and comrade of Fisher.

Tom Spahn

Spahn was the longtime musical director and arranger for Eartha Kitt and has worked with musicians and composers including Edgar and Johnny Winter, John Pizzarelli, Carol Burnett, Frank Oz, Liza Minnelli, Galt McDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Don Sebesky, Don Pippin, Colin Romoff, Frank Loesser, Nancy LaMott, Eddie Fisher, and many others.

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute

Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education


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