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unusual facts about John M. Ball


Manifold Destiny

On August 22, 2006, Sir John M. Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, made reference to the article and rushed publication of the Cao/Zhu paper at a speech given at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians.


Arlington National Cemetery

On June 9, 2010, United States Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh reprimanded Arlington National Cemetery's superintendent, John C. Metzler, Jr., and his deputy, Thurman Higgenbotham, after a United States Department of Defense inspector general's report revealed that cemetery officials had placed the wrong headstones on tombs, buried coffins in shallow graves, and buried bodies on top of one another.

Arthur E. Nelson

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but was elected fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949).

Balazuc

It is the subject of the book 'The Stones of Balazuc' by Yale historian John M. Merriman.

C.F. Ball

Ball had left Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in August 1903 to work as Assistant and later Foreman at the Irish National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, Dublin.

Clinical linguistics

The journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics is the major research journal of the field and was founded by Martin J. Ball.

Cynergy Shotgun

The beginning of the Cynergy technically begins with the original B-25 Superposed, designed by John M. Browning in 1928 and finished for production using a single trigger with barrel selector by his son Val Browning by 1939.

Cynthia Sikes

In the fifth and sixth seasons of JAG, she played the love interest of Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden (played by John M. Jackson).

Dowd Report

The 225-page report was prepared by Special Counsel to the Commissioner, John M. Dowd, Esq. and was submitted to Commissioner Bart Giamatti in May 1989.

Francis Parkman Prize

1998 – John M. Barry for Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

Franklin W. Olin

They had three sons, Franklin W. Jr. (predeceased), John, and Spencer, all three of whom also graduated from Cornell.

Gaver

John M. Gaver, Jr. (1940–2002), American thoroughbred racehorse trainer

Harry O'Donovan

The character Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".

J. Meredith Read

J. Meredith Read was the son of Philadelphia jurist John M. Read.

Jelly Roll Blues

He recorded it first as a piano solo in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924, and then with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago two years later, titled as it was originally copyrighted: "Original Jelly-Roll Blues." It is referenced by name in the 1917 Shelton Brooks composition "Darktown Strutters' Ball".

John M. Brower

Brower moved to Oklahoma and settled in Boswell, Choctaw County, in 1907 and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, agricultural pursuits, and stock raising.

John M. Coffee

Coffee was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947).

John M. Coyne

John M. Coyne (born 1916) was the mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio from 1948 to 1999, the longest consecutive term of any mayor in United States history.

John M. Gaver, Sr.

Born in Mount Airy, Maryland, John Gaver graduated from Princeton University then worked as a prep school language teacher before eventually embarking on a career in Thoroughbred racing.

John M. Geddes

Boyd stepped down on June 5, 2003, along with the paper's former executive editor, Howell Raines, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.

John M. Greene

He was the author of a series of works with John Johnson and Katherine Weimer on equilibria and instabilities in Tokamak and Stellarator plasmas in magnetohydrodynamics.

John M. LeVoir

On July 14, 2008, LeVoir was appointed the fourth bishop of New Ulm by Pope Benedict XVI.

John M. MacKenzie

He has given BBC radio talks, has appeared on television programmes relating to the British Empire, and has written for The Scotsman.

John M. Madsen

One of Madsen's associates at Washington State was Gary J. Coleman, who Madsen baptized into the LDS Church.

John M. Mitchell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

John M. Murphy

John Michael Murphy (born August 3, 1926) is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

John M. Nickolaus, Jr.

Nickolaus began his career as a camera operator for MGM in the late 1940s.

John M. Parker

Roosevelt selected Parker as one of eighteen officers (others included: Seth Bullock, Frederick Russell Burnham, and James Rudolph Garfield) to raise a volunteer infantry division, Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, for service in France in 1917.

John M. Quinn

He also served as the archdiocesan director for justice and peace and for education (1990–2003), and Cardinal Adam Maida's delegate to his alma mater of Sacred Heart Seminary (where he was an adjunct member of the faculty).

John M. Riebe

Other significant contributions included being project engineer in the development of the Grumman F8F fighter, involvement with short takeoff and landing projects for airline terminals, and work on control systems for rockets, flying boats, Delta wings and powered lift systems.

John M. Snowden

Snowden served terms as Allegheny County Recorder and Treasurer before being elected mayor of Pittsburgh in 1825.

Allegheny County's community Snowden (part of present day South Park Township) was named for John Snowden.

John M. Tobin, Jr.

In October, 2009, Tobin sponsored a city council resolution declaring October 4, 2009 "Mission of Burma Day" in Boston.

John M. Wever

Wever was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, serving from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1895.

John M. Wood

Wood was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859).

John M. Woolsey

This decision, which came about in a test case engineered by Bennett Cerf of Random House, was affirmed by a 2-1 vote of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in an opinion by Judge Augustus N. Hand.

Born in Aiken, South Carolina to William Walton Woolsey and Katherine Buckingham Convers Woolsey, Woolsey attended private school in Englewood, New Jersey and Phillips Academy.

John Marshall Jones

:For the American Civil War general, John Marshall Jones, see John M. Jones.

John O'Sullivan

John M. O'Sullivan (1881–1948), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, TD, cabinet minister and academic

Joseph H. Ball

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Minnesotans came to appreciate their foresighted senator.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

When the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was closed, Nassau County Council's Camp Wauwepex in Wading River, New York was renamed as the John M. Schiff Scout Reservation, in honor of Moritmer's son, John.

Nominal impedance

John M. Eargle, Chris Foreman, Audio engineering for sound reinforcement, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002, ISBN 0-634-04355-2.

Promont

The Italianate Victorian home was purchased in 1879 by John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

Terry Ball

Terry B. Ball, dean of religious education at Brigham Young University

Thomas Ball

Thomas R. Ball (1896–1943), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Vikramaditya Khanna

He was a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship for 2002–2003, and his areas of research and teaching interest include corporate and securities laws, law in India, corporate governance in emerging markets, corporate crime, corporate and managerial liability, and law and economics.

Wellcome Book Prize

John M. Coates, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

William L. Ball

He was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation in January 2002 .

Winstead House

John M. Winstead Houses, Brentwood, Tennessee, NRHP-listed, in Williamson County, Tennessee


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