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unusual facts about John P. Harris


John P. Harris

In addition to owning theaters, Harris held shares in two National League baseball clubs.


Alphonso Hart

In 1880 he was nominated for the Forty-seventh Congress in the seventh district but lost to John P. Leedom.

Andrew Harris

Andrew P. Harris (born 1957), American physician and politician from Maryland

Berliner Helicopter

There it was flown by Air Service test pilot Harold R. Harris among others, achieving stable hovers of up to 15 feet.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

Charles M. Harris

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Elsie Ferguson

She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in May 1915.

George K. Sanderson

His father John P. Sanderson was already a lieutenant colonel of this regiment serving form from May 14, 1861 until July 4, 1863.

Jack Riley

John P. Riley, Jr. (born 1920), known as Jack Riley, U.S. Military Academy ice hockey coach

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

Jeffrey Harris

Jeffrey K. Harris (born 1953), American director of the National Reconnaissance Office

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

John D. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with John P. McCormick, a deputy editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune whom Blagojevich allegedly pressured the Tribune to fire in November and December 2008.

John Doll

John P. Doll (born 1961), American politician and former member of the Minnesota State Senate

John Newsome

John P. Newsome (1893–1961), politician in the U.S. state of Alabama

John P. Barber

Dr. Barber received the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from Australian National University in 1972.

John P. Bigelow

In 1850, Bigelow had been scheduled to meet with George Thompson, a famous British abolitionist, who was holding a meeting at Faneuil Hall.

John P. C. Shanks

Shanks was elected to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875) and served as chairman of the Committee on Militia (Forty-first Congress) and the Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-second Congress).

John P. Donohue

His work with Dr. Lawrence Einhorn led to an increase in cure rate of testicular cancer from 5% to 90%.

John P. Hale

Hale was elected to the Senate in 1855 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Atherton; James Bell, a Whig, was elected to New Hampshire's other Senate seat in the same election.

John P. Kirk

His only son, Bernard Kirk, was an All-American football player who played for both Notre Dame University and the University of Michigan.

John P. Koehler

He served as the head football coach at Lawrence Institute in Wisconsin, now Lawrence University, from 1904 to 1905, at the University of Denver from 1906 to 1910, and at Marquette University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a career college football record of 39–29–4.

John P. Leedom

Leedom was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 4, 1883).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.

John P. Meier

On the question of references to Jesus in the Talmud, Meier considers the thesis of Joseph Klausner (1925) that some very few rabbinic sources, none earlier than about than late 2nd or early 3rd century, contain traces of the historical Jesus.

John P. Merrill

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Merrill, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 30+ publications in 3 languages and 400+ library holdings .

John P. O'Brien

Although he is credited with expanding the city's ability to collect taxes, restoring order to the city's finances, and trimming the budget, O'Brien was defeated for re-election in a three-way race by the colorful Republican-City Fusion Party candidate, Fiorello H. La Guardia, in November 1933.

John P. Reese

The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies (February 3, 2009, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0470377093) was co-authored by Jack M. Forehand and examines the approaches used by 10 stock strategists: Benjamin Graham, John Neff, David Dreman, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Kenneth Fisher, Martin Zweig, James O'Shaughnessy, Joel Greenblatt, and Joseph Piotroski.

His first book, The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best (Dearborn, 2002. ISBN 978-0976510109), was co-authored with Todd O. Glassman and examined the strategies of eight different stock market investors—Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, William O'Neil, Warren Buffett, David Dreman, Martin Zweig, Kenneth Fisher, and James O'Shaughnessy.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

John Parker House

John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

Kerry S. Harris

Harris' innovations are currently being used by the Departments of Defense of several countries to include impact attenuation (helmets), electronics, optical technology, and human-mechanical interface technology.

Martin Zweig

He is also featured in John Reese’s recent book, The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies.

Morgan Park, Chicago

Rotary International was formed in Morgan Park at the home of Paul P. Harris at 10856 Longwood Drive, and today the house is owned and maintained by that organization as a memorial to him.

Oklahoma Republican Party

Bud Wilkinson, legendary University of Oklahoma football coach (lost 1964 U.S. Senate election to Fred R. Harris)

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Paul Harris

Paul P. Harris (1868–1947), lawyer who founded the Rotary Club in 1905

Peter R. Harris

Although no documentation suggests any link between Compass Group or its subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) (sometimes referred to as Eurest or Eurest Support Services, or even ESS Support Services Worldwide) to the Oil-for-Food Programme scandal, Fox News in particular alleged questionable conduct by Harris.

R. J. Harris

He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States.

RCA Inspiration

The new group consisted of Verity Records, GospoCentric Records and four artist owned imprints: Quiet Water Entertainment (Donald Lawrence), Fo Yo Soul Entertainment (Kirk Franklin), New Life Records (John P. Kee) and F. Hammond Music (Fred Hammond).

Shirley Owens

As well as Owens, the Shirelles consisted of classmates of hers from Passaic High School, New Jersey: Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson, and Beverly Lee.

Space-oblique Mercator projection

The space-oblique Mercator projection (SOM) was developed by John P. Snyder, Alden Partridge Colvocoresses and John L. Junkins in 1976.

Stephen Siegel

Throughout his career, he has arranged transactions for some of the US's most prominent corporate clients including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Amerada Hess Corp., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Swiss Reinsurance, MetLife, Cerberus Capital Management and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

VideoWriter

Although the VideoWRITER has the capability to accept program disks, none were ever sold, although game designer Bob Harris designed several entertaining apps, such as an acrostic solver.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

(VVMF), was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War.

Vincent Coleman

Coleman was eventually groomed by the studios to become a leading man and had starring roles in the 1921 George Fawcett directed remake of the 1914 Mary Pickford comedy film Such A Little Queen and The Magic Cup, released the same year before returning to Broadway in July 1921 to star in the Sam H. Harris produced play

WFMV

WFMV offers mostly contemporary gospel music with some classics, from artists such as CeCe Winans, Smokie Norful, Mary Mary, Shirley Caesar, John P. Kee, The Georgia Mass Choir, and Kirk Franklin.

William C. Harris

William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter


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