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unusual facts about Joseph A. Dixon


Joseph A. Dixon

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.


A. C. Dixon

He then crossed the Atlantic and ministered at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, the church formerly pastored by Charles Spurgeon and other notable preachers, where he spent the war years.

Alan J. Dixon

Outgoing Governor Dan Walker had lost the support of the Party and the primary election.

Benjamin Civiletti

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr. and Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal also resigned the same day.

Brinkman, Oklahoma

Brinkman was named after a resident John Brinkman, a business associate of railroad builders Joseph A. Kemp and Frank Kell, who paid the expenses of platting.

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Douglas X-3 Stiletto

NACA pilot Joseph A. Walker made his pilot checkout flight in the X-3 on 23 August 1954, then conducted eight research flights in September and October.

Elmer J. Holland

He was elected as a Democrat to the 77th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph A. McArdle and served from May 19, 1942, to January 3, 1943.

Ernest Dixon

Ernest T. Dixon, Jr. (died 1996), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church

Fizz keeper

As Joseph A. Schwarcz, Brian Rohrig (of Eastmoor Academy), John P. Williams (of Miami University Hamilton), Sandy Van Natta, Rebecca Knipp, and Reed A. Howald all explain, the mechanism does not, in fact, operate in this fashion because of Henry's Law and Dalton's Law.

Fly in the ointment

This idiom has been used in the title of some books: The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life by Joseph A. Schwarcz and The Fly in the Ointment by Alice Thomas Ellis.

Forgan, Oklahoma

From 1912 to 1973, Forgan was the northern terminus of the defunct Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell and Joseph A. Kemp properties which linked Wichita Falls, Texas, with the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Indiana State Fair

In February 1851, at the urging of agricultural promoter Governor Wright, the Indiana General Assembly passed an act intended "to encourage agriculture" growth in the state, which also included the formation of a State Board of Agriculture.

James L. Richetelli, Jr.

Richetelli's son, James, attends Joseph A. Foran High School and his daughters, Michelle and Julie, attend colleges within the state.

Jeremiah Dixon

Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

Joseph A. Ahearn

During his career, Ahearn became affiliated with the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of American Military Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Public Works Association.

Joseph A. Ball

Joseph Arthur Ball (August 16, 1894-August 27, 1951) was an American inventor, physicist, and executive at Technicolor.

Joseph A. Bonanno

Currently he is a fellow at the American Academy of Optometry and a member at both the Association for Research in vision and ophthalmology and the American Physiological Society.

Joseph A. Boyd, Jr.

He served as chairman of the commission and vice mayor of Dade County.

Joseph A. Dandurand

Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen Indian (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia.

Joseph A. Day

Day's wife, Georgie Day, was elected to the legislature, on her first attempt in electoral politics, in 1991, and was re-elected in 1995.

Joseph A. Gavagan

Gavagan was elected as a Democrat to the 71st United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Royal H. Weller; he was re-elected to the 72nd and to the six succeeding Congresses and held office from November 5, 1929, to December 30, 1943, when he resigned, having been elected a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

Joseph A. Goulden

In 1912 Goulden was elected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death.

Joseph A. Hardy III

The resort is also home to the Mystic Rock golf course, designed by Pete Dye, and was home to the PGA Tour's 84 Lumber Classic from 2002-2006.

Joseph A. Maturo, Jr.

He has served on the Public Relations Committee of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games held in New Haven.

Joseph A. Maynard

He worked as a manufacturer of plumbing supplies and was a director of the F.W. Webb Company, Fidelity Trust Company, Hibernia Savings Bank, and the McAuliffe Company.

Joseph A. McArdle

McArdle was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served until his resignation on January 5, 1942, to become a member of the Pittsburgh City Council.

Joseph A. O'Hare

He trained for the priesthood at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where he was ordained in 1961.

Joseph A. Redding

He was Commander of the Bad Neustadt area during the post-war occupation of Germany.

Joseph A. Rochford

Most recently, he presented at the Kisubi Brothers University Centre of Uganda’s Martyrs University on collaboration and at the University of London on introducing pre-service teaching into global virtual communities.

He worked with administrative preparation programs in both the Cleveland Municipal and Canton City School District.

Joseph A. Schwarcz

Uri Geller, the mentalist, is a common target for debunking.

Joseph A. Suozzi

After attending Harvard Law School, Suozzi was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York, where he joined with Glen Cove Mayor Luke Mercadante as a law partner, with an office in Glen Cove.

Joseph A. Walker

He transferred to the High-Speed Flight Research Station in Edwards, California, in 1951.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel

Joseph McDonald

Joseph A. McDonald (1866–1930), American businessman influential in the steel industry

Joseph Meyer

Joseph A. Meyer (c. 1895–1970), American football and basketball coach

Mason Dixon

Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters

Media in Missoula, Montana

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Congressman, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Missoulian

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Parkway Place

Parkway Place offers shoppers of the Tennessee Valley several stores that were new to the Huntsville market, including, Ann Taylor, Brookstone, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, and Joseph A. Bank.

Paula Jean Welden

Due to the strangeness of these events, Vermont broadcaster and author Joseph A. Citro dubbed the wilderness area northeast of Bennington "the Bennington Triangle" – a reference to unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

The Crimson Flame

The Crimson Flame is the 77th title of the Hardy Boys series, written by Franklin W. Dixon.

Tomato soup

The first noted tomato soup was made by Maria Parloa in 1872, and Joseph A. Campbell's recipe for condensed tomato soup in 1897 further increased its popularity.

Warburton Ledge

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Joseph A. Warburton, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) scientist in charge of the RISP meteorological program, 1974-75 field season.

Youghiogheny River

"Youghiogheny, Pennsylvania," is mentioned in a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, and the Youghiogheny is referred to as Yochio Geni in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon.


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