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Joseph-Hormisdas Legris

The same year, Catholic Bishop Louis-François Richer Laflèche used his influence to help local candidates of the Conservative Party being elected.


Achille Liénart

Liénart received his episcopal consecration on the following December 8 from Bishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte of Amiens, with Bishops Palmyre Jasoone and Maurice Feltin serving as co-consecrators, in Tourcoing.

Alois Dessauer

Alois Joseph Dessauer (born Aron Baruch Dessauer; February 21, 1763, Gochsheim - April 11, 1850, Aschaffenburg) was a famous German court banker (Court Jew).

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Anthony Cekada

Following his sacerdotal ordination, Cekada taught seminarians at St. Joseph's House of Studies, Armada, Michigan, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Bob Bruggers

He was involved in the same 1975 plane crash that involved pilot Joseph Michael Farkas (he ended up in a coma and died the next year), wrestling legends Johnny Valentine (broke his back and bone fragments impacted into his spinal cord, which ended his career), Tim Woods (Mr. Wrestling), and Ric Flair (broke his back, but recovered and returned to wrestling), and Jim Crockett Promotions' announcer David Crockett.

Boer War Memorial, Crewe

The memorial was designed and made by Joseph Whitehead and Sons of Westminster.

Carmen Boullosa

Finally, the third play satirically recounts the conversation between Joseph and Mary before Mary gives birth to Jesus and ascends to heaven.

Der Rauchfangkehrer

Commissioned by Emperor Joseph II for his German company, it was first performed on 30 April 1781 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

François Olivennes

François Olivennes has three children, Hannah, 25, Joseph, 22 and George, 13, with his ex-wife, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

Henry Loftus and Harry Donaldson

Donaldson's mother, a Mrs. Joseph Thivalt, traveled all the way from Concession, Nova Scotia after using his last 95 cents to telegraph her.

Ian Dorricott

His teaching experience includes Yeronga High School, Brisbane Girls Grammar School and St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace.

Ingrid Losert

Losert followed her father Joseph and brother Roland, both Olympic fencers, and started training in the age of seven.

Joe Doerksen

Joseph Daniel Doerksen (born October 9, 1977) is a Canadian mixed martial artist from New Bothwell, Manitoba.

John Cade

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO (18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering (in 1948) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder (then known as manic depression).

Josep Melcior Prat i Colom

Josep Melcior Prat i Colom, or in Spanish Joseph Melchior de Prat, (Els Prats de Rei, Anoia, 1780 - San Sebastian, 1855) was a Catalan nationalist politician, writer, and in 1835 governor of Barcelona, and 1855 civil governor of Guipuzcoa.

Joseph Asiegbo

Prince Joseph Asiegbo (born on October 4, 1979, in Lagos) is the son of King Eze Young Ogbonna of Abia State, Obeyin of Nigeria.

Joseph Awinongya

Joseph Awinongya plays Paalo in the upcoming cable television movie 'Dreams' opposite Tommy Ford, Vicky Winans, Angie Stone, Dave Scott, Geoffrey Owens of the (Cosby Show), Terri Van Martin, Mel Jackson, Lisa Tucker, and Syesha Mercado of (American Idol).

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Joseph G. Haubrich

In 1990, Joseph joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland as an economist and consultant in the research department.

Joseph Judge

Another son, Joseph Mitchell Judge, is curator of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum.

Joseph L. Carwise Middle School

Joseph L. Carwise Middle School is a grade 6–8 middle school in Palm Harbor, Florida.

Joseph Mangan

Joseph Mangan is an American aerospace engineer who, in 2004, told European aviation authorities of his belief that the microprocessors controlling cabin pressurization valves in the new Airbus A380 might allow a sudden depressurization of the passenger cabin in flight—which, at normal cruising altitudes, could endanger the lives of people aboard the aircraft.

Joseph Merk

In 1836 Friedrich August Kummer dedicated his Souvenir de la Suisse, Concertino for cello and orchestra, Op. 30, to Joseph Merk.

Joseph Putzer

Joseph Putzer (4 March, 1836, Rodeneck, County of Tyrol, Austrian Empire - 15 May, 1904, Ilchester, Maryland, USA) was an Austrian Redemptorist theologian and canonist.

Joseph Regenstein

Joseph Regenstein (1889–1957) was an American industrialist whose philanthropy benefited the city of Chicago, especially the University of Chicago, where the Regenstein Library is named in his memory.

Joseph Wijnkoop

Joseph David Wijnkoop (Amsterdam, 14 August 1842 - Amsterdam, 1 October 1910) was a Dutch rabbi and scholar in Jewish studies.

Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret

Joseph Christian Ernest Bourret (9 December 1827 in the hamlet of Labro, near Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Ardèche - 10 July 1896, Rodez) was a French churchman, bishop and cardinal.

Joseph-Mathias Tellier

Sir Joseph-Mathias Tellier is the brother of Louis Tellier, the father of Maurice Tellier, the grandfather of Paul Tellier, and a first cousin of Raymond Tellier, who is the grandfather of Luc-Normand Tellier.

Kennedy's Kitchen

With that group, he co-produced two recordings (Joseph Harvey’s Fiddle was Left in the Rain and Seamaisin: Live at the Tin Shop) as well as produced music for the sound track of Dennis Courtney’s film of James Joyce’s Araby in 1997; Araby was nominated for a Student Academy Award in the Narrative Film Category.

Leonhard Ennen

He followed this with his Der spanische Erbfolgekrieg und der Churfürst Joseph Clemens von Köln, a study of the War of the Spanish Succession and the role the Elector Joseph Clemens played in this contest, published in 1851.

Leslie Henson

Nicky's sons, with ex-wife Una Stubbs, are composers Christian and Joseph; and another son, with wife Marguerite Porter, is Keaton, an artist.

Mam Cymru

National personification of Wales, also called Dame Wales used in cartoons, most notably by Joseph Morewood Staniforth.

Maria Amalia

Maria Amalia of Austria (1701–1756), was the daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, wife of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Merrow Sewing Machine Company

the Merrow Machine Company is now based in Fall River, Massachusetts, and is managed by Charlie Merrow and Owen Merrow great great nephews of Joseph M. Merrow.

Monk Boudreaux

Monk Boudreaux (born Joseph Pierre Boudreaux; 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is the Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe.

Nicholas Sheran

After his service in the American Civil War, Sheran followed a fellow soldier (Joseph Healy, a member of the Kainai Nation who was adopted by the Healy family) to Montana where he worked as a prospecter and trader.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Gary Braver, bestselling author of Skin Deep, said “Paul’s writing in The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen has the humanity of Somerset Maugham, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his own.”

Penny Ann Early

Management, including Colonels owners Joseph and Mamie Gregory, ordered coach Gene Rhodes to play Early in a game.

Quincuncina burkei

This very distinct species was first discovered in the Pea River at Elamville, Ala., by Joseph B. Burke and is named

Roman Catholic Diocese of Niigata

Our Lady of Akita was formally approved in 1988 when Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave definitive judgement on the Akita events and messages as reliable and worthy of belief.

Sabrina Colie

Colie completed her elementary education at Mt. St. Joseph Preparatory and high school and sixth form at Manchester High, Mandeville where she was valedictorian.

Sgt. MacKenzie

Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in the Great War.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell

On 4 September 1658, Thomas Wyberg Esq., of St Bees, Joseph Patrickson of Howe, and William Barwis of Paddigil signed a deed on behalf of their wives the three co-heiresses, transferring the Brayton Manorial Estates and other property valued at one thousand pounds to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel.

St. Jude Medical Center

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet began operating their first hospital in Eureka, California in 1919 as a response to the Spanish Flu epidemic.

The Minister's Black Veil

A clergyman named Joseph Moody of York, Maine, nicknamed "Handkerchief Moody", accidentally killed a friend when he was a young man and wore a black veil from the man's funeral until his own death.

Tomar Jonyo

Joseph falls in love with a blind girl Ankhi (Shreya) but hides his original identity from her and her mother (Alokananda).

Tony Scotti

Anthony Joseph "Tony" Scotti (born December 22, 1939) is an American actor, television and film producer, and co-founder of Scotti Brothers Records.

Yaqu'b Mor Anthonios

During 1975-1979 he completed his Seminary Course from the Malecruz Dayro, Puthencruz, Kerala and Syriac studies under Joseph Sir, Paulose Mor Athanasius Metropolitan (Kadavil Thirumeni II),Yakob Mor Themothios Metropolitan (Thrikkothamangalam), R. V Markose, and Skariya Cor-Episcopa.


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