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3 unusual facts about Kern


Foreign Reports

Nat Kern was a frequent visitor to Iraq during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, at a time when U.S.-Iraqi relations were improving, and was tasked by the U.S. government with maintaining ties with certain key Iraqi officials from 1991 onwards, at a time when the U.S. government maintained a policy of shunning any official contact with the Iraqi government.

Nathaniel Kern (also Nat Kern) joined his father at Foreign Reports in 1972 after graduating from Princeton University and attending the University of Riyadh from 1970-71 as the first non-Arab student.

KERN

Emmy Award winning writer Ken Levine (known as Ken Stevens) got his start in radio at KERN in 1971.


125 Magazine

In more recent issues it appears that the contribution format of the magazine has changed with more and more high profile names commissioned to shoot, Rankin, Richard Kern, Perou, Christopher Griffith, Alice Hawkins, Mick Rock, Shinichi Maruyama, Ernst Fischer, Tim Simmons and more.

ABC Funfit

Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton hosted the series, assisted by the "Funfit Kids" (Ericka Pazcoquin, Bradley Kane, Melissa Kern and Efrain Bracero).

Atriplex tularensis

Atriplex tularensis is endemic to Kern County, California, where it is known only from a few individuals at Kern Lake, a usually dry ephemeral lake bed just north of the Interstate 5 and Highway 99 split.

Beauty Prize

The Beauty Prize, a 1923 musical comedy, with music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by George Grossmith and P. G. Wodehouse

Brad Kern

Kern and Holly Marie Combs currently share custody of the book, and agreed to alternate possession between the two of them, each getting the book for an entire year at a time.

Bugles in the Afternoon

When they reach Bismarck in the Dakota territory, Kern is welcomed to join the 7th Cavalry by an old friend, Capt. Myles Moylan, and assigned the rank of sergeant.

Cal Kern

Cal Kern is the president and owner of the Niagara Power, an amateur baseball team and the New York State Director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

In 2007, Kern, in coordination with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, founded the Niagara Power, a collegiate summer baseball team in the New York Collegiate Baseball League.

China Lake, California

China Lake Acres, California, census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States

Chumash

Chumash Wilderness, wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California

Cousin Creep

In late 2004 he relocated to Bakersfield, California in the United States where he continued to work in broadcasting at KKXX & KERN.

Don Kern

In July, 2013, it was announced that Mascot Books would publish Kern's first book, "and the adventure continues ...."

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with an Orchestra conducted and arranged by Nelson Riddle, focusing on the songs of Jerome Kern.

Enchanted Piano

Unlike Kern's past albums, this album breaks away from his other in the way that it is recorded solely on the piano; as such, there are no other instruments whatsoever on the album.

Eremalche parryi

kernensis, the Kern mallow, is a rare plant known only from western Kern County, California around the tiny community of McKittrick.

Frazier Park

Frazier Park, California, an unincorporated village in Kern County, California

Fred J. Kern

In 1901, Kern was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress, where he served from March 4, 1901 through March 3, 1903.

Kern was elected as Chief enrolling clerk of the State senate in 1892, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Kern ran for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress, but was unsuccessful, and resumed his newspaper pursuits in Belleville, Illinois.

Greenhorn Mountains

The Kern Canyon, a dramatic and deep canyon cut by the Kern River, cuts a path through the Greenhorn Mountains that is also used by State Route 178.

Hans Einstein

After completing his residency, Einstein became the assistant medical director of the Kern County tuberculosis sanitarium in Keene.

Helen Dowdy

Helen Dowdy was a Broadway actress and singer who played the role of Queenie in the 1946 revival of Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat (a role originally played by Tess Gardella in 1927).

Heliolonche joaquinensis

It is found in the San Joaquin Valley from San Benito and Fresno counties in the north and Kern and Santa Barbara counties in the south.

High, Wide, and Handsome

In a deliberate nod to Kern and Hammerstein's classic musical Show Boat, which had been filmed with Irene Dunne the year before, Dunne's lovable father Raymond Walburn is the owner of a traveling musical medicine show (much like Cap'n Andy), and Dunne is its star; in addition, Dorothy Lamour sings a torch song, much as Helen Morgan did in Show Boat.

The movie includes the classic Kern-Hammerstein song "Can I Forget You?", as well as "The Folks Who Live On the Hill".

Imagination's Light

In the accompanying booklet, Kevin Kern mentions basing "Keepers of the Flame" on an ancient Gregorian chant called "Pange Lingua".

Kern AG

Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), Test de français international (TFI), London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) are additional internationally recognised tests that can be taken at KERN AG IKL.

Kern Alexander

Samuel Kern Alexander, Jr. was born in Marrowbone, Kentucky in 1939.

Kern City

Boron, California or Kern, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California

Kern Lake

Kern Lake, California an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.

Krewe of Boo

However, Mayor Ray Nagin urged Kern to hold the parade downtown to increase tourist involvement.

Kristiana Gregory

Kristiana Gregory, known also by her given name Lynn Christine (b. 1951 in Los Angeles, California to Harold D. Gregory and Virginia Jean Kern Gregory with two younger siblings Robert and Janet), is a popular author of children's historical fiction, including several for the Dear America and Royal Diaries series.

Lake Isabella

The nearby towns of Lake Isabella and Kernville receive economic benefit from tourism created by the Lake Isabella Recreation Area and the whitewater rafting attraction of the Upper and Lower Kern River.

Libby Appel

Theatres in which Appel worked include Intiman Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New Mexico Repertory, The Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and the Alabama, Colorado and Kern Shakespeare Festivals.

Lung Leg

She also appeared in two music videos directed by Kern, "Concubine" (1984) by Butthole Surfers and Sonic Youth song "Death Valley '69" (1985).

Nathaniel Kern

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Kern worked with major contractors from around the world in responding to tenders for the supply of power generation and water desalination equipment to the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) of Saudi Arabia.

Oscar Hammerstein

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), Broadway lyricist, songwriting partner of Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers

Paul J. Kern

Paul John Kern (born June 16, 1945) became President and Chief Operating Officer of AM General LLC on August 1, 2008.

Rabobank Arena

A separate display on the western concourse honors the founders of Bakersfield and Kern County, as well as country music legend Buck Owens and current athletes and dignitaries from Bakersfield and Kern County.

Robin Kern

In 2012, Kern was again awarded a wild ward into the main draw of the MercedesCup, where he lost to Thomaz Bellucci in the first round.

Ruby Day

Her works are influenced by Robert Kern, Tony Ward, Andrew Blake, and Terry Richardson and reach from elaborate glamour shots to outdoor naturist scenes.

SCAN Health Plan

The organization serves more than 110,000 people with Medicare in Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino San Diego and Ventura counties, California, and Maricopa county Arizona.

Thomas Pappas

Major General George Fay was appointed by General Paul Kern to conduct an investigation of prisoner abuse at the Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center (JIDC) in Abu Ghraib prison.

Townsville Kern United

Townsville Kern United also managed to attract several high profile players, such as Paul Wormley, who had previously played professional football in England for Barnsley.

Tübatulabal

Tübatulabal people, Native Americans whose ancestral home was in the Kern River basin

Walther Rathenau

During the trip his car was passed by a car with Ernst Werner Techow behind the wheel and Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer on the backseats.

You Were Never Lovelier

Here, as in the "Pick Yourself Up" and "Bojangles of Harlem" numbers from Swing Time, Kern belied his claim that he couldn't write in the Swing style.


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