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3 unusual facts about M. A. Foster


M. A. Foster

He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.

The "game" from the title of The Gameplayers of Zan is based on cellular automata, a more intricate version of Conway's Game of Life.

Oerlikon is an out-of-the way world that has gathered a group of people who desire to suppress change.


Albert S. Bickmore

The Regiment was sent to Newbern, NC, in October 1862 to serve under Major General John G. Foster.

America's Wetland Foundation

In 2001, Former Louisiana Governor Mike Foster launched what would become the America's WETLAND Campaign, and declared a "holy war" on coastal erosion.

Asmund Berserkers-Slayer

He is also known as Gnodar-Asmund in other sagas in which his stepfather was Illugi, Foster-Son of Grid.

Charles A. Foster

He was a research assistant to Aharon Barak, Justice (and later President) of the Supreme Court of Israel.

After Cambridge he worked on the comparative anatomy of the Himalayan Hispid hare and chemotaxis in leeches, worked in Saudi Arabia studying the immobilization of Goitred and Mountain gazelles, did pupillage at the English Bar, and was a research fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Charles Foster

Charles A. Foster (born 1962), British writer, traveller and barrister

Confederate Memorial Hall

As the case proceeded through the appellate processes, Governor Mike Foster intervened in the dispute and assisted in the drafting of a compromise between UNO and the museum that would allow Confederate Memorial Hall to remain in its historic building.

For much of its existence the Confederate Memorial Hall's building has been the subject of an ownership dispute that has involved numerous court battles and the involvement of several Louisiana political figures including Governors Huey Long and Mike Foster.

Eduard Pernkopf

Following the theories of bioethicist Charles A. Foster, he sees the anatomist's fundamental crime as a violation of his subjects' dignity.

Garfield Heights City School District

Named after World War II Medal of Honor recipient William A. Foster, Garfield's first Elementary School serves children Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and is currently under Principal Karen Ruane and Associate Principal Sandy Powers.

George P. Foster

:For the U.S. Representative from Illinois, see George Peter Foster.

Henry A. Foster

Foster was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1839.

James C. Foster

The son of company founder Henry Foster, James joined the company in 1976 as Vice President of Administration and General Counsel.

James Foster

James C. Foster, chairman and chief executive officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

James L. Foster, former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1971–1979

John G. Foster

After President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in rebel territory, in April 1863 Foster appointed Horace James, an experienced Congregational chaplain, as ”Superintendent of Negro Affairs for the North Carolina District.

John H. Foster

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress.

Foster was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James A. Hemenway.

He was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress and served from May 16, 1905, to March 3, 1909.

John S. Foster, Jr.

In 1952, Foster was recruited to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory by founder Edward Teller, and became a division leader in experimental physics.

In the summers of 1946 and 1947, he worked on the Canadian nuclear power project in Chalk River, Ontario.

Lafayette S. Foster

Foster was elected President pro tempore of the Senate at the beginning of the 39th Congress in 1865, and held that title until the end of his term in 1867.

Lovington, New Mexico

Paul L. Foster, billionaire philanthropist and President of Western Refining

Martha Kaplan

Contents: Preface by Marshall Sahlins, Introduction by Martha Kaplan; Original papers by John D Kelly, Andrew Lattas, Deborah McDougall, Martha Kaplan, Daniel Rosenblatt, and Margaret Jolly, with Comments by Robert J. Foster and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.

Martha M. Foster

Foster's continuing relationship with Chinese documentary television professionals began in 1997, when professor Ren Yuan of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now the Communication University of China) brought Chinese documentaries to show at the Windy City International Documentary Festival in Chicago, which Foster founded and directed.

Martin D. Foster

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses).

Foster was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919).

Melvin Rambin

In 1999, Rambin was appointed by Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., as a regent of the Louisiana Board of Regents of Higher Education.

Murphy J. Foster

Foster appointed another Tensas Parish legislator, Thomas M. Wade of Newellton to the state board of education; Wade was later the long-term Tensas Parish school superintendent.

Paul Foster

Paul H. Foster (1939–1967), USMC, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action in Vietnam

Paul L. Foster

During college Paul was inducted into the Texas Theta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Baylor University.

Photosensitive ganglion cell

In 1991 Russell G. Foster and colleagues, including Ignacio Provencio, discovered a non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor in the eyes of mice.

R. E. Foster

H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1926

He had played for Worcestershire while they were still a minor county but in 1899, their inaugural season as a first-class county, he and his brother Wilfrid Foster both scored two hundreds in a match (against Hampshire), a feat which remains unique in county cricket.

He is the only man to have captained England at both sports.

R. F. Foster

Robert Frederick Foster (1853–1945), disseminator of the rules of many card games

Snooky Lanson

In January 1960, Crossroads TV Productions videotaped a pilot in Springfield, Missouri for a proposed pop music-variety series called Snooky Lanson Time. Guests were Brenda Lee, the Anita Kerr Singers, Betty Ann Grove and Paul Mitchell's instrumental combo.

Student Volunteer Movement

Convention speakers included such prominent individuals as former Secretary of State John W. Foster, Ambassador of Great Britain in the United States Henry Mortimer Durand and James Bryce.

Toward Soviet America

Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z. Foster, in 1932.

Walter T. Foster

The popularity of these children’s books eventually led to licensing agreements with The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics and Warner Bros..

Wilder D. Foster

In a special election on April 4, 1871, Foster was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 4th congressional district to the 42nd United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas White Ferry.

William D. Foster

In 1915, however, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company came into being, building on Foster's groundwork to produce various films including The Realization of a Negro's Ambition in 1916 and The Trooper of Company K in 1917.

Films such as Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000), about a black television executive who decides to make a minstrel show and is appalled by its success, still convey the same stereotypes that Foster was trying to convey nearly one hundred years earlier.

Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball

Starting with the 1934–35 season, former UW basketball player Bud Foster began coaching the Wisconsin Badgers.


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