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unusual facts about Martin J. Ball


Clinical linguistics

The journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics is the major research journal of the field and was founded by Martin J. Ball.


Alexandre Brongniart

Rudwick, Martin J.S., Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes (The University of Chicago Press, 1997) ISBN 0-226-73106-5

Arthur E. Nelson

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but was elected fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949).

Autumn Reeser

She has also appeared in a number of films including the 2008 sequel of a 1980s cult classic, Lost Boys: The Tribe, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, The Girl Next Door, and a movie musical by the High School Musical producers, called "The American Mall."

Bruce Kingma

Kingma is a professor at Syracuse University in the iSchool and School of Management.

C.F. Ball

Ball had left Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in August 1903 to work as Assistant and later Foreman at the Irish National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, Dublin.

A cultivar of the South American shrub Escallonia is named ‘C.F. Ball’ in his memory, a beautiful shrub with dark green leaves and bright red flowers, excellent for bees.

“A delightful companion, unassuming, sincere and a most lovable man…” quoted from a short and touching obituary (and portrait) was also published in The Garden (October 16, 1915, p.514) by his friend and fellow soldier , the editor Herbert Cowley (who had been invalided out of the army).

Carlos Castaneda bibliography

Martin J. Goodman: I was Carlos Castañeda: The Afterlife Dialogues (2001 New York) Three Rivers Press.

David W. Ball

David Wadsworth Ball (born September 12, 1949) is an American author whose novels include Empires of Sand (1999), China Run (2002) and Ironfire (2004).

Ernest Ball

His grandson was the guitar string entrepreneur Ernie Ball, great-grandson is singer-songwriter-content producer Sherwood Ernest Ball and his great-great-granddaughters are actress Hannah Marks and singer/songwriter Tiare' Ball.

Harry O'Donovan

The character Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".

Herbert Cowley

His Kew Guild Journal obituary in 1968 mentions prewar plant hunting trips to the Dolomites and a notable visit to Bulgaria as a guest of King Ferdinand in the company of Kew contemporary C.F. Ball of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in Dublin.

Sadly this prewar lecture lists contain the names of some of other Kew staff including C.F. Ball who would soon be killed on active service.

History of union busting in the United States

According to Martin J. Levitt, "because of Landrum-Griffin's vague language, attorneys are able to directly interfere in the union-organizing process without any reporting requirements. Therefore, "young lawyers run bold anti-union wars and dance all over Landrum-Griffin.

Jelly Roll Blues

He recorded it first as a piano solo in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924, and then with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago two years later, titled as it was originally copyrighted: "Original Jelly-Roll Blues." It is referenced by name in the 1917 Shelton Brooks composition "Darktown Strutters' Ball".

Joseph A. Ball

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

Joseph H. Ball

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Minnesotans came to appreciate their foresighted senator.

When Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on August 31, 1940, Ball was the surprise appointment to fill the unexpired term.

Ball was elected to the Senate in the 1942 election, receiving 47% of the vote against Farmer-Labour, Independent and Democratic opposition.

Justin Oberman

His father, Marty, was the dean of independent aldermen in the Chicago City Council for 12 years fighting waste, fraud, and abuse and on behalf of working men and women in the city.

Lee Holloway

Holloway ran for mayor of Milwaukee in 1988, losing in the initial non-partisan primary to John Norquist and Martin Schreiber; he says that while he wasn't very political, he felt that there should be an African-American in the race.

Manifold Destiny

On August 22, 2006, Sir John M. Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, made reference to the article and rushed publication of the Cao/Zhu paper at a speech given at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Martin J. Badoian

The team had such an outstanding record during the late 1900s that news articles sometimes compared them to the Boston Celtics because of their dominance over other teams.

Martin J. Fettman

Fettman spent one year (1989–1990) on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Professor of Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the University of Adelaide, South Australia, where he worked with the Gastroenterology Unit studying the biochemical epidemiology of human colorectal cancer.

Martin J. Kennedy

Kennedy was elected as a Democrat to the 71st United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John F. Carew, and was re-elected to the seven succeeding Congresses, holding office from April 11, 1930, to January 3, 1945.

Martin J. O'Connor

He later moved to Australia where he worked with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a sports producer for TV and radio.

Martin J. Schreiber

In July 1977, following the resignation of Lucey to become the United States ambassador to Mexico, Schreiber succeeded him as Governor for the remainder of their four-year term.

Martin J. Wygod

Fletcher Jones owned Westerly Stud Farms near Santa Ynez, California and was involved in horse racing for several years prior to his untimely death in 1972.

Martin Newell

Martin J. Newell (1910–1985), Irish mathematician and educationalist, who served as President of University College Galway from 1960 to 1975

Martin O'Connor

Martin J. O'Connor (1930–1999), British television producer and executive

Martin Schreiber

Martin J. Schreiber (born 1939), his son, Democratic legislator and Acting Governor of Wisconsin

Martin Sullivan

Martin J. Sullivan (born 1955), former CEO of American International Group

Martin Taylor

Sir Martin J. Taylor (born 1952), British mathematician and past Vice-President of the Royal Society

Pasqualetti

Martin J. Pasqualetti, professor of geography at Arizona State University.

Post-earnings-announcement drift

This was initially proposed by the information content study of Ray J. Ball & P. Brown, 'An empirical evaluation of accounting income numbers', Journal of Accounting Research, Autumn 1968, pp.

Satish Nambisan

Prof. Nambisan obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

Ted Mulry

Over the next few years they achieved a string of hit singles including a rocked up version of the old jazz song, "Darktown Strutters' Ball", "Crazy", "Jamaica Rum" and "My Little Girl".

Terry Ball

Terry B. Ball, dean of religious education at Brigham Young University

The Great Devonian Controversy

Rudwick, Martin J. S. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists.

Thomas Ball

Thomas R. Ball (1896–1943), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Timeline of time measurement technology

1893 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers

Union busting

In 1980, the author of Confessions of a Union Buster named Martin J. Levitt reported that he conducted a counter-organizing drive at a nursing home in Sebring, Ohio.

Protracted delays can turn an organizing campaign into a war and according to Martin J. Levitt such battles are almost always won by management.

Vincent J. Gentile

Gentile would go on to serve three terms before being defeated by then City Councilman Martin J. "Marty" Golden in 2002.

William L. Ball

He was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation in January 2002 .


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