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Michael Foster

Michael G. Foster (born 1940), founder of Yoshukai International karate

Michael G. Foster

Beginning in 1967, he established accredited Yoshukai Karate programs in Florida colleges and universities at St. Leo College, Florida State University, University of South Florida, University of Tampa and Florida Atlantic University.


Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia

Morony, Michael G. Iraq after the Muslim Conquest, Princeton, 1984

Albert S. Bickmore

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

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.

Collected Works of Northrop Frye

The project of producing a scholarly, uniform edition of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye (1912–1991) grew from modest beginnings in 1993; the project has been funded by grants from the Michael G. DeGroote family through McMaster University, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and from Victoria University, University of Toronto.

David G. Wilson

David G. Wilson, the son of Michael G. Wilson, is head of Creative & Business Affairs for Eon Screenwriters Workshop Ltd, as well as Vice-president of Global Business Strategy for Eon Productions.

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.

James Foster

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

Michael G. Cornelius

Two years later, in 2003, he co-authored (with Kate Emburg) the first of the Susan Slutt - Girl Detective novels, a parody of Nancy Drew-style works.

Michael G. Crandall

Crandall was several times a visiting professor at the University of Paris, where he received an honorary doctorate in 1999.

Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine

It is the third largest medical school in Canada, and is one of two medical programs (along with the University of Calgary) in Canada that operates on an accelerated 3-year program, without interruption for the summer, instead of the traditional 4-year MD Program.

Roberta Bondar, NASA's space medicine researcher, first Canadian female astronaut

James Orbinski President of Médecins Sans Frontières, accepted Nobel Peace Prize on their behalf

Michael G. Fitzgerald

Michael G. Fitzgerald (December 19, 1950 – February 14, 2006) a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, was a film historian and author.

Michael G. Long

At Elizabethtown College he teaches courses on Christian social ethics, the Civil Rights Movement, and peace and conflict studies, and works with many notable colleagues including: Donald Kraybill and Jeffery D. Long, among others.

Michael G. Strain

In the campaign, some conservatives questioned Strain's legislative votes for higher taxes, including his support for the Stelly Plan (named for former State Representative Vic Stelly of Lake Charles).

Dr. Strain is a past president and board member for the Louisiana Farm Bureau and is affiliated with the Louisiana Cattlemen's Association.

Michael G. Turnbull

The Supreme Court project was the most comprehensive Turnbull was responsible for, working closely with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter, as well as Sally Rider who served as Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

His father, Gordon McKinnon Turnbull, was a soldier and World War II veteran of The Royal Canadian Regiment, frequently stationed in Great Britain as part of Canada's contribution to the Imperial Forces of the British Empire defending the political and cultural center of the Empire, the United Kingdom, during the Battle of Britain.

Michael G. Vickers

He earned a Ph.D. in 2011 in International Relations/Strategic Studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University under Professor Eliot A. Cohen.

Michael G. Waddoups

Waddoups was scrutinized for his outspoken opposition to Judge Robert Hilder during Hilder's confirmation hearings for the Utah State Court of Appeals.

Michael G. Walsh

He is a member of the 1997 class of inductees to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

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 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.

Rockaway Beach Branch

Talks of reactivating the line were publically endorsed in February 2012 by Assemblymen Phillip Goldfeder and Michael G. Miller.

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.

Thick description

Examples include Michael G. Vann's study of rats and sewers in French government colonial Hanoi.

Toshiro Suga

He had a brief career in cinema, thanks in part to his student Michael G. Wilson, where his best known part was as Chang in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Toward Soviet America

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

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.


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