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unusual facts about Muir


Muir's Corella

Muir's Corella formerly inhabited woodlands and open country east of the main area of forest in south-western Western Australia, occurring north to the Swan and Avon Rivers, south to Albany and Augusta, and eastwards to the Stirling and Porongurup Ranges.


Alexander Muir

Muir taught in the Greater Toronto Area in such places as Scarborough and Toronto, as well as in Newmarket, Beaverton, and in then suburban areas as Parkdale and Leslieville, where he lived on Laing Avenue.

Angus Wells

Wells wrote under numerous pseudonyms, including Andrew Quiller (with Kenneth Bulmer and Laurence James), James A. Muir, Charles R. Pike (with Kenneth Bulmer and Terry Harknett), William S. Brady (with John Harvey), J. D. Sandon (with John Harvey), Charles C. Garrett (with Laurence James), Richard Kirk (with Robert Holdstock), J. B. Dancer (with John Harvey), and Ian Evans.

Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts

Muir is a successful stockbroker; Fraser is now a litigator with McMillan LLP in Vancouver, B.C., and Bowman is a well known plastic surgeon in Vancouver, B.C.

Carline Muir

At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Muir captured the bronze medal in the women's 400 metres, finishing behind her teammate Esther Akinsulie by thirty-seven hundredths of a second (0.37), with a time of 52.07 seconds.

Muir later emerged as a strong favorite to qualify for her second Olympics in London; however, she missed out of her contention with a third-place finish behind Jenna Martin, who attained a B-standard time of 51.55 seconds, at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Calgary, Alberta.

David Muir

In 2011, Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the political revolution in Egypt and from Fukushima, Japan following the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident.

Donald N. Frey

As a tribute to his parents (his father was an engineer and his mother was studying engineering when the couple married) he set up the Margaret and Muir Frey Memorial Prize for Innovation and Creativity ("Frey Prize") at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in 2001.

Edwin Muir

A memorial bench was erected in 1962 to Muir in the idyllic village of Swanston, Edinburgh, where he spent time during the 1950s.

Eliza Barchus

Traveling extensively in the Western United States from the 1890s through about 1920, she painted Cascade Range volcanoes such as Three Sisters, Mount Shasta, and Crater Lake; the Columbia River Gorge; Yellowstone Falls; Half Dome in Yosemite National Park; San Francisco Bay; Muir Glacier in Alaska, and hundreds of other spots.

Ezra S. Carr

Carr and his wife Jeanne were close friends of John Muir and were extremely influential in Muir's life at several key junctures.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heine

Throughout 1908 Heine traveled to Door County, Wisconsin and Muir Woods California, many watercolor paintings were the result of these trips.

Gary Muir

With head coach Korytoski deciding to move on from his post after changes in the clubs ownership, Muir signed for Vittoriosa Stars in Malta.

In 2010 Muir signed for Airdrie United in the Scottish First Division and at the end of the season was approached and offered an exceptional deal to play in Central America (Guatemala) with US coach Jeffrey Korytoski at Antigua GFC.

Geoff Ketchum

His teammates (David Crabtree, James Crabtree, and Jonathon Muir) had all attended McCallum High School with him in Austin, Texas.

Handbags and Gladrags

Both vocal versions feature the vocal performance of Waysted vocalist Fin Muir.

Hillsboro, Loudoun County, Virginia

Author Byron Farwell was mayor of the town for many years; other mayors included Sandy Muir and Alix Spaith.

J.K Institute of Applied Physics and Technology

The Department of Electronics and Communication (J.K. Institute of Applied physics and Technology) is located in the Muir College Campus (Science Faculty) of the University of Allahabad.

John Muir College

Muir's connection to California's Yosemite Valley continues with the Half Dome Lounge and the dining hall Pines (formerly Sierra Summit).

The 8- and 11-story twin residence halls Tenaya and Tioga along with the 5- and 9-story Tuolumne and Tamarack apartment buildings stand as a testament to the nature-conserving policies of Muir as well as examples of the prevalent architectural style of the 1960s.

John Muir's Birthplace

In Martinez, California, United States is the John Muir National Historic Site, consisting mainly of John Muir's home, plus a portion of his orchards.

Jordan Burn

Since the leaders of Britain's gypsy communities often styled themselves Kings of 'Little Egypt', it has been surmised that the name indicates a gypsy presence on the muir in the 16th century when "Egyptianis" are mentioned in several official documents from the reign of James V.

Joseph Genualdi

With pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, the Muir Quartet (with Genualdi as first violin) won the Grand Prix du Disque for their recording of the César Franck piano quintet.

Larissa Ione

Code Word Storm (May 11, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7624-3843-3) in The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance anthology with Penny McCall, Rinda Elliot, Laura Griffin, Charlotte Mede, Shannon K. Butcher, Rachel Caine, Marliss Melton, Charlene Teglia, Michele Albert, Cheyenne McCray, Gina Robinson, Shiloh Walker, Jordan Summers, E.C. Sheedy, Caitlyn Nicholas, Liz Muir, Nicola Marsh, Gennita Low, and Debra Webb.

Lewis F. Muir

Muir composed productively in 1912–1913 and travelled to London with pianist Pete Wendling to play ragtime in the Oxford Theatre.

Linnie Marsh Wolfe

She completed the work, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, published by A. A. Knopf in 1938, after which Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. asked her to write a biography of Muir.

Louiche Mayorga

"Possessed to Skate" (Which is featured in the game Skate 2, "No Name, No Words," "Looking in Your Eyes" and "Born to Be Cyco" which he shares credit with Rocky George and Mike Muir.

Marie-Louise Muir

Marie-Louise Muir is one of BBC Radio Ulster's voices as presenter of the station's main arts and entertainment programme Arts Extra and the flagship classical music programme Sounds Classical.

Mike Muir

Muir has criticized the band Rage Against the Machine, who are well known for expressing anti-corporate, left-wing politics in their lyrics, but are signed with Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony, a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation.

Ramsay Muir

Muir was born at Otterburn, Northumberland, the oldest of five children of a Reformed Presbyterian minister.

Richard David Muir

Muir himself died suddenly in January 1924 in his house in Camden House Court, Kensington and he was interred in West Norwood Cemetery after a service at St Mary Abbots, Kensington.

Stephen Muir

Stephen Muir is an Australian Paralympic amputee athletics competitor from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Tanya Alexander

Her departure from Moonbase Alpha was chronicled in the Powys Media novel, Space: 1999 The Forsaken by John Kenneth Muir (featuring a foreword by Prentis Hancock) in which the character reveals an unplanned pregnancy and fears that she will be have to have an abortion in light of the ban on new births on Alpha (i.e. Alpha Child, The Exiles); a small group of Alphans mutinies to settle with her on a habitable planet, led by Paul Morrow.

The Book Collector

On its founding editorial board were Ian Fleming, John Hayward and P.H. Muir and it was published in London, England by the Queen Anne Press.

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (TheCCLeeds), previously the Leeds University Liturgical Choir, was formed by Dr Bryan White, Dr Stephen Muir and Prof. Philip Wilby of the School of Music, University of Leeds in 2002, with the primary purpose of performing sacred choral music in liturgical settings.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

In early 1900s England, a young widow, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), moves to the seaside village of Whitecliff and into Gull Cottage with her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best), despite the fierce disapproval of her mother- and sister-in-law.

Titanic: Blood and Steel

The worries portrayed among Lord Pirrie, Thomas Andrews and Dr. Muir about the Titanic being just "too big" are a great exaggeration.


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