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3 unusual facts about Murdoch


James Edward Murdoch

After the war, the residents of the area in Warren County, Ohio surrounding Murdoch's farm petitioned to have the region renamed Murdoch, Ohio in his honor.

Murdoch, Western Australia

Major bus routes include the CircleRoute, running along South Street; route 183 servicing Murdoch Park 'n' Ride; and route 185 servicing Murdoch University.

Terry Budge

Terry Budge is an Australian banking executive and the current Chancellor of Murdoch University, located in the suburb of Murdoch, Western Australia.


Anaconda 3: Offspring

However, as Murdoch, his assistant Pinkus (Ryan McCluskey), and a scientist leave, the anaconda breaks through his enclosure's wall.

Austin A40 Farina

In the film The Fast Lady, the unlikely hero Murdoch Troon, takes his first driving lesson in an Austin A40 Farina.

Australian Press Council

In 1979, during the run-up to the South Australian state election, the Murdoch owned The News campaigned against the Australian Labor Party in South Australia.

Band Waggon

A show of the same name and starring Askey and Murdoch with Tommy Trinder was playing at the London Palladium when World War II broke out.

Ben Urich

The miniseries Daredevil: End of Days recounts an older Ben Urich investigating the death of Matt Murdoch and the emergence of a new Daredevil.

Big year

--Parker's--> Kenn Kaufman and another birder, Floyd Murdoch, went after Parker's record.

Bradley John Murdoch

Murdoch was also convicted of other assault-related charges on Falconio's girlfriend, Joanne Lees.

Brian Sutton-Smith

He has participated in making television programs on toys and play in Great Britain, Canada, and the U.S., and has been a consultant for Captain Kangaroo, Nickelodeon, Murdoch Children's Television, and the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.

Bryan Jenkins

In 2001-2003 he was director of Murdoch Environment, the environmental consulting and education unit at Murdoch University.

Dick Murdoch

A second-generation wrestler, the son of 1950s Texas wrestler Frankie Hill Murdoch, Dick Murdoch grew up with fellow second-generation wrestlers Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk, watching their fathers fight all around Texas.

Don Murdoch

Murdoch had a reputation as a partier since his rookie year, and was once even romantically linked with Margaret Trudeau.

In the offseason in 1977 after his first season, Murdoch was caught by customs agents in Toronto with 4.5 grams of cocaine stashed in his socks.

Dugald Campbell Patterson

He was one of three sons born to John Murdoch Paterson of Rutherglen, and Margaret (Purdon) Paterson of Partick.

Foundation of the Premier League

Trevor East of ITV heard Sugar on the telephone speaking to Murdoch at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London in May 1992 advising an increased bid for the television rights.

Georg Kreisel

According to Conradi, "For half a century she nonetheless records variously Kreisel's brilliance, wit and sheer 'dotty' solipsistic strangeness, his amoralism, cruelty, ambiguous vanity and obscenity." Murdoch dedicated her 1971 novel An Accidental Man to Kreisel and he became a (partial) model for several characters in other novels, including Marcus Vallar in The Message to the Planet and Guy Openshaw in Nuns and Soldiers.

Gilbert Mitchison, Baron Mitchison

They had six children; four sons; Geoffrey (1918–1927) Denis (born 1919) later a professor of bacteriology, Murdoch (born 1922), and Avrion (born 1928), both professors of zoology.

Heather Hutchison

Hutchison has recorded and/or performed with various established Canadian artists, including Brock Skywalker, the Stringbeans Quartet, drummer Chris Budnardchuk (Maren Ord, the James Murdoch Band), Chris Brzezicki (Paul Bellows), Jeff Smook (Captain Tractor), and Ann Vriend.

History of British newspapers

Despite the widespread use of the offset litho printing process elsewhere, the Murdoch papers in common with the rest of Fleet Street continued to be produced by the hot-metal and labour-intensive Linotype method, rather than being composed electronically.

Ivon Murdoch

Murdoch was the son of an immigrant Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian, the Rev. Patrick Murdoch (1850–1940) and his wife Helen, née Garden (1826–?); he was also the younger brother of a prominent journalist and newspaper executive, Sir Keith Murdoch (the father of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch).

James Dubro

He was president of the Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) for two years and has been awarded its 2002 "Derrick Murdoch" award for his non-fiction crime writing and his many years of CWC work.

Jane Symons

Unusually for a tabloid health writer, Symons was praised in the British Medical Journal, where Professor David Colquhoun of the Department of Pharmacology, at University College London wrote that "It isn’t often that a Murdoch tabloid produces a better account of a medical problem than anything the Department of Health’s chief scientific advisor can muster.".

John Smith Murdoch

Murdoch was promoted to Director-General of Works by 1927 and was appointed C.M.G. (Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) to honour his service to the Commonwealth of Australia.

Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch

Following a loss on the April 28 Raw, Murdoch sang a rendition of "Friends in Low Places".

Laura Pyper

Pyper has also worked as a voice actor in the video game Dead Space: Extraction, playing the character of Lexine Murdoch.

Leod Macgilleandrais

In this version of events, Black Murdoch's brother-in-law was Macaulay of Loch Broom, and the 19th century antiquarian F. W. L. Thomas noted that within this version, this Macaulay appears to be a different individual than the constable of Eilean Donan Castle.

Lorne Argyle Campbell

He was born in Perth, Ontario, the son of John G. Campbell and Helen Gray Murdoch, and was educated at Perth Collegiate.

Malden Evening News

Reports in 1988 had Murdoch, who at the time owned the Boston Herald and WFXT-TV in nearby Boston, negotiating a price between US$ 5 million and US$ 10 million.

Maxwell Newton

Following the collapse of his publishing empire Newton relocated to the United States and re-established his career as a right-wing economic journalist becoming financial editor of the New York Post, with his columns syndicated in the Murdoch press.

News Corporation takeover bid for BSkyB

The first key turning point in the planned takeover was the removal in December 2010 of regulatory approval from Vince Cable, who had told undercover reporters from The Daily Telegraph he had "declared war" on Murdoch.

Patrick Murdoch

Forbes subsequently paid Murdoch long and frequent visits at Stradishall rectory, Suffolk, and placed his eldest son, Duncan, under his tuition.

Robert C. Murdoch

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1921) "Some Tertiary Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1924) "The Tertiary Rocks of the Wanganui – South Taranaki Coast".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1923) "The Occurrence of the Genus Lahillia in New Zealand".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1921) "Fossils from the Paparoa Rapids, on the Wanganui River".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1919) "Some New Fossil Species of Mollusca".

Sky Television plc

Rupert Murdoch described cable and satellite television as being "the most important single advance since Caxton invented the printing press" and saw it as the ideal and definte way into making his definitive breakthrough into the UK's television industry, which he had wanted to do for a long time.

Spokane Braves

They are members of the Neil Murdoch Division of the Kootenay Conference of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL).

The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade

An entry detailing the method alleged to have used by journalists at News of the World to hack into the phones of unsuspecting victims was quoted by the MP Louise Mensch during the questioning of Rupert and James Murdoch by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee in 2011.

The Weekly Standard

In June, 2009, a report circulated that a sale of the publication to Philip Anschutz was imminent, with Murdoch's position being that, having purchased The Wall Street Journal in 2007, his interest in the smaller publication had been less forceful.

Think Tank Photo

Think Tank Photo was founded in 2005 in Santa Rosa, California by designers Doug Murdoch and Mike Sturm and by professional photographers Deanne Fitzmaurice and Kurt Rogers.

Toby Miller

Preceding his professorship at UCR, Miller was a professor at New York University, and held previous appointments at Murdoch University, Griffith University, and the University of New South Wales.

William Heaton

From left to right: convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, golf organizer Jason Murdoch, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, convicted former Bush administration official David Safavian and Congressman Bob Ney


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