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unusual facts about P J Crook



2nd Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry

The company was again filled up with new recruits, and it was stationed at Camp Union and various other places, Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California, Ione Valley, Colusa, Fort Crook, Smoke Creek, Nevada, Fort Bidwell and Goose Lake, California.

A Scarcity of Miracles

Like the covers of many King Crimson albums produced by Discipline Global Mobile, the cover of A Scarcity of Miracle features a painting by P J Crook.

Allegorical representations of Argentina

However, the first figure to transmit a sense of regionality is displayed in a series of banknotes printed by Britain and emitted by the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires in 1867, where a young woman is seen holding a shovel in her left hand and a shepherd's crook in her right hand (representations of agriculture and animal husbandry, respectively).

Basil Radford

They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including Crook's Tour (1941), Millions Like Us (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), It's Not Cricket (1949) and Passport to Pimlico (1949).

Battle of Salt River Canyon

Crook's force composed of 130 troopers from the 5th Cavalry Regiment led by Captain William H. Brown and another thirty Apache Scouts.

Battle of the Rosebud

To accelerate the advance, Crook ordered Captain Anson Mills, commanding six troops of the 3rd Cavalry, to charge the Lakota.

Camp Crook, South Dakota

The Custer National Forest, with its Sioux Ranger District office, also celebrated 100 years of having a presence in Camp Crook in 2008.

Cantonment Reno

On November 25, 1876, part of Crook's command, under the leadership of Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, attacked a village of Cheyenne ("Dull Knife's village") on the nearby Red Fork of the Powder River.

Catherine Crook de Camp

Catherine Crook de Camp, (November 6, 1907, New York City – April 9, 2000, Plano, Texas) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.

Charters and Caldicott

They proved popular with audiences and returned in the Gilliat-and-Launder films Night Train to Munich (1940, also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), and in the BBC radio serials Crook's Tour (1941, made into a film later that year) and Secret Mission 609 (1942).

Crook of Devon

Crook of Devon is a village within the parish of Fossoway in Perthshire.

Crook railway station

The S&D subsequently extended the route northwards from Crook as the Weardale Extension Railway (WXR) towards Tow Law and Waskerley in May 1845, where it joined the Stanhope and Tyne Railway.

Crook, County Durham

Constantine Scollen famous missionary priest among the Blackfoot and Cree peoples of Canada in the late 19th Century.

Disney's Contemporary Resort

On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his famous "I am not a crook" speech in a ballroom at the Contemporary in front of reporters from the Associated Press during the 'Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association'.

Doctor Destiny

In the Justice League episode "Only a Dream", John Dee (voiced by William Atherton) was a low-level LexCorp employee and small-time crook who was incarcerated in Stryker's Prison for guarding a supply of smuggled weapons.

Escowbeck

It is situated overlooking the Crook of Lune south of the road from Lancaster to Caton and Hornby, near where the Escow Beck from which it takes its name, flows into the River Lune.

Euphiction

The book collected 100 euphictional stories inspired by the music of Combichrist, the Walkmen, By Hook or Crook, the Twilight Singers and others.

Free State Wyoming

The FSW has chosen to focus initially on the Wyoming counties of Crook (primarily), Weston and Hot Springs.

General Crook House

In November, 1879, Crook and his wife entertained General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant at the home.

GhettoPhysics

It also includes a colorful contingent of street characters, with names such as Fillmore Slim, Candy, Hook da Crook, Loreal, Mac Breed and Lo Da Show.

Gregory Dix

When Hugh Ross Williamson once remarked to him how strange it was that the Anglican episcopate seemed determined to betray their principles in their dealings with South India, he remarked "I really don't see why you should be surprised at the conduct of your fathers-in-God. After all the sign of a Bishop is a crook and of an Archbishop a double-cross."

Ian Crook

In January 2007 Crook accepted the assistant manager's role at Japanese second division side Avispa Fukuoka to be reunited with Littbarski, but the pair were dismissed in July 2008.

International Crook

International Crook is a 1974 Bollywood film starring Dharmendra, Saira Banu & Feroz Khan who was nominated the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Jeff Crook

Jeff Crook is a novelist, author, and former technical writer for the United States Postal Service.

Lendrick Muir School

The school was about 500 metres south-west of the River Devon and, because the river changes direction at Crook of Devon, it was also located about 500 metres north of the River Devon.

Martyn Crook

Martyn Crook (born 16 November 1956, died 5 December 2008, in Lancaster, California) was a British-born Australian soccer coach and former representative player.

Moscow, Tennessee

Compton Newby Crook, who was born in Rossville, Tennessee and who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall, grew up in Moscow.

Nanoor massacre

The Statesman in an editorial wrote, "The sole purpose in attacking the prime witness in the gruesome Nanoor massacre of July 2000 in which 11 Trinamul Congress supporters were slaughtered by armed CPI(M) cadres was to shield those responsible and abort their trial, by hook or by crook. The irony is that although five years have elapsed since the occurrence of the horrendous killings by the Marxists, the trial of their 79 accused comrades had not begun".

Nels H. Smith

Ranch A in Crook County, bought by Smith and two partners from the estate of Moses Annenberg in 1942 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nezumi Kozō

This, combined with the public humiliation he dealt out to the daimyo, resulted in the popular legend that he gave the money to the poor, turning the petty crook into a posthumous folk hero similar to Robin Hood.

Pitch of brass instruments

The pitch of a brass instrument is determined by the fundamental frequency and frequencies of its overtones for each vibratory length achievable through the instrument's valve, slide, key or crook system.

Portbury

Portbury is mentioned in the Liber Exoniensis and was given by William the Conqueror to one of his favourites, Bishop Geoffrey de Montbray of Coutances — the 'battling bishop' - sword in one hand and crook in the other!

Reginald Crook, 1st Baron Crook

Reginald Douglas Crook, 1st Baron Crook (2 March 1901-10 March 1989), was a British civil servant and United Nations official.

Rossville, Tennessee

Compton Newby Crook, who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall, was born in Rossville.

Rudolph Stauffer

He was one of 12 cavalrymen, along with 10 Apache scouts, who guided Crook's columns in the mountainous area of the Tonto Basin where Western Apache and Yavapai bands used as a base for raiding parties and had successfully eluded the U.S. Army for a number of years.

Sakiho Juri

Also, she could be in tough role like Ricardo in The Wind of Buenos Aires and a small time crook like Duchain in Crossroad.

Samuel Bourn

He was born at Crook near Kendal, and educated at Stand grammar school and Glasgow University, where he studied under Francis Hutcheson and Robert Simson.

Story of Science

The Story of Science in America, 1967 science book by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp

Suburban Knights

The music video directed by Ben Crook features the band playing in front of many satellite dishes in North Woolwich being filmed by a video camera.

Thomas Duckworth

Thomas Crook Teddy Duckworth (1882 – unknown) English football player and manager

Tully Bevilaqua

Tully Louise Bevilaqua (née Crook on 19 July 1972 in Merredin, Western Australia) is an Australian professional women's basketball player.

Ures

In this region there were some notable events, as the Apache insurrection, when Geronimo took refuge in the mountains of this region when generals Crook and Miles fought him in Arizona.

W.O.A.R./W.O.A.

Though the sleeve art, song format and titles are consistent with Ben Wallers' work under the name The Rebel, the music here is credited to Leighton Crook, Sophie Politowicz and Wallers.

Wallace Stroby

The reviewer for the Chicago Tribune wrote that the novel “moves at a breakneck speed ... Stroby's sturdy plot is augmented by his intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass. Fans of Elmore Leonard and George V. Higgins' 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE' will find much to like.”


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