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unusual facts about Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth


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Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth (1909–1984), British banker, diplomat and life peer


1951 Indianapolis 500

WIBC personality Sid Collins served as booth announcer, and the remainder of the crew consisted mostly of WIBC talent.

Alexander Carr-Saunders

The success of his magnum opus The Population Problem resulted in his appointment to the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1923.

Bert Bank

He was known for watching games from the broadcast booth up to the 2008 season before his death, being acknowledged by Alabama Radio play by play commentator Eli Gold every broadcast.

Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2010

First information reports were filed against the head of the RJD, Lalu Prasad Yadav, and his wife Rabri Devi for violating the Election Commission of India's model code of conduct for having brought their own security personnel into the polling booth in Dinapur of Digha constituency in the provincial capital Patna.

Bill McCord

In his later years with the network, up to his retirement in 1980, McCord's announcing work largely consisted of sub-announcing on NBC Nightly News and the one-minute NBC News Updates (as a frequent fill-in for regular announcer Bill Hanrahan), as well as occasional booth announcing duties for the local flagship station, WNBC-TV.

Booth and the Bad Angel

Booth and the Bad Angel was a music project based around the collaborative efforts of Tim Booth (lead singer with the British alternative rock band, James) and the American film composer, Angelo Badalamenti.

Booth baronets

The Booth Baronetcy, of Allerton Beeches in the City of Liverpool, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 January 1916 for Alfred Allen Booth, a Director of Alfred Booth and Company and Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company.

Booth family

Edwin Booth bought an interest in the Winter Garden Theatre at 667 Broadway in New York City together with his brother-in-law John Sleeper Clarke.

Booth's Theatre

Several arched doors led to a grand vestibule, where a large statue of Edwin Booth's father, the great Shakespearean actor, Junius Brutus Booth, by the sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould, greeted the audience.

The Theatre featured a grand vestibule with Italian marble floors and a large statue of Edwin Booth's father, the Shakespearean actor, Junius Brutus Booth by the sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould.

In 1869, Edwin Booth, then one of the world's most distinguished stage tragedians and arguably America's greatest Hamlet, opened his theatre, Booth's Theatre, in Manhattan on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Brett Booth

On July 6, 2011 it was announced that Booth will be handling the pencilling duties on the new Teen Titans #1 that comes out as part of The New 52.

Chasen's

The Frank Sinatra booth, the bar, the front awning and many other items were purchased by comedian Brian Haley.

Christchurch South by-election, 1939

Macfarlane could increase the Labour vote at one polling booth only (Antigua Street in Sydenham).

Christopher Glynn

He has subsequently performed as a piano accompanist with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Catherine Wyn Rogers.

Craig Baldwin

Though he finished his first 16mm film, Wild Gunman, in 1978, he had explored his (rather Situationist) desires to eradicate the borderlines between fine and popular art, public and private imagery, the political and the purely aesthetic in several film and photo-essay projects, notably Flick Skin (1977), a Super-8 film that Baldwin made while living in the projectionist booth at a porn theater.

Curling on TSN

Will Ferrell, in character as Ron Burgundy, also appeared in the broadcast booth alongside Rauter, Moore and Howard during the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials as a publicity stunt for Farrell's new movie, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

David G. Booth

In 2004 the Booth family gave $9 million to the University of Kansas to fund the Booth Family Hall of Athletics attached to Allen Fieldhouse.

DeLong Star Ruby

The ransom was paid by wealthy Florida businessman John D. MacArthur and he was present when the ruby was recovered at the designated drop off site: a phone booth in Florida.

Four Seasons Resort Carmelo, Uruguay

While exuding a minimalist elegance of Balinese and Japanese resorts, the designers (San Francisco-based Babey Moulton Jue & Booth) incorporated influences from China, Thailand, Europe and South America to fuse together a contemplative, yet familiar feel.

Fox Photo

In the chase scene(s) in Back to the Future, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a Fox Photo booth at the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall.

Gatehouse of Fleet

The town takes its name from its location near the mouth of the river called the Water of Fleet which empties into Wigtown Bay at Fleet Bay, and its former role as the ’’Gait House’’ or "the House on the Road on the River Fleet" or toll booth of the late 18th century stagecoach route from Dumfries to Stranraer, now the A75 road.

George Gough Booth

As their country estate grew both in purpose and in scale, Booth had both noted architect Eliel Saarinen and renowned sculptor Carl Milles in residence for many years at CEC.

James Kyle Dall

James Kyle Dall was the first headmaster of Elmfield College, Heworth, York (Booth 1990:29).

James W. Pumphrey

Pumphrey's stable was located near the National Hotel, which was Booth's Washington residence at the time.

Jasmine Simhalan

Simhalan has toured and performed in productions of Wayne McGregor (UK), Richard Alston (UK), Laurie Booth (UK), Roger Sinha (Canada), Mavin Khoo (UK), and was also part of the 2001 Basement Jaxx album and Emergency Exit Arts production RungaRung.

Jeff Lageman

By 2001, "The Outdoors Show" had moved from an all-sports station (WBWL-AM) to a 50,000 watt news-talk station (WOKV) and soon after, Lageman joined the play-by-play man Brian Sexton in the booth of the Jaguars Radio Network as the color analyst.

Jehan Gordon-Booth

She defeated Joan Krupa, but Krupa was appointed to the seat to fill the remaining nine days of Schock's term when Schock became U.S. Representative for Illinois' 18th congressional district.

Jerry Brightman

Major recording artists with Jerry appearing on include: Buck Owens, Susan Raye, Tony Booth, Arlo Guthrie, and David Frizzel.

Jim Glennie

He and the band's singer Tim Booth often had many conflicts, due to Glennie feeling Booth was not doing what was best for the band.

Joey Styles

Hosting the weekly 11 pm series, "MLW Underground," Styles returned his to his roots in the booth as a solo broadcaster, praised for his calling of memorable matches including a barbed wire match between Terry Funk and Steve Corino, amongst others.

Joseph Booth

Seeley Booth aka Seeley Joseph Booth, a fictional character from the Fox television program Bones

Kate Booth

The 'Kate Booth House', a Salvation Army residential environment for women and children fleeing family violence in Vancouver, British Columbia, was named in her honour.

Leah Betts

Booth Lockett and Makin counted brewers Löwenbräu as one of its major clients, at a time when the alcohol industry saw increasing MDMA use as a threat to profits.

Love Thy Neighbour

Consisting of seven episodes, the series saw the character Eddie Booth transplanted to the Sydney suburb of Blacktown.

Lucy Lambert Hale

On March 4, 1865, Booth attended Lincoln's second presidential inauguration with a ticket that Lucy had procured through her father.

Luke Booth

Booth, and his uncle Christopher Eves, successfully participated in the BBC television show, Dragons' Den and received investment to launch their packaging solutions for the FMCG, Retail & Leisure markets.

Mai Takahashi

Since her debut Takahashi has worked with many prominent directors; playing Kawahime, the River Princess, in Takashi Miike's horror-fantasy children's film Yokai Daisenso (released in the U.S. in 2006 as The Great Yokai War.) She also appeared in Sion Sono's 2005 film Kimyo na Sakasu (Strange Circus), Yoshihiro Nakamura's Busu (The Booth, 2005), and in Hitoshi Yazaki's 2006 film Strawberry Shortcakes.

Major Booth

Major William Booth (10 December 1886 in Lowtown, Pudsey, Yorkshire, England – 1 July 1916 near La Cigny, France) was a cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1908 and 1914, a season in which he was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Mark Haworth-Booth

He curated, with the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National Portrait Gallery in London, a centenary retrospective of the pioneering photographer Camille Silvy (1834-1910), shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2010.

Murder of Lesley Whittle

An investigation led by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert Booth of West Mercia Police, with assistance from Scotland Yard sent a team led by Commander John Morrison that included DCI Walter Boreham.

Pat Booth

Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers as Norman Parkinson and David Bailey in the 1960s.

President Robert L. Booth

Booth first appeared in 2000 AD #67 and 68, in "The Cursed Earth."

Prince of Players

Edwin "Ned" Booth is the son of the noted thespian Junius Brutus Booth and the older brother of another actor, John Wilkes Booth.

Reedley Hallows

Reedley Hallows is the eastern side of Pendle Water, while New Laund Booth is to the north-west and Filly Close to the south-west.

Retro City Rampage

The Player must work with Doc Choc to gather the rare parts needed to repair the time booth, while avoiding law enforcement, his own former employer Jester, Bayside High School students, and Dr. Von Buttnik, Doc Choc's rival and the head of R&D at A.T. Corp, a tech corporation and The Player's former employer, who's CEO, Sweat Bomber, wishes to use the time machine to control the electronics market.

Rick Moffat

When the Alouettes returned CFL play to Montreal, Moffat worked with CJAD 800 broadcast legend Ted Blackman, former Seattle Seahawk and Toronto Argonaut Tommy Kane, as well as longtime Alouette all-star Tony Proudfoot, who would become Moffat's co-host in the booth until the 2008 season.

The Evidence of the Film

The only known copy of this film was rediscovered in 1999 on the floor of the projection booth in a Superior, Montana movie theater.

Type Control

According to Lee's official Twitter, the album includes a total of nine tracks, with one outtake featured ("In the Booth").

Women's suffrage in the United States

On June 26, 1913, Illinois Governor Edward F. Dunne signed the bill in the presence of Trout, Booth and union labor leader Margaret Healy.


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