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8 unusual facts about Prosper


Bob Kagle

In addition to eBay, Kagle sits on the Board of Directors for several companies including: E-Loan, Jamba Juice, Logoworks, Mint.com, Prosper, uShip, and ZipRealty.

Prosper-René Blondlot

Born in Nancy, France, he spent most of his early years there, teaching physics at the University, being awarded three prestigious prizes of the Académie des Sciences for his experimental work on the consequences of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.

Prosper, Minnesota

Prosper is an unincorporated community in Canton Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.

Prosper, Texas

Prosper High School cost $113.5 million to construct and is 590,000-square-feet, complete with a medical tech lab, a restaurant-worthy kitchen, a greenhouse, a broadcast studio and an indoor football practice facility.

In 2008, Prosper took down Waco's La Vega High School 17 to 10 to win the 3A Championship.

Saint Possidius

The dates of his birth and death are unknown; he was alive and in exile in 437 according to Prosper, who, in his Chronicle, records that Possidius and two other bishops were persecuted and expelled from their sees by the Vandal king, Gaiseric, who was an Arian.

Scott J. Jones

She is the President of Reece Construction Company, with offices in Scandia, Kansas; Salina, Kansas; and Prosper, Texas.

Victor J. Glover

Glover is a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy who hails from Pomona, California and Prosper, Texas.


Angol

In 1611 the city was rebuilt by Luis Merlo de la Fuente a little more to the south with the name of San Luis de Angol but it did not prosper.

Arkadi Monastery

During the Ottoman Period, the monastery continued to prosper, which was shown in the writing of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.

Cali Cartel

The lax attitude of the DEA on cocaine is believed to be what allowed the group to prosper, but also to develop and organize itself into multiple "cells" that appeared to operate independently, yet reported to a "celeno" or manager, who reported to Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, who in turn reported back to Cali.

Court of Owls

During the Forever Evil storyline, the Court of Owls see the news from the Crime Syndicate that the Justice League is "dead" and claims that the Court of Owls will prosper.

Cozaddale, Ohio

It was laid out by John J. Cozad in 1871 (father of Robert Henri), who hoped to prosper from the site's location on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (later the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad).

Georges Péclet

Georges Péclet (born Prosper Désiré Péclet, La Brillanne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, July 27, 1897 - died Marseille, January 11, 1974) was a French actor, film director and screenwriter.

History of Guinea

It continued to prosper until a civil war over succession followed the death of Askia Daoud in 1582.

HMS K13

A memorial to the disaster was erected in Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia, paid for by the widow of Charles Freestone, a leading telegraphist on K13 who survived the accident to later emigrate and prosper in Australia.

Huntingdon, Quebec

In Huntingdon, the business expanded to five interconnected operations around the town and the decades of the 1950s through to the early part of the 1970s saw the town prosper and the company acquire subsidiaries in Sherbrooke, Quebec and in Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Ireland.

Maurice Buckmaster

Buckmaster also continued to transmit to Noor Inayat Khan ('Madelaine'), who had been flown out as an additional wireless operator for the Prosper circuit, for three months after her capture in October 1943, ignoring a clear warning of her arrest and the probable playing back of her radio, sent by Sonya Olschaneszy ('Tania'), a locally recruited SOE agent.

Prosper de Mestre

The next record of Prosper de Mestre is not in Martinique, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as his parents had moved; this is where he received his schooling.

On 1 March 1821 31-year-old Prosper married 19-year-old Mary Ann Black (1801–1861) at St Philip's Church, Sydney.

Prosper Giquel

Prosper Giquel took command of the "Franco-Chinese force" when Paul d'Aiguebelle returned to France, but the force was soon dissolved in October 1864, in agreement with Zuo Zongtang.

Prosper Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg

In 1801, Louis Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg, Prosper's father, lost the former Duchy of Arenberg on the left bank of the Rhine but received a larger duchy on the right bank in 1803.

Prosper Masatu Makonya

Prosper Masatu Makonya is a Tanzanian sportsperson who was elected as president of the East and Central African Tae Kwon Do Confederation on 30 October 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Prosper of Aquitaine

Though he was a poet himself, the sole secular writer Prosper mentions is Claudian.

Prosper Pierre-Louis

The Saint Soleil group disbanded after only a few years but five of the artists, Prosper, Levoy Exil, Denis Smith, Dieuseul Paul, and Louisiane Saint Fleurant reorganized into the group "Cinq Soleils".

Richard Hetherington

Richard Hetherington was President of the Council during the time of the trial of Arthur Hodge for the murder of the slave "Prosper".

Rivière à Veillet

The people residing in the depth of "Chemin de la rivière Veillet" (road of Veillet river) in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan and Gendron Creek (a tributary of the Charest River) in Saint-Prosper lived close together.

Rocky Mountain Fur Company

They posted advertisements in St. Louis newspapers seeking "One Hundred enterprising young men . . . to ascend the river Missouri to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years." Among those hired were Jedediah Smith, the four Sublette brothers, including William and Milton, Jim Beckwourth, Thomas Fitzpatrick and David Edward Jackson, who in 1826, bought the Company and for the next seven years it continued to prosper.

Systems Commonwealth

The Commonwealth celebrated an era that came to be known as the "Twelve Centuries of Peace" in which it continued to grow and prosper, even though peace with the rival Pyrian Empire (the Pyrians lived on hot inner Venus-like planets) always seemed uneasy and tentative at best.

Victorius of Aquitaine

Victorius of Aquitaine, a countryman of Prosper of Aquitaine and also working in Rome, produced in 457 an Easter Cycle, which was based on the consular list provided by Prosper's Chronicle.


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