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unusual facts about Raymond E. Johns, Jr.



A Crown Imperilled

A Crown Imperilled (US: A Crown Imperiled) is the second novel in the The Chaoswar Saga trilogy by Raymond E. Feist, the final saga in the The Riftwar Cycle.

A Kingdom Besieged

A Kingdom Besieged is the first novel in the The Chaoswar Saga trilogy by Raymond E. Feist, the final saga in the The Riftwar Cycle.

Anerley

Arthur Bigsworth, aviator was born in Anerley in 1885, said to be the inspiration for W. E. Johns' fictional hero Biggles.

Arthur Bigsworth

It has been claimed that W. E. Johns based some aspects of his fictional hero Biggles (surname Bigglesworth) on the real-life Bigsworth, with whom he had worked at the Air Ministry.

Baobhan sith

They also appear in "Faerie Tale" by "Raymond E. Feist" where they are portrayed as evil fairies of the Unseelie Court, who (aside from their amazing beauty) possess a strong compelling magic, which they use to force solitary males (who are in isolated locations) to follow them - to their deaths.

Bartram Trail

Bartram Trail High School at St. Johns, Florida (just south of Jacksonville) is named for the scenic highway and Bartram's exploration route around the Northern St. Johns County area.

Being Nikki

The novel begins with us meeting Emerson Watts as she is on a model shoot in St. Johns, clinging onto a rock cliff over a group of nurse sharks, for a commercial for Stark Brand deodorant.

Benjamin Hinman

Although ravaged by sickness, his regiment was the nucleus of the army led to Canada by General Montgomery and was present at the battle of St. Johns, the reduction of Montreal, and siege of Quebec.

Centre for Appropriate Rural Development

The Centre for Appropriate Rural Development (CART) is a community based sustainable development project based in Sicambeini Village, near Port St. Johns, South Africa.

Charles A. Johns

On June 4, 1918, Johns was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Wallace McCamant by Governor James Withycombe after McCamant resigned.

Cobalt therapy

In 1949, Dr. Harold E. Johns of the University of Saskatchewan sent a request to the National Research Council (NRC) asking them to produce Cobalt-60 isotopes for use in a cobalt therapy unit prototype.

Don Dubbins

Child actor Stephen Talbot delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's 1775 address at St. Johns' Church.

Don Maitz

His art has adorned the covers of books by such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, C. J. Cherryh, Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, and Raymond E. Feist.

Frank T. Johns

Johns was posthumously awarded a Carnegie Medal for Heroism, which paid his widowed wife (who died in 1933) and the couple's two daughters a stipend of $1,000 per year.

Fred Beir

Child actor Stephen Talbot of Leave It to Beaver delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's famous address of 1775 at St. Johns' Church.

Front Page Woman

The plots of the 1937 release Back in Circulation, allegedly based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and the 1938 Torchy Blane film Blondes at Work are very similar to Front Page Woman.

George Edward MacKenzie Skues

Skues was born on 13 August 1858 in St. Johns, Newfoundland and was the eldest child of William MacKenzie Skues, at the time surgeon to the Newfoundland Companies.

Goedert

Raymond E. Goedert (born 1927) American Roman Catholic titular bishop of Tamazeni

Gospel of Peter

Raymond E. Brown and others find that the author may have been acquainted with the synoptic gospels and even with the Gospel of John; Brown (The Death of the Messiah) even suggests that the author's source in the canonical gospels was transmitted orally, through readings in the churches, i.e. that the text is based on what the author remembers about the other gospels, together with his own embellishments.

Harold E. Johns

A meeting in August 1946 with William Valentine Mayneord, while Mayneord was at the Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River, Ontario, contributed to Johns's making a career in medical physics.

John Battersby Crompton Lamburn

During his time in Iceland Lamburn, the putative original for “William” of the Richmal Crompton books, came into contact with Air Commander Cecil George Wigglesworth, speculated to be the original for “Biggles” of the stories by W. E. Johns.

Joshua L. Johns

He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1907.

Lorgnette

The lorgnette was employed as a prop and affectation by early 20th century trial lawyer Earl Rogers, and one is featured on the front cover dust jacket of his biography, Final Verdict, by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns.

Lutterworth Press

The children's list, which built on the strength of the Boy's Own Paper and Girl's Own Paper, has included well-known authors such as Enid Blyton, W.E. Johns, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Mark C. Johns

His first foray into politics was a run against congresswoman Louise Slaughter for New York's 28th congressional district in 2000.

Michael MacConnell

An avid reader of crime and thriller fiction since he was a child, some of his greatest writing influences were David Morrell, Raymond E. Feist, Alex Kava, Daniel Silva, Dean Koontz, Lee Child, Michael Cordy, and Steven Pressfield.

Particularly dangerous situation

The first PDS tornado watch was issued by Robert H. Johns for the April 2, 1982 tornado outbreak across the southern and central Great Plains.

Raymond E. Fowler

J. Allen Hynek, who developed the Hynek UFO classification system (see Close Encounter), recognized Fowler as one of the outstanding investigators in the UFO field.

Raymond E. Johns, Jr.

# June 1996 - August 1998, Commander, 60th Operations Group, Travis AFB, Calif. (October 1996 - January 1997, Director of Mobility Forces, Operation Joint Endeavor, Bosnia)

Return to Mars

:There is also a 1955 juvenile science fiction novel of this name by W. E. Johns.

Robert H. Johns

Now retired, he is working on a project reanalyzing the Tri-State Tornado.

St. Johns, Michigan

Leo Burnett - Advertising Executive, Founder of Chicago-based Advertising Company Leo Burnett Worldwide

U.S. Route 180

Shortly after following South Navajo Boulevard, however, US 180 follows a South-Southeast route, running by the Petrified Forest National Park and continuing South-Southeast to and through a small branch of the Zuni Indian Reservation, to St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona where it meets U.S. Route 191.

William Valentine Mayneord

It was during a meeting in 1946 with a young Harold Elford Johns, inventor of the cobalt-60 teletherapy unit, that Johns was prompted to go into medical physics.


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