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10 unusual facts about Seattle Post-Intelligencer


Alan Eppes

Melanie McFarland, TV critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, stated that Alan was not an individual character.

Burrows Island Light

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a small photograph and enthusiastic article on May 2, 1906.

Donald Sadoway

This is seen in a comment by Bill Gates who told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "... Everybody should watch chemistry lectures -- they're far better than you think. Don Sadoway, MIT -- best chemistry lessons anywhere. Unbelievable".

George Yeomans Pocock

Pocock was named "Sports Star of the Year" for 1948 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Jean Godden

Godden attained celebrity status in Seattle as a columnist for both daily newspapers, first for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and most recently for The Seattle Times.

Ken Simonton

For his success, he was named second team All-Pac-10, first team All-Pac-10 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, first team All-Pac-10 by the Football News, honorable mention All-American by the Football News, and he was selected OSU’s MVP of the Oahu Bowl vs. Hawaii.

Lamar Neagle

He also broke a 31-year-old school record by scoring six goals in one game as well as being Seattle Post-Intelligencer pick for High School All-Star Team during his senior year.

Michael Paulson

Prior to working here, he spent seven years as a city hall reporter, state house bureau chief, and as a Washington correspondent at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Daily Times both reported that over 10,000 workers went on strike.

William Bergsma

He eschewed the avant-garde—his obituary in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes him as having "never deserted tonality" and seeing "dozens of his former avant-garde colleagues returning to the fold"—though he did embrace aleatoric techniques later in his career.


Andrew Crozier

He was co-editor of the important Revival magazine The English Intelligencer and for many years ran Ferry Press, an independent poetry publisher that issued books by Anthony Barnett, David Chaloner, Douglas Oliver, J. H. Prynne, Peter Riley, and others.

Council for National Security

Anonymous proxy servers through which Thai internet users could access a blocked webpage were also blocked, as were websites from BBC 1, BBC 2, CNN, Yahoo News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Age, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Yale University Press containing articles about King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

David Horsey

Horsey's first job was as a reporter for the Bellevue Journal-American, but in 1979 he was hired to be the editorial cartoonist of the Post-Intelligencer. In 1986, he earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Kent in England.

Edwardsville Intelligencer

The Edwardsville Intelligencer is a daily newspaper in Illinois based in Edwardsville.

KBO

Keep the Bastards Out, a fictional organization invented and promoted by Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Emmett Watson

Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.

Lancaster Newspapers is a part of Steinman Communications, which also holds Intelligencer Printing, one of the oldest commercial printing houses in the US, Delmarva Broadcasting, a network of 11 radio stations in Delaware and Maryland, and Steinman Coal in southwestern Virginia.

Moltres

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer editor Paula Nechak compared the legendary bird trio as well as Lugia to the creatures found in Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird.