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13 unusual facts about Secretary


2008 Ahmedabad blasts

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned in the "strongest terms" the series of bombings in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad and stressed that no cause or grievance can justify terrorist acts.

Agricultural Adjustment Act Amendment of 1935

Section 32 funds are used by the Secretary to purchase surplus commodities for donation outside normal channels of trade (e.g., to school lunch programs), and to support the costs of child nutrition programs.

European Association of Chinese Studies

The Association is governed by a Board and its daily activities are managed by its President, Secretary-General, and Treasurer.

Frank Judd, Baron Judd

He became Secretary-General of International Voluntary Service GB, a member of the executive committee of the National Peace Council and chairman of the UK National Youth Committee of Freedom from Hunger.

International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide

In a speech given by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan given at the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations, he called for actions to prevent future genocides.

Luis Ladaria Ferrer

On 9 July 2008, Ladaria Ferrer was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Titular Archbishop of Thibica by Pope Benedict XVI.

Matilde de Godoy di Bassano, 4th Countess of Castillo Fiel

In 1853 she married 1st with Don Felix Martín y Romero, Superior Chief of Civil Administration, Commander of the Order of Charles III, Secretary of HCM with exercise of Decrees, and had an only daughter: María Martín-Romero y Godoy di Bassano.

Nadia Younes

Younes served as Deputy Spokeswoman for the Secretary-General from March 1988 until January 1993, when she was appointed Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Rome.

Saeed Khalifa Humeid Al Rumaithi

Saeed Khalifa Humeid Al Rumaithi is the former Secretary of the Ministry of Labor in Abu Dhabi.

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Ameerah Haq - Under-Secretary-General for Department of Field Support

United Nations Security Council Resolution 190

The Council also invited all states to exert all their influence in order to induce the Government of South Africa to comply and asked the Secretary-General to closely follow the implementation of the present resolution to report on it to the Security Council at the earliest possible date.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 415

The Council requested the Secretary-General appoint such representatives, further requested the Secretary-General to transmit a report on the results of the discussions back as soon as possible and finally called on all parties to co-operate with the representative.

Uwe Corsepius

Uwe Corsepius (born 9 August 1960) is the current Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union.


1996 in Afghanistan

Taliban officials met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Najmuddin ShaikhThe subject discussed as during Mr. Shaikh's meeting with Dostum and Dr. Abdullah in Mazar Sharif a day earlier was the working out of ceasefire arrangements between the contending factions in Afghanistan and suggesting talks with the Northern Alliance for the formation of a coalition government

2006–08 Lebanese political protests

October 30, 2006 – In a televised interview on Al-Manar, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned of "street demonstrations" to demand early elections if the National Dialogue conference failed to form a national unity government.

Aaron Rule

He is the private secretary and advisor to former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

Aging with Dignity

Founding advisory board members include former Florida Governors Lawton Chiles, Jeb Bush, and Bob Graham, Assistant Secretary on Aging Josefina Carbonell and US Senator Bill Nelson among others.

Alastair Balls

Alastair Balls served as secretary to the U.K. government's Channel Tunnel advisory committee of experts (the Cairncross Committee of 1974-75) chaired by another Scottish economist Sir Alexander Cairncross, also a former pupil of Hamilton Academy.

Benjamin F. Isherwood

After the presidential inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, Isherwood's longtime patron, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, could no longer protect him.

Benoist Apparu

Benoist Apparu (born 24 November 1969) was Secretary of State for Housing under the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, in the François Fillon III government, and a member of the National Assembly of France.

Caledon Egerton

Four of their sons were knighted, including Field Marshal Sir Charles Egerton, Sir Reginald Egerton (Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General), Admiral Sir George Egerton, and Sir Brian Egerton (tutor to Ganga Singh, the Maharaja of Bikaner).

Cape Cleveland, Queensland

Cook gave no reason for the name, but it is possible it was in honour of John Clevland, a former Secretary to the British Admiralty.

Chief Agricultural Negotiator

During negotiation of the Uruguay Round of GATT talks that led ultimately to creation of the World Trade Organization, Charles J. O'Mara, a Senior Foreign Service officer of the Foreign Agricultural Service, was appointed Counsel for International Affairs to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Special Trade Negotiator for Agriculture.

David T. Johnson

In 1995, Johnson became Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House and Spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

Debra H. Sowell

An active participant, former secretary and board member of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Sowell has made numerous presentations over the years on a variety of topics, from costume designs of Jean Berain to Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurist Dance.

Edmund FitzGibbon

The queen's secretary, Sir Robert Cecil, advised the President of Munster, Sir George Carew to take good pledges of Fitzgibbon, "for, it is said, you will be cozened by him at last".

Edward Nicholas

In 1625 Nicholas became secretary to the admiralty; shortly afterwards he was appointed an extra clerk of the privy council with duties relating to admiralty business.

Florimond III Robertet d'Alluye

Florimond III, Baron Alluye, (1540? - 1569) was governor of Orléans, and Secretary of State to Francis II of France, and Charles IX of France.

François Fillon

Bernard Laporte – formerly Secretary of State for Sport becomes Secretary of State for Sport, Youth and Associations (under Bachelot-Narquin);

Gloria González

In 1967 she decided to continue her studies and graduated from Ramírez College as a Paralegal Secretary.

Henry Pedris

Governor Chalmers was removed from the post and made Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Wimborne.

Ishari K Ganesh

He is the secretary of the consortium of colleges affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University.

Kathryn Joosten

In the 1997 episode of Frasier, 'Roz's Turn', Joosten appeared as Vera, the mother and personal secretary of Frasier's conniving agent, Bebe Glazer, played by Harriet Sansom Harris.

L. M. Shaw

Like his predecessor Secretary Lyman Gage, Shaw firmly believed that the Treasury should serve the money market in times of difficulty through the introduction of Treasury funds.

Little Ratra

Its first resident was Lord Randolph Churchill who was appointed his Private Secretary by the then Lord Lieutenant, his father John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Max Sørensen

During his tenure there, he worked as Attaché Embassy in Bern and in 1944 as Secretary of Legation in London.

Mechanical Concrete

This technology was invented in 2004 by Samuel G. Bonasso, a professional civil engineer, a former secretary of the West Virginia Department of Transportation and former deputy administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration and of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Michael Henry Herbert

He created with the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay a joint commission to establish the border between the U.S. district of Alaska and British interests in the Dominion of Canada, where gold had been found in the 1890s, which resulted in the definitive Alaskan boundary treaty of 1903.

Mishal Husain

She has interviewed many high-profile figures including Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Pentagon adviser Richard Perle and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame.

Nuclear power whistleblowers

The U.S. Department of Labor ruled that his submissions to SAFETEAM were protected and his dismissal was invalid, a finding upheld by Labor Secretary Lynn Martin.

Page playoff system

It is identical to a four-team McIntyre System playoff, first used by the Victorian Football League in Australia in 1931, originally called the Page-McIntyre system, after the VFL delegate, the Richmond Football Club's Secretary, Percy "Pip" Page, who had advocated its use.

Parminder Singh Dhindsa

His father Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa is Akali Dal General Secretary, former Union minister and Rajya Sabha member.

Paul Sperry

A White House spokesman said, "The President does not regret making those comments," and Sperry said Press Secretary Joe Lockhart personally told him he would never be invited back to the White House.

Piper PA-34 Seneca

18 August 2012 a PA-34-200 Seneca crashed off the coast of Masbate, Philippines, killing Philippine Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo.

Ponciano Arriaga International Airport

On November 4, 2008, former Secretary of the interior Juan Camilo Mouriño was killed when the SEGOB-owned Learjet he was travelling on his way back from San Luis Potosí crashed at Mexico City before reaching the airport.

Puducherry Legislative Assembly election, 2011

Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).

Refoundation in Movement

In that occasion they allied with the other minority factions in order to force Secretary Franco Giordano to resign.

Richard Le Gallienne

The book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and in 1889 be became for a brief time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett.

Robin Deacon

He become known for his works in political biography, with a series of performances on the lives of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell (2004 – 08) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2005).

Roger M. Buergel

Buergel received his education at the Institute of Contemporary Art (under Johannes Gachnang) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and subsequently worked as private secretary to Viennese activist Hermann Nitsch.

Shahlan Ismail

Datuk Shalan Ismail is the Political Secretary of Dato' Seri Najib Razak the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Sprint football

Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, played sprint football for Princeton and was a captain.

St Munchin's College

Tim O'Connor, formerly Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, former Secretary General to the Irish President, former Consul General of Ireland in New York, Chairman of 'The Gathering'

St. Louis Arsenal

This action had been ordered over a week before by Secretary of War Simon Cameron, but blocked by General Harney's refusal to execute his orders.

Stass Paraskos

Despite luminaries of the art world speaking in Paraskos's defence, including Sir Herbert Read and Norbert Lynton, and messages of support from Britain's Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, Paraskos lost the trial and was fined five pounds.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber

In 2011, Al Jaber was selected to serve on the United Nations Secretary General’s high level group on sustainable energy for all.

Tengri

In Kyrgyzstan, Tengrism was suggested as a Pan-Turkic national ideology following the 2005 presidential elections by an ideological committee chaired by state secretary Dastan Sarygulov.

The Ann Sothern Show

Her first series, Private Secretary, ended in 1957 after a contract dispute occurred between Sothern and Secretary's producer Jack Chertok.

Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services

The Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 upgraded the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs to Under Secretary.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 478

In remarks made to the Council, then-U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said "The question of Jerusalem must be addressed in the context of negotiations for a comprehensive, just and lasting Middle East peace."

Virgilio de los Reyes

Later on, the future Secretary of Agrarian Reform pursued his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law.