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unusual facts about Teller–Ulam design



Ann Duplessis

Duplessis has spent over 21 years in the financial services and banking industry beginning as a part-time teller into a leadership role as Senior Vice President of Retail Banking, responsible for marketing and sales for a $300 million community bank.

Beppe Wolgers

He also made several books and films for children, and did a famous series as a slightly crazy goodnight story teller for children in Swedish television 1968-74 and, as notable, the father of Pippi Longstocking in the 1969 TV series.

Bungoma County

The Bukusu have produced many prominent people that have served in the Kenyan public life among them the late Hon Wamalwa Kijana (former vice president), the late Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga (head of the Catholic Church in Kenya), the late Elijah Masinde (founder of Dini ya Musambwa), Sudi Namachanja (chief during colonial days), Luka Namulala (community fore teller), among others.

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

Chandra Wilson

For eight years, while she tried to break into major stardom, Wilson worked part-time as a teller at Deutsche Bank in order to make ends meet.

Christopher Musgrave

Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet (1631–1704), Tory politician and MP, teller of the Exchequer

Coy Privette

In one case, court documents show Summers was found with a man's Wachovia teller card.

Daniel Wray

In 1741 Philip and his brother, Charles Yorke, brought out the first volume of the Athenian Letters, to which Wray contributed under the signature ‘W.’ In 1745 Philip Yorke appointed Wray his deputy teller of the exchequer, an office which he continued to hold until 1782.

David Moffat

In 1855 he made his way to Des Moines, Iowa and became teller in the bank of A. J. Stevens & Company.

Divide, Colorado

Teller County has a jail behind the Sheriff's office as well, infamous for holding the 'Texas Seven' back in early 2000.

Double Dynamite

Filmed prior to From Here to Eternity, the movie involves an innocent bank teller (Sinatra) suspected of embezzling who turns to a sardonic waiter (Groucho Marx) for advice.

Eric Alfred Knudsen

Knudsen (called "Elika", Hawaiian for "Eric") became known as the "Teller of Hawaiian Tales," when his placid voice could be heard in the Islands over KTOH radio, located on Ahukini Road in Lihue, while he narrated his tales of Hawaiian cowboys, and ghosts, and journeys into the mountains of Kauai, and those legendary times when the Hawaiians and their gods mingled on a daily basis.

Floyd Soileau

Over the past 40 years, Swallow Records has released 265 45rpm single records and 151 albums of Cajun French music, including recordings by Adam Hebert, Belton Richard, Dewey Balfa and the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, Jambalaya Cajun Band, Paul Daigle & Cajun Gold, D.L. Menard, and many more, plus recordings by the Cajun French story teller, Marion Marcotte.

Fortune teller machine

In "The Honking", an episode of the animated TV series Futurama, the main characters, wishing to learn about a curse that has afflicted Bender, consult with a fortune teller machine, which, like many of the other machines of the 31st Century is sentient.

In the eleventh and final series of Big Brother (UK) and the Ultimate Big Brother series, a fortune teller machine named Bob Righter (an anagram of Big Brother), was present in the main living area of the house.

Franklin National Bank

Arthur T. Roth joined the bank in 1934 as head teller and became president in 1946.

George Downing

Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet (c. 1656–1711), Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer

George Lichty

Lichty also influenced cartoons drawn by Joe Teller, as evidenced in the book, "When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller—A Portrait by His Kid (2000) by Teller (of Penn & Teller).

Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Green Mountain Falls is a Statutory Town in El Paso and Teller counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

Halyna Zubchenko

Some of the works from this period are Moysyuchka, Princess Paraska, An Old Fortune Teller, Mistress of the Mountains, various portraits of men (Owner, Hutsul Nicholas, Legin) and children (Vasyuta, Vasyuta and his brother, Chichko) and the landscapes Above the Cheremosh, Clouds Walk above Verkhovyna and Dreamy Evening.

Harold D. Schuster

His 1954 film noir triller Loophole is a fast-paced, well-acted drama about a bank teller framed for a $50,000 embezzlement and his efforts to clear his name, and his 1957 Dragoon Wells Massacre is, despite its potboiler title, an actionful, tightly made western with some surprising plot twists in which many of the characters aren't quite what they seem to be.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others

Newburyport, MA, 1986 - Marc Arrow, a waterfront fortune teller, finds a truncated skull in an antique shop when the cabinet containing it spontaneously topples over - touching it brings him his first legitimate psychic vision and so he kills the proprietor with a handy sextant and steals it.

History of the Teller–Ulam design

On November 1, 1952, the Teller-Ulam configuration was tested in the "Ivy Mike" shot at an island in the Enewetak atoll, with a yield of 10.4 megatons (over 450 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II).

The nuclear weapons designer Ted Taylor was clear about assigning credit for the basic staging and compression ideas to Ulam, while giving Teller the credit for recognizing the critical role of radiation as opposed to hydrodynamic pressure.

Janne Teller

In December 2013, Teller helped organise a petition of 560 world renowned contemporary authors, protesting against mass surveillance in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations.

John Stonehouse

The teller who handled the money later spotted "Mildoon" at the Bank of New South Wales.

Julio Escoto

Julio Escoto, born San Pedro Sula, February 28, 1944, is a Honduran short-story teller, novelist and essayist.

Kathleen Freeman

In later years, Freeman also worked extensively as a voice actress, playing Ma Crackshell on DuckTales, a Theban woman in Disney's Hercules, a matriarchal criminal called "Ma Mayhem" in the series Batman Beyond in the episode "The Eggbaby", and fortune teller Madame Xima in the video game Curse of Monkey Island.

Landscape of the Body

It was directed by John Pasquin, and Shirley Knight starred as Betty, F. Murray Abraham as Holahan, Paul McCrane as Bert, Rex Robbins as Durwood Peach, Jay O. Sanders as the Bike Messenger/Dope King/Bank Teller, Bonnie Deroski as Margie, Alexa Kenin as Joanne, Anthony Marciona as Donny, Richard Bauer as Raulito, and Peg Murray as Rosalie.

Lenormand

Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French professional fortune-teller for more than 40 years, famous during the Napoleonic era

Lift Engineering

Potential problems with Yan lifts began to surface as early as 1985, when the upper bullwheel on the Teller lift at Keystone Ski Resort in Colorado disconnected from the main gearbox shaft.

Loan officer

Loan officers without college degrees usually advance to their positions from other jobs in an organization after acquiring several years of work experience in various other occupations, such as teller or customer service representative.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

She painted, collaborated with Andy Warhol on illustrations for the now defunct Bonwit Teller department store, and, under the tutelage of Milton Avery, developed her talent for making monotype prints — some of which were presented at the Iran Pavilion during the 1958 Venice Biennale.

Mum and the Sothsegger

Richard the Redeless focuses wholly and exclusively on Richard II and the latter part of his reign, whereas Mum ignores Richard's rule to concentrate exclusively on problems during Henry IV's administration... Richard the Redeless contains specific allusions to events and personalities of Richard II's reign, but this is not the case with Mum... to be a truth teller and name names may have proved too much for him.

Of Missing Persons

Of Missing Persons is a 1955 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which describes a burned-out bank teller named Charley Ewell living in 1955 New York City who receives a chance to emigrate from Earth to Verna, a lush, earthlike planet light-years away.

Oleg Timchenko

In general, Timchenko is interested in characters – whether it is Ophelia, the Sphinx, Infantas, Pontius Pilate, or a dwarf, – and is said to be an empathetic participant of the story rather than a distant story-teller.

Palmy Days

Palmy Days (1931) is an American musical comedy film written by Eddie Cantor, Morrie Ryskind, and David Freedman, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and choreographed by Busby Berkeley (who makes a cameo appearance as a fortune teller).

Paul Teller

Teller was involved in controversy during the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis when, in July 2011, he and his subordinates reportedly emailed several conservative groups to urge the groups to lobby against a plan put forward by Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Paulla Dove Jennings

Paulla Dove Jennings is a member of the Narragansett tribe and a professional story teller, educator and children’s book author.

Pembroke, Ontario

Wayne Rostad, songwriter, singer, story teller, spent his youth in Pembroke.

Radiance Digital Entertainment

During his 23 years in game industry, Singman's works include Astrology Fortune-Teller, Sony ISO Formatter, JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL, Super Puzzle Fighter, Final Fight EX, Tang Chi, TEST DRIVE OFF ROAD series, Big Air Snowboarding, Loony Tunes Racing, Puzz Loop, The Sign, The Age, Magical Land, Crazy Kart, Beach Volleyball Online, GoGoRacer Online and so on.

Radio Éireann Players

The cast was: Frank Dwyer (story-teller), Eamon Kelly (nailmaker), Thomas Studley (stone-breaker), Peggy Monahan (weaver's widow), Brendan Cauldwell (grave digger), Henry Comerford (grave digger), Arthur O'Sullivan (cooper), Maura O'Sullivan (weaver's daughter).

Raney nickel

Raney nickel is notable for being thermally and structurally stable, as well has having a large BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller) surface area.

Tauxe

It originated as a yeoman line in the 15th century, probably deriving its move to the bourgeousie from involvement in revenue operations ('taux' is French for 'tax' or 'tell' as in 'bank teller').

Te Ata

Te Ata Fisher, American Chickasaw Indian actress and story teller

The Biggest Douche in the Universe

The episode title, "The Biggest Douche in the Universe," refers to the supposed psychic John Edward, and was referred to by Penn Jillette in his and Teller's show, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.

The Madwoman of Central Park West

Under the title My Mother Was a Fortune-Teller and starring Newman as basically herself, it originally was staged by Laurents at the Hudson Guild Theatre.

Thomas Newport

Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington (c. 1655–1719), English MP for Ludlow, Winchelse, (Much) Wenlock and Teller of the Exchequer

Wilhelm Abraham Teller

In 1767 Teller, whose attitude had made his position at Helmstedt intolerable, was glad to accept an invitation from the Prussian minister for ecclesiastical affairs to the post of provost of Cologne, with a seat in the Lutheran Supreme Consistory of Berlin.


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