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unusual facts about The Pioneer



Civil and Military Gazette

Rudyard Kipling eventually left the Civil and Military Gazette in 1887, to move to its sister-newspaper in Allahabad, The Pioneer.

Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa began her journalist career with The Pioneer in Lucknow, moved to The Patriot in 1979, and worked for several other Indian publications, including The Telegraph and Indian Express before joining the Asian Age in 1997 as its political editor and Delhi bureau chief.


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Abraham Sachs

In 1952 received a Rockefeller Foundation travel grant to study Babylonian astronomical diaries in the British Museum, where he had access to the text stocked by the pioneer British assyriologist Theophilus Pinches between 1895 and 1900.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Nwaubani was one of the pioneer editorial staff of Nigeria’s now defunct NEXT newspapers, established by Pulitzer-winning journalist, Dele Olojede.

Anthony Chabot

He was involved in several other businesses during this time, including a paper mill in Stockton, the Judson Manufacturing Company in Oakland, the Pioneer Pulp Mill Company near Alta (Placer County), the Puget Sound Iron Company, and a large tract of land in Washington state for the cultivation of cranberries.

Atenism

For example, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud assumed Akhenaten to be the pioneer of monotheistic religion and Moses as Akhenaten's follower in his book Moses and Monotheism (see also Osarseph).

Clayton Mark

Clayton Mark (June 30, 1858 – July 7, 1936), one of the pioneer makers of steel pipe in the United States, was an industrialist in the Chicago area who founded the Mark Manufacturing Company in 1888, a firm for the fabrication and sale of water-well supplies and Clayton Mark and Company in 1900.

Cumberland Valley Railroad

In 1999, the Pioneer was moved from its display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to the as yet unopened National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

DYPV

The pioneer FM radio station in Pavia, Iloilo first hit the airwaves as Radyo Natin 92.7 way back on January 15, 2002.

Edward Jenner Museum

The Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley, England, is housed in a grade II* listed early 18th century building called the Chantry, famous as the home of Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and now used as a museum.

Elisha Scott Loomis

He was the eldest son of Charles W. Loomis, a descendent of the pioneer Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Connecticut.

Emanuel V. Soriano

He was one of the pioneer faculty members of the College of Business Administration, and among the first Filipinos to be sent to the United States for advanced studies in business together with former College of Business Administration deans Jaime C. Laya (who was the 5th governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 1981 to 1984), Magdaleno B. Albarracin, Jr. (now member of the Board of Regents), and Rafael A. Rodriguez (now Professor Emeritus).

First Hawaiian Bank

1890: King David Kalākaua chartered the predecessor of the Pioneer Federal Savings Bank.

Govenlock, Saskatchewan

Americans would come to the pioneer town in their Fords, Studebakers, Packards, and Hudsons.

GPS for the visually impaired

Prof. W. Balachandran is the pioneer and the head of GPS research group at Brunel University.

Greenridge Secondary School

The school is one of the pioneer secondary schools in the constituency of Holland-Bukit Panjang GRC and has hosted two other schools, Fajar Secondary School and Zhenghua Secondary School in its 12 year history.

Hâlit Ziyâ Konuralp

Turkish physician and professor; known as the pioneer of plastic surgery in Turkey.

Hessian Ludwig Railway

In addition, the pioneer of the German railways, Friedrich List, personally championed the building of a line from Mainz to Worms.

Howard Vanderslice

Vanderslice is portrayed as the baby being carried in the Pioneer Mother statue by Alexander Phimister Proctor in Penn Valley Park (which portrays his grandfather Daniel Vanderslice agent to the tribes and Vanderslice's father Thomas J. Vanderslice and mother).

Hugo Bleicher

He served as a private soldier in the First World War in the pioneer gas corps and was captured near the Somme.

Iola High School

The Mustangs compete in the Pioneer League and are classified as a 4A school, by the KSHSAA.

Koch Glacier

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert Koch, the pioneer German bacteriologist who discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for most cases of tuberculosis.

Lepel Griffin

He collaborated with the pioneer Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal.

London Missionary Society

Proposals for the Missionary Society began in 1794 after a Baptist minister, John Ryland, received word from William Carey, the pioneer British Baptist missionary who had recently moved to Calcutta, about the need to spread Christianity.

Louise of the Netherlands

Louise and her daughter was a student of Nancy Edberg, the pioneer of swimming for women: the art of swimming was initially not regarded as being entirely proper for females, but when the Queen and her daughter Princess Louise supported it by attending the lessons from 1862, swimming was quickly made fashionable and became accepted for women.

Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kota Bharu

Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kota Bharu or MRSM Kota Bharu is one of the pioneer junior science colleges set up by Majlis Amanah Rakyat or MARA in Malaysia.

Miranda Hill

She was the daughter of James Hill, corn merchant and banker, and Caroline Southwood Smith, the daughter of Dr Thomas Southwood Smith, the pioneer of sanitary reform.

Molecular imprinting

Klaus Mosbach was the pioneer of the Noncovalent approach of Molecular Imprinting.

MV Argyle

The first was a paddle steamer built only two years after the pioneer steamship PS Comet appeared on the river in 1812.

Nalanda College, Colombo

Abhaya Induruwa - Founding Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, the first and only department of its kind in a Sri Lankan university (1985) and the pioneer of LEARN (Lanka Educational And Research Network) and Internet in Sri Lanka (1989)

Novelty piano

The pioneer of this style was Charley Straight, whose compositions were issued on piano roll years before Confrey's novelty hits.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Old Orchard Beach is the twin city of the French seaside resort of Mimizan, as a reminder of Oiseau Canari, the pioneer aircraft crossing of the Atlantic by Assollant, Lefèvre and Lotti in 1929 to Oyambre (Cantabria, Spain).

Philip Jenkins

Between 1977–80, Jenkins worked as a researcher for Sir Leon Radzinowicz, the pioneer of criminology studies at Cambridge.

Photo manipulation

The pioneer among journalists distorting photographic images for news value was Bernarr Macfadden: in the mid-1920s, his "composograph" process involved reenacting real news events with costumed body doubles and then photographing the dramatized scenes—then pasting faces of the real news-personalities (gathered from unrelated photos) onto his staged images.

Pioneer anomaly

According to Slava Turyshev of JPL in the paper "Support for temporally varying behavior of the Pioneer anomaly from the extended Pioneer 10 and 11 data sets," published in Physical Review Letters in 2011, the anomaly has a temporally-decaying (not constant as previously thought) nature and points towards Earth.

Pioneer Bible Translators

Former United States Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers previously served on the Pioneer Bible Translators board.

Pioneers, a Volunteer Network

The Telephone Pioneers who attended were principally from the 7,900-member division of the Pioneer's Charles Fleetford Sise Chapter in Ontario and Quebec, attending a three-day conference in the city where Henderson was interred after his death in 1887.

Piyaneni

In the 1960s Clarence Wijewardena was mentored by the pioneer Radio Ceylon broadcaster, Vernon Corea who helped him to reach the pinnacle of fame in the music world in Sri Lanka.

Pulsatile insulin

Dr. Thomas Aoki, former Head of Metabolism Research at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and a current Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, was the pioneer of using pulsatile insulin in the treatment of diabetes.

SFRA Pioneer Award

The Pioneer Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.

Singapore Children's Society

It was also the pioneer voluntary welfare organisation to provide opportunities for training of social work undergraduates from the then University of Malaya.

Skeleton tank

The Skeleton Tank was an experimental prototype tank built in 1918 by the Pioneer Tractor Company, Winona, Minnesota.

Slava Turyshev

He is known for his investigations of the Pioneer Anomaly, affecting Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft, and for his attempt to recover early data of the Pioneer spacecraft to shed light on such a phenomenon.

Small cell

The pioneer in providing rural coverage using small cells was SoftBank Mobile - the Japanese mobile operator - who have installed more than 3000 public access small cells on post offices throughout rural Japan.

St James's Club

When the pioneer of photography William Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was elected in 1825 to the club at 106 Pall Mall, London, it was using that name.

Styl-Plus

It has also been a massive chart topper, and has been used in numerous shows, including the pioneer edition of Big Brother Nigeria.

Sweet pea

The sweet pea is thus a model organism being used in early experimentations in genetics, particularly by the pioneer geneticist Reginald Punnett.

The Burroughs

Eileen Colwell, the pioneer children’s librarian worked at Hendon in the 1930s.

Twee

Twee Jonge Gezellen, the oldest family-owned farm in the pioneer district of Tulbagh in the Western Cape, South Africa

Witold Zawadowski

Witold Eugeniusz Zawadowski (February 23, 1888 in Skobełka near Horochow, Volhynia – August 12, 1980 in Warsaw) was a Polish radiologist, one of the pioneer of the Polish radiology.