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7 unusual facts about The Press


Archibald Sanderson

Born at Glenthompson in Victoria to pastoralist John Sanderson and Agnes Roberts, he attended Haileybury College and Christ Church, Oxford (graduating in 1892) after the family's move to England before travelling to New Zealand to work as a parliamentary reporter for the Christchurch Press and the Wellington Evening Press.

Craig Crossman

Throughout the years his articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Orange County Register, The Hawaiian Advertiser, The San Jose Mercury News and The Press-Enterprise.

Cranmer Court

The competition was announced in The Press by advertisement on 18 April of that year, rewarding the two best entries with ₤50 and ₤25, respectively.

Dieu et mon droit

Versions of the coat of arms, with the motto, are also used by other newspapers, including Melbourne's The Age, Christchurch New Zealand's The Press, the UK's Daily Mail and the Toronto Standard.

Jeremiah Twomey

Subsequently, he was employed on the Wellington Chronicle, The Evening Post, The Wanganui Herald, The Timaru Herald, and The Press in Christchurch.

Paul Cleave

In September 2008, Cleave appeared on a crime writing panel at The Press Christchurch Writers Festival alongside fellow New Zealand crime writer Vanda Symon and acclaimed British author Mark Billingham.

The Press

Roads at the time were difficult, and the New Zealand Railways Department was unwilling to re-schedule any of its ordinary passenger trains to operate at the early morning times desired by The Press as patronage would have been uneconomic, and freight trains did not provide a desirable measure of swiftness.


Skinhead

American Oi! began in the 1980s, with bands such as U.S. Chaos, The Press, Iron Cross, The Bruisers and Anti-Heros.


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Abraham Robertson

He superintended the publication of the works of Archimedes which were prepared for the press by Torelli (1792), and, with much effort, the second volume of Bradley's Greenwich Royal Observatory Astronomical Observations, commenced by Thomas Hornsby (1st ser., 1798–1805).

Adolf Hitler's possible monorchism

In November 2008, the discovery of an eye-witness account on how Hitler was treated after being shot on the Western Front during World War I was announced in the press.

Afshan Azad

She has also told the press that her best friends on set of Harry Potter were Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Katie Leung (Cho Chang), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), and Scarlett Byrne (Pansy Parkinson).

Anwan Glover

Anwan addressed the press along with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, saying "We're tired of seeing the yellow police tape" and calling for an end to revenge shootings.

Bob Pratt

The initial attack on the inhabitants of Adowa by Benito Mussolini's invading army upon Emperor Haile Selassie, is no greater shock than that received by SMFC officials when they learned on Thursday afternoon, through the press, that Bob Pratt had been involved in a collision with a motor truck.

Bobby Ray Inman

During the press conference, Inman made angry remarks about comments by New York Times columnist William Safire.

C. J. Cregg

Kept out of the loop with regard to the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush, Myers assured the press that there would be no more news coming out of the White House hours before the United States bombed Baghdad.

Charles Edward Moss

Albert Charles Seward, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and a Syndic at the Press, supported Moss, but both eventually reluctantly accepted the Press's preferences.

CineForm

The press release in the GoPro acquisition noted that CineForm's codec has been used in several major movies including Slumdog Millionaire.

Ciro Ferrara

He came under intense scrutiny from the media and there was much speculation about who would succeed him as manager, especially after he was absent at the traditional meeting of all Serie A managers, coaches and referees in Rome during mid-season and was instead represented by then Director of Sport Alessio Secco and 23-year-old homegrown midfielder Claudio Marchisio at the press conference.

CNC World

The venture is part of Beijing's effort to "present an international vision with a Chinese perspective," Xinhua President Li Congjun said at the press conference announcing the launch of CNC World.

Del Sol Press

The first book published by the press was a revision of Michael Brodsky's 1978 novel, Detour.

El Bernameg

Its satirical style, willing to poke fun at powerful personages across the political spectrum, has led the press to compared it with The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show.

Eva Besnyö

In 1930, at the age of 20, she moved to Berlin where she first worked for advertising photographer René Ahrlé before working on photoreportages with the press photographer Peter Weller.

Guy-Bertrand Mapangou

In the press, Mapangou's appointment at the Presidency was interpreted in light of two factors: Mapangou was already a close associate of Bongo because he had worked under Bongo at the Ministry of Defense, and Mapangou was native to the area of Fougamou in Ngounié Province—therefore his appointment could potentially draw local support away from opposition leader Louis-Gaston Mayila, who was also native to that area.

Herman Edwards

Following the 2005 season, Carl Peterson (president of the Kansas City Chiefs) hinted to the press about interest in hiring Edwards that could have been considered tampering.

Hesychius of Alexandria

The best edition is by Moriz Wilhelm Constantin Schmidt (1858–1868), but no complete comparative edition of the manuscript has been published since it was first printed by Marcus Musurus (at the press of Aldus Manutius) in Venice, 1514 (reprinted in 1520 and 1521 with modest revisions).

History of Williamsburg, Virginia

At the end of the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz read to the press a statement confirming the deployment of American Pershing II-nuclear rockets in West Germany later in 1983.

International Independent Group of Eminent Persons

Professor Yozo Yokota reminded the press corps that, contrary to government statements, the IIGEP is not a European group, but consists of experts from all over the world.

Iso Fidia

The choice of Athens for the press launch was connected to the car's new name, Fidia, which was the name (commonly spelled "Phidias" by anglophone classicists) of the artist who some 24 centuries earlier had supervised creation of the friezes which originally decorated the Parthenon (and which in 1816 turned up in the British Museum, following their controversial removal in 1802 by Lord Elgin).

Jacob Marcaria

The press was licenced under Joseph Ottolengo, a German rabbi to whom Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo had granted the privilege of printing Hebrew books.

James Louis Garvin

When their dispute became public, the press baron agreed to sell the paper to William Waldorf Astor, who accepted Garvin's proposal to assume ownership on condition that Garvin edit the Astor-owned Pall Mall Gazette as well.

Joseph Ayloffe

He saw through the press John Thorpe's Registrum Roffense, which was published in 1769 by the compiler's son.

Joseph Roswell Hawley

A few months after stepping down from that office, he bought the Hartford Courant newspaper, which he combined with the Press.

Julie Finley

In November 2005, in response to a report that press freedoms in Kazakhstan were being violated by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Finley made a statement that, according to reporter C.J. Chivers of the New York Times, seemed to dismiss the significance of the crackdown on the press.

LGBT History Month

The initiative received government backing from the deputy DfES and Equalities Minister Jacqui Smith, although some sections of the press argued against its political correctness, and pointed out that the sexuality of some historical figures is more a matter of speculation than fact.

Lucky Lew

Produced by Sylvia Massy and engineered/co-produced by Rich Veltrop, the album received the title Beauty In Aggression and was released on September 6, 2010 to generally favourable reviews in the press.

Luis Abadiano

The Spanish Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 included a guarantee of freedom of the press.

Maecenas Foundation

Centered in the city of Basel, it came to notice in 2005 when Swiss art dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, the owner of the Codex Tchacos, which contains the Gospel of Judas, informed the press that the manuscript would be donated to Maecenas for conservation and publication.

National Farmers Organization

However, much of the initial impetus for the NFO’s early growth came from positive comments made by former Iowa Governor Daniel Webster Turner when he was asked about it by the press.

National Signing Day

He took out a picture of himself with Penn State head coach Joe Paterno during the press conference and announced his decision to sign with Penn State.

North American Newspaper Alliance

A notable event late in the syndicate’s history occurred when a freelance correspondent, Lucianne Goldberg joined the press corps covering candidate George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign, claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, an affiliate of NANA.

Northwestern University Press

In addition, the Press has published several titles in conjunction with Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

Organization of American States Secretary General election, 2005

The press had initially speculated that Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, the current foreign minister of Peru, would have been a likely "consensus" candidate in the new scenario, and on 12 April, the Lima daily Perú 21 gave the name of former transitional president Valentín Paniagua as another option.

Pini Balili

His lifestyle since his return has come into question by the press, after being seen out in town with Skeletor.

Power Without Responsibility

Power Without Responsibility (subtitled: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain or Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain) is a book written by James Curran (Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College) and Jean Seaton (Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster).

Rail transport in Angola

Speaking to the press in July 2012, on the occasion of the coming opening of the reconstructed CFB line to Luena, the director of the INCFA, Júlio Bango Joaquim, said that the construction of new lines would begin as soon as the three historic lines are operational in their full length.

Reginald Dorman-Smith

In the late 1930s, the British Government's agricultural policy came in for heavy criticism from the NFU, Parliament and the Press and in January 1939 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took the bold step of appointing Dorman-Smith as Minister of Agriculture.

Socinianism

Fausto Sozzini furthered his influence through his Racovian Catechism, published posthumously, which set out his uncle Lelio's views on Christology and replaced earlier catechisms of the Ecclesia Minor. His influence continued after his death through the writings of his students published in Polish and Latin from the press of the Racovian Academy at Raków, Kielce County.

South Canterbury Rugby Football Union

Timaru Boys' High School and Roncalli College 1st XV –play in the Crusaders Region Secondary Schools' Rugby Championship "The Press Cup"

Stephen, Stephen

Schneider also makes reference to Colbert's grudge against The Decemberists (whose guitarist, Chris Funk, appeared in the same episode of the show) with the lines "he's calling out the bears in their evil lairs/he's calling out the press in their fancy dress/he's calling out The Decemberists and their Green Screen Contest".

The Bangladesh Observer

Hamidul Huq Choudhury and Abdus Salam were also arrested at this time by the Pakistan Government to stifle the voice of the press.

The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.

Thomas G. Osenton

Osenton was press chief for ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, and directed the press operations for the tournament that resulted in the 1980 U.S. Hockey team's Gold medal Miracle on Ice.

Tokyo Metropolitan Television

Every week, Tokyo MX airs the press conferences of Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara.

Tracey Dey

The song was a timely cash-in on the press and fan interest surrounding the Elizabeth Taylor film, "Cleopatra" and became a national hit.

Viva Palestina

He said: "The arrests were clearly deliberately timed for the eve of the departure of the convoy. Photographs of the high-profile snatch on the M65 were immediately fed to the press to maximise the newsworthiness of the smear that was being perpetrated on the convoy."

Waco, Texas

The press center provided briefing and office facilities for the press corps whenever Bush visited his "Western White House" near Crawford.

William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood

Amid allegations of back-stabbing in the boardroom, when Lord Westwood, claimed himself and the then just sacked manager Richard Dinnis were being knifed in the back, he ordered a complete ban of every Newcastle United employee, especially the players, from talking to the press.