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unusual facts about The Progressive


Fusion Energy Foundation

The publication came two years after a magazine, The Progressive, had tried to print similar information but was prevented by an injunction that became the United States v. The Progressive.


Salim Muwakkil

Other publications in which Muwakkil's work has appeared include The Washington Post, ″The New York Times Book Review″, The Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, The Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.


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Alberta Alliance Party

The party managed a narrow victory in the Progressive Conservative stronghold of Cardston-Taber-Warner, where Paul Hinman became the first MLA elected under the Alliance banner, defeating incumbent Broyce Jacobs.

Alex Kindy

Kindy, David Kilgour, and Pat Nowlan all opposed the GST and voted against it in the House of Commons resulting in their expulsion from the Progressive Conservative caucus on April 10, 1990.

Amédée Jacques

Attracted to Entre Ríos by the progressive culture fostered there by its governor Justo José de Urquiza, Jacques decided to move to Paraná.

Arrigo Benedetti

The original editor Benedetti left the magazine and launched a new weekly, L'espresso, in October 1955, with Eugenio Scalfari, and backed by the progressive industrialist Adriano Olivetti, manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters.

Avon Williams

In the late 1980s Williams began to be debilitated by the progressive effects of ALS ("Lou Gehrig's disease") and began to require the services of a chauffeur/attendant.

Bahamian general election, 2012

The Free National Movement had defeated the Progressive Liberal Party in the 2007 general election amid a scandal involving the residency status of model and reality television star Anna Nicole Smith and allegations that the PLP's then-immigration minister had fast-tracked her application to live in the islands.

Barb Fisher

Fisher ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new riding of Huron—Bruce, but lost to Helen Johns.

Basic income in the Netherlands

The political discussion on basic income was initiated in 1975 by Leo Jansen, an MP for the progressive Christian Political Party of Radicals (PPR) and Vrije Universiteit professor Kuiper.

Bill Barlow

The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government, and Barlow served in the legislature as a backbench supporter of the Bill Davis and Frank Miller administrations.

Canadian Alliance

On October 15, 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party (under its new leader Peter MacKay) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conservative Party of Canada.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

In 1765 he worked under the progressive and well informed apothecary, C. M. Kjellström in Malmö, and became acquainted with Anders Jahan Retzius, a lecturer at the University of Lund and later a professor of chemistry at Stockholm.

Christian Darnton

This grandfather, Edward, married Kate Lupton, born into the progressive and political Lupton family, and educated at the school of her relative Rachel Martineau.

Daniel Sleator

Sleator has hosted the progressive talk show Left Out on WRCT-FM with fellow host and School of Computer Science faculty member Bob Harper.

Darcy Burner

She has served on the boards of a number of local and national organizations including ActBlue, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Netroots Foundation, the Center for International Policy, the Progressive Ideas Network, and Council for a Livable World's PeacePAC.

Dianne Poole

She lost to Progressive Conservative fundraiser Bill Saunderson by about 4,500 votes, as the Progressive Conservatives won a majority government provincially.

Dick Ket

In his self-portraits the progressive symptoms of his physical deterioration, such as cyanosis and finger clubbing, are apparent.

Edwin Dickinson

The progressive tipping and enclosure of space can be observed in the sequence of works leading up to this one, a strategy that parallels modernist tendencies toward pictorial abstraction accompanied by spatial flattening.

Elizabeth Janeway

Never a supporter of the Communist Party or even a socialist, she did breathe the progressive air of 1930s New York City; she always laughed as she described how she and a Barnard friend met their physical education requirement by improvising a tap-dance version of The Internationale.

Eugenio Scalfari

In October 1955, jointly with Arrigo Benedetti he co-founded one of Italy's foremost newsmagazines L'Espresso with capital from the progressive industrialist Adriano Olivetti, manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters.

H. James Jones

Jones ultimately sought re-election in the 2000 campaign as a Canadian Alliance candidate, while David Scrymgeour was given the Progressive Conservative nomination.

Harry Danford

Danford defeated fellow Tory MPP Bill Vankoughnet to win the Progressive Conservative nomination for the 1999 provincial election in Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, but lost to Liberal Leona Dombrowsky by almost 2,000 votes.

Henry McCullough

McCullough played on The Grease Band's eponymous album after splitting with Cocker, and during his time with the band he also appeared as lead guitarist on the original 1970 recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and on the progressive Spooky Tooth album The Last Puff.

Henry S. Benedict

He was nominated by the Progressive Party for the Sixty-fifth Congress, but withdrew in behalf of the Republican nominee.

Ivan Zagni

Zagni joined the progressive group Jody Grind and recorded on their first album, then in Bogomas with Louis Cennamo, and then in Blue Whale with Aynsley Dunbar, who disbanded the group to join Frank Zappa.

Jimmy Giuffre

Buddy DeFranco - Odalisque (Verve, 1953), reissued as The Progressive Mr. DeFranco (Norgran)

Joan Fawcett

The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in the 1995 provincial election, and Fawcett lost the Northumberland riding to Progressive Conservative candidate Doug Galt by over 6,000 votes.

Ken Lemke

In 2012, with Stony Plain MLA Fred Lindsay retiring, Lemke ran for the Progressive Conservative (PC) nomination.

Ken Waddell

Waddell sought the Progressive Conservative nomination for Ste. Rose in the 2007 provincial election, but lost to Stu Briese.

Marcel Beaubien

The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the provincial election of 2003, and Beaubien lost his seat to Liberal Maria Van Bommel by over 3,500 votes.

Marcus Brosch

In the mid-90s, he founded the Hip-Hop group Aroma with Menzel and Philipp Grüthering which was the predecessor of the progressive group Deichkind.

Paul Schuster Taylor

Taylor's research career was launched by the progressive sociologist Edith Abbott.

Penny LaRocque

She lost to the Progressive Conservative candidate, Joel Matheson by 1500 votes, however.

Prior Park Landscape Garden

A picture of the Palladian bridge located in the Prior Park Landscape Garden is used as the cover art for the progressive death metal band Opeth's second album Morningrise.

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (often referred to colloquially as Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta) is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta.

Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America

The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America was formed by Robert L. Hill of Winchester, Arkansas, a black tenant farmer.

Progressive Southern gospel

Other artists in the progressive Southern gospel genre include The Talley Trio, The Jody Brown Indian Family, Keith Caldwell, The Hoppers, and The Martins.

Rex Barnes

In February 2011, he announced plans to challenge incumbent MHA Ray Hunter for the Progressive Conservative party nomination in Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South for the 2011 provincial election.

Rocky Malebane-Metsing

In 1988, a coup ousted Lucas Mangope, president of Bophuthatswana, and installed Malebane-Metsing, who at the time was leader of the Progressive People's Party, as president.

Rupert Taylor

He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a BA degree in Politics and Government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1981 and a PhD in Sociology at Kent, completed in 1986.

Sam Cureatz

He endorsed Dianne Cunningham's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party in 1990, and did not seek re-election in that year's provincial election (Toronto Star, 3 May 1990).

The Pimp

# "Drop the Hate" (Remixed By Reverend H. Lidbo & The Progressive Baptist Choir Of Stockholm) (Cook, Daniels) - 7:20

The True Patriot Network

Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer wanted TPN to bring people more in line with the progressive patriotic values they set forth in their book.

Theron Akin

He was again an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sixty-fourth Congress on the Progressive ticket in 1914.

Toby Barrett

Barrett supported Jim Flaherty's unsuccessful bid to succeed Ernie Eves as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2004.

Unite the Right

Eventually members of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservatives united to create the Saskatchewan Party.

William Julius Wilson

Wilson was an original board member of the progressive Century Institute, and a current board member at Philadelphia-based Public/Private Ventures.

Þórólfur Árnason

Þórólfur Árnason took over as the mayor of Reykjavík on 1 February 2003 after the Left Greens and the Progressive Party had demanded that Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, which was mayor next before Þórólfur, would either resign, or decide not to pursue a career in national politics.