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unusual facts about Thomas A. Barry


Thomas Barry

Thomas A. Barry (c. 1879–1947), American football player and coach


B. H. Barry

He went on to study Aikido and stage combat with friend and mentor, Barry Jackson, an English stuntman.

Celtic Ash

On the advice of Irish-born trainer Tom Barry, Celtic Ash was purchased by Boston, Massachusetts banker Joseph E. O'Connell, who imported him to the United States to race for his Green Dunes Farm.

Edward Barry

Edward P. Barry (1864–1936), 44th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Esomeprazole

Thomas A. Scully, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also criticized AstraZeneca for their aggressive marketing of Nexium.

Francis Parkman Prize

1998 – John M. Barry for Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again

A 1934 recording of the song by Thomas A. Dorsey was selected in 2007 by the United States' National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

John C. Brown

In 1876, Brown, who supported Thomas A. Scott's efforts to build a transcontinental railroad in the South, joined the Texas & Pacific Railroad as a vice president.

John S. Barry

In 1834, Barry moved to Constantine, Michigan and opened a general store in that village's first frame-built building.

In 1831, he moved to White Pigeon, Michigan where he became a merchant and was active in politics.

Jubilee quartet

Groups such as the Golden Gate Quartet—originally named the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet—infused their performances of spirituals with the rhythmic beat of blues and jazz and gradually began including gospel standards written by Thomas A. Dorsey and others in their repertoire.

Larry Cuba

Created in Chicago with Tom DeFanti's Graphic Symbiosis System GRASS, consists of sixteen "objects", each composed of 100 points of light, some of them geometric shapes like circles and squares, others more organic shapes resembling gushes of water.

Martin D. Hardin

Following the expiration of his term as Secretary of State, Governor Gabriel Slaughter appointed Hardin to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by William T. Barry, who resigned.

Medicare Part D

Medicare boss Thomas Scully, who threatened to fire Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster if he reported how much the bill would actually cost, was negotiating for a new job as a pharmaceutical lobbyist as the bill was working through Congress.

Michael A. Barry

Prior to coming to Princeton, Barry spent many years in Afghanistan with the International Federation for Human Rights, Médecins du Monde and the United Nations, working in often perilous conditions to provide and coordinate humanitarian assistance for the Afghan people from 1979 to 2001.

Mike Craver

This humoristic song is based on the first words transmitted thru the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson.

Nenad Ban

His interest in large macromolecular assemblies led him for his postdoctoral work to the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University where he determined the atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit by X-ray crystallography, as part of the group in the laboratory of Thomas A. Steitz.

Patrick G. Forrester

During the mission, Forrester and Dan Barry performed two spacewalks totaling 11 hours and 45 minutes of EVA time.

Pittsburgh in the American Civil War

Other important personalities of the Civil War born in the immediate Pittsburgh area included Col. Daniel Leasure, Congressman Robert McKnight, industrialist William Metcalf, and Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Rowley.

S.R. 819

The background check leads Mulder to Senator Richard Matheson (Raymond J. Barry), which results in a dead end.

The Eudaemonic Pie

The Eudaemonic Pie is a 1985 book by American author Thomas A. Bass, about a group of University of California, Santa Cruz, physics graduate students (known as the Eudaemons) who in the late 1970s and early 1980s designed and employed miniaturized computers, hidden in specially modified platform soled shoes, to help predict the outcome of casino roulette games.

The Telephone Gambit

# The world famous scene in which Bell and Watson make their first telephone call is described in his autobiography by Thomas A. Watson some year's after Bell's death.

Thomas A. Benes

Awards he received include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal three award stars, the Air Medal with valor device and four strike/flight numerals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal.

Thomas A. Bickle

Thomas Anthony Bickle (born 23 December 1940 in Norfolk, UK) is a British/Swiss microbiologist.

Thomas A. Davis

During the Spanish-American War he served as a Captain of the 6th US Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Sixth Immunes, which was mustered at Knoxville, Tennessee and saw service in Puerto Rico.

Thomas A. Desjardin

Historical advisor to actor Jeff Daniels - In 2011, Daniels said publicly of his role as Joshua Chamberlain: "For me, whatever people think that role was, it is because of Tom Desjardin."

Desjardin has appeared in nationally televised documentaries numerous times and was the historical consultant for actor Jeff Daniels in his role as Chamberlain in the 1993 movie Gettysburg.

Thomas A. (Tom) Desjardin (born June 10, 1964) is an American historian who has written books on the American Civil War and American Revolutionary War.

Thomas A. DuBois

DuBois has also translated into English Johan Turi's "An Account of the Sámi", the first secular book ever written in the Sámi language.

Thomas A. Ferguson

Since retiring from government service, Ferguson has run a consulting business based out of Howard County, Maryland.

Thomas A. Jackson

During the 1920s he was a major figure in the CPGB, being on the Central Committee from 1924 to 1929 and editor of The Communist and The Sunday Worker.

Thomas A. Livesley

Elected Mayor of Salem in 1927, he presided over a number of public works in the city that included bridge building, paving of major streets, the installation of street lights and traffic signals and the construction of the Salem Municipal Airport (McNary Field).

Thomas A. O'Donnell

O'Donnell served as president and board chairman of CALPET until it was sold to the Texas Company (later known as Texaco).

Thomas A. Romberg

In the 1980s Romberg was chair of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) commissions that produced Curriculum and Evaluation Standards NCTM standards for School Mathematics, and the Assessment Standards for School Mathematics.

Thomas A. Smith

He is also an active member of the Houston Geologic Society, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Seismological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.

Thomas A. Walker

Other works that he undertook were the Barry Dock and Railway, and the Preston Dock, and in addition he carried out the contract for the Buenos Aires Harbour Works with John Hawkshaw and resident engineer James Murray Dobson.

Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.

He ran for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor in 1974 amid a crowded field of candidates and was badly outspent by both eventual nominee and winner Ray Blanton and runner-up Jake Butcher.

Thomas A. Wofford

He was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced the practice of law in Greenville.

Thomas Dorsey

Thomas A. Dorsey, gospel composer and performer, known as Georgia Tom in his earlier jazz career

Thomas J. Barry

Barry proved correct as the colt won the 1958 Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, the longest of the U.S. Triple Crown races.

However, from two entries in the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes, Tom Barry's horses won both.

Under regular jockey Sam Boulmetis, Sr., in 1953 the two-year-old Errard King won the Tyro Stakes and the Laurel Futurity Stakes and the following year captured two very important races, the American Derby and Arlington Classic.

Thomas McCann

Thomas A. McCann, head football coach at Bowdoin College (1913–1914) and the University of Maine (1917)

Thomas McMahon

Thomas A. McMahon (1943–1999), novelist and Professor of Applied Mechanics and Biology at Harvard University

Thomas Shannon

Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. (born 1958), U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, 2010-Present

Tom Moloney

:This article is about the British businessman, for the American politician see Thomas A. Maloney.

Viking 1

The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team.

Virginia Carroll

She appeared on screen in these westerns opposite Tex Ritter, Don "Red" Barry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, Gene Autry and Whip Wilson.

Vision therapy

It is to be noted that the vision therapy approach that is widespread in the U.S. and which has led to recover stereopsis in a number of persons, most notably Susan R. Barry, is diametrically opposed to the use of prisms in the manner that is advocated in the MKH method.


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