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unusual facts about Thomas B. Allen


William S. Bowdern

Following the death of his aunt, the boy — named in records only as "Roland", sometimes referred to simply as "R", and reported as "Robbie Manheim" in Thomas B. Allen's book Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism — began using the Ouija Board on an increasingly obsessive basis.


Amiriyah shelter bombing

Charles E. Allen, the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning supported the selection of bomb targets during the Persian Gulf War.

Antoine Blanc

In 1827, Antoine Blanc, Armand Duplantier, Fulwar Skipwith, Thomas B. Robertson and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the state legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge.

Aris T. Allen

A freeway, Aris T. Allen Boulevard (Maryland Route 665) was named for Allen, who died the year prior to its completion.

Augustus N. Allen

It still owns and manages a broad portfolio of properties in the New York and Miami metro areas.

Cayuga Duck

Writing in 1848, Richard L. Allen, recommends the “common black duck” as being the most profitable for domestic use, as they laid between forty to fifty eggs and sometimes even more, if kept from sitting.

Charles E. Allen

Satellite photos and electronic intercepts indicating this alternative use were regarded as circumstantial and unconvincing to Brigadier General Buster Glosson, who had primary responsibility for targeting.

Dorathy M. Allen

Prior to 1945, the Miss Arkansas Pageant was sponsored by the East Arkansas Young Businessmen's Club.

Edmund T. Allen

Theodore von Kármán intervened and recommended to Eddie Allen that the Boeing wind tunnel should be designed for airspeeds near the speed of sound.

Ethel D. Allen

She often encouraged African-Americans and women to seek political office; indeed, her friend Augusta Clark would later become the second African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council, eventually becoming the Democratic Majority Whip.

In January 1979, incoming Governor Dick Thornburgh named Allen his choice for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

George Loftus Noyes

Other prominent Boston artists working at the Fenway Studios in that period include Marion B. Allen, Lilla Cabot Perry, Joseph Decamp, Philip Hale, Lillian Wescot Hale, Charles Hopkinson, György Kepes, William Kaula, Lee Lufkin Kaula, Lillian and Leslie Prince Thompson, William McGregor Paxton, Marion L. Pooke, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Mary Bradish Titcomb.

Gordon Allen

Gordon P. Allen (1929–2010), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

J. H. Allen

While the works of Allen and Armstrong are by no means identical, with Allen's work being much earlier, much longer and in hard-back book format, the core of Allen's work does appear to have served as inspiration for Armstrong, and Allen's book was not unknown to Armstrong's students at Ambassador College.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Joseph H. Allen

The factory was closed in 1861, not only due to poor sales, but because Allen enlisted in the Union Army.

Lily L. Allen

Allen was born to John Oram and Jane (Talbott) Oram at Newport, County Mayo, Ireland on 30 December 1867.

Lower Moreland Township School District

Jill Kelley, Lebanese-American socialite, who became a key figure in the 2012 United States government investigation into inappropriate communications by top U.S. Generals David Petraeus and John R. Allen.

Maryland Route 665

In October 1992, state officials named MD 665 for Aris T. Allen, a doctor and former member of the Maryland General Assembly who had died in 1991.

Paul S. Allen

He is a fan of Jaguar sports cars, The Beatles,Sheffield Wednesday soccer team and is a keeper of Border Collies.

R.S. Allen

Allen and Bullock also created the TV series Rango, and wrote the screenplays for the feature films Girl Happy (starring Elvis Presley), The Man Called Flintstone (1966) and Don't Drink the Water (1969), among others.

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Richard Van Allen

Richard V. Allen (born 1936), American National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan

Stanley plan

The legislative program was named for Governor Thomas B. Stanley, who proposed the program and successfully pushed for its enactment.

Taylorsville, North Carolina

Charles E. Allen, former Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the US Department of Homeland Security

The Railway Magazine

One of those who shared authorship of the series after his death was the Great Eastern Railway engineer Cecil J. Allen (1886-1973) who became sole author from 1911 until succeeded by O. S. Nock in 1958, when Cecil J. Allen moved his performance column to Trains Illustrated (later renamed Modern Railways), edited by his son, G. Freeman Allen.

Thomas B. Butler

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress.

Thomas B. Costain

Costain was born in Brantford, Ontario to John Herbert Costain and Mary Schultz.

He received a Doctor of Letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of Western Ontario in May 1952 and he received a gold medallion from the Canadian Club of New York in June 1965.

Thomas B. Fargo

"He was incredibly confident...he was this guy you would follow into hell." - Alec Baldwin

Scott Glenn's performance as Captain Mancuso in the 1990 movie, The Hunt for Red October, was a virtual mirror of his impression of Fargo.

However, an uproar was created in the Senate as it was customary for a Navy flag officer to serve as Commander of PACOM and no other branches, thus the Air Force general was not confirmed by the Senate.

Thomas B. Fugate

Thomas Bacon Fugate (April 10, 1899 near Tazewell, Tennessee - September 22, 1980) was a United States Representative from Virginia who served in the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses.

Thomas B. Marsh

The town had been founded by the presidency of the Missouri Stake, consisting of David Whitmer, William Wines Phelps and John Whitmer.

Thomas B. Mason

Thomas Boyd Mason (January 12, 1919 – March 9, 2007) was an American United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia (1961–1969), and an actor.

Thomas B. Stanley

Anne was the daughter of John David Bassett (July 14, 1866 – February 26, 1965), a founder of Bassett Furniture, and Nancy Pocahontas Hundley (November 21, 1862 – January 11, 1953).

Thomas B. Warren

In his two debates on the existence of God, Warren prefers versions of the Teleological Argument for the existence of God, using (in his debate with Flew) the alveoli in the lungs and the process of oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange as proof for an intelligent designer; in his debate with Matson, he used the circulatory system.

In the context of the Churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement, Warren was a strict restorationist: he believed that the noninstrumental Churches of Christ followed the strict New Testament pattern of Christian doctrine, worship, and practice.

Thomas B. Woodworth

Thomas B. Woodworth (October 2, 1841-January 16, 1904) was a newspaper publisher, lawyer, and member of the Woodworth political family.

Thomas Hayward

Thomas B. Hayward, United States Navy's Chief of Naval Operations from 1978–1982

Thomas R. Allen

In 2010 Allen cosponsored an ordinance with 30th Ward Alderman Ariel Reboyras that designated a stretch of Central Avenue in the vicinity of its intersection with Belmont Avenue as "Honorary Lech Kaczynski Way" to honor the deceased Polish President.

Thomas Silver

Thomas B. Silver (1947–2001), author, scholar and president of the Claremont Institute

Thrige

Thomas B. Thrige (1866-1938), Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman

TwentyWonder

The event featured performers such as Grant-Lee Phillips, Joel Hodgson, Harmonix, Funny or Die, The Batmobile, etymologist Taylor Lura, theremin player Eban Schletter, Dave "Gruber" Allen, Jim Turner as Mr. Tremendous and Tim Biskup.

William Mandel

The book received critical acclaim from notables, including author and senior editor of The Black Scholar, Robert L. Allen; renowned musician and activist Pete Seeger; and the internationally respected poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

William W. Allen

William Wirt Allen (September 11, 1835 – November 21, 1894) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.


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