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unusual facts about William Turner


Rhine romanticism

In the visual arts William Turner drew attention to the Rhine, especially in England, with his paintings, which were the result of several cruises on the river.


Sarah Turner Butler

In 2002, Forbes reported that the fortune is now run by great-grandsons Stephen Butler and William Turner, Jr., and that the family was believed to own 30 million shares of Coca Cola.

Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Scriptures

Those in the provinces giving at least financial support included Joseph Priestley, Bishop Edmund Law, Joshua Toulmin, and William Turner.


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Diphwys Casson Quarry

In 1800 quarry managers William Turner and William Casson, from the Lake District took the lease on the quarry.

William Joseph Bryan

William Turner and Jonn Christian hypothesized in The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy that Bryan was responsible for inducing Sirhan Sirhan to fire blanks at Robert F. Kennedy with posthypnotic suggestion.

William Turner Dannat

William Turner Dannat died in 1929, aged 75, while at Monte Carlo.