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unusual facts about William V. Martin


El Circulo Mercantil de Ferrol

Its first president was William V. Martin (a.k.a.: Guillermo V. Martin, by the Spaniards), British Citizen and British Vice-Consul in Ferrol.


Albert C. Martin, Sr.

It is also the home parish of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Allen Edward Everitt

He also illustrated J. B. Bunce's "History of old St. Martin's" (1875), the parish church of Birmingham.

Annie B. Martin

Born in Eastover, South Carolina to Jacob and Queenie Martin, the seventh of eight children, Martin was introduced as a small child by her father to labor activist A. Philip Randolph.

Augustus N. Martin

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Barbara Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge

Mary Berkeley (bef. 1671 – 3 June 1741), married Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven on 27 May 1703 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Church, Covent Garden, London.

Bartolomeo Zaccaria

As the eldest son of "King" Martin, born into the Genoese Zaccaria family which rule Chios, Bartolomeo was a fitting match for the highborn Frankish heiress, who co-ruled with her mother, Maria dalle Carceri, and stepfather, Andrea Cornaro.

Church of Our Lady, Bruges

Its tower, at 122.3 meters in height, remains the tallest structure in the city and the second tallest brickwork tower in the world (the tallest being the St. Martin's Church in Landshut, Germany).

David N. Martin

He also began painting after working with painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell on an ad campaign for Colonial Williamsburg.

Double Dragon Publishing

Authors include Gail Z. Martin, J.M. Frey, Danny Birt, Geoff Nelder, Simon Drake, Dan DeBono, Tony Teora, E. Rose Sabin, David Conway (founder of cult band "My Bloody Valentine"), Steve Lazarowitz, Michael A. Ventrella, Ben Manning, Margret A. Treiber and the late Nick Pollotta.

Douglas Martin

Douglas J. Martin (1927–2010), New Zealand leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Duane W. Martin

In the 2007 film Rescue Dawn, which told the story from Dengler's point of view, Martin was portrayed by actor Steve Zahn.

Eugene J. Martin

As a child, Eugene ran away on several occasions, was placed in reform school at six years of age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood on a farm in Clarksburg, Maryland where his foster parents were Franie and Madessa Snowdon.

Gail Z. Martin

Other influences included The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

George Barton House

The complex was commissioned by Darwin D. Martin an entrepreneur who worked at the Larkin Soap Company.

Glenn L. Martin

He worked up the courage however after persuasion by Paramount boss Adolph Zukor and completed the scene.

Graycliff

The Graycliff estate was the summer home of Isabelle R. Martin (1869–1945) and her husband, Buffalo entrepreneur Darwin D. Martin (1865–1935).

Hofvijver

Located next to the Vijverberg are several museums, like the Mauritshuis, the Gevangenpoort (Prison Gate), the Hague Historical Museum and the Gallery Prince William V.

Hubert S. Martin

He was one of Baden-Powell's instructors at the first Wood Badge course held at Gilwell Park, on 8 to 19 September 1919.

James A. Martin

Just two weeks before Martin's death, he was visited by Ateneo de Manila University president Bienvenido Nebres, who gave him a jacket of the Ateneo basketball team that he had coached some 70 years earlier.

Jason Peter

His book, Hero of the Underground: My Journey Down To Heroin & Back was published by St. Martin's Press.

Joseph B. Martin

During his academic career he has been an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and has published over 325 articles.

Kurt Loder

In 2011, St. Martin's Press published Loder's The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, which collected his film reviews from MTV.com and Reason.com.

Leon Hendrix

In 2012, Hendrix published an intimate biography of his brother titled Jimi Hendrix: A Brother's Story. It was co-written by Adam Mitchell and published by St. Martin's Press.

Louis Chéron

In 1718, Chéron and John Vanderbank split from Godfrey Kneller's Great Queen Street Academy (where they were both teaching) to form their own St. Martin's Lane Academy.

Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg

Louis released Holland and Hainaut for his brothers William I and Albert I in 1349, since he expected to acquire the Polish crown by his marriage with Cunigunde of Poland, a daughter of Casimir III and Aldona Ona of Lithuania.

Lower Brandon Plantation

Martin's new plantation built on the 1616 land grant was initially named "Martin's Brandon", apparently incorporating the family name of his wife, Mary (née Brandon) Martin, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

P. J. Mills

In 1975, Mills ran again for statewide office when Louisiana Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr., stepped down to run unsuccessfully for governor against Edwin Edwards and State Senator Robert G. Jones of Lake Charles, son of former Governor Sam Houston Jones.

Robert S. Martin

Dr. Martin has authored several publications and served on editorial boards of scholarly library journals such as American Archivist, The Library Quarterly, Libraries and Culture and Meridian.

Roger Martin

Roger H. Martin (born 1943), 14th president of Randolph-Macon College

Sancho VI William of Gascony

In 1027, he met William V at Blaye and they jointly selected Geoffrey, a Frank, as Archbishop of Bordeaux, which had become the Gascon capital during Sancho's reign.

Secret Court of 1920

A book-length study of the Court's work Harvard's Secret Court (St. Martin's Press, 2005) was written by William Wright.

St. Martin, Minnesota

St. Martin was the setting for The Chicken Doesn't Skate, a children's novel by Canadian author Gordon Korman, in which a sixth-grade nerd is transplanted there from Los Angeles.

St. Martin's Church, Warsaw

It was established in 1353 together with the adjacent Augustinians cloister and a hospital of the Holy Spirit intra muros by Siemowit III duke of Masovia and his wife Eufemia.

Stephen Martin

Stephen J. Martin (born 1971), Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction

Steven Long

Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking in 2006, published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, covers the Utah murder of housewife Lori Hacking, whose body was left in a city dump.

Steven M. Martin

He made a documentary on Léon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, which was critically acclaimed.

Suomenlinna

George R. R. Martin wrote a short story about the surrender of Viapori, "The Fortress", when he was a college student.

Teeth Dreams

Featuring lyrics written by George R. R. Martin, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" appeared in the HBO television series, Game of Thrones.

The Extreme Right in Europe and the USA

It was published in 1992 by St. Martin's Press in the U.S. (hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 0-312-08091-3) and by Pinter in London (ISBN 0-86187-790-X); it was reprinted, and retitled as The Extreme Right in Europe and the United States, by Palgrave Macmillan as a 256-page paperback in 1994 (ISBN 0-312-12224-1).

The Little Prince and the Aviator

Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum, published by St. Martin's Press (1991), pages 29-31 (ISBN 0-312-06428-4)

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

William II, Duke of Bavaria

Duke William I of Bavaria-Straubing had previously sent five expeditions to conquer Friesland.

William V. Chappell, Jr.

The Port Orange Causeway, spanning the Halifax River, in Port Orange, Florida, was named the Congressman William V. Chappell Jr. Memorial Bridge by the Florida Legislature in 1989.

WMPA TV

All three shows borrowed material liberally from such television programs as “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,” “Saturday Night Live,” "The Benny Hill Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," and “Hee Haw.”

WYSIWYG

The phrase "What you see is what you get", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona "Geraldine" (from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974).


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