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14th Canadian Ministry

The Fourteenth Canadian Ministry was the second cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

16th Canadian Ministry

The Sixteenth Canadian Ministry was the third cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania

The German ultimatum triggered a political crisis: the passive cabinet of Vladas Mironas was replaced by a cabinet headed by General Jonas Černius.

2011 Governor General's Awards

Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891

Abhisit cabinet

The Abhisit Cabinet (Council of Ministers) or formally the 59th Council of Ministers (คณะรัฐมนตรี คณะที่ 59) was announced after the appointment of Abhisit Vejjajiva as Prime Minister of Thailand on the 17 December 2008.

Adoor Prakash

He served as the Minister of Food & Civil supplies in the Oommen Chandy Ministry from 2004 to 2006.Presently he is the Revenue Minister of Kerala in the cabinet headed by Oommen Chandy.

Alan Peters

In 2009 fellow furniture designer maker Jeremy Broun made a film and wrote a book called "Alan Peters - The Makers' Maker".

Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

The British Cabinet discussed the proposed agreement at 10 Downing Street on 28 May 1920.

Bob Krueger

Krueger was reelected for a second House term in 1976 along with the election of Jimmy Carter as president, whose term was also marked by the development of an energy policy that included the creation of the Department of Energy as a Cabinet office.

Bonnie Kantor-Burman

She was appointed to that cabinet-level position in January 2011 by Ohio Governor John Kasich.

Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Chalongphob joined several other TDRI-affiliated individuals who had Cabinet-level seats in the junta, including Deputy Prime Minister and Industry Minister Kosit Panpiemras and Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Chu Văn Tấn

He was a member of the 1st Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and minister of defense in the 1945 provisional cabinet of the DRV.

Coffee cabinet

In recent years, it has become more difficult to find an authentic cabinet, but many Rhode Island creameries still serve them, including Delekta's Pharmacy in Warren, and the Original Vanilla Bean in South Kingstown.

Crisis management

Mattel Inc., the toy maker, has been plagued with more than 28 product recalls and in Summer of 2007, amongst problems with exports from China, faced two product recalls in two weeks.

Dresden Frauenkirche

In 1736, famed organ maker Gottfried Silbermann built a three-manual, 43-stop instrument for the church.

Étienne Ozi

The technical demands of Ozi's literature spurred on its development; instrument maker Carl Almenräder in particular used his compositions to direct further development of the bassoon in his development of the key mechanism.

Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin

Latter-day bearers of the name include the film-maker, Alan Gilsenan and netball player Selina Gilsenan.

Fidel Villarroel

He is also known as the most-prolific saint-maker in the Philippines for his Positio Super Introductione Causae, or historical research, that he made for the beatification and canonization of Lorenzo Ruiz and fifteen other companion-martyrs.

Frank Dempsey

Dempsey was remembered as a good-natured mischief maker and for the pranks and activities of his teammates that revolved around his World War II-era surplus Jeep.

Frank Pegram

And finally, Pegram made a bold run under air attack into Molde in Southern Norway to evacuate King Haakon VII, much of the Norwegian Cabinet and senior government leaders as well as a good portion of the gold reserves of Norway.

Free Free/Super Music Maker

"Free Free/Super Music Maker" is the 12th single by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki under the label Avex Trax.

Fritz Wächtler

From August 1932 Wächtler served as Education Minister in the cabinet of the Minister President of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.

Government of Australia

The growth of the ministry in the 1940s and 1950s made this increasingly impractical, and in 1956 Robert Menzies created a two-tier ministry, with only senior ministers holding Cabinet rank, also known within parliament as the front bench.

Howard Hendrick

Hendrick is one of three Cabinet Secretaries appointed by former Governor Frank Keating to be held over by Governor Brad Henry, the others being: Human Resources Secretary Oscar B. Jackson Jr. and Veterans Affairs Secretary Norman Lamb.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Kazuo Aoki: Administrator of Manchurian affairs; Minister of Treasury in Nobuyoki Abe's cabinet; followed Abe to China as an advisor; Minister of Greater East Asia in the Tojo cabinet

Joan Roget

According to the Catalan optometrist and amateur historian Simon de Gualleuma, Juan was married to Juana of Malaville and migrated to the Catalan town of Girona, Spain, where he worked as a master spectacle maker.

John Dods

His creation of latex-covered animation models led him toward the crafts of sculpting, mechanics and mold-making, which in turn led toward a budding career as a mask- and monster-maker (as displayed in the independent 1980s horror films Nightbeast, Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn, Spookies, and My Demon Lover).

John O'Sullivan

John M. O'Sullivan (1881–1948), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, TD, cabinet minister and academic

Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007.

Lang Labor

Lang still faced significant opposition within the caucus and the caucus appointed cabinet but he was able to defeat his opponents by returning his commission as Premier to the Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair on 25 May 1927.

Malachy Bowes Daly

At Halifax, July 4, 1859, he married Joanna Kenny, second daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, a cabinet minister in the Sir John A. Macdonald government.

Mohammed Bello Adoke

Barrister Mohammed Bello Adoke, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (born 1 September 1963) was appointed Nigerian Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.

Nanchang University

NCU has found a partner in the nation's second-largest communication equipment maker ZTE.

Nancy Shukri

She is currently the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department under the cabinet of Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak and Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Batang Sadong constituency in Sarawak, representing the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.

Nelson Horatio Darton

Darton was an expert at geological photography, a noted geologic map maker, and a hydrogeologist.

Nicholas Hervey

One such event, on 25 September 1989, was the Western Goals Institute dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, chaired by Lord Sudeley, for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.

Oscar B. Jackson Jr.

Jackson is one of three Cabinet Secretaries appointed by former Governor Frank Keating to be held over by Governor Brad Henry, the others being: Health and Human Services Secretary Howard Hendrick and Veterans Affairs Secretary Norman Lamb.

Panamanian general election, 1984

Nevertheless, in early September, President de la Espriella purged his cabinet of Paredes loyalists, and Noriega declared that he would not publicly support any candidate for president.

Peugeot Type 183

The Peugeot Type 183 was a 2 litre six cylinder car produced between 1927 and 1931 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Phoumi Nosavan

Backed by the CIA and the Programs Evaluation Office, Phoumi, then a colonel, became a cabinet minister in the right-wing government of the Kingdom of Laos in February 1959 and a general several months later.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Shinya Kimura

In 2010, Kimura and Chabott Engineering were the subject of a documentary short by film maker Henrik Hansen, which was one of five documentaries to be nominated for a 2010 Vimeo documentary award.

Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet

His cabinet status gave him effective control of the educational authorities (The Council President, Lord Kimberley, was a figurehead).

SKYY Spirits

SKYY Spirits, LLC, is an American spirits maker, it was launched in 1992 and founded by Maurice Kanbar in San Francisco which is also the headquarters for the company.

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.

Thirty-third government of Israel

Following demands from Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid for a smaller government, the cabinet was designated to have 20 ministers and eight deputy ministers.

Unican Security Systems

At its sale (to Kaba Group), the company had over $800 million in sales annually and was the largest maker of key blanks and key copying machines in the world.

Urushibara

Urushibara Mokuchu (漆原木虫) (1888-1953), given name Yoshijirô, a Japanese print maker

William Reeve

Some of his other popular later works included a melodrama, The Purse (1794), a Robin Hood pantomime, Merry Sherwood (1795) (especially the drinking song I am a friar of orders grey) and a comic opera, The Cabinet (1803).


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Arkona, Ontario

In 1857 it was renamed 'Arkona' after the rugged cape on the Baltic Island of Rügen, a name suggested by resident cabinet maker Ephraim Brower and possibly by the incumbent postmaster Levi Schooley.

Caleb Scudder

He was a cabinet-maker by trade, but also served as a magistrate before his term as mayor.

Deacon

The most famous holder of this title was Deacon Brodie who was a cabinet-maker and president of the Incorporation of Wrights and Masons as well as being a Burgh councillor of Edinburgh, but at night led a double life as a burglar.

Edward R. Pease

In 1886, he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, began working as a cabinet-maker and formed a branch of the National Labour Federation.

Georges Cochevelou

The astignomètre, one was winning in the competition Lepine for its eclectic works (the astignomètre, an ophthalmological device, for example), created a lamp of lounge (sold by Lancel, French leatherware), built furniture like a real cabinet maker (French polish, marquetry), painted paintings in an original technique "of watercolor in the oil" on panels of hardboard painted in white (exhibition of the independents to the academy Raymond Duncan).

Giuseppe Maggiolini

Giuseppe Maggiolini (13 November 1738 – 16 November 1814), himself a marquetry-maker (intarsiatore), was the pre-eminent cabinet-maker (ebanista) in Milan in the later 18th century.

Graham Leonard

Leonard was the brother-in-law to the late academic Michael Swann (Lord Swann of Coln St Denys) and Hugh Swann, cabinet maker to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, having married their sister, Priscilla Swann, in 1943.

L'Hôtel

Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been "sculpted by a cabinet maker".

Leonard Sharland

In 1932 Leonard’s brother, Charles, who was a cabinet maker, went out to southern Sudan to Loka and to start a trade school in Lainya, west of Juba.

Övedskloster Manor

It includes furniture made by master cabinet maker Georg Haupt, sculptures by Johan Tobias Sergel and Johan Niclas Byström, and paintings by Niclas Lafrensen, Carl Gustaf Pilo, Per Krafft the Elder and Alexander Roslin, among others.

Pedestal desk

Thomas Chippendale gives designs for such tables, which were generally used in libraries, as writing tables in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1753–4 and 1762).

St. Martin's Lane

In the 18th-century St. Martin's Lane was noted for the Academy founded by William Hogarth and later for premises of cabinet-makers and "upholsterers" such as Thomas Chippendale, who moved to better premises there in 1753, Vile and Cobb, and William Hallett around the corner in Newport Street.

Stiftsgården

The King’s Study is furnished with a set of Chippendale-style furniture designed by architect Axel Guldahl and crafted by cabinet maker A. Kvenild for the same occasion.

Trade literature

The distinguished English cabinet maker, Thomas Chippendale published a book of his designs in 1754, entitled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director and regarded as the "first comprehensive trade catalogue of its kind".