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6 unusual facts about canon


Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

The Canon PowerShot SX50 HS is a 12.1-megapixel PowerShot made by Canon, and super-zoom sporting a 50x zoom lens which is equivalent to a focal length of 24-1200mm .

Gare de Houlgate

The line from Mézidon opened in 1879 and extended to Houlgate in 1882.

Indigo Digital Press

The company's first product would be a digital plotter/duplicator, bringing the tiny company (its 1991 sales totaled less than US$5 million, generating a profit of $440,000) head to head with such industry giants as Xerox and Canon.

Lambeth degree

The first two PhDs was awarded in 2012, to Reverend Canon Les Oglesby and the Reverend Canon Robert Reiss.

Ligne de la Côte Fleurie

The first section was built between Dives-sur-Mer and Houlgate in 1882 as an extension of a railway line from Mézidon-Canon on the main railway line between Paris and Caen.

William of St. Barbara

From William's name, it is presumed that he was a native of Sainte-Barbe-en-Auge in Calvados in Normandy.


1877 in archaeology

Canon William Greenwell - British Barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England; together with description of figures of skulls, general remarks on prehistoric crania, and an appendix by George Rolleston.

1890–91 St. Mary's F.C. season

Canon Basil Wilberforce remained as Honorary President although Dr. Russell Bencraft, the senior committee member, was responsible for the running of the club.

47 mm APX anti-tank gun

The chosen weapon was a design of the state-owned arsenal Atelier de Puteaux ("Puteaux workshop", abbreviated to APX), and was designated as canon de 47 mm semi-automatique mle 1937.

Alan Kreider

As a public speaker, Alan Kreider has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983).

Avogadro

Albert Avogadro (1149–1214), canon lawyer and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Bubu Jingqing

The story is not considered to be canon to Tong Hua's novel Bu Bu Jing Xin because the author never wrote any sequels, although some of the cast members from the first series have returned.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

The Mark III's autofocus system is inherited from the recently announced EOS-1D X, and marks the first time since the EOS-3 film SLR that Canon has put its top-of-the-line autofocus system in a non-1-series body.

Cascade, Colorado

Grouse, squirrels, birds and some wild animals are native to the canon.

César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck

The son of Ulric Antoine de Hoensbroeck (whose family originated in the village of Hoensbroeck, now in Dutch Limburg), he studied at Heidelberg and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Aachen Cathedral before becoming prince bishop of Liege in 1784, succeeding François-Charles de Velbrück, whose progressive reforms he tried to undo.

Charles Macpherson Dobell

Born in Quebec City, the son of Richard Reid Dobell, an MP, and a grandson of Senator Sir David Lewis Macpherson, Dobell was educated at the Rev. Canon Von Iffland's Private School, the Quebec High School and Charterhouse School in England.

Christmas Canon

"Christmas Canon" is a Christmas song by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) from their 1998 album The Christmas Attic.

Corey Sevier

In addition, he played the role of MegaMan Volnutt in the English version of the Mega Man Legends video game; in fact, he was the first male actor to voice an incarnation of Mega Man, excluding non-canon material.

Declaration on Masonic Associations

When canon law was codified into the 1917 Code of Canon Law, these existing prohibitions were preserved in the code, especially in Can 2335.

Elaine Graham

In April 2007, Graham became an honorary lay canon of Manchester Cathedral.

Fred Espenak

He is co-author with Jean Meeus of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 2006.

Fundus photography

Since the instruments are complex in design and difficult to manufacture to clinical standards, only a few manufacturers exist: Topcon, Zeiss, Canon, Nidek, Kowa, CSO and CenterVue.

George Ziets

He expanded the fictional canon of the Dungeon Siege world, producing a 100-page sourcebook that was used as source material by the development team.

Harwood, Greater Manchester

The popular secondary school for residents of Harwood is Turton High School in Bromley Cross, though both Canon Slade and Withins (now St Catherine's Academy) are nearby.

Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood

James Walter Lascelles (1831–1901), Canon of Ripon Cathedral and Rector at Goldsborough, married Emma Clara Miles (1830–1911), daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet and had nine children.

Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Henry was canon of the cathedral in Halberstadt, Knight of the Prussian Royal Order of the Black Eagle and a member of the Order of Saint John.

Hindu Personal Law

The British found neither a uniform canon administering law for the diverse communities of India nor a Pope or a Shankaracharya whose law or writ applied throughout the country.

Hugh de Bocland

The statement in Foss's 'Lives of the Judges' that he was canon of St Paul's is probably erroneous, although his name occurs (without date or reference to any authority) in the list of prebendaries of Harleston in {Newcourt's 'Repertorium,' i.

Hugh Pearson

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Ipswich Martyrs

It was unveiled by the Very Rev. Henry Wace, D.D., the Dean of Canterbury, on Wednesday December 16, 1903, in the presence of the deputy-Mayor, the M.P. Sir William Brampton Gurdon, K.C.M.G., the Rev Canon Samuel Garratt and many others, including a deputation from the Bury St Edmund's Martyr's Memorial Committee.

John Scholasticus

Balsamon cites this without naming the author, in his notes on the first canon of the Trullan council of Constantinople.

Justus Jonas

He accompanied Luther to the Diet of Worms in 1521, and there was appointed professor of canon law at Wittenberg by Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Kenneth John Conant

In 1929, Conant compiled a study guide for Harvard students which was the first academic work devoted exclusively to modern architecture, also remarkable for the inclusion of American modernists who would later "fall out of the canon", notably Bertram Goodhue.

Khadidiatou Donatelli Neumann

Since posing for Saint Laurent, Khadija has modeled for photo shoots and advertising campaigns for Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, Dolce & Gabbana, Armani, Versace, Pacco Rabanne, Louis Vuitton, Canon, Pasquale Bruni and many more.

Leck mich im Arsch

The publisher changed the title and lyrics of this canon to the more acceptable "Laßt froh uns sein" ("Let us be glad!"), similar to the traditional German Christmas carol, "Lasst uns froh und munter sein".

London Canon Tables

The London Canon Tables (British Library, Add. MS 5111) is a Byzantine illuminated Gospel Book fragment on vellum from the 6th or 7th century.

Marie Helene Franey

She would later study at the Institute of Canon Law at Saint Louis University in Missouri.

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

He was named canon of the cathedral of Nîmes in 1822, became known as a preacher, and contributed to L'Avenir.

Ne Temere

Ne Temere (literally meaning "not rashly" in Latin) was a decree (named for its opening words) issued in 1907 of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Council regulating the canon law of the Church about marriage for practising Roman Catholics.

Oggi Tomic

Oggi works primarily with latest Canon filmmaking kit, from LED lighting sets to stylish cinematography service including filming, editing and post-production resulting in broadcast quality video for television or web use.

Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion

The nomination of the Revd Canon Alison Peden as one of three nominees for election as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway in January 2010 attracted wide attention.

Paul F. Bradshaw

He is also a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey, an honorary canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission.

Prebendary

The holder of the post is connected to an Anglican or Roman Catholic cathedral or collegiate church and is a type of canon who has a role in the administration of the cathedral.

Preczlaw of Pogarell

Przecław of Pogorzela was born May 5, 1310 into a noble family from Pogorzela and by April 1329 was Canon of Wrocław.

Razhden the Protomartyr

Besarion also authored a canon to St. Razhden, while another Georgian catholicos of the 18th century, Anton I, included a rewritten passion of Razhden in his collection of Georgian martyrdoms in the 1760s.

Rejoice in the Lamb

The cantata was commissioned by the Revd Canon Walter Hussey for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of St Matthew's Church, Northampton.

Richard Moth

In 2001, upon the elevation of the Vicar General, Mgr Canon John Hine, to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Mgr Moth was named Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese.

Robert Daborne

(Cyrus Hoy, in his sweeping study of the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators, ruled Daborne out of any participation in the authorship of those works.)

Sarah Coakley

In 2011 she is was appointed an honorary canon of Ely Cathedral where she assists with the morning office and Eucharist.

Schenkl

Maurus von Schenkl (1749–1816), German Benedictine theologian and canon law jurist

The Go-getter

Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and Summer Lightning (1929).

Vonda N. McIntyre

McIntyre invented the first name of the Star Trek character Mr. Sulu, which became canon after Peter David, author of the comic book adaptation, visited the set of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and convinced director Nicholas Meyer to insert the name into the film's script.

Ward Elliott

His results led him to dismiss the claims of 37 alternative authors of the Shakespeare canon and reject the authenticity of over 30 poems and plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha.

Wilfrid Grigson

Grigson was born in 1896 in the Vicarage at Pelynt to Canon William Shuckforth Grigson and Mary Beatrice Boldero, and was one of seven brothers, including Geoffrey Grigson, Kenneth Grigson and John Grigson.


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