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unusual facts about clerks


Sci-Fi Valley Con

For 2013 the convention booked several additional recognizable celebrity guests, such as: Brian O'Halloran who played to role of Dante Hicks in the Kevin Smith films Clerks and Clerks II.


1932 Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Strike

The Nizam Guaranteed State Railway Workers' Union, the B. N. Railway Labour Union, the jute farmers of Nellimarla, the workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills, the International Transport Workers Federation, British Trade Union Congress, Railway Clerks Association, National Union of Railways of Great Britain and the International Federation of Trade Unions contributed enormous amounts of money for the strike relief fund.

A Happy Death

The main character in A Happy Death is named "Patrice Mersault", similar to The Strangers main character "Meursault"; both are French Algerian clerks who kill a man in cold blood.

Angelika Film Center

In Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks (on the Clerks X DVD) Kevin Smith and Vincent Pereira recall attending movies at the Angelika (notably Richard Linklater's debut Slacker).

Architecture of Buffalo, New York

Chief executive officer Darwin D. Martin met Wright in Chicago and hired him to design a building that would house the large number of clerks needed to operate his mail-order business.

Army Apprentices School, Harrogate

Royal Army Service Corps – Clerks (two year course) (Moved elsewhere in late 1955—certainly by 1970 the Royal Army Ordnance Corps were training All Arms Clerks in their Depot at Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey)

Bailli

The cathedral schools and the University of Paris provided the clerks and lawyers who served as the king's baillis.

Barristers' clerk

More than half the clerks work in London, mainly in and around the four Inns of Court, with the remainder being in large towns and cities.

Bob O'Halloran

He was a director of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1931, Dental Hospital; president of Government employees' section clerks' Union; trustee of Sydney Cricket Ground.

Brian O'Halloran

Brian Christopher O'Halloran (born December 20, 1969) is an American actor best known for his roles in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films, notably as Dante Hicks in Smith's debut film Clerks and its 2006 sequel, Clerks II.

Comic Book Men

Kevin Smith – The owner of the store, and a filmmaker and author whose films include Clerks, Chasing Amy and Red State, and whose books include My Boring-Ass Life.

Deir Yassin

Many inhabitants were employed outside the village in the nearby British Army camps as waiters, carpenters, and foremen; others as clerks and teachers in the mandatory civil service.

Dickinson R. Debevoise

After 32 years on the Court, Judge Debevoise has over 60 former law clerks, including Stuart Rabner, current Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, former New Jersey Attorney General, and former counsel to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and Peter C. Harvey, who was the first African American to serve as New Jersey Attorney General (2003–2006).

Fort Chipewyan, Alberta

He also had in view the founding of a library at the fort, which would not be only for the immediate residents of Fort Chipewyan, but for traders and clerks of the whole region tributary to Lake Athabaska, so that it would be what he called, in an imaginative and somewhat jocular vein, "the little Athens of the Arctic regions."

Fort Harney

In addition to the Army troops, the post had four civilian clerks, two masons, one saddlemaker, a shoemaker, a painter, a baker, and four laundry maids.

Fred Katz

He was secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union and the Miscellaneous Workers' Union, and was also President of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.

Guanghan

The Civil Aviation Flight University of China educates a large percentage of China's aviation professionals from Airline pilots and Air Traffic Controllers to engineers, cabin crew, administrators, and clerks.

Henry de Cliff

From 1317 till 1324 de Cliff continued to be one of the clerks under whose seal, during the absences of the Lords Chancellors Sandale, Hotham, Bishop of Ely, Salmon, Bishop of Norwich, and Baldock, the great seal was constantly secured.

Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885

The Act was criticised by Lord Wemyss and his Liberty and Property Defence League as "class legislation" and Wemyss asked whether the government would now house the police and Foreign Office clerks.

Iwrestledabearonce EP

The EP contains five songs, all of which boast extreme tempo and change between various genres throughout, as well as the use of short cover tunes or samples (including the theme from Inspector Gadget as well as samples from other popular media such as Scary Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Super Mario Bros. and Clerks).

Janet E. Courtney

She first had a part-time teaching post at Cheltenham Ladies' College, then worked as a clerk for the Royal Commission on Labour, 1892-94; was the first superintendent of women clerks of the Bank of England, 1894-1906; Librarian of The Times Book Club, 1906-1910; and on the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica 1906-1914 and 1920-22.

John Guzlowski

Growing up in Chicago's immigrant and DP neighborhoods, Guzlowski regularly interacted with Jewish hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish Cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians.

Madison Township, Daviess County, Indiana

In the 1856 spring elections, the Know Nothing movement was popular in Madison Township, and the Democrats nominated Perkins for township clerk; to their surprise, he won, and his actions in office won him the reputation of one of the best clerks the township ever had.

Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron Rokeby

Montagu was born Matthew Robinson, the son of Morris Robinson of the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane and nephew of Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby.

Miguel Estrada

One of his fellow clerks during that year was Peter Keisler, another controversial conservative nominee to the D.C. Circuit whose nomination was never processed by the Senate Democrats during the 110th Congress.

National Conference of State Societies

The first state club was the Illinois Democratic Club of Washington City which was founded in 1854 by government clerks from Illinois loyal to President Franklin Pierce.

Nick Scoullar

During the mid-1990s he starred in a popular television show (which aired in the US on the Sci Fi Channel and internationally on other stations) called The Anti-Gravity Room, where he discussed comic books and interviewed several famous people, including Kevin Smith (of Clerks fame), Howard Stern and Ben Stiller.

Pritchard Englefield

Pritchard Englefield was based in the City from the date of its foundation in 1848 by HD Pritchard, primarily at Painters Hall where Mr Pritchard and his partner Mr Englefield became Joint Clerks to the Painter Stainers Company, and finally in Bishopsgate, where the merged firm remains as the London office of Thomas Eggar LLP, although it did spend 21 years in the West End of London (1971-1992).

Procedures of the Supreme Court of the United States

In theory, each Justice's clerks write a brief for the Justice outlining the questions presented, and offering a recommendation as to whether certiorari should be granted; in practice, most Justices (all of the current court, except Justice Alito) have their clerks participate in the cert pool.

Republic of Vietnam National Police

Specialists such as field policemen, patrol boat crewmen, vehicle drivers (this category included squad car, armoured car and Jeep drivers, and motorcyclists), radio operators, medics, mechanics, and clerks were trained in various other National Police and Armed Forces’ schools.

Robert de Brantingham

On 18 November 1381, in a case tried at Westminster, de Brantingham stood alongside Alexander Marley and two clerks, Thomas de Staindrop and Thomas de Barton, as plaintiff against Sir John and Gwenllian de Raleigh.

Scud: The Disposable Assassin

Each issue is created by a different creative team, including artists such as Trent Kaniuga (Creed), Jim Mahfood (Clerks), and Doug TenNapel (creator of Earthworm Jim).

Secretary of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico

The Secretary of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico is the chief clerk of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico responsible of maintaining public records, disbursing salaries, monitoring the acquisition of stationery and supplies, and overseeing other clerks.

Steve Loter

Loter also directed the Happy Monster Band, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Disney's Tarzan series, as well as episodes of The Ren and Stimpy Show, Duckman, Stressed Eric and Kevin Smith's Clerks The Animated Series.

Stranger to the House

In the Canadian House of Commons and its provinces' Legislative Assemblies (and possibly other Westminster systems), a Stranger to the House is anyone permitted to be on the floor of the House who is not either a Member of Parliament, an Officer of the House (such as the clerks or the Sergeant-at-Arms) or a parliamentary page.

Stroud's Mercantile

Among these innovations, Stroud's was the first retailer in northwest Arkansas to hire female sales clerks, including Betty Blake, who would go on to marry the humorist Will Rogers.

Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!

Johnson played Steve-Dave and Flanagan played Fanboy who yelled "Tell 'em, Steve-Dave!" in Mallrats and Clerks: The Animated Series.

The Clerks

The Clerks have been associated with pioneering work in the field of performance practice, in particular singing from facsimiles of Renaissance manuscript sources, a process heavily influenced by the work of Margaret Bent and John Milsom.

United States House Committee on Accounts

In addition, the committee was responsible for the accountability of officers of the House, the procurement of rooms for the use of House committees and for the Speaker, and for recommending and authorizing the employment of such persons as stenographers, reporters of debates, janitors, and clerks and staff assistants for committees, members and senators.

Watharkar

During British Raj, Brahmins in general, found employment as white collar professions such as office clerks and teachers.


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