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8 unusual facts about john King


Erick Erickson

On March 16, 2010, CNN announced the hiring of Erickson as a political contributor to John King, USA.

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

King married Catherine (died 1669), daughter of Sir William Fenton, of Mitchelstown, County Cork, and left two sons, Robert (died. 1693) and John successively second and third lords Kingston.

Having worked hard for the restoration of Charles II, he was created on 4 September 1660 an Irish peer by the title of Baron Kingston, of Kingston in the County of Dublin granted at Westminster on 4 September 1660, was sworn of the Irish privy council, and was appointed on 19 March 1660–1 a commissioner of the court of claims for the settlement of Ireland.

His abilities as a leader were displayed on many occasions, particularly at the relief of Elphin Castle and he continued very active during this time of confusion, and frequently disturbed Heber MacMahon the Roman Catholic bishop of Clogher, then general of the Ulster army.

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

At weekends, he travelled north to his country estate, Friars Well Estate, near Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicestershire.

His interests included directorships at the Daily Telegraph, Spectator, headhunting company Norman Broadbent and engineering firm Short Brothers.

King was born in Brentford, west London, the son of a soldier-then-postman father (Albert) and seamstress mother (Kathleen) and was the second of four children.

The young John King was brought up in a small property attached to a public house in Dunsfold, Surrey.


A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860

Robert O'Hara Burke leads an expedition from Melbourne to the north of Australia, including William John Wills, John King, Gray, Dandells and Brahe.

Chemical generation

In its most singular guise, it could be said to include Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle, Alan Warner, John King, Jeff Noon, Nicholas Blincoe, Gordon Legge and Laura Hird - all of whom participated in the survey of the scene carried by the Steve Redhead book for Canongate (also publishers of Rebel Inc.), Repetitive Beat Generation.

Gustavus Fowke

Fowke was one of those over-40s, but was in fact only at the start of his cricket career, and he remained as Leicestershire's captain for the next five seasons, overseeing a transition in the team that saw the retirement of older players such as John King, Samuel Coe and Arthur Mounteney and the introduction of the nucleus of the team of the 1930s with Les Berry, Norman Armstrong, Haydon Smith and Alan Shipman.

Hit the ball twice

An example of the dismissal occurred in 1906 when John King, playing for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval tried to score a run after playing the ball twice to avoid getting bowled.

Rebel Inc.

Rebel Inc Magazine ran to five issues between 1992 and 1994, publishing new work by writers such as Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird, Toni Davidson and John King before any of them had books in print.

William Piers

He became chaplain to John King, and in 1609 he was presented by James I to the rectory of Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, which he resigned in 1611 on his collation by Bishop King as Archdeacon of Northolt, which he held till 1632.


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Kato Hideki

Since coming to New York, has recorded and performed with the likes of John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Christian Marclay, Calvin Weston, Eyvind Kang, Billy Martin (percussionist), Nicolas Collins, Zeena Parkins, Charlie Burnham, James Pugliese, John King, Michael Schumacher, and many others.

Stop Murder Music

He cited John King and the Mighty Gabby as examples of musicians who are positive role models against violence and discrimination.

The Yoko Factor

Whereas Anthony Head does not actually play guitar for Behind Blue Eyes in the episode "Where the Wild Things Are" (music supervisor John King did), this time he both sings and plays Free Bird.

William Burdett-Coutts

Ashmead-Bartlett was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, the son of Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, and his wife Sophia Ashmead, daughter of John King Ashmead of Philadelphia.

York County, Ontario

Opened in 1798 and was likely named for John King, Under-Secretary of State in the Portland administration.