Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.

During the run of The Frost Report the Palin / Jones team contributed material to two shows starring John Bird: The Late Show and A series of Bird's.

Among the most prominent of these were Elbridge Ayer Burbank, George Catlin, Seth Eastman, Paul Kane, W. Langdon Kihn, Charles Bird King, Joseph Henry Sharp, and John Mix Stanley.

The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.

Cook expanded television comedy with Eleanor Bron, John Bird and John Fortune.

John Bird made the first sextant in 1757.

Some of his classmates were John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker and Henry Selick.

* John Bird Sumner becomes archbishop of Canterbury.

* September 6 – John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1780 )

** John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1862 )

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

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Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Glover, Hibbert Newton, John Cox Gawler, Robert Polwhele, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, John Pym Yeatman, Herbert Aldersmith, William Carpenter, Protheroe Smith, Thomas Stratton, Elieser Bassin, William H. Poole, Thomas Rosling Howlett, Frederick Charles Danvers, Charles Piazzi Smyth, George Moore, C. A. L. Totten, Edward Wheeler Bird, Moses Margoliouth, Robert Govett, Jonathan Titcomb, John Leyland Feilden, Marcus Blake Brownrigg and Alexander Beaufort Grimaldi.

The South Pole Pendulum Project ( as discussed in The New York Times and excerpted from Seven Tales of the Pendulum ) was constructed and tested by adventurous experimenters John Bird, Jennifer McCallum, Michael Town, and Alan Baker at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

Script-writers included John Albery, John Antrobus, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Lyndon Irving, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, David Nobbs, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, and Keith Waterhouse.

* John " Doc " Holliday dealt faro in the Bird Cage Theater as an additional source of income while living in Tombstone, Arizona.

* Sumner, William Hyslop, An Inquiry Into the Importance of the Militia to a Free Commonwealth: In a Letter from William H. Sumner ... to John Adams, Late President of the United States ; with His Answer, Cummings and Hilliard, Boston, 1823

* Chemistry – James B. Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley

Blake was born at 319 Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland to former slaves John Sumner Blake ( 1838 – 1917 ) and Emily " Emma " Johnstone ( 1861 – 1917 ).

East Point is served by Sumner Park, Sykes Park, Brookdale Park, Grayson Field, Jefferson Park, John Milner Park and Chris Stacks Field.

Sumner was named for John Cary Sumner, fifth child of Joseph Chestnutt Sumner and Mahala Smith Sumner.

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* John Sumner ( actor born 1951 ), British actor

* John Sumner ( 17th-century actor ), an English theatre actor

* John Bird Sumner ( 1780 – 1862 ), British religious leader

* John S. Sumner ( 1876 – 1971 ), head of New York Society for the Suppression of Vice from 1915-50

Sumner is a coastal seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand and was surveyed and named in 1849 in honour of John Bird Sumner, the then newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and president of the Canterbury Association.

Bishop John Sumner ( bishop ) | John Sumner, after whom the suburb is named

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

Hearst won the Iowa state convention, but ran into a bitter battle in Indiana before losing to Parker, drawing an angry statement from Indiana's John W. Kern:

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

`` Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.

John Vernon had had all the patronage he cared for -- he had prospered, but he could not retire from horsedom.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

It ticked over smoothly, idling while Fogg exchanged mails with the armed messenger from Burlington at Fort Ethan Allen, and one from Montpelier and Barre at the St. John field.

One afternoon during a cold, powdery snowstorm, Fogg took off for Concord from the St. John field.

But our two Jeep mates -- Keo Viphakone from Luang Prabang and John Cool from Beaver, Pennsylvania -- were beaming under their coatings of dust.

John, an engineer and anthropologist with a doctorate from the London School of Economics, headed the rural development division of USOM, the United States Operations Mission administering U.S. aid.

When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

John himself was bruised and clawed from head to tail, but he was in this fight to the finish, running almost as strongly now as in the morning.

Tractor production at Massey-Ferguson, Ltd., of Toronto in July and August rose to 2,418 units from 869 in the like period a year earlier, says John Staiger, vice president.