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* Otto Funk ( 1868 – 1934 ) Violinist who achieved fame ( and a Guinness Book of Records entry ) by walking from New York to San Francisco in the depression-era, " playing the fiddle every step of the way.

On Mothership Connection ( 1975 ), the first track, " P Funk ", concerns a DJ character, who inspired the Lollypop Man ( alias the Long Haired Sucker ).

On Mothership Connection, Starchild first appeared ( inspired equally by Sun Ra's " Black Noah " and Jesus ); he is a divine alien being, who came to earth from a spaceship ( his arrival is " the Mothership Connection ") to bring the holy Funk ( with a capital " F ": the cause of creation and source of energy and all life ), to humanity.

As it turns out ( according to The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, 1976 ), Starchild secretly worked for Dr. Funkenstein, the intergalactic master of outer space Funk, who is capable of fixing all of man ’ s ills, because the " bigger the headache, the bigger the pill " and he ’ s the " big pill " (" Dr. Funkenstein ", from The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein ).

* James Jamerson, a bass player and member of the Funk Brothers, who played Motown hits in the 1960s, was born here.

Jackson was also the home of singers Carl Perkins and Luther Ingram ; game show host Wink Martindale ; football players Ed " Too Tall " Jones, Al Wilson, Trey Teague, and Jabari Greer ; pianist Joe Hunter ( one of the Funk Brothers studio band who played on many Motown hits in the 1960s ) the rock band Full Devil Jacket, American soul singer, songwriter and actress Lauren Pritchard, originating and playing the role of the 15-year-old runaway " Ilse " in the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening for two years, Former Miss Tennessee Allison Leigh Alderson DeMarcus, and American country music artist Whitney Duncan.

The company's early investors included 1888 Prohibition Party presidential candidate General Clinton B. Fisk, who served as the company's first president, Quaker Oats co-founder Ferdinand Schumacher, and publishers Isaac Funk and A. W. Wagnalls.

The prototypical power trios were exemplified by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Blue Cheer, Grand Funk Railroad and Cream, who popularized the format during the 1960s.

Robert Chapman, a lexicographer, canvassed fellow lexicographers at Funk & Wagnalls, who had used the new edition daily for three years.

Later acts signed to Sugar Hill Records included all-female rap / funk group The Sequence, featuring a teenage Angie Stone ( recording as " Angie B "), who had a million-selling hit in early 1980 with " Funk U Up ".

In 1984, Dun & Bradstreet sold Funk & Wagnalls Inc. to a group of Funk & Wagnalls executives, who in turn sold it to Field Corporation in 1988.

* Johnny Carson's many shticks include his role as " Carnac the Magnificent ", an Indian fortune teller who could divine answers to questions sealed in envelopes and " kept in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on the front porch of Funk & Wagnalls since noon today ".

For the 2006 event, he was placed into an angle that had him and Terry Funk — who had been his " mentor " in the early days of the original ECW — at odds with then-heels, Mick Foley and Edge over the meanings of " extreme ".

Later that year, former NWA World Champion Terry Funk introduced Bollea to the company head Vincent J. McMahon, who was impressed with his charisma and physical stature.

Also winter albums by Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, and Grand Funk Railroad, who were all Michigan bands down for the winters.

Jeanette flew back to Detroit and got a job singing backup for Parliament / Funkadelic and the original Brides of Funkenstein, Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry who had an album that was rising on the charts called, " Funk or Walk " 1978.

Alongside Otis Redding were soul singers Sam and Dave, and Carla Thomas and writer Isaac Hayes who would have a deep impact on Funk music of the 70 ’ s.

It was used by Paul Simon and, from 1973 – 76, by Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad ( he is seen with the guitar in cover photographs on the band's Caught In the Act live album ); and a custom-made single-pickup version was made for Ronnie Wood, who loaned it to Keith Richards for his 1988 tour with the X-Pensive Winos.

The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II. 24 refers to the passage “ And when the elders had set another woman who had sinned before Him, and had left the sentence to Him, and were gone out, our Lord, the Searcher of the hearts, inquiring of her whether the elders had condemned her, and being answered No, He said unto her: “ Go thy way therefore, for neither do I condemn thee .” Book II is generally dated to the late third century ( Von Drey, Krabbe, Bunsen, Funk ).

Some of Barbosa's greatest musical influences were Arthur Baker and John Robie, the duo who invented Electro Funk with Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock.

The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

The job at Funk wasn't particularly better, but it got him away from being subordinate to John and assured him steady advancement, since Funk was owned to a large degree by various branches of Linda's family.

The most notable competitor of the Britannica among CD / DVD-ROM digital encyclopaedias was Encarta, now discontinued, a modern, multimedia encyclopaedia that incorporated three print encyclopaedias: Funk & Wagnalls, Collier's and the New Merit Scholar.

By the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the breeding range of the Great Auk was restricted to Funk Island, Grimsey Island, Eldey Island, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and St. Kilda Island.

Funk Island was the largest known breeding colony.

Although the OED2 notes Granholm was " jocular ", it accepts his ironic etymology from a fictional " Fink and Wiggles " for Funk & Wagnalls lexicographer.

Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".

Shortly after her split from Armstrong, Crow was treated for breast cancer at a Los Angeles-based facility by breast cancer surgeon Kristi Funk.

The term vitamin was derived from " vitamine ," a compound word coined in 1912 by the Polish biochemist Kazimierz Funk when working at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Kazimierz Funk ( February 23, 1884 – November 20, 1967 ), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish-American biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of vitamins in 1912, which he called vital amines or vitamines.

Get the Funk Out Ma Face was cowritten with Quincy Jones.

In addition, during this time, the band's song " Tomorrow " ( originally an instrumental on the B-side of " Get The Funk Out Ma Face ") was recorded with vocals sung by Tevin Campbell for Quincy Jones ' Back on the Block release in 1989.

Prince wrote his first tune, " Funk Machine " on his father's piano when he was seven.

Motown Records ' house band was The Funk Brothers.

From 1909 – 1912, Kilmer was employed by Funk and Wagnalls, which was preparing an edition of The Standard Dictionary that would be published in 1912.

One of the few highlights from this era was when the Target Center served as host of the 1994 All-Star Game where Rider won the Slam Dunk Contest with his between-the-leg " East Bay Funk Dunk ".

* Don Brewer was a member of Grand Funk Railroad.

* Paul E. Funk, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army, Retired, commander of the 3d Armored Division from December 1990 to April 1991, during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Middle East, was born here.

Braddock Hills was the home of Leonard A. Funk, a Medal of Honor recipient.