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John and Wanamaker
It starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike, Neve McIntosh as Fuchsia, June Brown as Nannie Slagg, Ian Richardson as Lord Groan, Christopher Lee as Flay, Richard Griffiths as Swelter, Warren Mitchell as Barquentine, Celia Imrie as Countess Gertrude, Lynsey Baxter and Zoë Wanamaker as the twins, Cora and Clarice, and John Sessions as Dr Prunesquallor.
* December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman ( b. 1838 )
After the fair, it was placed into storage, and eventually purchased by John Wanamaker for his new Wanamaker's store in Philadelphia.
The great organ in Festival Hall eventually became the nucleus of the Wanamaker Organ in John Wanamaker's palatial Philadelphia department store, where a famous bronze eagle from the German exhibits is also displayed in the Grand Court.
* Information on the great pipe organ in Festival Hall that was installed in the John Wanamaker department Store in Philadelphia.
* Lindenhurst, the estate of John Wanamaker
There he interviewed many important people including John Wanamaker.
George " Florida " Roberts was a fishing guide for figures such as land developer Walter Fuller, Cecil B. Detre, and John Wanamaker.
" might be the origin of the common Marketing quote " I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half ", falsely attributed to John Wanamaker.
* John Wanamaker ( 1838 – 1922 ), retailer.
* John Wanamaker ( 1838 – 1922 ), retailer who spent many summers at his cottage at the beach.
Cheltenham also served as the home of some of the wealthiest people in the history of the United States, most notably, John Wanamaker, Peter Widener, William Lukens Elkins, John B. Stetson, Henry W. Breyer, Jr., Cyrus H. K.
Postmaster General John Wanamaker officially changed the name of the town in the 1880s to Hatboro.
The sponsorship of an American transcontinental tour by the John Wanamaker department store interests rocketed his name into international prominence.
John Wanamaker ( July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922 ) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising and a " pioneer in marketing.
In 1869, he opened his second store at 818 Chestnut Street and capitalizing on his own name ( due the untimely death of his brother-in-law ), and growing reputation, renamed the company John Wanamaker & Co.
In 1875 he purchased an abandoned railroad depot and converted it into a large store, called John Wanamaker & Co. " The Grand Depot ".
In 1860 John Wanamaker married Mary Erringer Brown ( 1839 – 1920 ).
John Wanamaker's son Thomas B. Wanamaker, who specialized in store financial matters, purchased a Philadelphia newspaper called The North American in 1899 and irritated his father by giving regular columns to radical intellectuals such as single-taxer Henry George, Jr., socialist Henry John Nelson ( who later became Emma Goldman's lawyer ), and socialist Caroline H. Pemberton.
John Wanamaker opened his first New York store in New York City in 1896, continuing a mercantile business originally started by Alexander Turney Stewart, and continued to expand his business abroad with the European Houses of Wanamaker in London and Paris.
Philadelphia's John Wanamaker performed a 19th century redevelopment to the former Pennsylvania Railroad terminal in that city and eventually opened a modern-day department store in the building.
John Wanamaker, Philadelphia Merchant.

John and Triumph
* Dean Jobb, The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 ( published in Canada as The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph )
* A Triumph of Roses ( 1986 ) about William fitzWilliam Marshal and Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of King John and sister of King Henry III
Steve Paikin wrote a biography, Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts ( Viking, 2005 ).
" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".
* Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, by John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, W. W. Newton & Company, 2nd edition 1995 ISBN 0-393-03697-9
* John Earl Haynes, " Hellman and the Hollywood Inquisition: The Triumph of Spin-Control over Candour ," Film History, Vol.
The term was first coined by John Krafcik in his 1988 article, " Triumph of the Lean Production System ," based on his master's thesis at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
* Miller, John C. Triumph of Freedom, 1775-1783 ( 1948 ) online edition
* John Hughes-The Triumph of Peace
These include Quintin Massys ’ Ecce Homo, Barend van Orley's Holy Family, Christ between the Virgin and Saint John by Gossaert and two works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the key work The Triumph of Death and The wine of Saint Martin's Day, discovered and acquired in 2010.
Triumph's then-chairman, John Rosamond, in his book Save The Triumph Bonneville!
That he carried on the business of a draper, or had some connection with the trade as late as 1613, may be gathered from the following passage at the close of The Triumphs of Truth, the city pageant for that year, by Thomas Middleton: " The fire-work being made by Maister Humphrey Nichols, a man excellent in his art ; and the whole work and body of the Triumph, with all the proper beauties of the workmanship, most artfully and faithfully performed by John Grinkin ; and those furnished with apparel and porters by Anthony Munday, Gentleman.
After a " considerable argument " between Standard-Triumph Managing Director, Sir John Black, and William Lyons, the creator and owner of Jaguar, Black's objective in acquiring the rights to the name and the remnants of the bankrupt Triumph business was to build a car to compete with the soon-to-be-launched post-war Jaguars.
The same engine was used for the 1800 Town and Country saloon, later named the Triumph Renown, which was notable for the styling chosen by Standard-Triumph's managing director Sir John Black.
Of greater significance was, in 1945, the purchase arranged by Sir John Black for £ 75, 000 of the Triumph Motor Company, which had gone into receivership in 1939.
When Triumph went into receivership in 1983, John Bloor, a former plasterer become wealthy English property developer and builder, became interested in keeping the brand name active, and bought the name and manufacturing rights from the Official Receiver.
* Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts ( Viking, 2005 )
In November 2003, in the early days of the 2004 U. S. presidential primary campaign, Triumph was the " lead guest " on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno the same night that Democratic candidate John Kerry also appeared on the show.
In October 2008, Triumph made an appearance at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY during the final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.
* Robert Sobel The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition ( Weybright & Talley 1974 ), chapter 3, John Wanamaker: The Triumph of Content Over Form ISBN 0-679-40064-8
* Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, by John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, W. W. Newton & Company, 2nd edition 1995 ISBN 0-393-03697-9
* Miller, John C. Triumph of Freedom, 1775-1783, ( 1948 ) online version
Triumph insulted and mocked representatives from both political parties, including Crossfire's Paul Begala, who was supporting John Kerry.

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