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	John Foster Dulles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Foster Dulles (February 2, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from (1953 - 1959).
		Both his grandfather John W. Foster and his uncle Robert Lansing served as Secretary of State.
		Carol Burnett first rose to prominence in the 1950s singing a novelty song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles"; more recently, Gil Scott Heron commented "John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now" in the song "B-Movie".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Foster_Dulles (915 words)

	John Wesley Foster
		John Wesley Foster was born in Winston County, Mississippi, son of Asa Foster and Sarah Hyde Foster.
		John Foster and three of his brothers, seeing that relatives were so numerous in the area of Mississippi they lived, decided moving away was a better plan for their children.
		John's daughter lived in a house of her own on the same property his home was on and, as time went on, that house too was torn down.
	www.angelfire.com /la2/johnwesleyfoster (3481 words)

	General John G. Foster - Likeness of New Hampshire War Heroes & Personages
		Foster participated in all the North Carolina battles while in command of the department; July 18, 1863 he was breveted a major general of United States Volunteers.
		Foster was in command when the garrison at Fort Moultrie was transferred to Fort Sumter, and he was second in command when Sumter was bombarded.
		Foster was present when the fort surrendered and was evacuated (April 12 - 14, 1861); he was breveted major for his gallantry.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/warheroes/fosterj.html (598 words)

	JOHN FOSTER - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN FOSTER
		The small income accruing to Fosters parents from their farm they supplemented by weaving, and at an early age he began to assist them by spinning wool by the hand wheel, and from his fourteenth year by weaving double stuffs.
		The cast of Fosters mind was meditative and reflective rather than logical or metaphysical, and though holding moderately Calvinistic views, his language even in preaching very seldom took the mould of theological forms.
		Though always retaining his connection with the Baptist denomination, the evils resulting from organized religious communities seemed to him so great that he came to be strongly of opinion that churches are useless and mischievous institutions, and the sooner they are dissolved the better.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOSTER_JOHN.htm (900 words)

	J.S. Foster
		JOHN S. FOSTER, Honorary President of the World Energy Council and a former President of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, was born in Halifax, N.S. in 1921.
		John Foster was proud to say that he, like his wife, came from Nova Scotian families, which had roots in the New World that reached back three hundred years.
		Foster’s career with the nuclear industry commenced in 1953 when he assisted with the rehabilitation of the NRX reactor at Chalk River, and at the beginning of 1954 he became one of the members of the Nuclear Power Group that produced the feasibility study on the practicality of a heavy water-moderated reactor for power generation.
	www.cns-snc.ca /history/pioneers/john_foster/johnfoster.html (1014 words)

	John Foster McCreight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Foster McCreight (Caledone, County Tyrone 1827 – November 18, 1913 Hastings) was the first elected premier of British Columbia after it joined Canadian confederation in 1871.
		He had previously served as a judge on the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Foster_McCreight (83 words)

	John Foster
		Few veterans have as complete a record of their time in the service as John Foster of Lebanon, Pa. But then few veterans went into the service under the same circumstances.
		Foster was assigned to the Shipping and Receiving Section and worked as a dock master supervising the unloading of food and other supplies from ships and then loading them onto box cars for shipment throughout the island.
		Foster says, "We soon learned that the people were sick and tired of the war and just wanted it over." The city had been fire bombed twice and was largely in ruins.
	home.comcast.net /~pa_veterans/foster.html (1139 words)

	JOHN GRAY FOSTER, USA
		John Gray Foster was born on May 27, 1823, in Whitefield, New Hampshire.
		Foster was made military governor of New Berne and its vicinity; and, in July, was placed in command of a division and the Department of North Carolina (with the Department of Virginia added later).
		Foster had to leave the Army of the Ohio when he was injured by falling from a horse.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAFoster.html (348 words)

	John Foster of England Limited
		John Foster would buy yarns and distribute it from a warehouse at the back of Prospect House, at the junction of the Keighley-Brighouse and Bradford-Halifax roads, to the hand-loom weavers who then brought in their woven pieces.
		Today John Foster still produces some of the worlds finest Worsted and Mohair cloths and has gained a worldwide reputation for quality, some 70% is exported directly or indirectly to numerous countries around the world with the Japanese and Far East markets pre-eminent.
		By 1851 Black Dyke Mills was dominating the landscape and at the Great Exhibition John Foster took first prize for alpaca, with which he had been experimenting with since 1837, and for mohair fabrics, and the gold medal for yarns.
	www.john-foster.co.uk /history.htm (634 words)

	Church History: Clackamas County, Oregon
		John Foster was postmaster at Clackemas (rather than Clackamas), a post office on, or very close to, the properties of the Foster clan.
		John was born in South Carolina in 1792 and had moved to Scott County, Kentucky by 1814 where he was married.
		John T. and Adaline are listed among the 1856 charter members of the Mill Creek Church in Marion County.
	ncbible.org /nwh/orhistdd.html (3051 words)

	WD63919: Pamela S. Foster, Respondent, v. John C. Foster, Appellant.
		Foster appeals, contending that the court erred in proceeding with trial, in awarding child custody and in distributing the marital property.
		Foster further informed the trial court that his doctors had scheduled a test that coincided with the first day of trial to diagnose a complication "of a somewhat urgent nature." Satisfied that Mr.
		Foster was neglecting the marital home by allowing other people to live there and by failing to make mortgage payments, thereby risking foreclosure.
	www.osca.state.mo.us /courts/pubopinions.nsf/ccd96539c3fb13ce8625661f004bc7da/51ac2bf9179d5fe586256f5400604ec8?OpenDocument (3074 words)

	John Hinckley Foster's Home
		Foster was constant ly tormented by the idea that his two names, his existence, had somehow contributed to John Hinckley's dangerous fascination with actress Jodie Foster.
		John Hinckley Foster was born, as far as these things can be assessed, in 1963, in Wilkes-Barre, Penn..
		Years later, Foster reappeared as the frontman of a band called "Lovedeath", which was the first band to come out of the influential "Misery Rock" move ment of the late 1990's in New York's East Village.
	www.echonyc.com /~mono (346 words)

	John Bellamy Foster on the Marx-Liebeg connection (by L. Proyect)
		John Bellamy Foster has been doing some very interesting research into the question of whether Marx was an ecological thinker.
		Finally, there are people like Michael Perelman and John Foster who make the case that the ecological dimension to Marx's thought is central.
		Foster has come up with some very interesting insights into the rather explicit concern that Marx had with the central ecological crisis of the 19th century: soil fertility.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/foster_liebeg.htm (1405 words)

	Foster's in Dekalb County, Tennessee
		John Foster was born 1689 in Gloucester Co. just before his family moved to Essex Co., Virginia.
		If the Joel Foster enumerated in the Federal census of 1790 in Newberry District, South Carolina, was the son of Anthony Foster, he was the Father of Eleven children and moved to Mississippi in the early 1830's.
		John Married Isabella Golding about 1713 in Essex Co. The known children of John and Isabella are Sarah, John Jr., Thomas, Philadelphia, and Anthony.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ranch/3627 (655 words)

	John Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Foster (1786- 26 September 1846) was a British architect.
		Notable buildings Foster designed include The Oratory and Gambier Terrace.
		This article about an architect is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Foster (65 words)

	Dr. John W. Foster
		John W. Foster, Professor, received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Hahnemann University College of Medicine (now part of Drexel University) in Philadelphia in 1979 and carried out his postdoctoral studies at Georgetown University.
		Foster was honored in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges in 1978 and was named 1994 Alumnus of the year.
		As of 2001, Dr. Foster has mentored 13 doctoral students and 16 post-doctoral fellows in studies revealing the molecular strategies used by bacterial pathogens to survive stress.
	www.southalabama.edu /microbiology/foster.html (530 words)

	Descendants of JOHN FOSTER
		John Foster lived in Newton Purcell, where he was a member of the Newton Purcell Parish.
		John was a Minister, chemist, and grocer in Luton, England.
		John and his family emigrated to the United States in 1861 before the Civil War.
	home.earthlink.net /~lisalm2/foster2.htm (1740 words)

	John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
		At the end of 1953, John Foster Dulles had said, quite pointedly, that the U.S. would be forced to make an "agonizing reappraisal" of its relations with France, of its policy toward Europe if EDC failed of ratification.
		Foster was graduated from Princeton in 1908 as valedictorian of his class, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a $600 scholarship for a year's study at the Sorbonne in Paris.
		Grandfather Foster would argue the case for the Boers and Uncle Bert the case for the British in the Boer War.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jfdulles.htm (7989 words)

	Read about John Foster Dulles at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research John Foster Dulles and learn about John Foster Dulles here!
		Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he is the namesake for both the Washington Dulles International Airport (located in Dulles, Virginia) and John Foster Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas), a former Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a founding member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).
		Gil Scott Heron commented "John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now" in the song "B-Movie".
		John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/John_Foster_Dulles (750 words)

	Foster, John Watson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Foster practiced law (1857–61) at Evansville, Ind., and then served (1861–65) with the Union army in the Civil War.
		Pike co., Ind.; grandfather of John Foster Dulles.
		The U.S. minister to Mexico (1873–80), to Russia (1880–81), and to Spain (1883–85), Foster was (1892–93) Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fo/Foster-J.html (164 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Gray Foster
		When the Civil War broke out Foster was in command at Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbour, and during the night of 26 December, 1860, succeeded in transferring the garrison under his command to Fort Sumter, in the subsequent defence of which he took so conspicuous a part as to earn the brevet rank of major.
		A service on the Coast Survey, 1852-54, brought him promotion to a first lieutenancy and assignment as assistant professor of engineering at West Point, where he was stationed from 1855 to 1857.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06155b.htm (359 words)

	First 100 Years of Printing in British N. America
		John Foster, a young Harvard graduate who was well known to the press licensers and generally esteemed for his ability as a Cunning Artificer, became the first Boston printer.
		John Dunton, the British bookseller, who had enough American trade in 1686 to be owed £500 there, did a brisk further business when he came over with a large stock of books that year.
		In 1686 the London printers John Allen and Benjamin Harris arrived on the scene, both having steered too close to the wrong political persuasion during the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion; their ventures to Massachusetts were probably prompted as much by self-preservation as expectations for a better market.
	www.reeseco.com /papers/first100.htm (11531 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Foster Dulles (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Washington, D.C.; grandson of John Watson Foster, Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison, and nephew of Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.
		John Foster Dulles 1888–1959, U.S. Secretary of State (1953–59), b.
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > U.S. History, Biographies > John Foster Dulles
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dulles-J.html (421 words)

	John Foster / FairbanksRisen.Com
		John Foster Is The Author Of "Fairbanks Risen."
	www.fairbanksrisen.com (8 words)

	John Foster of England Limited
		In 1819 John Foster began his venture which resulted in the creation of the John Foster company and the building of the Black Dyke Mills at Queensbury Bradford in West Yorkshire, an area which is renown for textile manufacture.
		The success of John Foster can be attributed to the use of the finest raw materials and the dedication of the workforce who understand the importance of the manufacture of a quality product.
		All the fabrics are manufactured within West Yorkshire by the best processors avaiable,always under the control of John Foster, all stages of production being carefully monitored to achieve a product that is both desirable and attractive to tailors and garment makers alike.
	www.john-foster.co.uk (254 words)

	20kWeb: ALIEN ABDUCTION: John Foster Case
		Foster said there are four witnesses who can recall parts of at least three of his encounters.
		"Foster said that to document his experiences, he has made several drawings and paintings.
		The woman spoke to him in almost a scolding tone, saying that from then on he would be a good boy and mind his parents, he said.
	www.20kweb.com /weird_stuff/john_foster_case.html (1180 words)

	John Foster McCreight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable John Foster McCreight (1827–November 18, 1913) was a jurist and the first Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
		John Foster McCreight as Justice of the Supreme Court
		At the time of McCreight's arrival in Victoria in 1860, it was the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island, which at the time was governed by the powerful and autocratic Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir James Douglas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Foster_McCreight (526 words)

	John Foster Dulles -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House.
		Its purpose was to foster a system of mutual support to protect Southeast Asia against Communist expansion.
		John F. Kennedy is still considered one of the most popular U.S. presidents.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031415?&query=john (779 words)

	Ecology Against Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster
		Foster's introduction sets out the unifying themes of these essays to present a consolidated approach to a rapidly-expanding field of debate which is of critical importance in our time.
		In a broad-ranging treatment of contemporary ecological politics, Foster deals with such issues as pollution, sustainable development, technological responses to environmental crisis, population growth, soil fertility, the preservation of ancient forests, and the "new economy" of the Internet age.
		In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology.
	www.monthlyreview.org /ecologyvcap.htm (438 words)

	CNN Cold War - Profile: John Foster Dulles
		Born in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 1888, John Foster Dulles -- son of a Presbyterian minister and grandson of a former secretary of state -- enjoyed a privileged youth.
		CNN Cold War - Profile: John Foster Dulles
		He studied at Princeton, and before graduating in 1908 got his first taste of international politics when his grandfather brought him along to the Hague Peace Conference of 1907.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/foster.dulles (453 words)

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