Joshua A. Norton - Factbites

Joshua A. Norton - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: Joshua A. Norton

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

Related Topics

Emperor Norton

San Francisco, California

San Fransisco

Emperor

Preamble to the United States Constitution

Emperor of Japan

Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

History of California

Emperor of China

Santa Rosa, California

Colma, California

List of places with fewer than ten people

Sonoma County, California

Cable car on rails

Palpatine

	Encyclopedia of San Francisco
		Joshua Abraham Norton was born in Priorslee (now Telford), Shropshire, England (147 miles northwest of London) on January 17, 1811, the second of nine children for John and Sarah Norton.
		Norton would take their help of the occasional 50 cent piece, but to save face, he simply referred to it as a tax, and recorded his tax collections in a notebook.
		Norton became enraged, and broke his walking stick on the window of a stationery store in which the picture was displayed.
	www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/n/nortonJoshua.html (3895 words)

	Joshua A. Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norton was magnanimous enough to grant an "Imperial Pardon" to the errant young police officer who had committed the (perceived) act of treason.
		Norton's battle against the elected leaders of America was to persist throughout his "reign", though it appears that Norton eventually, if somewhat grudgingly, accepted that Congress would continue to exist without his permission.
		Norton's funeral was a solemn, mournful and large affair, some accounts report that as many as 30,000 people lined the streets to pay homage and that the funeral cortege was two miles long.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_A._Norton (3895 words)

	IMX v. 1.2
		Joshua Abraham Norton was born to John and Sarah Norton in Deptford, London.
		One of the most notable characters in San Francisco’s history has to be that of Joshua Abraham Norton, also known as Norton I or Emperor Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
		Norton only asked money from the wealthy storeowners that could afford his tax, and most likely, the tax was justified seeing as though, he was used as a tourist attraction.
	imx.whiteh0use.net /writings/norton.htm (3895 words)

	Emperor Norton
		Born Joshua A. Norton, he was adopted by the citizens of the city and issued frequent imperial proclamations.
		"Emperor" Norton was equal parts Andy Kaufman and Mark Twain, a shambling clown of a public figure who fed tabloid writers daily material in their columns devoted to "weird news" and eccentric personalities about town.
		Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dead in San Francisco.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/royalty/america/emperor-norton (3895 words)

	Emperor Norton I
		Joshua Abraham Norton, the future Emperor of the United States and Protector of All Mexico, was born in 1819 in Britain.
		Establishments that had earned the favor of his patronage were permitted to hang a sign on the wall, "By Appointment to His Emperor, Joshua Norton I," a sign that proclaimed to one and all that the establishment upheld the high standards of royalty.
		Joshua Norton made a fortune buying and selling commodities in the busy port, but his attempt to corner the rice market failed and rendered him penniless.
	www.macreativedesign.com /norton/norton.htm (3895 words)

	Norton I, Emperor of the United States
		Joshua A. Norton returned to San Francisco not as a bankrupt merchant, but as none other than the Emperor of the United States, and announced his rule by issuing an official proclamation.
		Norton was pestered at times with a few teasing hecklers, but on the whole the citizens of San Francisco adopted the eccentric ex-merchant and actually afforded him the royal treatment he commanded.
		Norton looked and acted every inch a king, even if at times his royal outfit was ill fitting and a little worse for wear.
	www.molossia.org /norton.html (3895 words)

	norton-drury.txt
		For twenty years Joshua Norton had trudged the city's sloping streets in broken boots and comic- opera uniform, a sword at his belt and a ridiculous hackle of peacock feathers and rooster quills in his hat, God's fool in tatters and tinsel, utterly convinced that he was destiny's choice to rule an American empire.
		Joshua Norton moved from James Lick's portable to No. 110 Battery Street, a substantial granite building that housed the offices of some of the most influential men in the state, men of the stamp of Sir William Lane Booker, the British consul, whose immense wealth came from his New Almaden quicksilver mine near San Jose.
		Joshua Norton, who had been a vigilante in 1851 (albeit a reluctant one), took no part in this second rebellion, for by then he was well on his way to madness and so perhaps had more sense.
	www.emperornorton.net /norton-drury.txt (3895 words)

	American Coinage During The Reign Of Norton I of California: The Only Emperor of the United States
		Joshua Abraham Norton was born in London, England, in 1818, to John and Sarah Norton.
		Joshua Norton was not the only American to feel a monetary crisis.
		Joshua's manipulations were a complete and dismal failure, as several settlements were brought before him in court.
	www.pcgs.com /articles/article1260.chtml (3895 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Joshua Abraham Norton
		The self-declared "Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico," Joshua Abraham Norton was one of the most picturesque figures in California history.
		At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of the United States, I, Joshua Norton, declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these United States.
		Norton was born in 1818 or 1819 in London, England, but was taken almost immediately to South Africa, where his parents had decided to move to seek their fortune.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/norton.htm (3895 words)

	Download Free MP3 Files - Emperor Norton
		Norton I Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico (Joshua A. Norton, 18191880) by Robert Ernest Cowan Emperor Norton Image Gallery Locallycached web pages about Norton I Books which may be of...
		He was Joshua Abraham Norton, alias Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America Joshua had been born in 1819, in London, on...
		His new granite tombstone was engraved Norton I, Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico, Joshua A. Norton, 18191880.
	www.download-free-mp3-files.com /mp3/emperor_norton.html (3895 words)

	010826pia_t.htm
		Joshua Norton no longer was the same man. Most of his friends believed the shock of losing all his money had taken away his ability to reason and to live in the real world.
		Poor Joshua Norton was not dangerous or violent, but he no longer knew what was real and what was only imaginary.
		The writing on the stone says in large letters, "NORTON THE FIRST, - EMPEROR OF THE UNITED STATES AND PROTECTOR OF MEXICO." Under this, in smaller size letters, is, "Joshua A. Norton Born in Eighteen-Nineteen.
	www.manythings.org /voa/01/010826pia_t.htm (3895 words)

	Emperor Norton's name may yet span the bay / S.F. supervisors endorse plan to rechristen Bay Bridge after 19th century eccentric
		Joshua Abraham Norton -- who, according to his Chronicle obituary, hailed from Scotland -- was a businessman who came to San Francisco by way of South Africa in 1849 to try his luck in the Gold Rush.
		Another of Norton's noted proclamations decreed that "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word 'Frisco,' which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor." The penalty: $25.
		According to the Emperor Norton Bridge Committee -- whose membership counts a number of historians -- the naming of the bridge is unrelated to the controversy surrounding the cost and design of the seismic retrofit of the bridge's eastern span.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/15/MNGUMAC6LN1.DTL (3895 words)

	Norton - Indian Trust - Cobell v. Norton
		Norton AntiVirus is the elder statesman of the virus-busting world, boasting a long and glorious pedigree.
		Norton against a taxpayer-funded brochure produced by Interior Secretary Gale Norton.
		The Laird Norton Foundation held a Board Retreat in the Fall of 2003.
	norton-antivirus.yoursuperengine.com /q/norton-antivirus-norton.htm (526 words)

	Emperor Joshua Norton I
		Gregory Hill (better known by his Discordian Holy Name, Malaclypse the Younger) has since become the world's foremost authority on Joshua A. Norton who, on September 17th of 1859, crowned Himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
		teeth in them requiring all people of all faiths -- especially Christians and especially on Sunday -- to live as Joshua A. Norton did.
		She assured us that She did and gave His name as Emperor Norton I -- whom we assumed was probably some Byzantine ruler of Constantinople.
	jubal.westnet.com /hyperdiscordia/emperor_norton.html (526 words)

	Joshua Norton, An Interesting Character
		Joshua Abraham Norton was born in London in 1819, and migrated to South Africa two years later, where he lived until his father’s death.
		When he died in 1880, Norton I, as the townspeople called him, had 10,000 mourners at his funeral.
		The ad read, “At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of citizens of these United States, I Joshua North, declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these United States.”
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/25073 (526 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A Rush of Dreamers : Being the Remarkable Story of Joshua Norton Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
		While Joshua Norton, aka Emperor Norton I is an incredible character, not just in San Francisco, California or Gold Rush lore, but in Americana, this book is only margainally about him.
		Because it is not just "the Remarkable Story of Joshua Norton Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico." It is other things and about other people.
		Norton the First was respected, he was listened to, and his moral example was followed- there are many called "Emperor" that could not claim this much.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1569247757?v=glance (526 words)

	strip mining for whimsy: gah-ritty.
		When Sarah Vowell wants to talk about her relationship to civics, she can talk about Abraham Lincoln and the construction paper and everyone goes, "ah." The image itself conveys layers of meaning; the contrast between the simplistic iconography of the hat and the fake beard versus the complex prose of Lincoln's Address.
		They had that in common with their classmates, and it seemed to make all the difference in terms of helping them gain (or maintain) acceptance.
	www.noematic.org /mine/archives/011331.html (526 words)

	Joshua A. Norton - encyclopaedia
		Joshua Abraham Norton (Emperor Norton I) Eccentric resident of San Francisco who proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States
		The Madness of Norton I Pages 1 -2 -3
		That all deeds by the Washington Government since the establishment of our Empire are hereby decreed null and void unless our Imperial signature is first obtained thereto.
	www.askquote.com /Joshua_A._Norton.html (526 words)

	King God's Character December 21, 2000 The Bible Minute
		To be a king you must have authority--something Joshua Abraham Norton lacked.
		But Joshua Abraham Norton wasn't your usual king.
		When he arrived in San Francisco during the height of America's Gold Rush, Norton claimed to be "The Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico." No one took him seriously...but everyone liked him just the same.
	www.backtothebible.org /minute/printer.htm/19690 (526 words)

	Dig deeper into Emperor Norton - Download Free MP3 Files provides answers
		Joshua Norton Emperor Norton I of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico San Francisco eccentric individualist Joshua Norton Emperor Norton I of the United States of America and Protector...
		Norton I Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico (Joshua A. Norton, 18191880) by Robert Ernest Cowan Emperor Norton Image Gallery Locallycached web pages about Norton I Books which may be of...
		The Imperial Government of Emperor Norton1, in Faith and Honor on the...
	www.download-free-mp3-files.com /mp3/emperor_norton.html (526 words)

	strip mining for whimsy
		Posted by order of Joshua Norton II, Emperor of The United States and Protector of Mexico in the PM Observations (3) This entry is all about the current events
		Posted by order of Joshua Norton II, Emperor of The United States and Protector of Mexico in the PM Observations (1) This entry is all about the current events
		JOSHUA: Hi, I'm Joshua, I work at the OA, and I was just noticing that Safe Harbors is an SQL database with a Delphi-mediated interface.
	www.noematic.org /mine (10290 words)

	Catallaxy Files
		Maxwell provides the fairest, most eloquent exposition of the Southern point of view ever presented on film—and yet as counterpoint we have always Joshua Chamberlain, the fighting scholar of the 20th Maine and the conscience of the movie, reminding us that black-skinned Americans are being held as chattel.
		Maxwell follows four of the war’s best officers—Confederates Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and Joshua Chamberlain and Winfield Scott Hancock of the Union army—through three battles leading up to Gettysburg: First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
		His focus settles on Jackson, seemingly the most forbidding of the quartet, a strange, distant, severely religious lemon-sucking man of the western Virginia mountains...
	catallaxyfiles.blogspot.com /2003_02_02_catallaxyfiles_archive.html (10290 words)

	Joshua A. Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norton's early work at promoting a bridge between San Francisco and Oakland was commemorated on Tuesday, December 14th, 2004, when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution calling for the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to be named after Norton.
		Norton was magnanimous enough to grant an "Imperial Pardon" to the errant young police officer who had committed the (perceived) act of treason.
		During one such incident, Norton is alleged to have positioned himself between the rioters and their Chinese targets, and with a bowed head began to recite the Lord's Prayer repeatedly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_A._Norton (4279 words)

	Emperor Norton
		Joshua Norton, or as he preferred to be called, Norton I, proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1859.
		Norton I, Emperor of the United States by William Drury (1986) Dodd, Mead and Co. Inc.
		Although a charlatan, Norton I was so beloved that 30,000 people turned out for his funeral in 1880.
	www.knauer.org /mike/discordia/norton.php (740 words)

	Emperor Norton's Encyclopedia of Random Information
		In San Francisco, on September 17th, 1859, Joshua Abraham Norton proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico, and prospective consort to the Queen of Great Britain.
		He became a respected, even revered, public figure.
		If you ever had stilts as a child, or if you have children or grandchildren, you simply MUST visit this site:
	www.emperor-norton.com (167 words)

	Joshua A. Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parish records from the chapelry of Priors-Lee (now Telford) in the parish of Shifnal show that a "Joshua Norton" was born on January 17, 1811 to John and Sarah Norton, and was baptized less than a month later on February 20 in Shropshire.
		Norton's early work at promoting a bridge between San Francisco and Oakland was commemorated on Tuesday, December 14th, 2004, when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution calling for the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to be named after Norton.
		In 1934, Norton's remains were transferred, again at the expense of the City of San Francisco, to a gravesite of moderate splendor at Woodlawn Cemetery, in Colma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_A._Norton (167 words)

	Norton article - Norton United Kingdom England Norton, Hertfordshire Wales Norton, Stockton - What-Means.com
		In addition, there was Joshua A. Norton, known as "Emperor Norton I," who declared himself Emperor of the United States of America.
		Norton is a city in the African nation of Zimbabwe; see Norton, Zimbabwe.
		Norton is also the name of a British motorcycle manufacturer.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Norton (166 words)

	Norton article - Norton United Kingdom England Norton, Hertfordshire Wales Norton, Stockton - What-Means.com
		In addition, there was Joshua A. Norton, known as "Emperor Norton I," who declared himself Emperor of the United States of America.
		Norton is a city in the African nation of Zimbabwe; see Norton, Zimbabwe.
		Norton is also the name of a British motorcycle manufacturer.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Norton (166 words)

	ASM Membership
		Joshua Lederberg and Norton Zinder report on transduction, or transfer of genetic information by viruses.
		Joshua Lederberg and Esther Lederberg publish their replica plating method and provide firm evidence that mutations in bacteria yielding resistance to antibiotics and viruses are not induced by the presence of selective agents.
		Joshua Lederberg uses the term plasmid to describe extranuclear genetic elements that replicate autonomously.
	www.asm.org /MemberShip/index.asp?bid=17447 (166 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: Joshua A. Norton

Ads by Google

Related Topics