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| Bradford Forster Square railway station |
Bradford Forster Square railway station is a railway station in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The majority of services to/from the station use Class 333 electrified trains operated by Northern Rail, on the Airedale Line to Skipton, the Wharfedale Line to Ilkley and the Leeds-Bradford Line to Leeds. Up to three services each day are operated by GNER to London King's Cross. (references) |
| Eckart Forster |
Eckart Förster is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in German and the Humanities Center. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). Förster received his B.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He previously taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Munich, and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Porto Alegre (Brazil), and at Ohio State. He has held an ACLS fellowship and spent 1987-88 as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. He is a member of the Kant Kommission of the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science, and of the Schelling and Jacobi Kommissionen of the Bavarian Academy of Science. He has published widely on Kant and German Idealism, especially on Kant's Opus postumum, and is the author, most recently, of Kant's Final Synthesis (Harvard UP, 2000). Other current research interests include Goethe's philosophy of science, the Pythagorean tradition, and Hölderlin. (references) |
| Fuhrman and Forster Company |
The Fuhrman and Forster Company was a meatpacking and sausage manufacturing company located in Chicago. It was founded by three German immigrants from Bavaria. John and Andrew Fuhrman started the Fuhrman Brothers meat market at 408 W. Harrison in Chicago in 1897 and invited brother-in-law George Forster to join them in 1898 creating Fuhrman Bros. and Forster Meat Markets. The name was soon changed to the Fuhrman and Forster Co. By 1902, they operated 5 meat markets in the Pilsen neighborhood area of Chicago. This neighborhood was largely populated by Czechoslovakian and Bohemian immigrants who were very fond of Fuhrman and Forster products. (references) |
| Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster of Lepe |
Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster of Lepe (31 January 1866 - 15 January 1936) PC, seventh Governor-General of Australia, was born in Kent, England, the son of an Army officer. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and married Rachel Montague in 1890. They had two sons, who were both killed in the First World War. He was a first-class cricketer and served as president of the Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the most prestigious posts of the English establishment. He was also keen on yachting and horse-racing. (references) |
| Johann Reinhold Forster |
Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 - December 9, 1798) was a Polish born naturalist of German descent. (references) |
| John Cooper Forster |
John Cooper Forster (1823 - March 2, 1886) was a British surgeon. (references) |
| John Forster |
John Forster (April 2, 1812 - February 2, 1876), was an English biographer and critic. (references) |
| John Forster (Chief Justice) |
John Forster (1667-1720) was an Irish lawyer. (references) |
| John Wycliffe Lowes Forster |
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster (31 December, 1850 - 24 April 1938) was a Canadian artist specializing in portraits, particularly those relating to Canadian history. Much of his work can be found at the National Gallery of Canada. (references) |
| Matthew Forster Heddle |
Matthew Forster Heddle (April 28, 1828 - November 19, 1897), Scottish mineralogist, was born at Hoy in Orkney. (references) |
| Nicky Forster |
Nicky Forster (b. 8 September, 1973) is an English footballer. He was signed from Reading on a free transfer in 2005 by Ipswich Town. He is a striker with over 80 goals to his name. (references) |
| Robert Forster |
Robert Forster (born July 13, 1941 in Rochester, New York) is an American actor. (references) |
| William Edward Forster |
William Edward Forster (July 11, 1818 - April 6, 1886), British statesman, was born of Quaker parents at Bradpole in Dorsetshire. (references) |
| William Forster |
William Forster (Born Madras October 16, 1818; Died Edgecliff, October 30, 1882}. Premier of New South WalesOctober 27, 1859 to March 9, 1860. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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