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Littlejohn may refer to: People * Adrian Littlejohn (born 1970), British footballer * Agnes Littlejohn (1865–1944), Australian writer * Alan Littlejohn (1929–1996), British musician * Charles Littlejohn (1889–1960), New Zealand rower * Charles E. Littlejohn (born 1985), IRS data leaker * Charles Philip Littlejohn (1923–2014), Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives * De Witt Clinton Littlejohn (1818–1892), American politician and Union Army brigadier general * Hawk Littlejohn, (1941–2000), American flute maker whose given name was Larry Snyder * Henry Littlejohn (1826–1914), surgeon and instigator of Public Health concepts in UK * Jack Littlejohn (born 1991), Australian Rugby League player * Jimmy Littlejohn (1910–1989), British sportsman * John Littlejohn (1931–1994), American electric blues slide guitarist * John Littlejohn (preacher) (1756–1836), American preacher and sheriff * Kenneth Littlejohn (born c. 1941), British armed robber and self-proclaim ...
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Jack Littlejohn
Jack Littlejohn (born 8 November 1991) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Salford Red Devils in the Super League. He previously played for the Wests Tigers and the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. He plays as a and . Background Born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Littlejohn played his junior rugby league for the Wagga Wagga Brothers, before being signed by the Sydney Roosters. Playing career Early career In 2010 and 2011, Littlejohn played for the Sydney Roosters' National Youth Competition (rugby league), NYC team, before moving on to the Roosters' New South Wales Cup team, Newtown Jets in 2012. On 30 September 2012, he played in the Jets' 2012 New South Wales Cup#Final Series Chart, 2012 New South Wales Cup Grand Final win over the Balmain Tigers, Balmain Ryde-Eastwood Tigers. In 2013, he joined Randwick DRUFC in the Shute Shield, before joining the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs mid-season and playing for t ...
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Adrian Littlejohn
Adrian Sylvester Littlejohn (born 26 September 1970) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder and a striker. He scored 74 goals in 425 league appearances in an 18-year career in the English Football League. He began his professional career at Walsall after moving from West Bromwich Albion in 1989. He moved on to Sheffield United two years later before making a £100,000 move to Plymouth Argyle in September 1995. He helped Plymouth to win promotion out of the Third Division in 1996 before moving on to Oldham Athletic in March 1998. Eight months later, he was sold on to Bury for £75,000. He returned to Sheffield United in October 2001 before transferring to Port Vale in February 2003. In August 2004, he switched to Lincoln City before ending the season at Rushden & Diamonds. In September 2005, he signed with Mansfield Town before moving on to non-League club Leek Town the following year. He retired in 2008 following a brief spell at Retford United. Playi ...
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Kenneth Littlejohn
Kenneth Littlejohn ( Kenneth Austen; born c. 1941) is a convicted armed robber and gaol-breaker who claimed to be a Secret Intelligence Service/Official IRA double agent. The Littlejohn affair concerned allegations of British espionage and use of agents provocateurs in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles. Beginnings Littlejohn had been dishonourably discharged from the Parachute Regiment. He served three years for robbery before being released from prison in 1968 from which time he worked as a car dealer.Martin Dillon, ''The Dirty War'', pp. 88-89; . In 1970 the Midland Motor Cylinder Company in Smethwick, Birmingham was robbed of £38,000. The wages clerk, Brian Perks, claimed to have been overpowered by an Indian man who then took the money. Perks was Littlejohn's brother-in-law and the police suspected a staged incident involving the two men. Littlejohn claims he went on the run, first to London, where he made contact with a police officer who showed him his arrest ...
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Littlejohn Coliseum
The Littlejohn Coliseum is a 9,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Clemson, South Carolina, United States. It is home to the Clemson University Tigers men's and women's basketball teams. It is also the site of Clemson graduations and the Clemson Career Fair. It is owned and operated by Clemson University and hosts more than 150 events per year including concerts, trade shows, galas, and sporting events. History Littlejohn Coliseum was first opened in 1968. Littlejohn was named after James C. Littlejohn, class of 1908, who was Clemson’s first business manager and was involved in the building of various other athletic projects, such as Memorial Stadium. Along with basketball, the Coliseum has hosted concerts by Rod Stewart, Huey Lewis & The News, John Cougar Mellencamp, Ozzy Osbourne, David Lee Roth, and many others. Renovations were done in the winter of 2002 that saw the Clemson teams play at Civic Center of Anderson for November and December of that year. In 2011, Clems ...
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Littlejohn Vase
The Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase, also known as the Littlejohn Vase, is a trophy in university shinty. It is the second most expensive sporting trophy in Scotland, after the Scottish Cup. The Littlejohn Vase is competed for by university shinty teams on an annual basis, in a one-day event traditionally held at a different university every year, although since 2007 it has been held at St Andrews. The Vase The vase is a facsimile in silver of the Warwick Vase discovered in 1770 and on display at the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. It is held in trust by the Aberdeen University Library. Due to its value a stand in quaich is given to the winning side as insurance costs mean the cup may not leave Aberdeen. In 1905 it was bequeathed to Aberdeen University Shinty Club by Alexander Littlejohn. The vase has been played for since 1905, the year of its bequeathmen The Album Accompanying the trophy is an ornate album which depicts the history of the game of shinty as well as a ...
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Littlejohn Adaptor
The Littlejohn adaptor was a device that could be added to the British QF 2 pounder (40 mm) anti-tank gun. It was used to extend the service life of the 2-pounder during the Second World War by converting it to squeeze bore operation. "Littlejohn" came from the calque In linguistics, a calque () or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language ..., i.e. literal anglicization, of the name of František Janeček, the Czech designer and factory owner who had been working on the squeeze-bore principle in the 1930s, and his son František Karel Janeček, who had brought his know-how to Britain after fleeing from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Design The adaptor took the form of a reducing bore that was screwed on to the end of the gun. This was coupled with a round formed from a hard core ( tungsten) insi ...
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Littlejohn's Tree Frog
Littlejohn's tree frog (''Litoria littlejohni''), also called a heath frog or orange-bellied tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to eastern Australia from Wyong, New South Wales, to Buchan, Victoria. Taxonomy In 2020, following a taxonomic review, the species was split Split(s) or The Split may refer to: Places * Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia * Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay * Split Island, Falkland Islands * Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua Arts, enter ..., with the description of a new species '' Litoria watsoni'' encompassing the southernmost populations. The species was named in honour of Murray Littlejohn (1932–2024). Description This is a medium-sized frog reaching 60 mm (2.4 in) in length. It is normally brown or grey-brown on the dorsal surface with many scattered darker flecks and spots. Often, a faint darker patch runs down the back. A dark line runs from behind the nostril down to the sh ...
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Howard Owen
Howard Owen (born March 1, 1949) is an American author. He is a writer of literary fiction, mystery, and thrillers. He was the winner of the 2012 Hammett Prize awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers. Books by Howard Owen and their reception ''Littlejohn'' (1992) was the first novel by Owen, and he was 40 years old when it was first published by Permanent Press in 1989. It was followed by ''Fat Lightning'' in 1994 and ''Answers to Lucky'' (1996). His fourth novel, ''The Measured Man'', was published in hardcover by HarperCollins in 1997. It was praised in ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Kirkus Reviews'', the ''Raleigh News & Observer'', the ''Orlando Sentinel'', and the ''Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel''. Chosen as one of the Los Angeles Times Book Reviews' "Recommended Titles" for 1997, it was also included in ''The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide''. His fifth novel, ''Harry and Ruth'', was pu ...
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Craig Brown (satirist)
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957) is an English critic and satirist, best known for parliamentary sketch writing, humorous articles and parodies for newspapers and magazines including ''The Times'', the ''Daily Mail'' and ''Private Eye''. Life and career Brown was educated at Eton and the University of Bristol and then became a freelance journalist in London, contributing to '' Harper's & Queen'' (collaborating with Lesley Cunliffe on articles, some of which resulted in books), ''Tatler'', ''The Spectator'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', '' Literary Review'', the ''Evening Standard'' (as a regular columnist), ''The Times'' (notably as parliamentary sketchwriter; these columns were compiled into a book called ''A Life Inside'') and ''The Sunday Times'' (as TV and restaurant critic). He later continued his restaurant column in ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and has contributed a weekly book review to ''The Mail on Sunday''. He created the characters of "Bel Littlej ...
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William Harper Littlejohn
Starting with the first Doc Savage story in 1933 and running throughout the pulp adventures, a group of recurring characters appeared either as Doc's supporting cast or antagonists. B Brigadier General Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks Ham Brooks is one of the characters referred to as "The Fabulous Five", the primary assistants of Doc Savage, and first appears with the full name Theodore Marley Brooks. The character is presented as a Harvard-educated lawyer, holding the military rank of brigadier general, and known as a dandy. He is shown as always carrying a sword cane with a blade coated with a knock-out chemical. He is also shown to love fighting with his friend "Monk" Mayfair. This began during World War I when a practical joke landed Monk in a military jail. Ham had taught Monk some insulting French words, presenting them as compliments. Monk used them while speaking to a French general and got locked in the guardhouse. Shortly after that, Ham was framed for stealing a t ...
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William Still Littlejohn
William Still Littlejohn (19 September 1859 – 7 October 1933) was a Scottish-born schoolteacher who spent most of his working life in New Zealand and Australia. He was headmaster of Nelson College from 1899 to 1903, and of Scotch College, Melbourne from 1904 to 1933. As a cricketer, he played two-first class games for Nelson in 1886. Biography Littlejohn was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Wilson Littlejohn, a watchmaker and jeweller, and his wife Margaret, née Gordon. Educated at the board schools at Alford and Peterhead, and Aberdeen Grammar School, Littlejohn then entered the University of Aberdeen, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1879. He was registered as a teacher in 1879 and taught at Clydesdale College, Hamilton, then tutored privately. Littlejohn's father and brother had emigrated to New Zealand, and in 1881 they obtained nominated passages for the rest of the family. William Littlejohn was mathematics and science master at Nelson Coll ...
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Richard Littlejohn
Richard Littlejohn (born 18 January 1954) is an English author, broadcaster and opinion column writer, having started his career as a journalist. As of May 2023, he writes a twice-weekly column for the ''Daily Mail'' about British affairs. Littlejohn has been a columnist for ''The Sun'', but had written for ''The Spectator'' and the ''London Evening Standard''. Littlejohn earned a place in the inaugural ''Press Gazette'' Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years. He was awarded the title of "Columnist of the Year" at the 1997 British Press Awards. Littlejohn has been criticised for insufficient fact-checking and for alleged anti-gay bigotry. Primarily a newspaper journalist, he has also presented numerous radio and television shows and has authored or co-authored several books. Early life Littlejohn was born in Ilford, Essex in 1954. His family moved to Peterborough when he was five. His father worked as a policeman and later as a m ...
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