Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880) was a resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 declared himself "Emperor of these...
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makes a half-attempt to drive him insane; and Desire, who uses the King of Pain to tempt him with a real palace and a Queen. In the end, Joshua Norton lives...
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The Emperor Norton Trust is a nonprofit whose mission is to honor the life and advance the legacy of Joshua Abraham Norton (1818–1880), better known as...
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Translation, CQ and The Virgin Suicides. The company was named after Joshua A. Norton, a San Francisco citizen noted for proclaiming himself Emperor of the...
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Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880), known as Norton I or Emperor Norton, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco who in 1859...
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Bummer and Lazarus (section Emperor Norton)
the eccentric Joshua A. Norton, and a popular legend made him their owner. However, no contemporary records make any mention of Norton being the owner...
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and believed himself to be George Washington. For a time he was as popular a figure as Joshua A. Norton, the "Emperor of the United States and Protector...
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teacher and writer Joshua A. Lowell (1801–1874), American politician Joshua Millner (1849–1931), Irish Olympic shooter Joshua Abraham Norton (1818–1880), "Emperor...
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Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and His Imperial Majesty Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico". These fanciful...
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The Graham Norton Show is a British comedy chat show broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It was shown on BBC Two from February 2007 to May 2009...
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closed-world assumption (CWA), in a formal system of logic used for knowledge representation, is the presumption that a statement that is true is also known...
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Norton (Joshua A. Norton) (c. 1819 – 1880), self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States Judy Norton Taylor (born 1958), American actress Keith Norton (1941–2010)...
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Stewart, Sydney R.; Hollifield, Ian E.; Kyllo, Thomas R.; Mansfield, Joshua A.; Norton, Elizabeth B.; Clements, John D.; Bitoun, Jacob P. (2021-03-17). Torres...
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(1526–1527) Andrés Novales, “Emperor of the Philippines” (1823) Joshua Abraham Norton, “Emperor of the United States of America” (1859-1880) Category:...
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Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811) January 12 – Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of Chester A...
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abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. 1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." 1861 – Argentine Civil...
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designer Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), civil engineering contractor Joshua A. Norton (1811–1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico Wat...
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Joshua Norton (born December 10, 1976) is an American artist, print maker, and designer. Norton is most well known for creating intensely colored woodcut...
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during his tenure as neurology chairman at UCSF wrote a musical about the life of Joshua A. Norton (ca. 1815-1880), the mentally ill self-proclaimed Emperor...
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List of people from California (section A)
League quarterback Joe Morgan – baseball player John Muir – naturalist Joshua A. Norton – British self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States and Protector...
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Ben Cartwright and his three sons (each by a different wife), Adam, Eric ("Hoss"), and Joseph ("Little Joe"). A regular character is their ranch cook, Hop...
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Washington of Texas. In 1859, Joshua Abraham Norton, a resident of San Francisco, California declared himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States"...
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Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks; and Emperor Norton (Joshua Abraham Norton), the San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed "Emperor of...
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Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. Norton serves as a congressional delegate to the...
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Family Roe: An American Story. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 672. ISBN 978-0393247718. Prager, Joshua (2022-12-22). "A Harvard Law professor broke the rules...
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– getting ousted." Otto Witte, a German impostor who claimed to have been crowned King of Albania Joshua Abraham Norton, an American who donned military...
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December 2004, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in honor of Joshua A. Norton, passed a resolution "urging the California Department of Transportation...
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professional, portrayed a number of local Jewish luminaries, such as Levi Strauss, Alice B. Toklas and Joshua Abraham Norton, a late 1800s San Francisco...
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Governor of California from 1899 to 1903. Emperor Norton (1819–1880), real name Joshua Abraham Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States; his...
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he was assassinated by two disgruntled "Strangites". In 1859, Joshua Abraham Norton, a failed businessman from San Francisco, declared himself "Emperor...
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