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Fallows is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fearon Fallows (1789–1831), English astronomer * James Fallows (born 1949), American print and radio journalist * Samuel Fallows (1835–1922), American clergyman * Richie Fallows (born 1995), English squash player See also * Fallow (other) Fallow is the stage of crop rotation in which the land is deliberately not used to raise a crop. Fallow may also refer to: * ''Fallow'' (Fanny Lumsden album), 2020 * ''Fallow'' (The Weakerthans album), 1997 * Fallow (color), a pale brown color ...
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James Fallows
James Mackenzie Fallows (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. He is a former national correspondent for ''The Atlantic.'' His work has also appeared in ''Slate'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''The American Prospect'', among others. He is a former editor of '' U.S. News & World Report'', and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job. Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and has held the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including ''National Defense'' (1981), for which he received the 1983 National Book Award, ''Looking at the Sun'' (1994), ''Breaking the News'' (1996), ''Blind into Baghdad'' (2006), ''Postcards from Tomorrow Square'' (2009), ''China Airborne'' (2012), and the national best-seller ''Our Tow ...
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Samuel Fallows
Samuel Fallows (December 13, 1835September 5, 1922) was an English American immigrant, minister, lecturer, and author. He was the 9th Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin and served as Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church for 30 years between 1877 and 1922. During the American Civil War he served as a chaplain and later as an officer in the Union Army, receiving an honorary brevet to Brigadier General after the war. Early life Fallows was born in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, in England, and emigrated to the Wisconsin Territory as a child in 1848. His family settled at Marshall (then called "Bird's Ruins") in eastern Dane County, and established a farm. He worked as a farm hand to pay for school, becoming a Methodist minister in 1858 and graduating from the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison) in 1859. He was elected Vice-President and principal of Galesburg University and served there for two years, then became minister ...
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Fearon Fallows
Fearon Fallows (4 July 1788 – 25 July 1831) was an English astronomer. Life He was born in Cockermouth in Cumbria in 1788, the son of John Fallows, a weaver, and his wife Rebecca Fallas. He was taught by his father to read, and learned Latin and maths, and worked as a Parish Clerk in the nearby village of Bridekirk. Due in some part to the dedication of his father and the generosity of the townspeople, the scholarly Fearon was given the funds to attend St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, coming third in his year when he graduated in 1813. He obtained his Master of Arts in 1816 and went on to teach mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He also became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and an ordained priest in the Church of England. On 29 February 1820 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and on 8 June 1820 he was granted a fellowship of the Royal Society. One of his proposers for his fellowship to the Royal S ...
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Richie Fallows
Richie Fallows (born 17 June 1995 in London) is a professional squash player. He has represented England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ... in international competitions. He reached a career-high world ranking of 50 in December 2015 References External links * * * English male squash players Living people 1995 births {{UK-squash-bio-stub ...
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