John Munn (Newfoundland politician)
John Munn
( 1807 – September 29, 1879) was a Scottish- born merchant and political figure in Newfoundland.
He represented Conception Bay from 1842 to 1848 and Harbour Grace from 1869 to 1873 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a Conservative.
Mann was born at Port Bannatyne near Rothesay in Scotland, the son of Stewart Munn and Isabella Fisher, and came to St. John's in 1825.
He worked there as a bookkeeper until 1833, when he moved to Harbour Grace and opened a business with Captain William Punton.
The company became involved in the seal trade and shipbuilding.
Munn married Naomi Munden in 1838.
In the 1870s, Munn's company purchased Thomas Ridley's assets.
He helped found the Union Bank and served as a director.
He also owned the" Harbour Grace Standard" newspaper.
Munn was named to the Legislative Council in 1855; he served until 1869.
Munn died in England in 1879, in Southport, Lancashire.
After his death, his company was taken over by his son, William Punton Munn, and nephew, Robert Stewart Munn.
William Munn's son, John Shannon Munn( John Munn's grandson), was also prominent in Newfoundland business circles until his death in the wreck of the SS" Florizel" in 1918.
In 2016, John Munn was named a National Historic Person.
Burcu Düner
Jennifer Burcu Düner( born August 20, 1979), aka Jennifer Düner in Germany and Burcu Düner in Turkey, is a German- born Turkish former women's football midfielder, who after playing in German clubs moved to Turkey and lately played in the Turkish Women's Second League for Bursa Sağlıkgücü Gençlikspor with jersey number 13.
She was a member of the Turkish national team in 2010.
Mancel Thornton Munn
Mancel Thornton Munn( January 31, 1887 in Plainwell, Michigan – November 16, 1956 in Arcadia, California) was a New York State botanist, an agronomist, and an expert in crop seed testing who pioneered some of the early American legislative efforts to regulate the import of seeds from other countries.
He was also an Emeritus Professor of Seed Investigations at Cornell University.
Munn attended the Michigan Agricultural College, graduating in June 1911, and studied seed samples in accordance with the provisions of Michigan's Pure Seed Law during his final two years there.
Following graduation, he accepted a position as an Assistant in Research at" the New York Experiment Station at Geneva, where he will have charge of the seed work".
Munn rose through the ranks at the Agricultural Experiment Station, being promoted to Assistant Botanist in 1918, Associate Botanist in 1929, and finally becoming Professor and Head of the present Department of Seed Investigation in 1936.
From 1936 through 1952 Munn was head of the Department of Seed Investigations, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York.
He is known for developing early techniques to test seeds for viability of germplasm, and he had an interest in mycology.
Botrytis allii
Botrytis allii is a plant pathogen, a fungus that causes neck rot in stored onions(" Allium cepa") and related crops.
Its teleomorph is unknown, but other species of" Botrytis" are anamorphs of" Botryotinia" species.
The species was first described scientifically by Mancel Thornton Munn in 1917.
Burcu Çetinkaya
Burcu Çetinkaya( born March 19, 1981) is a Turkish female rally driver and currently a television representer.
She was educated in Robert College between 1992 and 1999.
During this time, she played basketball.
After two years spent at Babson College in Boston, USA, she returned to Turkey to continue her education in economics at the Koç University and graduated in 2005.
In 2003, she earned the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom and giant slalom events at the Turkish Women's Snowboard Championships.
Orson Desaix Munn II
Orson Desaix Munn II( 1883- 1958) was an editor and publisher of" Scientific American" magazine.
He was the son of Henry Norcross Munn and his wife Annie E. Elder, the nephew of Charles Allen Munn, and the grandson of the original publisher of" Scientific American", Orson Desaix Munn.
Munn married twice.
His first wife was actress Margaret Lawrence.
They married in 1911 and had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn and Louisine Elder Munn, before divorcing in 1922.
Margaret Lawrence subsequently married actor Wallace Eddinger, and died in a murder- suicide in 1929.
Munn's second wife was Caroline" Carrie" Nunder.
They married in 1924 and had one son, Orson Desaix Munn III.
Carrie Munn became a well known dress designer in the 1940s and 1950s.
Munn sold his interest in" Scientific American" magazine in 1950, and became senior partner of the law firm of Munn, Liddy, Daniels& March.
He died on December 22, 1958 in Southampton, Long Island.
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Robert Stewart Munn
Robert Stewart Munn( August 23, 1829 – December 17, 1894) was a Scottish- born merchant and politician in Newfoundland.
He represented Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a Reform Party member from 1889 until his death in 1894.
The son of Dugald Munn, a banker, and Elizabeth Stewart, he was born in Bute and came to Newfoundland in 1851 to join the firm of Punton and Munn, which was then owned by his uncle John Munn.
In 1862, Munn became manager of the firm's operation in Harbour Grace.
In the same year, he married Elizabeth Munden.
In 1872, Munn and his cousin William Punton Munn became partners in the business, now known as John Munn and Company.
When William went to England due to poor health in 1881, Munn became the sole manager.
He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1889 and reelected in 1893.
A decline in the price of fish had resulted in accumulating debt for John Munn and Company during the 1890s.
The Union Bank in St. John's, which held most of that debt, failed in 1894.
Munn died of pleurisy in Harbour Grace at the age of 65.
His estate was declared insolvent and the company went bankrupt soon afterwards.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Ming Luhulima
Ming Luhulima aka Lou Lima was a well known Netherlands based recording artist originally from the Maluku Islands which were part of the Dutch East Indies.
He made multiple recordings during his career.
One of the artists he was closely associated with was Rudi Wairata.
Not only did Luhulima come from the same country as Wairata, he also recorded music in the same genre.
He was also a member of the Amboina Serenaders and the Mena Moeria Minstrels.
He also led the Krontjong Ensemble Pantja Warna.

Question: Are Mancel Thornton Munn and Burcu Çetinkaya both from the same country?
Answer: no