Leon Askin was an Austrian actor best known for portraying the character "General Burkhalter" on the TV situation comedy Hogan's Heroes.
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889. Its name derives from its origins on the Pacific Coast, but today it has members all over the country and the world. It has the legal status of a nonprofit organization.
Vice Admiral Edward Alan Burkhalter, Jr. is a retired U.S. Navy admiral.
Everett Glen Burkhalter, who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was an American film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.
Edgar Willard Hiestand was an American businessman and politician. A staunch anti-communist, he served ten years in the United States Congress.
Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, or Mission Loreto, was founded on October 25, 1697 at the Monqui Native American (Indian) settlement of Conchó in the present city of Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Established by the Catholic Church's Jesuit missionary Juan María de Salvatierra, Loreto was the first successful mission and Spanish town in Baja California. The mission is located at 26°00′37″N111°20′36″W.
Dominik Burkhalter is a Swiss bandleader, composer and drummer.
Joseph H. Burckhalter was a chemist who worked in the field of isothiocyanate compounds. In 1995 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Burckhalter is also a member of the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame.
Didier Burkhalter is a former Swiss politician.
The Guaycura were a native people of Baja California Sur, Mexico, occupying an area extending south from near Loreto to Todos Santos They contested the area around La Paz with the Pericú. The Guaycura were nomadic hunter-gatherers. They are distinguished by a language unrelated to any other Native American language, indicating in the opinion of some linguists that their ancestry in Baja California dates back thousands of years.
The short-lived Jesuit mission of San Bruno was established in 1684 on the Baja California Peninsula near the Gulf of California, in colonial Mexico of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Mission was located at 26°13′57″N111°23′53″W. The location of this mission should not be confused with the location of the present day town of San Bruno which is located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) to the north.
Misión Santa Rosa de las Palmas, also known as Todos Santos Mission, was founded by the Roman Catholic Jesuits in 1733. After 1748, the mission was known as Nuestra Señora del Pilar de la Paz. The mission was the first European settlement at the site of what is now the city of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur. The Santa Rosa Mission was located in one of the few areas of Baja California suitable for agriculture. The residents of the Mission were primarily Guaycura Native Americans whom the Jesuits and their successors, the Franciscans and Dominicans, attempted to convert to Christianity and to make into sedentary farm workers. Recurrent epidemics of introduced European diseases reduced the Indian population to only a handful by the 19th century and in 1825 the mission was closed.
Burkhalter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Rev. John G. Burkhalter, was a Baptist minister and highly decorated chaplain who served in World War II and the Korean War. He was part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy at Omaha Beach.
Saraain El Faouqa is a village located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northeast of Rayak in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon.
John Collins Burkhalter is a businessman and Democratic politician from North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Thiothinone (βk-MPA) is a stimulant of the cathinone class that is the beta-keto analog of methiopropamine and has been sold online as a designer drug.
The 1950 Cotton Bowl Classic featured the Rice Owls and the North Carolina Tar Heels.
The IPSC Swiss Handgun Championship is an IPSC level 3 championship held once a year by the Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation.
