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unusual facts about A. J. Cook



Acting white

In 1997 the scholars Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig published a report finding that blacks do not face any stronger social pressures than whites to succeed in school, nor do they have greater feelings of alienation towards education in general.

American Customer Satisfaction Index

Both the Swedish version and the ACSI were developed by Claes Fornell, now Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and chairman of CFI Group.

American Monetary Institute

While 2013 speakers are still unconfirmed, past speakers have included: Michael Hudson, Richard C. Cook, William K. Black, Dennis Kucinich, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Burton C. Cook

He served as chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals (Fortieth Congress), and the Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-first Congress).

Cook was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1865, to August 26, 1871, when he resigned.

Charles D. Cook

He also served as a member of the board of directors of a campus ministry organization in Oneonta, and was an honorary director of Delaware-Otsego Planned Parenthood.

Cook–Craigie plan

In the late 1940s, USAF Major Generals Laurence C. Craigie, deputy chief of staff for development, and Orval R. Cook, deputy chief of staff for materiel, proposed that new designs should move directly into the production phase without the construction of prototypes.

David C. Cook

Cook has published books from best selling authors including Francis Chan and Gary Thomas.

Donald G. Cook

After retirement, Cook was elected to the Board of Directors of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Crane Corporation, HawkerBeechcraft Corporation and USAA Federal Savings Bank.

E. T. Cook

He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester and began his career as a church organist in 1898.

First Call

In late 1994, First Call acted as the backup group for David L. Cook's inspirational single, "When Heaven is My Home".

Frank Adcock

With J. B. Bury and S. A. Cook he edited the Cambridge Ancient History, which was published from 1923 to 1939, and also wrote ten chapters of it.

Fred J. Cook

Cook's 1964 book, Goldwater: Extremist on the Right, initiated a series of events which in the end led to the Supreme Court decision in what is known as the Red Lion case: After the book appeared, Cook was attacked by conservative evangelist Billy James Hargis on his daily Christian Crusade radio broadcast, on WGCB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

His 1964 exposé, The FBI Nobody Knows, was central to the plot of one of Rex Stout's most popular Nero Wolfe novels, The Doorbell Rang (1965).

Gene Cook

Gene R. Cook (born 1941), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George W. Cook

Cook was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1908.

George W. F. Cook

Cook was also a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1964 and 1968.

Jack W. Smith

Perhaps for this reason, he moved to Ellistown in Coalville, where he was elected agent for the Leicestershire Miners' Association (LMA), replacing Levi Lovett, and he was soon elected onto the executive committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), where he was a supporter of A. J. Cook.

John C. Cook

Because Cutts undisputedly won the election, his term in the 48th United States Congress began the day after Cook's single day in the previous Congress.

Kalloor Chacko

Coming into contact with the American missionary Robert F. Cook in the 1920s, Chacko invited Cook to move to Thrikkannamangal from North India.

Mary Cook

Mary N. Cook (born 1951), American religious leader of the Young Women in the LDS Church

Melvin A. Cook

For his work in discovering slurry explosives, Cook received a Nitro Nobel Gold Medal in 1968, only the second time the award had been given (and which has been awarded only once since).

His work on slurry explosives paved the way for the development of the BLU-82, nicknamed the "Daisy Cutter" (because of its use in Vietnam to clear helicopter landing zones), one of the largest and most powerful conventional bombs in the U.S. military inventory, using aluminized slurry.

Mike Nappa

He has also served as a fiction acquisitions editor for Barbour Publishing, as a general acquisitions editor (fiction and non-fiction) for David C. Cook publishers, and as Editor in Chief of the short-lived Destination Magazine (published by Private Escapes Luxury Destination Clubs).

Nathan E. Cook

When Cook turned 104, he received a congratulatory letter from George H. W. Bush and guests watched a video presentation about his life.

National Minority Movement

Other prominent figures included Wal Hannington, in charge of organization of the metal workers until transferred by the party to work organising the unemployed, the engineer J.T. "Jack" Murphy and coal miners A. J. Cook, Arthur Horner and Nat Watkins.

Philip J. Cook

Philip J. Cook has served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Law and Justice.

Pleistodontes macrocainus

Pleistodontes macrocainus was described by Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Dale Dixon and James M. Cook in 2002 based on specimens collected from Ficus cerasicarpa.

Quentin Cook

Quentin L. Cook (born 1940), American leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Richard C. Cook

As a Resource Analyst at NASA's Comptroller's Office, Richard C. Cook was responsible for assessing the budgetary implications of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), External Tank, and Centaur Upper Stage of the Space Shuttle program.

Documentation further suggests the Rogers Commission was conceived as part of a cover-up effort, including collusion by some NASA managers, White House operatives and commission head William P. Rogers.

Though the Rogers Commission denied it, Cook maintains the Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle mission 51L against engineers’ recommendations so that "Teacher-in-Space" Christa McAuliffe would be aloft in time for the president's 1986 State of the Union Address.

NASA officials ignored the memo which detailed engineering concerns and warnings from the shuttle builders at Morton Thiokol regarding a potentially catastrophic flaw in the SRB O-rings.

Richard W. Cook

From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as an executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Richard W. Cook (August 8, 1907 – October 26, 1992) was born in Muskegon, Michigan.

Robert L. Cook

Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software.

Robin D. Cook

His many local commitments include being a Trustee of the Tivoli Theatre, a Trustee of the Friends of Victoria Hospital Wimborne, a volunteer at the Priest's House Museum, a member of Wimborne Militia and he is a representative for the council on the Citizens Advice Bureau Management Committee and is the Civil Protection Officer.

Samuel E. Cook

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress.

Simon Cook

Simon S. Cook (1831–1892), Canadian lumber merchant and political figure

Steven A. Cook

Cook contributes regularly to foreign policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The New Republic.

T. J. Cook

Cook made his debut on July 22, 2011, at Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker replacing an injured Guto Inocente against Lionel Lanham.

William W. Cook

He practiced law for many years in Manhattan, primarily for the Mackay telegraph and cable companies, and amassed a substantial fortune.


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