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4 unusual facts about Alfred H. Grebe


Alfred H. Grebe

At the age of 9 he was given a radio set by his father, and soon came to be such an expert that his science teacher at Public School 88 in Jamaica said Alfred knew more than he did.

After three years onboard (during which time he traveled as far as India) he returned to Long Island, where the first commercial station on the island was being built at Sayville.

) He set up a broadcasting company called the "Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation" (changing WAHG to WABC on November 1, 1926) which operated his stations until he sold them to CBS in January 1929.

(His WAHG is, through several call letter changes, now WCBS, still a major radio station in New York City.


Alfred H. Love

In 1875 he met with Alfred B. Meacham, a member of the peace commission to end the Modoc War, and members of the Modoc people, including Toby Riddle and Frank Riddle, who were on a national lecture tour.

Alfred H. Moses

In 2002 he was awarded Romania's Mare Cruce Medal (Order For Merit) by the President of Romania,Ion Iliescu and the only American to have been so honored.

Fort Ransom, North Dakota

The fort was built on top of Grizzly Bear Hill, a site chosen by Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry.

José Gómez-Sicre

In 1944, he served as an advisor to Alfred H. Barr, Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, putting together an exhibition of Cuban paintings that traveled across the United States for the next two years.

Mary Miller

For that exhibition, she wrote the catalogue of the same title—a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award of the College Art Association—with Simon Martin, senior epigrapher at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagrams that are used in geophysics and meteorology to analyse spatially distributed data (such as rainfall measurements) are called Thiessen polygons after American meteorologist Alfred H. Thiessen.


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