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unusual facts about C. M. Newton


C. M. Newton

In 1968 legendary football coach and athletic director Paul "Bear" Bryant, who had been the coach for the University of Kentucky's football team during Newton's playing days, called Rupp looking for someone to turn around the University of Alabama's basketball program.


Acrylic paint

Acrylic paints with gloss or matte finishes are common, although a satin (semi-matte) sheen is most common; some brands exhibit a range of finish (e.g., heavy-body paints from Golden, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney).

Air Florida Flight 90

Trivers, R. L. & Newton, H. P. The crash of flight 90: doomed by self-deception?

Arthur F. H. Newton

In Rhodesia he founded the Bulawayo Harriers and set amateur records for 60 and 100 miles.

After this race he returned to England and ran the London to Brighton course in 5:53:43, beating the previous record by over an hour.

When the London to Brighton race started as an annual event in 1951 the trophy for the winner was called the Arthur Newton Cup.

Augustus Octavius Bacon

During the Civil Rights Movement, the use of Bacon’s park was the subject of a Supreme Court Case entitled Evans v. Newton which was decided in 1966.

Charles Newton

Charles D. Newton (1861–1930), NY State Attorney General, 1919–1922

Frances E. Newton

Jonathan Dimbleby writes that Newton was scrupulous in keeping notes of the cases she examined.

Longfellow, Oakland, California

Founders Huey P. Newton and David Hilliard grew up on 47th Street and West Street respectively, and the Second Black Panther Party Office was located on the 4400 block of Martin Lurther King Jr.

Marcellin College, Auckland

They founded St Benedict's College (secondary) and St Benedict's School (primary) near St Benedict's Church, Newton in 1886, and in 1898 a large new school was built on the opposite corner from the church.

Michael A. Newton

Michael A. Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is an award-winning Canadian statistician.

Robert C. Newton

Robert C. Newton Camp # 197 of Little Rock was named for him and was the oldest continually run camp of the Arkansas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, as well as the oldest continually active camp west of the Mississippi River.

Roy C. Newton

In 1952, his leadership was recognized with the presentation of the IRI Medal by the Industrial Research Institute.

Saul B. Newton

At its peak in the 1970s, the therapeutic community founded by Newton and Pearce had several hundred members living on the Upper West Side.


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