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3 unusual facts about Cecil J. Nesbitt


Balanced module

The study of balanced modules and rings is an outgrowth of the study of QF-1 rings by C.J. Nesbitt and R. M. Thrall.

Cecil J. Nesbitt

He served the Society of Actuaries from 1985 to 1987 as Vice-President for Research and Studies.

Quasi-Frobenius ring

A partial list of pioneers in quasi-Frobenius rings includes R. Brauer, K. Morita, T. Nakayama, C. J. Nesbitt, and R. M. Thrall.


Cecil J. Allen

Geoffrey Freeman Allen, his son, also a writer on railway topics, and first editor of Modern Railways

Cecil J. Doty

During World War II Doty worked on major war effort projects like the Alcan Highway and Shasta Dam.

Doty spent his childhood in May, Oklahoma, then attended Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University), and received a degree in architectural engineering in 1928.

Cecil J. Picard

Picard was succeeded in the state Senate by Democrat Gerald Theunissen of Jennings, who defeated the Republican state party chairman Mike Francis of Crowley.

Charles Nesbitt

Charles H. Nesbitt, former Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly

Charles R. Nesbitt

:For the New York politician, see Charles H. Nesbitt.

Des McLean

In January 2012 it was reported that Des would be playing politician, Tommy Sheridan, who was convicted of perjury during 2010, in a new play I, Tommy written by Rab C. Nesbitt creator Ian Pattison.

Glasgow patter

Popular Scottish television comedies such as Rab C. Nesbitt, Chewin' the Fat, Still Game and Limmy's Show also provide reference material, and have themselves contributed popular new expressions to The Patter.

Jake D'Arcy

He has appeared in TV dramas and films such as Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Adam Smith, Gregory's Girl, Minder, Tutti Frutti, Rab C. Nesbitt, Heavenly Pursuits, Takin' Over the Asylum, Hamish Macbeth, Taggart and Still Game.

National Park Service Southwest Regional Office

Designed by NPS architect Cecil J. Doty, it is a traditional adobe building, one-story except for a double-height entrance area, with exposed timber vigas and adobe bricks constructed on site by the CCC.

Paul Coia

Coia took an acting role in an episode of the sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt called 'Holiday', first shown in 1990, in which the Nesbitt family and their neighbours the Cotters go to Fuengirola.

Rab C. Nesbitt

The series has featured guest appearances from the likes of Norman Lovett, Peter Mullan, Rikki Fulton, Anita Dobson, Timothy Spall, Stanley Baxter, Kevin McNally, Clive Russell, Jerry Sadowitz, Viv Lumsden, Sylvester McCoy, Russell Hunter, Peter Capaldi and then unknowns David Tennant, Ashley Jensen, Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Karen Dunbar, Jane McCarry and Paul Riley.

The Railway Magazine

One of those who shared authorship of the series after his death was the Great Eastern Railway engineer Cecil J. Allen (1886-1973) who became sole author from 1911 until succeeded by O. S. Nock in 1958, when Cecil J. Allen moved his performance column to Trains Illustrated (later renamed Modern Railways), edited by his son, G. Freeman Allen.


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