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unusual facts about Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum



1642 in poetry

John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed

Activity-based costing

Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan, proponents of the Balanced Scorecard, brought notice to these concepts in a number of articles published in Harvard Business Review beginning in 1988.

Alice Cordelia Morse

The Woman's Building was designed by Candace Wheeler, a member of the Cooper Union Advisory Council when Morse enrolled.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley

During the Second World War Major Lord Ashley served as a British Intelligence Officer with the Auxiliary Units, which were highly covert Resistance groups trained to engage and counteract the expected invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany.

ArenaBowl XI

In the first quarter, the Rattlers slithered first with Kicker Anthony Brenner getting a 19-yard Field Goal, yet the Barnstormers responded with Quarterback Kurt Warner completing a 30-yard touchdown pass to OS Lamont Cooper.

Barbara Crawford Johnson

(Peggy, recently graduated from secretarial school and hired as a secretary, demonstrated talent that earned her the title and income associated with the role of "copywriter" at Sterling Cooper; two other self-made characters referred to as "astronauts" are Ida Blankenship and Don Draper).

Betty Compson

In 1930, she made a version of The Spoilers in which she played the role later portrayed by similar-looking Marlene Dietrich in the 1942 remake, while Gary Cooper played the part subsequently acted in the later film by John Wayne, perhaps the only time that Cooper and Wayne played precisely the same role.

Brea-Olinda Oil Field

As of the beginning of 2009, 475 wells remained active on the field, operated by several independent oil companies, including Linn Energy, BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P., Cooper & Brain, and Thompson Energy.

Cheryl Heller

She is an advisor to Design for the Other 90%, an NGO led by Paul Polak, and helped to create a related exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

Colin Campbell Cooper

Cooper and his wife exhibited together in several two-person shows, including a May 1902 exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Club and a 1915 show at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.

Colin Cooper

Cooper was a regular guest on the ITV late night football review programme Soccer Night, which was hosted by Roger Tames.

Crouse-Hinds Company

Not long after, Cooper sold the traffic products division to Traffic Control Technologies of Liverpool, New York, who then sold the division to Peek Traffic Transit of Tallahassee, Florida.

Dale Cooper

The feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me subtly expands on the events of Cooper's fate in the series finale, while at the same time functioning as a prequel that details the last week of Laura Palmer's life.

Deke Cooper

On fourth-and-goal from inside the one-yard line, Cooper burst through the line unblocked to stop Eagles' running back Mike Cloud.

Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge

While Cooper and his team are forced to perform the tasks, they discover that they - as is Mrs. Goodman - are mere pawns for a more dastardly plot: the Mexican revolutionary El Cortador's plan to assassinate the President of the United States!

Dillon Cooper

Born and raised in Crown Heights Brooklyn, New York, 19-year-old Dillon Cooper became a self-taught guitarist at age 8, and a college freshman by age 17 at one of the world's most sought after music schools, Berklee College of Music.

Emanon Records

Artists who have recorded on the label include John Corabi, Jenna Drey, JParis, Leanne Harte, Jura, Cardinal Trait, Fanzine, Lorenzo, and Brandon Cooper.

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

Getting By

ABC was not willing to keep the show on TGIF, since they were adding the already successful Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and the new Michael Jacobs series Boy Meets World to the Friday lineup.

Glimmerglass

Otsego Lake, called "Glimmerglass" in the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper

J. California Cooper

J. California Cooper also wrote a short story entitled, "Funny Valentines", which was later turned into a 1999 TV movie starring Alfre Woodard and Loretta Devine.

Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou

He was an assistant at the University of Lovanium of Léopoldville in Congo for some months, after which he went to Yale University, on a NATO-scholarship, where he obtained a PhD in economics under Richard Cooper.

Jason Klush

Cooper’s Seafood, Burger King, and other buildings along the riverfront were inundated.

Jeff Cooper

In 1995, Cooper, commenting on the naming of the newly formed Gauteng province in South Africa, said someone suggested they should be referred to as ""Orang-gautengs".

John Gilbert Cooper

Cooper first published poetry in 1742 occasionally until he became a regular contributor to The Museum which was published by Robert Dodsley.

John Nelson Cooper

Cooper made knives used in film and television such as the Arkansas toothpick in The Sacketts and a Bowie knife for Jeremiah Johnson.

Lisa Cooper

Lisa A. Cooper (born 1963) is a public health physician, and professor at Johns Hopkins.

Louis Blom-Cooper

Despite this, solicitor Gareth Peirce accused Blom-Cooper of "shoddy research" and "total nonsense" in respect of the book.

Louise Fili

Library of Congress, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Bibliothèque National, Denver Art Museum, Musee des Arts Decoratifs

Markree Observatory

In 1878, Cooper’s assistant, Andrew Graham, discovered the asteroid 9 Metis with the Comet Seeker.

Memoir

Until the Age of Enlightenment encompassing the 17th and 18th centuries, works of memoir were written by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; François de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac of France; and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, who wrote Memoirs at his family's home at the castle of La Ferté-Vidame.

MTL Instruments Group

In 2008, MTL Instruments was purchased by Cooper Industries of Houston, Texas, under that company's Crouse-Hinds division.

Natasha Cooper

Natasha J. Cooper (born 1951 in Kensington, London) is an English crime fiction writer.

Order of the Peacock Angel

Cooper McLaughlin's 1987 short novel, The Order of the Peacock Angel, published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, claims historical sources for its tale of a 1,000 year old society that continued into the 1960s.

Pimania

The sundial was eventually won in 1985 by Sue Cooper and Lizi Newman, who correctly worked out that it could only be found on July 22 (because Pi is sometimes rounded to 22/7) at the chalk horse at Hindover Hill near Litlington, East Sussex.

Quade Cooper

In September, Cooper tweeted infamous comments regarding his thoughts on the Wallabies set-up, which included criticising the defensive style-of-play and lack of player input under coach Robbie Deans, inadequate training and recovery facilities, and a "toxic environment".

Red Hat Society

In 1997, Cooper gave a friend a 55th birthday gift consisting of a red bowler purchased at an antique store along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning".

Rennmax

The first Rennmax chassis, built for Noel Hall in 1962, utilised numerous components from Hall's Cooper, including a 2.2 litre Coventry Climax engine.

Saga 106.6 FM

These included John Peters, who launched Radio Trent (the East Midlands' first commercial radio station in 1975), Amanda Bowman, Tony Lyman, Tim Gough, Steve Merike, Paul Robey, Jeff Cooper, Andy Marriott, Ian Chilvers, Mark Burrows, Ron Coles, Steve Orchard, Tim Rogers, David Lloyd, Ashley Franklin, Peter Quinn, Sheila Tracy, 'Diddy' David Hamilton, Mike Wyer and Erica Hughes.

Savannah Morning News

William Tappan Thompson, author of the "Major Jones" series of humorous stories, along with John McKinney Cooper as publisher and owner, founded the paper on January 15, 1850 as the Daily Morning News.

Teenage Lament '74

Tyla released a version of the song on the 1993 tribute album, Welcome to Our Nightmare: A Tribute to Alice Cooper.

The Last Nightingale

They were performed by Cooper, Hodgkinson, Cutler and Bill Gilonis, with Robert Wyatt singing, and were recorded on 29–31 October 1984 at Cold Storage.

Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross

Cooper was the son of John Cooper, of Edinburgh, a civil engineer, and Margaret, daughter of John Mackay, of Dunnet, Caithness.

Thomas E. Cooper

Upon leaving government service in 1987, Cooper joined General Electric as an executive.

Thomas Haller Cooper

Thomas Cooper was ordered to return on 1 February 1940 at the Berlin Lichterfelde Barracks, the home of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.

Thomas Henty

In an archive interview with the television personality Frank Bough included in the 2001 ITV documentary The Unforgettable Tommy Cooper, Henty explained that he did not want people in the acting profession to know that he was Cooper's son, presumably because he was fearful of claims of nepotism.

Thomas Henty (born Thomas John Cooper, 19 January 1956; died 13 August 1988) was an English actor and was the son of the British magician and prop comedian Tommy Cooper.

Waimea College

Students of Waimea College are split into four houses named after four famous New Zealanders; they are Rutherford (Green), named after Ernest Rutherford; Sheppard (Blue), named after Kate Sheppard; Hillary (Yellow), named after Edmund Hillary; and Cooper (Red), named after Whina Cooper.

William Nelson Page

Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “front man” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.


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