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2 unusual facts about David B. Allison


David B. Allison

Allison founded the Section of Statistical Genetics (SSG) in the Department of Biostatistics at UAB, he has authored over 475 scientific publications and edited five books.

He holds several NIH and National Science Foundation grants, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Life Sciences Institute, North America, since 2002 and is currently Chair of the board.


Benjamin P. Birdsall

In 1902, Birdsall was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress, after the incumbent, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives David B. Henderson chose not to run for re-election.

Bermuda Flicker

Though most material is from Late Pleistocene deposits unearthed by Storrs L. Olson, David B. Wingate and others in the Admirals Cave, the Wilkinson Quarry, and in the Walsingham Sink Cave in Hamilton Parish in Bermuda in 1981 there is one bone, a tarsometatarsus from a juvenile, which is from a Holocene layer in the Spittal Pond.

Boston Confucians

(Philip J. Ivanhoe, Joel J. Kupperman and David B. Wong would fall into this latter category.) Consequently, "Boston Confucian" is a term more closely linked to geography than intellectual content.

Charles Frederick Whittlesey

While working as staff designer for Allison & Allison he designed the 1930 Southern California Edison Building, across the street from Goodhue's L.A. Public Library.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

David B. Culberson

Culberson attended the Democratic state convention in 1868 and served as a presidential elector in the Presidential Election of 1872 pledged to Horace Greeley (who died before Texas' electoral votes could be cast) but casting his ballot ultimately for Benjamin Gratz Brown.

David B. Dunn

From 2002 to 2005 he served as Principal Officer at the Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa.

David B. Harris

He is a former Senior Fellow for Terrorism and National Security at the now-defunct Canadian Coalition for Democracies.

David B. Jones Special

The David B. Jones Special was a one-time, passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois at the request of David Benton Jones.

David B. McNeil

He was the son of Col. David Breakenridge McNeil (b. 1787 Charlotte, Vermont, District Attorney of Essex County from 1828 to 1833, and Collector of the Port of Plattsburgh during the administration of President Andrew Jackson).

David B. Pakman

As a Partner in Venrock’s New York City office, David focuses on early stage venture investing in internet and digital media companies.

At Penn, Pakman's Senior Design Project advisor was David J. Farber.

David B. Samadi

Women go through more preventive screening; they give birth; they have mammograms and PAP smears; men do not like to go to the doctor.

Samadi completed his postgraduate training in urology at Montefiore Medical Center and in protoctology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.

David B. Weishampel

Weishampel's most well known published work is The Dinosauria University of California Press; 2nd edition (December 1, 2004).

David Hill

David B. Hill (1843–1910), Governor of the U.S. se of New York, 1885–1891, U.S. Senator from New York, 1892–1897

David Rivkin

David B. Rivkin (born 1956), American attorney and conservative commentator

David Sullivan

David B. Sullivan (born 1953), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Émile Bravo

In 1992, he became a member of the "Atelier Nawak" (later the Atelier des Vosges) and their publishing branch L'Association, working together with people like Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, David B., and Christophe Blain.

Graham T. Allison

Allison is best known as a political scientist for his book Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), in which he developed two new theoretical paradigms - an organizational process model and a bureaucratic politics model - to compete with the then-prevalent approach of understanding foreign policy decision making using a rational actor model.

Gustav Haloun

Honey, David B., Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, 2001, pp. 152-66.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

He blurts out that he loves Sister Angela and that he considers her devotion to her vows to be pointless, since they are stuck on the island "like Adam and Eve."

He is wounded, but manages to sabotage all the guns by removing their breeches, saving many American lives.

Herbert M. Allison

Allison retired from TIAA-CREF in 2008, and was succeeded by Roger W. Ferguson, Jr..

Hypselospinus

In May 2010 the fossils comprising Hypselospinus were by David Norman reclassified as a separate genus, among them the holotype BMNH R1635, consisting of a left ilium, a sacrum, tail vertebrae and teeth.

James P. Allison

Dr. Allison earned his B.S. in Microbiology in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Biological Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 1973.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

John Allison

John W. Allison (born 1893), (John Williams Allison) artist, collector and singer of folk songs

Jonathan H. Adler

Before becoming an academic, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Kristen Silverberg

Prior to coming to work for the White House, Silverberg served as a law clerk, first to Appellate Court Judge David B. Sentelle, and later to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Maureen Ohlhausen

Before coming to the FTC, Ohlhausen spent five years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, serving as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle and as a staff attorney.

Michael A. Stackpole

An outer main-belt asteroid discovered March 23, 2001 by David B. Healy was named 165612 Stackpole.

Michael Fritsch

Together with David B. Audretsch he developed the conceptual model of regional growth regimes whereby regions are classified in accordance to the level of the regional start-up rate and employment growth.

Old Deer

The village is the birthplace of David B. Henderson, one of only two foreign born Speakers of the United States House of Representatives.

Pacifica Forum

The former president of the UO, David B. Frohnmayer, criticized the Pacifica Forum and stated that its views do not represent those of the university.

Probactrosaurus

In 2002 David Bruce Norman published a revision of the genus, in which he reported the holotype specimen of P. alshanicus, the back of a skull, had been lost after being dispatched from Moscow to Beijing.

Public policy

David B. Audretsch ; Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, A. Roy (2007), Explaining entrepreneurship and the role of policy: a framework, in: David Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and A. Roy Thurik (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing

Richard Lesley Voorhees

On July 31, 1987, Voorhees was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina vacated by David B. Sentelle.

Robert A. Maxwell

On December 28, 1885, he was appointed as Superintendent of Insurance by Governor David B. Hill to take office on January 1, 1886, and remained in this office until February 1891 when he was succeeded by James F. Pierce.

Steve Vaillancourt

Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, and Rep. David B. Campbell, D-Nashua) was formed in order to compel Vaillancourt to form an acceptable apology to the House; Vaillancourt offered two unaccepted apologies, one offering never to mention any German words on the floor, until his third apology was finally accepted by the House.

William Allison

William B. Allison (1829–1908), early leader of the Iowa Republican Party

Zalmoxes

In 2003 David Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Zoltan Csiki and David Bruce Norman named a new genus for the finds: Zalmoxes, a spelling variant of Zalmoxis.

Zeina Abirached

She finds her inspiration in old photographs and TV footages, and in the work of comic authors such as David B and Jacques Tardi.


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