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2 unusual facts about David D. Burns


David D. Burns

For Burns, the BDC replaced Aaron Beck's BDI which appeared in the 1980 edition of Feeling Good (that Burns says he was grateful for permission to reproduce).

David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling books Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook.


Albany Law School

David D. Siegel, prolific and influential commentator on New York Civil Practice

Alleghany Corporation

The company's residual railroad investments led to president and CEO John J. Burns serving on the board of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation from 1995 to 2004.

ArsDigita Prize

All first runners-up received a free trip to the computer research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seats at a two-day seminar taught by Philip Greenspun, lunch with David D. Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and Michael Dertouzos, dinner with Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, and access to a Web server for life.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies first issue was released on October 9, 2008 featuring stories by Chris Willrich and David D. Levine.

David D. Aitken

Aitken was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 6th District of Michigan for the 53rd and 54th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897.

David D. Bogart

He was born in Dawn Mills, Ontario, Canada and moved west with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway until it reached Missoula in 1883.

In December 1912, Bogart was killed in an avalanche in Saltese, Montana while prospecting for gold.

David D. Halverson

LTG Halverson is a die-hard Minnesota sports fan, well known for his love of the Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Twins and the Wild.

David D. Kirkpatrick

He was born in Buffalo, New York, earned a B.A. in history and American studies at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, and attended the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.

David D. Stern

Karen Wilkin and Mitchell Cohen in David Stern: Recent Paintings, New York: Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art 1999

Kunstverlag, Berlin/Munich 2011* Karen Wilkin and Lance Esplund in David Stern: The American Years (1995–2008), New York: Yeshiva University Museum (2008/2009); Tulsa, OK: Alexandre Hogue Gallery(2008); Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix College (2010); Charleston, SC: William Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (2010), ISBN 978-0-615-21645-4

David D. Terry

Terry was reelected to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, where he served from December 19, 1933 to January 3, 1943.

David d'Angers

Here John Flaxman and others took him to task for the political sins of David the painter, to whom he was erroneously supposed to be related.

David Friedman

David D. Friedman (born 1945), anarcho-capitalist writer, economist, and medieval reenactor

David R. Burns

Earlier in the same day, leading Democratic state representative Emily Cain had called for Burns' immediate resignation.

Faraday constant

The Simpsons episode "Dark Knight Court" (RABF10) has Mr. Burns asking Comic Book Guy how much he wants for his entire comic book inventory.

Fredrik Olsen

Olsen has been called "The Norwegian Howard Hughes" for his great wealth and avoidance of publicity; although a recluse he is also reputed to be the inspiration for the look of The Simpsons cartoon character Mr. Burns.

It Don't Come Easy

The song is used as inspirational background music for a montage of Marge Simpson painting a portrait of Mr. Burns.

John A. Burns

His many achievements include the promotion of Hawaii as a center for oceanography, construction of the new State Capitol building, and expansion of the University of Hawaii, helping to transform it into a first-class university, attracting students and faculty from around the world and early planning for the construction of the Aloha Stadium to host university football and bowl games.

John F. Burns

Burns was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting citing "his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina".

In an October 2008 interview with the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, Burns accused Kabulov of being a KGB operative.

John J. Kavelaars

The asteroid 154660 Kavelaars was named in his honour on 1 June 2007 by his colleague David D. Balam.

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

As of 2007, the editors-in-chief are David D. Ho (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center), Paul Volberding (San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center) and William Blattner (University of Maryland, Baltimore).

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

Homer, Smithers, and Mr. Burns get a positive (if inaccurate) impression from this, and Homer is put in total charge of the power plant while Mr. Burns takes time off to have fun floating down the Ganges with corpses he has befriended.

Laura J. Burns

She often collaborates with fellow author Melinda Metz, with whom she writes the book series based on the Everwood TV show, and the Wright and Wong young detective series.

Louis Burns

Louis F. Burns (1920-2012), an American author and historian of the Osage Nation

Magnet Records

Artists on the label included Alvin Stardust, Stevenson's Rocket, Matchbox, Adrian Baker, Silver Convention, Guys 'n' Dolls, Darts, Kissing the Pink, Bad Manners, David D'Or, Blue Zoo and Chris Rea, who all achieved success during the 1970s and 1980s.

Meta-power

The idea has stemmed from work by sociologists such as Tom R. Burns and Peter Hall, the economist Thomas Baumgartner, as well as by political scientists such as James Rosenau and Stephen D. Krasner.

Michael R. Burns

Burns has served as chairman of Ignite Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based entertainment production company, was co-founder of the Hollywood Stock Exchange, and serves as chairman and co-founder of Novica.com.

Michael W. Burns

Democrat Mary Ann Love and Republican James E. Rzepkowski were both reelected, but Theodore J. Sophecleus finally ran for election and won.

Michel Stollsteiner

From 6 August 2008 to 10 July 2009, Stollsteiner served as a NATO regional commander in Afghanistan, heading the Regional Command Capital at Camp Warehouse, under US generals David D. McKiernan and Stanley A. McChrystal.

Patrick Connors

While at St. John's, Connors was a member of the editorial board of the St. John's Law Review and a research assistant to David D. Siegel.

Philippe DeVille

Philippe R. DeVille (born August 5, 1944) is a Belgian economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain, known for his contributions in the field of socioeconomic systems theory in collaboration with Tom R. Burns and others.

Robert P. Aitken Farm House

His son David D. Aitken (1853–1930) later operated the farm and served in the United States House of Representatives.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh

Edward J. Burns (1983–2009) – Appointed Bishop of Juneau, Alaska on January 19, 2009; installed on April 2, 2009.

Scott Burns

Scott Z. Burns (born 1962), American screenwriter, producer, and director

Social rule system theory

The development of a more systematic conceptualization and theorizing about social rules and systems of social rules emerged in the late 1970s in the collaborative work of Thomas Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVille, and later Helena Flam, Reinier de Man, Atle Midttun, Anders Olsson, and others.

Theobald M. Burns

Burns ran unsuccessfully in the federal Gloucester riding in 1908 and 1911, losing to Onésiphore Turgeon each time.

Tom R. Burns

Social rule system theory was formulated in the 1980s by Burns and Helena Flam together with others was a contribution to the New Institutionalism.

United States vice-presidential debate, 2008

Pundits criticized Biden's omission of the general's name; he referred to him several times only as the "commanding general in Afghanistan," until it was discovered the General's name is in fact David D. McKiernan.

William J. Biggy

Upon falling out with the men supporting the graft prosecution, Biggy was placed under surveillance by detectives employed by William J. Burns, a special agent to the prosecution.


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