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unusual facts about David D. Clark


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.


Alvah A. Clark

Clark was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.

Annie E. Clark

Clark was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School.

Ashfield, Massachusetts

Ashfield is the birthplace of prominent director Cecil B. DeMille (whose parents were vacationing in the town at the time), Alvan Clark, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope maker, and William S. Clark, member of the Massachusetts Senate and third president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst).

Ben Clark

Benjamin S. W. Clark (1829–1912), American merchant and politician from New York

Billy C. Clark

Walt Disney Studios purchased the rights to his book about the mule, titled Goodbye Kate, which has yet to be made into a film by the time of Clark's death.

Black Brigade of Cincinnati

Peter H. Clark, Black Brigade of Cincinnati: Being a Report of Its Labors and a Muster-Roll of Its Members etc.

Bui Tuong Phong

His fellow students also supported him very much, as James H. Clark, Franklin C. Crow, George Randall, Dennis Ting and John Riley.

Clarence Clark

Clarence D. Clark (1851–1930), American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York

Clark Air Base

A portion of Fort Stotsenburg was officially set aside for the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and named Clark Field in September 1919 (after Harold M. Clark).

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. 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'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 P. Penhallow

When his former professor, William S. Clark was asked by the Japanese government to assist in the founding of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University), Penhallow accompanied Clark and another MAC graduate, William Wheeler, to teach botany and chemistry.

Douglas Porch

He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, a guest lecturer at the Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral research fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Mark W. Clark Professor of History at The Citadel.

Edgar E. Clark

Edgar Erastus Clark (February 18, 1856 – December 1, 1930) was an American attorney, government official, and union official, who served on the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1906 to 1921, and was its chairman during 1913–1914 and 1918–1921.

Eric D. Clark

He formed Whirlpool Productions with Justus Köhncke and Hans Nieswandt, which had hits in a number of European countries, including From Disco to Disco, which reached number 1 in the Italian charts.

Eugenio Calò

General Mark Clark, commander of the US Fifth Army, asked for two volunteers who would take messages back to the partisans in order to coordinate their activities towards the liberation of the city of Arezzo which was planned for July 14.

Francis J. Clark

On that day, near Kalborn, Luxembourg, he crawled through open terrain to reach a platoon which had been pinned down by heavy fire, led them to safety, and then returned to rescue a wounded man.

George H. Clark

George H. Clark (October 18, 1872 – July 11, 1943) was a Republican lawyer from Canton, Ohio in the United States who sat as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922.

Clark was born to James J. and Ada Schlabach Clark of Canton, Ohio.

J. M. Robson

Along with Charlotte Auerbach and A.J. Clark, Robson discovered in 1940 that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies, founding the science of mutagenesis.

James Joseph Kingstone

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, Brigadier Kingstone was under the command of Major General J. G. W. Clark and was part of his relieving Habforce which included the British 4th Cavalry Brigade, a battalion of The Essex Regiment, the Arab Legion Mechanised Regiment, a field artillery battery and a troop of anti-tank guns).

John F. Melby

Appeals to State Department officials responsible for administrative matters failed, as did the advocacy of Pennsylvania Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. on Melby's behalf.

John J. Kavelaars

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

John Najjar

He is credited for having co-designed the first prototype of the Ford Mustang known as Ford Mustang I with Philip T. Clark.

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).

Justin Whalin

1996: American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award: Outstanding Television Series Actor in a Crossover Role for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)

Kayla Blake

She has made minor guest appearances on other TV series, including Without a Trace, Tour of Duty, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium

"Birfday Party" originally had plans of including Das Racist, but despite Heems liking the idea of the track, Kool A.D. decided it wouldn't make for a good idea.

Mike Western

In the early 1950s he joined fellow former GB Animation artists Ron "Nobby" Clark and Eric Bradbury at Amalgamated Press, drawing adventure strips for Knock-Out, including the western "Lucky Logan" and the aviation series "Johnnie Wingco".

Nephrurus

In the first episode of the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Planet newspaper, producing an article on Knob-Tailed Geckos as proof of his writing skills.

Paris Qualles

Qualles has written episodes for several television series, including Seaquest DSV, The Cape, M.A.N.T.I.S., Law & Order, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Quantum Leap, and China Beach.

Riding the Bullet

It will feature the novella Riding the Bullet, the original script for the film with same name by Mick Garris, and artwork by Alan M. Clark and Bernie Wrightson.

Robert D. Clark

From 1964 until 1969, Clark served as president of San Jose State College, where he was known for his support of the civil rights struggles of African-American athletes, including Olympians John Carlos and Tommie Smith.

Ronald Clark

Ronald E. Clark, American doctor suspected of being a serial killer

Samuel M. Clark

Two years later Clark won re-election, and served in the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Shield nickel

The five-cent note was to bear a portrait of "Clark", but Congress was appalled when the issue came out not bearing a portrait of William Clark, the explorer, but Spencer M. Clark, head of the Currency Bureau.

Steven Oberman

Justice Cornelia A. Clark wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court, which sided unanimously with Oberman's defense.

The Bottle District, St Louis

The deal would see the previous investment group, including developers Larry Chapman and Clayco, sell the site to NorthSide for an undisclosed amount that documents with the city suggest would be $3 million; all three were to work to find tenants and build on the site.

Thomas D. Clark

It turned out that budding writer, William Faulkner, also having a hard time with finances, helped Clark tend the golf course.

Thomas J. Clark

Clark was an active partner and advisor to John Stewart up until Clark's death during the 1907 Glidden Tour.

Toyohira-ku, Sapporo

Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill - where visitors can view the scene of Sapporo City from the hill, also famous for the bronze statue of William S. Clark

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.

Virtual season

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which was cancelled in 1997, spawned several virtual seasons, continuing the trend.

Wesley A. Clark

Wesley Allison Clark (born 1927) is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers (such as the PDP-1) the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer.

William P. Clark, Jr.

His biography, The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand, written by Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner, was published in 2007 by Ignatius Press.

Yawgoog Scout Reservation

Camp Sandy Beach campsites are named after famous Americans in history and include the following: Abe Lincoln, Audubon, Backwoods, Davy Crockett, Donald H. Cady, George Washington, Jim Bridger, Jim Bowie, James West, John Glenn, Kit Carson, Lewis & Clark, Neil Armstrong, Norman Rockwell, Richard Byrd, Silver Buffalo, and Teddy Roosevelt.


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