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unusual facts about David K. E. Bruce


Pamunkey Regional Library

It was one of eleven libraries donated to rural Virginia counties by Mr. David K. E. Bruce.


Castle-class patrol vessel

The Castle class was designed by David K. Brown and was intended as a series of six offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy, designed in response to criticism of the previous Island-class for insufficient speed, non-optimal sea keeping and lack of a flight deck for rescue helicopters.

Constructive Living

Constructive Living, founded in the 1980s by Dr David K. Reynolds, is a unique synthesis of the ideas and practices of Shoma Morita embodied in Morita Therapy and Naikan Practice as evolved by Ishin Yoshimoto.

Dan Emmett

He became an expert fifer and drummer at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and published his own Fifer’s and Drummer’s Guide in 1862 in cooperation with George G. Bruce.

David Hoadley

David K. Hoadley (born 1938), first known storm chaser and founder of Storm Track magazine

David K. Colapinto

While at Boston University, he was an investigative reporter for the b.u. exposure, a student-run independent newspaper dedicated to exposing financial and ethical irregularities of the administration of B.U. President John Silber.

He also served as counsel in the law firm's successful defense of Linda Tripp in her Privacy Act lawsuit against the Departments of Justice and Defense and in defending Marita Murphy in her lawsuit Murphy v. IRS.

He also helped obtain whistleblower protection for Federal Bureau of Investigation employees and helped force the F.B.I. crime lab to obtain accreditation, the latter development involving him in the O.J. Simpson Trial.

David K. Hoadley

A meticulous record keeper, Hoadley taught himself meteorology and developed a pattern recognition based forecasting method, primarily using surface data.

David K. Jordan

Jordan has published on language, social structure, folk religion, and sectarianism in Taiwan and China and has written in and about Esperanto and the social movements associated with it and the associated area of interlinguistics.

David K. Lovegren

Lovegren also produced the 2010 computer animated film Dino Time and the 2011 sequel to Hoodwinked!, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil.

David K. Norton

From 1990 until 2000, he held positions with PepsiCo, Inc., including Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Frito-Lay North America from 1997 to 2000, and Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Pepsi Food Systems, from 1995 to 1996.

David Norton is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of People's United Bank, responsible for all human resources functions, including total rewards, staffing and recruiting, employee relations, learning and development, HRIS, and corporate communications.

David K. Watson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

David K. Wyatt

In October 2005, he sold his library–consisting of roughly 15,000 volumes, many of them in the written in Thai, including Thai royal journals–to the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University.

Frederick Bruce

F. F. Bruce (Frederick Fyvie Bruce) (1910–1990), Scottish Biblical scholar

George Eldon Ladd

Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology: Essays in Honor of George E. Ladd (ISBN 080283504X), which included contributions by Leon Morris, William Barclay, F. F. Bruce, I. Howard Marshall, Richard Longenecker and Daniel Fuller.

Greenwich Avenue Historic District

Another philanthropist, Robert M. Bruce, and his sister Sarah E. Bruce, donated to the town the Old Town Hall (now the Senior Center) after it was constructed in 1905.

His Lordship's Kindness

Through the next hundred years, the property passed through a number of hands, including David K.E. Bruce, Chandler Hale, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.

James E. Bruce

In 2006, Bruce was hospitalized due to the effects of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, which he had been suffering from for a year.

Legal Information Institute

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Professor Peter Martin and Tom Bruce with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research.

Murphy v. IRS

Murphy's attorneys, led by David K. Colapinto of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, requested a rehearing of the July 2007 decision by the full Court of Appeals (en banc) for the District of Columbia Circuit, which was denied on September 14, 2007.

Marrita Murphy was represented by David K. Colapinto of the law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, who also handled her appeal before the D.C. Circuit.

Of Thee I Sting

Of Thee I Sting is a 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, written by Michael Maltese and narrated by Robert C. Bruce that is a parody of World War II documentaries and the title Of Thee I Sing.

Phrao District

David K. Wyatt and Aroonrut Wichienkeeo, Chinag Mai: Silkworm Books, 1998, ISBN 978-974-7100-62-4

Prince Consort-class ironclad

Brown, David K. Warrior to Dreadnought, Warship Development 1860–1905, published Chatham Publishing, 1997.

Register of the Treasury

Four of the five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and James C. Napier).

Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.

Sanders D. Bruce

His father, John Bruce, was native to England and was believed to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce.

School of Practice

The official training guide, adopted by the War Department, was George G. Bruce's The Drummers and Fife Guide, which was used until the end of the Civil War.

Shadow of the Hegemon

Card accredits two books in particular as being profoundly influential in the writing of this novel: Thailand: A Short History by David K. Wyatt and Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James.

Storm chasing

The first recognized storm chaser is David Hoadley (1938– ), who began chasing North Dakota storms in 1956; systematically using data from area weather offices.

Terry L. Bruce

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1992 to the 103rd Congress.

He was elected to the Ninety-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985–January 3, 1993).

Thai studies

Highly acclaimed historian David K. Wyatt was also a professor at Cornell from 1969 until he retired in 2002.

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a 2004 book written by Pulitzer Prize winner, David K. Shipler.


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