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1992 in archaeology

Donald B. Redford – Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.

Abraham Abraham

Among Abraham's many notable descendants are grandson Donald B. Straus, an educator, author, and advisor, great-great-granddaughter Nina Rothschild Utne, a magazine publisher, and great-great-great-grandson Arthur Bradford, an author and director.

Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Previous Assistant Secretaries since the position's creation, by recency, are Jendayi E. Frazer, Constance Berry Newman, Walter H. Kansteiner, III, Susan E. Rice, George Moose, Herman Jay Cohen, Chester A. Crocker, Richard M. Moose, William E. Schaufele, Jr., Nathaniel Davis, Donald B. Easum, David D. Newsom, Joseph Palmer II, G. Mennen Williams, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite.

Atenism

Redford, Donald B., Akhenaten: The Heretic King ISBN 0-691-00217-7

Donald B. Beary

Mount Vernon was in the Atlantic Ocean as part of a convoy steaming from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, bound for Cape Town, South Africa, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, brought the United States into World War II on 7 December 1941.

Donald B. Easum

He has four children and eight grandchildren whose birthplaces include Tokyo, Amsterdam, Dakar, São Paulo, Jakarta, and Managua.

Donald B. Smith

General Smith's command tour with the Division was in Mainz-Gonsenheim, Germany, where he commanded the 4th Battalion, 69th Armor from 1982 to 1984.

Smith served as the Chief of Delegation and Chief of Mission for the United States at the First Military World Games in Rome, Italy, in September 1995.

Ferranti Pegasus

Donald B. Gillies was another of the people who worked on the Pegasus.

ILLIAC I

1957 – Mathematician Donald B. Gillies, physicist James E. Snyder, and astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the University of Illinois used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the Sputnik I satellite within two days of its launch.

ILLIAC II

The pipelined control was designed by faculty member Donald B. Gillies.

During check-out of the ILLIAC II, before it became fully operational, faculty member Donald B. Gillies programmed ILLIAC II to search for mersenne prime numbers.

James L. Clark

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews; Robert Bartlett; Frederick Russell Burnham; Richard E. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie; Merian C. Cooper; Lincoln Ellsworth; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; George Bird Grinnell; Charles A. Lindbergh; Donald B. MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George Palmer Putnam; Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius; Stewart Edward White; Orville Wright.

McDiarmid Falls

Some of their guests were renowned, including H.R. MacMillan, president of the forest company MacMillan Bloedel; he visited twice a year with an entourage of business friends and owned property on the Clearwater River from 1949 to 1972.

Mersekhemre Ined

Egyptologists Jürgen von Beckerath, Detlef Franke, Jacques Kinnaer, Rolf Krauss and Donald B. Redford conclude that the Mersekhemre Ined of the Turin canon and Mersekhemre Neferhotep are one and the same person.

ORDVAC

J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Steinaker

Donald B. Steinaker (1922-1942), a United States Marine Corps private first class and Navy Cross recipient

Thomas C. MacMillan

His maternal grandmother, Olwen Elizabeth Lloyd George, was a daughter of David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister between 1916 and 1922, with his first wife Margaret Owen.

Viola R. MacMillan

William Pinch, over the course of fifty years, had accumulated one of the world's most important mineral collections.

Western Behavioral Sciences Institute

Student participants included CEOs of major corporations, high-ranking U.S. Army generals, scientists, renowned writers and other professionals including Paul Funk, Barry McCaffrey, Gloria Feldt, Donald B. Straus, Marlon Brando, Wesley Clark, Michael Crichton, Wayne Peterson and many others.


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