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2 unusual facts about Donald C. Peattie


Donald C. Peattie

His best known works are the two books (out of a planned trilogy) on North American trees, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America (1950) and A Natural History of Western Trees (1953), with woodcut illustrations by Paul Landacre.

He studied French poetry for two years at the University of Chicago and then transferred to – and graduated (1922) from — Harvard University, where he studied with the noted botanist Merritt Lyndon Fernald.


American Customer Satisfaction Index

Both the Swedish version and the ACSI were developed by Claes Fornell, now Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and chairman of CFI Group.

Butler, Alabama

Donald C. Simmons, Jr., American educator, writer, poet and documentary film producer.

Confederate settlements in British Honduras

Historian and author Donald C. Simmons, Jr., published a book in 2001 entitled Confederate Settlements in British Honduras about this episode in American and British Honduran history.

Donald C. Backer

Backer then took post-doctoral positions first at NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia (1971–1973), and then at NASA/GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland (1973–1975).

Backer then moved on to studying reionization, leading a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and NRAO called the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER).

Donald C. Dobbins

Dobbins was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937).

Donald C. Jackman

Cousins of the German Carolingians, in: Katharine Keats-Rohan und Christian Settipani : Onomastique et parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, 2000, ISBN 1-900934-01-9.

Donald C. Jackman received the Ph.D. in 1987 from Columbia University with the dissertation entitled The Konradiner: a study in genealogical methodology dealing with the family of the Conradines.

Donald C. MacDonald

He later became editor of Canadian Digest, a magazine published by the military that provided a cross section of articles from Canadian periodicals and newspapers, and was the host of Serviceman's Forum, a regular series of broadcasts on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that were also aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Donald C. Pogue

He served as Director of the Connecticut branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees from 1975 to 1976.

Donald C. Wurster

He commanded special operations forces at the squadron, group, wing and subunified command level, and he served as commander of all U.S. forces assigned to Joint Task Force-510 during Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines.

#June 1973 - July 1974, student, undergraduate helicopter training, Fort Rucker, Ala.

In 1974, he completed undergraduate helicopter training at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Eric E. Fiel

On June 24, 2011 General Fiel took over Air Force Special Operations Command from General Donald C. Wurster in a ceremony held at Hurlburt Field.

Eupora, Mississippi

Donald C. Simmons, Jr., American educator, author, poet and documentary film producer.

Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka

Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941, David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland ISBN 0-87021-192-7

Kirk Lippold

Subsequent Navy promotion boards continued to select Lippold for Captain, and in all cases the selection was subsequently struck down by the U.S. Senate and Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter.

Lamar S. Owens Jr.

Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter ruled his conduct "unsatisfactory" and ordered him discharged.

Polymath Park

The site, near the village of Acme in Westmoreland County, is surrounded by private forest in the Allegheny Mountains and features three architectural landmarks: Frank Lloyd Wright's (1867–1959) Donald C. Duncan House and two others by Peter Berndtson (1909–1972), who was one of the original Wright apprentices.

Stephan I, Count of Sponheim

Donald C. Jackman considers Stephan I a son of Siegfried I. Both Jackman and Josef Heinzelmann consider Stephan as being identical to Stephan, Vogt of Worms documented with his brother Markward in 1068.

Type II string theory

The mathematical treatment of type IIB string theory belongs to algebraic geometry, specifically the deformation theory of complex structures originally studied by Kunihiko Kodaira and Donald C. Spencer.

Writing process

Prominent figures in the field include John Dixon, Ken Macrorie, Lou Kelly, Donald C. Stewart and Peter Elbow.


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