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unusual facts about Donald J. Newman


Coupon collector's problem

Donald J. Newman and Lawrence Shepp found a generalization of the coupon collector's problem when m copies of each coupon needs to be collected.


452d Air Mobility Wing

1st Lieutenant Donald J. Gott and 2nd Lieutenant William E. Metzger, Jr were both awarded the Medal of Honor for their heroic actions.

Alva R. Fitch

Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power.

Andrew Newman

Andrew J. Newman, a reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh

Anne Wexler

In 1966, Wexler began her political career by helping John Fitzgerald organize a Congressional campaign against the pro-Vietnam war Democrat incumbent Donald J. Irwin.

Boudreaux

Donald J. Boudreaux (contemporary), American professor of law and economics

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse

U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Southern District of New York Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa attended the ceremony.

Donald Harrington

Donald J. Harrington (born 1945), former president of St. John's University

Donald J. Albosta

This did not play well with voters in his district and he was defeated in November 1984 by Bill Schuette.

It was later revealed that the person behind the leaked briefing books was Paul Corbin, a former aide to Robert Kennedy and a disgruntled Ted Kennedy supporter.

Donald J. Atwood Jr.

He lived on a small farm adjoining the ancestral home of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

Donald J. Cram

He entertained his classes by strumming his guitar and singing folk songs.

Donald J. DePorter

A successful restaurateur, Grant DePorter came to worldwide prominence in 2004 when he paid US$113,824.16 for a baseball which a fan had unwittingly deflected out of the hands of a Chicago Cubs player (thus contributing to the team's defeat in the 2003 National League Championship Series), and then having the ball blown-up in a nationally televised event intended to help end the "Curse of the Billy Goat" which had afflicted the Cubs since 1945.

Donald J. Devine

Before and after his government service he has been an academic, teaching 14 years as associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and for a decade as a professor of Western civilization at Bellevue University.

Donald J. Gott

Flares in the cockpit were ignited and a fire raged therein, which was further increased by free-flowing fluid from damaged hydraulic lines.

Donald J. Hall, Sr.

Upon graduation from Dartmouth in 1950, he joined the United States Army, served most of his military career as an officer at a small post in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

Donald J. Kutyna

Kutyna is perhaps most famous for his aid in several investigations of NASA launch failures, especially his membership on the Rogers Commission investigating the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Donald J. Ryder

In 2003 Ryder conducted an inquiry into abuse of prisoners in Iraq, cited in the Taguba Report.

Donald J. Sobol

After a brief stint as a buyer at Macy's in New York, he moved to Florida and started writing full-time.

Frank Newman

Frank N. Newman (born 1942), US banker and former United States Department of the Treasury official

Frank C. Newman (1917–1996), US law school dean, state supreme court judge, and scholar and reformer in international human rights law

Guy Newman

Guy D. Newman (1906–1988), American academic, Baptist preacher and university administrator

I Know I'm Not Wrong

The track "To Wild Homes" found on the The New Pornographers's record Mass Romantic features the melody of "I Know I'm Not Wrong" where A.C. Newman plays the song's melody over the fading chorus at the end of the track.

I'll Get You for This

It was directed by Joseph M. Newman from an adaptation by George Callahan and William Rose of James Hadley Chase's book of the same name.

James Franck

He was also the chairman of the Committee on Political and Social Problems regarding the atomic bomb; the committee consisted of himself and other scientists at the Met Lab, including Donald J. Hughes, J. J. Nickson, Eugene Rabinowitch, Glenn T. Seaborg, J. C. Stearns and Leó Szilárd.

Jane Louise Kelly

After graduation, she clerked for Judge Donald J. Porter of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota.

Jimmy C. Newman

In 1976, his recording of the Cajun French song, "Lâche pas la patate" ("The Potato Song") earned gold record status in Canada.

John M. Newman

John M. Newman spent 21 years with the U.S. Army Intelligence.

Joseph M. Newman

His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

M.W. Newman

Although best known for his coverage of crime and local news in Chicago, he spent most of his later career writing for Inland Architect and Architectural Forum while also writing arts reviews for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

In 2006, Hallmark Cards chairman Donald J. Hall, Sr., donated to the museum the entire Hallmark Photographic Collection, spanning the history of photography from 1839 to the present day.

Peter Bruce

Since the discovery of crown ethers and cryptands by Pederson, Cram and Lehn (for which they received the Nobel Prize in 1987), the significance of molecules containing the repeat units -CH2-CH2-O- as coordinating ligands for metal cations has been recognised.

Peter Newman

Peter C. Newman, Canadian journalist who emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia

Plantation Records

In the late 1970s the label signed a number of veteran country performers to the label including Webb Pierce, Jimmie Davis, Jimmy C. Newman, Hank Locklin, and Roy Drusky though few of these records charted.

Republicanism in Canada

The notion of a republic was raised publicly in the early 1990s, when Peter C. Newman wrote in Maclean's that the monarchy should be abolished in favour of a head of state "who would reflect our own, instead of imported, values."

Ruhl

Donald J. Ruhl (1923 – 1945), American Marine; awarded Medal of Honor for action at Iwo Jima

Sean Lee

Sean is also a grandson of Federal Judge Donald J. Lee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.

On December 6, 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Judge Limbaugh to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri to fill the seat vacated by Donald J. Stohr.

Steve Newman

Steven M. Newman, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to walk solo around the world

Steven M. Newman

He and his wife, Darci, reside on nearly 25 acres along the Ohio River on a heavily forested hillside known as “Worldwalker Hill.”

Susan G. Cole

While on the job she met author and Maclean's editor Peter C. Newman who, in 1976, made her his principal researcher for his book The Bronfman Dynasty (McClelland & Stewart).

The Big Bankroll

The Big Bankroll is a 1961 American crime film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson.

The Cole Nobody Knows

The film tells Mr. Cole’s story through interviews with musicians Monty Alexander, Nancy Wilson, David “Fathead” Newman, John di Martino, H Johnson and Carl Anthony.

William R. Newman

The history of medieval alchemy formed the central focus of Newman's early work, which included several studies of Roger Bacon and culminated in an edition, translation, and study of the Latin alchemist who wrote under the assumed name of "Geber" (a transliteration of "Jābir", from "Jābir ibn Hayyān"), probably Paul of Taranto.

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.


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