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unusual facts about Donald N. Levine


Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam

Contributed to Donald N. Levine's 'Ethiopia’s nationhood reconsidered', Análise Social, vol.


Barry B. Levine

He is perhaps best known for penning Benjy Lopez which received much acclaim; most recently in a February, 2008, Newsweek article written by art historian Robert Farris Thompson.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies first issue was released on October 9, 2008 featuring stories by Chris Willrich and David D. Levine.

Blame It on the Alcohol

In actuality, the song was written by Brennan, who wrote the episode, and composer James Scott Levine.

Burger King products

The expanded Burger King menu was part of a plan by then-company president Donald N. Smith to reach the broadest possible demographic market to better compete with McDonald's, and to fend off then newcomer Wendy's, who had a growing market share.

In 1978, Donald N. Smith was hired from McDonald's to help restructure the corporate operations of Burger King to better compete against his former company as well as the then up-and-coming chain, Wendy's.

Charles Levin

Charles A. Levine (1897–1991), first passenger aboard a transatlantic flight

Donald N. Frey

He was instrumental in promoting the first successful CD-ROM based information system, designing the dealer auto parts catalog for General Motors, by David Gump, to be distributed to dealers on CD.

As a tribute to his parents (his father was an engineer and his mother was studying engineering when the couple married) he set up the Margaret and Muir Frey Memorial Prize for Innovation and Creativity ("Frey Prize") at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in 2001.

During World War II Frey worked on the Packard V-1650 version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine for Packard Motors, the engines to be sent to England for placement in the Hurricanes and Spitfires.

Donald N. Sills

He served as the first president of George Wythe College (now known as George Wythe University), and was succeeded by Oliver DeMille.

Sills has been in films, appeared on hundreds of broadcast radio and television programs, including the Phil Donahue Show, Larry King Live, and Pat Robertson’s 700 Club.

Glenn Kimber

Kimber and Donald N. Sills (founder of George Wythe College) partnered to found a for-profit university called American Founders University.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

He bought the international rights for $25,000, then sold them to Jewell Enterprises Inc., a small production company owned by Richard Kay and Harry Rybnick which, with backing from Terry Turner and Joseph E. Levine, successfully adapted it for American audiences.

Irving R. Levine

His reporting on Europe included accounts of the 1961 construction of the Berlin Wall by East Germany; the Vatican II Ecumenical Council, which opened in 1962; and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the USSR.

He was named bureau chief of Rome, where he served for nearly 12 years, also being stationed in Vienna and Tokyo.

Javelin Software

The Javelin development team was led by Christopher Herot, Vice President of Engineering, and included Charles Frankston, brother of spreadsheet co-inventor Bob Frankston, Arye Gittelman, John R. Levine, Louise Cousins (Pathe), and Peter Pathe.

Jeffrey D. Levine

He has received numerous Department of State awards as well as the Golden Laurel Medal, presented by the Government of Bulgaria.

John R. Levine

He chaired the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), is president of CAUCE (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), was a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) At-Large Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks.

Lee Levine

Lee I. Levine, Talmud scholar, professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Levine scale

The eponym is from researcher Samuel A. Levine who studied the significance of systolic heart murmurs.

Levine's sign

It is named for Dr. Sam Levine who first observed that many patients suffering from chest pain made this same sign to describe their symptoms.

Lloyd E. Levine

Prior to being elected to the Assembly, Levine served as Legislative Director to former Assemblymember John Longville.

Michael E. Levine

As an airline executive, Levine served at Continental Airlines (1981–82) and Northwest (1992–99) as an Executive Vice President and was President and CEO of New York Air (1982–84), guiding that post-deregulation airline to its first profit.

Michael H. Levine

Levine grew up in New York City, where he attended William Cullen Bryant High School, the same school attended by former NY City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

Michael H. Levine is the founding executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, an action research and innovation hub devoted to harnessing

Michael Levine

Michael H. Levine, founding executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

National Center for Constitutional Studies

Board members of this non-profit included Skousen, William H. Doughty, Donald N. Sills, and Glenn Kimber.

Nevada Smith

The movie was produced and directed by Henry Hathaway with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer, from a story and screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on a character from Harold Robbins' 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers.

Trumansburg, New York

From 2004 to 2007, the mayor was John R. Levine, the original author of The Internet for Dummies.

Walter Jakob Gehring

In 1983 Gehring and his collaborators (William McGinnis, Michael S. Levine, Ernst Hafen, Richard Garber, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Johannes Wirz), discovered the homeobox, a DNA segment characteristic for homeotic genes which is not only present in arthropods and their ancestors, but also in vertebrates including man.

Wyeth v. Levine

Justice John Paul Stevens, writing on behalf of a 6-3 court, rejected both Wyeth's arguments.


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