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unusual facts about Edward W. Carter


Edward W. Carter

In 1945, he served as an executive of Broadway Stores, later endowed with 150 stores and sales of $7.5 billion a year.


Amon G. Carter

The Southern Air Transport terminal at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, now Atlantic Aviation, was dedicated to Amon Carter in 1933.

Arthur L. Carter

In 1967, he married Dixie Carter, and they eventually had two daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311

Former Texas senator John Tower, 65, his daughter Marian, astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter, and American College of Physicians president-elect Dr. Nicholas Davies, and N.A.T.O. liaison Dr. June T. Amlie, were among the 23 passengers and crew killed.

Brian Lees

Early in his career, he served as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke.

C. Fred Bergsten

In 2001, he co-founded the Center for Global Development along with Edward W. Scott, Jr. and Nancy Birdsall.

Coach Carter Impact Academy

The Coach Carter Impact Academy is an unconventional boarding school that was founded by Ken "Coach" Carter in 2009 in the small Central Texas town of Marlin.

Congressional Black Caucus

Only six black Republicans have been elected to Congress since the caucus was founded: Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, Representative Gary Franks of Connecticut, Delegate Melvin H. Evans of the Virgin Islands, Representative J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, Representative Allen West of Florida, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.

Curtis L. Carter

His greatest accomplishment at Marquette was the creation of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art.

Drew Correa

Initially struggling with relatively little work as a producer, Correa received his first major label placement, Lil Wayne's "Mr. Carter", featuring American rapper and mogul Jay-Z.

Edward W. Carmack

Carmack failed to secure reelection to a second Senate term, being succeeded by former governor of Tennessee Robert L. Taylor, and returned to the practice of law.

Edward W. Clayborn

In The Ganymede Takeover, the San Franciscan author Philip K. Dick, a record enthusiast, has a character state that "True Religion", sung by Clayborn was one of the first jazz recordings.

Edward W. Crosby

Dr. Donald Henderson, then director of the Experiment in Higher Education, lectured on the Black Aesthetic.

Edward W. Goss

Goss was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Glynn and at the same time was elected to the Seventy-second Congress.

Edward W. Heston

The Heston Mansion, located near the current Heston School, was built in 1800 and was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1872; it was demolished in 1901 to make way for a railroad.

Edward W. Moser

In 1951 they went to live in the Mexican state of Sonora to live with the Seri people and learn the Seri language under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Edward W. Moser (1924–1976) was an American linguist and expert in the Seri language and culture working with the Summer institute of Linguistics.

Edward W. Townsend

He died in New York City on March 15, 1942, and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.

Edward W. Veitch

Maurice Karnaugh, November 1953, The Map Method for Synthesis of Combinational Logic Circuits, AIEE Committee on Technical Operations for presentation at the AIEE summer General Meeting, Atlantic City, N. J., June 15–19, 1953, pp.

In his 1952 paper "A Chart Method for Simplifying Truth Functions", Veitch described a graphical procedure for the optimization of logic circuits, a year later (1953) refined in a paper by Maurice Karnaugh into what is now known as the Karnaugh map method.

Euler diagram

Thus the matter would rest until 1952 when Maurice Karnaugh (1924– ) would adapt and expand a method proposed by Edward W. Veitch; this work would rely on the truth table method precisely defined in Emil Post's 1921 PhD thesis "Introduction to a general theory of elementary propositions" and the application of propositional logic to switching logic by (among others) Claude Shannon, George Stibitz, and Alan Turing.

Edward W. Veitch 1952 "A Chart Method for Simplifying Truth Functions", Transactions of the 1952 ACM Annual Meeting, ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting "Pittsburgh", ACM, NY, pp.

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Founded in 2004 by Edward W. Scott, Adam Waldman and Jack Valenti, Friends of the Global Fight works to educate and mobilize U.S. decision makers to support the Global Fund and the fight to end the worldwide burden of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Gebhart v. Belton

Gebhart was filed in 1951 in the Delaware Court of Chancery by lawyers Jack Greenberg and Louis L. Redding under a strategy formulated by Robert L. Carter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

George F. Carter

He cites Hannes Lindemann's solo crossing of the Atlantic in a dugout canoe as evidence that humans could in fact have made the same journey in past.

George R. Carter

Roosevelt eventually appointed him Secretary of the Territory in 1902, and then Territorial Governor in 1903, succeeding Sanford B. Dole who resigned to become a federal judge.

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

Also during this time, the free trade treaty was renewed, with a controversial clause that guaranteed the use of Pearl Harbor as a US Navy base.

Henry Carter

Henry A. P. Carter (1837–1891), American diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Henry H. Carter

For most of his professional life he was interested in the translation of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, written by monks, about the stories of Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail, and the legend of El Cid.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

Howard Thurston

Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3), concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.

Jill P. Carter

Jill P. Carter is the daughter of the late Walter P. Carter, who was a civil rights activist and leader in the desegregation movement in Maryland in the 1950s and 1960s.

Jonathan Carter

Jonathan H. Carter (died 1887), North Carolina-born planter, sailor, and Confederate States of America gunboat builder

Joseph C. Carter

In 1978 he joined the Boston Police Department where his positions including patrol officer, detective, patrol supervisor, Deputy Superintendent, Superintendent, Chief of Staff of the department and Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, presiding over all departmental disciplinary trial boards.

Lapita culture

The excavation was carried out in 1952 by American archaeologists Edward W. Gifford and Richard Shulter Jr at 'Site 13'.

Murky Depths

Authors published by Murky Depths have included Robert Rankin, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Stan Nicholls, Sam Stone, Eugie Foster, Richard Calder, Edward Morris, Edward M. Erdelac, Chris Huff, Matt Wallace, R. D. Hall, Mike Carey, Juliet E. McKenna, C. J. Carter-Stephenson and Lavie Tidhar.

Nathaniel Thayer

For a number of years, Thayer was involved in a dispute with James G. Carter, then-Deacon of Thayer's congregation and later a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, over the latter's refusal to return funds donated toward the establishment of an instructional academy that failed to materialise.

Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art

The museum opened in 1984 following a university collaborative effort that was chaired by professor Curtis L. Carter.

Propositional formula

Willard Quine 1952 and 1955, E. W. Veitch 1952, and M. Karnaugh (1953) develop map-methods for simplifying propositional functions.

Question P

The effort to gather signatures to put Question P on the ballot, in the first place, was spearheaded by a grassroots political action coalition that included Community and Labor United for Baltimore (CLUB), the Baltimore Green Party, the Baltimore office of ACORN and state delegates Curt Anderson and Jill P. Carter.

Steve Carter

Steven A. Carter (born 1959), American author of non-fiction and humor

Steven A. Carter

Men Who Can't Love had its most recent on-screen appearance in the Katherine Heigl/Gerard Butler film The Ugly Truth (July 2009).

Sunny Side of Life

Sunny Side of Life is a documentary film from 1985 about the musical Carter Family focusing on the children of A.P and Sara who still live in the mountains and are trying to keep the legacy of their ancestors alive, at the Carter Fold near Maces Spring, Virginia.

T. K. Carter

He is also known for playing slightly nervous characters, such as the rollerskating chef, Nauls, in John Carpenter's The Thing, as well as the unfortunate National Guard, Cribbs, in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort.

Tears on Tape

The album's artwork, created by Daniel P. Carter, consists of a snake, circling the heartagram which is encased in a heptagram, or more specifically the Seal of Babalon.

The Culture of Disbelief

The Culture of Disbelief (ISBN 0-385-47498-9) is a 1994 book by Stephen L. Carter.

Welcome Back, Carter

Peter then interjects his hatred of PBS, after viewing a nine-part series on traffic signs by director and producer Ken Burns, the fourth of which on the yield sign.


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