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unusual facts about Eric A. Havelock


Eric A. Havelock

The work Havelock and Innis began in the 1930s was the preliminary basis for the influential theories of communication developed by Marshall McLuhan and Edmund Snow Carpenter in the 1950s.


Belly gun

The origin of the term is obscure, but the belly gun's modern formulation dates from the first half of the Twentieth Century, and can be attributed to a small group of men, most with military backgrounds: Colonel Rex Applegate, Major Eric A. Sykes, Lieutenant-Colonel William E. Fairbairn, pistolsmith John H. Fitzgerald, and perhaps most prominently Colonel Charles Askins.

Considered harmful

Web design consultant Eric A. Meyer focused upon the letter, itself: "Considered Harmful Essays Considered Harmful".

Designing with Web Standards

The Web Standards movement pioneered by Glenn Davis, George Olsen, Jeffrey Zeldman, Steven Champeon, Todd Fahrner, Eric A. Meyer, Tantek Çelik, Dori Smith, Tim Bray, Jeffrey Veen, and other members of the Web Standards Project in the 1990s replaced bandwidth-heavy tag soup with light, semantic markup and progressive enhancement, with the goal of making web content "accessible to all".

Eric A. McAfee

In 2005, McAfee and longtime friend, Bob Comes, used their plane to transport firefighters from Saratoga and San Jose along with officials from CityTeam Ministries, a San Jose–based nonprofit Christian ministry that helps the poor, to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Eric A. Morris

Star Trek: Voyager, JAG, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Pretender, and The Outer Limits.

In addition to teaching and research at Clemson, Morris writes about transportation for the "Freakonomics" blog.

Eric Stern

Eric A. Stern, Senior Counselor to the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer

Eric Walker

Eric A. Walker (1910–1995), president of Penn State University, 1956–1970

Global Multimedia Protocols Group

The Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik, Eric A. Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg.

Karl Löffler

Historian Eric A. Johnson used Löffler as an example of what he called "local Eichmanns" in his book, Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.


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