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unusual facts about F. J. Rowe


F. J. Rowe

Before moving to Presidency College, Rowe was a teacher of English at La Martiniere College in Calcutta.


Al Mar Knives

The Al Mar SERE Knife was the first knife accepted for use by Special Forces Colonel Nick Rowe for the SERE Instructor School at Camp McCall, North Carolina.

Earl W. Rowe

He was defeated in the 1987 provincial election, losing to Liberal Bruce Owen by 2,492 votes.

Frederick Rowe

Frederick W. Rowe (1863–1946),U.S. Representative from New York

Frederick W. Rowe

He served as director of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn.

James G. Rowe, Jr.

After Whitney died, James Rowe, Jr. went to work for Helen Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable in the latter part of 1930, replacing Thomas W. Murphy.

James N. Rowe

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is now a requirement for graduation from the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification Course.

At around 7:00 in the morning of April 21, 1989, as he was being driven to work at the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group headquarters in an armoured limousine, Colonel Rowe's vehicle was hit by gunfire from a .45 caliber pistol and an M16 rifle near a corner of Tomas Morato Street and Timog Avenue in Quezon City.

Filipino nationals Juanito T. Itaas (principal) and Donato B. Continente (accomplice) were convicted by a Philippine court and sentenced to 16 years imprisonment; Continente was released in 1995 under an amnesty programme of the Philippine government.

Karen Parshall

with David E. Rowe: The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore, AMS/LMS History of Mathematics 8, Providence/London 1994

New People's Army

The NPA claims responsibility for the assassination of U.S. Army Colonel James "Nick" Rowe, founder of the U.S. Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) course, in 1989.

Nicholas Rowe

James N. Rowe, James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, (1938–1989), American military officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War

Rowe Nunataks

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after C.A. Rowe, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who investigated volcanic activity and seismicity at nearby Mount Erebus, 1984–85 and 1985-86.

Shahine Robinson

In November 2011, Robinson filed a challenge to the costs order in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it was excessive; she particularly objected to the J$5 million paid to professor David P. Rowe for a legal opinion about her citizenship, arguing that the information could have been obtained at much lower cost from U.S. government sources.

Twenty Grand

Trained at age three by James G. Rowe, Jr. and ridden by jockey Charley Kurtsinger, Twenty Grand raced against very strong opponents in 1930 and 1931 when he was part of what the Chicago Tribune newspaper called the "big four" in racing, which included Jamestown, Mate, and Equipoise.

William B. Rowe

In 1945, Rowe began making regular trips to Mexico and the American southwest where he had many artist friends including Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros and Santa Fe artists Joseph Bakos and Walter Mruk.

William N. Rowe

Kiberd, Declan (editor), 1916 Rebellion Handbook Dublin: Mourne River Press, 1998.


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