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Hanlon's razor

Hanlon's razor is an eponymous adage that allows the elimination of unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.


Carrickmacross Emmet's GAC

The Monaghan Inter-county players Stephen Gollogly, Peter O'Hanlon and Mark Downey plays for Carrickmacross Emmetts.

Des Bishop

He began hosting shows at the International Comedy Cellar - a venue set up by Irish comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Kevin Gildea and Barry Murphy.

Earl J. Atkisson

In May 1918 he was made commandant of the Gas Service Experimental Field and Gas Defense School at Hanlon Field near Chaumont, France.

Fergal O'Hanlon

His brother Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain was elected a Sinn Féin abstentionist TD in the 1957 general election to Dáil Éireann.

Gair Ministry

On 17 January 1952, the Governor, Sir John Lavarack, designated 11 principal executive offices of the Government, appointed former minister Ted Walsh to the Executive Council to fill the vacancy left by Hanlon's death, and appointed the following Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland to the Ministry as follows.

George O'Hanlon

According to voice director Andrea Romano, O'Hanlon found it difficult to read and hear and in the end he died in the recording studio doing what he loved.

Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest

When prompted by Monica to say the Latin, Dougal reads "last rites" consisting of the names of Italian footballers Alessandro Costacurta and Roberto Baggio (this stems from Graham Linehan and Ardal O'Hanlon being fans of Football Italia).

Hanlon-Lees

The newly expanded troupe made its American debut in 1858 at Niblo's Garden in New York City, and spent the next four decades touring the United States and Europe.

Hanlon-Lees Action Theater

Originally based in New York City and later Chicago, the company is today headquartered at a private ranch (dubbed the "Wild West Knights' Rest") in Luther, Oklahoma.

The company was formed in 1979 by partners Kent Shelton, Robin Wood, Richard "Dikki" Ellis, R. Vincent Park, Taso N. Stavrakis, and Stephen "Omms" Ommerle.

Haven Institute

Some notable ones have been Virginia Satir, Erv and Miriam Polster, Paul Reps, Carl Whitaker, Paul Lowe, James Bugental, Thomas Szasz, Bill O'Hanlon, Maria Gomori and Joanna Macy.

Henry Hanlon

Bishop Dr Henry Hanlon MHM (7 January 1862-18 August 1937) was an English Roman Catholic bishop, belonging to the order of the Mill Hill Missionaries.

Independent Nationalist

Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906), Joseph Nolan (1900), D. D. Sheehan (1906), Laurence Ginnell (1910), William Redmond and James Cosgrave (1923), Michael O'Neill (1951), John Hume (1969), Paddy O'Hanlon (1969) and Ivan Cooper (1969).

James M. Lindsay

In 2001, with Michael O'Hanlon, he wrote Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense.

Jerry Hanlon

Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom wrote that Hanlon was with Schembechler when Bo spoke to the Michigan football team shortly before he died in 2006.

Hanlon attended Taylor High School in North Bend, Ohio, where he played basketball and football.

João O'Neill

He was the first-born son of the previous head Conn (Constantine) O'Neill and wife Cecilia O'Hanlon.

John Edward McCarthy

In 1936 He married Virginia Hanlon (1909-1997) and had two children: J. Thomas McCarthy (born 1937) and Maureen C. McCarthy (born 1953).

Journal of Accounting and Economics

The editors-in-chief are R. L. Watts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. L. Zimmerman (University of Rochester), R. W. Holthausen (University of Pennsylvania), S. P. Kothari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. Core (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M. Hanlon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and W. R. Guay (University of Pennsylvania).

KISS principle

The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Mies Van Der Rohe's "Less is more", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away".

Lake Tele

The 1996 book Congo Journey, by British travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon, describes in some detail his journey through Congo to Lake Tele in search of Mokèlé-mbèmbé, as well as giving a rich description of local fauna, flora and Congolese cultural practices and relations with the indigenous Pygmy peoples.

Lelia Doolan

She taught at the College of Commerce, Rathmines (now part of the DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Irish course in Media Communications, teaching Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.

Lorraine Hanlon

Hanlon was born in 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts to stockbroker Gordon B. Hanlon and artist and Harvard art historian Marguerite Pote Hanlon.

Michele Weiner-Davis

In 1989 Weiner-Davis co-authored her first book, In Search of Solutions:A New Direction in Psychotherapy with Bill O'Hanlon.

Occam's razor

William H. Jefferys (no relation to Harold Jeffreys) and James O. Berger (1991) generalize and quantify the original formulation's "assumptions" concept as the degree to which a proposition is unnecessarily accommodating to possible observable data.

Marcus Hutter has used this consistency to define a "natural" Turing machine of small size as the proper basis for excluding arbitrarily complex instruction sets in the formulation of razors.

Paul Cummins

Throughout the history of Irish basketball thus far, Cummins was one a very small number of Irish-born male players to ever earn a basketball scholarship to an American NCAA Division I college (Lafayette College) under head Coach Fran O'Hanlon.

Revolution in Military Affairs

Authors such as Michael O'Hanlon and Frederick Kagan, point to the fact much of the technology and weapons systems ascribed to the contemporary RMA were in development long before 1991 and the Internet and information technology boom.

Robyn Williams

Ockham's Razor (15 minute format) followed in 1984, with Williams introducing a leading scientist or personality who then expounds from a prepared text on a topic of their choice, with a view to making a subject simple and accessible to the public, hence the title relating to the famous statement on parsimony by William of Ockham.

Rory O'Hanlon

O'Hanlon is also the father of the well-known comedian Ardal O'Hanlon.

Ross Quinlan

ID3 follows the principle of Occam's razor in attempting to create the smallest decision tree possible.

Sé O'Hanlon

In 1966 O'Hanlon rode against a French team which included Jean Bellay, who rode the 1954 Tour de France Bellay finished second to O'Hanlon.

Siobhán O'Hanlon

O'Hanlon was a member of the first Sinn Féin delegation to meet the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Downing Street in December 1997.

Solution focused brief therapy

O’Hanlon, Bill, and S. Beadle; A Field Guide to PossibilityLand: possibility therapy methods. BT Press 1996.

Steven Karl Pifer

Steven Pifer is author of "The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms" with Michael O'Hanlon.

The Troubles in Strangford

10 February 1973 - Leonard O'Hanlon (23) and Vivienne Fitzsimmons (17), both Catholic members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were killed in a premature bomb explosion in the grounds of Castle Ward National Trust Estate, near Strangford.

The Vanishing Duck

O'Hanlon would go on to star as the voice of George Jetson on the ABC-TV animated series, The Jetsons, also produced by Hanna-Barbera, four years later.

Tom Attenborough

Rhapsody of Words presented a revival of Conor McPherson's play Port Authority at the Southwark Playhouse in 2012, starring Ardal O'Hanlon, John Rogan and Andrew Nolan.

Tommy Hanlon, Jr.

Born Tommy Gene Thomason in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1923 to vaudeville performers Homer Emmons Thomason (Tommy Hanlon) and Ruth Dorothy Manning.

Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago

The bonus material on the second disc featured surveillance cuts directed by Willie Williams, edited by Mark Reynolds, and produced by Sam Pattinson and an alternative music video of "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" directed by Phil Joanou with production again by Ned O'Hanlon.


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