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unusual facts about Harold G. Wolff



Ana Rosa Núñez

She wrote a book of haiku in Spanish, Escamas del Caribe: Haikus de Cuba (1971), translated the work of American haiku authority Harold G. Henderson, and sent her haiku to the Emperor Hirohito on his birthday.

Demag

In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Dolorimeter

In 1940, James D. Hardy, Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell of Cornell University introduced the first dolorimeter as a method for evaluating the effectiveness of analgesic medications.

Guillermo Hernández-Cartaya

Rep. Lester L. Wolff stated on 60 Minutes that Cartaya's WFC arranged for Castro a 100 million USD loan to Colombia (the Colombian officials agreeing to aid cocaine smuggling).

Harold G. Dick

Harold Gustav "Hal" Dick (January 19, 1907 – September 3, 1997) was an American mechanical engineer employed by Goodyear, who flew on almost all of the Hindenburg flights.

Harold G. Maier

In 1985 he was an expert witness for the U.S. Government in civil litigation resulting from the Mariel boatlift.

Harold G. Nelson

He has been president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 2000, a position previously held by such notable scholars as: Margaret Mead, Ilya Prigogine, Russell Ackoff, Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers and C. West Churchman.

Harold G. Nelson (born 1943) is an American architect, consultant and Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, President of the Advanced Design Institute and Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Harold G. Overstreet

His promotion to first sergeant in February 1979 led to his second assignment on Okinawa as the First Sergeant for Headquarters and Service Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion.

Harold G. Schrier

Schrier was Marine Corps Recruiting officer in Birmingham, Alabama and a Provost Marshall at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California.

Harold Nelson

Harold G. Nelson (born 1949), American architect, consultant and systems scientist

J. C. Thom

Ada married Frank Hoffman of New Jersey and had two sons; the future Governor of New Jersey Harold G. Hoffman and Donald Hoffman.

Joseph C. Wolff

In 1864, he enlisted in the 2nd New York Light Cavalry Regiment as a bugler, and took part in the battles of Opequon, Cedar Creek and Five Forks.

Lester L. Wolff

He lost his bid for re-election to John LeBoutillier who was helped by Reagan's coattails in the 1980 House election.

Louis Althusser

Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists Richard D. Wolff and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a conception of class different from the normally understood ones.

Richard D. Wolff

One of his students, George Papandreou, went on to become Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011.

Both would then be part, along with Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Rick Edwards, of the "radical package" that was hired in 1973 by the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Wolff has been full professor since 1981.

State capitalism

A relatively recent text by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class Theory and History, explores what they term state capitalism in the former Soviet Union, continuing a theme that has been debated within Trotskyist theory for most of the past century.

Susan Millar

Her great grandfather Tommy Millar worked in Harland & Wolff building RMS Titanic and then sailed on her maiden voyage in 1912, as a crewmember.


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