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6 unusual facts about James C. Scott


Cadastre

James C. Scott, in Seeing Like a State, argues that all maps, but particularly cadastral maps, are designed to make local situations legible to an outsider, and in doing so, enable states to collect data on their subjects.

High modernism

Essentially located in the wilderness, Brasília was to be a “single-function, strictly administrative capital,” says political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott.

John Sidel

He received his Bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MA in Political Science in 1988 from Yale University, where he worked closely with James C. Scott, and he received his PhD in 1995 from Cornell University, where he worked under the supervision of Benedict Anderson.

Just price

The political scientist James C. Scott, for example, showed how this ideology could be used as a method of resisting authority in "The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia" (1976).

Moorestown Friends School

Historian James C. Scott dedicated his 1990 book Domination and the Arts of Resistance to Moorestown Friends School.

Posthegemony

James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990)


Alan Wurtzel

Circuit City was profiled as one of 11 companies in Jim Collins’ bestselling book, Good to Great.

Allen Scott

Allen D. Scott (1831–1897), American lawyer and politician from New York

Arthur D. Collins, Jr.

#Encourage change and innovation, while promoting quality and continuous quality improvement—as Jim Collins said, “Good enough never is.”

Commonwealth free trade

Commentators such as James C. Bennett and Brent Cameron have expressed the view that support for either the Anglosphere or the Commonwealth are not incompatible.

Douglas D. Scott

Scott has led similar work at other Indian Wars battlefields, including Fort Washita and the site of the Sand Creek Massacre.

Douglas Scott

Douglas P. Scott (born 1960), mayor of Rockford, Illinois, United States

Elias McMellen

James C. Carpenter, another prolific Lancaster County covered bridge builder

Frank S. Scott

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883 – September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident.

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.

Gerald Bruce Lee

In April 1998, Virginia's U.S. senators Chuck Robb and John Warner recommended Lee for appointment to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, to fill the seat vacated when Judge James C. Cacheris took senior status.

Hey, Shipwreck

Patrick Hrabe says former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Terry D. Scott wrote him and said he was "still laughing" after viewing the cartoons.

Highland Park Community College

Among the alumni of Highland Park Community College is Michigan State Senator Martha G. Scott.

Hox gene

In 1983, the homeobox was discovered independently by researchers in two labs: Ernst Hafen, Michael Levine, and William McGinnis (in Walter Gehring's lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland) and Matthew P. Scott and Amy Weiner (in Thomas Kaufman's lab at Indiana University in Bloomington).

Hugh L. Scott

He was promoted to major in the Regular Army in February 1903 and served as Military Governor of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, in 1903-06 and also commanded troops there, taking part in various skirmishes, reorganized the civil government and institutions.

James Adkins

James C. Adkins (1915–1994), justice for the Florida Supreme Court

James Bradford

James C. Bradford (born 1945), professor of history at Texas A&M University

James C. Bennett

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James C. Brewster

On December 31, 1850, Brewster and some his followers are listed in the 1850 United States Census at Socorro, New Mexico Territory.

James C. Christensen

Christensen appeared in an episode of ABC's show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in 2005.

James C. Dobbin

He ordered U.S. Navy Lieutenant Isaac Strain to command a U.S. Darién Exploring Expedition to map and survey the Darién Gap for a Panama Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

James C. Fletcher

During his second administration at NASA, Fletcher was largely involved in efforts to recover from the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.

James C. Green

He defeated fellow former House Speaker Carl J. Stewart, Jr. in the 1980 Democratic primary, and then went on to defeat Republican Bill Cobey in the general election.

James C. Oberwetter

In December 2008 he was selected by the board of the Dallas Regional Chamber to become its president effective February 1, 2009.

James C. Potter

A native of Scotland, he was schooled at the Mechanics' Institutes in Glasgow and was also a member of the 5th Battalion of the Royal Rifles.

James C. Potter (1 May 1855 – 30 October 1925) was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and civic leader in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

James C. Sharf

In 2006, he was awarded the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for developing the valid, legally defensible employment tests used by the Transportation Security Administration to hire fifty-thousand airport security screeners nationwide in 2002.

James C. Smith

In 1986, he ran for Governor, but narrowly lost the Democratic runoff to liberal state Representative Steve Pajcic.

James C. Weaver

Weaver resigned in 1994 in protest over the hiring of Tim Grgurich, who had been an assistant under the controversial Jerry Tarkanian, to be the school's new men's basketball coach.

James Foster

James C. Foster, chairman and chief executive officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

James Garland

James C. Garland (born 1942), physicist, author and President of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

James Greenwood

James C. Greenwood (born 1951), known as Jim, American politician in the Republican Party

James Welsh

James C. Welsh (1880–1954), Scottish Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Coatbridge 1922–1931, and Bothwell 1935–1945.

Jerry I. Porras

He is also a business and management analyst who co-authored Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters, and, with James C. Collins, the bestseller Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

Joe B. Scott

A left-handed hitter, Scott played professionally from 1936 until 1956.

Kesho Y. Scott

She is the author of several books, including The Habit of Surviving, and Tight Spaces (coauthored with Cherry Muhanji and Egyirba High), which was the winner of the 1988 American Book Award, and was also awarded the Christine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

Larry B. Scott

He was also the voice of the Paladin in the game Diablo II.

Mars Automatic Pistol

It was manufactured first by Webley & Scott and later by small gunmakers in Birmingham and London.

Michael L. Scott

In 2005, Scott, along with William Scherer III and Doug Lea developed a set of algorithms to handle lock-free concurrent exchanges and synchronous queues.

National Solar Observatory

The site's name was chosen by the late James C. Sadler, (1920–2005), an internationally noted meteorologist and professor at The University of Hawaii, formerly with the United States Air Force on assignment during the early inception of the observatory.

Nirbheek

The gun's simple mechanism is thought to have been based on earlier designs by Webley & Scott and Smith & Wesson.

Patched

The original mutations in the ptc gene were discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by 1995 Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and colleagues, and the gene was independently cloned in 1989 by Joan Hooper in the laboratory of Matthew P. Scott, and by Philip Ingham and colleagues.

Purcell, Oklahoma

The bridge, among the longest in Oklahoma, is named for James C. Nance, a newspaper publisher and legislative leader in Oklahoma and U.S. Uniform Law Commissioner.

Richard G. Scott

A few weeks after returning from Uruguay, Scott was interviewed by the then-Captain (later Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover for a job on a top-secret project involving nuclear energy.

After they both completed their missionary service, they married in the Manti Utah Temple.

One of his missionaries was D. Todd Christofferson, who would later be called to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles with Scott.

Siege of the Alamo

On February 11, the commander of the Alamo, Colonel James C. Neill, left the Alamo, likely to recruit additional reinforcements and gather supplies.

Training the Three-Day Event Horse and Rider

Training the Three-Day Event Horse and Rider (ISBN 0-385-42520-1) is a 1995 book written by James C. Wofford, covering each phase of the equestrian sport of eventing, as well as a brief history of the event and a section on choosing a proper horse for the sport.

Veatch

James C. Veatch (1819–1895), American lawyer, politician and Union Army general

Winston M. Scott

Winston Mackinley Scott (1909 - 26 April 1971) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as Mexico City station chief from 1956 to 1969, having joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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