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6 unusual facts about James N. Rowe


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.

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.

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


Earl W. Rowe

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

F. J. Rowe

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

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.

Goodier

James N. Goodier, (1905–1969), English American professor of applied mechanics

Inger!

Inger! (full title, Inger! A Modern-Day Viking Discovers America), is a true story (dramatic nonfiction) book by American writer James N. Sites.

James Ashmore

James N. Ashmore (1878–1944), American football, basketball, and baseball coach

James Farmer

James N. Farmer (born 1976), online education and WordPress pioneer, founder of Edublogs

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. Burnes

Despite the small overlap, one of Burnes' few motions was defeated by the Presidential Veto of Ulysses S Grant.

James N. Farmer

James is currently based in Australia, where he has been the Online Community Editor of The Age, and Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University.

James N. Goodier

He was co-author of two classic books in this field:"Theory of Elasticity," with Timoshenko, 1951; and "Elasticity and Plasticity," with P. G.

James N. Pidcock

Pidcock was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1888.

James N. Purcell, Jr.

title=Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs|

In 1983, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Purcell as Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs and he held this office from June 12, 1983 to September 28, 1986.

Purcell worked in public affairs for his entire career, serving in every presidential administration from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan.

(b. 1938) was United States Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs from 1983 to 1986, a bureau whose design and implementation he was charged to create in 1979.

James N. Robey

Robey was born in Baltimore, and raised in the small Howard County mill town of Daniels, once located on the banks of the Patapsco River.

James N. Tucker, Jr.

He was born in L'Etete, New Brunswick, the son of James N. Tucker, and educated at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Bridgeport.

James N. Walker

James N. Walker served as a member of the 1863-1865 California State Assembly, representing the 4th District.

James N. Wood

In 2006, Wood was named to head the J. Paul Getty Trust, succeeding Barry Munitz.

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

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.

The Edublog Awards

In 2007 James N. Farmer rejoined the team, and Jo Kay joined the team for the first time, providing the awards ceremony with a home in the virtual world platform Second Life.

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 F. Englebright

Englebright was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James N. Gillett.

William N. Rowe

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


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