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unusual facts about Kappa



Adrian McPherson

McPherson was represented at trial by Grady C. Irvin, who earned fame representing former National Baptist Convention President Henry Lyons on embezzlement charges in the late 1990s, and Charles "Chuck" Hobbs, who later garnered national attention while representing several Florida A&M University students in the "Kappa Hazing" trial televised on CourtTV in 2006.

Aleph Samach

During the “Club War” of 1913-1914, Aleph Samach allied itself with The Cornell Daily Sun, Sphinx Head and Quill and Dagger in an effort to suppress the growing influence of the following “social clubs” or drinking societies at Cornell: Majura, Beth l’Amed, Kappa Beta Phi, Bench and Board, Gemel Kharm, Yonan, Mermaid, Krug and Tafel, and the Climax.

Alpha Gamma Kappa Fraternity

Mercury, the Roman God is referred to as the "Patron of Alpha Gamma Kappa." His winged sandal is a prominent symbol, which is displayed upon the coat-of-arms and the pledge pin.

Alpha Kappa Rho

5 out of the 16 Founders of Alpha Kappa Rho were alumni's of Notre Dame of Greater Manila High School (NDM HS).

Brian Vala Nahed

In college, Dr. Nahed majored in Neuroscience at the University of California in Los Angeles and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, his department's highest graduating honor and named one of the Bruins of the Year.

Champion Hurdle

A new sponsor, Smurfit (now known as the Smurfit Kappa Group), began supporting the race in 1991.

Christian Bjelland IV

He was educated at Sedbergh School, England (1967-1972), Dartmouth College (AB, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1976) and Harvard Business School (MBA 1978).

Cynthia Horner

Currently, she serves as the President of the Kappa Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.

Dave Blase

Breaking Away was written by Steve Tesich, an Indiana University graduate who served as an alternate rider on the Phi Kappa Psi Little 500 Team in 1962.

Delia Sescioreanu

During the course of her years at AUM, Delia was very involved on campus: president of the AUM Student Government Association, president of Omicron Delta Kappa, member of the AUM Honors Program, member of Zeta Tau Alpha, member of Phi Kappa Phi, and School of Business Ambassador.

Eugene P. Watson

He was a member of the American Library Association, the Modern Language Association, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Louisiana Historical Association, the Louisiana Chess Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Beta Phi Mu, Phi Kappa Rho, and Kappa Delta Pi.

Franco Fontana

He has signed numerous advertising campaigns for different brands as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato (National Italian Railways), Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair.

GM Kappa platform

Kappa production ended with General Motors' bankruptcy in July 2009.

Another concept car, built by Holden and called the Torana TT36, was rumored to have started as a Kappa-based car with a twin-turbocharged V6, but the modifications necessary to accommodate the engine, transmission, and general vehicle size made it necessary to refer to the platform as "based on architecture similar to the Kappa and the Corvette."

IGKC

Immunoglobulin kappa constant, also known as IGKC, is a human gene that encodes the constant domain of kappa-type light chains for antibodies.

Jack L. Anson

He was the author of The Golden Jubilee History of Phi Kappa Tau in 1957, A Diamond Jubilee History of the National Interfraternity Conference: 75 Glorious Years in 1984 and at the time of his death he was serving as editor of the current edition of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities.

Jacob Broughton Nelson

Over the next few years, he oversaw the chartering of Phi Kappa chapters at the Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia (Gamma Beta) and at the Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi (Mu Theta).

Jadene Felina Stevens

She has been a three-time consecutive winner of the Phi Theta Kappa Nota Bene International Literary Awards (poetry), a three-time consecutive winner of the Phi Theta Kappa Regional Literary Awards (poetry), and received PTK’s highest award, the International Citation Award (1997).

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.

K

When Greek words were taken into Latin, the Kappa was changed to C, with a few exceptions such as the praenomen 'Kaeso'.

Kappa Alpha

Kuklos Adelphon, known as "Old Kappa Alpha", an American college Greek-letter fraternity, founded 1812 at the University of North Carolina.

Kappa Alpha Order

Kappa Alpha Order was originally founded as Phi Kappa Chi on December 21, 1865, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

The Kappa Alpha Order Administrative Office is located at Mulberry Hill, in Lexington, Virginia.

Kappa Alpha Pi National Fraternity

KAΠ (Kappa Alpha Pi) was a high school fraternity founded in 1904 at Englewood High School in Chicago, Illinois.

Kappa Andromedae b

It is unclear whether Kappa Andromedae b is a gas giant or a brown dwarf—that is, an object massive enough to fuse deuterium but not hydrogen-1.

Kappa Theta Pi

Kappa Theta Pi was founded on January 10, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is the University of Michigan's first and only startup technology fraternity.

Kappa1 Ceti

Using the radial velocity technique, the search for substellar companions has thus far failed to find a brown dwarf or extrasolar planet in the "hot zone" orbit around Kappa1 Ceti.

Let's Go Collegiate

His friend Tad is a stroke on the crew, president of the Kappa Psi Delta house and conductor of the orchestra.

Louise Helen Coburn

Eventually she was joined by four other women, and along with Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Coburn, Low created Sigma Kappa sorority at Colby on November 9, 1874.

Mary Anderson

Mary Annette Anderson (1871–1922), first black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Pablo S. Torre

He later graduated from Harvard College with a magna cum laude degree in sociology in 2007, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Phi Kappa National Fraternity

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was concentrated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (where all but one of the remaining Phi Kappa chapters were located).

As a high school student at the Lamar School in Meridian, Mississippi, actress Sela Ward was an honoree (or "little sister") for the Delta Chi chapter of Phi Kappa.

Phi Kappa Psi

He was twenty years old when Phi Kappa Psi was founded by him and his colleague Charles Page Thomas Moore.

Charles Page Thomas Moore (February 8, 1831 – July 7, 1904) was a co-founder of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity in 1852 at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College) in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Phi Sigs

Phi Sigma Epsilon (ΦΣΕ) Men's Social Fraternity, which merged into Phi Sigma Kappa in 1985

Pi Kappa Chi

Pi Kappa Chi is a professional fraternity which promotes the Doctor of Chiropractic and the chiropractic profession.

Rankl

RANKL (Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand)

Reflecting cardinal

Every reflecting cardinal is a greatly Mahlo cardinal, and is also a limit of greatly Mahlo cardinals, where a cardinal κ is called greatly Mahlo if it is Singular cardinals hypothesis

Gitik, building on work of Woodin, was able to replace the supercompact in Silver's proof with a measurable of Mitchell order \kappa^{++} .

In fact, by results of Moti Gitik, ZFC + the negation of SCH is equiconsistent with ZFC + the existence of a measurable cardinal κ of Mitchell order κ++.

Swishahouse

The label began by distributing mixtape series such as Before da Kappa, After da Kappa, Choppin Em Up and Fuck Action (which featured chopped and screwed versions of R&B songs).

Taylor A. Borradaile

Anson, Jack L., The Golden Jubilee History of Phi Kappa Tau, Lawhead Press, Athens Ohio: 1957

The Colony High School

W. Frank Zhou - Management Consultant, Harvard Phi Beta Kappa '12, and League of Legends expert

The Painted Turtle

The Painted Turtle was founded in 1999 by Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Alumnus Paul Newman and Page and Lou Adler.

Tim Leavitt

He graduated from Fort Vancouver High School, then attended Clark College and Washington State University, where he received a masters degree in environmental engineering and was a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity.


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