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unusual facts about Kenneth L. Dixon


Kenneth L. Dixon

He accompanied more than twenty-five air combat missions and was the only newspaperman present when American forces broke out of Anzio and advanced on Rome.


A. C. Dixon

He then crossed the Atlantic and ministered at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, the church formerly pastored by Charles Spurgeon and other notable preachers, where he spent the war years.

Alan J. Dixon

Outgoing Governor Dan Walker had lost the support of the Party and the primary election.

In the fall of 1970, Karl Rove, a future White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush Administration, used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead.

After his term in the Senate, Dixon resumed practicing law with the Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis and now lives in Fairview Heights, Illinois.

Arthur Dixon

Arthur J. Dixon (1919–2007), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

The association was founded in 1986; its current president is Kenneth L. Brown.

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Ernest Dixon

Ernest T. Dixon, Jr. (died 1996), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church

Flick Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal IV, were Charles B. Sears (presiding judge), former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; William C. Christianson, former Minnesota Supreme Court justice; Frank N. Richman, former Supreme Court of Indiana justice; and Richard D. Dixon, former North Carolina Superior Court judge, as an alternate judge.

George E. Dixon

Minutes of Union Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch Masons, indicate that Dixon visited that body on March 20, 1863, which proves he was also a York Rite Mason.

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Isochrony

The idea as such was first expressed by Kenneth L. Pike in 1945; though the concept of language naturally occurring in chronologically and rhythmically equal measures is found at least as early as 1775 (in Prosodia Rationalis).

Jeremiah Dixon

Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

Joseph A. Dixon

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Kenneth Curtis

Kenneth L. Curtis (born 1965), initially found incompetent to stand trial for the killing of his girlfriend, found competent 10 years later

Kenneth L. Barker

Barker earned his B.A. from Northwestern College, his Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary (1960), and his Ph.D. from the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (1969).

Kenneth L. Curtis

Reporters for News Channel 8 observed Curtis taking classes at a local college with an apparent goal of a career in psychiatry.

Kenneth L. Gile

Prior to joining Flydubai, Ken was the President and COO of now defunct Skybus Airlines and a former pilot and Director of Operations for Southwest Airlines.

Kenneth "Ken" Gile (born 1947) is the Chief Operating Officer of Flydubai, the low-cost carrier owned by the Dubai government.

Kenneth L. Greenquist

Greenquist also worked as a spot welder assistant with the J. I. Case Company, the Massey-Harris Company and Modine Manufacturing.

Kenneth L. Schroeder

Schroeder has been a member of the Board of Directors of KLA-Tencor, Adept Technology, Photon Dynamics, Gasonics (now a division of (Novellus), Genus, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute (SEMI) and Semi-Sematech.

In 2008 the Northern District of California U.S. Attorney’s Office concluded their two-year stock options backdating probe of Schroeder.

Mason Dixon

Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters

Media in Missoula, Montana

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Congressman, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Missoulian

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Nelson's milksnake

Until noted by Williams in 1978, it was not recognized that the L. t. sinaloae, or Sinaloan milksnake, found near Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, is a subspecies of milksnake distinct from the less common L.

Nick Dushenski

Dushenski returned to the Alberta Legislature in 2006 with Raymond Reierson and Arthur Dixon as the most senior members at the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Alberta Legislature.

Olivet Discourse

Within conservative, evangelical Christian thought, two opposite viewpoints have been expressed in a debate between theologians Kenneth L. Gentry and Thomas Ice.

Pama–Nyungan languages

The Pama–Nyungan family was identified and named by Kenneth L. Hale, in his work on the classification of Native Australian languages.

Penile subincision

According to Ken Hale, who studied Damin, no ritual initiations have been carried out in the Gulf of Carpentaria for half a century, and hence the language has also died out.

Philip LeSourd

At the instigation of Karl Teeter and later Ken Hale, he spent time residing among the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy communities in Maine, United States and New Brunswick, Canada.

Pig Bodine

A character called "Fender-Belly Bodine," presumably an ancestor of "Pig," appears as a seaman in Mason & Dixon.

Punctuated equilibrium

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama–Nyungan language family there.

Red Flag exercise

The concept of Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter became the driving force in Red Flag's implementation, persuading the then-Tactical Air Command commander, General Robert J. Dixon, to adopt the program.

Robert S. Dixon

The so-called Big Ear antenna used in the program was designed and built by John D. Kraus and previously used in the Ohio Sky Survey.

Senator Ken Maddy Handicap

For 1999 the race was renamed to honor the long-serving California State Senator Kenneth L. Maddy for his support of thoroughbred racing.

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

The Ken Hale Prize is presented in recognition of a scholar's outstanding community language work and commitment to the documentation, maintenance, promotion, and revitalization of indigenous languages in the Americas.

The Crimson Flame

The Crimson Flame is the 77th title of the Hardy Boys series, written by Franklin W. Dixon.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law

LBD was founded in early 2012 by Kenneth L. Marcus, a former Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Tug Wilson

Kenneth L. Wilson (1896-1979), American discus thrower and amateur athletics administrator

U.S. Family Network

He hired tobacco lobbyist and anti-union activist Karl Gallant, and induced Enron's Ken Lay to contribute $500,000 to ARMPAC.

Youghiogheny River

"Youghiogheny, Pennsylvania," is mentioned in a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, and the Youghiogheny is referred to as Yochio Geni in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon.


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