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6 unusual facts about Levin


Craig Auckram

Craig Laurence Auckram (born 9 June 1967 in Levin) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 20 first-class matches for the Central Districts in the early 1990s.

J. Edward Fox

Fox left government service in 1989, joining Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo as Managing Director of Mintz, Levin's Governmental and International Affairs Group.

Jack Afamasaga

Afamasaga originally began playing Rugby union in his youth, playing for the 1st XV team at Waiopehu College in Levin (the same high school attended by former All Black Carlos Spencer) and working his way up through several representative teams before he was eventually selected by the Wellington Hurricanes in their schoolboy team.

James Tamou

Born in Palmerston North, Tamou began playing junior rugby league in Levin for the Levin Knights in New Zealand.

Manawatu rugby league team

They represented the Central North Island of New Zealand, playing home games in Palmerston North and Levin and were run by the Manawatu Rugby League.

Robert J. Pope

He began his teaching at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay, and then became a master at the first school in Levin.


1977–78 Boston Celtics season

NBA lawyer (and future commissioner) David Stern offered a comprise in which Levin and Brown would swap franchises, so that Levin could take over the Braves and move them to San Diego.

Adentro

Recorded in the United States and Mexico, the album was produced by Arjona himself, as well as Dan Warner and Lee Levin under their stage name Los Gringos, and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tommy Torres.

Air Pirates

In Bob Levin's 2003 book The Pirates and The Mouse: Disney's War Against the Counterculture, New York Law School professor Edward Samuels said, "I was flabbergasted. He told me he had won the case. 'No, Dan,' I told him, 'You lost.' 'No, I won.' 'No, you lost.'" To Dan O'Neill, not going to jail constituted victory.

Albert Pinkus

He tied for fourth/fifth at New York 1940 (US Chess Championship, Samuel Reshevsky won), tied for third/fourth at Ventnor City 1941 (Jacob Levin won), tied for third at New York 1942 (US championship, Reshevsky won), shared third at Ventnor City 1942 (Daniel Yanofsky won), took fifth place at New York 1944 (US championship, Arnold Denker won), and tied for second/third at Ventnor City 1944 (Levin won).

Arnolfini Portrait

Levin, Janna, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space, Random House 2002 ISBN 1-4000-3272-5

Baseball: An Album by Sayanything

During the time of recording in 2001, the band consisted of Max Bemis on vocals, guitar, and keyboard, Coby Linder on drums, and Michael Levin on bass.

Billionaire Boys Club

In 1987, NBC aired a miniseries based on the story of the Billionaire Boys Club, starring Judd Nelson as Joe Hunt, Brian McNamara as Dean Karny, and Ron Silver as Ron Levin.

Blue Night

B.L.U.E. Nights, a 2000 album by Bruford Levin Upper Extremities

Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.

Prior to joining The Post, Jones was an attorney with Hill and Barlow in Boston from 1975 to 1980, and was law clerk for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, from 1974 to 1975.

Boris Levin-Kogan

Levin-Kogan died at the age of 79 and was buried in St. Petersburg's Smolensky Cemetery on Vasilievsky Island.

Drake Levin

Levin's synchronized dance steps and stage antics with fellow Raider bassist Phil "Fang" Volk earned the pair the nickname "The Twins".

Levin subsequently performed with artists such as Ananda Shankar, Emitt Rhodes, and Lee Michaels.

Eric Lilavois

Lilavois’ self produced debut solo record “The Only Way” was released digitally worldwide on January 11, 2011 and features a long list of seasoned musicians, including Matt North (Viktor Krauss), Amy Farris on Violin/Viola/Cello (Dave Alvin), Joel Martin, Danny T. Levin (Julian Casablancas, Lenka, Rilo Kiley, Built To Spill) David Moyer (Mayer Hawthorne), Matt Herman on Bass, Ryen Slegr(Ozma), Jeff Glassberg, and Ian Souter (The Ventriloquists).

Flippomusic

Guest artists include Larry Gray (cello), Neal Alger (guitar), Hamid Drake (percussion), Mike Levin (Bb and bass clarinet and flute) and Katherine Hughes (violin).

Fred Levin

Levin has also donated to the campaigns of former Florida Senator Bob Graham and presidential candidate John Kerry.

George A. Frederick

On July 17, 1875 the individual members of the Board of Public Works—Governor James Black Groome, Treasurer Barnes Compton, and Comptroller Levin Woolford—filed suits of libel against Charles C. and Albert K. Fulton, proprietors of the Baltimore American, claiming $20,000 each in damages.

Gianluca Crisafi

Crisafi provides the voice of the character Kevin Levin in the Italian-language versions of Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force,and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.

Hanoch Levin

In these two works, Levin mocked Israeli military pathos (as in the parody "Victory Parade for the 11 Minutes War" of the victory speech by General Shmuel Gonen at the close of the Six-Day War), the impotence and complacency of Israel's politicians ("Peace Talks in the Middle East"), and presented a macabre treatment of bereavement ("Squares in the Cemetery").

Harris School of Public Policy Studies

Tomas J. Philipson - Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies, Harris School; Associate Faculty Member, Department of Economics

Irv Levin

In April 1972, Levin and attorney Harold A. Lipton purchased the Boston Celtics for $3.7 Million.

Levin began his film career as the president of Filmmakers Releasing Organization, a film distribution company founded by independent producers Collier Young and Ida Lupino.

Jay Levin

Levin hired Texas writers Big Boy Medlin, Ginger Varney, and Michael Ventura, as well as Anita Hoffman (wife of then-fugitive Abbie Hoffman).

Lapido Media

After casting doubt on the persecution of Christians around the world in a column in the early 90s, Levin received a mass of evidence to the contrary from Dr Taylor and, independently, Patrick Sookhdeo of Barnabas Fund.

Mike Feinberg

Feinberg and Levin’s efforts became the story told by Jay Mathews, in his best-selling book, Work hard.

Nicole Delien

Delien, often referred to in the media as "The real life Sleeping Beauty", is a United States Pennsylvania resident that was diagnosed with Kleine–Levin Syndrome (KLS) when she was six-and-a-half years old.

Prograph

Research on Prograph started at Acadia University in 1982 as a general investigation into dataflow languages, stimulated by a seminar on functional languages conducted by Michael Levin.

Red Hot + Rio 2

Red Hot + Rio 2, produced by Béco Dranoff, John Carlin, and Paul Heck; with supervising musical producers Andres Levin, Mario Caldato Jr., and Kamal Kassin; in collaboration with U.S. label E1 Entertainment, is Red Hot Organization’s next entry into its series of tribute albums created to raise money for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention set to be released June 28th, 2011.

Rick Levin

Levin spearheaded the creation of the first liberal arts college in Asia, Yale-NUS, a joint venture between Yale University and the National University of Singapore.

Robert D. Levin

After graduating from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School and Andrew Jackson High School, and spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center

Leading world experts regularly give lectures and hold presentations such as Professor Michael Berenbaum, one of the founders of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the former director of the Yad Vashem Museum Izhak Arad, Paul Levin and Stephane Bruhfeld (Sweden), the authors of the book Tell Your Children About It, and Shimon Samuels, director of the European Bureau of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Scott Gibbons

Scribble by Golan Levin, Scott Gibbons and Gregory Shakar (2000) - a performance on Levin's AVES gestural audio-video synthesis software.

Spondylocostal dysostosis

In 1968, Dr. David Rimoin and colleagues in Baltimore first distinguished between the two major presentations of Jarcho-Levin.

Stewart Levin

Stewart Levin is an American musician and composer who has composed music for television shows, including The Wonder Years, Picket Fences, The Practice and thirtysomething.

The Border Blasters

In addition to the core band, now featuring Keith Carper on upright bass and drummer Phil Johnson, The Border Blasters were joined by special guests Kimmie Rhodes, Ponty Bone, Alvin Crow, Danny Levin, Freddie Krc, L.E. McCollough and Drew Castaneda.

The Levin Institute

The Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce (The Levin Institute) was established by Governor George Pataki and the State of New York, under the auspices of the State University of New York, in memory of Neil D. Levin, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who perished in the attack upon the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Theodore Levin

During his tenure as a federal judge, Levin advocated the creation of the Sentencing Council, which proposed reforms and standards for criminal sentences imposed in federal courts.

Visual ethics

Elaine A. King and co-editor Gail Levin addressed many of these issues in the anthology they compiled titled "Ethics and The Visual Arts" published in September 2006 by Allworth Press in New York.

Walter Woods Johnston

On his return from education in France he worked in his father's business, Johnston & Co but in March 1868 he joined with Charles Pharazyn and William Levin as partners in W H Levin & Co when Nathaniel William Levin retired to return to England.

Yariv Levin

Levin was born in Jerusalem to Gail and Aryeh Levin, an Israel Prize laureate for general linguistics, His mother's uncle, Eliyahu Lankin, was commander of the Altalena ship and member of the first Knesset representing Herut, whilst Menachem Begin was the Sandek at Levin's circumcision ceremony.

Yehuda Levin

In October 2010, Levin worked with Carl Paladino and prepared an anti-gay statement which Paladino read in part in the Orthodox Jewish community, which made national news.

Levin is also a member of the advisory committee of the organization Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation.

Yehuda Levin (born 1954) is the Rabbi and founder of Congregation Mevakshei Hashem (Those Who Seek the Lord) Synagogue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Levin has also received support from some conservative Catholics for causes relevant to the World Congress of Families.


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