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unusual facts about M.W. Newman


M.W. Newman

Although best known for his coverage of crime and local news in Chicago, he spent most of his later career writing for Inland Architect and Architectural Forum while also writing arts reviews for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.


Alva R. Fitch

Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power.

Andrew J. Newman

His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's book of the year prize for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies.

Andrew Newman

Andrew J. Newman, a reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh

Coupon collector's problem

Donald J. Newman and Lawrence Shepp found a generalization of the coupon collector's problem when m copies of each coupon needs to be collected.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse

U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Southern District of New York Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa attended the ceremony.

Frank Newman

Frank N. Newman (born 1942), US banker and former United States Department of the Treasury official

Frank C. Newman (1917–1996), US law school dean, state supreme court judge, and scholar and reformer in international human rights law

Gerry Patrick Hemming

In an interview that he gave to John M. Newman on January 6, 1995, Hemming claimed that the FBI informer was Steve Wilson.

Guy Newman

Guy D. Newman (1906–1988), American academic, Baptist preacher and university administrator

I Know I'm Not Wrong

The track "To Wild Homes" found on the The New Pornographers's record Mass Romantic features the melody of "I Know I'm Not Wrong" where A.C. Newman plays the song's melody over the fading chorus at the end of the track.

I'll Get You for This

It was directed by Joseph M. Newman from an adaptation by George Callahan and William Rose of James Hadley Chase's book of the same name.

James Newman

James R. Newman (1907–1966), mathematician and mathematical historian

James R. Newman

In 1940 Newman wrote (with Edward Kasner) Mathematics and the Imagination in which he identified the mathematical concept of a very large but finite number, which he called "googol" and another large number called "googolplex"—this was the first time this number, and this term, was ever identified.

Jimmy C. Newman

In 1976, his recording of the Cajun French song, "Lâche pas la patate" ("The Potato Song") earned gold record status in Canada.

John M. Newman

John M. Newman spent 21 years with the U.S. Army Intelligence.

Jon O. Newman

Kadic v. Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232 (2d Cir. 1996) – There was subject matter jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Claim Act, 28 U.S.C.S. § 1350, because aliens brought an action for a tort committed in violation of international law

Joseph M. Newman

His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Kerr–Newman metric

In 1965, Ezra "Ted" Newman found the axisymmetric solution of Einstein's field equation for a black hole which is both rotating and electrically charged.

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Peter C. Newman

He joined the Royal Canadian Navy reserve in 1947 as an Ordinary Seaman and later reached the rank of Captain, having served in the naval reserve for 50 years.

He lives with his fourth wife, Alvy (Bjorklund) Newman, in Belleville, Ontario.

Peter Newman

Peter C. Newman, Canadian journalist who emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia

Plantation Records

In the late 1970s the label signed a number of veteran country performers to the label including Webb Pierce, Jimmie Davis, Jimmy C. Newman, Hank Locklin, and Roy Drusky though few of these records charted.

Republicanism in Canada

The notion of a republic was raised publicly in the early 1990s, when Peter C. Newman wrote in Maclean's that the monarchy should be abolished in favour of a head of state "who would reflect our own, instead of imported, values."

Richard N. Palmer

Following law school, Palmer clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman, then of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Robert S. Newman

Newman remained at La Trobe University until 1989, when he returned to Marblehead to start a new life in an old place.

Steve Newman

Steven M. Newman, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to walk solo around the world

Steven M. Newman

He and his wife, Darci, reside on nearly 25 acres along the Ohio River on a heavily forested hillside known as “Worldwalker Hill.”

Susan G. Cole

While on the job she met author and Maclean's editor Peter C. Newman who, in 1976, made her his principal researcher for his book The Bronfman Dynasty (McClelland & Stewart).

The Big Bankroll

The Big Bankroll is a 1961 American crime film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson.

The Cole Nobody Knows

The film tells Mr. Cole’s story through interviews with musicians Monty Alexander, Nancy Wilson, David “Fathead” Newman, John di Martino, H Johnson and Carl Anthony.

The Great Dan Patch

The Great Dan Patch is a 1949 American film directed by Joseph M. Newman about the trotting horse Dan Patch.

Thomas d'Aquino

Canadian author Peter C. Newman, in his book Titans, describes d'Aquino as "the most powerful influence on public policy formation in Canadian history".

Walter L. Gordon

He continued to argue for economic nationalist causes and in 1968, along with Peter C. Newman of the Toronto Star; economist Abraham Rotstein; and University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, founded the Committee for an Independent Canada.

William R. Newman

The history of medieval alchemy formed the central focus of Newman's early work, which included several studies of Roger Bacon and culminated in an edition, translation, and study of the Latin alchemist who wrote under the assumed name of "Geber" (a transliteration of "Jābir", from "Jābir ibn Hayyān"), probably Paul of Taranto.

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.

You had an option, sir

Mulroney later disclosed to journalist Peter C. Newman that he did not know his "You had an option" response would be positively received as he was speaking it.


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