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2 unusual facts about Mark R. Showalter


Mark R. Showalter

Showalter was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.

He was initially undecided about pursuing a career in astronomy after his undergraduate education, but made up his mind after seeing the images of Jupiter sent back to Earth by Voyager 2.


Brian D. Rogers

University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton named Brian Rogers permanent chancellor of UAF in May 2009.

Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain

Mark Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in his Under Crescent and Cross, calls the idealized interfaith utopia a "myth" that was first promulgated by Jewish historians such as Heinrich Graetz in the 19th century as a rebuke to Christian countries for their treatment of Jews.

Indo-European s-mobile

Mark R.V. Southern, Sub-Grammatical Survival: Indo-European s-mobile and its Regeneration in Germanic, Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 34 (1999).

Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka

Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941, David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland ISBN 0-87021-192-7

Mark Hamilton

Mark R. Hamilton, American academic and former president of the University of Alaska

Mark R. Bacon

He moved to Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1895 and became associated with the Michigan Alkali Company through his marriage to Mary Ford, the granddaughter of founder Jean-Baptiste Ford (and the daughter of Edward Ford, founder of Edward Ford Plate Glass Company, subsequently part of Libbey-Owens Ford Glass and the Pilkington).

Mark R. Cohen

He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam.

Mark R. Hornak

On December 1, 2010, President Obama nominated Hornak to fill a judicial vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania that had been created by the transition to senior status in November 2010 by Judge Donetta W. Ambrose.

From 1982 until 1988, Hornak served as an associate at the Pittsburgh law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney.

Mark R. V. Southern

On 15 March 2006, at age 45, he died at his home in Middlebury, Vermont.

Mark Shepherd

Mark R. Shepherd (1953–2011), American environmental consultant, politician, strategist and radio personality

Structured intermittent therapy

Structured intermittent therapy (SIT) was coined in early 2000 by Mark Dybul, Anthony Fauci, and other research scientists from the National Institute of Health, as a form of reduced treatment for patients with HIV.

University of Arkansas School of Law

Mark R. Killenbeck, the Wylie A. Davis Distinguished Professor of Law


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