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unusual facts about Maurice K. Goddard


Maurice K. Goddard

His family moved around during his childhood so that he lived in Kansas and Toronto before finally settling in Portland, Maine.


Athabaskan languages

He presents some scandalous events, such as the reason why Gladys Reichard was not particularly positive about Sapir’s work: “it was in fact common knowledge in some circles that she was shacked up, living in sin, in Greenwich Village for years with none other than P.E. Goddard” (p. 63), with whom Sapir had “strange and strained relations” (p. 64).

Curtis Carlson

For his contributions, Carlson was awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award in 2002 and the Society for Information Display's Otto H. Schade Award in 2006.

Fay Templeton

Music written by Fay Templeton and preserved on two 1896 and 1897 gramophone recordings was discovered in June 2010 aboard the wreck of the Klondike Gold Rush paddlewheeler A. J. Goddard.

Henry Goddard

Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957), American psychologist and eugenicist

Maurice K. Goddard State Park

Maurice K. Goddard State Park is just off exit 130 of Interstate 79 on Pennsylvania Route 358.

Maurice Smith

Maurice K. Smith (born 1926), New Zealand-born architect and architectural educator

Rajendrasinhji Jadeja

He served successively as General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Delhi and East Punjab (1947–48); GOC Eastern Command (1948); and GOC Southern Command (1948–53), following the retirement of Lt. General E. N. Goddard.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

In the American novel The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich man Tom Buchanan says that "civilization's going to pieces", based upon his reading of The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by "this man Goddard"; allusions to Lothrop Stoddard's book of scientific racism, and to Henry H. Goddard, a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist.

Tlingit language

Edward Sapir (1915) argued for its inclusion in the Na-Dené family, a claim which was subsequently debated by Franz Boas (1917), P.E. Goddard (1920), and many other prominent linguists of the time.

Worcester, Massachusetts Firsts

Dr. Robert H. Goddard of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's class of 1908 and later Clark University patented the first liquid fuel rocket in 1914.


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