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unusual facts about Michael A. Banks



165612 Stackpole

It is named in honor of Michael A. Stackpole, a science fiction and fantasy author known for his Star Wars and Battletech books.

Cat-Women of the Moon

They were presented by the writer Sarah Hall, and produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords; they featured a number of British writers including Iain M. Banks, China Miéville, and Nicola Griffith.

Commissioner v. Banks

In the second case, Sigitas J. Banaitis, a vice president of the Bank of California, retained an attorney on a contingent-fee basis and sued the bank and its successor in ownership, the Mitsubishi Bank, for interference with his employment agreement and wrongful discharge.

E. Bruce Heilman

He returned to the position on an interim basis in 1987-1988 after the unexpected resignation of his successor, Samuel A. Banks.

Elizabeth Price Foley

Foley was a Senior Legislative Aide for health policy to U.S. Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon and Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman Michael A. Andrews of Texas.

Epstein–Barr virus

The Epstein–Barr virus is named after Michael Anthony Epstein, a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London), a 1966 Ph.D graduate from the University of London, who together discovered and documented the virus.

Genevieve Blatt

She narrowly defeated the 1950 nominee for Lieutenant Governor Michael Musmanno, by about 500 votes out of over 900,000 cast, in the Democratic primary.

Hal C. Banks

An American with mob connections, he came to Canada in 1949 to help bust purportedly Communist-controlled shipping unions and establish the Seafarers International Union as their replacement.

Homer C. Blake

Though Blake had lost his ship, he had frustrated Semmes' plan to resupply his ship from captured merchantmen off Galveston, and then sail to the mouth of the Mississippi River to interdict Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River Campaign.

James Isham Gilbert

Gilbert and a detachment of the XVI Corps (known as the Right Wing-XVI Corps commanded by Smith) were transferred to the Department of the Gulf under Nathaniel P. Banks for the Red River Campaign.

Kobayashi Maru

In this novel by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, the scenario occurs as an actual plot event instead of a training exercise.

Lovell Rousseau

However, a committee was organized to investigate the incident which was composed of Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry J. Raymond, Rufus P. Spalding, M. Russell Thayer and John Hogan.

Michael A. Barry

Prior to coming to Princeton, Barry spent many years in Afghanistan with the International Federation for Human Rights, Médecins du Monde and the United Nations, working in often perilous conditions to provide and coordinate humanitarian assistance for the Afghan people from 1979 to 2001.

Michael A. Costello

While he was a student at Salem State College (now Salem State University), Costello spent three years organizing and leading a program that resulted in student's building desperately needed housing for some of the poorest Americans living in Appalachia.

Michael A. Cusumano

Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Michael A. Epstein

Epstein was educated at St. Paul's School (London) in London, Trinity College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

Michael A. Fopp

He spends his spare time flying a Lancair aircraft which he built himself over a period of 8 years.

Michael A. Fox

Fox was honored by having the newly constructed Ohio State Route 129, a limited access highway connecting Hamilton and Liberty Township with Interstate 75, named for him.

Michael A. Gorman

Michael A. Gorman (July 9, 1950 – December 2, 2012) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's third House district, including constituents in Craven and Pamlico counties, from 2003-2004.

Michael A. Hammer

:Not to be confused with U.S. businessman and philanthropist Michael Armand Hammer.

Michael A. Hoffman

Hoffman was the director of the Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1972 to 1979 and was an associate professor in sociology and anthropology at Western Illinois University.

Michael A. Krauss

As a television producer he helped to develop and produce many shows including Good Morning America, The Mike Douglas Show, Mother's Day (a popular show on Lifetime Television), Mother's Minutes, and Everyday.

Michael A. Miles

Miles began his career at Leo Burnett & Co. in 1961 as a Media analyst, and progressed to the position of VP Account Supervisor.

Michael A. Newton

Michael A. Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is an award-winning Canadian statistician.

Michael A. Noonan

Television New Zealand was approached again over the Coal Flat project in 2002, but funding was declined.

Michael A. Perry

Following his university studies, he entered the novitiate of the Province of the Sacred Heart of the Franciscan Order on 25 June 1977, and professed temporary religious vows on 11 August of the following year, the feast day of St. Clare of Assisi.

Michael A. Ramos

San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, in partnership with Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, offers this unique three day camp that provides a relaxed, supportive and safe environment for children to enjoy the typical activities of a summer camp, as well as to have opportunities to work with professionals to share their feelings related to their loss, learn new ways to cope, and interact with other children and teens in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.

Michael A. Shipp

Despite the relatively uncontroversial nature of Shipp's nomination, Sen. Rand Paul in July 2012 held up allowing an up-or-down, Senate floor vote on Shipp's nomination over an unrelated issue, involving Paul's desire to cut off all U.S. aid to Pakistan unless authorities there release Dr. Shakil Afridi.

Michael A. Stackpole

An outer main-belt asteroid discovered March 23, 2001 by David B. Healy was named 165612 Stackpole.

Michael A'Hearn

In 1986, Asteroid 3192 was named after A'Hearn to honor his contributions to cometary science.

Michael Armand Hammer

:For the U.S. State Dept. official, see Michael A. Hammer.

Michael Costello

Michael A. Costello (born 1965), State Representative for the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Michael Martone

Michael A. Martone (born 1955), director of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama; author, usually under "Michael Martone"

Multicultural education

Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Christine Sleeter, Ernest Morrell, Sonia Nieto, Rochelle Brock, Cherry A. McGee Banks, James A. Banks, Nelson Rodriguez, Leila Villaverde and many other scholars of critical pedagogy have offered an emancipatory perspective on multicultural education.

N'Faly Kouyate

In 1994 Kouyate moved to Belgium and formed the ensemble Dunyakan (The Voice of the World), featuring Michael A. Martone.

Nathaniel P. Banks

However, he did not immediately attempt the capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the main Confederate stronghold below Vicksburg, because the garrison was reported to be large.

Patrick Mara

Democrat Kwame R. Brown and independent Michael A. Brown won the General Election.

Pohl Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal II, were Robert M. Toms (presiding judge) from Detroit, Michigan, Fitzroy Donald Phillips from North Carolina, Michael A. Musmanno from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and John J. Speight from Alabama as an alternate judge.

Richard C. Banks

(born April 19, 1931) is an American author, ornithologist and Emeritus Research Zoologist on staff with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

Scott Waguespack

Waguespack was the city administrator and chief of staff to Berwyn mayor Michael A. O'Connor in 2005.

String-net liquid

In condensed matter physics, a string-net is an extended object whose collective behavior has been proposed as a physical mechanism for topological order by Michael A. Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen.

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate

It was designed by "Burger" Bill Heineman (now known as Rebecca Heineman), Bruce Schlickbernd, and Michael A. Stackpole.

The Christmas Village in Philadelphia

Jay Leno scoffed: “The annual ‘Christmas Village’ in Philadelphia has been renamed the ‘Holiday Village.’ In fact, they’re not Santa’s reindeer anymore . . . They’re now ‘nondenominational venison.’” After three days of controversy Philadelphia’s Mayor Michael A. Nutter intervened and the name and signs were restored.

The Invisible Universe Foundation

The special guest was L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress novels who read from and talked about her work with the audience.

Thomas W. Sherman

After that he commanded the Defenses of New Orleans before taking command of a division in Major General Nathaniel P. Banks's army, which he led into action at the Siege of Port Hudson.

Über Goober

The film was directed by Steve Metze and features interviews with Gary Gygax, Peter Adkison, Mike Stackpole, and Bob Larson, amongst others.

Washington, Louisiana

During the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Connecticut, part of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks's forces, occupied Washington, then larger than the parish seat of Opelousas.


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