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2 unusual facts about NEA


Gilah Yelin Hirsch

The NEA grant, as well as a sabbatical from California State University provided her with a yearlong (1986/87) opportunity to visit fifteen Asian countries.

Tabbedout

In October of 2013, TabbedOut secured Series B Funding with investment from NEA, Heartland Payment Systems® and Morgan Creek Capital.


1924 College Football All-America Team

Carl Diehl, Dartmouth (INS; LIB; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; NB-1; WE-3)

1931 Michigan Wolverines football team

All-American: Maynard Morrison (first team selection by Colliers and NEA; third team selection by AP and Central Press), Bill Hewitt (third team selection by NEA)

1939 College Football All-America Team

Joe Boyd, Texas A&M (AP-3; UP-2; CO-1; CP-2; NEA-2; NYS-1)

1966 College Football All-America Team

Clint Jones, Michigan State (AP, NEA, CP, WC, Time, TSN)

1970 College Football All-America Team

Steve Worster, Texas (AP, UPI, NEA, FWAA, WC, AFCA, TSN, Time, FN)

Agios Dimitrios, Ioannina

Mousiotitsa (Nea Mousiotitsa, Ano Mousiotitsa, Kato Mousiotitsa, Mesoura)

Alan Berliner

A recipient of Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Jerome Foundation Fellowships, Berliner has received multiple grants from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA and in 1998, won his third career Emmy Award (he has also received six nominations) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Angariones

It is situated in the western part of the island, 1.5 km north of Portianou, 2 km west of Nea Koutali, 4 km northeast of Kontias, 4 km west of the Lemnos Airport and 10 km east of Myrina.

Billie Orr

It is an alternative to Council of Chief State School Officers, a more liberal oriented organization with close ties to the teacher unions such as National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Bob Westfall

At the end of the 1941 season, Westfall was a consensus All-American, selected as the first-team fullback by Grantland Rice, the Associated Press ("AP"), United Press, All-America Board, Collier's, the Newspaper Enterprise Association ("NEA"), the International News Service, the Central Press Association, the New York Sun and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

Boots and Her Buddies

Martin grew up in Monmouth, Illinois where his father, George Martin, was a Monmouth College biology professor, and he spent three years attending Monmouth College, leaving his junior year to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and joining NEA in 1921 as a cartoonist.

Colette Inez

She has published ten poetry collections and has won the Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA Fellowships) and two Prizes and many other awards.

Cora Cohen

Cohen has been a Yaddo Foundation Fellow and the recipient of awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the NEA, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program, and recently, the Edward F. Albee Foundation.

DC Youth Orchestra Program

1968 – Lily Guest, President of the Friends of the Kennedy Center and Walter Anderson, Head of the Music Department of the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) work to prepare for the DCYOP’s first tour

Dennis Van Roekel

He was elected NEA President by the 2008 NEA Representative Assembly, succeeding Reg Weaver in that position.

Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette

It was recommended by the National Education Association (NEA) along with only one other science site published by Bill Nye The Science Guy.

Eleftheres

The other villages in this municipal unit are Agios Andreas (pop. 340), Eleftheres (pop. 1325), Elaiochori (pop. 1126), Folia (pop. 575), Myrtofyto (pop. 484) and Nea Iraklitsa (pop. 959).

Ellen Doré Watson

Watson has translated eleven books, including The Alphabet in the Park: The Selected poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press), for which she was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship and interviewed by BOMB Magazine. In addition to her Brazilian Portuguese translations, the Winter 1999 issue of Modern Poetry in Translation features contemporary Palestinian poetry she co-translated from the Arabic with Saadi Simawe.

Franklin Furnace Archive

In 1984, the Morality Action Committee claimed that 500 children per day were exposed to pornography in the Carnival Knowledge show; Franklin Furnace’s 1992-93 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) program grant was rescinded by the National Council on the Arts; and in 1996, the Christian Action Network carried a coffin up the steps of the Capitol to call for the death of Franklin Furnace and the NEA.

Gregg Schlanger

He has received many awards including Sponsorship by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Israel-Tennessee Visual Artist Exchange Project Fellowship, USIA Arts America Grant and New Forms Regional Initiative Grant from the NEA.

Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia

Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (also Ionikos Nea Philadelphia) is a sport clup that is based in Nea Filadelfeia, an Athenian suburb.

Jack Walrath

Walrath has received composition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Composition Grant and the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and performance grants from the NEA and Quad City Arts.

Jack Wilkins

Wilkins was awarded an NEA grant in recognition of his work with the guitar.

Larry Ridley

Ridley served as chairman of the Jazz Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and was the organization's National Coordinator of the "Jazz Artists in Schools" Program for five years (1978–1982).

Lichens of Soldiers Delight

Chromite was mined at Soldiers Delight NEA until 1860 by Isaac Tyson, and some of the old mine shafts are still present.

Linda Lappin

She was awarded a second translation grant from the NEA in 1996 for her work on Tuscan writer Federigo Tozzi.

Luis E. Echávarri

Luis Echávarri is the Director-General of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).

Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof

Thiam, Iba Der, Maba Diakhou Ba Almamy du Rip (Sénégal), Paris, ABC, Dakar-Abidjan, NEA, 1977

MemSQL

MemSQL has raised more than $5 million to date from a variety of investors including First Round Capital, IA Ventures, NEA, and several prominent angels including Paul Buchheit, Max Levchin, Aaron Levie, and Ashton Kutcher.

Mira Mesa Senior High School

Lysley Tenorio (Class of 1990), short story writer, author of Monstress and recipient of NEA fellowship, Wallace Stegner fellowship, and Whiting Writers' award.

Nanos Valaoritis

He was also writing poetry, and in 1939 when he was barely eighteen, he saw himself published in the pages of George Katsimbalis’ review Nea Grammata alongside contributions from Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis, and was immediately taken into their literary circle.

Nea Koutali

Nea Koutali stands like an amphitheatre adjacent to the Moudros Gulf and stretches from the pine forests of Agia Triada to the stone built fishing port.

Nea Makri

Greek National Road 83 (Athens - Marathon - Rafina) passes through Nea Makri.

Nea Mesangala

Nea Mesangala (Greek: Νέα Μεσάγκαλα) is a beach settlement of the community of Aigani, a former municipal district of Kato Olympos, which is part of the municipality of Tempi in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.

Nea Mesimvria

Nea Mesimvria is an area in the suburbs of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Nea Salamis Famagusta

In the tournament Took part teams from the province (Nea Salamina, Anorthosis Famagusta FC, the Anagennisi Dherynia, Marathon Kato Varosha, ENAD Agios Memnon).

New England Foundation for the Arts

The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and by private foundations, corporations and individuals.

Pedino, Lemnos

It is 1.5 km southwest of Nea Koutali, 1 km northeast of Portianou and 11 km east of Myrina.

Shari Roman

For the cover of Filmmaker Magazine (USA) she wrote The Genius of the System, a profile of multi-media artist Matthew Barney under an National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant.

Southern Arts Federation

South Arts, formerly the Southern Arts Federation, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Surf Air

A Series A round of venture capital was completed in mid-2013 with investment from Anthem Venture Partners, NEA, TriplePoint Capital, Siemer Ventures, Baroda Ventures, Gilad Elbaz, Eytan Elbaz, Rick Caruso, Jeffrey Stibel, Mike Walsh and actor Jared Leto.

Tzykanisterion

It was demolished by Basil I in order to erect the Nea Ekklesia church in its place, and rebuilt in larger size further east, connected to the Nea with two galleries.

Yupiit School District

In 2004, the Yupiit School District, the NEA-Alaska labor union, and several other school districts sued the state (Moore v. Alaska), asking for additional funding and educational programs.


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