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2 unusual facts about Nicholas J. Wheeler


Christian Reus-Smit

At present, he is co-editor (with Nicholas J. Wheeler) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, and co-editor (with Duncan Snidal and Alexander Wendt) of the journal "International Theory".

Nicholas J. Wheeler

Nicholas J. Wheeler (born 7 April 1962) is professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham and co-editor (with Christian Reus-Smit) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, published by Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies Association.


Arthur Wheeler

Arthur Canfield Wheeler (1856–1941), mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (1895–1897)

Cape Wheeler

It was named by Jackie Ronne, expedition member and newspaper correspondent, for John N. Wheeler, president of the North American Newspaper Alliance and a contributor to the expedition.

Clayton L. Wheeler

In August 1915, he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of New York, and remained in office until October 1921 when he resigned.

Common Criteria

In a 2006 research paper, computer specialist David A. Wheeler suggested that the Common Criteria process discriminates against Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)-centric organizations and development models.

Electrically small antenna

An electrically small antenna is defined as an antenna with a volume smaller than a radian sphere defined by H. A. Wheeler.

Everett P. Wheeler

In 1894, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of New York, nominated by a split faction of the Democratic Party who were barred from the state convention, and opposed the nomination of ex-governor David B. Hill.

Frank W. Wheeler

In 1864, he moved with his parents to East Saginaw, Michigan and attended the Saginaw High School and the Ypsilanti State Normal School (now (Eastern Michigan University).

George Wheeler

George W. Wheeler (1860–1932), lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut

Hamilton K. Wheeler

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Harry A. Wheeler

Harry A. Wheeler (May 26, 1866 - January 23, 1960), was president of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Harry C. Wheeler

But in United States v. Wheeler, 254 U.S. 281 (1920), Chief Justice Edward Douglass White ruled for an 8-to-1 majority that no federal law protected the freedom of movement.

Homeland Open Security Technology

Proponent David A. Wheeler claims that open-source security could also extend to hardware and written documents.

Human–computer information retrieval

Early work on interactive information retrieval, such as Juergen Koenemann and Nicholas J. Belkin’s 1996 study of different levels of interaction for automatic query reformulation, leverage the standard IR measures of precision and recall but apply them to the results of multiple iterations of user interaction, rather than to a single query response.

Jerome B. Wheeler

She was a descendent of Thomas Macy one of the first European settlers in Nantucket and niece of Rowland Hussey Macy who founded the R.H. Macy and Company, which became a large department store in New York City.

MoCADA

The artists featured in this exhibit are as follows: Trevor Brown, Nelson Caban, Rebekah A. Frimpong, Edouard Steinhauer, Michele Stephenson, Wahala Temi, Adrienne E. Wheeler, Nathan Williams, Tracee Worley.

Morton Halperin

The appointment of Halperin, a colleague of Kissinger's at Harvard University in the 1960s, was immediately criticized by General Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover; and Senator Barry Goldwater.

Mount Ropar

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Nicholas J. Ropar, Jr., Weather Central meteorologist at Little America V, 1958.

Musco Lighting

In 1991, Charlotte Motor Speedway owner O. Bruton Smith and former track president H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler approached Musco with the challenge of illuminating the 1.5-mile track for the 1992 Winston, famously promoted and remembered as "One Hot Night".

Nathan Rosen

It was shown in a 1962 paper by theoretical physicists John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller that these types of wormholes are unstable.

Nicholas J. Cifarelli

Cifarelli completed a lifelike sculpture of Rudolf Nureyev, the world-renowned ballet dancer; the head was presented to Nureyev at the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles).

Nicholas J. Clayton

Nicholas Joseph Clayton (November 1, 1840 in Cloyne, County Cork - December 9, 1916) was a prominent Victorian era architect in Galveston, Texas.

Nicholas J. Percoco

A native of Chicago, IL, Percoco is one of the founders of the THOTCON hacking conference.

Nicholas J. Phillips

D. Abbott, B. R. Davis, N. J. Phillips, and K. Eshraghian, "Simple derivation of the thermal noise formula using window-limited Fourier transforms," IEEE Trans. Education, 39(1) (1996) pp.

He was a research scientist at the Sperry Rand Research Centre, Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA, from 1962-1963.

Nicholas J. Sinnott

He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses), and the Committee on Patents (Seventieth Congress).

Nicholas J. Spykman

Other than the two continents there are offshore islands of significance are Britain and Japan, while the New World, buffered by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Nicholas J. Vogelzang

Vogelzang is the 2012 Chair for the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Cancer Communications Committee, the current Vice Chair of the GU Committee and a member of the GU Translational Medicine Intergroup Committee for Southwest Oncology Group.

Vogelzang served on committees for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), as well as its board of directors from 1993 to 1996, and is a former president of the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society.

Nicholas Saunders

Nicholas J. Saunders (born 1953), British academic archaeologist and anthropologist

Oakeshott typology

The system is a continuation of Jan Petersen's typology of the Viking sword, introduced in De Norske Vikingsverd ("The Norwegian Viking Swords", 1919), modified in 1927 by R. E. M. Wheeler into a typology of nine types labelled I to IX.

OpenFormula

One of the external commentors on OpenDocument, David A. Wheeler, released a first draft of a specification for formulae in February 2005.

OpenFormula was proposed and initially drafted by David A. Wheeler.

Pritzker family

Nicholas J. Pritzker (born 1944), Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation

Silas Wheeler

His son, Grattan Henry Wheeler, named for Silas' rescuer Henry Grattan, served as a U.S. Representative from New York.

SS Robin Moor

In Congress, isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler claimed that 70 percent of the ship's cargo constituted the kind of materials meeting the German and British standards for contraband, defended the legality of Germany's right to destroy her, and characterized Roosevelt's message as an effort to bring the United States into the war.

Teenage Rebel

It was nominated for two Academy Awards; Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss).

The Cardinal

Other Academy Awards nominations were for Best Cinematography (Leon Shamroy), Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler and set decorator Gene Callahan), Best Costume Design (Donald Brooks), and Best Film Editing (Louis R. Loeffler).

The President's Lady

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller and Paul S. Fox and for Best Costume Design: Charles LeMaire and Renié.

Track Robbery

Raced by Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall under the Summa Stable banner, Track Robbery was trained by Robert Wheeler in all but one of her career starts, with John W. Russell her winning trainer in the 1982 Spinster Stakes.

United States Senate election in Montana, 2008

Montana generally gives its presidential electors to Republican candidates, but historically has elected several prominent Democrats to the United States Senate, including Thomas Walsh, Burton K. Wheeler, Mike Mansfield, and Lee Metcalf.

William F. Wheeler

At the age of 19 William found work as an apprentice printer and reporter for the Ohio Statesman under Samuel Medary.

William M. Wheeler

Wheeler was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1955).

William V. Wheeler

William V. Wheeler was born in 1845 to Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Stubbs Wheeler in West Elkton, Ohio.

Wheeler kept in touch and remained close with family from his mother’s side; his aunt, Elvira Stubbs Pray, her four children, and her husband, who was a renowned Quaker preacher, gave Wheeler a Bible that he would later carry with him into the American Civil War.

Wormhole

However, in 1962 John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller published a paper showing that this type of wormhole is unstable if it connects two parts of the same universe, and that it will pinch off too quickly for light (or any particle moving slower than light) that falls in from one exterior region to make it to the other exterior region.


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