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2 unusual facts about Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell


Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

In 2009, the boxing scenes of the 2010 film The Fighter were shot here with Mark Wahlberg portraying Micky Ward, Lowell's own boxer who won a world championship, and Christian Bale portraying his brother Dicky Eklund.

The Devils ended their stay in Lowell due to financial difficulties and the arena's new ownership and has moved to Albany, NY to compete as the Albany Devils.


1997 Benton, Arkansas tornado outbreak

Then-governor Paul E. Patton had initially declared 120 counties a state of emergency and deployed about 1100 National Guard Troops to the flood stricken-regions.

Betty Jane Gorin-Smith

The closing, however, was completed as Miller, after thirty-three years in office, lost reelection in 1998 to Paul E. Osborne, a Campbellsville Realtor.

Blossom Kite Festival

The festival was founded in 1967 by aviation pioneer Paul E. Garber, also founder of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM).

Jack Frye

William John "Jack" Frye (March 18, 1904, Sweetwater, Oklahoma – February 3, 1959) was an aviation pioneer, who with Paul E. Richter and Walter A. Hamilton, built TWA into a world class airline during his tenure as president from 1934-1947.

James Garrard

Because of term limits imposed by the state constitution adopted in 1799, he was the last Kentucky governor elected to two consecutive terms until the restriction was eased by a 1992 amendment, allowing Paul E. Patton's re-election in 1999.

John W. Marchetti

After receiving appropriate security clearances, he was transferred to the Radio Position Finding (RPF - early SCL designation for radar) section where Paul E. Watson, the SCL Chief Engineer, was leading the development of the Signal Corps’s first pulsed detection system.

Joseph Bast

He was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Paul E. Patton in 1996, elected a member of the Philadelphia Society in 2002, and elected to the board of directors of the American Conservative Union in 2007.

Lee Sexton

In 1999 Kentucky governor Paul Patton presented Lee with the Governor's Award in the Arts.

Leningrad Codex

In 1935, the Leningrad Codex was lent to the Old Testament Seminar of the University of Leipzig for two years while Paul E. Kahle supervised its transcription for the Hebrew text of the third edition of Biblia Hebraica (BHK), published in Stuttgart, 1937.

Passaic Formation

It is now named for the city of Passaic, New Jersey, which is near where its type section was described by paleontologist Paul E. Olsen.

Paul E. Beaudoin

Dr. Beaudoin received his education from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL (BM, 1983); the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA (MM with Academic Distinction, 1987) and a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from Brandeis University in 2002.

Paul E. Garber Award

The Paul E. Garber Award is given to Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Senior Members who complete Level IV of the Senior Member Professional Development Program.

Paul E. Kerry

He then received an MA in political science jointly from Bowling Green State University and the University of Salzburg in 1991.

Paul E. Marek

With slight changes to the title and content, it has been regularly attributed incorrectly as the work of a number of different authors, such as William J. Haynes, II and Emanuel Tanay.

Paul E. Meehl

In 2005, Donald R. Peterson, a student of Meehl's, published a volume of their correspondence.

Paul E. Stein

Following graduation, Stein remained at the Academy to begin his career as an assistant coach for the Falcons.

Paul E. Vallely

Force feeding of non-psychotic prisoners has been banned by the World Medical Association since 1975, listing it alongside torture as a form of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment".

Vallely toured the Camp Delta detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba in 2006 while collecting material for a book he intended to co-write with LTC Gordon Cucullu,

Paul E. Watson

By 1937 Watson's team had developed a proto-type "Search Light Control Radar" (SCR-270) apparatus and successfully demonstrated it to the Secretary of War at Fort Monmouth.

Ironically, in the 1990s the U.S. Air Force would control the world's most powerful radar, designed to cover the entire Atlantic Ocean from Europe to Africa, from a headquarters in Watson's home town of Bangor, Maine.

Paul Patton

Paul E. Patton (born 1937), governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky, 1995–2003

Paul Stein

Paul E. Stein (1944–2002), superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy

Piermont, New York

Paul E. Olsen, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and member of the National Academy of Sciences

Ralph W. Beiting

Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn recognized Father Beiting as an outstanding Kentuckian in 1969, and he was honored in 1996 by Governor Paul Patton for his work in economic development.

Rome Laboratory

Development of the Rome Lab started in 1948, when several small teams were sent to Griffiss from Watson Laboratories and the Middletown testing units at Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Sephardi Hebrew

Kahle, Paul, Masoreten des Ostens: Die Altesten Punktierten Handschriften des Alten Testaments und der Targume: 1913, repr.

Smartbook

By the end of 2010, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs admitted that tablet computers such as the iPad already occupied the niche of the smartbook, so the name was dropped.

Thomas McInerney

Thomas McInerney and Paul E. Vallely, Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror, Regnery Publishing, February 1, 2004 ISBN 0-89526-066-2

Towaco Formation

It is named for the unincorporated village of Towaco, which is near the place its type section was described by paleontologist Paul E. Olsen.

Vallely

Paul E. Vallely, US soldier and military consultant for FOX News


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