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7 unusual facts about Peter C. Newman


Peter C. Newman

He joined the Royal Canadian Navy reserve in 1947 as an Ordinary Seaman and later reached the rank of Captain, having served in the naval reserve for 50 years.

He lives with his fourth wife, Alvy (Bjorklund) Newman, in Belleville, Ontario.

Peter Newman

Peter C. Newman, Canadian journalist who emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia

Republicanism in Canada

The notion of a republic was raised publicly in the early 1990s, when Peter C. Newman wrote in Maclean's that the monarchy should be abolished in favour of a head of state "who would reflect our own, instead of imported, values."

Susan G. Cole

While on the job she met author and Maclean's editor Peter C. Newman who, in 1976, made her his principal researcher for his book The Bronfman Dynasty (McClelland & Stewart).

Thomas d'Aquino

Canadian author Peter C. Newman, in his book Titans, describes d'Aquino as "the most powerful influence on public policy formation in Canadian history".

You had an option, sir

Mulroney later disclosed to journalist Peter C. Newman that he did not know his "You had an option" response would be positively received as he was speaking it.


Alva R. Fitch

Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power.

Andrew J. Newman

His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's book of the year prize for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies.

Andrew Newman

Andrew J. Newman, a reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh

Australian Legends

2002 – Medical Scientists, haematologist Professor Donald Metcalf, microbiologist Professor Nancy Millis, immunologists Professor Sir Gustav Nossal and Professor Peter C. Doherty, and epidemiologist and public health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley

Coupon collector's problem

Donald J. Newman and Lawrence Shepp found a generalization of the coupon collector's problem when m copies of each coupon needs to be collected.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse

U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Southern District of New York Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa attended the ceremony.

Frank Newman

Frank N. Newman (born 1942), US banker and former United States Department of the Treasury official

Frank C. Newman (1917–1996), US law school dean, state supreme court judge, and scholar and reformer in international human rights law

Gerry Patrick Hemming

In an interview that he gave to John M. Newman on January 6, 1995, Hemming claimed that the FBI informer was Steve Wilson.

Guy Newman

Guy D. Newman (1906–1988), American academic, Baptist preacher and university administrator

I Know I'm Not Wrong

The track "To Wild Homes" found on the The New Pornographers's record Mass Romantic features the melody of "I Know I'm Not Wrong" where A.C. Newman plays the song's melody over the fading chorus at the end of the track.

I'll Get You for This

It was directed by Joseph M. Newman from an adaptation by George Callahan and William Rose of James Hadley Chase's book of the same name.

Interval graph

The mathematical theory of interval graphs was developed with a view towards applications by researchers at the RAND Corporation's mathematics department, which included young researchers—such as Peter C. Fishburn and students like Alan C. Tucker and Joel E. Cohen—besides leaders—such as Delbert Fulkerson and (recurring visitor) Victor Klee.

James Newman

James R. Newman (1907–1966), mathematician and mathematical historian

James R. Newman

In 1940 Newman wrote (with Edward Kasner) Mathematics and the Imagination in which he identified the mathematical concept of a very large but finite number, which he called "googol" and another large number called "googolplex"—this was the first time this number, and this term, was ever identified.

Jimmy C. Newman

In 1976, his recording of the Cajun French song, "Lâche pas la patate" ("The Potato Song") earned gold record status in Canada.

John M. Newman

John M. Newman spent 21 years with the U.S. Army Intelligence.

Joseph M. Newman

His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

M.W. Newman

Although best known for his coverage of crime and local news in Chicago, he spent most of his later career writing for Inland Architect and Architectural Forum while also writing arts reviews for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.

Peter C. Appling

Peter C. Appling served as a member of the 1869-1871 California State Assembly, representing the 4th District.

Peter C. Brown

He currently serves on the Rockhurst High School board of trustees, a position he also held 1998 through 2001.

Peter C. Doherty

Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center through the College of Medicine.

Peter C. Economus

He was a judge of the Mahoning County Ohio Court of Common Pleas from 1982 to 1995.

Peter C. Granata

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Seventy-second Congress and served from March 3, 1931, to April 5, 1932, when he was succeeded by Stanley H. Kunz, who successfully contested the election.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Peter C. Knudson

A Republican, he is a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 17th senate district in Box Elder, Cache and Tooele Counties including Brigham City.

Peter C. Schultz

He is a member of the Selection Committee for the National Medal of Technology and a Board member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Peter C. Shannon

Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall for the killing of Wild Bill Hickok which resulted in the Dakota Territory's first legal hanging, and prepared the Criminal Code adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1875.

In 1883 Shannon was appointed to investigate charges of drunkenness and improper behavior against Everton Conger, a judge in Montana Territory; although his report was somewhat sympathetic, it led to Attorney-General Benjamin H. Brewster recommending his removal.

Peter C. Smith

Peter C Smith is the published author of 76 books of aeronautical, naval and military history including Pedestal - the Convoy that saved Malta; Task Force 57 - The British Pacific Fleet; The Junkers Ju87 Stuka; Sailors in the Dock - A History of Naval Court Martials down the Centuries; and Midway: Dauntless Victory.

Peter C. Whybrow

He is the Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and CEO of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

Peter Conover Hains

On August 15, 1908, two of his three sons, Peter C. Hains II and Thornton Jenkins Hains, a well-known author of sea stories, were involved in the murder of William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht Club, Long Island.

Peter Myers

Peter C. Myers (1931-2012), a US Missouri politician who was Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan

Plainfield, New Hampshire

Peter C. Whybrow, author, psychiatrist, and director of the Semel Institute at UCLA

Plantation Records

In the late 1970s the label signed a number of veteran country performers to the label including Webb Pierce, Jimmie Davis, Jimmy C. Newman, Hank Locklin, and Roy Drusky though few of these records charted.

Steve Newman

Steven M. Newman, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to walk solo around the world

Steven M. Newman

He and his wife, Darci, reside on nearly 25 acres along the Ohio River on a heavily forested hillside known as “Worldwalker Hill.”

The Big Bankroll

The Big Bankroll is a 1961 American crime film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson.

The Cole Nobody Knows

The film tells Mr. Cole’s story through interviews with musicians Monty Alexander, Nancy Wilson, David “Fathead” Newman, John di Martino, H Johnson and Carl Anthony.

Werner Ploberger

# Empirical Limits for Time Series Econometric Models (with Peter C. B. Phillips), Econometrica, Vol.

William R. Newman

The history of medieval alchemy formed the central focus of Newman's early work, which included several studies of Roger Bacon and culminated in an edition, translation, and study of the Latin alchemist who wrote under the assumed name of "Geber" (a transliteration of "Jābir", from "Jābir ibn Hayyān"), probably Paul of Taranto.

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.


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