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2 unusual facts about Philip A. Hart Plaza


Philip A. Hart Plaza

The monument stands close to where Martin Luther King, Jr. first gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on June 20, 1963, a speech that was repeated later that year at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

The plaza opened in 1975 and in 1976 was dedicated to Philip Hart, a United States Senator from 1959 to 1976.


Harvard International Review

Notable Harvard alumni to have been staff members of the Harvard International Review include Philip A. Brimmer, Bernard Hebda, Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, Simpsons writer Jeff Martin, Robert McCord, Marc Rotenberg, Phillip Steck, John Weston, M. Edward Whelan III, Stephen A. Higginson, and David Laibson.

Munz

Philip A. Munz (1892-1974), American botanist, taxonomist and educator

Music of the Bahamas

E. Clement Bethel's master's thesis on traditional Bahamian music was adapted for the stage by his daughter, Nicolette Bethel and Philip A. Burrows.

Phil Kaufman

Philip A. Kaufman (died 1992), American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award

Philip A. Brimmer

On July 10, 2008, Brimmer was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado vacated by Lewis T. Babcock.

Philip A. Kuhn

Among the most prominent are: Prasenjit Duara, formerly at University of Chicago, now the National University of Singapore; Timothy Brook, the Principal of St. John's College at University of British Columbia; William C. Kirby, the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and Hans van de Ven, head of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

Philip A. Payton, Jr.

Dr. Joseph Charles Price, founder of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, was a personal friend of Payton's father, and Payton attended the institution, but left after one year due to an injury sustained while playing football.

The buildings were renamed after prominent blacks in America: Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington.

Philip Vernon

Philip A. Vernon (born 1950), psychologist and intelligence researcher, son of Philip E. Vernon

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York

Haigh, Philip From Wakefield to Towton Pen and Sword Books 2002 ISBN 0-85052-825-9

Taiping Rebellion

Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China; Militarization and Social Structure, 1796–1864 (Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1970).


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