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2 unusual facts about Philip D. Curtin


Philip D. Curtin

There, Curtin and fellow historian Jan Vansina established a department of African languages and literature in 1956, as part of one of the first academic African studies programs established at a college in the United States.

Curtin was born in Philadelphia on May 22, 1922, and grew up in Webster Springs, West Virginia, the site of a coal and timber company owned by his family.


Atlantis, Florida

The modern history of what became known as the city of Atlantis originates in a ranch called Mulberry Farms, owned by Philip D. Lewis, a former Florida state senator.

Eston Hemings

The historians Philip D. Morgan and Joshua D. Rothman have written about the numerous interracial relationships in the Wayles-Hemings-Jefferson families and the region, often with multiple generations repeating the pattern.

Madison Hemings

As the historians Philip D. Morgan and Joshua D. Rothman have written, there were numerous interracial relationships in the Wayles-Hemings-Jefferson families, Albemarle County and Virginia, often with multiple generations repeating the pattern.

Paratomistoma

Paratomistoma was named in 2000 by Christopher Brochu and Philip Gingerich; the type species is P. courti in honor of Nicholas Court, who found CGM 42188.

Philip D. Gingerich

His research focus is in vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene transition and early Cenozoic mammals.

Philip D. McCulloch, Jr.

McCulloch was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1903), after which he declined to be a candidate for renomination.

Philip D. Murphy

Philip D. Murphy (born 1957) is an American businessman and the former United States Ambassador to Germany.

Philip D'Antoni

He began his career on television with the production of the specials Sophia Loren in Rome, Elizabeth Taylor in London and Melina Mercouri in Greece.

Philip D'Antoni (Born February 19, 1929 in New York, NY), is a film producer, known for the groundbreaking, memorable car chases in his dramatic police thrillers Bullitt (1968), The French Connection (1971), and The Seven-Ups (1973).

Philip Lewis

Philip D. Lewis (born 1924), Canadian politician who served in the federal Senate, 1978–1999

Practical idealism

More recently, practical idealism has been advocated by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Philip D. Zelikow, in the position of counselor to the department.

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations

HPAIR often invites speakers who are successful in the world of business, like the Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (Harvard '81 / HBS '87), CEO of Haier Zhang Ruimin, Chairman of Prudential Asia Victor Fung and President of Goldman Sachs Asia Philip D. Murphy.

Willard S. Curtin

He defeated noted author (and Doylestown, Bucks County native) James A. Michener in the 1962 election.


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