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3 unusual facts about Philip J. Landrigan


Lead-based paint in the United States

Due in great part to studies carried out by Philip J. Landrigan, paint containing more than 0.06% (by weight of dried product) lead was banned for residential use in the United States in 1978 by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (16 Code of Federal Regulations CFR 1303).

Philip J. Landrigan

His books include Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions for Every Family and, with Herbert Needleman, Raising Children Toxic Free: How to Keep Your Child Safe From Lead, Asbestos, Pesticides and Other Environmental Hazards.

1999 Earth Day New York, Award for Excellence in Environmental Medicine


A Clone of My Own

The Planet Express staff each expects one of them will be named, including Fry, but Farnsworth reveals that his successor will be a 12-year-old clone of himself, Cubert Farnsworth.

Acting white

In 1997 the scholars Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig published a report finding that blacks do not face any stronger social pressures than whites to succeed in school, nor do they have greater feelings of alienation towards education in general.

Blippy

Blippy was founded by Ashvin Kumar, Chris Estreich, and Philip J. Kaplan.

key people = Ashvin Kumar, Chris Estreich, and Philip J. Kaplan

Boston Confucians

(Philip J. Ivanhoe, Joel J. Kupperman and David B. Wong would fall into this latter category.) Consequently, "Boston Confucian" is a term more closely linked to geography than intellectual content.

Edgar Bara

Taken from the book The guitar and mandolin, Biographies of celebrated players and composers for these instruments by Philip J. Bone, published by Schott and Company, London, 1914.

Fandalism

Launched in January 2012 by Philip J. Kaplan Fandalism grew exceedingly fast, by April 2012 the site had reached 350,000 members.

Flammarion engraving

The Flammarion engraving was used as an illustration in C. G. Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1959), and in The Mathematical Experience (1981) by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh.

Franklin Brito

United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip J. Crowley said that the United States was saddened by Brito's death.

Herbert J. Ellis

Music historian Philip J. Bone called him "without question the most fertile English composer and arranger for mandolin and guitar."

Irene Stegun

When Abramowitz died of a heart attack in 1958, Stegun took over management of the project and finished the work by 1964, working under the direction of the NBS Chief of Numerical Analysis Philip J. Davis, who was also a contributor to the book.

Lot18

It was launched in October 2010 by Philip J. K. James, who previously founded Snooth, a social networking website, and Kevin Fortuna, the former CEO of Quigo, a search-engine marketing company that was acquired by AOL in December 2007.

Miguel Llobet

The statement by Philip J. Bone in The Guitar and Mandolin that Llobet "was killed in 1937, in an air raid in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War" (Bone 1954) has been tacitly contradicted by all reliable sources.

Milton Abramowitz

Stegun took over management of the project and was able to finish the work by 1964, working under the direction of the NBS Chief of Numerical Analysis Philip J. Davis, who was also a contributor to the book.

Omnism

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotes as the term's earliest usage the 1839 long poem "Festus" by English poet Philip J. Bailey: "I am an omnist, and believe in all religions".

Phil Morrison

Philip J. Morrison (born 1950), American physicist in the field of hydrodynamics and plasma physics and a professor at the University of Texas

Philip Crowley

Philip J. Crowley (born 1951), spokesman for the United States State Department

Philip J. Carroll

He told Newsnight: "Many Neo-Conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, about democracy, about this, that and the other. International oil companies, without exception, are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don't have a theology."

In 2003 he was appointed by the Bush administration to head the policy planning advisory board of the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

Philip J. Cook

Philip J. Cook has served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Law and Justice.

Philip J. Crowley

His father, William C. Crowley, was a vice president for public relations with the Boston Red Sox, and a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 pilot, who spent two years as a POW in a German POW camp.

Philip J. Dwyer

Good Old Coney Island (1957, 2nd revised edition 2000) Fordham University Press ISBN 978-0-8232-1997-1

Philip J. Finnegan

On April 8, 1949, Finnegan was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated by William Morris Sparks.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Finnegan received an LL.B. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1913 and entered private practice in Chicago.

Philip J. K. James

He is also the founding CEO of Lot18, a private sale site for wine and food, and was formerly the founding CEO of Snooth, a comparison shopping internet site for wine.

Prior to Lot18, Philip was the founding CEO of Snooth, a lifestyle media company with several properties, including Snooth.com, TheSpir.it and WhatsCook.in.

He has also climbed on five continents and climbed Mount Everest in 2003 and played a role in the high altitude rescue of Conan Harrod from Everest's North Face.

Philip J. Nel

Philip Jacobus Nel (17 June 1902, in Kranskop district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – 11 February 1984, in Greytown) was a former South African Springbok captain.

Affectionately known as "oom Flip", he farmed at 'Vetspruit' and died at his home in Greytown on 11 February 1984, after a long illness.

Philip J. Philbin

At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970.

In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971).

Philip Lewis

Philip J. Lewis (1900–1985), lawyer and politician in Newfoundland

San Beda Red Lions

According to Philip J. Deloria in Playing Indian, Indians became a major "lure" to recruit boys.

Vikram Pandit

In 2005, after more than two decades with Morgan Stanley, Vikram Pandit decided to leave the firm along with John Havens after being passed over by Philip J. Purcell.

Where No Fan Has Gone Before

Zapp Brannigan holds a court-martial of Bender, Leela, Fry, and most of the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series, for traveling to the forbidden planet Omega 3.


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