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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


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.

Alexander B. Morrison

In 1984, Morrison was the recipient of the David M. Kennedy International Service Award from the Kennedy International Center at Brigham Young University.

Alexander Morrison

Alexander B. Morrison (born 1930), Canadian scientist, academic, civil servant and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Blippy

Blippy was founded by 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.

Commodore Nutt

: Not to be confused with United States Representative from New Hampshire, George W. Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888)

David R. Morrison

In 2006 a collection of his poems was published by Poetry Salzburg, at the University of Salzburg, titled The Cutting Edge: Collected Poems 1966-2003 by David Morrison.

David Morrison founded the Wick Festival of Poetry, Folk and Jazz and is the author or editor of numerous works, including books of poetry and essays, and including those on the works of Neil M. Gunn and Fionn MacColla.

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.

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.

George W. Morrison

Morrison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Wilson and served from October 8, 1850, to March 3, 1851.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress, but he was elected to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855).

Henry C. Morrison

Morrison could not finance his own education, but because he showed success in his academic work, a local banker raised money and financed his education at Dartmouth College.

In 1912, the dean of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, asked him to be the guest speaker for a summer session in Chicago.

Howard J. Morrison

Some of their best selling products include: The Animal, Ants in the Pants, Guesstures (originally named Gestures), Brain Warp, California Roller Baby, Real Talking Bubba, Masterpiece, My Size Barbie, Casey Cartwheel, Jennie Gymnast, Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash and many more.

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.

James J. Morrison

Morrison's daughter, Rae Luckock, became a politician and served as an Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1940s.

James W. Morrison

Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917) was the most popular of these films.

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).

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.

Martin A. Morrison

He served as chairman of the Committee on Patents (Sixty-fourth Congress).

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".

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."

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.

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

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

Robert J. H. Morrison

He was co-general editor of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, and editor of Hunt’s essays, 1822–38 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003).

San Beda Red Lions

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

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1952

The incumbent, Non-Partisan League (NPL) Senator William Langer, sought and received re-election to his fourth term in the United States Senate on the Republican ticket, defeating Democratic candidate Harold A. Morrison.

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.

William R. Morrison

William Robert Morrison (1878-1947), Canadian politician and Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario


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