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unusual facts about Richard D. Dixon



A. C. Dixon

He then crossed the Atlantic and ministered at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, the church formerly pastored by Charles Spurgeon and other notable preachers, where he spent the war years.

Alan J. Dixon

Outgoing Governor Dan Walker had lost the support of the Party and the primary election.

In the fall of 1970, Karl Rove, a future White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush Administration, used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead.

Animals, Men and Morals

The book contains essays by Ruth Harrison on factory farming; Muriel Dowding, founder of Beauty without Cruelty, on furs and cosmetics; Richard D. Ryder on animal testing; and Terence Hegarty from the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments on alternatives.

Black Devil Disco Club

The record was discovered by Rephlex’s own PP Roy for 20 pence at a car boot sale, and quickly found favour with friends Richard D. James and Luke Vibert.

Capillary electrophoresis

Capillary electrophoresis was first combined with mass spectrometry by Richard D. Smith and coworkers, and provides extremely high sensitivity for the analysis of very small sample sizes.

Cudahy Packing Company

Michael remained as President until 1961, when his son, Richard D. Cudahy, succeeded him.

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Ernest Dixon

Ernest T. Dixon, Jr. (died 1996), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Jennifer Todd

She recently produced (with Richard D. Zanuck) the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton.

Jeremiah Dixon

Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

Joseph A. Dixon

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Kenneth L. Dixon

He accompanied more than twenty-five air combat missions and was the only newspaperman present when American forces broke out of Anzio and advanced on Rome.

Mason Dixon

Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters

Media in Missoula, Montana

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Congressman, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Mirador Basin

Archaeological and environmental studies conducted by the Mirador Basin Project, directed by Richard Hansen, previously known as the Regional Archaeological Investigation of the North Petén, Guatemala (RAINPEG) Project, have identified data relevant to the origins and early development of the Maya civilization in this area.

Missoulian

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

While in Ireland the Dublin edition of the book was published by the abolitionist printer Richard D. Webb to great acclaim and Douglass would write extensively in later editions very positively about his experience in Ireland.

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

; the scientific director of intramural research is Richard D. Leapman, PhD.

Oppegaard Spur

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Richard D. Oppegaard, Seaman Apprentice, U.S. Navy, a member of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, who lost his life in a shipboard accident, November 8, 1957.

Prepared piano

More recent composers to use prepared pianos include John Wolf Brennan, Roberto Carnevale, Philip Corner, Stephen Scott, Richard D. James, Jason Moran, Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Marina Leonardi, Hiromi Uehara, and Volker Bertelmann.

Punctuated equilibrium

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama–Nyungan language family there.

Richard D. Braatz

He has received many honors including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the Antonio Ruberti Foundation and IEEE Control Systems Society.

Richard D. Cotter

After Cotter completed the mapping in Yosemite late 1864, he signed up to work on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia and Alaska, with the goal of providing a telegraph link from Asia through Alaska by way of Bering Strait.

In 1866 Richard Cotter and J.T. Dyer made a very hazardous and successful exploration of the country between Norton Bay and the mouth of the Koyukuk River on the Yukon.

Richard D. Dean

He commanded Battery C, 1st Battalion,128th Field Artillery and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 128th Field Artillery in the 1950s.

Richard D. Dunphy

The Wisconsin Legislature approved an extra pension for Dunphy in 1868 to help him support his family.

Richard D. Feinman

Richard David Feinman (born 1940) is a professor of biochemistry and medical researcher at State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, better known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center who studies nutrition and metabolism.

Richard D. Gill

In recent years he has actively lobbied for retrials for Lucia de Berk and Kevin Sweeney.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya and also a director of the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates the mainly unexplored territory in the northern Peten, Guatemala.

Hansen worked as a historical consultant on the 2006 Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, and has appeared in 25 film documentaries including several National Geographic specials, the Discovery Channel, CNN, CNN International, Koch Television, British Broadcasting Corp, Sixty Minutes Australia, CBS, History Channel, ABC 20/20, ABC Primetime Live, ABC Good Morning America, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, TimeLine Films of London,Guatevision, and the Learning Channel.

Richard D. James Album

In addition, a remix of Logan Rock Witch was among the many bootleg remixes of Aphex Twin that V/Vm did as part of his Helpaphextwin series.

Richard D. King

In 1983, King transferred to the California Air National Guard and was assigned to the 261st Combat Communications Squadron.

Richard D. Lines

Together with his wife Helen Calvert Lines, also a keen astronomer, he built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona.

Richard D. Simons

After the resignation of Sol Wachtler in November 1992, Simons was chosen Acting Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester

Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094 – 25 November 1120) was the son of Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester and Ermentrude of Clermont.

Richard Gill

Richard D. Gill (born 1951), Anglo-Dutch mathematician / mathematical statistician

Richard Ryder

Richard D. Ryder (born 1940), British psychologist and animal rights advocate

State capitalism

A relatively recent text by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class Theory and History, explores what they term state capitalism in the former Soviet Union, continuing a theme that has been debated within Trotskyist theory for most of the past century.

The Crimson Flame

The Crimson Flame is the 77th title of the Hardy Boys series, written by Franklin W. Dixon.

The Willow Pattern

The fashion in the late Victorian era and Edwardian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers, like The Willow Pattern.

Universal Indicator Green

The common held belief is that Richard D. James produced the 12" and 10" records, while Mike Dred produced the 7". It is also rumored to be produced by James, Dred and Grant Wilson-Claridge, although it is possible that either James or Dred solely produced the album. The album was pressed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies of a box set in which a 12", 10" and 7" vinyl record come in a screen-printed white plastic shopping bag (pictured).

Why We Disagree About Climate Change

Richard D. North writing on his personal website said, "Most of the books on global warming science and policy are pretty muddled, hysterical or dreamy by turns. Very few have real quality. Mike Hulme’s book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change seems to be in a different class".

Youghiogheny River

"Youghiogheny, Pennsylvania," is mentioned in a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, and the Youghiogheny is referred to as Yochio Geni in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon.


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