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2 unusual facts about Richard K. Betts


John Keegan

" The political scientist Richard Betts also criticized Keegan's understanding of the political dimensions of war, writing that Keegan was "a naïf about politics.

Richard Betts

Richard K. Betts (born 1947), Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University


Chelsea, Manhattan

The northern piers are now part of an entertainment and sports complex operated by Roland W. Betts.

Eugene E. Wing

On 10 FEB 1942, General Richard K. Sutherland, MacArthur's Chief of Staff gave permission to Wing to sail the blockade.

Kletting Peak

Kletting Peak is a mountain in Summit County, Utah, named in 1964 for Utah architect Richard K.A. Kletting (1858-1943).

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Richard K. Lester – Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Industrial Performance Center (IPC) and professor of nuclear science and engineering

Penney's game

Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays", 2nd Edition, Volume 4, AK Peters (2004), p.

Pete Kuykendall

Bluegrass Unlimited magazine was co-founded by Kuykendall in 1966, with Gary Henderson, Dick Freeland, Dick Spottswood, and volunteers Dianne and Vince Sims.

Quellcrist Falconer

Quellcrist Falconer (nickname: Quell) is the nom de guerre used by Nadia Makita, a fictional political activist/revolutionary often referred to in the Takeshi Kovacs series of novels by Richard K. Morgan.

Richard Betts

Richard A. Betts, climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre

Richard Eaton

Richard K. Eaton (born 1948), judge for the United States Court of International Trade

Richard K. Eaton

On August 3, 1999, President Clinton nominated Eaton to be a Judge for the United States Court of International Trade, to the seat vacated by Judge R. Kenton Musgrave.

Richard K. Guy

He is best known for co-authorship (with John Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp) of Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays and authorship of Unsolved Problems in Number Theory (ISBN 0-387-94289-0), but he has also published over 100 papers and books covering combinatorial game theory, number theory and graph theory.

Richard K. Lester

- Making Technology Work: Case Studies in Energy and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-authored with John M. Deutch, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (1994 - 1995), Director of Central Intelligence (1995 - 1996).

Richard K. Sorenson

He was transferred from Chicago to the Midwestern Recruiting Division in St. Louis, Missouri in September 1945, and while attached to that division, served at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Fargo, North Dakota.

As a civilian, Sorenson was active in his community — serving on the board of directors for the United Way, the regional Boy Scout Council, and the board of directors for the Navy League.

Richard K. Webel

He designed the landscaping at places as diverse as the Frick Collection and the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan; Blair House, the presidential guest quarters across the street from the White House; the Governor's Mansion in Albany; Wellesley College in Massachusetts; Sweet Briar College in Virginia; Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

Webel married Pauline Dodge Pratt (widow of Frederic R. Pratt, a grandson of Charles Pratt) in 1969.

Roland W. Betts

Betts is the Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, an advisory board member of Yale School of Management, and is a Trustee of numerous organizations including: the American Museum of Natural History, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia University Law School, and the National Park Foundation.

Salt Palace

The original historic Salt Palace was built in 1899 under the direction of Richard K.A. Kletting, architect, and owned by John Franklin Heath.


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