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unusual facts about Richard T. Crane


John Whipple House

With its original location threatened by the railroad, the house was moved in 1927 to its present location, on land donated by philanthropist Richard T. Crane.


Active transport

In August 1960, in Prague, Robert K. Crane presented for the first time his discovery of the sodium-glucose cotransport as the mechanism for intestinal glucose absorption.

Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton is also the birthplace of award-winning artist Richard T. Slone and the town in which Sky News presenter Steve Dixon and Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson grew up and attended school.

Diane Griffin

Along with Janice E. Clements and others, Griffin is a notable trainee of neurovirology specialist Richard T. Johnson.

Frederick Crane

Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), American lawyer and politician from New York

George Crane

George W. Crane (1901–1995), psychologist, physician and syndicated newspaper columnist

George W. Crane

He was the father of Republican U.S. congressmen Phil and Dan Crane.

Johannes Conrad

The Americans, Richard T. Ely, Simon N. Patten, Edmund J. James, and Joseph F. Johnson studied under Conrad at Halle in the late 1870s, thus profoundly influencing the Harvard University Department of Economics.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.

Land Economics

The journal was established in 1925 by the founder of the American Economic Association, Richard T. Ely (University of Wisconsin).

Mark Boal

Boal's 2004 article "Death and Dishonor", about the 2003 murder of veteran Richard T. Davis after his return to the United States, was published in Playboy magazine.

Mark V. Ziesing

1994/12: Richard T. Chizmar, editor - The Earth Strikes Back (softcover; anthology)

Minaret of Freedom Institute

Its early board of advisers included former Richard Nixon advisor Robert D. Crane, a convert to Islam, and Charles Butterworth, a University of Maryland Islamic scholar.

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

The success of Coline Serreau's comedy helped her film career and a string of parts in costume films followed - films such as Andrzej Wajda's Les Possédés of 1988, Philippe Le Guay's Les Deux Fragonard, and Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron's La Révolution Française, playing Charlotte Corday, and released in 1989 to coincide with celebrations for the bi-centenary of the 1789 Revolution.

Richard Gill

Richard T. Gill (1927–2010), opera singer and Harvard economics professor

Richard Schulze

Richard T. Schulze (born 1929), American politician, member of the U.S. Congress representing Pennsylvania

Richard Spooner

Richard T. Spooner (born 1925), former United States Marine Corps officer

Richard T. Cole

Between 1991 and 1994, Cole served as the Vice President of Corporate Communications at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

From 1983 through 1988, Cole was the press secretary and later chief of staff for Governor James Blanchard.

More recently, he has served as a finance co-chair and member of the campaign finance team of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow.

Richard T. Hanna

He served as member of the California state assembly from 1956 to 1962 and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth United States Congress in 1963 and to the five succeeding congresses (January 3, 1963 - December 31, 1974) to represent California's 34th congressional district, which then covered parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Richard T. Heffron

He worked on many television series such as The Rockford Files and films including I Will Fight No More Forever (1975), Futureworld (1976), Foolin' Around (1980), the 1982 Mike Hammer film I, the Jury, Pancho Barnes (1988), and La révolution française (1989).

Richard T. James

Slinky was successfully demonstrated at Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia during the 1945 Christmas season and then at the 1946 American Toy Fair.

Richard T. Morgan

In 2010, he ran for the State Senate but lost in the Republican primary to incumbent Harris Blake.

Richard T. Russell

Richard Thomas Russell is the creator of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language and the author of the Z80 and MS-DOS versions of BBC BASIC.

In addition to creating BBC BASIC for Windows, Russell also runs a Yahoo! support group for the language to which he regularly contributes tips, advice and comments on other users' code.

Richard T. Swope

General Swope was an avid aviation enthusiast as demonstrated by personally constructing and test flying a Vans Aircraft RV-8 amateur built experimental aircraft of which he was the repairmen.

Richard T. Warner

He serves on Governor Sonny Perdue’s Georgia Film, Video and Music Advisory Commission; the Grady Board of Trust of the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Atlanta’s Grady Hospital Board; and is a past president of the American Marketing Association’s Atlanta chapter.

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

In 1966, he left to become Director of Third World Studies at the first professional futures forecasting center, The Hudson Institute, led by Herman Kahn.

Robert K. Crane

After that, he was professor and chairman of the department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School until 1966 and then became professor and chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School (now known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey until 1986.

Crane's discovery is also used in blockbuster drugs, such as the SSRI Prozac, which treat depression by inhibiting the Na/serotonin cotransporters in the brain.

Samuel Laws

Miami University named the building that houses most of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business after Laws, and at the University of Missouri, residential building Laws Hall and Laws Observatory were also named in honor of Laws.

Symposium

Symposiums often featured on Attic pottery and Richard Neer has argued that the chief function of Attic pottery was for use in the symposium.

Tanny

Tanny B. Crane (living), the President and CEO of Crane Group, Chair of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Tanny B. Crane

She is also a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, sits on the Board of the United Way of Central Ohio, is a member of the Columbus Partnership and the Columbus Foundation, and sits on the Board of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce.

Wanda Shelley

Shelley entered into production as an executive producer/investor in the 2002 independent feature film The Book of Love, also directed by Jeff Byrd and starring Sallie Richardson, Robin Givins, Treach of Naughty by Nature, and Richard T. Jones of Judging Amy.

William M. Crane

The Naval Ammunition Depot in Burns City, Indiana was renamed US Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, in honor of Commodore Crane.

William T. Culpepper, III

Considered the greatest Rules Chairman of all time, Culpepper will be remembered as one of the architects of the co-speakership (James B. Black and Richard T. Morgan) in 2003 and the driving force behind passage of the state's education lottery in 2005.

Winthrop M. Crane

Born into the Dalton, Massachusetts family that owned the papermaking Crane & Co., he successfully expanded the company during the 1880s after securing an exclusive government contract to supply the paper for United States currency (a monopoly the company continues to hold).

He was hosting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3, 1902 when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Roosevelt.

In 1906, Crane married Josephine Porter Boardman, 20 years his junior, from a politically well-connected family.


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