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2 unusual facts about Roy M. Davenport


Roy M. Davenport

In 1954, the popular television program, This Is Your Life with host Ralph Edwards, recounted his wartime events with close family appearing with him.

Davenport’s cousin, Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy, did not appear, as only immediate family, and those who interacted in Davenport’s wartime adventures, were invited.


Bucktown

Bucktown, Davenport, an historic area in the eastern end of downtown Davenport, Iowa

Bucktown, Davenport

When the Tri City Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1916, it was the twelfth in the nation but having drawn two-thirds of its membership from the Strasser Marching Band, it is debated by many as the oldest music organization in the country to have formed a symphonic orchestra.

Business intelligence

Thomas Davenport argues that business intelligence should be divided into querying, reporting, OLAP, an "alerts" tool, and business analytics.

Castle in the Clouds

The interiors were designed by Irving & Casson-A.H. Davenport.

Harry Davenport

Harry J. Davenport (1902–1977), Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Henry Cosgrove

In 1903 he was quoted in the national media calling Davenport "the wicked city of its size in America" because of its notorious Bucktown District, an area of speakeasies and houses of prosititution, which were down the hill from the cathedral.

Herbert J. Davenport

He was a relentless critic of Alfred Marshall, his last book being a critique of The Economics of Alfred Marshall (1935).

James Davenport

James H. Davenport (born 1953), professor of information technology at the University of Bath

James S. Davenport (1864–1940), American lawyer, U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma

James H. Davenport

He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust.

Leslie Goodman

Leslie was born in 1959 to New York State Senator Roy M. Goodman.

Posthumous sperm retrieval

New York senator Roy M. Goodman proposed a bill in 1997 requiring written consent by the donor in 1998, but it was never passed into law.

Risch algorithm

The case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport.

Rose Eytinge

Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia to the Hamlet of E. L. Davenport, and Desdemona with James W. Wallack as Othello and Davenport as Iago.

Roy M. Fisher

Roy M. Fisher (September 5, 1918 - March 25, 1999) was a journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Daily News.

Roy M. Huffington

In 1966 HUFFCO signed production sharing contract with Pertamina to explore oil in the Kutai Basin of the Mahakam River delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Symbolic integration

It was first implemented in Reduce in the case of purely transcendental functions; the case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport; the general case was solved and implemented in Axiom by Manuel Bronstein.

Trulaske College of Business

The first faculty was appointed on February 18, 1914 with professor Herbert J. Davenport as the first Dean.

Walter E. Massey

Massey, who joined the Seminar Board in 1995, succeeded Roy M. Huffington as board chair.

William Rockhill Nelson

In one legendary encounter, Kansas City Mayor Joseph J. Davenport was thrown down a stairwell at the Star building by editors (including William Allen White) when he was believed to have physically threatened Nelson.


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