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2 unusual facts about Sean B. Carroll


Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom is a 2005 book by Sean B. Carroll.

Sean B. Carroll

He is also the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (ISBN 0-393-06016-0), one of the first popular summary narratives of the field.


Alexander Waverly

Mr. Waverly is the head of the U.N.C.L.E. organisation and was played by the veteran English actor Leo G. Carroll.

Assumption, Illinois

James T. Carroll, Los Angeles City Council member, 1933, born in Assumption

Baptist General Convention of Texas

B. H. Carroll, pastor of First Baptist in Waco, was instrumental in getting the General Association, during its 1883 meeting, to propose that five conventions in Texas consider the expediency of uniting as one body.

Batropetes

A specimen previously referred to Petrobates truncatus was first considered by Robert L. Carroll and Pamela Gaskill in 1978 to be a microsaur rather than a reptile.

Brachystelechidae

The family was first named by Robert L. Carroll and Pamela Gaskill in 1978, with the only member being Brachystelechus fritschi.

Charles H. Carroll

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

Civil rights campaign in Seattle

The two council votes against the final version of the bill were Wing Luke and Charles M. Carroll, both opposing it because the emergency clause had been taken out.

Deinotherium

Carroll, R.L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.

Dissorophidae

Carroll, R. L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.

Eryopidae

Carroll, R. L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, W.H. Freeman & Co.

George B. Field

Among his doctoral students were Eric G. Blackman, Sean M. Carroll, Carl E. Heiles, Péter Mészáros, Christopher McKee, Telemachos C Mouschovias, and Paul R. Shapiro

Lethiscus

Carroll, R.L (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co. pp.176-7

Maryland Route 195

The street itself was named for Samuel S. Carroll, the owner of the land around present day Takoma Junction prior to its purchase by Benjamin Franklin Gilbert in 1883 to create his planned suburb of Takoma Park.

Michael B. Carroll

Prior to elective office he worked as District Office Director for Congressman Paul Kanjorski, as Liaison for Transportation Issues for Governor Bob Casey, and as Chief of Staff for Representative John Yudichak.

Michel Laurin

As an undergraduate he worked in the laboratory of Robert L. Carroll and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the direction of Robert R. Reisz; his thesis concerned the osteology of seymouriamorphs.

Milledgeville High School

MHS serves the communities and surrounding areas of Milledgeville, Chadwick, Lanark, Mt. Carroll, Savanna, and Thomson.

Pat Morris Neff

He resigned the post of President of the Board of Trustees, a position that he had held since it was vacated by B. H. Carroll in 1907, upon the nomination as President.

Paul Carroll

Paul T. Carroll (1910–1954), United States Army brigadier general

Paul Monette

Monette also wrote the novelizations of the films Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Scarface (1983), Predator (1987) and Midnight Run (1988), as well as the novels "Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll" (1978), "Afterlife" (1990), and "Halfway Home" (1991).

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."

In 2003 he was appointed by the Bush administration to head the policy planning advisory board of the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

Purchase Parkway

Originally named Purchase Parkway for the Jackson Purchase area it diagonally traverses, the road was renamed for Julian M. Carroll, a former Kentucky governor from McCracken County, in 2001.

Ruapani

“Ruapani had three wives and, in all, twenty-five children. Among those who could claim descent from him were Te Kani-a-Takirau, Heuheu, Te Rauparaha, Tomoana, Te Kooti, Wi Pere, Sir J. Carroll, Sir Maui Pomare, Sir A. T. Ngata, and other prominent Maori leaders”.

Saltenia

It was assigned to the family Pipidae by R. L. Carroll in 1988 and again in 2005 by A. M. Báez and T. Harrison.

Samuel S. Carroll

Transferred with this brigade to the Northern Virginia area, he was severely wounded in the chest in a fight near the Rapidan River.

Scapanops

The fossil, now housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, was discovered by American paleontologist Alfred Romer on April 15, 1950 and was first mentioned in the scientific literature by paleontologist Robert L. Carroll in 1964.

So Evil My Love

He has also employed a private detective (Leo G. Carroll), who has managed to trace the missing stocks and bonds back to Mark and has built up a dossier of his criminal past.

The Irish Washerwoman

A folk song called "The Chemist's Drinking Song" is set to this tune with lyrics by John A. Carroll, based on an idea by Isaac Asimov.

The Man from Kangaroo

It was the first of several films he made with the husband and wife team of director Wilfred Lucas and writer Bess Meredyth, both of whom had been imported from Hollywood by E.J. Carroll.

With E.J. Carroll he arranged to bring back a team of Americans to assist them making movies in Australia, including director Wilfred Lucas, his wife, screenwriter Bess Meredyth, actor Brownie Vernon, assistant director John Wells and cinematographer John Doerrer.

The Myth of Hitler's Pope

:"anti-papal polemics of ex-seminarians like Garry Wills and John Cornwell (author of Hitler's Pope), of ex-priests like James Carroll, and or other lapsed or angry liberal Catholics exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today."

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E

Leo G. Carroll had died long before the movie began production, so Patrick Macnee was recruited instead to appear as an entirely different character, Sir John Raleigh, who had, presumably, taken over as Number 1 of Section I, the Director of U.N.C.L.E., after Alexander Waverly had either retired or died, and Carroll's photograph was displayed prominently in many scenes that featured Macnee's Sir John.

The Skeptics Society

In addition, the Skeptics Society hosted the "Origins Conference" in October 2008 with Nancey Murphy, Hugh Ross, Leonard Susskind, Sean Carroll, Paul Davies, Stuart Kauffman, Christof Koch, Kenneth R. Miller, Donald Prothero, and Victor J. Stenger.

Thomas Carroll

Thomas H. Carroll (1914–1964), President of the George Washington University

United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court

As of 1996, when it was formed, the original judges on the Court were Chief Judge Earl H. Carroll (D. Ariz.), and Judges Michael Anthony Telesca (W.D. N.Y.), David Dudley Dowd, Jr. (N.D. Ohio), William Clark O'Kelley (N.D. Ga.) and Alfred M. Wolin (D. N.J.).

Warren H. Carroll

During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.


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