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3 unusual facts about Thomas C. Sawyer


Association of MultiEthnic Americans

In 1989, AMEA issued a letter illustrating the concerns of their constituency to Congressman Thomas Sawyer, Chairman of the House subcommittee monitoring the census.

New Democrat Coalition

Thomas C. Sawyer (OH-14), charter member, lost re-election following redistricting

Thomas C. Sawyer

The new 17th district was much more heavily pro-labor than Sawyer's old district and Sawyer was seen as being insufficiently pro-labor as a result of his support of the North American Free Trade Agreement.


Center for National Policy

Other CNP Board members have included former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Foley, former Republican Members of Congress Jack Buechner and Rod Chandler, and former Democratic Members of Congress John Brademas and Michael Barnes.

Charles Hazelius Sternberg

In the 1994 novel End of an Era by Robert J. Sawyer, the Canadian protagonists' time machine is named His Majesty's Canadian Timeship Charles Hazelius Sternberg, because of the two scientists journeying back to the Cretaceous era, one is a paleontologist.

Charles Sawyer

Charles E. Sawyer, personal physician to President Warren G. Harding

De Alva S. Alexander

It focused on prominent political leaders such as Grover Cleveland, Thomas C. Platt, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Donald Kingsbury

Kingsbury has never finished the story, noting as far back as September 1982 that he was still "polishing" it (see interview with Robert J. Sawyer) and as recently as his self-supplied Readercon biography in July 2006.

Farewell Dossier

Thomas Reed alleged this was the cause of a spectacular trans-Siberian pipeline disaster in 1982.

Fiona Kelleghan

Her critical anthology The Savage Humanists (Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008) begins with a 17,000-word essay by her describing the movement and its practitioners, and collects stories by Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Tim Sullivan, and Connie Willis, with introductions to each by Kelleghan.

Hiroo Kanamori

Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks developed the moment magnitude scale which replaced the Richter magnitude scale as a measurement of the relative strength of earthquakes.

Institute on Religion and Democracy

Notable members of the organization's Board of Directors include journalist Fred Barnes, United Methodist theologian Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Princeton University ethicist Dr. Robert P. George, theologian Michael Novak and former papal biographer George Weigel.

Invasion of Palawan

A naval task force of cruisers and destroyers from the 7th Fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid—which was Gen. Macarthur's naval command—would protect the landing forces on their movements to shore and then remain to provide gunfire as needed.

John G. Sawyer

Sawyer was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1891).

John H. Pickering

After the war, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. One prominent Supreme Court case, in which he and Bruce Bromley were involved, was the steel seizure case in 1952, in which the Supreme Court set limits on presidential authority.

Kalmar Nyckel

The modern ship, designed by naval architects Thomas C. Gillmer, Melbourne Smith, Joel Welter, and Ken Court, was built at a shipyard in Wilmington on the Christina River near the original 1638 Swedish settlers' landing site at Fort Christina.

Lanier, Florida

Col. Thomas C. Lanier's personal groves are shown on the original plat.

Lewis E. Sawyer

Sawyer was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1923, until his death at Hot Springs, Arkansas, May 5, 1923.

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

Another, Thomas was a renowned Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and trainer who won the 1902 Kentucky Derby.

Necker cube

The Necker cube is discussed to such extent in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity that "Necker" becomes a verb, meaning to impel one's brain to switch from one perspective or perception to another.

No More Good Days

The episode's teleplay was written by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga, who also conceived of the television story, based upon the novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer.

Ralph A. Sawyer

At the invitation of Harrison M. Randall, Sawyer then joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Michigan, an affiliation that he retained for his entire career.

Richard Vander Veen

Vander Veen was reelected in November 1974 to a full term in the 94th Congress, but lost his seat in 1976 to Republican Harold S. Sawyer.

St. Michael Elementary School

On August 6, 2006, a new Community Center was dedicated by the Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and the current mayor of Louisville Jerry Abramson.

Task Force 61

Later, in October 1942, the Task Force, now under Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, confronted a force directed by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the same area.

Thomas C. Acton

Action was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children as well as a member of the Geographical and New York Historical Society.

Thomas C. Brown

He attended the public schools, and a business school in Belleville, Ontario.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

On April 8, 1987 he was nominated to be the ambassador Ambassador of the United States to Brunei Darussalam.

Thomas C. Fields

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

Thomas C. Hindman

Meanwhile, the younger Hindman attended local schools before leaving for the Lawrenceville Classical Institute in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the third oldest boarding school in the country.

He was elected as the Democratic representative from Arkansas's 1st congressional district in the Thirty-sixth Congress from March 4, 1859 to March 4, 1861.

He was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but declined to serve after the onset of the Civil War and Arkansas's secession from the Union.

Thomas C. Jerdon

This position led him to describe many species from the Malabar region including ants such as the distinctive Harpegnathos saltator.

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.

In his first bid, for elective office, McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, defeating four-term Republican Party incumbent Milton W. Glenn.

Thomas C. Molesworth

Molesworth's company and career received a major boost in 1933 when he was commissioned by publisher Moses Annenberg to design the interior furnishings for Annenberg's Ranch A retreat near Beulah, Wyoming.

Thomas C. Platt

He became a member of the Forty-seventh Congress and the chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills.

Thomas C. Reed

While maintaining an interest in Supercon Ltd., Reed organized the Quaker Hill Development Corporation at San Rafael, California, in 1965, and served as its treasurer, president and chairman.

Thomas C. Richards

After completing tactical combat crew training and airborne training in October 1966, Richards was assigned to the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Bien Hoa Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, as a forward air controller with the 101st Airborne Division.

Thomas C. Stanford

After a brief stay there, he located a homestead in the Little Wood River valley, which was the center of his operations as a rancher and stockman.

Thomas Coffin

Thomas C. Coffin (1887–1934), a United States politician who was a United States Representative from Idaho

Thomas Corrigan

Thomas C. Corrigan, Sr. (born 1938), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Thomas Durant

Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885), American financier and railroad promoter

Thomas Sharp

Thomas C. Sharp, opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints

Thomas Slater

Thomas C. Slater (1945–2009), Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives

Three Laws of Robotics

In a 2007 guest editorial in the journal Science on the topic of "Robot Ethics," SF author Robert J. Sawyer argues that since the military is a major source of funding for robotic research it is unlikely such laws would be built into their designs.

White-naped Tit

This species was discovered in the Eastern Ghats near Nellore by T C Jerdon who received a specimen from a local hunter.


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