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2 unusual facts about Thomas S. Gates, Jr.


Fibag scandal

In 1961, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported Franz Josef Strauss, minister of defense in Konrad Adenauer's cabinet, had advised his American colleague, Thomas Gates, to contract the company Fibag (Finanzbau Aktiengesellschaft) for construction of several thousand apartments for the American military in Germany.

Three Brave Men

The acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., found it misleading and at his request Dunne produced a revised version making it clear, in the Navy's words, that "the Chasanow case was far from being a typical case and that under current procedures it could not happen again."


43rd North Carolina Infantry

Thomas S. Kenan was elected Lieutenant colonel of the 43rd regiment in March 1862, and promoted to colonel in April 1862.

8: The Mormon Proposition

It states that LDS Church leader Thomas S. Monson asked to ensure the passage of the controversial California Proposition 8.

Barbara E. Mink

Studying with local artists — Stan Taft, Bill Benson, Bente King and Thomas Buechner — Mink has received formal training in landscapes and botanical illustration.

Billy C. Sanders

Sanders had been one of the six final candidates for selection as the fourth MCPON in 1979 but then-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Hayward selected AFCM Thomas S. Crow for the job.

Christopher T. Gates

He also spent time as a student at the University of East Anglia in England, where he studied political economics.

Chuck Collins

Collins has worked with a number of prominent wealthy individuals, including William H. Gates, Sr. and George Soros in an effort to promote tax equity.

Collins is coauthor, with William H. Gates, Sr., of the book Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, which argues that the estate tax is both fair and necessary.

Elmer R. Gates

Mills, W., "The Science of Mentation" (Letter to the Editor), Science, Vol.2, No.46, (15 November 1895), p.

Estate tax in the United States

William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins, with foreword by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, Beacon Press (2003)

Evolving digital ecological networks

Just one year later, Thomas S. Ray developed an alternative system, Tierra, and performed the first successful experiments with evolving populations of self-replicating computer programs.

J. M. Gates

An uncredited cover can also be heard on the DVD release of the television series Day Break starring Taye Diggs near the end of the thirteenth and final episode.

James Sun

James was recently selected as one of the top 100 alumni from the University of Washington in the "Wonderous 100 Alumni Award", which also included Bill Gates Sr., Governor Christine Gregoire, and musician Kenny G.

Julius W. Gates

The Sergeants Major of the Army, Daniel K. Elder, Center of Military History, United States Army Washington, D.C. 2003.

Lyman Draper

The most famous personal papers in the Draper Collection include those of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Thomas S. Hinde, John Donelson, James Robertson, Joseph Martin (General), and Simon Kenton.

Martin Rocek

His research interests include supersymmetry, string theory and applications of generalized complex geometry, and with S. J. Gates, M. T. Grisaru, and W. Siegel, Rocek coauthored Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry (1984), the first comprehensive book on supersymmetry.

North Potomac, Maryland

Cabin John and Robert Frost middle schools feed into Thomas S. Wootton High School in nearby Rockville, Maryland, Herbert Hoover feeds into Churchill High School in nearby Potomac, Maryland, and Jones Lane feeds into Quince Orchard High School.

OPLAN 5029

Discussions in October between US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and South Korean Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee over the planned transition of wartime operations to South Korean forces also included continued formulation of an operation plan for a North Korean collapse, after a proposal made in an earlier meeting between the American and South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Orontium aquaticum

However, in a 1988 paper by Thomas Ray, he argued that the structure was misidentified by Engler and was actually a sympodial leaf.

Phoenician language

The name given to these people by Hanno the Navigator's interpreters was transmitted from Punic into Greek as gorillai and was applied in 1847 by Thomas S. Savage to the Western Gorilla.

Richard Rouse III

From there he moved to Surreal Software where he worked on a canceled western game called Gunslinger and subsequently contributed to Drakan: The Ancients' Gates.

Silver End

The village includes some noteworthy early examples of Modernist architectural design; the distinctive white, flat-roofed houses on Frances Way and Silver Street are the work of influential Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, a leading designer of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in the 20th Century who is also credited with designing the concrete pylons on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Soviet support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war

Robert M. Gates, then head of the CIA National Intelligence Council, advanced the suggestion, which circulated over the signature of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey.

The Chapters Live

The story was inspired by the Cold War, and the preservation of Albert Einstein's brain, which was kept by Thomas S. Harvey, M.D. There are also science fiction themes, such as aliens being concerned with humanity's self-destruction, and the resurrection of the dead through technology.

Thomas Crow

Thomas S. Crow (1934–2008), Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy

Thomas Pettit

Thomas S. Pettit (1843–1931), newspaper publisher and politician from Kentucky

Thomas S. Buechner

A sculpture garden he created displayed such items as capitals from Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condict Building.

He rescued sculptures by Daniel Chester French representing Brooklyn and Manhattan which had sat at the Brooklyn plaza of the Manhattan Bridge and that were removed as part of construction on the bridge's approaches, and placed them at the entrance to the museum.

Thomas S. Butler

While in Congress, he was chairman of the United States House Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses) and member of the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses).

Thomas S. Gordon

Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-fifth Congress).

Thomas S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York.

Hammond was also active in Republican Party politics and served as the chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee and the Chicago America First Committee.

Thomas S. McMillan

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent the 1st congressional district in 1924 for the Sixty-ninth Congress.

Thomas S. Moorman, Jr.

#November 1967 - November 1970, reconnaissance intelligence staff officer, 497th Reconnaissance Technical Group, Wiesbaden-Schierstein, West Germany

Thomas S. Plowman

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, to February 9, 1898, when he was succeeded by William F. Aldrich, who contested his election.

Thomas S. Power

First was David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty in 1937: they were divorced after World War 2, whereupon she married Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow.

Thomas S. Ray

Tom Ray is also a former member of the International Core War Society.

In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons's conclusion to his famous Hyperion Cantos sci-fi series, it is revealed by the character of Aenea that the TechnoCore originated from a human experiment in which computer programs were allowed to compete for resources (e.g. memory) and evolve accordingly.

Thomas S. Ricketts

Named after his joy of celebrating the Chinese New Year, the scholarship not only funds promising students but also allows for those students to meet with Ricketts and the other members of the endowment.

Thomas S. Sprague House

The Thomas S. Sprague House was a private residence located at 80 West Palmer Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan.

Thomas Savage

Thomas S. Savage (1804–1880), American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist

William H. Gates, Sr.

Gates is co-author, with Chuck Collins, of the book Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, a defense of the policies promoted by the estate tax.

World Justice Forum

Among others, the Forum featured remarks from: Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe; William H. Gates, Sr., Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Cherie Blair, Co-Founder of the Africa Justice Foundation; and Adama Dieng, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.


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