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2 unusual facts about William K. Nakamura


William K. Nakamura

In a ceremony at the White House on June 21, 2000, his surviving family was presented with his Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton.

On that day, near Castellina, Italy, he single-handedly destroyed an enemy machine gun emplacement and later volunteered to cover his unit's withdrawal.


1985 Pulitzer Prize

William K. Marimow of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his revelation that city police dogs had attacked more than 350 people - an expose that led to investigations of the K-9 unit and the removal of a dozen officers from it.

American Monetary Institute

While 2013 speakers are still unconfirmed, past speakers have included: Michael Hudson, Richard C. Cook, William K. Black, Dennis Kucinich, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven is a 1939 American film directed by William K. Howard.

Catastrophism

In a paper published in Icarus in 1975, William K. Hartmann and Donald R. Davis proposed that a catastrophic near-miss by a large planetesimal early in Earth's formation approximately 4.5 billion years ago blew out rocky debris, remelted Earth and formed the Moon, thus explaining the Moon's lesser density and lack of an iron core.

F. Maurice Speed

As time went on, Speed gathered together more and more outside contributors, among them Peter Noble, William K. Everson, Oswell Blakeston, Peter Cowie, Anthony Slide, Ivan Butler and Gordon Gow, as well as soliciting special articles by such film industry figures as James Mason, Michael Balcon, Cecil B. De Mille and Alfred Hitchcock.

Fred Ott's Sneeze

Fred Ott's Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) is an 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott.

Herbert Yardley

The film, starring William Powell and Rosalind Russell, and directed by William K. Howard, concerns a German spy ring stealing U.S. government codes during World War I, as well as U.S. Army efforts to crack German codes.

Heriberto Jara Corona

General Heriberto Jara International Airport in the port of Veracruz is named after him, as is the Stadium at Xalapa, built in 1925 on the grounds where William K. Boone had organized Olympic-style athletic games in 1922.

Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres is an American academic who is the William K. Townsend Professor at the Yale Law School and a Professor at the Yale School of Management and a co founder of StickK.

Japanese American National Museum

In 1997, the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center was established by Robert A. Nakamura and Karen L. Ishizuka, to develop new ways to document, preserve and make known the experience of Americans of Japanese Ancestry.

Japanese submarine I-19

After sinking one of the ships SS William K. Vanderbilt on May 16, 1943, I-19 surfaced and machine-gunned the surviving crew members in their lifeboats, killing one of them.

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Mary Burns, Fugitive is a 1935 American drama film directed by William K. Howard.

Money and the Woman

Money and the Woman is a 1940 drama film based upon a James M. Cain story, directed by William K. Howard, and starring Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall, John Litel, and Lee Patrick.

Payne Whitney Gymnasium

The William K. Lanman Center was added in 1999 as a new wing, with additional courts for basketball and volleyball, and an indoor running track.

Scott S. Harris

The Court announced on July 1, 2013 that Harris would replace longtime Clerk William K. Suter after the latter's retirement on August 31.

Sebastian Indian Reservation

The San Sebastian Reservation was named for William K. Sebastian, United States Senator from Arkansas, who supported Beale's plans to form a series of reservations, garrisoned by a military post, on government owned land.

The Curse of the Cat People

Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in The Curse of the Cat People and Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Vanessa: Her Love Story is a 1935 American drama film directed by William K. Howard of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring Robert Montgomery, Helen Hayes and May Robson.

William Brewster

William K. Brewster (born 1941), Democratic politician and a retired U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma

William K. Boone

He was closely related to two outstanding figures in American history who were an inspiration to him and his descendants: Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln.

The Stadium at Xalapa on what had been a swampy field, the so-called "Ciénega de Melgarejo".

William Kenneth Boone (1875–1944) was a benefactor of Xalapa, Veracruz.

William K. Everson

His nearly 20 books include Classics of the Silent Screen (1959, attributed to nostalgia maven Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson), The American Movie (1963), The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967), The Art of W. C. Fields (1967), A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1971), and American Silent Film (1978).

Everson was born in Yeovil, Somerset, England, the son of Catherine (née Ward) and Percival Wilfred Everson, an aircraft engineer.

William K. Head

William K. Head (born November 15, 1947) was the 22nd head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for three seasons, from 1987 until 1989.

William K. Lietzau

They handed Rahmatullah over to American forces, who transferred him the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.

William K. Thierfelder

He is a licensed psychologist, a two-time NCAA Division I All-American, a former NCAA Division I coach, and a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Sports Psychology Registry (2000–2004).

William K. Vanderbilt House

It featured panelling in walnut, carved in the style of Grinling Gibbons.

He had recently completed ceiling paintings for the Palais Garnier.

William Kelley

William K. Kelley, Deputy White House Counsel for the George W. Bush administration


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