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3 unusual facts about Alan J. Dixon


Alan J. Dixon

Outgoing Governor Dan Walker had lost the support of the Party and the primary election.

In the fall of 1970, Karl Rove, a future White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush Administration, used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead.

After his term in the Senate, Dixon resumed practicing law with the Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis and now lives in Fairview Heights, Illinois.


2003 British Touring Car Championship season

Alan Gow returned as series administrator midway through the season, replacing Richard West

2007 British Touring Car Championship season

In October 2005 Alan Gow announced that the 2007 championship will be contested by cars complying with the FIA's Super 2000 specification regulations.

A. C. Dixon

He then crossed the Atlantic and ministered at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle, the church formerly pastored by Charles Spurgeon and other notable preachers, where he spent the war years.

Alan Bell

Alan J. W. Bell (born 1937), British television producer and director

Alan J. Bauman

In 2010, he demonstrated the NeoGraft FUE device at the ISHRS Orlando Live Surgery Workshop.

Alan J. Baverman

From 1983 to 1986, Alan Baverman worked for attorney Mark J. Kadish, the attorney who partnered with attorney F. Lee Bailey in the Vietnam court-martial case of the My Lai Massacre.

In 2007, Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman was involved in the case of Emmy Award winning performer, T.I., also known as Clifford Harris.

Alan J. Gow

Gow is also a main Board Director of the prestigious Royal Automobile Club, a committee member of the Motorsport Industry Association, the manager of champion Australian racing driver James Courtney and has varied business interests in both the USA (motorsports) and Australia (agriculture).

Alan J. Hawkins

He has also made statements questioning the wisdom of same-sex marriage, which have been quoted in articles by such commentators on the issue as Stanley Kurtz.

Alan J. Levi

He eventually made his directorial debut on the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In spin-off Letters to Laugh-In.

Arthur Dixon

Arthur J. Dixon (1919–2007), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Conductive polymer

In 1977, Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa reported similar high conductivity in oxidized iodine-doped polyacetylene.

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Ernest Dixon

Ernest T. Dixon, Jr. (died 1996), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church

Flick Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal IV, were Charles B. Sears (presiding judge), former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; William C. Christianson, former Minnesota Supreme Court justice; Frank N. Richman, former Supreme Court of Indiana justice; and Richard D. Dixon, former North Carolina Superior Court judge, as an alternate judge.

George E. Dixon

Minutes of Union Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch Masons, indicate that Dixon visited that body on March 20, 1863, which proves he was also a York Rite Mason.

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Holden Dealer Team

The team continued under the direction of Alan Gow under the banner of Advantage Racing, with continued support from Mobil, but without the assistance of Holden, new automotive partners had to be found.

Jennie Livingston

Livingston is the niece of the late film director Alan J. Pakula, who initially warned her away from film directing, but later proved encouraging.

Jeremiah Dixon

Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

Jimmy Maelen

Subsequently, one of the songs "Be With You Tonight" which was written by John Bussi, was used in the film See You In The Morning directed by Alan J. Pakula.

Joseph A. Dixon

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Joseph Culp

His numerous acting credits include leading roles in Alan J. Pakula’s Dream Lover, Monte Hellman’s Iguana and Maria Novaro’s El Jardin del Eden. He was featured in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 and Mario Van Peebles’ Panther and Badassss.

Karlheinz Hackl

He is a frequent movie actor who has worked with the likes of Axel Corti and Alan J. Pakula (Sophie's Choice).

Kenneth L. Dixon

He accompanied more than twenty-five air combat missions and was the only newspaperman present when American forces broke out of Anzio and advanced on Rome.

Leigh Christian

She maintains close friendships with many of the actors she has worked with including Sondra Currie, wife of producer/director Alan J. Levi; and Barbara Leigh, now Assistant Photo Editor at Playboy Studio West, and former girlfriend of Elvis Presley and Jim Aubrey as well as longtime girlfriend of Steve McQueen.

Mason Dixon

Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters

Media in Missoula, Montana

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Congressman, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Minoan chronology

In 1918 Alan J. B. Wace and Carl Blegen adapted Evans' chronology to the Greek mainland and the islands, where the culture was termed Helladic and Cycladic.

Missoulian

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Nick Dushenski

Dushenski returned to the Alberta Legislature in 2006 with Raymond Reierson and Arthur Dixon as the most senior members at the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Alberta Legislature.

Nyasasaurus

The type species N. parringtoni was first described in 1956 in the doctoral dissertation of English paleontologist Alan J. Charig, but it was not formally described until 2013.

Paul J. Morochnik

Paul Morochnik gained national attention for his testimony in the judicial investigative committee investigation of his uncle, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan J. Baverman.

Phyllodactylus kofordi

The Coastal Leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus kofordi) was described by James R. Dixon and Raymond B. Huey in 1970.

Pig Bodine

A character called "Fender-Belly Bodine," presumably an ancestor of "Pig," appears as a seaman in Mason & Dixon.

Polythiophene

The maturation of the field of conducting polymers was confirmed by the awarding of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers".

Punctuated equilibrium

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama–Nyungan language family there.

Red Flag exercise

The concept of Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter became the driving force in Red Flag's implementation, persuading the then-Tactical Air Command commander, General Robert J. Dixon, to adopt the program.

Robert S. Dixon

The so-called Big Ear antenna used in the program was designed and built by John D. Kraus and previously used in the Ohio Sky Survey.

The Crimson Flame

The Crimson Flame is the 77th title of the Hardy Boys series, written by Franklin W. Dixon.

Youghiogheny River

"Youghiogheny, Pennsylvania," is mentioned in a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, and the Youghiogheny is referred to as Yochio Geni in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon.


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