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Fink was born on November 2, 1952. [6] [7] He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family [8] in Van Nuys, California.His mother Lila (1930–2012) was an English professor and his father Frederick (1925–2013) owned a shoe store. [3]
Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was an American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant during World War II in the development of radar and, very briefly, of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with US$11.5 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. [1]
Gardner F. Williams, B.A. 1865, M.A. 1869 (first master's degree conferred by "College of California", aka UC/Berkeley) – first general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines; mining engineer; wrote The Diamond Mines of South Africa; some account of their rise and development; awarded silver medal by the Royal Academy of Science in Sweden in ...
This is a list of notable past pupils of Blackrock College (Irish: Coláiste na Carraige Duibhe), a Catholic, voluntary secondary school for boys aged 14–18, in Williamstown, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland. The college was founded by French missionaries in 1860, to act as a school and civil service training centre.
Blackrock, Dublin, southern coastal suburb of Dublin city Blackrock railway station, railway station serving the Dublin city suburb; Black Rock, Co. Limerick, mountain among the Ballyhouras; Blackrock, County Louth, a village; Blackrock Island, County Mayo, rocky islet toward Blacksod Bay, County Mayo; Black Rock Mountain, County Wexford
After trying to save a mortally wounded detective's life, Dr. Condon flees for his own life because of gangster Jim Craven's intention to eliminate him, an eyewitness to the crime. Condon moves to another town and changes his name. He finds lodging in the remote home of the wheelchair-using Colonel Maitland and daughter Laurie.
E.T. turns the television on during a showing of the film, at the scene when Cal and Ruth are being abducted by the aliens, and Cal says "They're pulling us up!" A segment of the television series Wonder Woman (season 2, episode 10, 1977) uses space battle footage from the film, and the alien planet shown is also recycled This Island Earth footage.