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Wylie's daughter, Karen Pryor, was an author who became the inventor of animal "clicker" training. Wylie's niece Janice Wylie, the daughter of his brother Max Wylie, co-creator of The Flying Nun, was murdered, along with her roommate Emily Hoffert, in New York in August 1963, in what became known as the "Career Girls Murders" case. [15]
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie (November 23, 1920 – August 14, 1998) was an American politician and lawyer from Ohio, who served in various public offices in that state before serving thirteen terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993.
Wiley Online Library is a subscription-based library of John Wiley & Sons that launched on August 7, 2010, replacing Wiley Interscience. [29] It is a collection of online resources covering life, health, and physical sciences as well as social science and the humanities.
Generation of Vipers is a 1943 book by Philip Wylie. In it Wylie criticizes various aspects and beliefs of contemporary American society, including Christianity; prominent figures such as politicians, teachers, and doctors; [1] and "momism" or the adoration of mothers.
Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, into a socially prominent family.Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania.Her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr., who would be United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909; and Anne Morton McMichael (born July 31, 1861, in Pa.).
James Aitken Wylie (9 August 1808 – 1 May 1890) was a Scottish historian of religion and Presbyterian minister. He was a prolific writer and is most famous for writing The History of Protestantism .
Entries in 1828 show David Stewart Wylie with an academy at 87 Duke Street, the Rev. David Wylie A.M. having a commercial and classical academy at Everton. [22] Wylie was President of Liverpool Library in 1828; the David Wylie who was secretary of the Philosophical Society of Liverpool may instead have been his son. [23]
Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter. The system is named for the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie , who created the system and published it in a 1959 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies article. [ 1 ]