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Pickerell was born on August 14, 1956, in Fairborn, Ohio. [1] His father, Richard Pickerell, was a postmaster. [1]He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1974 to 1978, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. [2]
The Day-Glo Color Corp. (also styled as DayGlo) is a privately held [1] American paint and pigments manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1946 by brothers Joseph and Robert Switzer and is currently owned by RPM International .
Co-inventor of the first black light fluorescent paint Robert C. Switzer (19 May 1914 – 20 August 1997) was an American inventor, businessman and environmentalist. Switzer was co-inventor of the first black light fluorescent paint along with his brother Joseph Switzer and the inventor of the Magnaglo process for nondestructive flaw-detection ...
Princeton University's store, featuring the school's orange and black colors. The tradition of school colors appears to have started in England in the 1830s. The University of Cambridge chose Cambridge blue for the Boat Race against the University of Oxford in 1836, [2] Westminster School have used pink as their color since a boat race against Eton School in 1837, [3] and Durham University ...
The real Francisco A. Quisumbing was born in 1893 and received his B. Agr. in 1914 and his M. S. in 1918, both from the University of the Philippines. He was a Fellow of the University of the Philippines at Columbia University in New York from 1918 to 1921, receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1921. He returned to the Philippines to teach as ...
Ohio University was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the Board of Treasury of the United States and the Ohio Company of Associates, which set aside the College Lands to support a university, and subsequently approved by the territorial legislature in 1802 and the Ohio General Assembly in 1804, [1] [2] [3] opening for students in 1809. [4]
The Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university in accordance with the Morrill Act of 1862 under the name of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The school was originally situated within a farming community located on the northern edge of Columbus, and was intended to matriculate students of various ...
Maker's Mark's origin began when T. William "Bill" Samuels Sr., purchased the Burks' Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky, for $35,000 [1] on October 1, 1953. [2] Production began in 1954, and the first run was bottled in 1958 under the brand's dipped red wax seal [2] (U.S. trademark serial number 73526578).