In the beginning, many of Seversky Aircraft's designers were Russian and Georgian engineers whom Seversky had rescued from Joseph Stalin's purges by bringing them to the United States, including Michael Gregor and Alexander Kartveli, who would go on to design many of Republic's most famous aircraft.

In 1951, Alexander Kartveli began to design a replacement for the F-84 Thunderjet.

Alexander Kartveli, born Alexander Kartvelishvili, () 1896 – 1974 ) was an influential aircraft engineer and a pioneer of American aviation history.

Alexander Kartveli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, into a noble Georgian family.

The P-47 design team headed by Alexander Kartveli, Republic Aircraft Corporations's chief engineer, originally presented a design that was to be powered by a 1, 150 hp Allison V-1710-39 engine with an armament of only two 0. 50 inch machine guns. 1 A contract was awarded by the USAAC in November 1939, and for an even lighter XP-47A, but as intelligence was coming back from the war in Europe, it was becoming apparent that the performance goals of the XP-47 program were already inadequate.

n 1944, Republic Aviation's chief designer, Alexander Kartveli, began working on a turbojet-powered replacement for the P-47 Thunderbolt piston-engined fighter.

Led by Alexander Kartveli, the design team produced an aircraft centered on a large engine and able to achieve high speeds.

Notable fact: Georgian call themselves " kartvelebi " and the surname of Alexander comes from " Kartveli ".

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Both Alexander Kartveli and Antonio Ferri were proponents of the scramjet approach.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

This was how Alexander Brandel expressed pure Zionism.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.

`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.

This was a training ship and the training would continue, but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.

Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest, and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

The inscription honours his father, also called Alexander and also a philosopher.

He married a woman called Eurydice and had a son Alexander.

Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.

At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".

* Official website of Christopher Alexander, called " Living Neighborhoods "

The FIDE Congress in Vienna in 1957 adopted new regulations, called the FAV system, in recognition of the work done by International Judge Giovanni Ferrantes ( Italy ), Alexander ( probably Conel Hugh O ' Donel Alexander ), and Giancarlo Dal Verme ( Italy ).

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Alexander Graham Bell considered the invention of the hydroplane a very significant achievement, and after reading the article began to sketch concepts of what is now called a hydrofoil boat.

Even more surprisingly, Venizelos ' Liberal Party lost the elections called in November 1920, and in a referendum shortly after, the Greek people voted for the return of King Constantine from exile, following the sudden death of Alexander.

In late 330 BC, Alexander captured the Arian capital that was called Artacoana.

The supporters of Alexander Hamilton's attempts to strengthen the national government called themselves Federalists, while those who opposed Hamilton called themselves " Republicans " ( later historians would refer to them as the Democratic-Republican party ).

This is referred to in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Alexander appears as a neurotic and critical loner called Leonard.

In the 18th century Alexander Baumgarten considered the special case of sensitive knowledge and called it ' gnoseologia inferior ' ( as opposed to a superior rational one ) and with Kant it became aesthetics.

Kahane often pejoratively called other Knesset members " Hellenists " in Hebrew ( a reference to Jews who assimilated into Greek culture after Judea's occupation by Alexander the Great ).

" Also in the same year, Alexander called for a crusade against the Moors in Spain.

Richard J. Alexander notes two additional forms which puns may take: graphological ( sometimes called visual ) puns, such as concrete poetry ; and morphological puns, such as portmanteaus.

In an apocryphal anecdote in the collection of imperial biographies called the Augustan History, the spot on which he had built an oratory was claimed by tavern keepers, but Alexander Severus decided that the worship of any god was better than a tavern, hence the structure's name.

In May 2009, Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, established the History Commission of Russia ( formally, the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests ) to counter aggressive attempts to rewrite history to Russian disadvantage, yet Alexander Cherkasov of the Memorial human-rights group, called it a regression to Soviet-era control.

From the 11th century onwards indulgences were granted: In 1064 Pope Alexander II allegedly promised the participants of an expedition against Barbastro ( Tagr al-Andalus, Aragon ) a collective indulgence 30 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade.

Blues singer Alger " Texas " Alexander wrote a song called the " Sabine River Blues ".