The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the Flyers, honoring the fact that at the time of Chaminade's founding, Mineola and the surrounding communities of Long Island were part of what was then a " cradle of aviation ", with such pioneering aviators as Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, and Amelia Earhart making world-record flights from nearby Roosevelt Field.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

The R & B group II D Extreme's demo deal which led them to getting signed was in part responsible by DeVante, who was a friend of band member D ' Extra Wiley.

He was a member of the editorial board of the Wiley Series on Intelligent Systems serves on the editorial boards of six journals related to intelligent systems and robotics ; " Autonomous Robots ", " Robotics and Autonomous Systems ", " Journal of Robotic Systems ", " Intelligent Automation " and " Soft Computing ".

However, following a public spat between Julian ' Toby ' Blackwell, current owner of the group and Nigel Blackwell, former chairman of the publishing arm in 2002, concerning the possible selling of the publishing business, leading to an offer from Taylor & Francis of £ 300 million and to the eventual deal with John Wiley & Son in 2006, Nigel Blackwell and Toby's son Philip Blackwell left the business, leaving Toby Blackwell the sole family member still part of running the company.

Alexander Wiley ( May 26, 1884 – May 26, 1967 ) was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963.

Riddick was a member of American 4x100 m relay team, which won the 1977 IAAF World Cup with a new world record of 38. 03 s ( with Cliff Wiley, Bill Collins and Steve Williams ).

He was also a member of American 4x100 m relay team, which won the 1979 Pan American Games ( with Mike Roberson, Harvey Glance and Cliff Wiley ) and placed second in 1979 IAAF World Cup ( with Mike Roberson, Harvey Glance and Mel Lattany ).

Laura Ives Wiley is a Republican and former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.

On November 13, 1915, Beta Chapter was chartered at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas by graduate member Herbert Stevens.

Current member Wiley and former members Dizzee Rascal and Tinchy Stryder have gone on to be successful solo artists in the UK and even the U. S., with songs that have topped charts.

Wiley has announced via Twitter that he is still a member of Roll Deep and always will be, but won't feature on the album in 2012 in order for the rest of the crew to shine

The Act arose due to public education and exposés from Muckrakers such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt.

Later in the year, President Taft wrote a letter wholly exonerating Wiley.

These include the Wiley Prize for Psychology, founded in 2009 ; the Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize, created in 2011 ; and the British Academy President ’ s Medal, created in 2010 and awarded to up to five recipients each year who have demonstrated “ signal service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences ”.

In a clash that had career consequences, Wiley told President Theodore Roosevelt that " Everyone who ate that sweet corn was deceived.

President of the senior class at Wiley High School in 1940-41, he attended Indiana State Teachers College, now Indiana State University, both before and after service with the Marines during World War II.

Scott was appointed by the Methodist Episcopal Church to be the first African-American President of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas and to serve as a Missionary Bishop in Liberia.

* William H. Wiley ( 1842 – 1925 ), served on the East Orange township committee from 1886 to 1888, and was president for one year.

* Edwin Wiley Grove — Established Paris Medicine Company 1886, endowed E. W. Grove High School 1906

PAST was honored the 2001 National Park Service Cotter Award for Excellence in Archaeology, the 2007 Wiley Award for Excellence in Documentary Film, the 2007 Secretary of the Interior ’ s Conservation Collaborative Partnership Award, the 2007 National Oceanic Partner ’ s Program Award, the 2007 Emerald Award for Excellence in Environmental Education, and the 2007 Ohio State University Kellogg Award for Excellence in Experiential Learning.

* Brown, Ellen F. and John Wiley, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood.

* 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.

* Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick by Janet Lowe ( Wiley, 1999 ) ISBN 0-471-34563-6

* June 23 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

Apart from being a performer, he was noted as a comedy writer both under his own name and the pseudonym Gerald Wiley, which Barker adopted to avoid pre-judgements of his talent.

Barker brought his sketches in, claiming they had come from Wiley through Barker's agent Peter Eade, and they were very well received.

United States Supreme Court Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge, who served on the court from 1943 to 1949, was born at Tar Springs in 1894.

It is a route running from U. S. Route 130 ( Virginia Avenue ) and County Route 675 ( Main Street ) in Penns Grove to U. S. Route 40 ( Wiley Road ) in Carneys Point Township.

On March 15th of 1912 Dr. Wiley resigned because from nearly the beginning he had been antagonized in the enforcement of the Pure Food And Drugs Act, and had seen the fundamental principles of that act either paralzyed or discredited.

* Harvey W. Wiley: Pioneer Consumer Activist, from the January – February 2006 issue of FDA Consumer magazinex

Wiley Hinds was a former slave, his brother Archibald, came from Arkansas in 1858.

There had been stores and taverns on the site earlier as in 1829, In May 1827, Daniel Larimore and Wiley Brooks received a license from the county commissioners to sell foreign merchandise ( items such as coffee and sugar ), while Larimore was licensed to operate a store and tavern in May 1829.

He represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1903 to 1907 and from 1909 to 1911, and was a co-founder and former president of the publishing company John Wiley & Sons.

Medgar Wiley Evers ( July 2, 1925June 12, 1963 ) was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi.

* Weston, Mark, " Prophets and Princes – Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present ", Wiley, 2008

* Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu and Franck Laloë, Mecanique quantique ( see also Quantum Mechanics translated from the French by Susan Hemley, Nicole Ostrowsky, and Dan Ostrowsky ; John Wiley & Sons 1982 ) Hermann, Paris, France.

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing " Hoax ", John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-40976-6.

In October 2011, John Wiley and Sons sued 27 BitTorrent users in New York for pirating books from the For Dummies series.

Parametric statistics is a branch of statistics that assumes that the data has come from a type of probability distribution and makes inferences about the parameters of the distribution .< ref name =" Geisser and Johnson "> Seymour Geisser and Wesley M. Johnson, < cite > Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference </ cite >, John Wiley & Sons ( 2006 ), ISBN 978-0-471-66726-1 </ ref > Most well-known elementary statistical methods are parametric .< ref name =" Cox "> D.

Other firsts include the first Board of Trustees meeting held in 1879 ; the first formal commencement held in 1883 for two graduates ( William Beebe Middleton and Walter Howard Wiley ); the first international student graduated in 1889 ; and the first female student graduated in 1898.

* Wiley Scribner ( 1840 – 1889 ), American politician