- Brooklyn Rapid Transit
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) was a transportation holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate transit facilities in Kings County, now Brooklyn, New York. Within a decade, it had acquired virtually all of the rapid transit and streetcar operations in its target area. Though the BRT was the public face of the consolidated companies, it left it to the acquired companies or newly formed companies to carry out the actual operation of the system, …
- George Warrington
George Warrington is an American transportation official. Since 2002, he has served as Executive Director of New Jersey Transit. From 1998 to 2002, he served as President of Amtrak. He also served as President of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Business Unit from 1994 to 1998. Prior to joining Amtrak in 1994, he had served as Executive Director and President of the Delaware River Port Authority and Port Authority Transit Corporation since 1992.
- Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard is a comic actor who often plays the character of a clumsy daydreamer. Richard is also a film director and occasional singer.
- David Charbonneau
David Charbonneau is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is best known for his work on exoplanets. In 1999, he led a team that made the first observation of a transiting exoplanet, HD 209458 b. This in turn allowed the first measurement of an exoplanet's density. Dr. Charbonneau was born in Ottawa, Canada and attended the University of Toronto before beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
- Jeremiah Dixon
Jeremiah Dixon (July 27 1733 - January 22 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line. Dixon was born in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham in northern England in 1733, the fifth of seven children, to George Dixon and Mary Hunter. His father was a wealthy Quaker coal mine owner.
- Ted McKeever
Ted McKeever is an award-winning American Comics artist. McKeever first published work appeared in 1987, when he published the first 5 parts of his unfinished series "Transit", establishing his trademark style. This was followed in 1987-1988 by his 12-part series "Eddy Current".
- Gregory W. Henry
Gregory W. Henry is an astronomer and research scientist for Tennessee State University. In 1999, Henry led one of two teams that discovered the first transiting extrasolar planet, HD 209458 b. The other team was lead by David Charbonneau. Henry was also involved in the discovery of HD 149026 b. This discovery was important in understanding how planets form and supports solar nebula accretion mode
- Lewis Boss
Lewis Boss (1846-1912) was an American astronomer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1870 he graduated from Dartmouth College, then went to work as a clerk for the U.S. Government. He served as an assistant astronomer for a government expedition to survey the U.S-Canadian border. In 1876 he became the directory of the Dudley Observatory in Schenectady, New York. He became editor of the "Astronomical Journal" in 1909, but responsibility passed to his son, …
- Albert Marth
Albert Marth was a German astronomer who worked in England and Ireland. He came to England in 1853 to work for George Bishop, a rich wine merchant and patron of astronomy. At that time, paid jobs in astronomy were quite rare. He worked as William Lassell's assistant in Malta, discovering 600 nebulae. He also discovered one of the earlier asteroids found, 29 Amphitrite.
- Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Aleksandr Rogozhkin (born 1949 in Leningrad) is a Russian film director. Abroad, he is most famous for his acclaimed 2002 film "The Cuckoo" ("Kukushka"), which won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Picture. He also directed the very popular Russian-language screwball comedies "Peculiarities of National Hunt" and "Peculiarities of National Fishing", among other works.
- Arthur Auwers
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers was a German astronomer. Auwers was born in Göttingen and worked at Königsberg (today Kaliningrad). He specialized in astrometry, making very precise measurements of stellar positions and motions. He detected the companion stars of Sirius and Procyon from their effects on the main star's motion, before telescopes were powerful enough to visually observe them. He was from 1866 Secretary to the Berlin Academy, …
- Sripati
Sripati (1019-1066) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician, the author of "Dhikotidakarana" (written in 1039), a work of twenty verses on solar and lunar eclipses; "Dhruvamanasa" (written in 1056), a work of 105 verses on calculating planetary longitudes, eclipses and planetary transits; "Siddhantasekhara" a major work on astronomy in 19 chapters; and "Ganitatilaka", …
- Robert Fischell
Dr. Robert Fischell (b. 1930 -) is a physicist, inventor, and holder of more than 200 U.S. and foreign medical patents. His inventions have led to the creation of several biotechnology companies. He worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory full time for 25 years, and part time for an additional 13 years. His achievements include the development of a 16-satellite system called Transit that was a key precursor to GPS, …
- Richard Reid Rogers
Richard Reid Rogers (1868-November 10 1949) was a prominent United States lawyer, specializing in transit law. His daughter Elizabeth married into the German nobility and the House of Hesse by marring Prince Christian of Hesse. (Rogers was also the grandfather of Princess Olga de Hesse and Princess Augusta de Hesse.) Rogers graduated in 1886 from Princeton University before studying law at the University of Virginia.
- Louis Niesten
Louis Niesten (1844 - 1920) was a Belgian astronomer working at the Brussels Royal Observatory. In 1877 he observed Mars and created a detailed map of its surface features. He organized an expedition to Santiago de Chile to observe the Venus transit over the Sun in 1882. A second Belgian expedition (led by Jean-Charles Houzeau) travelled to San Antonio, Texas to determine the planet's parallax during the same transit.
- Henry James Anderson
Henry James Anderson (1799 - 1875) was an American scientist and educator. He was born in New York City, New York, on February 6, 1799. He graduated from Columbia College in 1818 and subsequently studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He did not practice medicine for long however, instead devoting himself to scientific and literary pursuits. He was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia College in 1825, …
- Arthur Butler Phillips Mee
Arthur Butler Phillips Mee (born Aberdeen, October 21 1860-died Llanishen, January 15 1926) was a Scottish-born newspaper journalist, editor and notable amateur astronomer. He was born the son of a Baptist pastor George S. Mee and his wife Elizabeth. After leaving the ministry, Arthur's father became a journalist and he moved the family to western Wales. The son joined his father's profession, becoming a journalist in the town of Llanelli.
- George Warrington Leaving N.J. Transit
GEORGE WARRINGTON LEAVING N.J. TRANSIT : New Jersey Transit Executive Director George Warrington is leaving the agency effective at the end of March. No reason was given for his departure other than the fact that the decision was his and that he is leaving "to pursue other opportunities." Warrington has been at the helm of New Jersey Transit since 2002, when he left a four year presidency of Amtrak. [National Assn. of Railroad Passengers, 1-12-07]
- Rolf Engelsma
Study: 'rechten' and 'geschiedenis' at University of Amsterdam
- Anna Slynko
In 2000/2001 studied in the St. Petersburg University Theatre. Among other roles, she had performed as Natalya Borisovna in Daniil Kharms' "Adam and Eva".
- Septa Transit
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- Jordan In Transit
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- Hampton Roads Transit
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