Infobox scientist name Nan M. Laird workplaces Harvard School of Public Health alma mater Harvard University doctoral advisor Arthur P. Dempster known for Expectation maximization algorithm awards Fellow of the American Statistical Association , Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Nan M. Laird is a professor in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health . She served as Chair of the Department from 1990 to 1999. She was the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics from 1991 to 1999. Laird is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association , as well as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . She is a member of the International Statistical Institute . ref cite web url http 209.85.141.104 search?q cache o98orFGDipEJ www.sc asa.org abstract bio.pdf 22Nan Laird 22&hl en&ct clnk&cd 10&gl us&client firefox a title Page 1 SCASA s 2006 Workshop in Applied Statistics accessdate 2008 07 14 last first coauthors date work publisher sc asa.org ref Research Laird received her PhD from Harvard University in 1975 under Arthur P. Dempster Arthur Dempster . Laird is well known for many seminal papers in biostatistics applications and methods, including the Expectation maximization algorithm . She is a highly cited author according to the http hcr3.isiknowledge.com author.cgi?id 4866&cb 13 ISI Web of Knowledge . Honors Her honors include the Purdue University Myra Samuels Lecturer award 2004 , the Janet Norwood 2003 and F.N. David Award 2001 from the American Statistical ... MathGenealogy id 80964 http www.hsph.harvard.edu faculty nanlairdNanLaird at Harvard School of Public Health http hcr3.isiknowledge.com author.cgi?id 4866&cb 13 NanLaird at ISI Web of Knowledge Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Laird, Nan M. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Mathematician DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Nan Category ... EM.pdf A. P. Dempster, N. M. Laird and D. B. Rubin. 1977 . Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data ... more details
other uses Image Richard Lauder.jpg thumb right 200px Richard Lauder, Laird of Haltoun A Laird IPAc en ... peerage table of precedence, a Laird ranks below a Baron and above an Esquire . Etymology The word Laird, known to have been used as far back as the 15th century and further, is a shortened form ... and definition A Laird is a member of the gentry historically Lairds rank below a Baron and above .... ref Perelman, p.141 ch. 7 ref The title of Laird may carry certain local or feudal rights. A Lairdship ..., who came from the Laird class and were chosen by their peers to represent them. A certain level of landownership was a necessary qualification 40 shillings of old extent . A Laird is said ... . Though translated as Lord and signifying the same, Laird is not a title of nobility . The title of Laird is a corporeal hereditament an inheritable property that has an explicit tie to the physical ... title, more a courtesy title meaning landowner with no other rights assigned to it. However, a Laird ... in Scotland is a member of Scotland s minor nobility. Such an individual can be recognised as a Laird ... or Laird url http www.debretts.com forms of address titles scottish and irish titles chief .... ref http www.scots titles.com fake lairds lords the ludicrous E2 80 9Cscottish laird E2 80 9D scams The Ludicrous Scottish Laird Scams ref ref http www.thefrasers.com nessie news nesspapr708.html New Internet Con Selling Phoney Lairdships ref Forms of address Formally, a Laird is styled as The Much Honoured Forename Surname of Lairdship or The Much Honoured The Laird of Lairdship or The Much Honoured Forename Surname , Laird of Lairdship The wife of a Laird or a woman holds a lairdship in her own ... or peerage. The younger children of a laird are styled as Mr Forename Surname if male , and Miss ... to distinguish from titles of the nobility. In some cases laird is translated as lord , but this can cause confusion. See also Scottish feudal barony Forms of address in the United Kingdom Lord Laird ... more details
wiktionary Nan or NAN may refer to one of the following. TOC right Acronyms NaN Not a Number , used in computer ... , also known as Olney s lesions NAN, IATA code for Nadi International Airport National Assembly of Nigeria Nick at Nite , an American cable tv network Near me Area Network Places Nan Province , Thailand Nan, Thailand , its administrative capital Nan River in Thailand Nan County , in Hunan, China People Kings King Nan of Zhou 314 256 BC , last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty Nan Geng , posthumous name of a Shang Dynasty King of China First name Nan Britton 1896 1991 , who claimed to have been the mistress of President Warren G. Harding Nan Cross 1928 2007 , South African anti apartheid and anti conscription activist Nan Wood Honeyman , 1881 1970 , first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon Nan Kempner 1930 2005 , New York socialite Nannerl O. Keohane Nannerl Nan O. Keohane born 1940 , American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University Nan Martin 1927 2010 , American actress Nan Merriman born 1920 , American operatic singer Nan Grogan Orrock , member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator Nan Phelps 1904 1990 , American folk artist Nan Rich born 1942 , member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives Nan C. Robertson 1926 2009 , Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, author and teacher Luo Nan born 1986 , Chinese swimmer Sima Nan born 1956 , Chinese television pundit and journalist Song Nan born 1990 , Chinese figure skater Wang Nan table tennis born 1978 , Chinese table tennis player Yu Nan born 1978 , Chinese actress Zhang Nan gymnast born 1986 , Chinese gymnast Zhou Nan born 1927 , Chinese politician and diplomat Last name Nan Huai Chin born 1918 , Buddhist teacher in China Mohd Fauzi Nan , Malaysian football player Other Nan , a play by the English poet John Masefield , first produced in 1908, also known as The Tragedy of NanNan, a form of the name Anna name Anna ... more details
For other uses Nan disambiguation Nan In computing , NaN , standing for not a number , is a numeric data ... by NaN the square root of a negative number is imaginary number imaginary , and thus not representable as a real floating point number, and so is represented by NaN and NaNs may be used to represent ... point calculations, NaN is not the same as Extended real number line infinity , although both are typically ... distinct NaN values, depending on which bits are set in the significand, but also on the value of the leading ... NaN values . For example, a bit wise example of a IEEE floating point standard single precision 32 bit NaN would be span style white space nowrap s111 1111 1axx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx span where s is the sign most often ignored in applications , a determines the type of NaN, and x is an extra payload most often ignored in applications . If a 1, it is a quiet NaN if a is zero and the payload is nonzero, then it is a signaling NaN . ref If a is zero and the payload is zero, then it represents ... a quiet NaN qNaN . Floating point operations on a signaling NaN sNaN signal an invalid operation ... if producing a floating point result. A comparison with a NaN always returns an unordered result ... NaN. The other standard comparison predicates are all signaling if they receive a NaN operand, the standard ... if a value is a NaN and never signals an exception, even if x is a signaling NaN. The propagation ... result for all other floating point values e.g. NaN 0, which may be defined as 1, so in general a later ... numbers if just one of the operands is a NaN then the value of the other operand is returned. The http pub.ist.ac.at schloegl matlab NaNNaN toolbox for GNU Octave and MATLAB skips all NaNs .... Creation There are three kinds of operations that can return NaN ref cite web url http citeseer.ist.psu.edu ... Should Know About Floating Point ref Operations with a NaN as at least one operand. Indeterminate ... defines all three indeterminate forms as invalid operations and so returns NaN. Real operations ... more details
Margaret Laird is the name of Margaret B. Laird 1871 1968 , leader in the women s suffrage movement in New Jersey. Margaret Nicholl Laird 1897 1983 , American Baptist missionary hndis Laird, Margaret ... more details
Laird Township can refer to Laird Township, Ontario Laird Township, Michigan Laird Township, Phelps County, Nebraska geodis Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages de Laird Township ... more details
James Laird may refer to James Laird politician 1849 1889 , Nebraska Congress member James Laird journalist , Philadelphia journalist See also Jim Laird 1897 1970 , American football player hndis Laird, James ... more details
Laird is a hereditary title in Scotland. Laird may also refer to People Laird surname Laird Howard Barber 1848 1928 , Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Laird Barron born 1970 , American author and poet Laird Bell 1883 1965 , American attorney, philanthropist and businessman Laird Cregar 1913 1944 , American film actor Laird Hamilton born 1964 , American big wave surfer and co inventor of tow in surfing Laird Smith born 1913 , Australian rules footballer Laird A. Thompson born 1947 , American professor of astronomy Places Laird, Ontario , Canada, a township and village Laird, Saskatchewan , Canada, a village Laird No. 404, Saskatchewan , Canada, a rural municipality Laird, Colorado , a census designated place Hopewell, Benton County, Mississippi , formerly Laird, an unincorporated community Laird Township, Michigan Laird Township, Phelps County, Nebraska Laird Plateau , Oates Land, Antarctica Cape Laird , Ross Dependency, Antarctica Laird Glacier , Ross Dependency 16192 Laird , a main belt asteroid Other uses Laird plc , a British electronics and technology business Laird School of Art , Birkenhead, Merseyside, England disambig given name geo de Laird Begriffskl rung it Laird pl Laird ... more details
William Laird is the name of William Laird shipbuilder 1780 1841 , Scottish shipbuilder and entrepreneur who founded the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead, England William Laird Canadian politician 1835 1911 , politician on Prince Edward Island, Canada William R. Laird, III 1916 1974 , United States Senator from West Virginia hndis Laird, William ... more details
About the surname Laird the Scottish title LairdLaird is a surname and a Scottish people Scottish title . Notable persons with that surname include Bruce Laird American football born 1950 , American pro football player Bruce Laird born 1950 , Australian cricketer Carobeth Laird 1895 1983 , American anthropologist Charlton Laird 1901 1984 &ndash American linguist and lexicographer David Laird 1833 1914 , Canadian politician Lieutenant Governor of Northwest Territories Davie Laird born 1936 , Scottish footballer Gerald Laird born 1979 , American professional baseball player James Laird politician 1849 1889 , American politician U.S. representative from Nebraska James Laird journalist contemporary , named on the master list of Nixon political opponents John Laird shipbuilder 1805 1874 , Scottish shipbuilder John Laird philosopher 1887 1946 , British philosopher John Laird California politician , American politician from California, state representative John Laird, Baron Laird born 1944 , an Ulster Unionist life peer John Keith McBroom Laird 1907 1985 , Canadian author, barrister, and solicitor Macgregor Laird 1808 1861 , Scottish merchant pioneer on the Niger River Marc Laird born 1986 , Scottish professional football player Margaret Nicholl Laird 1897 unknown , American Baptist missionary Matthew Laird contemporary , Canadian politician from British Columbia and author Melvin R. Laird born 1922 , American congressman and Secretary of Defense Mike Laird , PlayStation player and BMX rider Nick Laird born 1975 , Northern Ireland novelist and poet Nick Laird Clowes born 1957 , British musician and songwriter Paul Laird born 1958 , American musicologist Peter Laird born 1954 , American comic book artist Philip Johnson Laird born 1936 , American psychologist and author Rick Laird born 1941 , Irish jazz musician Scott Laird , English football player Stephen Laird floruit fl. 20th c. , American journalist alleged to be a Soviet spy in the 1930s Trevor Laird , British actor Walter ... more details
John Laird may refer to John Laird philosopher 1887 1946 , Scottish philosopher John Laird American politician born 1950 , former California State Assembly member John Laird shipbuilder 1805 1874 , British shipbuilder and key figure in development of Birkenhead John Laird, Baron Laird born 1944 , British Member of the House of Lords and Ulster Unionist Politician John E. Laird born 1954 , computer scientist John Keith McBroom Laird 1907 1985 , Canadian author, barrister, and solicitor Jack Laird 1923 1991 , American television writer and actor hndis Laird, John ... more details
Rob Laird is the name of Rob Laird ice hockey born 1954 , hockey player Rob Laird Drive character hndis name Laird, Rob Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ... more details
The following articles may refer to the Laird of Torloisk who ran an estate on the Isle of Mull Lachlan Og Maclean, 1st Laird of Torloisk Hector Maclean, 2nd Laird of Torloisk Lachlan Maclean, 3rd Laird of Torloisk Alexander Maclean, 4th Laird of Torloisk 1690 1715 , was captain in the Second battalion of the Scots Guards, and served in the Spanish wars at age twenty five, he had his leg broken at the Battle of Brihuega, in Spain, in 1710, by a musket ball, of which he fevered and died dying without children, he was succeeded by his cousin Donald Maclean, 5th Laird of Torloisk Hector Maclean, 6th Laird of Torloisk never married, and on his death in Glasgow on May 29, 1765, he was succeeded by his immediate younger brother Lachlan Maclean, 7th Laird of Torloisk disambiguation Category Lairds of Torloisk Category Titles in Scotland Torloisk ... more details
Notability Astro date February 2012 Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Laird symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer Spacewatch discovery site Kitt Peak discovered January 4, 2000 designations yes mp name 16192 alt names 2000 AU207 mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 2.8413199 perihelion 1.7742159 semimajor eccentricity 0.2311983 period 1280.5207679 avg speed inclination 2.45425 asc node 109.31538 mean anomaly 210.43962 arg peri 225.78201 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 15.8 16192 Laird 2000 AU207 is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on January 4, 2000 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak . References Reflist External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 16192 Laird JPL Small Body Database Browser on 16192 Laird DEFAULTSORT Laird Category Main Belt asteroids Category Astronomical objects discovered in 2000 beltasteroid stub fa it 16192 Laird pl 16192 Laird pt 16192 Laird uk 16192 vi 16192 Laird yo 16192 Laird ... more details
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and course. The expedition returned to Liverpool in 1834. Laird and Surgeon R. A. K. Oldfield were ... accompanied the expedition on the orders of the Admiralty to survey the river. In 1837, Laird and Oldfield ..., 1833, 1834 . The expedition had been unsuccessful commercially, but Laird had gained experience ... , which under William Balfour Baikie W. B. Baikie made so successful a voyage that Laird induced ... was withdrawn after the death of Laird and Baikie, British traders continued to frequent the river, which Laird had opened up with little or no personal advantage. Laird s interests were not, however ... the Atlantic from Europe entirely under steam. Laird died in London in 1861. 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Laird, Macgregor ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1808 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 9 January 1861 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Macgregor Category ... de Macgregor Laird ... more details
Infobox Company company name The Laird Group company logo Image Lairdlogo.PNG company type Public company Public lse LRD foundation 1824 location London , United Kingdom key people Nigel Keen Chair official Chairman br Peter Hill Chief Executive Officer CEO industry Electronics products revenue Pound sterling 586.0 million 2011 ref name prelims http www.laird plc.com laird assets lib documents Laird PreliminaryResults2011 PressRelease.pdf Preliminary Results 2011 ref operating income Pound sterling 59.4 million 2011 ref name prelims net income Pound sterling 119.0 million 2011 ref name prelims num employees parent subsid homepage http www.laird plc.com www.laird plc.com slogan footnotes Laird plc lse LRD is a leading United Kingdom British based electronics and technology business. It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index . History The company was founded by John Laird shipbuilder John Laird in 1824 as Birkenhead Ironworks in Liverpool . ref name history http www.laird plc.com laird about history 1824 1941 1824 Laird History 1824 1941 ref It launched its first ship in 1840. ref name history In 1903 it merged with Charles Cammell & Company Limited and, as Cammell Laird , went on to build numerous ships for the Royal Navy . ref name history In 1976 its transport division, which traded ... Kong Mass Transit System . ref name history2 http www.laird plc.com laird about history 1942 1977 1955 Laird History 1942 1977 ref In the 1977 its shipbuilding business was nationalise d ref name history2 ... http www.laird plc.com laird about history 1978 1989 1980 Laird History 1978 1989 ref In the 1980s ... laird about history 1990 2001 1992 Laird History 1990 2001 ref In 2000 it disposed of its automotive ... Acquisition of UK Based Laird s Automotive Component Activities Completed ref and more recently ...&title Laird Group waits for shareholder approval Laird Group waits for shareholder approval ref In 2008 it changed its name from Laird Group PLC to Laird PLC . ref http investing.businessweek.com research ... more details
Laird Plateau coor dm 82 0 S 157 0 E is a small plateau over 2,400 m standing 1 nautical mile 1.9 km northwest of Mount Hayter on the north side of the head of Lucy Glacier . It was seen by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition NZGSAE 1964 65 and named for the leader of this geological party to the area, Malcolm G. Laird , as was Cape Laird . usgs gazetteer Category Plateaus of Oates Land OatesLand geo stub ... more details
Sally Ann Laird 2 May 1956 15 July 2010 was a United Kingdom British editor and translator who specialised in Russian literature. Laird studied at Oxford University and Harvard University , where she gained an MA in Soviet studies in 1981. Laird was USSR editor for the magazine Index on Censorship between June 1986 and November 1988, when she became editor in chief. She held the job until August 1989. After leaving the magazine she worked as a translator and editor. She translated a series of Russian novels. Later she co authored Till my Tale is Told Women s Memoirs of the Gulag and wrote Voices of Russian Literature Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers. In 1993, Laird moved to Denmark . Laird and her husband Mark Le Fanu had one daughter. External links http www.indexoncensorship.org 2010 07 sally laird obituary Tribute at Index on Censorship Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Laird, Sally ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 2 May 1956 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 15 July 2010 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Sally Category 1956 births Category 2010 deaths Category Alumni of the University of Oxford Category Harvard University alumni Category British editors Category British translators ... more details
Norman Laird 1906&ndash 28 April 1970 was a doctor and unionist Ireland unionist politician in Northern Ireland . Laird studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the Queen s University of Belfast . He became a doctor and joined the Ulster Unionist Party UUP , and chaired its St Anne s branch from 1948 until 1969. He was awarded an OBE in 1961. ref name biog http www.election.demon.co.uk stormont biographies.html Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons ref Laird was elected for the UUP in Belfast St Anne s UK Parliament constituency Belfast St Anne s at the Northern Ireland general election, 1969 . ref name biog In March 1970, he was one of five UUP MPs expelled from the Ulster Unionist parliamentary party for refusing to support the government in a vote of no confidence . ref J. R. Hill, A New History of Ireland Volume VII Ireland 1921 84 , p.341 ref He died the following month. In the ensuing by election, his seat was won by his son, John Laird, Baron Laird John Laird . ref name biog References references start box s par ni succession box before Edmond Warnock title Member of Parliament for Belfast St Anne s Northern Ireland Parliament constituency Belfast St Anne s after John Laird, Baron Laird John Laird years 1969&ndash 1970 end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Laird, Norman ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1906 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1970 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Norman Category 1906 births Category 1970 deaths Category Alumni of Queen s University Belfast Category Medical doctors from Northern Ireland Category Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland 1969 1973 Category Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category People educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution Category Ulster Unionist Party politicians ... more details
Infobox Person name Carobeth Tucker Laird image image size caption birth date July 20, 1895 birth place Coleman, Texas death date August 5, 1983 death place education occupation Writer , Ethnologist spouse 1 John P. Harrington 2 George Laird parents children Carobeth Tucker Laird July 20, 1895 August 5, 1983 is known for her ethnographic studies of the Chemehuevi people of southeastern California and western Arizona. Her book, The Chemehuevi , was characterized by ethnographer Lowell John Bean 1985 5 as one of the finest, most detailed ethnographies ever written . Carobeth Tucker was born ... was troubled. They were divorced in 1922, and Carobeth married George Laird, her principal Chemehuevi Informant linguistics informant . During the period prior to George Laird s death in 1940, Carobeth Laird collected extensive information on the Chemehuevi, particularly concerning language and Chemehuevi ... of California and Great Basin Anthropology Journal of California Anthropology . Carobeth Laird also ... some critical acclaim, and Limbo 1979 , a description of her experiences in a nursing home. Laird ..., Lowell John. 1985. Memorial to Carobeth Laird 1895 1983 . Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 7 3 6. Laird, Carobeth. 1975. Encounter with an Angry God Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington . Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. ISBN 978 0 8263 1414 7 Laird, Carobeth. 1976. The Chemehuevis . Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. Laird, Carobeth. 1979. Limbo . Chandler & Sharp, Novato, California. ISBN 978 0 88316 536 2 Laird, Carobeth. 1984. Mirror and Pattern George Laird s World of Chemehuevi Mythology . Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. Lawton, Harry W. 1976. Forward . In The Chemehuevis , by Carobeth Laird, pp. vii xii. Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Laird, Carobeth ALTERNATIVE ... 5, 1983 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Carobeth Category 1895 births Category 1983 deaths Category ... more details
Laird Koenig is an United States American author . His best known work is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane , a novel published in 1974. ref cite news url http news.google.com newspapers?id rqQRAAAAIBAJ&sjid EegDAAAAIBAJ&pg 6227,2129629 title A story of an adjustment last Houston first Levin date 16 February 1974 work Free Lance Star page 12 accessdate 27 September 2010 ref The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jodie Foster . He also wrote a Play theatre play based on the novel. References reflist Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1980 2000 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Koenig, Laird ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Koenig, Laird Category American novelists Category American dramatists and playwrights Category Living people US novelist stub US playwright stub de Laird Koenig fr Laird Koenig ru , ... more details
about the Scottish footballer the Canadian politician David Laird Davie Laird born 11 February 1936 in Rutherglen is a Scotland Scottish former association football footballer , who played for St. Mirren F.C. St. Mirren and Northampton Town F.C. Northampton Town . External links http www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com player1 davielaird.htm Davie Laird , Neil Brown Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Laird, Davie ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Scottish footballer DATE OF BIRTH 11 February 1936 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Davie Category 1936 births Category Living people Category People from Rutherglen Category Association football inside forwards Category Scottish footballers Category St. Mirren F.C. players Category Northampton Town F.C. players Category Cambuslang Rangers F.C. players Category Folkestone F.C. players Category Scottish Football League players Category The Football League players ... more details
Other persons John Laird File Lord Laird.jpg thumb upright Lord Laird. Professor John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird FRSA of Artigarvan born 1944 is an Ulster Unionist life peer and former chairman of the cross ..., Laird became the youngest member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland , after winning the seat of Belfast ... by the death of his father, Norman Laird Dr Norman Laird OBE . He was expelled from the Ulster ... Laird Public Relations in 1976, which, now called JPR, ref http www.jprni.com JPR NI . ref is Northern ... Laird , of Artigarvan in the County Tyrone County of Tyrone . Laird studied at the Royal Belfast ... is a list of books, plays, and films for which Lord John Laird has been responsible fact date ... , Lord Laird wants road signs in Irish, English and Ullans on all roads in Ireland, as parity .... ref Laird served as head of the Ulster Scots Agency , before resigning in April 2004, in protest ... Ulster Scots chairman resigns , BBC News , 23 April 2004. ref Lord Laird found himself at the centre ..., Laird had spent in excess of 2500 of public money on taxis between Belfast and Dublin. ref http ... 2005. ref House of Lords Laird sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher . ref http www.independent.co.uk ... , 1 December 1999. ref Laird has used parliamentary privilege to speak out against the Provisional ... 2007. ref Expenses Laird claimed parliamentary expenses of 73,000 in 2008 09, making him the most ... northern ireland 8407836.stm Expense claims Lord Laird most expensive peer BBC News, 11 December 2009. ref 2007 election Donegal In December 2006 Laird announced plans to stand in Donegal North East ... Lord Laird website http www.stratagem ni.com resources politician.aspx?dataid 365635 John Laird ... Parliamentary answers 2010 11. s start s par ni succession box before Norman Laird title Member ... Laird, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Lord Laird of Artigarvan SHORT DESCRIPTION Politician and life peer DATE OF BIRTH 1944 PLACE OF BIRTH Northern Ireland DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird ... more details
Refimprove date April 2009 Stephen Laird was an American journalist, working as a Time magazine Time magazine reporter and CBS correspondent. He was also accused of being a Soviet spy, supposedly becoming a Communist in the 1930s and in the 1940s providing information to agents of the Soviet Union. Laird was allegedly recruited by the Soviets while he was at Swarthmore College in the early 1930s. Laird told the Allentown Morning Call in 1986 that he became close friends with former Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Oleg Troyanovsky , son of Aleksandr A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1934 to 1938, while at Swarthmore. Troyanovsky was a fellow student and member of the football team, of which Laird was assistant coach. Troyanovsky later became a foreign policy assistant and interpreter for Joseph Stalin and adviser to Nikita Khrushchev . Laird was supposedly considered to be a politically well developed person by the MGB USSR MGB in 1944, and being utilized as an agent. In 1949 he was living in Vic Vaud, Switzerland. His case was referred to the Central Intelligence Agency CIA in the fall of 1950. The story of Laird s secret life surfaced for the first time in the VENONA project Venona files . Laird s reported code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona files is Yun . References No footnotes date April 2009 John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Laird, Stephen ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American journalist DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Laird, Stephen Category American journalists Category American reporters and correspondents Category Swarthmore College alumni Category American spies for the Soviet Union Category American people in the Venona papers Category Possibly living people ... more details
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