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Jason Clarke (born October 26, 1978, in New London, Connecticut) is a writer and web developer living in Orono, Maine.
His first book, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man , co-written with David T. Hardy, was released in June 2004 and spent six weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list for Hardcover Nonfiction. The book is a critical analysis of the career and persona of acclaimed documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore. Clarke is now the CEO of RainStorm Consulting, a web developing company in Orono, Maine.
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Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Stillwater rivers, it was first settled by American colonists in 1774. They named it in honor of Chief Joseph Orono, a sachem of the indigenous Penobscot nation who long occupied this territory.
The University of Maine (UMaine) is a public land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the flagship university of the University of Maine System. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
Orono is a community in the Municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the southern stretch of Highway 35/115, approximately 87 km (54 mi) east of Toronto.
Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man is a book by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke about author and filmmaker Michael Moore, criticizing him and his works. The title can be seen as a parody of the titles Stupid White Men by Moore and Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken. It was listed as a best-seller by The New York Times in August 2004.
Joseph Orono was a Penobscot Indian chief or sachem who lived on the Penobscot River in present-day Maine. The town of Orono, Maine, which contains the University of Maine, is named for him.
State Route 16 (SR 16) is a numbered state highway in Maine, United States. SR 16 runs from the New Hampshire state line at Wentworth Location in the west to Orono at the eastern terminus. State Route 16 runs a total of 190 miles (310 km), passing mostly through rural areas, with the largest population center at its eastern terminus in Orono at Interstate 95 (I-95).
Merritt Lyndon Fernald was an American botanist. He was a respected scholar of the taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. During his career, Fernald published more than 850 scientific papers and wrote and edited the seventh and eighth editions of Gray's Manual of Botany. Fernald coauthored the book Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America in 1919–1920 with Alfred Kinsey, which was published in 1943.
Dorothy Clarke Wilson was an American writer, perhaps best known for her novel Prince of Egypt (1949), which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film, The Ten Commandments (1956).
The Raymond H. Fogler Library is an academic library at the University of Maine in Orono. The library's collections include approximately more than 1 million volumes, nearly 4 million periodical subscriptions, 1.6 million microforms, 2.2 million United States Federal, Maine State, and Canadian federal and provincial government publications.
C. Parker Crowell (1876–1959) was an American architect in practice in Bangor, Maine, from 1902 until his retirement in 1956. Crowell and his firm would design over 1000 buildings in the course of his career. The firm Crowell co-founded is still in business as WBRC.
The Orono Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Stillwater River at its confluence with the Penobscot River in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine. As a part of the Penobscot River restoration and the removal of the Great Works and Veazie dams, the Orono Dam and Stillwater Dam will be upgraded to maintain previous levels of power generation.
The 1930 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the New England Conference during the 1930 college football season. In its tenth season under head coach Fred Brice, the team compiled a 3–4 record. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. Cecil Horne was the team captain.
The 1944 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the New England Conference during the 1944 college football season. In its second season under head coach William C. Kenyon, the team compiled a 2–2 record and tied for the conference championship. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. Eugene Long was the team captain.
The 1922 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine during the 1922 college football season. In its second season under head coach Fred Brice, the team compiled a 6–2 record and was recognized as the Maine state champion. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. Raymond Lunge was the team captain.
Laurie Osher is an American politician, who was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 2020. She will represent the 123rd House District as a member of the Maine Democratic Party.
The 1835 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 14, 1835.
The 1839 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 9, 1839. Incumbent Democratic Governor John Fairfield defeated Whig candidate and former Governor Edward Kent in a re-match of the previous year's election.
The 1962 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. In its 12th season under head coach Harold Westerman, the team compiled a 4–4 record and finished last out of the six teams in the Yankee Conference. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. Alton Hadley III and John Roberts were the team captains.
The 2022–23 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by seventh-year head coach Zach Spiker, played their home games at the Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Colonial Athletic Association.
Michael Tipping is an American writer, activist, and politician from Maine. A Democrat, Tipping serves in the Maine State Senate representing District 8. He grew up in Orono, Maine and attended Orono High School and Dalhousie University, working as a progressive activist on several statewide referendum questions and for an initiative to clean mercury pollution from the Penobscot River. Tipping announced his run for the Maine Senate in September 2021, and was elected in November of 2022 to his first term.