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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 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 "R2: Doctoral Universities – 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.
Henry Andrew Pogorzelski was an American mathematician of Polish descent, a professor of Mathematics at the University of Maine. Much of Pogorzelski's research concerns the Goldbach conjecture, the still-unsolved problem of whether every even number can be represented as a sum of two prime numbers.
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's 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).
OttoBib.com is a website with a free tool to generate an alphabetized bibliography of books from a list of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) with output in MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, BibTeX and Wikipedia {{cite book}} format. Each query also generates a "temporary" permalink which can be used to recall the bibliography without reentering the ISBN data. The site is a metasearch engine, integrating data from several sources, including the U.S. Library of Congress API, the Amazon.com database of books, and ISBNdb.com. OttoBib accepts ISBNs with either 10 or 13 digits.
The Eastern Ranges is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition.
The Stillwater River is an 11.5-mile-long (18.5 km) side channel of the Penobscot River in Maine. From its source in Old Town, the Stillwater runs 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest along the northeast side of Orson Island, the site of the Penobscot Indian Reservation. It then runs 9.2 miles (14.8 km) south along the west sides of Orson and Marsh islands, over three dammed falls. The stream rejoins the main stem of the Penobscot in Orono.
The Maine Black Bears men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Maine in Orono, Maine, United States. The school's team currently competes in the America East Conference, which they joined upon its founding in 1979. Their current head coach is Richard Barron, who previously served as the head coach of the women's basketball program from 2011-2017 before taking a leave of absence. The Black Bears have never appeared in the NCAA tournament.
C. Parker Crowell (1876–1959) was an American architect who practiced in the state of Maine. One of the first Maine architects to become a member of the American Institute of Architects, Crowell and his firm would design over 1000 buildings in the course of his career, including many in his home city of Bangor, Maine. The firm Crowell co-founded is still in business as WBRC Architects.
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 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. Incumbent Democratic Governor Robert P. Dunlap defeated Whig candidate William King.
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.