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unusual facts about Arthur B. Rickerby


Arthur B. Rickerby

The extent of his contributions to his community can be seen in the Arthur Rickerby Memorial Award, which was given at the Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village by the Environmental Commission on behalf of the Ecology League, Inc.


Alphonse Roy

He successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Arthur B. Jenks to the Seventy-fifth Congress and served from June 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939.

Arthur B. Hancock III

Through H-G-W Partners, Hancock owned and raced 1989 U.S. Horse of the Year Sunday Silence whose wins included the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic.

After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Hancock moved to the New York City area where he worked as an apprentice under future Hall of Fame trainer Edward A. Neloy.

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.

He was educated at two prep schools: St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Arthur B. Jenks

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

He was served as a Republican in the Seventy-fifth Congress from January 3, 1937, until June 9, 1938, when he was succeeded by Alphonse Roy, who contested his election.

Arthur B. McBride

He moved to Cleveland in 1913, when he was in his mid-twenties, to be circulation manager for the Cleveland News.

Arthur B. McDonald

Theoretical models of the Sun predict that neutrinos should be made in staggering numbers.

McDonald and Yoji Totsuka were awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics "for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass".

Arthur B. Patten

Tragedy struck the family on July 8, 1903, when A.B.'s son Roger aged one year and a half was drowned while they were vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

Arthur B. Rouse

Rouse was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1927).

Arthur B. Rubinstein

He has frequently been hired by film director John Badham, and the majority of his movie soundtracks are to be found in Badham's work.

Arthur B. Woodford

Woodford worked as a special agent for the U.S. Department of Labor in 1885.

Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.

This was a thriller, but Woods spent the next four years making comedies and musical films (including three with popular singer Keith Falkner which represented Falkner's entire screen output) before starting also to take on crime films, starting with The Dark Stairway, made in 1937 and released in early 1938.

Many of his films involved collaborations with producer Irving Asher, cinematographer Basil Emmott and screenwriter Brock Williams, while another frequent association was with actress Chili Bouchier.

Arthur Chapman

Arthur B. Chapman (1908–2004), British-American animal genetic researcher

Arthur Ellis

Arthur B. English, Canada's official hangman who used the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, as did some of his successors

Arthur Hancock

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr., Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock (1910–1972), American horse breeder

Arthur Jenks

Arthur B. Jenks (1866–1947), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire

Crime Writers of Canada

The awards are named for Arthur B. English, a British expatriate who, under the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, became Canada’s official hangman in 1913.

Hadley Peak

The name was proposed by Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford, co-leaders of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Thiel Mountains party which surveyed these mountains in 1960–61.

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

The Mowbray-Clarkes lived in Rockland County, New York at a farm and studio called Brocken, just six miles from Arthur B. Davies.

Max E. Youngstein

In 1951, Youngstein joined Arthur Krim, Robert Benjamin, Arnold Picker and Bill Heineman in purchasing the then financially troubled United Artists studio from Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford.

Nutt Bluff

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, leader of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geological party in the Dufek Massif, 1976–77, after Constance J. Nutt, geologist, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, a member of the USGS party.

Princequillo

Retired after his four-year-old racing season, Princequillo was purchased by Arthur B. Hancock and sent to the Hancock family's Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County, Virginia and later to their Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Reginald Purdell

He tried his hand at film directing in 1937 with two comedies Don't Get Me Wrong, a Max Miller vehicle co-directed with Arthur B. Woods, and Patricia Gets Her Man.

Walter Pach

With painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he brought together leading contemporary European and American artists.

William Haggin Perry

In 1960, through his Gamely Corporation William Perry entered into an annual foal sharing partnership with Arthur Hancock of Claiborne Farm.


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