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unusual facts about Bobby G. Rice


Brenda Best

The song debuted on Live Radio WSM 650 Midnight Jamboree by Country Music Artist Bobby G. Rice on The Legend CD.


Alexander Rice

Alexander H. Rice (1818–1895), American politician and businessman from Massachusetts

Alexander H. Rice, Jr. (1875–1956), American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer

Alfred B. Fitt

His second wife, born Lois Dickson (b. 1933), married Fitt after divorcing Emmett J. Rice, making Fitt the stepfather of Susan Rice.

American Airlines Flight 6780

Also on board were former war correspondent John F. Chester and US Civil Aeronautics Administration officials George T. Williams and John D. Rice, both engaged in the development of airport radar systems and navigational aids.

Battle of the San Gabriels

A company of Texas Rangers under Lt. James O. Rice had pursued the Mexican agent Manuel Flores and his party of Mexicans and Indians, following their murder of four surveyors working between Seguin and San Antonio, Texas.

Benjamin F. Rice

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 19, 1905, and was buried Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Bernard G. Caulfield

Caulfield was elected in 1874 as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to succeed John B. Rice, who had not sought reelection; when Rice died a month after the election, Caulfield won an additional special election to complete Rice's term in the Forty-third Congress, and served from February 1, 1875 to March 3, 1877.

Bobby G

Along with other members Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston the group went on to win the contest and on 4 April 1981 took part in the Eurovision Song Contest representing the United Kingdom.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Casiquiare canal

During a 1924–25 expedition, Alexander H. Rice, Jr. of Harvard University traveled up the Orinoco, traversed the Casiquiare canal, and descended the Rio Negro to the Amazon at Manaus.

Clare de Kitchen

It dates to 1832, when blackface performers such as George Nichols, Thomas D. Rice, and George Washington Dixon began to sing it.

Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk

He met much rejection before bringing his cast uninvited to a rehearsal hall where he heard that another act was auditioning for Edward E. Rice, manager of the Casino Theatre's Roof Garden.

See, for example, New York Herald, July 31, 1898, and Edward E. Rice's advertisement in the August 20, 1898 New York Dramatic Mirror.

D.C. Rice

Paul Oliver, Songsters and Saints : Vocal Traditions on Race Records, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Gayle Dean Wardlow, "Rev. D. C. Rice - Gospel singer", in Storyville 23, June–July 1969.

Edward M. Rice

Rice received his Masters Degree of Divinity from Kenrick School of Theology in 1987, and then was ordained to the priesthood on January 3, 1987, by the late Archbishop of Saint Louis John L. May, who died a few years later of a brain tumor.

Robert James Carlson, the Metropolitan Archbishop of St. Louis, was the principal consecrator.

Emmett J. Rice

In between, he spent 1952 as a research associate at the Reserve Bank of India as a Fulbright Fellow.

From 1966 to 1970, he was U.S. Alternate Executive Director for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the International Development Association, and the International Finance Corporation.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Frank J. Rice

When Adm. Richard E. Byrd visited New Haven in 1947, he spoke before the people of New Haven at Rice Field.

Frank P. Rice

He was instrumental in obtaining land for the right-of-way for extension of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and Georgia Pacific Railway.

Frederick Hallen

Before her vaudeville days Fuller was on the legitimate stage in productions like the libretto Adonis, by Edward E. Rice and William F. Gill and Edward E. Rice’s Evangeline, in which she stepped in to replace Fay Templeton when the actress was unable to go on stage.

Italica Press

Italica also publishes a series of scholarly essays, "Studies in Art & History," with volumes dedicated to scholars such as Aldus Manutius, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Eugene F. Rice, Jr., William S. Heckscher, Irving Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and Sarah Blake McHam.

James S. Rice

In about 1910 James W. Rice married Ruebel Martin, daughter of John Henry Martin, a Nevada state senator from Douglas County, Nevada, and they had two sons Harvey M. Rice (1913–1974), and James Willis Rice, Jr. (1916–1996).

John C. Rice

John C. Rice (ca. 1858, Sullivan County, New York – June 5, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American born Broadway stage actor who is credited with performing the first onscreen kiss with May Irwin in 1896 for the Thomas Edison film company film The Kiss.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

Around New York in 80 Minutes (contributing composer, with Edward E. Rice)

John R. Rice

In July 1932, Rice held an open-air evangelistic campaign in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and hundreds made professions of faith.

Lester R. Rice-Wray

In 1927 the 6th District encompassed the Hyde Park and Angeles Mesa annexations and Vermont Avenue south to 62nd Street as well as a shoestring strip leading to Westchester, Mines Field and the Hyperion sewage screening plant.

Old Corn Meal

George Nichols, a blackface circus clown is one, as is Thomas D. Rice, whose "Corn Meal" skit most likely came from seeing Old Corn Meal's act during one of his visits to New Orleans in 1835, 1836 and 1838.

Rice Strait

The strait is named after Sergeant George W. Rice (born 29 June 1855 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia), who was the photographer on Adolphus Greely's ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, and also a correspondent with the New York Herald.

Richard H. Rice

From 1885-1886 he was a special apprentice at the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad shops in Dennison, Ohio.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

Robert Rice

Robert L. Rice (1929–2007), health club pioneer and philanthropist

SIRVA

On January 12, 1998, NAVL was bought out from Norfolk Southern Corp. by the private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for more than US$200 million.

Thomas Rice

Thomas O. Rice, former federal prosecutor and current United States district judge

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Elwin W. Rice organized the manufacturing facilities, and Elihu Thomson ran the Model Room which was a precursor to the industrial research lab.

United States Ambassador to South Sudan

General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State; Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and Ambassador R. Barrie Walkley inaugurating the new U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan on Independence Day, July 9, 2011.

Virginia Earle

After completing two seasons with Hallen and Hart she became associated with producer Edward E. Rice and in 1891 traveled to Australia with a troupe of actors that included George Fortescue, his wife and daughter (both named Viola) and actresses Lillian Karl, and Agnes Pearl.

William B. Rice

In 1894, Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge appointed him to the governor's council of business advisers and he was a major benefactor of the Quincy City Hospital.

He also was responsible for developing international sales by establishing offices in London, Berlin, and Manila.

William S. Rice

In 1918, Rice had his first major exhibition of wood and linoleum block prints at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, which was designed by Bernard Maybeck for the Panama Pacific International Exposition.

Rice toured Europe in the summer of 1913, visiting Chartres, Rothenberg and Venice.

William Thomas Councilman

In 1916, he went with the Rice Expedition, led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., to the Amazon and Brazil.

William W. Rice

Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).


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