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60 unusual facts about Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts


Animal Stories

:See also: section on ‘’’Animal Stories’’’ under Charles G. D. Roberts.

Anthony K. Roberts

His work included album covers and other promotional photographs for Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Tanya Tucker, among others.

The resulting series of pictures ran in the following day's Los Angeles Times, and were carried by the Associated Press, which nominated them for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

Arthur J. Roberts

He was educated at Alfred High School in Alfred, Maine and Limerick Academy in Limerick, Maine, before attending Colby College in the fall of 1886 along with a class of 32 other students.

Cape Roberts

Discovered by the South Magnetic Pole Party, led by David, of the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named for William C. Roberts, assistant zoologist and cook for the expedition.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

Charles E. Roberts was an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The stable remodel was commissioned by Charles E. Roberts, a patron of Wright's work, the same year Wright worked on an interior remodel of Roberts' House.

Charles S. Roberts

Starting in 1988, Roberts' name was given to the Charles S. Roberts Awards, given for excellence in the historical wargaming hobby.

Charles W. Roberts

Roberts was the Democratic Party candidate for governor of Maine in 1875, but lost to another former Civil War general, Republican Seldon Connor.

With the promotion of the regiment's colonel Charles Davis Jameson, USV, to brigadier general, Roberts became colonel of the regiment.

Chester J. Roberts

After his coaching career employed by several companies in the paper and automobile industries in Wisconsin including Tuttle Press Co. in Appleton, Northern Paper Mills of Green Bay, Wisconsin, A. O. Smith of Milwaukee, and Nash Motors of Milwaukee.

During this time Roberts served as head football coach at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia (1914), Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (1915), and Platteville Normal College, now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (1917), compiling a career college football record of 11–10.

Daniel Roberts

Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts (born c.1980), founder and owner of Pirate Cat Radio

Death Without Denial Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss

Death Without Denial Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss by former Oregon Governor Barbara K. Roberts is a personal narrative of the author's experiences during her husband, Frank's battle with cancer, the final year of his life, and the subsequent years of grieving.

Edwin E. Roberts

His son-in-law was Walter Johnson, one of the greatest pitchers in the history of baseball.

Elizabeth Roberts

Elizabeth H. Roberts (born 1957), lieutenant governor of Rhode Island since 2007

Ellis Roberts

Ellis H. Roberts (1827–1918), United States Representative from New York

Eric Robertson

Eric S. Roberts, professor of computer science at Stanford University

Ernest Roberts

Ernest W. Roberts (Ernest William Roberts, 1858–1924), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Ernest W. Roberts

He was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixty-first Congress).

Eugene L. Roberts

It was here, watching the procession of 5000 to worship atop a mountain near Einsiedeln that Roberts conceived the idea of an annual Mount Timpanogos hike, an idea he later implemented while on the BYU faculty, with the first hike occurring in 1912.

Among the athletes trained by Roberts were Alma Richards and Clinton Larsen, the latter of whom held the world high jump record from 1917 to 1935.

Frank Roberts

Frank L. Roberts (1915–1993), state legislator from the U.S. state of Oregon; husband of Oregon governor Barbara Roberts

Frederick Roberts

Fred S. Roberts (born 1943), professor of mathematics at Rutgers University

Gary R. Roberts

After completing his legal studies, Roberts clerked for the Honorable Ben C. Duniway on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

George E. Hill

He also worked as private secretary for congressman B. H. Roberts and studied law.

Grant L. Roberts

The Initial City, led by Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City, featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, has proven to be an inspiration for other communities as the list of participating cities continues to grow.

Roberts would team up again with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, playing Ruben Kruger, a flanker alongside co-star Matt Damon who portrayed team captain Francois Pinnear for the South Africa national team the Springboks that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, in the 2009 film Invictus.

Harold Roberts

Harold W. Roberts (1899–1918), United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor

James A. Roberts

In 1864, he enlisted as a private in the 7th Maine Battery, and fought at the Siege of Petersburg, and later participated in the campaign ending with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.

James C. Roberts

During his three years in the Navy, Roberts received several awards including the Navy Achievement Medal and letters of commendations from the commanding officer, USS Henderson and the commanders of Destroyer Squadron 19 and the United States Seventh Fleet.

In February 1981, Roberts was appointed director of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, a position which he held until June 1984 at which time he was named director of the Campaign for Prosperity Political Action Committee, headed by Congressman Jack Kemp.

James E. Roberts

In 2007, the Members of the California State Legislature passed the bill to rename the Tuolumne River Bridge as the James E. Roberts Bridge.

James E. Roberts Bridge

Originally named the Tuolumne River Bridge, it was renamed in 2007 in honor of James E. Roberts by legislative resolution.

Joel Rosenman

Rosenman thought of the idea for the three-day concert when he and business partner John Roberts evaluated a recording studio proposal brought forward by Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld.

John P. Roberts

Following protests from local residents they moved to its eventual location in Bethel, New York.

John W. Roberts

In April 1949, he returned to instructor pilot duties in the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

Joseph Roberts

Joseph J. Roberts (b. 1952), Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly

Kenneth A. Roberts

Roberts was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1965).

Lawrence E. Roberts

They had four children: Dorothy Roberts McEwen, Lawrence E. Roberts II, Sally-Ann Roberts Craft Nabonne, and Robin René Roberts.

Near-Earth object

On August 10, 1972 a meteor that became known as 1972 Great Daylight Fireball was witnessed by many people moving north over the Rocky Mountains from the U.S. Southwest to Canada.

Neil M. Cohen

The resignation was accepted immediately by Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts.

Owen W. Roberts

He was political officer in Lagos from 1964 to 1965, and deputy chief of mission in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 1966 to 1968.

Phranakorn film

Fireball (2009) Director : Thanakorn Pongsuwan

Ralph J. Roberts

In 1963, he and his partners, Daniel Aaron and Julian A. Brodsky, purchased for $500,000, a 1,200-subscriber cable TV operator in Tupelo, Mississippi called American Cable Systems.

Ralph Roberts

Ralph R. Roberts, Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, c.

Ralph J. Roberts (born 1920), co-founder of Comcast Communications

Recreational Software Advisory Council

The RSAC ratings were based on the research of Dr. Donald F. Roberts of Stanford University who studied media and its effect on children.

Roaring Roads

Roaring Roads is a 1935 American film directed by Charles E. Roberts.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Roy A. Roberts

Roberts was to be closely identified with shaping Kansas Republican politics and he championed Kansas Governor Alf Landon in his unsuccessful 1936 race against Franklin Roosevelt.

Samuel D. Roberts

Roberts is retired from General Motors where he worked for 30 years and was a member of the United Auto Workers union.

Susan E. Roberts

Susan Elizabeth Roberts is a news anchor for CCTV America in Washington, D.C..

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Burton B. Roberts, a Bronx judge known for his no-nonsense imperious handling of cases in his courtroom, became the model for the character of Myron Kovitsky in the book.

William C. Roberts

In 1954, Roberts graduated early from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in the arts, having been accepted to Emory University's School of Medicine.

Roberts himself contributes a column to each issue entitled "Facts and Ideas from Anywhere", an homage to one of the guiding principles he ascribes to his colleague Eugene Braunwald.

Here, he continued to work with notable cardiac physicians including Eugene Braunwald, Willis Hurst, and Glenn Morrow.

It was here, working with attending physicians such as Glenn Morrow and Eugene Braunwald that his career began to focus on cardiovascular pathology, and he focused his training exclusively on autopsies and surgical pathology.

During this time, Roberts also joined the fraternity Phi Delta Theta.

William M. Roberts

Billy Roberts (William Moses Roberts Jr.), a US songwriter and musician


2010 Jupiter impact event

On 10 September 2012 at 11:35 UT amateur astronomer Dan Petersen visually detected a fireball on Jupiter that lasted 1 or 2 seconds using a Meade 12″ LX200.

2013 Glasgow helicopter crash

One witness, Gordon Smart, editor of the Scottish Sun newspaper, stated that he did not see a fireball or hear an explosion, and that the engine seemed to be misfiring.

Absolutely Charming

Bobby Tonelli, Jacelyn Tay and her family and Douglas Kung (It's A Small World) appear as cameos in the beginning of episode 1, where they see a fireball (which was created by Heavenly Mother after slapping Fox Spirit).

Attilio Bettega

Exactly one year later his former teammate Henri Toivonen and his co-pilot Sergio Cresto with the Lancia Delta S4 #4 (same number of the Bettega's car) died in a fireball accident at the same event, causing a ban for Group B.

Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal

Victoria Crosses were awarded to William Babtie, Walter Norris Congreve (whose son also won a VC), George Ravenhill (VC later forfeited), Hamilton Lyster Reed, Freddy Roberts, son of Lord Roberts VC (posthumous) and Harry Norton Schofield for gallantry during the battle.

Dave Dudley

Other recordings included Dudley's duet with Tom T. Hall, "Day Drinking," and his own Top 10 hit, "Fireball Rolled A Seven," supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.

Emily Lyons

In 2005, Lyons appeared in a controversial advertisement opposing the nomination to the Supreme Court of John G. Roberts, who seven years before the bombing had filed a brief opposing the prosecution of abortion clinic blockaders under the federal Ku Klux Klan Act.

Fireball 500

Footage from Fireball 500, specifically shots of the 4B car (Jim Douglas' car) toppling over on its roof, show up later in the demolition derby scenes at the beginning of The Love Bug.

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.

In 1938, he along with A.C. Buchanan were the choices of Virginia Senators Carter Glass and Harry Byrd, Sr., to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to which Franklin D. Roosevelt named instead Floyd H. Roberts.

Harold Orlob

Among his works were the short run of Corianton: An Aztec Lovestory, a work pushed through by Orestes U. Bean's salesmanship and based on the novel Corianton by B. H. Roberts.

Louis Krages

In 1994, Winter would along with the team defect to DTM, driving an Opel Calibra, it was at Round 10, Race 1 at AVUS, he was involved in fiery accident, in which his car disintegrated in a fireball.

Mark Ravina

Numerous scholars, including Luke S. Roberts, Ronald Toby and John Whitney Hall have made reference to his work, engaging with it in their own pursuits of a reexamination of notions of statehood and national identity in the Tokugawa period.

Morgus the Maniac

While competing in an interpromotional show with Extreme Championship Wrestling, then Eastern Championship Wrestling, which included former WWF wrestlers such as Mr. Hughes, Junkyard Dog, Greg "the Hammer" Valentine and Jake "the Snake" Roberts, he would lose his MEWF Heavyweight title to Lucifer the Knight of the Road on November 14, 1993.

Peter Jenniskens

The first Novato meteorite, a L6 type chondrite fragmental breccia, was found by Novato resident Lisa Webber following Jenniskens' publication of the trajectory of the fireball from video recorded by stations of his Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance project.

Pirate Cat Radio

In March 2009, Anthony Bourdain brought his show "No Reservations" to San Francisco and visited Pirate Cat Radio to try a drink invented by station founder Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts: the Bacon Maple Latte.

Reference Daily Intake

The RDA was developed during World War II by Lydia J. Roberts, Hazel Stiebeling and Helen S. Mitchell, all part of a committee established by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to investigate issues of nutrition that might "affect national defense" (Nestle, 35).

René Hall

Throughout his career, Hall was the featured guitarist on such tracks as Number 000 (Otis Blackwell), "That's It" (Babette Bain), "Cincinnati Fireball" (Johnny Burnette), "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Ernie Fields), "In The Mood" (Ernie Fields), "Hippy Hippy Shake" (Chan Romero), and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams).

Second Battle of El Alamein order of battle

under Brigadier George "Pip" Roberts

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.

Trine 2

Trine 2 takes places some years after the restoration of the kingdom of the previous game and opens with Amadeus (voiced by Kevin Howarth) sleeping after a long night trying to once again learn the elusive fireball spell.

Wooden Coaster - Fireball

Wooden Coaster - Fireball (Chinese: 谷木游龙) is a wooden roller coaster located at Happy Valley in Songjiang, Shanghai, China.

WWF No Mercy

A similar idea of linking a portable port to the console port would eventually be used in WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006, for unlocking Jake "The Snake" Roberts on the PlayStation 2.