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unusual facts about Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy



2011 Amstel Gold Race

Gilbert also became only the second rider to win the race in consecutive years after Jan Raas' four consecutive victories between 1977 and 1980.

Abraham G. Mills

Abraham Gilbert Mills (March 12, 1844 – August 26, 1929) was the fourth president of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (1883-1884), and is best known for heading the "Mills Commission" which controversially credited Civil War General Abner Doubleday with the invention of baseball.

Alice Evans

After making her first film Monsieur Naphtali 1999 with the highly talented late Elie Kakou and eclectic French cast including Gilbert Melki and Jean-Marie Lamour, Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch cast Evans as Macha in Une pour toutes (1999), alongside Sami Naceri and Anne Parillaud.

American Leadership Academy

It is the only high school operated by the company of the same name, which also runs two K-6 schools in Gilbert and San Tan Valley.

Argumentation theory

Trudy Govier, Douglas Walton, Michael Gilbert, Harvey Seigal, Michael Scriven, and John Woods (to name only a few) are other prominent authors in this tradition.

Chorus of Westerly

This list includes "Songs of the Fleet" by Charles Villiers Stanford, "Lux Aeterna" by William Mathias, "Birthday Madrigals" by John Rutter, "Mass of the Sea" by Paul Patterson and several other works of George Dyson, Patrick Hadley and Gilbert Vinters.

Clarence C. Gilhams

Gilhams was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Newton W. Gilbert.

Clark Gilbert

Clark Gilbert is the President and CEO of the Deseret News and also of Deseret Digital Media.

Claus Sluter

Sluter probably worked in Brussels before moving to the Burgundian capital of Dijon, where from 1385 to 1389 he was the assistant of Jean de Marville, Court Sculptor to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

Domville baronets

He was a descendant of William Domville, elder brother of Gilbert Domvile, ancestor of the Domvile baronets of Tempoleogue.

Edgar Gilbert

Edgar Nelson Gilbert (July 25, 1923 – June 15, 2013) was an American mathematician and coding theorist, a longtime researcher at Bell Laboratories whose accomplishments include the Gilbert–Varshamov bound in coding theory, the Gilbert–Elliott model of bursty errors in signal transmission, and the Erdős–Rényi model for random graphs.

Francis Brokesby

After his wife's death Brokesby appears to have resided constantly at Shottesbrooke, and early in 1706 succeeded Mr Gilbert of St John's College, Oxford, as chaplain to the little society of nonjurors established there.

François Cellier

In 1902–03, Cellier toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in South Africa, conducting the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, as well as The Rose of Persia.

George G. Gilbert

Gilbert was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907).

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

In 1947 Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, was made the administrative capital.

Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke

In 1136 Gilbert fitz Gilbert led an expedition against Exmes and burned parts of the town, including the church of Notre Dame, but was interrupted by the forces of William III, Count of Ponthieu and escaped the resulting melee only after suffering heavy losses.

Gilbert Gnarley

The CIA to inquire about becoming a spy, explaining that his skills were spying on fellow residents of the retirement home (using a drinking glass, which Gilbert explained, works best when empty) and knowing all the words to Johnny Rivers' song "Secret Agent Man."

Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel

The Gilbert Heathcote for whom it is named appears to be the father of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, and an ancestor of the first Baron Aveland.

Gilbert Livingston

Gilbert Vivian Livingston (born 22 November 1877 in the West Indies, death details unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.

Gilbert Simondon

Another contributor to Gilbert Simondon: une pensée de l'individuation et de la technique, Simondon's friend John Hart, was the instigator of the very first translation -- from French into English c.1980 -- of Simondon's work (this at a university in Canada where Hart had founded both a Department of Computer Science and a Simondon-inspired network: the ATN, or Audio Tactile Network).

Gilbert Yost

Gilbert Yost (died July 10, 1886) was a New York criminal and burglar associated with George Leslie and later the Dutch Mob.

Gilbert, Count of Brionne

Through these sons Gilbert was ancestor of the English house of de Clare, of the Barons FitzWalter, and the Earls of Gloucester (see Earl of Gloucester) and Hertford (see Earl of Hertford).

Gillian Gilbert

In 2007, Gilbert and Morris remixed two tracks for the Nine Inch Nails remixes album Year Zero Remixed.

Hue de Rotelande

Gilbert de Monmouth Fitz Baderon, a grandson of Gilbert Fitz Richard, was his patron.

Johann Arzberger

He published scientific articles in the field of mechanics in Gilbert's Annalen der Physik as well as in the Annals of the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna.

Léon Letort

On this trip he broke the record for the greatest distance travelled non-stop (about 590 miles in 8 hours), exceeding the record set by Eugene Gilbert on 24 April 1913 from Villacoublay to Vittoria, Spain (513 miles in eight hours).

Margaret of Navarre

Her cousin Gilbert, Count of Gravina, already present in the south, was an enemy of Peter's and, according to Hugo Falcandus, strongly opposed to his cousin's government.

Moisés Simons

The English version is by Gilbert and Sunshine; the latter was Azpizú's sister-in-law, who toured with the band in the U.S.A. as singer.

Mountebank

The Mountebanks, a comic opera by Alfred Cellier and W. S. Gilbert

Nardcore

Oxnard locals Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (who drew album covers for Dr. Know and other Nardcore bands) and Mario Hernandez went on to create the long-running comic book series Love and Rockets.

Naucrary

Schomann, Antiq. (p. 326, Eng. trans.) — quoted by JE Sandys (Ath. Pol., viii., 13) — refutes Gilbert, Greek Constitutional Antiquities (Eng. trans., 1895), and in Jahrb. Class. Phil. cxi.

Nick de Angelis

The art critic Sidney Gilbert, in a review in the October issue of Artspeak, wrote, “Allan Stone mounts a sensational group show...

Percy Robert Diggle

Percy Robert Diggle was born on 27 November 1887, the son of the Venerable Archdeacon, the Right Reverend John William Diggle, who would later become the Bishop of Carlisle and his second wife Edith Moss, (the daughter of Gilbert Winter Moss and Eliza Seilliere Zwilchenbart whom he married on 23 April 1884).

Philip H. Gilbert

Philip H. Gilbert’s great-granddaughter, Jane M. Triche-Milazzo, daughter of Risley "Pappy" Triche, is a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Phineas Hitchcock

He married on December 27, 1858 at Omaha, Nebraska, Annie M. Monell, the daughter of Lucinda Carpenter and Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, an 1839 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

Platon Obukhov

He has translated more than 30 books by English-speaking authors, including books by Emerson Hough, Frederick Remington, Frederick Manfred, George Bird Grinnell, and Martin Gilbert.

Process theology

Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.

Rhys ap Thomas

The lands of the defeated Lancastrians were confiscated, and Thomas, with the young Rhys, went into exile at the court of Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy.

Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region

Other woodland birds recorded from the IBA include Brown Treecreepers, Speckled Warblers, Hooded Robins, Grey-crowned Babblers, Crested Bellbirds and Gilbert's Whistlers, with Bush Stone-curlews, migrant Black Honeyeaters and Pink Robins seen occasionally.

Sebastian Vollmer

At Houston, Vollmer's offensive line coach was Joe Gilbert, who had previously worked at the University of Toledo, where he coached another future Patriots lineman, Nick Kaczur.

Shane Lacy Hensley

Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is a resident of Gilbert, Arizona.

Stephen du Perche

Most of the Moslem staff of the palace and the eunuchs were involved in the plots and, on 15 December, Stephen promptly moved the court to Messina, to where he had implored his cousin Gilbert, Count of Gravina, to go with an army.

Tanya Donelly

The album release featured Donelly on vocals, guitars and keyboards, Rich Gilbert (of Human Sexual Response, Goober & the Peas, Blackstone Valley Sinners) on pedal steel, Fisher on bass, and drummers David Lovering (formerly of the Pixies) and Jones.

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

During the Mexican Civil War of 1913, mercenary Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) and his Lewis machine gun he names ("La Cucaracha") joins a band of revolutionaries headed by Colonel Juan Castro (Gilbert Roland).

Thomas Rempston

In 1404-5 he was made a member of the privy council, and was recommended by parliament to Henry IV as one of those whose services merited special recognition; in the same year he was employed on a mission to the Duke of Burgundy.

Tookie Gilbert

Gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the Class AA Southern Association, where he played for the Nashville Vols, and led the American Association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the Minneapolis Millers, but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 Giants.

Vitold Belevitch

The PBH test was originally discovered by Elmer G. Gilbert in 1963, but Gilbert's version only applied to systems that could be represented by a diagonalizable matrix.

William Darwin Fox

They issued - Charles Woodd, 1847 - 1908; Frances Maria (Pearce) 1848 - 1921, Robert Gerard, 1849 - 1909; Louisa Mary, 1851 - 1853; Ellen Elizabeth (Baron Dickinson Webster - 1st cousins once removed), 1852 - ; Theodora, 1853 - 1878; Gertrude Mary (Bosanquet), 1854 - 1900; Frederick William, 1855 - 1931; Edith Darwin, 1857 - ; Erasmus Pullien, 1859 - 1939; Reginald Henry, 1860 - 1933; Gilbert Basil, 1865 - 1941.

William Gandy

He painted Northcote's grandmother, the Rev. Nathaniel Harding of Plymouth, the Rev. John Gilbert, vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth (engraved by Vertue as a frontispiece to Gilbert's Sermons), John Patch, surgeon in the Exeter Hospital, the Rev. William Musgrave (engraved by Michael van der Gucht), Sir Edward Seaward in the chapel of the poorhouse at Exeter, Sir William Elwill, and others.

William Lancaster

William de Lancaster I, or William Fitz Gilbert, was a nobleman of the twelfth century in Northwest England


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