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unusual facts about Ralph E. Chambers


Ralph E. Chambers

As the R. E. Chambers Company, which he formed from the remains of Harry Traver's bankrupt firm, Traver Engineering, where he had been the chief engineer, he built such famous amusement park and carnival rides and attractions as The Whip, The Caterpillar,


Arkham Horror

Based on the Robert W. Chambers story The King in Yellow, this expansion introduces the mechanic of the Herald — a special card that permanently alters the game rules.

Barzillai J. Chambers

Chambers was nominated for Vice President by the reunited party, as was Absolom M. West of Mississippi; Chambers was victorious on the first ballot, by 403 votes to 311.

Cutting-plane method

The use of cutting planes to solve MILP was introduced by Ralph E. Gomory and Václav Chvátal.

Edward Chambers

Edward T. Chambers, executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation

Ernie Chambers

However, in Marsh v. Chambers (1983), the Supreme Court held by a 6–3 vote that both practices were constitutional because of the "unique history" of the United States.

Faune A. Chambers

Chambers is the wife of Fonzworth Bentley, Sean Combs's former personal assistant and host of MTV's From G's to Gents.

François-Xavier Bélanger

V.T. Chambers named two species after him in 1875, Gelechia belangerella, now Pseudotelphusa belangerella, and Argyresthia belangerella.

Gamaliel Foundation

Following Alinsky’s death in 1972, his Industrial Areas Foundation, under executive director Edward T. Chambers, moved toward a congregation-based organizing model, emphasizing training and leadership development.

Henry Chambers

Henry E. Chambers (1860–1929), educator and historian from New Orleans, Louisiana

Henry E. Chambers

Maria Charles was a daughter of Caleb and Sarah Charles of Lovell in Oxford County, Maine, and a descendat of John Charles, pioneer settler in 1636 of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

The following academic year, he was principal of the male and female academies in Monticello in Drew County in southeastern Arkansas.

In 1883, Chambers married the former Ellen White Taylor of Crystal Springs in Copiah County in southwestern Mississippi.

Soon he was a job hopper, having in 1881–1882 undertaken the principalship of Mineral Springs High School in Mineral Springs in Howard County near Texarkana in southwestern Arkansas.

In the Court of the Dragon

"In the Court of the Dragon" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

John Chambers

John B. Chambers, evaluator of sovereign debt for Standard & Poor's

Malaria No More

Malaria No More was established in December 2006 by Peter Chernin and Raymond G. Chambers.

Margaret Clement

Sir Thomas Elyot had conveyed to her and her husband the indignation felt by Emperor Charles V, Catherine of Aragon's nephew, at More's resignation, but William Roper, writing years later, had the emperor talking about More's execution; as R. W. Chambers points out, Elyot was not ambassador to the imperial court when More died.

Mineral Springs, Arkansas

Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator early in his career was the principal at Mineral Springs High School in the 1881-1882 school year.

New York State Route 531

NY 531 is officially designated the Senator Ralph Quattrociocchi Memorial Highway in honor of Ralph E. Quattrociocchi, a New York State Senator who played a large role in making the second extension of NY 531 possible.

Ralph E. Gomory

Among scientific achievements, the foundation supported the widely recognized Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has made major contributions to the problem of dark energy, and initiated a major worldwide effort to survey life in the oceans known as the Census of Marine Life.

Ralph E. Quattrociocchi

Quattrociocchi's accomplishments include securing state funding to extend New York State Route 531 to Ogden, New York, forming a senate task force on teen stress, and instituting "Operation Watch" to reduce the likelihood of mishaps at railroad crossing signals.

In the early 1990s, the 55th senate district was redrawn to include Brighton, Monroe County, New York and parts of the city of Rochester, ultimately leading to his defeat in both the 1992 Democratic primary and the general election.

In 1988, Quattrociocchi was swept up in Robert M. Morgenthau's investigation of Senate Minority Leader Manfred Ohrenstein and the alleged misuse of state monies to fund the 1986 campaigns of several state Senators.

Ralph E. Twitchell

He was prosecuting attorney for Santa Fe County and special counsel for the U.S. Department of the Interior dealing with Native American and water-rights cases.

Ralph Emerson Twitchell, who went by Ralph E. Twitchell, (1859–1925) was an American historicist, mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and chairman of the Rio Grande Commission, which drafted a treaty between the United States and Mexico leading to the building of the Elephant Butte Dam in his state.

Ralph E. Updike

Born in Brookville, Indiana, Updike attended the public schools of Whitcomb and Brookville, Dodds Army and Navy Academy, Washington, D.C., Columbia University, New York City, and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.

Ralph E. Williams

It was during this period that Williams (also working as a speechwriter) and Malcolm Moos coined the term "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower used in his farewell address.

Ralph Williams

Ralph E. Williams (1917–2003), United States Navy officer and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower

Robert Chambers

Robert G. Chambers, British physicist known for the first observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933), American artist and writer, author of The King in Yellow

Rules for Radicals

Direct students of Alinsky’s such as Edward T. Chambers took the lessons of Rules for Radicals to help form the Industrial Areas Foundation, the Queens Citizens Organization, and the Communities Organized for Public Service.

Spanish Treaty Claims Commission

The original Commissioners were recently-defeated U.S. Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire (who was chosen as president), Gerrit J. Diekema of Michigan, James P. Wood of Ohio, William Arden Maury of the District of Columbia, and William L. Chambers of Alabama.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

Hundreds of genre author entries are provided, including: William Beckford by E.F. Bleiler, Ambrose Bierce and Algernon Blackwood by Jack Sullivan, Ramsey Campbell by Robert Hadji, Robert W. Chambers by T. E. D. Klein, James Herbert by Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson by Sullivan, Stephen King by Don Herron, Arthur Machen by Klein, Ann Radcliffe by Devendra P. Varma, and Peter Straub by Patricia Skarda.

The Prophets' Paradise

The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).

The Repairer of Reputations

The Repairer of Reputations is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

Thornburg v. Gingles

Attorneys for the plaintiff, Ralph Gingles, included Julius Chambers, Lani Guinier, and Leslie Winner.

United States federal government credit-rating downgrades

August 7, 2011, video with David T. Beers, Standard & Poor's Global Head of Sovereign Ratings, and John B. Chambers, Chairman of the Sovereign Ratings Committee

Walter B. Chambers

His brother Robert W. Chambers, born 1865, was a noted artist, illustrator and writer.

William Heaton

From left to right: convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, golf organizer Jason Murdoch, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, convicted former Bush administration official David Safavian and Congressman Bob Ney

Yue Lao

Yue-Laou (sic) appears as a character in Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Maker of Moons" from the collection of the same name in 1896.


see also

R. E. Chambers Company

The Ralph E. Chambers Engineering Company was mainly an amusement park and carnival-ride building firm that took over the facilities of the bankrupt Traver Engineering Company in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania from 1933 into 1962, although Harry Traver continued to work for the company.