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unusual facts about Raymond H. Wilkins


Raymond Wilkins

Raymond H. Wilkins (1917–1943, US Air Force officer, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor


All the Ghosts

In early 2008, Herbert was commissioned by a collaborative project between Peter Gabriel and Bowers & Wilkins to record an acoustic album at Gabriel's Real World Studios.

Blue Room Released

Blue Room were associated with the development and marketing of the Blue Room Minipod speakers, a blue-coloured system originally sold by manufacturers Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), then taken over by Scandyna Corp.

Chicago Maroons

The tune was adapted from Miami University's "Marching Song" written in 1908 by Raymond H. Burke, a University of Chicago graduate who joined Miami's faculty in 1906.

Ernestine Evans

Over the course of her career, Evans worked for several publishing firms and literary agencies, including Coward-McCann and Lippincott (now Lippincott Williams & Wilkins).

Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr.

Together they had a son, Joseph W. Lippincott III, who was President of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1998–2000.

Optometry and Vision Science

Optometry and Vision Science is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American Academy of Optometry.

Raymond H. A. Carter

He joins then the United-Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 as Head of the International Police Task Force High Commissioner’s cabinet of the high-commissioner; he will take, in particular, the lead of the anti-terrorism cell of Nations United in Sarajevo there and will also work against the Transnational Organized Crime prevention and war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Raymond H. Burke

Raymond Burke was personnel and employment manager for The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923.

Burke organized the Miami University Men's Glee Club in 1907.

Raymond H. Fleming

Seen as an ally of the political organization run by Senator Huey Long and Governor O.K. Allen, in 1934 Fleming deployed National Guardsmen to the offices of election officials in New Orleans when Allen declared martial law during a disputed election between the Long-Allen group and a group headed by Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Raymond H. Fogler

He worked at W. T. Grant and Montgomery Ward, ultimately serving as president of each of those companies.

Raymond H. Torrey

By 1929, with the help of New Jersey state park officials a 43-mile (69 km) section from the Delaware River to High Point along the Kittatinny Ridge was completed.

In the early 1920s Torrey developed a weekly outdoor column for the Post, called the Long Brown Path which was named for a line in Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road.

Shara L. Aranoff

Prior to that, she served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Herbert P. Wilkins, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Stop Court-Packing Act

President Barack Obama said in a high-profile press conference, held in the White House’s Rose Garden that he will nominate Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, Patricia Millett and Robert L. Wilkins to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Thomas Rex Lee

On Friday, May 28, 2010, Utah Governor Gary Herbert nominated Lee to fill the vacancy in the Utah Supreme Court left by retired Justice Michael J. Wilkins.


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