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Timeline of the history of Roman Hispania

The Greek cities of Emporion and Rhode lose their autonomy as punishment of their support to the Pompeian party.


1880 in the United States

February 14 – Samuel G. Arnold, United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 till 1863.

1996 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament

Future NBA players Marcus Camby (Massachusetts), Marc Jackson (Temple), and Tyson Wheeler (Rhode Island) were among those also named to the All-Championship Team.

1997 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament

Future NBA player Tyson Wheeler of Rhode Island was among those also named to the All-Championship Team.

97.1 FM

"Mother Tucker", an episode of Family Guy which features the fictional radio station 97.1 WQHG in Quahog, Rhode Island.

9th Connecticut Regiment

As part of a combined Franco-American attempt to retake British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island, the brigade marched to Rhode Island, where it was involved in the August 29 Battle of Rhode Island.

Barbara E. McGann

Following this tour in 1993, McGann taught Strategic Studies as a Fellow at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Battle of Rhode Island

Major General Joseph Spencer had been ordered by Major General George Washington to launch an assault on Newport in 1777, but he had not done so, and was removed from command of the Rhode Island defenses.

Bob Bellemore

In addition to his coaching and career in education, Bellemore is also a baseball umpire in Rhode Island, covering games for the Rhode Island Interscholastic League, the Rhode Island Independent Amateur Baseball League, and other local leagues.

Christianity in the United States

Many sought refuge in New Jersey, Rhode Island and especially Pennsylvania, which was owned by William Penn, a rich Quaker.

CODAC Behavioral Healthcare

CODAC has offices located in the Rhode Island communities of Cranston, Providence, Newport, East Providence, and Wakefield.

Coffee cabinet

In recent years, it has become more difficult to find an authentic cabinet, but many Rhode Island creameries still serve them, including Delekta's Pharmacy in Warren, and the Original Vanilla Bean in South Kingstown.

Death Vessel

Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Kennebunkport, Maine, Thibodeau moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a teenager and later to Providence, Rhode Island.

Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island

In the first part of the 20th century, the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island focused on urban ministry with a focus on social concerns, led by Bishop William N. McVickar.

Eran Thomson

Eran Thomson was born in San Francisco and attended 11 different schools in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island and Mexico City before moving to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania where he graduated from Strath Haven High School.

Foster, Rhode Island

Jerimoth Hill, the highest point of elevation in Rhode Island, is located in Foster.

Full Channel

Later that year, Donofrio's company was awarded the first cable television franchise in Rhode Island after his application was approved by the City of East Providence.

George Stanley Gordon

In 1944, George Gordon enrolled and attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he majored in Psychology.

Grey's raid

In response to the threat to Newport, General Sir Henry Clinton ordered 4,000 men under General Charles Grey to prepare for transport to Rhode Island while Admiral Lord Richard Howe sailed from New York to oppose d'Estaing.

GSLIS

University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS), in Kingston, Rhode Island

Henry F. Lippitt

They had two children - Rhode Island politician and philanthropist Frederick Lippitt and Mary Ann Lippitt.

Hope School

Hope Street School, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island

John Arnold House

John Waterman Arnold House, Warwick, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island

Larry Miles Dinger

From August 2004 to June 2005, he was the State Department's Senior Advisor to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

Litsa Spathi

The double issue was developed by Owen Smith and Ken Friedman and published through the Rhode Island School of Design The other artists included as representing New Fluxus artists: Alan Bowman, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, david-baptiste chirot, David Cologiovani, Eryk Salvaggio, Cecil Touchon, mIEKAL aND, MTAA, Ruud Janssen, Sol Nte, and Walter Cianciusi.

Lucius F. C. Garvin

He furnished information for Lincoln Steffens' muckraking article, "Rhode Island: A State for Sale," published in 1905 in McClure's.

Newport Bridge, Newport

:For the bridge in Rhode Island, United States, see Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge

Otto H. York

He was the father of Rhode Island political figure Myrth York.

Peabody and Stearns

The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1878, burned in 1892 and replaced with another mansion with the same name by Richard Morris Hunt)

Quonset State Airport

The Rhode Island Army National Guard also maintains an Army Aviation Support Facility adjacent to the Air National Guard Station for the 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, flying the UH-60 Blackhawk.

Rhode Island Army National Guard

Over twenty Rhode Island units had fought for independence including the First Rhode Island Continentals who stood at Yorktown for the surrender of British General Cornwallis.

Rhode Island Rams men's ice hockey

The Rhode Island Rams men's ice hockey team represents the University of Rhode Island in Division I of the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

Rhode Island Reds

Riverpoint Royals, a former team of the New England Collegiate Baseball League which used Rhode Island Reds as its original name

Rhode Island State Police

In the television series Brotherhood (2006 TV series) the character of Declan Giggs, portrayed by the actor Ethan Embry, is a Rhode Island State Police Detective.

Richard Walton

In the 1996 Presidential election in Rhode Island he was temporarily a stand-in candidate for Ralph Nader's official running mate Winona LaDuke.

Rowland Hazard

Rowland G. Hazard (1801–1888), son of above, industrialist associated with textile mill complexes in Peace Dale and Carolina, Rhode Island

Ruud Janssen

The double issue was developed by Owen Smith and Ken Friedman and published through the Rhode Island School of Design The other artists included as representing New Fluxus artists: Alan Bowman, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, David-Baptiste Chirot, David Cologiovani, Eryk Salvaggio, Cecil Touchon, mIEKAL aND, MTAA, Litsa Spathi, Sol Nte, and Walter Cianciusi.

Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's double trap

Pia Hansen raised Rhode's Olympic record by seven hits, and was only one hit from Deborah Gelisio's World records in both the qualification and final rounds.

Smithville Seminary

The site of Henry Barnard’s first Rhode Island Teachers Institute in 1845, the school began giving normal instruction for teachers with public funding in 1867, but ceased in 1871 when the state's Education Commissioner re-established the Rhode Island Normal School and cut program funding for other institutions.

St. Stanislaus Kostka Church

St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Woonsocket, designated for Polish immigrants in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Toy soldier

Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, USA, began collecting miniature toy soldiers on her honeymoon to Europe in 1930, eventually amassing a collection of over 6,000 figures; these are on display at the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University Library in Providence.

United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 2006

Steve Laffey, however, picked up many endorsements from Republican town committees throughout Rhode Island, the national group Club for Growth, and former candidate for the party's Presidential nomination Steve Forbes.

WBLQ

WSUB-LP, a radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to Ashaway, Rhode Island, United States, which used the call sign WBLQ-LP from 2005 to 2009

WMNP, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Block Island, Rhode Island, United States, which used the call sign WBLQ from 1988 to 1996

WCRI

WCRI-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Block Island, Rhode Island, United States

WHJY

They frequently feature skits and fake recordings, having made fun of many of the local politicians (including, notably, imitations of Rhode Island Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy which compare him to Beaver Cleaver).

Wilbour

Isaac Wilbour (1763 – 1837), American politician from Rhode Island

William Greene Turner

In 1890 Turner was elected as an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.

William Russell House

Joseph and William Russell House, in Providence, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP in Rhode Island

William Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901–81), 59th Governor of Rhode Island, grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt

WVEI

WVEI-FM, a radio station (103.7 FM) licensed to Westerly, Rhode Island, United States


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