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2 unusual facts about Robert B. Parker


Conan the Hero

Nonetheless, he considers that "Conan the Hero shows Carpenter’s strengths in writing action and detail," noting that "the friendship between Conan and Juma comes across as realistic, unlike certain contrived 'interracial-buddy' movies. ... Their ambience is similar to that between the late Robert B. Parker’s Spenser and Hawk, minus the racial bantering."

Harry Simpson

The character Luther "Suitcase" Simpson in the Jesse Stone novels, and made for TV movies, by author Robert B. Parker, is given the nickname "Suitcase" or "Suit", by the character of the police chief played by Tom Selleck because of Harry Simpson.


43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

Abraham X. Parker

Parker was elected as a Republican to the 47th and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889).

Amasa Parker

Amasa J. Parker, Jr. a state senator from New York and a general in the National Guard of New York (and the son of Amasa J. Parker).

Bayless W. Hanna

He lost to fellow Wabash alum and Crawfordsville lawyer Robert B. F. Peirce having only earned 43% of the vote to Peirce's 49%.

Ben Parker

Ben L. Parker (1913–2003), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Bill Tilghman

A Democrat, Tilghman had been a delegate to his party's 1904 convention, which met in St. Louis, Missouri, to nominate New York Judge Alton B. Parker, a former law partner of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, to run against the successful Republican incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Before wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. began promoting them, the wines of Châteauneuf were considered rustic and of limited appeal.

Demala diviyan keliya

It is unknown how old the game is, but the game was described by H. Parker in his 1909 book Ancient Ceylon - An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early Civilisation.

Denis Saverot

Saverot has also written the foreword to the bande dessinée comic book written by Simmat and illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., titled Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux.

Frank W. Parker

The paper's editor and publisher, Carl Magee, was subsequently tried and convicted of criminal libel.

Gordon R. Parker

Gordon R. Parker is a business executive notable for leading the Gold Fields unit of Toronto-based Iamgold corporation.

Homer C. Parker

Parker was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Charles G. Edwards.

Jacob Beser

There he met or worked with various illuminaries in the Manhattan Project, such as Robert B. Brode, Norman Ramsey, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Doll, and General Leslie Groves.

Jeffrey A. Parker

After graduation, Parker worked in management in the consumer packaged goods industry for General Foods Corporation, Schering-Plough, and Con-Agra.

John M. Parker

Roosevelt selected Parker as one of eighteen officers (others included: Seth Bullock, Frederick Russell Burnham, and James Rudolph Garfield) to raise a volunteer infantry division, Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, for service in France in 1917.

Lindeman's

Five consecutive vintages have been named "best buys" by The Wine Spectator, a consumer magazine, and Robert M. Parker, Jr. has called it "one of the three or four finest chardonnay values in the world" in his newsletter The Wine Advocate.

Outward Bound

Some of the more notable Outward Bound teachers include James Kielsmeier, Stan Hugill, Tom Kennerley, Paul Petzoldt, Robert B. Rheault, Karl Rohnke, and Willi Unsoeld.

Peace Ship

Also critical of Ford’s endeavor were former United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew and one- time presidential candidate Alton B. Parker.

Portland Art Museum

The museum is currently under the leadership of Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Director since 2006.

Richard E. Parker

He died on his estate, ‘Soldier’s Retreat,’ near Snickersville (now Bluemont, Loudoun County), Virginia, September 10, 1840, and was buried in the family cemetery near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia.

Rick Klassen

In 1984, however, when Matthews, former Edmonton defensive co-ordinator, traded for James "Quick" Parker from the Eskimos, Klassen again switched positions.

Robert A. Parker

From March 1988 to March 1989, Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he served as director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office.

Robert B. Ammons

Ammons was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of several divisions of the American Psychological Association.

Robert B. Chiperfield

Chiperfield was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1963).

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.

Robert B. Crosby

Governor Crosby, who was known as "The Boy Governor from North Platte," was particularly proud that he was a great-grandson of John Holbrook Powers.

Robert B. F. Peirce

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Robert B. Hawkins, Jr.

Hawkins was chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations from 1982-1993.

Robert B. Ingebretsen

Ingebretsen worked with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull in 1972 to produce one of the first digital films, a 20-second portrait of a human hand.

Robert B. Laughlin

Between 2004 and 2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.

Robert B. McNeill

In 1954, the southern branch of the Presbyterian Church, was considering rejoining the northern, and ending the split existing since the Civil War.

Robert B. Meyner

At the 1960 Democratic National Convention Meyner received 43 votes for president, finishing fifth behind John F. Kennedy (806 votes), Lyndon Johnson (409 votes), Stuart Symington (86 votes) and Adlai Stevenson (79.5 votes) and just ahead of Hubert Humphrey who received 41 votes.

Robert B. Pinter

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Robert B. Pirie, Jr.

After leaving government service, Pirie held a variety of positions in the private sector, including that of president of Essex Corporation and vice president of the Center for Naval Analyses and vice president of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Robert B. Sanderson

He was born in Slaidburn, West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1825, and moved to the United States at the age of 23, arriving in New York City but moving on to Buffalo, New York, where he went into the slaughtering business for a couple of years.

Robert B. Stepto

Robert B. Stepto is a literary theorist and professor of African American studies, English and American Studies at Yale University.

Robert B. Weide

In 1978, while taking film production courses at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, he announced his intention to produce a documentary film on the Marx Brothers.

Robert Bogardus

His daughter Sarah Jay Bogardus (b. 1794) married Foxhall A. Parker (1788–1857), and their children were Foxhall A. Parker (1821–1879) and William Harwar Parker (1826–1896).

Robert Pamplin

Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. (born 1941), American businessman and philanthropist, current CEO of R.B. Pamplin Corporation

Robert B. Pamplin (1911–2009), American businessman and philanthropist, founder of R.B. Pamplin Corporation

Robert Pirie

Robert B. Pirie (1905–1990), Vice Admiral in the United States Navy

Robert Semple

Robert B. Semple (1806–1854), California newspaperman & politician, who helped found Benicia, California

Samuel Parker

Samuel I. Parker (1891–1975), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Snaphance

In K. J. Parker's novel The Hammer which takes place in a fictional universe, the pistols are referred to explicitly as "snapping-hens".

Springvale, Columbia County, Wisconsin

Robert B. Sanderson, state assemblyman and senator; former chair of Springvale town board

Stuart Schreiber

He joined the research group of Robert B. Woodward and after Woodward's death continued his studies under the supervision of Yoshito Kishi.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1874

Incumbent Republican Congressman Robert B. Elliott of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1871, resigned in 1874 so that he could return to South Carolina and stem the massive corruption on the part of the state Republican Party.

United States presidential election in New York, 1904

Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.

World Development Report

“A dynamic ‘agriculture for development’ agenda can benefit the estimated 900 million rural people in the Developing world who live on less than $1 a day, most of whom are engaged in agriculture,” said Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President.


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