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6 unusual facts about Robert C. Murdoch


Robert C. Murdoch

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1921) "Some Tertiary Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species".

He spent some years subsequent to 1888 in farming near Wanganui, but in 1892 he went to Sydney and studied Mollusca with Mr. Charles Hedley.

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1924) "The Tertiary Rocks of the Wanganui – South Taranaki Coast".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1923) "The Occurrence of the Genus Lahillia in New Zealand".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1921) "Fossils from the Paparoa Rapids, on the Wanganui River".

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1919) "Some New Fossil Species of Mollusca".


Americans For Fair Taxation

AFFT was founded in 1994 by three Houston businessmen, Jack Trotter, Bob McNair, and Leo Linbeck, Jr., who each pledged $1.5 million as seed money to hire tax experts to identify what they perceived as faults with the current tax system, to determine what American citizens would like to see in tax reform, and then to design the best system of taxation.

Brad Wright

He is best known as the creator or co-creator of the television series Stargate SG-1 (with Jonathan Glassner), Stargate Atlantis (with Robert C. Cooper) and Stargate Universe (also with Cooper).

Brian O. Murdoch

In several hundred published works he established the centrality of the "popular" (as opposed to the exegetical) understanding of the "protoplasts" in far wider areas of medieval thought than had hitherto been appreciated.

Charles Gilman Norris

The Oxford Companion to American Literature notes that Norris' novels dealt with "such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business, ethics and birth control." He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli, 1922), A Gest of Robin Hood (with Robert C. Newell, 1929), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.

Demographics of Denver

The current Denver mayor, Michael Hancock, elected in 2011, is also African-American, as are city councilwoman Allegra "Happy" Haynes and Denver police chief Robert C. White.

Dick Perez

He was commissioned to paint Robert C. Nix, a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice, for the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

Digital art

Leading art theorists and historians in this field include Oliver Grau, Christiane Paul, Frank Popper, Mario Costa, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Dominique Moulon, Robert C. Morgan, Roy Ascott, Catherine Perret, Margot Lovejoy, Edmond Couchot, Fred Forest and Edward A. Shanken.

James Clemmer

Clemmer managed the Fifth Avenue theater (1925-1926) (designed by Robert C. Reamer), the Winter Garden, the Music Box (1928-1930) (designed by Henry W. Bittman), various Blue Mouse theaters, the Music Hall, one of Portland, Oregon's Paramount theaters (1928) (designed by Rapp & Rapp with Priteca & Peters), and the Orpheum (1926-1927) (designed by B. Marcus Priteka).

John Littleton and Kate Vogel

As a boy John Littleton grew up around glass art and his father’s colleagues in glass, including Dale Chihuly, Fritz Dreisbach, Erwin Eisch, Robert C. Fritz and Marvin Lipofsky.

Kathleen Higgins

She has published over fifty articles are these topics as well as on beauty, kitsch, virtue, feminism, marketing environmentalism, Indian aesthetics, Chinese philosophy, musical emotion, synesthesia, television, death, and the philosophies of nineteenth-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and contemporary philosophers Arthur C. Danto and Robert C. Solomon.

Kettler Capitals Iceplex

Originally named Ballston Ice Arena, it was renamed by Washington, D.C. area real estate developer Robert C. Kettler.

Life of Adam and Eve

Brian O. Murdoch, The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae, Oxford (OUP), 2009.

Randall Amster

Amster launched an initiative in January 2011 called "New Clear Vision" (NCV), a website where Amster serves as a Contributing Editor, and includes Devon G. Pena, Jay Walljasper, Pat LaMarche, David Swanson, Diane Lefer, and Robert C. Koehler among its regular contributors.

Reciprocating Chemical Muscle

The Reciprocating Chemical Muscle was invented by Prof. Robert C. Michelson of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and implemented up through its fourth generation by Nino Amarena of ETS Laboratories.

Richard Dewhurst

He was the Reform nominee both for the 32nd Senate District, losing 2097 to 2354 to Republican Robert C. Field; and for his old Assembly district (Clark and Jackson Counties), defeating Republican James Hewett 1210 to 1179.

Richard Haas

These include Chase Field; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia; the main branch of the New York Public Library, the Lakewood Public Library (Ohio), the Sarasota County, Florida Judicial Center and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY´.

Richard Swett

In 1996, Swett ran as the Democratic Party candidate for a seat in the United States Senate from New Hampshire, against incumbent Republican Robert C. Smith, but was narrowly defeated.

Robert C. Ames

He rose to become the CIA's chief analyst for the area and was killed in the suicide bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, 18 April 1983.

Robert C. Annis

In March 2008, Dr. Annis was appointed to the Manitoba Immigration Council by Nancy Allan, Minister of Immigration and Labour.

Robert C. Brack

In July 2011, Columbus, New Mexico dissolved its police force, due to a gun smuggling scandal that involved its village officials and others.

Robert C. F. Gordon

He was an American diplomat, appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius.

Robert C. Hilliard

By 1888, Hilliard was set up as a foil by the press to Evander Berry Wall as to who should be called "King of the Dudes".

Robert C. Lawson

There are now 582 churches world-wide, including congregations in West Africa, Mexico, Canada, the British West Indies, the Dominican Republic, England, Haiti, and the Philippines.

That year Lawson founded the Refuge Church of Christ in 1919, after the members of a prayer band in Harlem welcomed him and turned their meetings over to him.

Robert C. Lee

On 1918-06-15, he married Elsie Francis Calder, daughter of Senator William M. Calder.

Robert C. MacKenzie

In Mozambique, he worked with RENAMO, securing the release of seven Western hostages.

The country's leader, Valentine Strasser had begun to organize a force to counterattacks by the RUF rebels and his right-hand man, Major Tarawali had contracted sixty Gurkhas of the GSG (Gurkha Security Guards Limited) to train approximately 160 green troopers that would form the nucleus of the SLCU.

Robert C. Miller

Col. Robert C. Miller, USAF (b. 1920, d. 1998), was an American meteorologist, who pioneered severe convective storms forecasting and applied research, developing an empirical forecasting method, identifying many features associated with severe thunderstorms, a forecast checklist and manuals, and is known for the first official tornado forecast (1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes), and it verified, in 1948.

Robert C. Morlino

In 2004 he publicly expressed a traditional conservative religious criticism of the city's apparent lack of a moral compass, claiming that it existed below a religious "moral minimum" and that the city had "virtually no public morality." He specifically cited the popularity of the city's acclaimed StageQ community theater company, a gay and lesbian theater troupe, as evidence of this view.

During the 2008 presidential election, Morlino criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Joe Biden for their remarks regarding abortion on Meet the Press.

Robert C. Newton

Robert C. Newton Camp # 197 of Little Rock was named for him and was the oldest continually run camp of the Arkansas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, as well as the oldest continually active camp west of the Mississippi River.

Robert C. Orr

In 2000 he married Audrey Choi, then chief-of-staff to the Council of Economic Advisers and the daughter of children's author Sook Nyul Choi.

Robert C. Schuler

Schuler died on Christmas Day 2007 at his home in the Adirondack Mountains in New York.

Robert C. Smith

In January 1999, at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, Smith announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States (at the time the front-runner was Texas Governor George W. Bush).

:For the 19th century British astrologer, see Robert Cross Smith.

He served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1962 to 1965, and was on active duty from 1965 to 1967, including a year in Vietnam.

Robert C. Solomon

He made a cameo appearance in Richard Linklater's film Waking Life (2001), where he discussed the continuing relevance of existentialism in a postmodern world.

Robert H. Pruyn

His son, Robert C. Pruyn, was prominent banker and one of the most influential leaders of the American toy industry.

Robert McEwen

Robert C. McEwen (1920–1997), U.S. Representative from New York (1965–1981)

Robert Snyder

Robert C. Snyder (1919–2011), professor of English at Louisiana Tech University

Teaching Philosophy

Published contributors include philosophers from a range of backgrounds and orientations, including Norman Bowie, Myles Brand, Peter Caws, Angela Davis, Daniel Dennett, Alasdair MacIntyre, Rosalind Ladd, Michael Pritchard, Anita Silvers, and Robert C. Solomon.

The Advertiser Democrat

Taking his cue from Sanborn's example, Osgood invited his nephew, Robert C. Sallies, of Weirs Beach, New Hampshire to summer in Norway and learn the newspaper trade, beginning in 1949.

Tornado Alley

The term "tornado alley" was first used in 1952 by U.S. Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest J. Fawbush (1915–1982) and Captain Robert C. Miller (1920–1998) as the title of a research project to study severe weather in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.


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