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unusual facts about Robert C. Turner



Carreg Cennen Castle

Ownership of the castle passed to the Vaughan and Cawdor families, and from the 18th century it started to attract artists (Turner sketched the castle in 1798).

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.

Day G. Turner

On that day, in Dahl, Luxembourg, Turner led his squad in the defense of a house against an intense German attack.

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.

Dunstanburgh Castle

Turner painted Dunstanburgh many times, usually rising at dawn to do so.

Frederick W. Turner

He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography.

Harry Turner

Harry E. Turner (1927–2004), member of the Ohio House of Representatives

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.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Joseph Gandy

His architectural fantasies owe a clear debt to Piranesi and play upon historical, literary and mythological themes with a feeling for the sublime that is the equal of his contemporaries J. M. W. Turner and John Martin.

Kettler Capitals Iceplex

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

Laurence Iannaccone

David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-8852-9

Lubbock High School

Morris W. Turner, Class of 1950 (1931–2008), businessman; mayor of Lubbock, 1972–1974

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

He was hence part of the council, along with Mayor Jim Granberry, charged with the rebuilding of Lubbock after the widespread destruction caused by the storm.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Reinagle wrote the scientific and explanatory notices to Turner's Views in Sussex published in 1819, and the life of Allan Ramsay in Allan Cunningham's Lives of the British Painters.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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".

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

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

Samuel William Reynolds

He also engraved a great number of portraits and compositions by Dance, Jackson, William Owen (1769–1825), Stephanoff, Bonington, Sir Robert Ker Porter, and others, and was one of the artists employed by Turner on his Liber Studiorum.

Santa Maria della Salute

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent and Francesco Guardi.

Takeuchi Seihō

After returning to Japan he established a unique style, combining the realist techniques of the traditional Japanese Maruyama–Shijo school with Western forms of realism borrowed from the techniques of Turner and Corot.

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.

Wartling

H.J.C. Turner, born in Wartling in 1850, the son of the curate, he played in the first rugby international in 1871.


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