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Vector Capital

William Ziff's sons Dirk, Robert, and Daniel manage the family's investments through Ziff Brothers Investments.


25th Virginia Infantry

The field officers were Colonels John C. Higginbotham, George A. Porterfield, and George H. Smith; Lieutenant Colonels Patrick B. Duffy, Jonathan McGee Heck, Robert D. Lilley, and John A. Robinson; and Majors Wilson Harper, Albert G. Reger, and William T. Thompson.

Apple to the Core

Apple to the Core: The Unmaking of the Beatles (ISBN 0671781723) is a rock music history book by Peter McCabe and Robert D. Schonfeld, published in New York by Pocket Books in 1972.

Arnau de Palomar

The lordship of Riudoms was granted to Arnau de Palomar 24 January 1150 by the lord of the City and Land of Tarragona, Robert Bordet (known as Robert d'Aguiló).

Battle of Al Mansurah

The ships of the Seventh Crusade sailed from the French ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, then in 1249 sailed toward Egypt, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois.

Battle of Fariskur

With the full support of Pope Innocent IV during the First Council of Lyon, King Louis IX of France accompanied by his brothers Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois launched the Seventh Crusade against Egypt.

Briskman

Robert D. Briskman (born 1932), an official with Sirius Satellite Radio

Daniel M. Ziff

In 2009, Ziff married Leslie, who serves on the boards of the American Ballet Theatre and Rosie's Theater Kids.

Dare to Be Scared

Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill is a 2003 children's horror short story collection by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by David Ouimet, consisting of thirteen stories.

Folly Bridge

The first known stone bridge on the site was built by Robert d'Oilli in around 1085, but there was believed to be a wooden bridge in the time of Ethelred of Wessex.

Internet influences on communities

Robert D. Putnam (2000) suggested a social capital concepts of bonding and bridging.

Iowa–Iowa State football rivalry

Conceived and created as a traveling trophy by the Greater Des Moines Athletic Club in 1976, the trophy was first presented to the winner by Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray in 1977.

Kesh temple hymn

Robert D. Biggs translated an exceptionally archaic version of the hymn from Tell Abu Salabikh that he dated to around 2600 BC.

KILJ-FM

According to the company website, the station was started by Frosty Mitchell and former Iowa governor Robert D. Ray in 1970.

Maria Pearson

Pearson protested to Gov. Robert D. Ray, finally gaining an audience with him after sitting outside his office in traditional attire.

Mike Enich

He was appointed to the district court bench in November 1971 by Governor Robert D. Ray.

Miles Stapleton of Bedale

In March 1361 and August 1362 he served on commissions of peace with the Earl of Suffolk.

Radius Ensemble

For the 2008-2009 season guest artists include Robin Young (of radio station WBUR) as narrator for the Holocaust-inspired There is wind and there are ashes in the wind by Osvaldo Golijov, Robert D. Levin on piano for the Mozart Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, K.452, Marcus Thompson on viola for the Brahms String quintet in F, Op. 88, and Fenwick Smith on flute for Shulamit Ran's Mirage for Five Players.

Robert D. Arnott

Arnott considers himself a libertarian, and opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Robert D. Bailey

R. D. Bailey Lake, formed by a dam on the Guyandotte River and named after Robert D. Bailey, Sr.

Robert D. Borsley

Robert D. Borsley (born 15 March 1949 in Coventry) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

Robert D. Bullard

Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole American South, focusing on communities in Houston, in Dallas, Texas, Alsen, Louisiana, Institute, West Virginia, and Emelle, Alabama.

Robert D. Cardona

Cardona has also worked on other British TV series such as The Flaxton Boys, The Four Feathers, Thriller, Fraud Squad, Crime of Passion, Emmerdale and Virgin of the Secret Service.

Robert D. Clark

From 1964 until 1969, Clark served as president of San Jose State College, where he was known for his support of the civil rights struggles of African-American athletes, including Olympians John Carlos and Tommie Smith.

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

In 1966, he left to become Director of Third World Studies at the first professional futures forecasting center, The Hudson Institute, led by Herman Kahn.

Robert D. Drain

Robert D. Drain (born c. 1957) is a bankrutpcy judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York who has presided at several high profile corporate bankrtuptcies.

Robert D. Durham

Robert Durham is a member of the Board of Directors for Oregon Law Institute of Lewis & Clark Law School, the Multnomah County and Marion County Bar Associations, and a master at the Willamette Valley American Inns of Court, Master.

Robert D. English

During 2000 he co-edited My Six Years With Gorbachev: Notes from a Diary with Jack F. Matlock, Jr. and Elizabeth Tucker, which is the account of Anatoly S. Chernyaev's time as an aide to Mikhail Gorbachev.

Robert D. FitzGerald

# The giant Ericacea, Dracophyllum fitzgeraldii F. Muell.

Robert D. Levin

After graduating from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School and Andrew Jackson High School, and spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Robert D. Macredie

Macredie was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and attended Broom Valley junior and infants' school, Oakwood Comprehensive School, and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, before an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Hull.

Robert D. McChesney

, Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology (Toronto, 2000).

Robert D. McTeer

As a member of the Federal Open Market Committee on the Federal Reserve, he was considered "dovish" on inflation and was one of the most consistent opponents of raising the federal funds rate in the late 1990s.

Robert D. Orr

In 1984, he defeated State Senator Wayne Townsend of Hartford City to win a second term as governor: 1,146,497 (52.8 percent of the two-party vote) to 1,036,832 (47.2 percent).

Robert D. Sack

Blanch v. Koons, 467 F.3d 244 (2d Cir. 2006): Sack, writing for the panel, affirmed the district court's decision that artist Jeff Koons was protected by the doctrine of fair use, and therefore not liable for copyright infringement, when he incorporated a photographer's copyrighted photo of a woman's feet and lower legs into a larger collage painting, even though Koons had benefited commercially from the work.

Robert D. San Souci

N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims (1991) (illustrated by murals begun by Wyeth for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)

Robert D. Siegel

It was revealed in an online interview that Siegel attempted to write drafts for a comedy film but it ended up being a drama because of the conflicts in the film as well as avoiding Patton Oswalt being typecast as a comedic character.

Robert D. Siegel (born November 12, 1971) is an American screenwriter for The Onion Movie and The Wrestler, as well as the writer and director of Big Fan.

Robert D'Avanzo

He has studied and trained with some of the most notable figures in the American Theatre, Joshua Logan, Edward Albee and Hume Cronyn.

His acting roles include Ernesto, the hired assassin in Miami Vice and Felipe Horowitz in It's Like, You Know....

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.

Robert D'Onston Stephenson

According to Maxim Jakubowski and Jonathan Braund "it appears that his (Stephenson's) cultured manner and eagerness to assist the police with arcane knowledge evoked their admiration rather than their suspicion".

Robert Knapp

Robert D. Knapp (1897–1994), aviator and brigadier general, US Air Force

Robert Lamberton

Robert D. Lamberton, Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis and translator of Thomas the Obscure

WHVN

Current John Boy and Billy sidekick Robert D. Raiford hosted one of the talk shows, and was notorious for screaming at callers.


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