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2 unusual facts about Robert E. Wright


Construction delay

Economic historian Robert E. Wright argues that construction delays are caused by bid gaming, change order artistry, asymmetric information, and post contractual market power.

OpenIPO

Financial historians Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright have shown that before the Civil War most early U.S. corporations sold shares in themselves directly to the public without the aid of intermediaries like investment banks.


Acheron Empire

Acheron was first mentioned in Robert E. Howard's novel The Hour of the Dragon as an ancient empire in the history of the setting.

Albert G. Blanchard

Afterwards, he was replaced by Ambrose R. Wright because of his advancing age and the desire for a younger officer to lead the brigade in the field.

Alexander S. Webb

The brigade repulsed the assault of Brig. Gen. Ambrose R. Wright's brigade of Georgians as it topped the ridge late in the afternoon, chasing the Confederates back as far as the Emmitsburg Road, where they captured about 300 men and reclaimed a Union battery.

America First Committee

Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin, publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune).

Attempts to make the Potomac River navigable

There was a large conflict with Virginia Governor Henry Lee (father of Robert E. Lee), who purchased 500 acres of land around Great Falls (he named it “Matildaville” after his wife) to build a warehouse for goods being transported down the Potomac (predicting the route would quickly become profitable after the project’s completion).

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Bruce Chadwick

Chadwick’s newest books are 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Sourcebooks, 2008), about the causes of the Civil War.

Carl Wright

Carl P. Wright (1893–1961), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Carroll D. Wright

From 1872 to 1873 he served in the Massachusetts Senate, where he secured the passage of a bill to provide for the establishment of trains for workers to Boston from the suburban districts.

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Christopher B. Wright

Wright began publishing Help Desk on 1996-03-31 as a regular feature of OS/2 eZine.

Christopher J. H. Wright

In 1988 Wright returned to the U.K. as academic dean at All Nations Christian College, an international training centre for crosscultural mission.

Conan the Mercenary

Conan the Mercenary is a fantasy novel written by Andrew J. Offutt and illustrated by Esteban Maroto featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, the second volume in a trilogy beginning with Conan and the Sorcerer and concluding with The Sword of Skelos.

Craig Wright

Craig R. Wright, American baseball writer and proponent of sabermetrics

Cramton Bowl

Several area high schools call Cramton Bowl home including the Jeff Davis Volunteers, Lanier Poets, Lee Generals, and Carver Wolverines.

Dennis Hart Mahan

Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

Edwin J. Jorden

Jorden was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Myron B. Wright and served from February 23 until March 4, 1895 (10 days).

Heck Thomas

On September 1, 1862, Union General Philip Kearny was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Young "Heck" was entrusted with the general's horse and equipment and was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to take them through the lines to General Kearny's widow.

John F. Reif

filling a vacancy created by the retirement of former Justice Robert E. Lavender.

Kate Ferguson

She was born Catherine Sarah Lee, to the southern poet Eleanor Percy Lee and William Henry Lee, cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

Keith Wright

Keith L. T. Wright (born 1955), American politician, member of the New York State Assembly

Lessing J. Rosenwald

Rosenwald was the best known Jewish supporter of the America First Committee, which advocated American neutrality in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was led by his successor at Sears-Roebuck and lifelong friend Robert E. Wood.

Louis Wright

Louis C. Wright, American academic administrator, president of Baldwin-Wallace College from 1934 to 1948

Milt G. Barlow

He would later serve with several Virginia cavalry companies before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 along with the remnants of General Robert E. Lee’s army.

Nigel Wright

Nigel S. Wright, the former Chief of Staff in the Canadian Prime Minister's Office

Norton Clapp

In 1961 he joined Bagley Wright, contractor Howard S. Wright, architect John Graham, and financier Ned Skinner as investors in the Pentagram Corporation which was to build and own the Space Needle for the 1962 World's Fair.

Paul Wright

Paul K. Wright (born 1947), English/American mechanical engineer

Robert E. Bailey

After transferring to the Reserve Command, Bailey was assigned to the 96th Tactical Airlift Squadron at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Robert E. Clary

Born March 21, 1805 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the second son of Electa (Smith) and Ethan Allen Clary was named after the recently executed Irish patriot Robert Emmet.

Robert E. Holmes

In 1978, Governor Rhodes appointed Holmes to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated when Frank Celebrezze was elected as Chief Justice.

Robert E. Howard's character

The students at Brownwood High School, in 1922, saw Howard as a quiet and reserved person.

Robert E. Laws

The enemy force, estimated to be a reinforced infantry company, was well supplied with machineguns, ammunition, grenades, and blocks of TNT and could be attacked only across a narrow ridge 70 yards long.

Robert E. Lee Blackburn

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Robert E. Lee Chadwick

His dissertation, directed by Professor Robert Wauchope, was titled The Archaeology of a New World "Merchant" Culture.

Robert E. Walton

He has won the US Handicap, the Sunshine League, the Pacific Coast Open, the Silver Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the America Cup, the US Arena Handicap, and the Interscholastic Arena Championship.

Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

IWS was conceived of in the 1990s by worship theologian Robert E. Webber, who intended to provide doctoral-level theological training to Worship Leaders and Music Ministers, who often complete Master degrees in areas like music or theology, and thus lack the divinity credentials to enroll in Doctor of Ministry programs.

Robert Pierre

Robert E. Pierre (born 1968), reporter and editor at The Washington Post

Samuel C. Wright

Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher, commanding the Irish Brigade, called for volunteers to tear down the fence.

Segregation academies

Allen v. Wright, a 1984 U. S. Supreme Court case challenging public subsidy for private schools that are effectively segregated.

Steve Stern

He went on to study writing in the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, at a time when it included several notable writers who've since become prominent, including poet C.D. Wright and fiction writers Ellen Gilchrist, Lewis Nordan, Lee K. Abbott and Jack Butler.

Texas-Oklahoma wildfires of 2005–06

The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 American black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E. Kent on contract for distribution by United Artists.

The Frost-Giant's Daughter

While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was derived in its entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913).

The Further Chronicles of Conan

The Further Chronicles of Conan is a collection of fantasy novels written by Robert Jordan featuring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard.

Thomas F. Wright

While commanding the 2nd California Infantry Regiment in 1865, he oversaw the construction of Camp Grant, Arizona Territory at the confluence of Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River, which was briefly known as Camp Wright.

Tommy Wright

Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright (born 1956), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Virginia Field

Her mother was a cousin of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and her aunt was British stage actress and director Auriol Lee.

Win probability

The first win probability analysis was done in 1971 by Robert E. Machol and former NFL quarterback Virgil Carter.

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.


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