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2 unusual facts about Robert G. Wright


Robert G. Wright

They served most recently as Canada's high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2011 and as Canada's permanent representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1997 to 2003, respectively.

Mr. Wright currently sits on the Advisory Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute based in Calgary.


Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

J.G. Wright, Superintendent of Eastern Arctic Patrol and National Film Board photographer, served on the 1945–1946 expedition sponsored by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

Adaptive Huffman coding

There are a number of implementations of this method, the most notable are FGK (Faller-Gallager-Knuth) and Vitter algorithm.

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.

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.

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.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

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.

Craig Wright

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

Craig M. Wright, Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University

Du You

Du was "a political thinker on a grand scale," comparable to Ibn Khaldun, according to Robert G. Hoyland.

Edward Erie Poor

He served as Vice-President and then President of the National Park Bank from 1895-1900, succeeding Ebenezer K. Wright and followed by Richard Delafield.

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).

Frank Fulco

Fulco's colleagues included future U.S. Representative and Governor Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III, then of Bossier City, future U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg of Shreveport, and Robert G. Pugh, a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution.

John Pople

He made major contributions to the theory of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations, starting with one identical to the one developed by Rudolph Pariser and Robert G. Parr on pi electron systems, and now called the Pariser-Parr-Pople method.

Keith Wright

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

Louis Wright

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

Mark Victor Hansen

In 2005 he co-wrote, along with Robert Allen, the book "Cracking the Millionaire Code" in which he highlights several self-made millionaires such as Bob Circosta, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Alexander Graham Bell, Oprah Winfrey, and others, using them as examples of how to build wealth.

Newton Faller

Later, Robert G. Gallager (1978) and Donald Knuth (1985) proposed some complements and the algorithm became widely known as FGK (from the initials of each of the researchers).

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.

P. J. Mills

In 1975, Mills ran again for statewide office when Louisiana Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr., stepped down to run unsuccessfully for governor against Edwin Edwards and State Senator Robert G. Jones of Lake Charles, son of former Governor Sam Houston Jones.

Paul Wright

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

Pilots of Japan

D I Smith continued to write songs culminating in a second album entitled "Only Perfect Rest" (from the Robert Ingersoll quote), released December 2013.

Redwater, Texas

It grew up in the mid-1870s around a sawmill operated by two men named Daniels and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic Robert Ingersoll.

Richard L. Wright

When Charles Duncan, Jr. became Secretary he was named Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, a position he held until the end the Carter presidency.

Robert G. Cousins

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury from the Fifty-fifth through Fifty-ninth Congresses, and chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Sixtieth Congress.

Cousins defeated Hamilton in the general election and thereby became a member of the Fifty-third Congress.

Robert G. Emmens

Colonel Emmens decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, and Chinese Army, Navy, Air Corps Medal, Class A, 1st Grade, and the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure.

After his retirement, Robert Emmens returned to Medford, Oregon, his hometown, and worked as a stockbroker and in real estate.

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Robert Houston

Robert G. Houston (1867–1946), American lawyer, publisher and politician

Robert Ingersoll

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), American politician and agnostic orator

Samuel C. Wright

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

After the war, Wright became a storekeeper in Plympton, Massachusetts and also worked in the United States Customs office in Boston, Massachusetts.

Samuel E. Wright

Wright was nominated for a Tony Award in 1984 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Tap Dance Kid, and again in 1998 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as the original lead actor for Mufasa in The Lion King, the Broadway version of Disney's animated classic of the same name.

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.

Stormtrooper

According to Vanguard of Nazism by Robert G. L. Waite and Male Fantasies of Klaus Theweleit, some of the psychological and social aspects of the Stormtrooper experience found their way into the Weimar republic paramilitary groups such as the Freikorps, which were largely made up of WWI veterans.

T. M. Wright

Sleepeasy (Victor Gollancz 1993, Leisure, 2001) (connected, but not a direct sequel)

The Bottle District, St Louis

The deal would see the previous investment group, including developers Larry Chapman and Clayco, sell the site to NorthSide for an undisclosed amount that documents with the city suggest would be $3 million; all three were to work to find tenants and build on the site.

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties

Kelvin, freed from his strict Calvinist upbringing through discovering Nietzsche and 'the divine Ingersoll' in the library of his home town of Glaik, travels to swinging-sixties London to succeed as a television interviewer and newspaper columnist through nothing more than his aptitude for spin and a diabolical will to power, only to return, chastened, to Scotland and to God.

The Green Bible

Before the biblical text, the Green Bible provides an introduction from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and essays from Brian McLaren, Cal DeWitt, Barbara Brown Taylor, Pope John Paul II, Ellen Davis, N. T. Wright, Ellen Bernstein, Matthew Sleeth, James Jones, and Gordon Aeschliman.

Themelios

The journal has consistently attracted attention with articles by leading biblical scholars and theologians including Richard Bauckham, Larry Hurtado, I. Howard Marshall, N.T. Wright, Craig Blomberg, R.T. France, Simon Gathercole, D.A. Carson, and Alister McGrath.

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

William C. Wright

Wright was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative William C. Adamson.

William M. Wright

One of the final acts of outgoing President Chester A. Arthur, Wright's controversial commission received nationwide publicity and was opposed by U.S. Secretary of War Robert T. Lincoln on the grounds that someone who had not passed the program of instruction at West Point should not receive the same reward as those who had.


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