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4 unusual facts about Robert K. Weiss


Maximillian Arturo

In the DVD audio commentary on the Sliders pilot episode, series creators Tracy Tormé and Robert K. Weiss revealed that the character of Maximillian Arturo was very nearly played by actors other than John Rhys-DaviesHector Elizondo was in fact the producers' final choice for the role prior to auditioning Rhys-Davies, but ultimately passed, due to the filming location.

Robert K. Weiss

Weiss has been the President and Vice Chairman of the X Prize Foundation since 1996.

The Compleat Al (made for video, 1985): producer, writer, director (videos "Dare to Be Stupid," "Like a Surgeon," "One More Minute", "This is The Life")

St. Clare Entertainment

Clare Entertainment is a television production company owned by John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, and Leslie Belzberg.


.577 Nitro Express

A few manufacturers still make rifles chambered in 577 Nitro Express due to its popularity including Hartmann & Weiss, Heym, Holland and Holland, Butch Searcy & Co., James Purdey and Sons, Westley Richards, and Hambrusch Hunting Weapons.

America's Music: The Roots of Country

America's Music: The Roots of Country is a 1996 three-part, six episode documentary about the history of American country music directed by Tom Neff and Jerry Aronson and written by Neff and Robert K. Oermann.

Andrea Parker

In February 2006, Parker attended a benefit with former Pretender co-stars Michael T. Weiss and James Denton for Cure Autism Now.

Bernard Weiss

Bernard G. Weiss, professor emeritus of languages and literature at University of Utah

Blume in Love

In an interview with Robert K. Elder for his book The Best Film You've Never Seen, director Neil LaBute explains his feelings on the film: “I was both intrigued and frustrated by what was happening.

Bob Marcucci

In his later years, Marcucci continued to manage artists such as Amy Dolenz, Michael T. Weiss, Ron Moss and Cheryl Powers through his production companies.

David S. Weiss

He was also referred to as "Count Dracu-sal" and an eerie organ music cue (Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) was played whenever he made funny and/or cryptic remarks that reflected his penchant for black comedy.

Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin

Brain Roberts (2012–Present); Kenneth Young (2009–2012); William Doolittle (interim chair, 2009); Leo Zonn (2006–2009); William Doolittle (2004–2006); Gregory Knapp (1996–2004); William Doolittle (1992–1996); Paul English (1982–1992; George Hoffman (1978–1982); Robert Holz (1972–1978); C. Shane Davies (acting chair, 1971–1972); Robert Mayfield (1967–1971); Lorrin Kennamer (1960–1967); Donald Brand (1949–1960).

Frank E. Weiss

Francis (Frank) Edward Weiss (born May 14, 1951) is a former career officer in the United States Army and collegiate basketball player.

Hjalmar Sundén

His approach stands in contrast to essentialist approaches such as the perennial psychology of Robert K.C. Forman.

Intentionality

Robert K.C. Forman argues that some of the unusual states of consciousness typical of mystical experience are Pure Consciousness Events in which awareness exists, but has no object, is not awareness "of" anything.

Jon Christopher Davis

The album also got the attention of popular music critic Robert K. Oermann: "I’m a huge fan of this man’s album. Its second single sizzles with zesty rhythm, yelping vocals, sidewinder guitar and a ridiculously catchy melody. The major-label “stars” on Music Row have nothing on this guy. Play this!"

Jonathan M. Weiss

In the mid 1960s Weiss worked as an interpreter for the United States State Department during which time he interpreted for, among others, Martin Luther King, Jr. for francophone African dignitaries.

During his tenure as director of off-campus study, Weiss established programs of study in Dijon, France, and London, England, the latter a joint program with Bowdoin and Bates colleges.

Kenneth Weiss

Kenneth M. Weiss, Professor of Anthropology and Genetics at at Penn State University

Kenneth P. Weiss, American entrepreneur, human factors engineer and inventor

Kenneth R. Weiss, investigative journalist for the Los Angeles Times

Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection

In addition to the three compact discs, The 25th Anniversary Collection includes a booklet containing photographs, a biography by Nashville journalist Robert K. Oermann and comments from band members.

Louis F. Oberdorfer

After working as Justice Black's sole law clerk during 1946-1947, Oberdorfer went into private practice in Washington D.C. with the firm Paul, Weiss, Wharton & Garrison as a tax attorney until his friend and law school classmate Deputy Attorney General Byron White asked him to join the Robert Kennedy Justice Department in 1961.

Marianne von Weizsäcker

Marianne and Richard von Weizsäcker married in 1953, and have four children, including Robert K. von Weizsäcker, Professor of Economics.

Middle range theory

Middle range theory (sociology) - as discussed by Robert K. Merton is a theory with limited scope, that explains a specific set of phenomena, as opposed to a grand theory like that proposed by Talcott Parsons that seeks to explain phenomena at a societal level.

Multiple discovery

Robert K. Merton, On Social Structure and Science, edited and with an introduction by Piotr Sztompka, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Nikita Zotov

Robert K. Massie, for example, praises his efforts, but Lindsey Hughes criticizes the education that he gave to the future tsar.

Opium Magazine

Opium Magazine features many notable writers and artists including Etgar Keret, Aimee Bender, Tao Lin, David Gaffney, Davis Schneiderman, Alison Weaver, D.B. Weiss, Diane Williams, Jessy Randall, Tana Wojczuk, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ben Greenman, Jack Handey, Dawn Raffel, Stuart Dybek, Josip Novakovich, Dan Golden, Terese Svoboda, Benjamin Percy, Shya Scanlon, Christopher Kennedy and Art Spiegelman.

Perennial philosophy

Writers such as WT Stace, Huston Smith, and Robert Forman argue that there are core similarities to mystical experience across religions, cultures and eras.

Robert A. Futterman

Robert A. Futterman is not related to Robert K. Futterman, Chairman & CEO of Robert K. Futterman & Associates, a Newy York-based real estate investment company which holds no business interest in the now defunct Futterman Corporation.

Robert Casey

Robert K. Casey (born 1931), member of the Florida House of Representatives

Robert K. Brown

On September 22, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada Mayor Oscar Goodman issued a proclamation declaring that day to be "Soldier of Fortune Day" and "Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown Day" in honor of Soldier of Fortune magazine, its 20th annual convention in Las Vegas, and its founder and publisher.

Robert K. Crane

After that, he was professor and chairman of the department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School until 1966 and then became professor and chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School (now known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey until 1986.

Crane's discovery is also used in blockbuster drugs, such as the SSRI Prozac, which treat depression by inhibiting the Na/serotonin cotransporters in the brain.

Robert K. Futterman

Additionally, Futterman has served as an advisor to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey for the World Trade Center redevelopment, and has also worked on behalf of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for Grand Central Terminal.

Robert K. Holz

Mendes I (coauthored with Emma Swan Hall; Bernard V Bothmer) Cairo : American Research Center in Egypt, 1980

Robert K. Killian

Killian then spent a decade as chairman of the Hartford Civic Center and Coliseum Commission.

Robert K. Steel

In 2013, Steel was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

Robert Rasmussen

Robert K. Rasmussen, dean of the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California

Robert Steel

Robert K. Steel (born 1951), President and CEO of Wachovia Corporation

Sammlung Grässlin

Werner Büttner, Fischli & Weiss, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Asta Gröting, Georg Herold, Mike Kelley, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Meuser, Reinhard Mucha, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Franz West, Christopher Williams, Heimo Zobernig,

Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah

Some scholars (I.H. Weiss, Dor iii. 263-264; and Adolf Jellinek, in a letter to Theodor, reprinted in Monatsschrift, 1879, pp. 237 et seq.), moreover, have assumed a direct connection between such ancient discourses and the present Canticles Rabbah, regarding this midrash as an old collection of these discourses, increased by various later additions.

Stephen Orlins

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Orlins practiced law with Coudert Brothers and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing.

Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine

Music journalist, Robert K. Oermann and anthropologist, Mary A. Bufwack called this song, among Jackson's other late 60s recordings, "self-assertive about women's issues".

The John Forsythe Show

Its competition was Garry Moore's quiz program, I've Got a Secret on CBS, and the second half of the military drama Twelve O'Clock High starring Robert Lansing, Paul Burke, and Robert K. Dornan.

Theodore S. Weiss

They also found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to remove several drugs already known to be carcinogens.

Weiss was born in Gáva, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1938 as his family fled the Nazi invasion of Hungary.

Warren Rudman

At the time of his death, he was a co-chair of Albright Stonebridge Group; a retired partner in the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; and an advisory board member of Promontory Financial Group.

Żukowski

Robert K. Zukowski (born 1925), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly


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