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2 unusual facts about Robert L. Thornton


Mercantile National Bank Building

Mercantile Bank owner and founder Robert L. Thornton constructed his own penthouse level in the upper floors.

Robert L. Thornton

Interstate 30 east of downtown (E R. L. Thornton Freeway) and Interstate 35E south of downtown (S R. L. Thornton Freeway) are named for him, as is the headquarters building of the Dallas County Community College District in downtown Dallas.


Americo-Liberian

In 2007 BET founder Robert Johnson called for "African Americans to support Liberia like Jewish Americans support Israel".

Andrew Stoddart

He took over the captaincy early in the tour when the Robert L. Seddon died in a sculling accident.

Anne Tompkins

She is one of four openly LGBT U.S. Attorneys, alongside Jenny Durkan of the Western District of Washington, Laura Duffy of the Southern District of California and Robert L. Pitman of the Western District of Texas.

Bartholomew Cubbins

Robert L. Short, in his book The Parables of Dr. Seuss, points out that Bartholomew shares a name with one of the Apostles of Jesus.

Davis–Bacon Act

The act is named after its sponsors, James J. Davis, a Senator from Pennsylvania and a former Secretary of Labor under three presidents, and Representative Robert L. Bacon of Long Island, New York.

Debra L. Lee

In March 1996, Lee became President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of BET Holdings, Inc., replacing departing network founder, Robert L. Johnson.

Douglas Gairdner

Gairdner was named for his father's late friend, Douglas M. Thornton who had died three years prior to Gairdner's birth.

Douglas M. Thornton

He immediately involved himself in the Cambridge Missionary Union as well as the Christian Union at the school which steadily evolved and joined with the more international Student Volunteer Movement largely due to Thornton’s influence.

Edward John White

He was acting Victorian Government Astronomer 1875-76 and an assistant to Robert L. J. Ellery at the Melbourne Observatory 1860 to 1892.

Gebhart v. Belton

Gebhart was filed in 1951 in the Delaware Court of Chancery by lawyers Jack Greenberg and Louis L. Redding under a strategy formulated by Robert L. Carter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space

It includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin; other notable authors include Robert L. Forward, Martyn J. Fogg, and Christopher McKay.

James Thornton

James E. Thornton, American computer scientist, winner of the 1994 Eckert–Mauchly Award

Leopoldo María Panero

#The quote that headlines the text: Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Yahoo! And a bottle of rum!, which is the song that the pirates sing in Robert L. Stevenson's "The treasure island" (evidently, there is also a film adaptation).

Maya Hero Twins

Red Horn's Sons, part of the Siouan traditional legends of the deity Red Horn, have been shown to have some interesting analogies with the Maya Hero Twins mythic cycle by the scholar Robert L. Hall.

Michael Thornton

Michael E. Thornton (born 1949), United States Navy SEAL and Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient

Okaloosa Island

The county paid the federal government $4,000 to complete the transaction, which was the result of the efforts of Congressman Bob Sikes.

Oxygen difluoride

In Robert L. Forward's science fiction novel Camelot 30K, oxygen difluoride was used as a biochemical solvent by fictional life forms living in the solar system's Kuiper belt.

Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America

The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America was formed by Robert L. Hill of Winchester, Arkansas, a black tenant farmer.

Robert L. Brock

As the Chairman of Brock Hotel Corporation, the first and at the time largest franchisee of Holiday Inns, he founded Showbiz Pizza Place in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas.

Robert L. Caslen

Other generals that appeared in the video included Vincent K. Brooks and Air Force generals Peter U. Sutton and Jack J. Catton Jr.

Robert L. Childers

The ruling was subsequently affirmed by a majority in the Tennessee Court of Appeals, but was completely reversed at the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Robert L. Coble

Robert L. Coble (1928 – August 27, 1992) was an American ceramic scientist, notable for his discovery of Coble creep, the effect that carries his name, and for his invention of Lucalox.

Robert L. Crawford, Jr.

In 1959, Crawford's appearance on the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90 was nominated for Best Single Performance on the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Robert L. D. Potter

At the age of nine his family moved to Egremont, Massachusetts, where he remained until about 20 years old, when he left to attend Union Law School in Easton, Pennsylvania, receiving his degree in 1857.

Robert L. Emerson

On September 30, 2011, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed an eight-member state review team for the City of Flint including Emerson.

Robert L. Geddes

Working first for Conda Partnership from 1981 to 1985, Geddes spent the bulk of his career with Monsanto in Soda Springs as an environmental engineer from 1985 until 2011, taking a year-long leave of absence to serve on the Idaho State Tax Commission.

Robert L. Hendershott

Robert L. Hendershott (August 7, 1898 – March 23, 2005) was a member of the American Numismatic Association Hall of Fame.

Robert L. J. Long

He was a member of an American election observer team sent to the Philippines in 1986 and headed by Senator Richard Lugar to observe the Presidential election contest involving Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino.

He served as the principal executive of President Ronald Reagan's fact-finding committee, the Long Commission, that investigated the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing attack that killed 241 U.S. Marines.

Robert L. Leggett

Leggett was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963 - January 3, 1979).

Robert L. Lieff

Lieff founded the firm in 1972, after seven years as a name partner with Melvin Belli in San Francisco (Belli, Ashe, Ellison, Choulos & Lieff).

Lieff was a key player in landmark cases including Exxon Valdez, Holocaust litigation, and the National Tobacco Settlement.

Robert L. McHatton

Mchatton was elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Johnson.

Robert L. Miller

In his last four years, Miller was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

Robert L. Moore

Moore is probably most widely known as the senior author, with Douglas Gillette, of a series of five books on the in-depth structure of the human psyche, drawing on the account of the archetypal level of the human psyche developed by C.G. Jung.

Robert L. Moran

His campaign was supported by the notorious Jeremiah A. O'Leary and a small group of Irish Americans who opposed the League of Nations and advocated recognition of the Irish Republic.

Robert L. Washington III

Subsequently, he contributed to several additional comic books (mostly published by DC), including co-creating Shadow Cabinet and writing for Extreme Justice, The Batman Chronicles, JLA Secret Files, and (for Acclaim Comics) Ninjak.

Robert Shafer

Robert L. Shafer (born 1932), American lawyer, lobbyist, and diplomat

Robert Stone

Robert L. Stone (1922–2009), former chief executive of The Hertz Corporation

Saint Peter Basseterre Parish

The parish is home to the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport, which serves the island of Saint Kitts, and is often credited as being the finest mid-sized airport in the Caribbean.

Samuel W. Thornton

He participated in several of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Vicksburg, and Battle of Memphis, where he was shot in the thigh and hospitalized until the end of the war.

Scapanops

The fossil, now housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, was discovered by American paleontologist Alfred Romer on April 15, 1950 and was first mentioned in the scientific literature by paleontologist Robert L. Carroll in 1964.

Sidney R. Yates

In his closing months of service he surpassed Robert L. Doughton as the oldest person ever to serve in the House (Yates was surpassed in this record by Ralph Hall (R-Texas) in 2012).

Teacher Retirement System of Texas

It was made possible thanks to passage of Senate Bill 1846, sponsored by Senator Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock and Representative Vicki Truitt of Southlake.

The Philosophy of Eating

Anthropologist Robert L. Freedman bibliography published in 1981 a book called Human Food Uses: A Cross-cultural, Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography, Volume 1.

U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton

The parties to the case were U.S. Term Limits, a non-profit advocacy group, and the politician Ray Thornton, among others.

; Winston Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas, Petitioner v. Bobbie E. Hill, et al.

William Mandel

The book received critical acclaim from notables, including author and senior editor of The Black Scholar, Robert L. Allen; renowned musician and activist Pete Seeger; and the internationally respected poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.


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