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Robert O. Lowery

Either as tribute or by happenstance, his name is shown prominently in a scene of the first movie The Godfather, printed in bold red letters on a hospital fire safety box in the scene where Michael Corleone protects his father, Vito Corleone, against would-be assassins in the absence of his bodyguards.


A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860

Robert O'Hara Burke leads an expedition from Melbourne to the north of Australia, including William John Wills, John King, Gray, Dandells and Brahe.

Alexander Crutchfield

He founded American Water Development Inc. (AWDI) with Maurice Strong, Robert O. Anderson, David R. Williams, Jr, and Samuel Belzberg, and served as its Vice Chairman.

Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs

Robert O. Blake, Jr. succeeded Richard Boucher to became the bureau's seventh Assistant Secretary of State on May 26, 2009.

Bush bread

Ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills survived on bush bread for some time after they ran out of rations due to the death of their camels.

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Robert O. Work (Col, USMC, ret.), former Vice President for Strategic Studies, now Under Secretary of the Navy (1998-2009)

Cohors XX Palmyrenorum

Robert O. Fink: The Cohors XX Palmyrenorum, a Cohors Equitata Miliaria. In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. Vol.

Conor O'Sullivan

A goal by Robert O' Driscoll with seven minutes of normal time left proved the decisive score as Sarsfield's claimed a 2-14 to 2-13 victory.

Fred L. Lowery

On the occasion of Lowery's announcement of retirement, Louisiana State Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City introduced a unanimously-approved House resolution praising Lowery for his 30-year ministry at First Baptist Bossier.

Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker presented Lowery, who in youth had aspirations of flying, with United States Air Force command pilot wings which Walker, a retired Air Force colonel had once worn.

Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets.

He won the position by a four-vote margin, 723 to 719, over Dr. Sid Young (died 1999), the pastor from 1988 to 1991 of the First Baptist Church of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, who was an assistant US military attaché and murder of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov in Paris, as well as involvement in the attempted assassination of American consul in Strasbourg Robert O. Homme.

Louis R. Lowery

The first American flag raised and planted on Iwo Jima was too small to be seen easily from the nearby landing beaches, so a second, larger replacement flag with a longer and heavier flag pole was raised and planted by five Marines and a Navy corpsman resulting in the famous photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945.

He was portrayed by actor David Hornsby in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers.

Manoogian Mansion

Notable architects who designed for the subdivision included John M. Donaldson and Henry J. Meier, A.C Varney, Roland Geis and Robert O. Derrick.

Nightmare Theatre

KIRO-TV and The Count found themselves facing competition from KTVW-TV and horror host Robert O. Smith aka Dr. ZinGRR, during 1972-74..

Pinelands Regional High School

Sarann Kraushaar, former vice-principal of the school, who was the mistress of murderer Robert O. Marshall, whose slayings inspired the bestselling book Blind Faith, and was later a film with the same name, in which a character based on Kraushaar and a fictional incarnation of the school is featured.

Pinelands Regional School District

Sarann Kraushaar - former vice-principal of the school, who was the mistress of murderer Robert O. Marshall, whose slayings inspired the bestselling book Blind Faith, and was later a film with the same name, in which a character based on Kraushaar and a fictional incarnation of the school is featured.

Raymond Jacobs

Jacobs spent his later years working hard to prove that he was the Marine radio operator photographed by Louis R. Lowery, (a photographer with Leatherneck magazine), standing beneath the first American flag raised by Marines on Mount Suribachi.

Robert Briggs

Robert O. Briggs (1927–2008), director of the University of California Marching Band

Robert Cornthwaite

Robert O. Cornthwaite (1917–2006), American film and television character actor

Robert Lowery

Robert G. Lowery (born 1940), American politician from Florissant, Missouri

Robert O. Binnewies

He also initiated action that led to establishment of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor at New Windsor, New York.

Subsequent NPS assignments included Washington, D. C., 1964–1966, Chief Ranger, Acadia National Park, Maine, 1967–1971, and Superintendent, Yosemite National Park, California, 1979-1986.

Robert O. Blake

During his 30-year career in United States Foreign service, Blake served as ambassador to Mali from December 10, 1970 until May 20, 1973 as a member of the Nixon administration, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Robert O. Cornthwaite

Balancing his theater work with "bill-paying" jobs, he appeared frequently on television, including a role as naturalist John James Audubon in an episode of the Desilu Studios Production, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, starring Scott Forbes.

Robert O. Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 – July 20, 2006) was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Robert O. Cox

Later, as a City Commissioner, Cox was instrumental in luring the Whitbread Round the World Race (now known as the Volvo Ocean Race), a leading yacht race, to the city.

Robert O. Fink

Robert Orwill Fink (4 November 1905, Geneva, Indiana – 17 December 1988, Mount Vernon, Ohio) was a papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.

Robert O. Peterson

He was a native San Diegan and graduated from Hoover High School in 1933.

He renamed his company Foodmaker in 1960 and sold it in 1967 to Ralston-Purina.

Robert O. Ragland

Ragland created the scores for films such as Seven Alone, Abby, Project: Kill, Return to Macon County, Sharks' Treasure, Grizzly, Moon in Scorpio,Mansion of the Doomed, Q- The Winged Serpent, 10 To Midnight, The Fear, Plato's Run, and Crime and Punishment.

He attended Northwestern University and also earned degrees at the Academy of Music in Vienna.

Robert O. Swados

Along with Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup R. Knox, he was a partner in Niagara Frontier Hockey, the original consortium that founded the Buffalo Sabres.

Robert O. Wilson

During the Nanjing Massacre, Wilson was the sole surgeon responsible for treating the victims of the ongoing atrocities (although several nurses were still available) and, along with John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin, was instrumental in the establishment of the Nanjing Safety Zone, which sheltered more than 200,000 people within its confined walls.

Robert O'Hara Burke

Towards the end of 1847 he suffered health problems and went to Recoaro spa in northern Italy, then Grafenberg and finally Aachen before resigning from the Austrian army in June 1848 after charges against him relating to debts and absence without leave were dropped.

Robert O'Leary

O'Leary's candidacy came following the announcement by fellow Democrat Bill Delahunt, who had represented the 10th District in the US Congress since first winning the seat in 1996, of Delahunt not seeking reelection in 2010.

Robert O'Reilly

Both Dorn and O'Reilly reprised their characters together in the series four opening episode "The Way of the Warrior".

Robert O'Shaughnessy

In 1974, O'Shaughnessy overcame a divisive primary and a challenge by Republican Keith McNamara to retain the seat.

Robert Peterson

Robert O. Peterson (1916–1994), American businessman, founder of Jack in the Box

Rocky Point Manor

The woodwork and mouldings in the home, attributed respectively to Matthew P. Lowery, the most famous Federal craftsman of the time, and John Rogers, the most famous foreign architect in Kentucky, are also a testament to the costliness of the house.

Shire of Burke

The shire and town and the Burke River passing through all are named in honour of ill-fated explorer Robert O'Hara Burke.

William Strutt

Strutt’s interest in depicting the notable events of the colony was piqued by the events surrounding the Victorian Exploring Expedition led by Burke and Wills in 1860–61.


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