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unusual facts about Robert S. Harris


VideoWriter

Although the VideoWRITER has the capability to accept program disks, none were ever sold, although game designer Bob Harris designed several entertaining apps, such as an acrostic solver.


Activity-based costing

Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan, proponents of the Balanced Scorecard, brought notice to these concepts in a number of articles published in Harvard Business Review beginning in 1988.

Activity-based costing was first clearly defined in 1987 by Robert S. Kaplan and W. Bruns as a chapter in their book Accounting and Management: A Field Study Perspective.

Albert Harris

Albert T. Harris (1915–1942), lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and Navy Cross recipient

Andrew Harris

Andrew P. Harris (born 1957), American physician and politician from Maryland

Berliner Helicopter

There it was flown by Air Service test pilot Harold R. Harris among others, achieving stable hovers of up to 15 feet.

Brian Harris

Brian F. Harris, former university professor at the University of Southern California

Cato T. Laurencin

Dr. Laurencin is a member of both the Institutes of Medicine and the National Academies of Engineering (a distinction he shares with chemical engineers Kristi Anseth, Robert S. Langer, Nicholas Peppas, Frances Arnold, and Rakesh K. Jain).

Cedar Cove

Ormonde, designed by architect Frank Furness; Notleymere, designed by architect Robert W. Gibson; Scrooby, designed by architect Robert S. Stephenson; and Shore Acres, designed by architect Stanford White.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

Charles M. Harris

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Elsie Ferguson

She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in May 1915.

Fredric J. Harris

Fredric J. Harris (or, as he prefers to spell his name, fred harris) is a professor of Electrical engineering and CUBIC signal processing chair at San Diego State University and an internationally renowned expert on DSP and Communication Systems.

Harris, Scotland

It runs from Tarbert to Rodel through the area of Harris known as Bays and through the coastal townships of Lickisto (Liceasto), Geocrab (Geòcrab), Manish (Mànais), Flodabay (Fleòideabhagh), Ardvay (Àird Mhighe), Finsbay (Fionnsbhagh) and Lingerbay (Lingreabhagh).

Industrial Commission

The Industrial Commission included McKinley's Ohio running mate, Commissioner Andrew L. Harris (a Governor of Ohio and Civil War General) who served as Chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee, and prominent Senators and Congressmen.

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

Jeffrey Harris

Jeffrey K. Harris (born 1953), American director of the National Reconnaissance Office

Jepson School of Leadership Studies

The school is named for Robert S. Jepson, Jr., an alumnus who donated $20 million to establish the school.

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

John F. Harris

With Politico executive editor, Jim VandeHei, Harris founded Politico for its launch on January 23, 2007.

Kerry S. Harris

Harris' innovations are currently being used by the Departments of Defense of several countries to include impact attenuation (helmets), electronics, optical technology, and human-mechanical interface technology.

Menninger Foundation

Robert S. Wallerstein, Forty-two lives in treatment : a study of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy : the report of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation, 1954-1982, New York : Other Press, 2000

Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio

At the 2005 Milford Township Bicentennial, the Gov. Andrew L. Harris Bicentennial Roadway was dedicated in 2005 by an invited speaker, James Brodbelt Harris, the governor's relative and the president of the family reunion association, whose family owns an Ohio Century Farm in the township.

Morgan Park, Chicago

Rotary International was formed in Morgan Park at the home of Paul P. Harris at 10856 Longwood Drive, and today the house is owned and maintained by that organization as a memorial to him.

Oklahoma Republican Party

Bud Wilkinson, legendary University of Oklahoma football coach (lost 1964 U.S. Senate election to Fred R. Harris)

Paul Harris

Paul P. Harris (1868–1947), lawyer who founded the Rotary Club in 1905

Peter R. Harris

Although no documentation suggests any link between Compass Group or its subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) (sometimes referred to as Eurest or Eurest Support Services, or even ESS Support Services Worldwide) to the Oil-for-Food Programme scandal, Fox News in particular alleged questionable conduct by Harris.

R. J. Harris

He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States.

Robert Litt

Robert S. Litt, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Robert S. Bennett

Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.

Bennett served as a member of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children & Young People, created by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, from 2002 to 2004.

Robert S. Corrington

Corrington has had bouts with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive), and he gives a personal account of this in his 2003 book Riding the Windhorse: Manic Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness, which contains case studies of Sri Ramakrishna and Sir Isaac Newton as well as his intellectual biography "My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism."

Robert S. de Ropp

The Vaughan Williamses paid for Robert’s further education at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, where he eventually specialized in biology.

Robert S. Folkenberg

Folkenberg’s education up to Grade 4 took place in Puerto Rico, before attending schools in Cuba, entering high school in California and completing high school in Milo, Oregon in 1958.

Robert S. Kapito

Kapito serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph H. Lookstein Ramaz School, is the recipient of 2009 Joseph Wharton Leadership Award and the 2010 Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.

Robert S. Kelley

In 1885 Kelley was appointed by President Grover Cleveland the 5th United States Marshal for Montana, and served in that office with official integrity until the day President Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated, when he resigned, believing that the party in power should have control of all the Federal patronage and be held responsible for it.

Robert S. Martin

Dr. Martin has authored several publications and served on editorial boards of scholarly library journals such as American Archivist, The Library Quarterly, Libraries and Culture and Meridian.

Robert S. McElvaine

Robert S. McElvaine (born January 24, 1947) is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he has taught for thirty-five years.

Robert S. Rose

The following year, Rose was elected as an anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831).

Scott S. Harris

The Court announced on July 1, 2013 that Harris would replace longtime Clerk William K. Suter after the latter's retirement on August 31.

Shirley Owens

As well as Owens, the Shirelles consisted of classmates of hers from Passaic High School, New Jersey: Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson, and Beverly Lee.

Stephen Siegel

Throughout his career, he has arranged transactions for some of the US's most prominent corporate clients including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Amerada Hess Corp., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Swiss Reinsurance, MetLife, Cerberus Capital Management and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP.

Vincent Coleman

Coleman was eventually groomed by the studios to become a leading man and had starring roles in the 1921 George Fawcett directed remake of the 1914 Mary Pickford comedy film Such A Little Queen and The Magic Cup, released the same year before returning to Broadway in July 1921 to star in the Sam H. Harris produced play

William C. Harris

William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter

William Stanbery

He was attacking President Andrew Jackson through Houston and accused him of being in league with John Von Fossen and Robert Rose.


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