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unusual facts about Robert V. Bruce


Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.


Black psychology

The author Robert V. Guthrie explains different the different ways that White American scientists contributed to racists criticism against African Americans.

Dan Emmett

He became an expert fifer and drummer at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and published his own Fifer’s and Drummer’s Guide in 1862 in cooperation with George G. Bruce.

Frederick Bruce

F. F. Bruce (Frederick Fyvie Bruce) (1910–1990), Scottish Biblical scholar

George Eldon Ladd

Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology: Essays in Honor of George E. Ladd (ISBN 080283504X), which included contributions by Leon Morris, William Barclay, F. F. Bruce, I. Howard Marshall, Richard Longenecker and Daniel Fuller.

Greenwich Avenue Historic District

Another philanthropist, Robert M. Bruce, and his sister Sarah E. Bruce, donated to the town the Old Town Hall (now the Senior Center) after it was constructed in 1905.

His Lordship's Kindness

Through the next hundred years, the property passed through a number of hands, including David K.E. Bruce, Chandler Hale, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.

James E. Bruce

In 2006, Bruce was hospitalized due to the effects of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, which he had been suffering from for a year.

Legal Information Institute

LII was established in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Professor Peter Martin and Tom Bruce with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research.

Lincoln by-election, 1973

The Conservatives considered three candidates: Desmond Fennell, a Lincoln-born barrister, Robert V. Jackson, a journalist, and merchant banker Hon. Jonathan Guinness who was chairman of the Monday Club on the party's right-wing.

Of Thee I Sting

Of Thee I Sting is a 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, written by Michael Maltese and narrated by Robert C. Bruce that is a parody of World War II documentaries and the title Of Thee I Sing.

Pamunkey Regional Library

It was one of eleven libraries donated to rural Virginia counties by Mr. David K. E. Bruce.

Peter Thurnham

He became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Employment Norman Fowler from 1987 to 1990, and was then PPS to both Eric Forth and Robert Jackson in 1991 to 1992, and finally to Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Howard (his contemporary at Peterhouse) from 1992 to 1993.

Register of the Treasury

Four of the five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and James C. Napier).

Robert Hogg

Robert V. Hogg (born 1924), American statistician and professor at the University of Iowa

Robert Keeley

Robert V. Keeley (born 1929), former United States Ambassador to Greece, Zimbabwe, and Mauritius

Robert V. Derrah

Lillian M. Rose house (1934), a Monterey architecture style house at 842 South Citrus Avenue in Mid-City.

Robert V. Guthrie

While stationed at Sampson Air Force Base during his military service in the 1950s, Guthrie met his wife, Elodia Sanchez, a Guatemalan nursing student.

Robert V. Hogg

One of the ASA President's tasks is to arrange an annual meeting, and Hogg's diligence was rewarded by the ASA staff, who presented him with the name tag, "Boss Hogg" (after the name of a character in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard).

Robert V. Jackson

He was raised in Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where his father worked on the copper mines and was educated at Falcon College in Rhodesia and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rose to the presidency of the Oxford Union.

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, John Redwood, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Scarlett, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.

Robert V. Keeley

The press's first publication was a pamphlet entitled D.C. Governance: It's Always Been a Matter of Race and Money, issued in December 1995, and the second was a booklet with the title Annals of Investing: Steve Forbes vs. Warren Buffett, published in March 1996.

Robert V. Lee

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and continued graduate studies in journalism at the University of Georgia.

Dr. Lee began talks with Hellen Wangusa, Anglican Observer at the United Nations; and Olara Otunnu, president of the LBL Foundation for Children, winner of the German Africa Prize in 2002 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 2005, and 2011 Uganda presidential candidate, about creating a Global Action Partnership (GAP) that would address all of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals at once, the first program of its kind.

Robert V. Richardson

Robert Vinkler Richardson (November 4, 1820 – January 6, 1870) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

After stopping at a tavern in Clarkton, Missouri, on January 5, 1870, he was shot by an unknown assailant who fired a shotgun at him from behind a wagon in the tavern yard.

Robert V. Tauxe

He has served internationally in Belgium, Mali, Rwanda, Peru and Guatemala and has participated in or supervised numerous domestic and overseas epidemiological investigations, including the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack, the 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak, the 2010-2013 Haiti cholera outbreak, and Pulsenet.

Robert V. Taylor

In 2001, Taylor was named chair of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County, whose ten-year plan to end homelessness was adopted by the county in 2005.

Sanders D. Bruce

His father, John Bruce, was native to England and was believed to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce.

School of Practice

The official training guide, adopted by the War Department, was George G. Bruce's The Drummers and Fife Guide, which was used until the end of the Civil War.

Terry L. Bruce

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1992 to the 103rd Congress.

He was elected to the Ninety-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985–January 3, 1993).

The Red Wolf Conspiracy

The Red Wolf Conspiracy is the first book of The Chathrand Voyage fantasy series written by American author Robert V.S. Redick.


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