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3 unusual facts about Rolfe


Epidendrum subsect. Spathacea

E. bangii Rolfe(1907) on page 401 as E. macrostachyum Lindl. (1845) nom. illeg.

Gerald L. Thompson

Gerald L. Thompson (born November 25, 1923, Rolfe, Iowa; died November 9, 2009 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was the IBM Professor of Systems and Operations Research (Emeritus) in the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.


B. A. Rolfe

Rolfe's company produced more than fifty silent films, several of which were collaborations with director/screenwriter Oscar A.C. Lund including the 1916 drama Dorian's Divorce starring Lionel Barrymore.

Captain Midnight, the Bush King

The play was rewritten by Alfred Dampier (Rolfe's father in law), writing as "Adam Pierre".

Carlton Leach

Three of the gang, Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, would eventually meet an abrupt and bloody end in December 1995, when they were shot to death in a Range Rover on a farm track in Rettendon, in what are known as the Rettendon Triple Murders.

Charles Sidney Beauclerk

Beauclerk later recognised versions of himself in Rolfe's 1904 novel Hadrian the Seventh, in several characters.

Emitt Rhodes

Also in 2009, after many years of rumors as to the possibility of a new CD, Emitt once again entered the recording studios with a new band and all-new material, joined by the co-founder of The Grass Roots and The Merry-Go-Round drummer Joel Larson, co-founder and former bassist for Counting Crows, Matt Malley, and guitarists Jim Rolfe and Dan Mayer.

Frederick Rolfe

His seminary, the Scots College, was quite close to Plüschow's studio in via Sardegna, just off the via Veneto, and when Rolfe was expelled from the College and came under the benevolent patronage of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini, he began his own photographic efforts in imitation of von Gloeden and Plüschow.

George Goodman Simpson

By 1901, the Simpson family, which included elder brother Rolfe, was living at Swaynes Hall, Saint Mary's Church National School, in Saffron Walden, England.

George Rolfe

Rolfe included in his roles in Melbourne a directorship of the National Bank of Australia and a significant contributor to the foundation of the Alfred Hospital.

Mr. Byrne then became Treasurer in the MacPherson Government, but on going back to his constituents at Crowlands for re-election was defeated by Mr. Rolfe on 5 October 1869.

Gold Creek Homestead

Anthony's second eldest son Edmund Rolfe spent his early working life as a teamster, transporting building materials e.g. sandstone, wool, wheat and even drinking water from and to as far afield as Camden and Braidwood.

Hadrian the Seventh

In 1908 Rolfe resurrected the character of Hadrian for The Bull Against the Enemy of the Anglican Race, a violent attack on Lord Northcliffe and his newspaper, the Daily Mail, cast in the form of a Papal Bull issued by Hadrian VII.

Jane Rolfe

Jane Rolfe (October 10, 1650 – 1676) was the granddaughter of Pocahontas (Chief Powhatan's daughter) and the English colonist John Rolfe, (credited with introducing a strain of tobacco for export by the struggling Virginia Colony).

Jersey Odysseys: Legend of the Blue Hole

Rolfe claimed that it was inspired by "Weird NJ magazines, the TV series The Twilight Zone and anthology films like Creepshow" but when James started making the web series The Angry Video Game Nerd, it became a large hit, and he found that he would have to postpone later episodes to another time, not known at the moment.

Richard Rolfe

Richard Rolfe is the former headteacher of Le Rocquier School, Jersey.

Robert Rolfe

Red Rolfe (Robert Abial Rolfe, 1908–1969), U.S. baseball player

Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth

Born at Cranworth, Norfolk, he was the elder son of the Reverend Edward Rolfe.

Rolfe Photoplays

Between 1915 and 1918, B.A. Rolfe used Rolfe Photoplays Inc. to produce forty-nine silent films, several of which were collaborations with director/screenwriter Oscar A.C. Lund including the 1916 drama "Dorian's Divorce" starring Lionel Barrymore.

Sam Rolfe

Samuel Harris Rolfe (February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter best known for creating (with Herb Meadow) the well-remembered television series Have Gun Will Travel, first appearing on CBS, as well as his work on the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour, both on NBC.

Most of Rolfe's subsequent career was spent in television, where he created and was part of the writing staff on the highly regarded western series Have Gun - Will Travel and, most famously, The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

The Life of Rufus Dawes

The film was the last of three movies Alfred Rolfe directed for Charles Cozens Spencer, all of them based on popular stage adaptations by Alfred Dampier of famous novel and starring Rolfe, his wife Lily Dampier and Raymond Longford.

The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole

Spencer had produced three films based on plays by Alfred Dampier under the direction of Alfred Rolfe and wanted to make a fourth.

Thomas Dale

However, soon after leaving London, as John Rolfe and his wife sailed down the Thames River, Rebecca became very ill and died on 21 March 1617 while still in England.

Uta Barth

Essays by Uta Barth, Pamela Lee, and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; interview with Matthew Higgs; and selected writings by Joan Didion.

Warrosquyoake Shire

Isle of Wight County, Southampton County, Greensville County and Brunswick County were all created within the limits of what had been Warrosquoake Shire.Richard Evylen Byrd was related to Jhon Rolfe


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