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2 unusual facts about Roper


Bunker

By 1947 the word was familiar enough in English that Hugh Trevor-Roper in The Last Days of Hitler was describing Hitler's underground complex near the Reich Chancellery as "Hitler's own bunker" without quotes around the word bunker.

Trevor-Roper

Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist.


2009 Oregon Ducks football team

Sophomore Justin Roper was named the starter after Nate Costa suffered a season-ending injury before the season began.

Abel Roper

When Richard Steele lost the post of gazetteer in October 1710, Roper, on whose behalf Lord Denbigh had written to Lord Dartmouth in June, was an unsuccessful candidate for the vacant post.

He said he had for some time not been concerned in the paper; and John Morphew, the publisher of it, said he did not know the author of the offending articles, but that it was long since he had accounted to Roper for the profits.

Allen Saunders

His scripts were interpreted and fleshed out by talented realist artists (Ernst in Mary Worth, Pete Hoffman and then William Overgard in Steve Roper, Andriola and his ghosts in Kerry Drake) who made the characters and settings both attractive and believable.

Arik Roper

Roper has since developed a name and devoted following creating record covers and music merchandise for a wide variety of bands including cult underground legends such as Earth, Buzzoven, Sunn O))), Sleep, Howlin' Rain, Grand Magus and High on Fire, as well as more mainstream acts like The Black Crowes.

Cyclone Grant

On 28 December the system moved eastward, bringing with it heavy rainfall to the Roper-McArthur River districts.

Darrell Bryant

After Roper died from a severe neck injury sustained from a racing crash in his #50 Chevrolet Monte Carlo machine, Bryant has never worked in NASCAR ever again.

David Bieber

On December 26, 2003, on the border between the Gipton and Oakwood areas of Leeds, traffic policemen Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper saw Bieber's stolen BMW car parked at the junction of Grange Park Avenue and Dib Lane, where Bieber had just been into the adjacent post office.

Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child

The music video, produced by Nixon (under the pseudonym T'Boo Dalton) and directed by Scott Kalvert, features Nixon and Roper with lookalikes of Tiffany, Astley and Collins—and actress Winona Ryder as Debbie Gibson.

Gerhard Weinberg

Together with Hugh Trevor-Roper and Eberhard Jäckel, Weinberg was one of the three experts on Hitler asked to examine the alleged diaries.

Harold Roper

In 1950, Horabin stood instead in Exeter, and Roper won the North Cornwall seat with a majority of more than 3,000 votes over the Liberal candidate, Dingle Foot.

Hot Wheels Velocity X

One review by Chris Roper gave it a 4.7 out of 10, criticizing the game's sound design, controls, and the unstable framerate, but praising the multiplayer mode of the GameCube version and the voice overs during the FMV cutscenes.

Jim Roper

Roper heard about the first race at a three-quarter mile dirt track in Charlotte, NC by reading a note about it in Zack Mosley's The Adventures of Smilin' Jack comic strip in his local newspaper.

John Roper

John Roper (explorer) (c. 1822–?), Australian explorer; namesake of Roper Peak and Roper River in the Northern Territory

Lanning Roper

Lanning Roper died in Paddington, London, and his ashes were scattered over the gardens at Scotney Castle.

Lesingham House

Also living in the house at the time of the United Kingdom Census 1841 were Robert Roper, agricultural pupil, and two servants Mary Hannant and Ann Fish.

Moses Roper

It also appears that he met only middling success as a lecturer and that for several years before his death, Moses Roper wandered through New England working at whatever he could find; he was working as a field hand on the farm of James T. Skillings in Franklin County, Maine near the town of Strong when "his strength gave out" in April 1891.

Patsy Montana

Blevins took her stage name from silent film star and world-champion roper, Monte Montana, with whom she had an opportunity to work early in her career.

Pete Hoffman

Afterwards, he returned to Toledo and stopped by to see Steve Roper authors Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; he had met them as a student cartoonist and had been sending them additional sketches during the war.

And following the two previous Steve Roper ghosts — Elmer Woggon's younger brother Bill Woggon (Katy Keene) and Don Dean (Cranberry Boggs)—Hoffman did just that in mid-1954, leaving Steve Roper to produce his own strip, Jeff Cobb.

Starting with the July 12, 1954 strip, his replacement on Steve Roper was William Overgard, who put an end to the ghosting and boldly signed his artwork.

Praise-God Barebone

Writing in 2001, Nicholas Tyacke speculated that he was the son of John Barebone, rector of Charwelton and Mary Roper of Daventry, and that he probably had an older brother called Fear-God (who is known to have been a minor poet).

Roper River

The first European to explore the Roper River was Ludwig Leichhardt in 1845 as he made his way from Moreton Bay to Port Essington.

Roper steam velocipede

The Roper steam velocipede was a steam-powered velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States sometime from 1867–1869.

Roper–Logan–Tierney model of nursing

The model is based loosely upon the activities of daily living that evolved from the work of Virginia Henderson in 1966.

Samuel Roper

He was the eldest son of Thomas Roper of Heanor, Derbyshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Alvered Gresbrooke of Middleton, Warwickshire.

Roper married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Goodere of Polesworth,

Santa Anna, Texas

Guy Allen, 18 time PRCA world champion steer roper, graduated from Santa Anna High School.

Selling Hitler

However, to the dismay of all, including eminent historians such as Hugh Trevor-Roper (Alan Bennett) who verified the diaries as authentic, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Sir Walter Roper Lawrence

Sir Walter Roper Lawrence was the first man who reported about the miseries faced by the people of Kashmir under the autocratic rule of Dogras.

SS Ellengowan

Ellengowan remained a shipwreck for four years until she was eventually raised in 1885 by Charles Stuart Copeland, who intended to use the vessel to supply camps along the Roper and McArthur Rivers.

Teynham

The "y" in "Teynham" was apparently added by the Roper family, who have been Barons of Teynham from 1616.

The Long Eaton School

A brand new £15m school was built, under PFI funding by Babcock & Brown, adjacent to the former Roper School site, on the other side of the Erewash Canal.

The Salisbury Review

Contributors have included Antony Flew, Christie Davies, Enoch Powell, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Norman Stone, and Theodore Dalrymple.

The Witch-Cult in Western Europe

From the 1920s on, Margaret Murray’s theory was assailed by critics such as George Lincoln Burr, Hugh Trevor-Roper and more recently by Keith Thomas.

Tommy Gibbons

Brown, Billy Miske, Harry Greb, Battling Levinsky, Bob Roper, Chuck Wiggins, Georges Carpentier, and others.

Trenton Titans

The games were broadcast on radio during the first nine years of existence on WHWH, WBCB-AM, and WTSR, In 2008, the broadcasts switched to internet-only, and were handled by first-year play-by-play announcer Paul Roper, who was selected to broadcast the 2009 ECHL All-Star Game.

Wendell Scott

Mojo Nixon, a fellow Danville native, wrote a tribute song titled "The Ballad of Wendell Scott", which appears on Nixon and Skid Roper's 1986 album, Frenzy.


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