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Samuel D. Roberts

Roberts is retired from General Motors where he worked for 30 years and was a member of the United Auto Workers union.


Animal Stories

:See also: section on ‘’’Animal Stories’’’ under Charles G. D. Roberts.

Anthony K. Roberts

His work included album covers and other promotional photographs for Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Tanya Tucker, among others.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

Charles E. Roberts was an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The stable remodel was commissioned by Charles E. Roberts, a patron of Wright's work, the same year Wright worked on an interior remodel of Roberts' House.

Chester J. Roberts

After his coaching career employed by several companies in the paper and automobile industries in Wisconsin including Tuttle Press Co. in Appleton, Northern Paper Mills of Green Bay, Wisconsin, A. O. Smith of Milwaukee, and Nash Motors of Milwaukee.

Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal

Victoria Crosses were awarded to William Babtie, Walter Norris Congreve (whose son also won a VC), George Ravenhill (VC later forfeited), Hamilton Lyster Reed, Freddy Roberts, son of Lord Roberts VC (posthumous) and Harry Norton Schofield for gallantry during the battle.

Dave Dudley

Other recordings included Dudley's duet with Tom T. Hall, "Day Drinking," and his own Top 10 hit, "Fireball Rolled A Seven," supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.

Death Without Denial Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss

Death Without Denial Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss by former Oregon Governor Barbara K. Roberts is a personal narrative of the author's experiences during her husband, Frank's battle with cancer, the final year of his life, and the subsequent years of grieving.

Emily Lyons

In 2005, Lyons appeared in a controversial advertisement opposing the nomination to the Supreme Court of John G. Roberts, who seven years before the bombing had filed a brief opposing the prosecution of abortion clinic blockaders under the federal Ku Klux Klan Act.

Ernest Roberts

Ernest W. Roberts (Ernest William Roberts, 1858–1924), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

Eugene L. Roberts

It was here, watching the procession of 5000 to worship atop a mountain near Einsiedeln that Roberts conceived the idea of an annual Mount Timpanogos hike, an idea he later implemented while on the BYU faculty, with the first hike occurring in 1912.

Frank Roberts

Frank L. Roberts (1915–1993), state legislator from the U.S. state of Oregon; husband of Oregon governor Barbara Roberts

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.

In 1938, he along with A.C. Buchanan were the choices of Virginia Senators Carter Glass and Harry Byrd, Sr., to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to which Franklin D. Roosevelt named instead Floyd H. Roberts.

Gertrude Emerson Sen

She was the daughter of Alfred Emerson, Sr., and the granddaughter of Deborah Hall, the wife of Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury (1829-31) under US President Andrew Jackson.

Grant L. Roberts

The Initial City, led by Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City, featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, has proven to be an inspiration for other communities as the list of participating cities continues to grow.

Roberts would team up again with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, playing Ruben Kruger, a flanker alongside co-star Matt Damon who portrayed team captain Francois Pinnear for the South Africa national team the Springboks that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, in the 2009 film Invictus.

Harold Orlob

Among his works were the short run of Corianton: An Aztec Lovestory, a work pushed through by Orestes U. Bean's salesmanship and based on the novel Corianton by B. H. Roberts.

James A. Roberts

In 1864, he enlisted as a private in the 7th Maine Battery, and fought at the Siege of Petersburg, and later participated in the campaign ending with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.

James E. Roberts

In 2007, the Members of the California State Legislature passed the bill to rename the Tuolumne River Bridge as the James E. Roberts Bridge.

James E. Roberts Bridge

Originally named the Tuolumne River Bridge, it was renamed in 2007 in honor of James E. Roberts by legislative resolution.

John H. Brinton

Brinton succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross (who was featured in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic), in the chair of surgery at Jefferson College, and also served as the chairman of the Mütter Museum Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Joseph Roberts

Joseph J. Roberts (b. 1952), Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly

Mark Ravina

Numerous scholars, including Luke S. Roberts, Ronald Toby and John Whitney Hall have made reference to his work, engaging with it in their own pursuits of a reexamination of notions of statehood and national identity in the Tokugawa period.

Morgus the Maniac

While competing in an interpromotional show with Extreme Championship Wrestling, then Eastern Championship Wrestling, which included former WWF wrestlers such as Mr. Hughes, Junkyard Dog, Greg "the Hammer" Valentine and Jake "the Snake" Roberts, he would lose his MEWF Heavyweight title to Lucifer the Knight of the Road on November 14, 1993.

Pirate Cat Radio

In March 2009, Anthony Bourdain brought his show "No Reservations" to San Francisco and visited Pirate Cat Radio to try a drink invented by station founder Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts: the Bacon Maple Latte.

Ralph Roberts

Ralph R. Roberts, Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, c.

Ralph J. Roberts (born 1920), co-founder of Comcast Communications

Recreational Software Advisory Council

The RSAC ratings were based on the research of Dr. Donald F. Roberts of Stanford University who studied media and its effect on children.

Reference Daily Intake

The RDA was developed during World War II by Lydia J. Roberts, Hazel Stiebeling and Helen S. Mitchell, all part of a committee established by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to investigate issues of nutrition that might "affect national defense" (Nestle, 35).

Roaring Roads

Roaring Roads is a 1935 American film directed by Charles E. Roberts.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Samuel A. Smith

He resigned this position in 1832, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham.

Samuel D. Lockwood

Lockwood practiced law in Batavia for a year before relocating his practice to Sempronius, New York for about a year and a half.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.

Samuel D. Ratcliffe

He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor.

Samuel D. Thompson

He served on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority from 1994-1997 as director of communications and formerly as director of planning, analysis and government relations.

Samuel D. Woods

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Woods was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Samuel Purviance

Samuel D. Purviance (1774 – 1806), U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Second Battle of El Alamein order of battle

under Brigadier George "Pip" Roberts

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam

The Deputy Ambassadors and their periods of service in Vietnam are: U. Alexis Johnson (June 1964–September 1965), William J. Porter (September 1965–May 1967), Eugene M. Locke (May 1967–Jan 1968), Samuel D. Berger (March 1968–Mar 1972) Charles S. Whitehouse (March 1972–August 1973).

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

William C. Roberts

In 1954, Roberts graduated early from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in the arts, having been accepted to Emory University's School of Medicine.

William M. Roberts

Billy Roberts (William Moses Roberts Jr.), a US songwriter and musician

WWF No Mercy

A similar idea of linking a portable port to the console port would eventually be used in WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006, for unlocking Jake "The Snake" Roberts on the PlayStation 2.


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