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unusual facts about Walter B. Chambers


Walter B. Chambers

His brother Robert W. Chambers, born 1865, was a noted artist, illustrator and writer.


Arkham Horror

Based on the Robert W. Chambers story The King in Yellow, this expansion introduces the mechanic of the Herald — a special card that permanently alters the game rules.

Barzillai J. Chambers

Chambers was nominated for Vice President by the reunited party, as was Absolom M. West of Mississippi; Chambers was victorious on the first ballot, by 403 votes to 311.

Edward Chambers

Edward T. Chambers, executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation

Edward T. King

Rosario Bourdon, each of whom have well over 3000 entries in EDVR, and Walter B. Rogers and Josef Pasternack, each with around 2000 entries in EDVR.

Ernie Chambers

However, in Marsh v. Chambers (1983), the Supreme Court held by a 6–3 vote that both practices were constitutional because of the "unique history" of the United States.

Faune A. Chambers

Chambers is the wife of Fonzworth Bentley, Sean Combs's former personal assistant and host of MTV's From G's to Gents.

François-Xavier Bélanger

V.T. Chambers named two species after him in 1875, Gelechia belangerella, now Pseudotelphusa belangerella, and Argyresthia belangerella.

Gamaliel Foundation

Following Alinsky’s death in 1972, his Industrial Areas Foundation, under executive director Edward T. Chambers, moved toward a congregation-based organizing model, emphasizing training and leadership development.

Henry Chambers

Henry E. Chambers (1860–1929), educator and historian from New Orleans, Louisiana

Henry E. Chambers

Maria Charles was a daughter of Caleb and Sarah Charles of Lovell in Oxford County, Maine, and a descendat of John Charles, pioneer settler in 1636 of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

The following academic year, he was principal of the male and female academies in Monticello in Drew County in southeastern Arkansas.

In 1883, Chambers married the former Ellen White Taylor of Crystal Springs in Copiah County in southwestern Mississippi.

Soon he was a job hopper, having in 1881–1882 undertaken the principalship of Mineral Springs High School in Mineral Springs in Howard County near Texarkana in southwestern Arkansas.

In the Court of the Dragon

"In the Court of the Dragon" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

John Chambers

John B. Chambers, evaluator of sovereign debt for Standard & Poor's

Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) read the redacted section after a letter-writing campaign, and say that this section details high-level involvement by the Saudi Arabian embassy in receiving the hijackers on US soil, arranging for visas and other paperwork.

Life Begins at Forty

Life Begins at Forty is a 1932 American self-help book by Walter B. Pitkin.

Malaria No More

Malaria No More was established in December 2006 by Peter Chernin and Raymond G. Chambers.

Margaret Clement

Sir Thomas Elyot had conveyed to her and her husband the indignation felt by Emperor Charles V, Catherine of Aragon's nephew, at More's resignation, but William Roper, writing years later, had the emperor talking about More's execution; as R. W. Chambers points out, Elyot was not ambassador to the imperial court when More died.

Mineral Springs, Arkansas

Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator early in his career was the principal at Mineral Springs High School in the 1881-1882 school year.

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Walter B. Gibson, co-creator/writer of The Shadow pulp novels, was fired when he asked for a raise in 1946, and then became head writer for the Nick Carter radio series.

Ralph E. Chambers

As the R. E. Chambers Company, which he formed from the remains of Harry Traver's bankrupt firm, Traver Engineering, where he had been the chief engineer, he built such famous amusement park and carnival rides and attractions as The Whip, The Caterpillar,

Robert Chambers

Robert G. Chambers, British physicist known for the first observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933), American artist and writer, author of The King in Yellow

Rules for Radicals

Direct students of Alinsky’s such as Edward T. Chambers took the lessons of Rules for Radicals to help form the Industrial Areas Foundation, the Queens Citizens Organization, and the Communities Organized for Public Service.

Spanish Treaty Claims Commission

The original Commissioners were recently-defeated U.S. Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire (who was chosen as president), Gerrit J. Diekema of Michigan, James P. Wood of Ohio, William Arden Maury of the District of Columbia, and William L. Chambers of Alabama.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

Hundreds of genre author entries are provided, including: William Beckford by E.F. Bleiler, Ambrose Bierce and Algernon Blackwood by Jack Sullivan, Ramsey Campbell by Robert Hadji, Robert W. Chambers by T. E. D. Klein, James Herbert by Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson by Sullivan, Stephen King by Don Herron, Arthur Machen by Klein, Ann Radcliffe by Devendra P. Varma, and Peter Straub by Patricia Skarda.

The Prophets' Paradise

The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).

Thornburg v. Gingles

Attorneys for the plaintiff, Ralph Gingles, included Julius Chambers, Lani Guinier, and Leslie Winner.

United States federal government credit-rating downgrades

August 7, 2011, video with David T. Beers, Standard & Poor's Global Head of Sovereign Ratings, and John B. Chambers, Chairman of the Sovereign Ratings Committee

Walter B. Beals

He began law studies under an attorney’s supervision, but ill health prompted his move to Bellingham, Washington.

Walter B. Gibson

In addition, Gibson is the protagonist, along with Orson Welles, in a historical mystery by Max Allan Collins, The War of the Worlds Murder, published by Berkley Books in 2005.

Walter B. Gibson bibliography

This is a complete list of books by Walter B. Gibson published during his lifetime and after his death.

Walter B. LaBerge

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated LaBerge as United States Under Secretary of the Army and he subsequently held this office from July 27, 1977 until February 28, 1980.

He also held several academic appointments, including Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Texas at Austin; visiting professor at the Defense Systems Management College at the Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Visiting Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

He was educated at the University of Notre Dame, receiving a degree in Naval Science in 1944.

In 1957, LaBerge moved to Philco as Director of Engineering at its Western Development Laboratories in Palo Alto, California.

Walter B. Rogers

Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).

Walter B. Slocombe

Slocombe received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1963, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

Woodbury Glacier

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Walter B. Woodbury (1834–1885), English pioneer of photomechanical printing in 1865 and of serial film cameras for use in balloons and kites in 1877.

Xbox One

Subsequent to the announcement of Xbox One, but prior to Microsoft's policy reversal, U.S. Representatives Mike Capuano and Walter Jones proposed and filed the We Are Watching You Act; the act would require "video service operators" to inform users on how personal data is collected and used, require that users explicitly opt-in to data collection, provide an on-screen notification when data is being collected, and to provide identical service for those who opt-out.

Yellow Peril

It is clearly in the same line as the contemporaneous works of Philip José Farmer, "updating" Rohmer the way Farmer updated Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lester Dent, and Walter B. Gibson.

Yue Lao

Yue-Laou (sic) appears as a character in Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Maker of Moons" from the collection of the same name in 1896.


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