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6 unusual facts about William C. Roberts


Cape Roberts

Discovered by the South Magnetic Pole Party, led by David, of the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named for William C. Roberts, assistant zoologist and cook for the expedition.

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.

Roberts himself contributes a column to each issue entitled "Facts and Ideas from Anywhere", an homage to one of the guiding principles he ascribes to his colleague Eugene Braunwald.

Here, he continued to work with notable cardiac physicians including Eugene Braunwald, Willis Hurst, and Glenn Morrow.

It was here, working with attending physicians such as Glenn Morrow and Eugene Braunwald that his career began to focus on cardiovascular pathology, and he focused his training exclusively on autopsies and surgical pathology.

During this time, Roberts also joined the fraternity Phi Delta Theta.


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.

Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula

The Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula (or DFP; named after William C. Davidon, Roger Fletcher, and Michael J. D. Powell) finds the solution to the secant equation that is closest to the current estimate and satisfies the curvature condition (see below).

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.

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.

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.

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 Waddel Alexander

William C. Alexander (1848-1937), cofounder of Pi Kappa Alpha and secretary of the Equitable Life Assurance Society

His son, James Waddell Alexander, would also later serve as president of the company, while another son, William C. Alexander, served as company secretary.

Lester Reiff

Lord Durham also accused the brothers of involvement in a horse doping ring along with Enoch Wishard, William C. Whitney and other American gamblers.

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.

McClelland Trophy

The award was instituted in 1951 and is named after William McClelland, a former Victorian Football League (now AFL) player and administrator and member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Nashville School of Law

The school's faculty members are some prominent practicing lawyers and judges from across the state of Tennessee; formerly including the late former Tennessee Chief Justice Adolpho Birch, and now including current Justice William C. Koch, Jr. of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

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.

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.

Russian Soviet Government Bureau

A secret mission to Russia in March 1919 conducted by Wilson administration envoy William C. Bullitt to assess the economic and political system there ended in a negative report which accentuated various atrocities committed in the name of the Bolshevik regime, effectively removing any chance of formal recognition of the Martens initiative.

Stanley Atkins

Atkins retired as diocesan bishop in 1980, and was succeeded by William C. Wantland.

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.

The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism

The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter (with Amy Sands, Leonard S. Spector and Fred L. Wehling) which explores the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to carry out significant attacks using stolen nuclear weapons, to construct and detonate crude nuclear weapons, to release radiation by attacking or sabotaging nuclear facilities, and to build and use radiological weapons or "dirty bombs."

William C. Adamson

Adamson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until December 18, 1917, when he resigned.

William C. Byham

Bill Byham, co-founder (with Dr. Douglas Bray), chairman and CEO of Development Dimensions International (DDI) is an

William C. Campbell

Campbell was also the stepfather of Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif.

William C. Canby, Jr.

(born May 22, 1931) is a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sitting in Phoenix, Arizona.

William C. Conner

In a 1981 decision later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a case brought by Harpo Marx's widow Susan Fleming, Conner ruled that the producers of A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine had improperly used the Marx Brothers characters in their Broadway theatre production and that the publicity rights of the comedians, even after their deaths, overrode the First Amendment claims of the show's creators.

William C. Crain

In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and author of the interesting Journal of Burgoyne's Expedition contained in the archives of the general staff at Berlin.

William C. Davidon

He was instrumental in planning and organizing a break-in of the F.B.I. Media, Pennsylvania office, as the leader of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI.

William C. Gorgas

William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918).

William C. Gribble, Jr.

During World War II, he served on the staff of the 340th Engineer General Service Regiment as it first built a section of the Alaska Highway in western Canada and later assisted MacArthur's drive in New Guinea and the Philippines.

William C. Harris

William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter

William C. Kortz

Prior to elective office, Kortz served as an Operations Manager for the Irvin Plant of U.S. Steel.

William C. Martel

Speaking of Faisal Shahzad in 2010, he said: “This may suggest we are moving from the ‘A’ team in recruits to the ‘B’ team or even the ‘C’ team.

William C. McClelland

In 1912, McClelland became president of the Melbourne Football Club, a position he relinquished when elected to the presidency of the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1926, succeeding Baldwin Spencer.

William C. Stone

He holds or has held Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) securities series licenses 6, 7, 8 and 22, was a New York Stock Exchange and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Principal and an Associated Person with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

William C. Wampler

Wampler was later elected to the 90th Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1983).

Wampler was elected as a Republican to the 83rd Congress (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955), during which time he was its youngest member.

Wampler was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1956 to the 85th Congress, and served as vice president and general manager of Wampler Brothers Furniture Company in Bristol, Virginia from 1957 to 1960 and the vice president and general manager of Wampler Carpet Company from 1961 to 1966.

William C. White

His brother Edson White was instrumental in setting up the Adventist work among blacks in the southern U.S.

William C. Wright

Wright was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative William C. Adamson.

William Durant

William C. Durant (1861–1947), industrialist and founder of General Motors Corporation

William Leggett

William C. Leggett (born 1939), Canadian academic, former Principal of Queen's University

William M. Roberts

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

William Miller Jenkins

Territorial Secretary William C. Grimes became acting Governor until President Roosevelt appointed Thompson Benton Ferguson to the Governorship on December 9, 1901.

William Plunkett

William C. Plunkett, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1854-55)

William Ruger

William C. Ruger (1824–1892), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals


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