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Roberts, Oral
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Oral Roberts American evangelist Oral Roberts (born 1918) was an early pioneer in televangelism, or using television to preach the gospel. Roberts, a stutterer-turnedpreacher who survived a bout of deadly...
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Roberts, Owen Josephus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Roberts, Owen Josephus (b. Germantown, Pa...received his law degree in 1898, Owen Roberts worked first as a private attorney and...In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge named Roberts a special U.S. attorney in the Teapot...
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Roberts, John G., Jr.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John G. Roberts, Jr. When he was sworn in by Associate...Stevens on September 29, 2005, John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born 1955) became the seventeenth...United States Supreme Court. At age 50, Roberts was the youngest chief justice since John...
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Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Frederick Sleigh Roberts The British soldier and filed marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria, and Waterford (1832-1914), made his reputation in India and South Africa and then became the last commander...
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Roberts, Jane (1929-1984)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Roberts, Jane (1929-1984) Public name of Jane...pope of the fourth century. In 1963, Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented...and when "Seth" spoke through her, Roberts's voice and features changed character...
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Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar , 1832-1914, British field marshal. He joined...relief of Kandahar in the second Afghan War (1878-80). Roberts was made commander in chief of the Madras army in 1880 and of...
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Roberts, Frederick Sleigh
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832–1914). Field marshal. Roberts first demonstrated his talents as an army officer...forces had suffered several humiliating defeats before Roberts arrived in South Africa to take command, when his...
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Richard John Roberts
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Richard John Roberts 1943-, British biochemist, Ph.D., Univ. of Sheffield, 1968. Roberts joined James D. Watson 's Cold Spring Harbor...assistant director for research in 1986. Roberts the studied adenovirus, which causes the...
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Mister Roberts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Mister Roberts (1948), a play by Thomas Heggen and...Theatre, 1,157 perf.] Lt. Douglas Roberts ( Henry Fonda ) has long served the bored...instead. The Captain has regularly refused Roberts's plea for a transfer, but Roberts...
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Patricia Roberts Harris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Patricia Roberts Harris Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985) became the first African American woman...in Mattoon, Illinois, to working class parents, Patricia Roberts Harris exemplified a true American success story. Educated in...
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