# REDIRECT John D. Rockerduck # Howard Rockerduck

Before that it belonged to Howard Rockerduck ( the father of John D. Rockerduck ).

In contrast to the Scottish birth of Scrooge, Rockerduck claims to be hailing from England like his father Howard, where he is sometimes depicted to be living, and shown to be the more active in Europe than in America, with some stories having Scrooge having to buy land from him or compete with him to be able to expand his businesses on the European markets.

John D. Rockerduck was born c. 1878 ( this is arguably in contrast to many stories where he seem to be at least 20 years younger than Scrooge ) to Howard Rockerduck, an American millionaire who had earned his fortune in the California gold rush of 1849.

Howard Rockerduck is the father of John D. Rockerduck.

Howard Rockerduck was born poor, but worked his way to the top and became a very wealthy man, and was helped by a " lucky strike " when he prospected for gold.

Magica's interference would also indirectly result in the conception of John D. Rockerduck, as Howard gave up on Scottish girls and instead focused his attention towards England in the hopes of finding a bride, to which he would ultimately be successful.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

That was Rob Roy, who posed with Mrs. Coolidge for the portrait by Howard Chandler Christy.

Howard ( the thick middle-aged man ) was looking at her.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

Miss Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat Dawson of Austin, Mrs. Howard M. Dean of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Reeder of Shreveport, La..

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

It was implemented on hardware developed by Howard Delman.

The prototype was given to engineer Howard Delman, who refined it, productized it, and then added additional features for Atari's first vector game, Lunar Lander.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

was the original title of Howard Spring's novel My Son, My Son !, later adapted for the film of the latter name.

Beard and typified by Howard K. Beale ) argued that the Republican Party in the 1860s was a tool of corrupt business interests, and that Johnson stood for the people.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

In 1922 in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings the tomb of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) was opened by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon.

The term " ataraxy " was coined by the neurologist Howard Fabing and the classicist Alister Cameron to describe the observed effect of psychic indifference and detachment in patients treated with chlorpromazine.

The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes

As the fire was captured on live television, announcer Howard Cosell stated, " There it is, ladies and gentlemen: the Bronx is burning ".

Thomas C. Howard was head designer, architect and engineer for both companies.

In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting.

However, the CRTC is also sometimes erroneously criticized for CBSC decisions — for example, the CRTC was erroneously criticized for the CBSC's decisions pertaining to the airing of Howard Stern's terrestrial radio show in Canada in the late 1990s, as well as the CBSC's controversial ruling on the Dire Straits song " Money for Nothing ".

Smith was one of " the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

In 1976, Howard Hughes, at one time the world's richest man, died on his jet heading to Houston.

In addition to heading up the Clemson football program Howard also had the job of directing Clemson's entire athletic program, and at the same time raising all the required scholarship funds.

Earl appointed Doris Hanson, the State's first and only female to hold the office of secretary of the Department of Administration and Howard Fuller, the first African-American appointed to a cabinet position heading the Department of Employee Relations.

Hearing that the Nez Perce were leaving Weippe Prairie, Howard sent out a strong force from Kamiah on July 17 to ascertain in which direction the Nez Perce were heading.

Backups were still seen on the Howard Frankland heading into Tampa, primarily due to a bottleneck at the SR 60 / Veterans Expressway exit.

:“ She ’ s heading up the canyon .” Lt. Howard Bass Cushing beckoned to thirteen of the sixteen privates in the company.

After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election, Fraser claimed Howard approached him in a corridor, following a cabinet meeting in May 1977 regarding Vietnamese refugees, and said: " We don't want too many of these people.

The full meeting of the Commonwealth had failed in a consensus to decide on the issue, and they tasked the previous, present ( at the time ), and future leaders of Commonwealth ( respectively President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, John Howard of Australia, and Mbeki of South Africa ) to come to a consensus between them over the issue.

Present at this meeting were General Charles Loring, Chairman of the Trustees of the MFA ; William Sturgis Bigelow and Denman Ross, collectors, writers and MFA trustees ; Ross Turner, painter ; Sylvester Baxter, art critic for the Boston Transcript ; Howard Baker, A. W.

In December 1993, the Tribunes longtime Washington, D. C. bureau chief, Nicholas Horrock, was removed from his post after he chose not to attend a meeting that editor Howard Tyner requested of him in Chicago.

Howard, who had been Home Secretary until thirteen days earlier, had held a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of Her Majesty's Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison, John Marriott.

On June 25, 2012, Dwight Howard had face-to-face meeting with General Manager Rob Hennigan in Los Angeles and demanded a trade to the Brooklyn Nets.

Regular subplots since the 1980s included: Howard and Marina trying to have an affair without Howard's wife finding out ( a variation of the Wainwright-Partridge subplot of the 1970s ), the older women meeting for tea and discussing their theories about men and life, Auntie Wainwright trying to sell unwanted merchandise to unsuspecting customers, Smiler trying to find a woman, Barry trying to better himself ( at the insistence of Glenda ), and Tom trying to stay one step ahead of the repo man.

Howard had been travelling through Spain and Portugal, ostensibly lecturing on film, but also meeting with local propagandists and shoring up support for the Allied cause.

Karl Rove is reported to have told Howard, " you can forget about meeting the president.

This was followed by The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ), which led to the role for which Howard is probably best remembered, the doctor in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, meeting and falling in love with a bored housewife played by Celia Johnson.

According to C. Howard Wheeldon, who was present at the meeting where Powell gave the speech, " it is fascinating to note what little hostility emerged from the audience.

The new store, which still stands today, was dedicated by US President William Howard Taft, and houses a large pipe organ, the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, and the 2, 500-pound bronze " Wanamaker Eagle " in the store's Grand Court, which became a famous meeting place for Philadelphians.

They applied for a federal charter for the foundation in the US Senate in 1910, with at one stage Junior even secretly meeting with President William Howard Taft, through the aegis of Senator Nelson Aldrich, to hammer out concessions.

According to Howard Cosell in his book I Never Played the Game, the owners took 23 ballots before settling on Rozelle as NFL Commissioner at a January 26, 1960 meeting.

Paxman pressed Michael Howard, Home Secretary, about a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of the Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison.

Other firsts include the first Board of Trustees meeting held in 1879 ; the first formal commencement held in 1883 for two graduates ( William Beebe Middleton and Walter Howard Wiley ); the first international student graduated in 1889 ; and the first female student graduated in 1898.

In the first meeting, on the advice of his security team, Howard wore a bullet-resistant vest, which was visible under his jacket.

During this meeting, Gray was handed several envelopes full of documents from the personal safe of E. Howard Hunt.

Howard would then broach the subject of the two Kings meeting in person.

The Sydney Morning Herald coverage emphasized that Kevin Rudd was under pressure over " allegations surrounding his past meetings with disgraced former Western Australian premier Brian Burke " ; and that Thomson " had no choice but to resign, especially since Prime Minister John Howard raised the bar a week ago by sacking Ian Campbell for doing nothing more than meeting, in his then-capacity as heritage minister, a delegation which included Burke.

The team was officially founded on 12 December 1872 at a meeting of the Third Lanakshire Rifle Volunteers in the Regimental Orderly Room in Howard Street, Glasgow.

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

Along with 74 others, the famous meteorologist Luke Howard joined the original 15 members of the Society at its first ordinary meeting on 7 May 1850.