The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons in June 1926 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on the 19th of the same month.

Bush, Noam Chomsky, Norman Cousins, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Richard Dawkins, Roger Ebert, Dian Fossey, Milton Friedman, Jane Goodall, John Houseman, Jesse Jackson, Garrison Keillor, James J. Kilpatrick, Michio Kaku, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Kissinger, Sinclair Lewis, George McGovern, Margaret Mead, Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Richard Nixon, Yitzhak Rabin, James Randi, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Carl Sagan, Cornel West and Howard Zinn.

At the request of the publishers Dodd, Mead & Co., Ludden wrote and published four books of " Plain Talk " advice, plus a youth novel, Roger Thomas, Actor ( 1959 ), all for young readers.

The song has been recorded by numerous other artists, including Judy Collins, Michael Card, Floyd Cramer, Dana, Neil Diamond, Art Garfunkel, Daliah Lavi, Joe Longthorne, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Nana Mouskouri, Aaron Neville, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Joseph McManners, Sister Janet Mead, Pam Tillis, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Consider the Lilies, Roger Whittaker, Ellen Greene on Pushing Daisies, Demis Roussos, and Steven Curtis Chapman.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The trump picture of Corwin is executed in a subtly different style-and has features very similar to Roger Zelazny's.

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d ' Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

A modern form of this argument is given by Sir Roger Penrose.

* 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

One consequence of this is that in standard general relativity, the universe began with a singularity, as demonstrated by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in the 1960s.

In order to work, and as pointed out by Roger Penrose from 1986 on, inflation requires extremely specific initial conditions of its own, so that the problem ( or pseudoproblem ) of initial conditions is not solved: “ There is something fundamentally misconceived about trying to explain the uniformity of the early universe as resulting from a thermalization process.

Likewise, Roger Cohen, in an op-Ed for the New York Times propounded that, " captive minds ... resort to conspiracy theory because it is the ultimate refuge of the powerless.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Cy Young is tied with Roger Clemens for the most career wins by a Boston Red Sox pitcher.

In the novel Man Plus by Frederick Pohl, an able-bodied astronaut, Roger Torraway, is surgically altered in order to augment his fragile human body and allow him to function in the harsh climate of Mars.

* French director Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir ( literally And to die of pleasure, but actually shown in England as Blood and Roses, 1960 ) is based on Carmilla and is considered one of the greatest of the vampire genre.

The full line goes along the pattern of, for example, " And even though Roger Clemens stabs his radio with a syringe whenever he hears us say it, this is NPR: National Public Radio ( later just '... this is NPR ').

Released in 1987 ; Roger, with his newfound status of Hero, is transferred to the Xenon Orbital Station 4 and promoted to head ( and only ) janitor.

In the final hunt for Ralph at the end of the novel, Roger is armed with " a stick sharpened at both ends ," indicating his intentions of killing Ralph and offering his head as a sacrifice to the " beast ".

* January – Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith ( future wife of Roger I of Sicily ), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are banished from Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.

His head was sent to Wigmore Castle by Roger de Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore as a gift to his wife, Maud.

Roger Gavoury, head of the French police in Algiers, was assassinated at the direction of Roger Degueldre, leader of the OAS Delta Commando, with the actual killing done by Claude Piegts and Albert Dovecar on 31 May 1961 ( Piegts and Dovecar were executed by a firing-squad on 7 June 1962.

The bishop ( in Old Sarum ) remained the nominal head of the abbey until 1122, when Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury, made the abbey independent.

In 1946, Fred Seitz, then head of the physics department at Carnegie Tech, brought Ed Creutz ( who later succeeded Seitz as department head ), Jack Fox ( who succeeded Creutz as department head ), Roger Sutton ( who succeeded Creutz as director of the Saxonburg Nuclear Research Center ) and Bert Corben to Carnegie Tech to establish an important nuclear physics research program.

At the bar, Roger has an idea for a game show and the head of BBC1's early evening programmes hires him for £ 500, 000 a year.

As the builder starts the job, Roger and Tom head down to the pub for a few drinks and after telling the barman that he will mention his pub on the telly, he gives them the drinks free of charge.

Keeler's affair with Profumo was terminated by the government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brook, who spoke to him on the advice of Sir Roger Hollis, the head of MI5.

Earlier in the season during interleague play, Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens hit Piazza in the head with a fastball.

A local promoter, Roger Allen spotted the group in 1969 and alerted the head of A & R at Philips Records, Jack Baverstock.

She even made a cameo in the deleted " pig head scene " in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which she can be seen flying around on her broomstick before she gets struck by lightning.

In a classy move during the 2002 season, while he was head coach of the Ottawa Senators Jacques Martin stepped away from the bench for 2 games, allowing Hall of Famer Roger Neilson to take the reins and become the ninth man to coach 1, 000 career NHL games.

* Roger Cook, head landscaper, This Old House

The head of the University is the Chancellor, currently Roger France, however this position is only titular ( a figurehead ).

Other friends included Daily Telegraph editor Colin Coote, MI5 head Roger Hollis, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt, Conservative MP Geoffrey Nicholson, infamous slumlord Peter Rachman, and the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The 1960 football team won the Virginia State Championship under the coaching of head coach John Youngblood and assistants Sal DiGeorgi, Roger Coggins and Clarence Dryer.

Roger de Flor arrived in Constantinople with the help of king Frederick III of Sicily in 1303, and married the niece of Andronicus, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria, and was named Grand Duke ( head of the fleet ).

* Roger Johnson-CEO of Western Digital and head of the General Services Administration under President Bill Clinton

Dolphins owner Mr. Riddle, believing the team will fear to lose the Super Bowl unless Snowflake is returned, orders his head of operations, Roger Podacter ( Troy Evans ), and chief publicist Melissa Robinson ( Courteney Cox ) to find Snowflake.