He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

When Rhodes joined him, Hirst is was supposed to have said: " We'll get them in singles, Wilfred.

He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Psi and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.

The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, used for thousands of years in China, independently invented by Alexander the Great's city-planner Dinocrates of Rhodes and favoured by the Romans, while almost a rule in parts of pre-Columbian America.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

A clerihew much appreciated by chemists is cited in Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes regarding the inventor of the thermos bottle ( or Dewar flask ):

An example from the later Middle Ages is Dieudonné de Gozon, third Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, famous for slaying the dragon of Malpasso.

* 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U. S. Congress.

* Elliot Rhodes ( Boris Conley ) is a comedian and musician, performing short musical sketches about current events at the end of Friday night episodes of Frontline.

In Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica it is recalled that Heracles had mercilessly slain their king, Theiodamas, over one of the latter's bulls, and made war upon the Dryopes " because they gave no heed to justice in their lives ".

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC.

" The editor of Aristotle's works, Andronicus of Rhodes, is thought to have placed the books on first philosophy right after another work, Physics, and called them ( ta meta ta physika biblia ) or " the books that come after the on physics ".

* 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton ; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.

In creating the Rhodes Scholarships for outstanding students from the United States, Germany and much of the British Empire, Cecil Rhodes wrote in 1901 that ' the object is that an understanding between the three great powers will render war impossible and educational relations make the strongest tie '.

In WWE, a referee must see the violation with his own eyes to rule that the match end in a disqualification ( simply watching the video tape is not usually enough ) and the referee's ruling is almost always final, although dusty finishes ( named after, and made famous by, Dusty Rhodes ) will often result in the referee's decision being overturned.

He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.

Professional wrestler Cody Runnels ( better known as Cody Rhodes ) is a fan of the series and has stated he replays A Link to the Past yearly.

Cimon, by loving, waxes wise, wins his wife Iphigenia by capture on the high seas, and is imprisoned at Rhodes.

Virgil made use of several models in the composition of his epic ; Homer the preeminent classical epicist is everywhere present, but Virgil also makes especial use of the Latin poet Ennius and the Hellenistic poet Apollonius of Rhodes among the various other writers he alludes to.

The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.

* 1078: Oleg I of Chernigov is defeated in battle by his brother Vsevolod I of Kiev ; Oleg escaped to Tmutarakan, but was imprisoned by the Khazars, sent to Constantinople as a prisoner, and then exiled to Rhodes.

The Fender Twin Reverb was the amplifier shown in catalogs as the cabinet of choice for the Stage Piano, and many Rhodes players rely on that particular 2 x 12 " tube amp to get the classic tone.

Media reports in 1989 initially suggested that large stones found on the seabed off the coast of Rhodes might have been the remains of the Colossus ; however this theory was later shown to be without merit.

" The Wisden editor believed Rhodes had shown himself still to be England's best bowler and called his triumph " immensely popular.

Jaden was shown to be an accomplished duelist, defeating the before-mentioned Crowler during his examination duel, Alexis Rhodes, who is hailed as the " Queen of Obelisk Blue ", Chazz Princeton in a school-wide duel, and Bastion Misawa for the representative position in an inter-school duel, all three of whom received higher grades than he did and represented the higher-ranked dormitories.

On the August 31, 2009, episode of Raw, Dusty Rhodes, Shawn Michaels, and Triple H were shown watching and discussing footage of the Hogan-Nash match backstage.

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

* February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U. S. Congress.

In August 1993 Hawk made sporadic appearances in World Championship Wrestling as a mystery partner of Dustin Rhodes and later as a replacement partner when Davey Boy Smith left the federation but nothing permanent ever came of it, and Hawk left after Starrcade in December 1993.

Upper bounds and ever more precise lower bounds on complexity have been obtained ( see, e. g. Rhodes & Steinberg, 2009 ).

Long-time Obama speechwriters Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes disputed the claim and asserted that neither " has ever met or spoken to Mort Zuckerman.

However, Rhodes and the white settlers attracted to the company's territory set their sights for ever more mineral rights and more territorial concessions from the African peoples, establishing their own governments, and introducing laws with little concern or respect for African law.

Soon after the tour, Rhodes left Random Hold, and has continued to record and tour with Peter Gabriel ever since ( a 25-year collaboration ).

The purchase cheque, signed by Rhodes, is said to have been the largest such instrument ever presented for payment up to that time.

Though still popular in his home district, Rhodes reasoned that " if were ever going to do something else, should get started doing it.

Rhodes remarked to Hastert that he ( Hastert ) had the only job Rhodes had ever really wanted.

On 12 April 1930, the last day of the final Test, Rhodes was 52 years, 165 days, making him the oldest ever Test cricketer ; this remains a record in 2012.

Although primarily a manager, Ellering has stepped between the ropes as a competitor, notably at the 1987 NWA Great American Bash in which he joined the Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and Dusty Rhodes to face The Four Horsemen and their manager James J. Dillon in the first ever WarGames match.

* February 25, 1870: Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American ever to sit in the U. S. Congress

The Westside High School Marching Wolves Band received its first ever Superior rating at the UIL Region 23 Marching Contest on October 21, 2008, held at Katy ISD's Rhodes Stadium.