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.

A column of 600 armed men ( mainly made up of his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen ) was led by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson ( the Administrator in Rhodesia of the British South Africa Company ( or " Chartered Company ") of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) over the border from Bechuanaland towards Johannesburg.

Subsequently, Rhodes was severely censured at the Cape inquiry and the London parliamentary inquiry, and forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape and as Chairman of the Chartered Company for having sponsored the failed coup d ' état.

The force was placed under the control of Leander Starr Jameson, the Administrator General of the Chartered Company ( of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) for Matabeleland.

Morehouse is one of two black colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African-American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Howard Thurman, filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson, Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses, musician Lil Jon, former Bank of America Chairman Walter E. Massey, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, and former United States Surgeon General David Satcher, among others.

Lord Waldegrave is also the Chairman of the Rhodes Trust and the Chairman of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry.

The Foreign Office was unable to provide adequate funds for his administering of the area under British rule, and therefore Johnston had to turn to Cecil Rhodes, who was the Chairman of the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), and struck up a working relationship with him.

* William C. Rhodes III – Chairman and CEO of AutoZone, Inc.

Rhodes also weathered a minor scandal when Democratic State Chairman alleged that Rhodes diverted and borrowed a total of $ 54, 000 from his campaign funds.

As well, Freedman was Chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Selections Committee from 1956 to 1966.

Steve's brothers Christopher Forbes ( currently Vice Chairman as well as a Vice Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta American Priory ), Robert Forbes, and Tim Forbes have also worked for the company.

Rivett takes its name from Sir ( Albert Cherbury ) David Rivett, KCMG ; Rhodes Scholar 1907 ; Professor of Chemistry, Melbourne University, 1924 – 1927 ; Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ), 1927 – 46 ; Chairman of the Council CSIRO, 1946 – 49 ; President of Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1937-39.

* Chairman: William R. Rhodes

He was Chairman of the Board of Governors, of the United Oxford Hospitals, and of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Committee on Ministerial Affairs, of the Honours Scrutiny Committee, the President Kennedy Memorial Committee, the Rhodes Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation.

She has served as the Chairman of the Great Lakes District Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship, and as a member of the Commissioning Committee of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Dr Black was Junior Proctor 1985-1986, Chairman of the General Board 1996-1999, Pro-Vice-Chancellor ( Academic ) 2000-2002 and a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

* Robert S. Harrison, Rhodes Scholar, retired partner at Goldman Sachs, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative

The race was the brainchild idea of the Chairman of the Sport Committee, Dick Rhodes who was inspired by Ron Hill ’ s participation in the marathon in the 1964 Olympics ; Ron was invited and duly won the first race in a time of 65 minutes 44 seconds.

From 1927 he served as a governor of Lower Canada College in Montreal and was Chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee for the Province of Quebec.