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.

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??

He spent the three years at The Queen's College, Oxford after earning his bachelors as one of the university's first Rhodes Scholars, initially studying jurisprudence ( instead of science as a promise to his dying father ), and later added literature and Spanish, and earning his master's degree.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

In a similar way, the nationes were segregated by the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, who maintained at Rhodes the hostels from which they took their name " where foreigners eat and have their places of meeting, each nation apart from the others, and a Knight has charge of each one of these hostels, and provides for the necessities of the inmates according to their religion ", as the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur noted in 1436.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

At one point, Roland acquired the then-defunct Rhodes name, and released a number of digital keyboards bearing the Rhodes brand, but it no longer owns the name.

According to sources, Theseus also was one of the Argonauts, although Apollonius of Rhodes states in the Argonautica that Theseus was still in the underworld at this time.

** Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue of Helios, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Rhodes piano's tone-generating principles are derived from the concept of an asymmetrical tuning fork, with a stiff wire ( called a " tine "), struck by a felt-tipped ( neoprene rubber-tipped after 1970 ) hammer, acting as one side of the tuning fork, and a counterbalancing resonating tone bar above the tine acting as the other side.

During the 1980s a set of Rhodes modifications done by a company called " Dyno My Piano " became popular, inspired by one particular and very famous rental piano in L. A., the E-Rhodes, which can be heard on many records from that time.

Michif as recorded starting in the 1970s combined two separate phonological systems: one for French origin elements, and one for Cree origin elements ( Rhodes 1977, 1986 ).

* Rhodes Boyson, former British Conservative education minister, who agreed with Ali G that metric system should not be taught in school because ' one deals in quarters and eighths of ounces '

Aristodemus was the head of two schools of rhetoric and grammar, one in Nysa and one in Rhodes, the former of the two cities possessing a distinct intellectual curiosity of Homeric literature and the interpretation of epics.

Before its destruction in 226 BC — due to an earthquake — the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 meters ( 107 ft ) high, making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

( Novelist David Rhodes was one of his students.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

Fearing that he would be the one to kill Catreus, Althaemenes took Apemosyne and fled with her to Rhodes.

However, Apollodorus tells us that Catreus received an oracle saying that he would be killed by one of his children, so Catreus gave Aerope and her sister Clymene to Nauplius to be sold off in foreign lands ( Aerope's brother Althaemenes had found out about the prophecy and fearing that he would be the one to kill Catreus, took Aerope's other sister Apemosyne with him and fled Crete for Rhodes ).