Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

In science and technology, Columbia alumni include: founder of IBM Herman Hollerith ; inventor of FM radio Edwin Armstrong ; inventor of the nuclear submarine Hyman Rickover ; founder of Google China Kai-Fu Lee ; scientists Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Millikan, Helium – neon laser inventor Ali Javan and Michael Pupin ; chief-engineer of the New York City subway William Barclay Parsons ; philosophers Irwin Edman and Robert Nozick ; and economist Milton Friedman

* 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when around Arlington Mansion ( formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee ) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U. S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

The play Inherit the Wind ( 1955 ), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, is loosely based on this trial.

* June 15 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when of the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home Arlington House are officially set-aside as a military cemetery by U. S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

Robert Edwin Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, in 1856.

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In 1969, she had the lead role in another long-running popular production of Mame, from the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End of London, arriving for the role on the Liner QE2 from New York.

Category: Plays by Robert Edwin Lee

British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

British designers with works in the collection include William Kent, Henry Flitcroft, Matthias Lock, Thomas Chippendale, James Stuart, William Chambers, Robert Adam, John Gillow, James Wyatt, Thomas Hopper, Charles Heathcote Tatham, Pugin, William Burges, William Morris, Charles Voysey, Charles Robert Ashbee, Baillie Scott, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Edward Maufe, Wells Coates & Robin Day.

Historic Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad depot in downtown Ruston ; Robert Russ | Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, sold land to the railroad in 1883.

* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909.

* SS Kite, 280-ton sealer used by Robert Peary on the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892

The First Thule Expedition ( 1912, Rasmussen and Freuchen ) aimed to test Robert Peary's claim that a channel divided Peary Land from Greenland.

* 1856 – Robert Peary, American explorer ( d. 1920 )

The conquest of the North Pole was for many years credited to US Navy engineer Robert Peary, who claimed to have reached the Pole on 6 April 1909, accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuit men, Ootah, Seeglo, Egingwah, and Ooqueah.

Avery writes on his web site that " The admiration and respect which I hold for Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and the four Inuit men who ventured North in 1909, has grown enormously since we set out from Cape Columbia.

Amundsen had problems and hesitation raising funds for the departure and upon hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary claimed the Pole, he decided to reroute to Antarctica.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

Admiral Robert Peary of the United States Navy was aided by this breed during his expeditions in search of the North Pole.

* July 6 – Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.

** Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer ( b. 1856 )

** Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer ( d. 1920 )

Robert Peary and Captain Robert Bartlett, standing on ship, Battle Harbour, Labrador in 1909

Robert Peary and son Robert Peary, Jr. in 1913

The monument for the memory of Robert Peary at Cape York, Greenland | Cape York, Greenland.

The Liberty ship SS Robert E. Peary, the destroyer USS Peary ( DD-226 ) the cargo ship USNS Robert E. Peary ( T-AKE-5 ), Knox-class frigate USS Robert E. Peary ( FF 1073 ) and ice rated, US-flagged tanker Maersk Peary were named for him.

* Guys and Dolls ( 1950 ) starring Robert Alda ( Sky Masterson ), Vivian Blaine ( Miss Adelaide ), Samm Levine ( Nathan Detroit ), Isabel Bigley ( Sarah Brown ), Pat Rooney, Sr., B. S.

They made fake identity documents which allowed them to visit bars at the weekend but also the local art house cinema – which though it typically showed pornographic films would on occasion feature underground films such as Robert Downey, Sr .' s Putney Swope and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls.

* 1922 – Robert De Niro, Sr., American painter ( d. 1993 )

Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).

He defeated several prominent and long-serving Liberals including Paul Martin Sr., Robert Winters and Paul Hellyer.

Taft ultimately outmaneuvered Roosevelt and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in delegate count, regained control of the GOP convention ; and defeated Roosevelt for the nomination.

** U. S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.

* June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician ( b. 1855 )

* Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Senator from Wisconsin

Image: Robert M La Follette, Sr. jpg | Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. of Wisconsin

The three states holding primaries to select delegates without the preference component were split: California chose a slate of delegates that supported Taft ; Wisconsin elected a slate that supported Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Pennsylvania elected a slate that supported its Senator Philander C. Knox.

Image: Robert M La Follette, Sr. jpg | Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin

Image: Robert M La Follette, Sr. jpg | Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin

Image: Robert M La Follette, Sr. jpg | Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin

Lord Chesterfield was sceptical whether " an impartial Character of Sr Robert Walpole, will or can be transmitted to Posterity, for he governed this Kingdom so long that the various passions of Mankind mingled, and in a manner incorporated themselves, with every thing that was said or writt concerning him.

Wren was born at East Knoyle in Wiltshire, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren Sr. ( 1589 – 1658 ) and Mary Cox, the only child of the Wiltshire squire Robert Cox from Fonthill Bishop.

Venturi was born in Philadelphia to Robert Venturi, Sr. and Vanna ( née Luizi ) Venturi and was raised as a Quaker.

Standing with Roosevelt are United States House of Representatives | Rep. Robert L. Doughton | Robert Doughton ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D-North Carolina | NC ); unknown person in shadow ; United States Senate | Sen. Robert F. Wagner | Robert Wagner ( D-New York | NY ); Rep. John D. Dingell, Sr. | John Dingell ( D-Michigan | MI ); Rep. Joshua Twing Brooks ( D-Pennsylvania ); the United States Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins ; Sen. Pat Harrison ( D-Mississippi | MS ); and Rep. David L. Lewis | David Lewis ( D-Maryland | MD ).