* Roderick Thorp – The Detective

It is based on The Detective ( novel ) by Roderick Thorp and was one of the highest grossing films of 1968 in film and one of Sinatra's biggest Box-office hits.

The market anarchist Molinari Institute, headed by philosopher Roderick Long, is named after Molinari, who it calls the " originator of the theory of Market Anarchism.

Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Brande Roderick, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh — who filed a $ 35 million palimony suit against him — were a few of his many lovers.

The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively.

The Silurian system was first identified by British geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, who was examining fossil-bearing sedimentary rock strata in south Wales in the early 1830s.

* A Muslim army is invited into Ceuta by its governor, Count Julian, who, being an opponent of Roderick, encourages them to invade the Iberian peninsula.

As her biographer, Shelley Emling, noted, this contrasted with some of the prominent geologists who had used her finds, such as Buckland and Roderick Murchison, who ended up with multiple fossil species named after them.

He had three siblings, Thomas (" Tommy ," who himself appeared in a few Our Gang episodes as " Dynamite "), Amanda, and Roderick (" Rod ").

First season episodes featured host Alex McLeod and some designers who never returned to the show such as Dez Ryan and Roderick Shade, and was produced by Knoxville, Tennessee-based Ross Productions.

Rohnert Park was the home of Brande Nicole Roderick ( born June 13, 1974 ), who is an American model and actress.

The name of the town was changed to " Mountain City " in 1885, presumably at the urging of Roderick R. Butler ( 1827 – 1902 ), a prominent citizen and U. S. Congressman, who wanted the town's name to reflect its situation amidst one of the highest valleys in Tennessee.

Soon, Andrew Roderick, an off-duty Long Island Rail Road police officer who was picking up his wife from the train, boarded the train car and handcuffed Ferguson.

* In the 1999 Karen Marie Moning novel To Tame a Highland Warrior main character Grimm Roderick, whose real name is Gavrael McIllioch, is a berserker who discovers he is descended from a long line of the famous warriors.

Built in 1955, it was later named after Roderick McCrae, who was the Principal from 1955 to 1962.

* Roderick Bradley, who competes as " Spartan ", a gladiator in the UK TV series Gladiators

The second title of the piece, The Scourge of Simony, is justified by a sub-plot dealing with the attempts of one Academico to obtain a living from an ignorant country patron, Sir Roderick, who, however, presents it, on the recommendation of his son Amoretto, who has been bribed, to a non-university man Immerito.

In the early 19th century, the paleontology of the formation was studied intensively by Hugh Miller, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Roderick Murchison, and Adam Sedgwick -- Sedgwick's interpretation was the one that placed it in the Devonian: in fact it was he who coined the name of that period.

Zantiu-Braun is controlled by clones of Simon Roderick, who is motivated by the idea of uplifting the entire human race to his ideal.

But they are followed by a damaged Simon Roderick clone, who is determined to use all means to capture the technology for himself, not even trusting his clone brothers.

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA ( 22 February 1792 – 22 October 1871 ) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.

Justice Roderick L. Ireland, who voted with the majority, reported receiving threats against his life following the decision.

Some modern writers have alleged that his unsuccessful marriages were the result of homosexuality, but the chronicle of Charles of Viana acknowledges a son who predeceased his father at fifteen years of age in an accident and he had several known bastards: Ferdinand, William, and Roderick, all of unknown maternity.

Roderick " Roddy " George Toombs ( born April 17, 1954 ), better known by his ring name " Rowdy " Roddy Piper, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler and film actor who is currently signed to WWE.

In the summer of 1798 Roderick McKenzie, the cousin of Alexander Mackenzie ( explorer ), met a group of Indians on the Height of Land Portage who showed him the Kaministiquia route.

The town's magistrate Roderick Haig-Brown purchased a fishing cabin on Campbell River and wrote a number of books on fly fishing that are influential and well-loved around the world for both sport fishermen and conservationists.

From 1817 to 1841 he contributed to the Edinburgh Review many essays on the progress of geological science, and reviews of the groundbreaking books of William Smith ( geologist ), Charles Lyell, and Roderick Murchison ; he also wrote Notes on the Progress of Geology in England for the Philosophical Magazine ( 1832 – 1833 ).

L. Sprague de Camp, in his Lovecraft: A Biography, wrote that " ccording to the late expert Thomas O. Mabbott, P. Lovecraft, in " Supernatural Horror ", solved a problem in the interpretation of Poe " by arguing that " Roderick Usher, his sister Madeline, and the house all shared one common soul ".

During this era, William Wordsworth wrote The Conventions of Cintra, praising Spanish and Portuguese resistance to Napoleonic force ; Lord Byron would go on to praise Amazonian women in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, inverting the " polite " norms of femininity that the modern " civilized " world placed on them ; and, finally, Scott would write about similar events in The Visions of Don Roderick.

Geikie wrote a biography of Edward Forbes ( with G Wilson ), and biographies of his predecessors Sir Roderick Murchison ( two volumes, 1875 ) and Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay ( 1895 ).

He wrote the following and more: The Adventures of Roderick Random ( 1748 ), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ), The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom ( 1753 ), The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves ( 1762 ), The History and Adventures of an Atom ( 1769 ), and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ).

Roderick MacLeish in the Times Literary Supplement wrote: " Like Joyce, Higgins uses language in torrents, beautifully crafted, ultimately intending to create a panoramic impression.

* The museum is mentioned in chapter XII of Henry James's 1875 novel Roderick Hudson.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

Although Roderick Hudson featured mostly American characters in a European setting, James made the Europe – America contrast even more explicit in his next novel.

* Closer ( novel ), a novel by Roderick Gordon

As an example, when Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever was adapted into the 1988 film Die Hard, the novel was republished as a paperback tie-in under the Die Hard title with the film's poster on the cover.

The narrator attempts to calm Roderick by reading aloud The Mad Tryst, a novel involving a knight named Ethelred who breaks into a hermit's dwelling in an attempt to escape an approaching storm, only to find a palace of gold guarded by a dragon.

It also, like Sladek's earlier novel Roderick, mocks the notion of the Three Laws of Robotics and suggests that there is no way such complex moral principles could be hard-wired into any intelligent being ; Tik-Tok decides that the " asimov circuits " are in fact a collective delusion, or a form of religion, which robots have been tricked into believing.

Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine is a 1980 science fiction novel by John Sladek.

The two books were originally intended as a single longer novel, and were finally reissued together in 2001 as The Complete Roderick.

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* Spiral ( Tunnels novel ), a 2011 / 12 novel in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon

* Freefall ( novel ), the third book of the Tunnels series, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

* The prelude is an important element of the plot of Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn novel Overture to Death, written in 1939

The eighth Jeeves novel, Jeeves in the Offing chronicles another visit by Bertie Wooster to his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court, and marks the beginning of a friendship between Bertie and Sir Roderick Glossop, who in previous novels shared a great dislike for one another.

* Tunnels ( novel ), 2007 novel by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

* When in Rome ( novel ), a Roderick Alleyn mystery by Ngaio Marsh

The experiences of his early life provided graphic backing for his first novel " Roderick Random " ( 1748 ).