Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

Many expected Robinson to be the choice, but the party leader instead picked an unknown, new senior counsel called John Rogers.

Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called it the hardest ball he had ever seen hit without benefit of the wind, while " Cubs ' batting coach batting coach Rogers Hornsby ," reported Les Biederman of The Sporting News, " said it was the longest he ever witnessed and manager Bob Scheffing agreed it was No. 1 in his book.

Burnett was able to secure the rights to the songs by Kenny Rogers and the Gipsy Kings and also added tracks by Captain Beefheart, Moondog and the rights to a relatively obscure Bob Dylan song called " The Man in Me ".

The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue – which happened to be the address of the Circus Café, operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone organization, the Purple Gang, and a St. Louis gang called Egan's Rats.

However, the engagement was called off, possibly due to his affair around this time with the journalist Adela Rogers St. John, and in 1928 he married Jessica Stewart Sargent.

In June 1970, Nasser with support from King Hussein accepted the US-sponsored Rogers Plan which called for an end to hostilities and an Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory, but it was immediately rejected by Israel and the PLO, as well as most of the Arab states.

Prince was named after his father, whose stage name was Prince Rogers, and who performed with a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio.

In 1954 Shelly Manne recorded a piece called " Abstract No. 1 " with trumpeter Shorty Rogers and reedsmith Jimmy Giuffre which was freely improvised.

Possibly to downplay Capra's gaffe, Rogers then called third nominee George Cukor to join the two Franks on stage.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Arkansas Band of the Osage Nation settled in the Three Forks area ( the junction of the Arkansas River, Grand River and Verdigris River during the 1760s and established two villages called Pasuga and Pasona in what is now Rogers County.

A street that runs along the north of Rogers Lake is called Blood Street ; it has lent its name to the town's rowing team, the Blood Street Sculls.

In September, 1872, Asenath M. Rogers, Roberts ’ wife, surveyed and platted eleven acres and called it Gates.

The main street in Newcastle, Oklahoma used to be called the Ozark Trail, running from Rogers, Arkansas ( Ozarks ) to around Roswell, New Mexico.

His father was also called John Rogers and was a lorimer – a maker of bits and spurs – whose family came from Aston ; his mother was Margaret Wyatt, the daughter of a tanner with family in Erdington and Sutton Coldfield.

The SkyDome, called the Rogers Centre since 2005, was designed by architect Rod Robbie and structural engineer Michael Allen and was constructed by the EllisDon Construction company of London, Ontario and the Dominion Bridge Company of Lachine, Quebec.

The then Deputy Attorney General of the United States William P. Rogers, when later asked about the failure of the indictment of Ethel to extract a full confession from Julius, reportedly said, " She called our bluff.

Rogers wrote a play about Pontiac in 1765 called Ponteach: or the Savages of America, which helped to make Pontiac famous and began the myths about the Ottawa leader.

On June 4, 2001, Frank Rogers, on behalf of a company to be incorporated, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service called The High School Television Network, described as " devoted to the lifestyles of high school students across Canada.

Wilbur Lang Schramm ( 1907 – 1987 ), called by communication theorist Everett Rogers as the founder of communication study, focused his studies on the experience of the sender and receiver ( listener ).

Lee Rogers Berger, however, called the argument " weak ", and proposed that the finds be compared to other possibilities such as Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus sediba.

* Rogers Centre, a sports stadium in Toronto, Canada, formerly called " SkyDome "

* In Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, your team could equip a high rate of fire weapon called a " needler " which used needle-like projectiles.

The area is also home to Rogers and Lakehill Elementary ( Lakehill being the former name of Christmas Hill, with its prominent views of Swan and Blenkinsop lakes-the latter actually being earlier called " Lost Lake ").

Rogers sponsored a bill expressing the continued support of Congress for equal access of military recruiters to institutions of higher education.

" In the current version, most personal information would be stripped from data shared with the government, and the bill no longer defines intellectual property theft as something relating to national security " We think we're making huge progress with the privacy groups, so they understand what we're trying to accomplish, which isn't anything nefarious ," Rogers said "

Later that year, Senators Walter " Dee " Huddleston of Kentucky and Howard Baker of Tennessee introduced a bill to honor Cooper by renaming the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area to the Cooper National Recreation Area ; Kentucky Congressman Hal Rogers sponsored a parallel measure in the House.

Backed by Champ Hood, multi-instrumentalist ( of Uncle Walt's Band fame ), Ramsey could often be found on the same bill with another Dallas singer-songwriter, Alison Rogers.

With this inspiration and model, Edith Rogers introduced a bill to the 76th Congress in early 1941 to establish a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ( WAAC ) during World War II.

Rogers approached the Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, and with his strong support she reintroduced the bill to the 77th Congress with a new upper limit of 150, 000 women, and an amendment giving the women full military status.

Edith Rogers introduced a bill in October 1942 to make the WAACs a formal part of the United States Army Reserve.

Rogers and Oveta Culp Hobby, the first Director of the WAACs, drafted a new bill which was debated in the House for six months before passing.

After vehement objection by Eisenhower, who wrote " the women of America must share the responsibility for the security of their country in a future emergency as the women of England did in World War II "; the personal testimony of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal ; and support from every major military commander including the Chief of Naval Operations Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and MacArthur, the Commander of the U. S. Army Forces, Far East, who wrote, " we cannot ask these women to remain on duty, nor can we ask qualified personnel to volunteer, if we cannot offer them permanent status "; supporting articles in The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor, and the support of Senator and future President Lyndon B. Johnson and Representative Edith Rogers, the amended bill passed in the House but was rejected in the Senate.

Other service providers such as Rogers Communications and Aliant additionally, accept major credit cards within the bill payment sections of their websites.

The bill sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner ( D-N. Y .) and Rep. Edith Rogers ( R-Mass.

In 1984, CFOX moved its transmitter to the Rogers Broadcast multiplex on nearby Mount Seymour in order to reduce multipath reception problems.

Washington revealed that Rogers had been quietly funding operations of 65 small country schools for African Americans, and had given substantial sums of money to support Tuskegee and Hampton institutes.

The famed American humorist and author was an admirer of both women, and although his own personal finances were problematic, he helped arrange the funding of Keller's Radcliffe College education by his friend, financier and industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers.

In January 2003, Rogers ' colleagues selected him to be the first chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, which is responsible for funding and oversight of the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

In March 2003, Rogers ' ability to work through the bipartisan tangles of the Appropriations Committee won him the chairmanship on the subcommittee designated to control funding for the new Department of Homeland Security ,” noted Witherbee.

This lively dramatic tradition led to the funding, in 1924, by Yale benefactor Edward S. Harkness, to establish the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, and for the construction of the University Theatre, designed by James Gamble Rogers.

A separate application will be heard as part of the same public hearing for a new Montreal multicultural station called International Channel / Canal International ( ICI ), filed by a group led by Montreal's Nowrouzzahrai family ; Rogers has indicated that if CJNT's sale / conversion and the ICI licence are both approved, it will provide funding for, and make Omni programming available to, the new station.

Using the matching funds philosophy, after Rogers ' death, Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Fund continued and expanded the work, eventually funding over 5, 000 Rosenwald Schools between 1912 and 1932.

In fact, management of the funding Rogers was providing was handled by Boston financier Godfrey M. Hyams, with whom he had also worked on the Anaconda Company, and many other natural resource projects.

The leaders of the big railroads heard many rumors regarding possible sources of the mysterious funding, and Henry Rogers ' name had been mentioned, along with just about every other wealthy industrialist.

Rogers had been secretly funding much of Dr. Washington's work.

President Richard Nixon had wanted to cut the proposed funding to $ 10 million due to all the spending during the Vietnam War, and Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood, appeared before the committee to argue for the full $ 20 million.