`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.

Selkirk was discovered by the Dukes captain, Woodes Rogers, who referred to him as Governor of the island.

Rogers ' A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope was published in 1712 and included an account of Selkirk's ordeal.

Rogers stated that " one may see that Solitude and Retirement from the World is not such an unsufferable State of Life as most Men imagine, especially when People are fairly call'd or thrown into it unavoidably, as this Man was ".

D-AMPS was a digital, 2G standard used mainly by AT & T Mobility and U. S. Cellular in the United States, Rogers Wireless in Canada, Telcel in Mexico, Telecom Italia Mobile ( TIM ) in Brazil, VimpelCom in Russia, Movilnet in Venezuela, and Cellcom in Israel.

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

While an appeal of his suspension was pending, Rogers appeared at the 2005 All-Star Game in Detroit, where fans loudly booed him.

This project was announced in July 2007, with the architects Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners.

Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987 ) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

Towards the end of his life Carl Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland.

( 2002 ) using six criteria such as citations and recognition, Rogers was found to be the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20th century and second, among clinicians, only to Sigmund Freud.

His father, Walter A. Rogers, was a civil engineer and his mother, Julia M. Cushing, was a housewife and devout Pentecostal Christian.

Rogers was intelligent and could read well before kindergarten.

Carl Rogers was also one of the people who questioned the rise of McCarthyism in 1950s.

In 1987, Rogers suffered a fall that resulted in a fractured pelvis: he had life alert and was able to contact paramedics.

Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize for his work though the nomination arrived just days after his death.

Even before the publication of Client-Centered Therapy in 1951, Rogers believed that the principles he was describing could be applied in a variety of contexts and not just in the therapy situation.

The first empirical evidence of the effectiveness of the client-centered approach was published in 1941 at the Ohio State University by Elias Porter, using the recordings of therapeutic sessions between Carl Rogers and his clients.

Originally, Rogers ' mask was a separate piece of material, but an early engagement had it dislodged, thus almost exposing his identity.

To prevent a recurrence of the situation, Rogers modified the mask with connecting material to his uniform, an added benefit of which was extending his armor to cover his previously exposed neck.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

They adopted two children: Roxanne ( born 1944, adopted 1944 ) and Ronald Charles ( born 1937, adopted 1943, a. k. a. Ron Pickford Rogers ).

Thomas, born in Missouri but raised in Rogers, Arkansas after his mother remarried, began conducting his nomadic, lucrative career of hustling in the rural United States in the early 1900s.

* Prince ( musician ), born Prince Rogers Nelson, American musician popularly referred to as Vitamin P

Prince ( born Prince Rogers Nelson ; June 7, 1958 ) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw.

Ginger Rogers ( born Virginia Katherine McMath ; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995 ) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.

Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, the only child of William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Lela Emogene ( née Owens ; 1891 – 1977 ).

Rogers ' entertainment career was born one night when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in.

* Lady Mary Seymour ( born 1552 ) married three times ( Andrew Rogers, of Bryanstone, Dorset ; Sir Henry Peyton ; General Francis Cosbie )

* John Rogers Anderson ( born 1941 ), Canadian admiral and ambassador to NATO

William Wayne McMillan Rogers III ( born April 7, 1933 ) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the role of ' Trapper John ' McIntyre in the U. S. television series, M * A * S * H.

The son of a Rhodes Scholar, Rogers was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

Chris Rogers also known as Caesar the Geezer, Caesar the Boogieman, and Deck Rider ( born 9 November 1958 ) is a British radio personality of Greek descent.

Their son James Grier Ward ( 1765 – 1824 ) was born in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, and married Catherine Rogers ( 1776 – 1829 ).

* Steve Rogers ( born 1949 ), former pitcher for the Montreal Expos.

Joseph Rogers was born August 21, 1764 near Cook's Town, Ireland, the son of James Rogers and his wife Elizabeth Brown.

* Rogers Hornsby, Major League Baseball great, was born in Winters on April 27, 1896.

* George Rogers Clark Floyd, Secretary of Wisconsin Territory, and member of the West Virginia House of Delegates was born in Christiansburg.

Rogers was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 40 miles ( 65 km ) southeast of Pittsburgh, to James and Nancy Rogers ; he had one sister, Elaine.

* Pamela Rogers Turner ( born 1977 ), American teacher convicted in 2005 as a sex offender