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  Robert Edwin Peary - LoveToKnow 1911
ROBERT EDWIN PEARY (1856-), American Arctic explorer, was born at Cresson, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of May 1856.
He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1877, and in 1881 became a civil engineer in the U.S. navy with the rank of lieutenant.
The expedition returned in the season of 1894, leaving Peary with his coloured servant Henson and Mr Hugh G. Lee to renew the attempt to cross the inland ice in the next year.
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 Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee [CS] and the Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Rapidan in an attempt to outflank the Army of the Potomac.
In 1793 "Lighthorse Harry" married Ann Carter and Robert E. Lee was the fourth child of the marriage, born January 19, 1807.
Robert E. Lee wanted to become a West Point cadet, a fact that led to a meeting in 1824 between young Lee and the father of nullification, Southern nationalist John C. Calhoun.
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  Lee-Fendall House Museum
Edmund Jennings Lee was born at Leesylvania plantation on May 20, 1772 and was the fifth son of Henry Lee, II and Lucy Grymes.
Robert Fleming Lee died in 1913 and was buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia.
Julia Eustis Lee was born at the Pikesville Arsenal in Maryland in 1830.
www.leefendallhouse.org /about_residents_otherlee.html   (2473 words)

  
 General Robert E. Lee
Lee was a 4th generation Virginian, son of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (one of George Washington's favorite lieutenants), and Lee's wife, Mary Anne Custis, was the great granddaughter of Martha Washington.
Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at "Stratford" in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Henry and Anne Hill Lee.
Lee was sincere in his feelings in not discussing the war or the results of it, letting the record of his army speak for itself.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Robert Lee
Robert Edwin Lee was born on October 15, 1918, in Elyria, Ohio.
Lee has received an honorary doctorate in literature from Ohio Wesleyan, a doctor of letters from the College of Wooster, and a doctor of humanities from Ohio State.
For twenty years, Lee served as an adjunct professor of playwriting at UCLA and was committed to new plays and new playwrights.
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 Robert E. Lee by Gail Jarvis
Lee soon learned that there was another obstacle; an application for a pardon had to be accompanied by an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Lee did his best to explain his motives to this group and he tried to assuage their anger.
Lee's dedication to his native State of Virginia chartered his course for the bitter Civil War years, causing him to reluctantly resign from a distinguished career in the United States Army and to serve as General of the Army of Northern Virginia.
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 Robert Edwin Lee Biography Summary
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee are best known for two plays, Inherit the Wind (performed in 1955) and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970), which together had more than three million copies in print by the end of the 1990s.
Robert Edwin Lee (October 15, 1918 - July 8, 1994), was an American playwright and lyricist.
Robert Lee Pryor, 94, a plant geneticist and horticulturalist who specialized in the hybridization of plants to meet the needs of florists and landscapers, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 10 at Hillhaven Nursing Center in Adelphi.
www.bookrags.com /Robert_Edwin_Lee   (212 words)

  
 Life in the Model City: Richard Lee
Richard Lee was born in New Haven in 1916.
Lee used masterful political tact to achieve an extraordinary amount of change during his eight terms of service to the city.
Lee was elected to his sixth term on November 4, 1963.
www.yale.edu /nhohp/modelcity/lee.html   (143 words)

  
 Robert E. Lee: Questions and Answers
Robert twice visited his father’s grave at the home of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene on Cumberland Island, Georgia, the first time in January 1862 when Robert was strengthening the Confederate defenses of Savannah, and the final time in the spring of 1870 when he toured the south to visit the grave of his daughter.
Lee traveled to Georgia by sea accompanied only by Nat, the elderly family coachman and house slave that Lee’s recently deceased mother had willed to her grandaughter Mildred and who the family was sending south with hopes that the milder climate would restore his declining health.
Lee’s three sons served as officers in the Confederate Army, Rob as a captain in the Rockbridge Artillery, Rooney as a major general in the cavalry, and Custis as a brigadier general and aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis.
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 The lee resource
Lee did not wear the insignia of a Confederate general, displaying only the three stars of a Confederate colonel, equivalent to his last U.S. Army rank, until the Civil War had been won and he could be promoted, in peacetime, to general in the Confederate Army.
Lee took the lack of response to mean that the government wished to retain the right to prosecute him in the future.
Robert E. Lee was 5' 11" tall and wore a size 4-1/2 boot, equivalent to a modern 6-1/2 boot.
www.artimmersion.com /Lab-to-Lepr/lee.php   (6469 words)

  
 The Scale of the Universe Debate: Hubble Memoir
Edwin Hubble, by his inspired use of the largest telescope of his time, the 100 inch reflector on the Mount Wilson Observatory, revolutionized our knowledge of the size, structure, and properties of the universe.
Edwin Hubble thus became the outstanding leader in the observational approach to cosmology, as contrasted with the previous work that involved much philosophical speculation.
Edwin's mother was Virginia Lee James, from Virginia City, Nevada, and his father was John Powell Hubble, from Missouri, where Edwin himself was born in Marshfield on November 20, l889, during a visit of the parents to his grandparents.
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 Robert Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Lee (midwifery), Regius Professor of Midwifery, University of Glasgow
Robert Lee McCollum (better known as Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk) is sometimes referred to as "Robert Lee".
Robert Lee (born 1961), English European Tour golfer.
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 The Herald-Mail
Robert Edwin Lee, 42, of 765 Unit C Eppley Road in Mechanicsburg, Pa., had been driving nearly 90 mph during the race, police said.
Lee was thrown from the motorcycle, and hit the ground and slid along the quarter-mile drag strip, police said.
Lee was wearing protective equipment during the race, including a full-face helmet, leather coat and leather gloves, police said.
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 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Robert Stevick has said that "Robinson's poetry deserves the attention it does not contrive to attract" (Barnard, Centenary Essays, 66).
Sometimes Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters have been confused, with people mistakenly assuming that Masters had an influence on Robinson, when the reverse must be true.
The most obvious and fruitful writer for comparison/contrast is Robert Frost, only five years younger than Robinson but nearly twenty years behind him in publication.
www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/robinson.html   (788 words)

  
 ROBEX - Definition
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morris, robert the bruce, robert traill spence lowell jr.
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 Auntie Mame
Lee family correspondence includes letters to Robert E. Lee from various relatives, which include his aunts Esther and Gertrude, as well as letters between his mother Elvira Taft Lee (aka Dimple) and her parents.
Undated and miscellaneous correspondence to Lawrence and Lee.
Correspondence from Greer Garson to Lawrence and Lee.
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Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee Jarome Lawrence, an honored playwright and receiver of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Theatre Association.
Robert Lee also has received numerous awards in the field of writing, and has worked with Lawrence in other works as well.
Robert Edwin Lee was born on October 15, 1917, in Elyria, Ohio; as well as Lawrence.
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 nicholson - nicg38.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Lyston Edwin Morgan (Lyston Morgan, Josephine Barker, Mary "Polly" Nicholson, Ira R, William, John, John, Robert, Robert, Robert) was born on 9 Nov 1922 in Pickens Co., SC.
Bertha married George Raymond Hendricks, son of Franklin Robert Edwin Lee Hendricks and Martha Ola Smith, on 13 Nov 1913 in Pickens Co., SC.
Mary Gertrude Parrott (Harriet Elizabeth Holden, John E Holden, Martha "Patsy" Nicholson, Ira R, William, John, John, Robert, Robert, Robert) was born on 20 Jun 1898 in Pickens Co., SC.
www.homestead.com /oldpend/files/nicg38.htm   (686 words)

  
 The Apotheosis of Robert E. Lee - Lingering Bitterness   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the late summer of 1865, just months after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, the board of trustees at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia appointed him president of the college.
Such displays of bitterness so soon after the cessation of hostilities come as no surprise; General Lee had, after all, made war on the North for nearly five years, and done it exceedingly well.
Its life was to be long in the South, nurtured as it was by insecurity, the need to justify so grand a failure, and sheer nostalgia.
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 ROB'T E. LEE
Robert Edwin Lee Name: ROB'T E. The 1st one Type: Sidewheel wooden hulled packet Size: 285.5' X 46' X 9', 1,456.31 tons Power: 40s- 10 ft., eight 42" X 28' boilers allowed 120 lbs steam Launched: 1866, New Albany, Ind. by DeWitt's "lower yard" Destroyed: 1876, dismantled at Portland Ky..
LEE had to be grounded to avoid sinking.
Robert E. Lee, not for the military commander.
www.riverboatdaves.com /aboutboats/rlee.html   (572 words)

  
 Robert E. Lee the Soldier Cd-Rom
By Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice; This is neither a life of Lee nor a history of the Civil War of 1861-65.
It is an appreciation of Lee's generalship giving his plans, intentions, and opinions in his own words.
Also included is a chronological table showing in parallel columns those actions in which Lee took a direct or indirect part and those which took place elsewhere.
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 Robert E. Lee's Report Concerning the Attack at Harper's Ferry
Emperor,) I have delivered into the hands of the marshal of the western district of Virginia and the sheriff of Jefferson county.
A list of the killed and wounded, as far as came to my knowledge, is herewith annexed, (marked C;) and I enclose a copy of the" Provisional Constitution and ordinances for the people of the United States," of which there were a large number prepared for issue by the insurgents.
Colonel Lee represents to them, in all frankness, that it is im­possible for them to escape; that the armory is surrounded on all sides by troops; and that if he is compelled to take them by force he cannot answer for their safety.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/leereport.html   (1629 words)

  
 Debating Robert Lee | Edwin Hodge
Born and raised on a military base in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Edwin Hodge moved to New York with his family when he was 3 years old.
After guest appearances in "7th Heaven" and "Grounded For Life," Edwin Hodge returns to the WB in "Jack and Bobby" as Jack's best friend Marcus Ride.
On the big screen, Hodge was most recently seen in the Dennis Quaid film, "The Alamo" where he portrayed one of the battle's seven survivors who lived to tell the true story.
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 ROBERT RHODES LEE FAMILY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ROBERT RHODES: He was born 6 April 1838 in Berlin, Rensselaer Co., New York.
She died 6 May 1906 in amy, Dunn Co., Wisc. and is buried in the Waneka Cem., Dunn Co., Wisc. She was the daughter of William and Ann SKINNER.
Robert Edwin: He was born 29 Apr. 1908 in Dunn Co., Wisc. He died 31 May 1968 and is
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 WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Robert Edwin Lee grew up in a traditional working-class family in Elyria, Ohio.
Lee graduated from Elyria High School, and left Elyria in 1934 to study at Northwestern University in Chicago.
As a professor, Lee taught that the role of a theater artist is to explore political, psychological, and philosophical issues through drama; and that the resulting product should then enlighten audiences while also entertaining them.
www.ohioana-authors.org /lawrence_lee/highlights.php   (1375 words)

  
 Today in History: May 13
In 1831, Custis's daughter Mary Anna married Lieutenant Robert E. Lee in the main hall of the mansion.
Lee's eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee, challenged the government's assumption of the property for years, eventually securing $150,000 in compensation.
Each year, Memorial Day is honored at Arlington National Cemetery by the placing of a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which houses the remains of three unknown servicemen from World War I, World War II, and the Korean Conflict.
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 Robert Henri Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
Robert Kushner, Henri, pl. 18 from the portfolio, The Joy of Ornament, 1980
World-famous photographer Robert Capa (1913-1954) is known first and foremost for his courageous cov...
Lee Krasner is the first full-scale retrospective of the major American painter Lee Krasner (1908 -...
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 Modern Muse Theatre
Robert Edwin Lee was born on October 15, 1918 not far from Jerome Lawrence, in a distant suburb of Cleveland called Elyria.
After Lee graduated from Elyria High School, he studied at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1934 before transferring to Ohio Wesleyan in 1935, where he was a student from 1935 to 1937.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote Inherit the Wind as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era.
www.modernmusetheatre.com /0506shows/itw.htm   (1496 words)

  
 Robert Aldrich: Interviews
As he speaks of them, of his on-going battles with censors, and of his audacious but failed attempt to create his own studio, he talks bluntly, sometimes ferociously, about struggling to make movies that accented his uncompromising view of life.
Eugene L. Miller is the author, with Edwin T. Arnold, of The Films and Career of Robert Aldrich.
Edwin T. Arnold, a professor of English at Appalachian State University, is co-editor of Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy and A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy (both published by the University Press of Mississippi).
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2003/robert_aldrich_interviews.html   (340 words)

  
 Robert Lockwood, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He learned the guitar, at age eleven, from Robert Johnson, the mysterious delta bluesman, who was living with his mother.
By the age of fifteen, Robert was playing professionally, often with Johnson; sometimes with Johnny Shines or Rice Miller, who would soon be calling himself Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Plays Robert and Robert, a Black and Blue recording of a solo show in Paris in 1982, was re-issued on Evidence in 1993.
www.robertlockwood.com /page1.html   (1286 words)

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