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  Walker 1847
Walker, despite being a man of small stature, "stooping and diminutive, with a wheezy voice and expressionless face," sustained a multitude of activities during his lifetime, including display of remarkable leadership and vote-gathering abilities.
Walker enthusiastically endorsed the annexation of Texas, which led to his entry into the Polk Cabinet in 1845.
Robert J. Walker was born on July 19, 1804, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, the son of Judge Jonathan Hoge Walker.
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  WALKER BROTHERS>
Robert Neill Walker was born in Maryport, Cumberland, England on April 27, 1851, the second son of William and Ann (nee Donald) Walker.
Robert and his older brother Wilson (born in 1845) were obviously influenced by this family history, because both took to sea at a young age and became master mariners.
Robert N. Walker had served as commander of the Heian-maru (1877- 78) and Urada-maru (1879-81) and was commanding the Hiogo-maru at the time of formation of NYK in 1885.
www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/walker.html   (6752 words)

  
 Robert Walker - Biography - AOL Music
The music Walker and his bandmates produce on their two Rooster Blues releases, 1997's Promised Land and 2001's Rock the Night, is raw and in your face, straight out of the juke joints of the Delta.
Walker was so successful as a farmer and entrepreneur that he was able to buy himself a limousine, a bus, and a motorcycle.
Walker first developed his unique one-handed guitar style -- which he demonstrates a few minutes of at most of his shows -- while he was in Chicago, playing on Maxwell Street.
music.aol.com /artist/robert-walker/135603/biography   (525 words)

  
 Robert Walker Charleston cabinetmaker Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
Walker's work is identified by the existence of at least three labeled or inscribed pieces and more than five unmarked case pieces.
Walker was born on January 24, 1772, in Cupar, County Fife, Scotland.
Walker's copy of the 1793 edition of The Cabinet-Makers' London Book of Prices has now disappeared, but Bradford Rauschenberg examined it in 1979 when it was still in the possession of the Walker family He recorded the inscription at the top of the title page: "Robt.
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 Robert Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (1838-1903), Congressman from Pennsylvania
Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe (born 1938), British law lord and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Robert Smith Walker (born 1942), member of the Congress of the United States from Pennsylvania.
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 Robert Walker - Alfred Hitchcock Wiki
Walker soon found work in radio while Phylis stayed home and gave birth to two sons in succession.
Walker's charming demeanor and boyish good looks caught on with audiences and he worked steadily playing "boy-next-door" roles in films such as "See Here, Private Hargrove" (1944) and "Her Highness and the Bellboy" (1945).
Although Walker continued to work steadily in Hollywood, he was distraught over the divorce and was soon prone to drinking, emotional outbursts and eventually, a nervous breakdown.
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 Robert Walker - Music Composer
Robert Walker returned to his roots in Northamptonshire in April 2004 and is now reacquainting himself with the life he left behind.
Most of Robert Walker's music is published by Novello and Peters Edition, but check his list of works for new updates and works available through the net.
Of a sort; but it all went pear-shaped and Walker ran away to the island of Bali and, like the Canadian composer Colin McPhee fifty years before, he built himself a palace out of bamboo and thatch, engaged servants and ate lotuses for 10 years.
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 Robert Hudson Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walker soon found work in radio while Phylis stayed home and gave birth to two sons in succession, Robert Walker, Jr.
Walker's charming demeanor and boyish good looks caught on with audiences and he worked steadily playing "boy-next-door" roles in films such as See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) and Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945).
Although Walker continued to work steadily in Hollywood, he was distraught over the divorce and was soon prone to drinking, emotional outbursts and eventually, a nervous breakdown.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Hudson_Walker   (661 words)

  
 MWP: Walker Percy (1916-1990)
There, Walker was intellectually stimulated by his cousin, himself a writer, and their scholarly guests.
Walker enrolled in the University of North Carolina in 1934, studying chemistry, and entered medical school at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he received his medical degree in 1941.
The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy's Diagnosis of the Malaise.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/percy_walker   (551 words)

  
 Robert Walker - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Walker was approached in 1997 for a role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's sixth season, but he was "not interested in renewing his acting career" according to Ira Steven Behr.
Walker is the son of actor Robert Walker and Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones.
Walker went on to gain some fame for his supporting role in the 1963 film The Ceremony, for which he received a Golden Globe award as Most Promising Male Newcomer.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Robert_Walker,_Jr.   (327 words)

  
 Robert Walker and Elizabeth Siddle
According to the 1851 census Robert Walker was born circa 1805 in Morley, Batley Parish.
The 1851 census indicates that Robert Walker was born in Morley in Batley Parish.
Robert Walker of Adwalton, age 52, was buried September 22, 1857, Chapelry of Drighlington, parish of Birstall (Parish record).
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 SPACE.com -- Robert Walker: Space Industry Must Get Public, Congress 'Buy-In' of New Space Vision
Walker is a member of the newly created Presidential Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, headed by former Air Force Secretary Edward C. Aldridge, Jr.
Walker said for the vision to become reality, "there has to be a public acceptance and a congressional buy-in." He urged the broad space community not to divide and protect efforts that won't move the new space agenda forward.
Walker cited other issues to be wrestled with, such as: export controls and the health of the supplier base of the U.S. aerospace industry; the role of "our foreign friends" in shaping the new space exploration agenda; and dealing with huge workforce problems while inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers.
www.space.com /news/staif_bush_040210.html   (1047 words)

  
 Hall of Fame to Induct Robert Walker
Walker continuously makes scholarly contributions to the social work field at both national and international levels on issues including intimate partner violence, substance abuse, child custody, and head injury.
Walker has impacted numerous mental health therapists through his training manuals on risk assessment, evaluation in forensic cases, and biopsychosocial evaluation.
Walker’s other community involvement includes work with LexLinc’s Investment Commission, Alternative Sentencing Committee for Fayette County Circuit and District Courts, Mayor’s Task Force on Public Inebriates, Mayor’s Task Force on Drunk Driving, and with the Provider Cabinet in Fayette County.
www.uky.edu /PR/News/Archives/2005/Apr2005/050422_sw_hof_walker.htm   (716 words)

  
 Robert Walker
Walker's sense of tonal balance, with its simultaneous see-sawing of dominant and sub-dominant harmony to definte the shifting tonic, could only come from a lifetime of singing, his word-setting from a real love of poetry.
Walker's grasp of the materials of his art is such that it allows him, like Walton and Haydn, to be witty without being shallow.
The unfamiliarity of Walker's combination of all four of these attributes, and a common confounding of simplicity with naivete, may explain the neglect his music has suffered, despite his success with audiences that had the chance to hear it.
www.chesternovello.com /Default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=1661   (862 words)

  
 Robert Walker | Biography (1918-1951)
But the Walkers were divorced that year (thanks in large measure to Selznick's influence on and feelings for Jennifer), and Robert never really got over it.
Walker played in several minor films (including a 1951 Western, Vengeance Valley cast as a slimy villain) before tackling Strangers with Hitchcock, who harnessed his natural edginess and released it sparingly, enabling the troubled young star to deliver his finest performance.
Walker died suddenly while working on My Son John (1952); outtakes and close-ups from Strangers were edited in to help cover his absence.
www.leninimports.com /robert_walker.html   (398 words)

  
 The Honorable Robert S. Walker
Cited as one of Washington’s top lobbyists by The Hill newspaper and as a “superstar lobbyist” by Financial Wire, Robert S. Walker, a Bush Administration confidante and former Republican Congressman, is recognized as one of Washington’s leading political strategists.
Walker was the first sitting House Member to be awarded NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, and in 2004, was Walker presented NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Prior to his election to Congress in 1976, Walker was a high school teacher and a congressional aide.
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 Amazon.ca: Double Edge: Books: Robert Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In his acclaimed Instinct novels, Robert W. Walker has probed the deepest recesses of the criminal mind, bringing us face-to-face with killers as brilliant as they are vicious.
Now Walker returns to the gritty streets of Houston he first explored in Cutting Edge, where Officer Lucas Stonecoat and police psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger face a new predator: the Snatcher.
Robert W. Walker knows how to take his audience one step beyond the cutting edge with a mesmerizing thriller.
www.amazon.ca /Double-Edge-Robert-Walker/dp/0515123846   (782 words)

  
 Robert Walker - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In his late teens, Robert Walker showed acting talent in college productions, leading him to enroll at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1938.
Robert Walker, 32-year-old film star whose own desperate and protracted struggle with dark emotional forces topped any of his conflicts on the screen,...
Robert Walker - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Robert Walker Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Robert Walker
Robert Walker co-starred with Judy Garland in the 1944 film The Clock.
After his separation from actress Jennifer Jones he drank heavily and was given an ultimatum by MGM: submit to treatment at the Menninger Psychiatric Clinic or be fired.
After Walker was discharged, he began regular therapy with psychiatrist Frederick Hacker.
www.cchr.org /index.cfm/9175   (83 words)

  
 Robert Walker Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
Robert Walker Macbeth, R. E., Weary with Watching, plate 1 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol.
Robert Walker Macbeth, R. E., The Bait Gatherers, plate 1 in the book, The Etcher (London: Williams and Norgate, 1879), vol.
Photographer and environmental activist Bob Walker found in the beauty of the East Bay hills the sti...
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 Robert Walker
Robert Walker was an actor who made an unforgettable impact in his short star career.
He was married to actress Jennifer Jones and they had two sons, Robert Jr and Michael Walker, who both became actors.
Robert Walker is remembered for the sincerity and innocence he brought to his early roles, and his strong dramatic performances in the later ones.
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 Robert Walker (1600 - 1658) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Mr Walker holds a number of high profile corporate positions, including joint MD of Hudson Conway Limited, Chairman of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, and Trustee, National Gallery of Victoria.
The exhibition places Walkers work in the context of the history of photography in the environmental movement, demonstrating its relationship to the work of such artist/activists as Ansel Adams, Phillip Hyde, Eliot Porter, the Mono Lake Committee...
Curated by Martin Friedman, former director of the Walker Art Center, the exhibition features 17 objects ranging in height from five to 24 feet installed throughout the McNay's 23 acres of landscaped...
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 AMW.com | Robert Walker - Fugitive
So detailed is his identiy switch that agents have his alias Robert Walker as the name on their arrest warrant because it was the only name they knew at the time he was indicted.
Since Walker was an alien, cops say he agreed to deportation, and was supposed to surrender himself to his probation officer -- but Walker never showed.
Authorities say Walker is so fearful of being arrested that he refuses to drive anywhere because he doesn't want to risk being caught in another traffic arrest.
www.amw.com /fugitives/case.cfm?id=34191   (536 words)

  
 Robert Walker Obituary
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 – Robert Walker, 32-year-old film star whose own desperate and protracted struggle with dark emotional forces topped any of his conflicts on the screen, died last night while undergoing medical treatment for the latest of many tragic crises in his life.
Walker, whose career as a star in a score of pictures had been concentrated in a brief eight years, only last Saturday had completed work in the Helen Hayes film “My Son John” at Paramount studios and had been reported in an apparently cheerful mood.
They had two children, Robert, 11, and Michael, 10, who had been visiting the actor this summer, but who were away from the home visiting friends when Mr.
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 Robert B. Walker
He is licensed to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia and Tennessee.
Walker represents clients in civil litigation, including litigation for estate planners, probate and trust administrators; in guardianship proceedings; and in business entity formation, operation and dissolution.
Walker has a national practice representing transportation companies, including property and passenger motor carriers, in matters dealing with state and federal departments of transportation, as well as general business matters such as customs, contract and loss and damage claims.
www.rwalkerlaw.com   (147 words)

  
 Robert Walker (1918 - 1951) - Find A Grave Memorial
He was the son of Horace Walker, a Salt Lake City newspaper editor.
Jennifer became involved with Selznick and she and Robert divorced.
Suffering a severe panic attack in the early evening, he was given sodium amytal, administered by a doctor.
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 Green Left - Memorial to Robert Walker
Robert Walker died in Fremantle Prison at the age of 25, after suffering a brutal beating.
Speakers at the ceremony, organised by the Canberra branch of the international writers' organisation PEN, included senior Ngunawal elder Agnes Shea, Jackie Huggins from the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and Robert Walker's sister Charlotte Walker.
After reading from a collection of Robert's poems she had published, Charlotte dedicated the book to “all the Aboriginal people who died in police custody”.
www.greenleft.org.au /1997/300/15368   (224 words)

  
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Set in a time when cops used their brains and guts--not test tubes--to solve crimes, CITY FOR RANSOM is crime-noir at its finest.
Walker's crisp, unapologetic prose takes us on a gritty, haunting hunt for a serial killer in 1890s Chicago.
Walker knows how to scare you, he knows how to keep the pages flying, crime-fighting, this novel is an old-fashioned but fresh surprise."
www.robertwwalkerbooks.com /default2.htm   (545 words)

  
 Guitar Nine Records - Robert Walker "One For The Road"
Stuttgart-born German guitarist Robert Walker started playing guitar at the age of 15, influenced by Rory Gallagher, Ritchie Blackmore and modern players such as Joe Satriani, Andy Timmons and Steve Vai.
Playing in numerous rock cover bands did not satisfy Walker, and he decided to make his own way in instrumental music and as a songwriter.
In Walker's opinion, a guitar instrumental CD has to be more than a technique showcase - it has to have songs, even without vocals - the guitar has to be the vocalist.
www.guitar9.com /onefortheroad.html   (280 words)

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