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 Frank Roy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy decided to mention this, no-one - apart from some local residents - were aware of this unannounced trip to open a shrine dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Irish potato famines.
Roy not mentioned this the visit would have gone ahead without any problem but had then to be rescheduled and ultimately took the matter out of the hands of the local community and into the hands of Scottish Politicians.
Frank Roy is most remembered locally for claiming that the visit of the Irish Prime Minister to Carfin Grotto was mis-timed, coming on the same day as his visit to a Rangers - Celtic football match in Glasgow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Roy   (308 words)

  
 Roy Cohn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cohn's cross examination of Ethel's brother produced the testimony (later found to be perjured) that was mostly responsible for the Rosenbergs' conviction and execution.
Cohn is portrayed in an episode of The X-Files, in which an elderly former FBI agent (Darren McGavin), speaks to Agent Mulder about the early years of the McCarthy era and the beginning of the X-Files.
Cohn graduated from Columbia Law School at the age of 20, and began working for the office of United States Attorney Irving Saypol in Manhattan, a position many have attributed to his politically connected father.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Cohn   (1335 words)

  
 Roy Romer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romer grew up in the southeastern Colorado town of Holly and is also the owner, with one of his sons, of a chain of John Deere equipment stores in Colorado, Virginia and Florida.
Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas) was the 39th governor of Colorado.
In January 1997, Romer was elected to serve as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Romer   (695 words)

  
 Roy Focker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy died in episode 18 (Macross's Pineapple Salad or Robotech's Farewell, Big Brother), from wounds sustained while defending the SDF-1 Macross from Milia Fallyna's force of Queadluun-Rau battle suits (Miriya Parino's Quadrono Battalion in Robotech).
Roy Focker is a character from the Japanese anime series Macross and the prequel OVA Macross Zero.
In Robotech Roy's portrayal was toned down for younger audiences by producer Carl Macek.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Fokker   (312 words)

  
 rediff.com: Indian Telly Awards
Roy emerged on the television scene as the face of 'The World This Week', a weekly newsmagazine covering world news and entertainment, which was hugely popular.
Prannoy Roy of NDTV was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
www.rediff.com /news/2002/nov/03sld4.htm   (312 words)

  
 Roy Bailey (politician) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Roy H. Bailey (born December 16, 1928 in (additional info and facts about Radville, Saskatchewan) Radville, Saskatchewan) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician.
Bailey was a school trustee in Borderland, Saskatchewan from 1984 to 1993.
Bailey ran for the (additional info and facts about leadership of the Saskatchewan PC Party) leadership of the Saskatchewan PC Party in 1973, placing second to Dick Collver.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roy_bailey_(politician).htm   (248 words)

  
 Roy Masters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Masters claims this to be the original state of mankind before the fall in the Garden of Eden (much of this philosophy resembles Buddhism, particularly Zen Buddhism, or the Shambhala warrior tradition as taught in Vajrayana Bhuddism.
Roy Masters teaches that both predators and parasites will use a number of means of living off of others, often through subterfuge and oppertunistic exploitation of other's needs, using false pretenses of aid, assistance, relief, or, most common of all "love".
Roy Masters holds a form of Messianic Judaism with heavy mystical and intellectual influence from Jewish and Catholic sources such as C.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Masters   (2204 words)

  
 Roy Bean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Bean was born to a senior Phantly Roy Bean (November 21, 1804- June 13, 1844) and his wife Anna Gore in Mason County, Kentucky about 1825, (some records suggest Roy Bean was born in 1823).
Roy worked as a bartender in his brother's saloon, "The Headquarters" and was later appointed by Josh as a lieutenant in the state militia.
In legend, Judge Roy Bean is a merciless dispenser of justice, often called "The Hangin' Judge." But that title arguably goes to Isaac Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, who sentenced 160 (156 men and 4 women) to hang between 1875-1896, leading to the executions of 79 men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Bean   (1049 words)

  
 Roy, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy was officially incorporated on January 16, 1908.
Roy was one of the early communities in the area, a prosperous boom-town and a major stop on the railroad line.
According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management[1], Roy ranked 2nd of 279 eligible incorporated communities in population growth between 2000 and 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy,_Washington   (582 words)

  
 arthur erickson architect-roy thomson hall
Roy Thomson Hall is located in downtown Toronto on a 2.5-acre site bounded by King, Simcoe, and Wellington Streets.
Roy Thomson Hall is constructed with a double shell, shielding the performers and the audience from all external noise, and the acoustics have been developed utilizing every resource of today's technology.
Roy Thomson Hall, the new home of the Toronto Symphony and Mendelsohn Choir, provides a total of 2812 seats in the main auditorium compared with 2765 seats in the old Massey Hall building which it replaces.
www.arthurerickson.com /txt_roy.html   (582 words)

  
 Roy Rossello : Roy Rosello
Roy Rosello (Born 1971) is a former member of Menudo and the nephew of Puerto Rico's former Governor, Pedro Rosello.
www.fastload.org /ro/Roy_Rosello.html   (154 words)

  
 Roy Romanow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Romanow, PC, OC, SOM, QC, LL.B. (born August 12, 1939), Canadian politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (1991–2001), was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Romanow's government was more conservative than previous NDP administrations, and was considered a practitioner of what became known as the Third Way in the mould of the British Labour Party under Tony Blair.
Romanow retired in 2001, and was replaced as leader of the NDP and Premier by Lorne Calvert.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Romanow   (644 words)

  
 Roy Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933 in Meherrin, Virginia) is one of the most versatile and well-known country music musicians and performers.
In the '70s, Roy Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30,000,000 viewership for "Hee Haw." As both a guitarist and banjo player, Clark is a virtuoso.
In 1983, Clark opened the Roy Clark Celebrity Theatre in Branson, Missouri, becoming the first famous country music star to have his own venue there, and launching a trend which would eventually cause Branson to become an important center of country performance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Clark   (500 words)

  
 Roy Andersson (fotbollsspelare) - Wikipedia
Roy Andersson, född 2 augusti 1949 i Kirseberg, fotbollsspelare.
Roy Andersson spelade också i det Malmö FF-lag som fick Bragdguldet 1979.
Roy Anderssons båda söner Patrik och Daniel är båda framgångsrika arvtagare.
sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Andersson_%28fotbollspelare%29   (500 words)

  
 Roy Brown (musician) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Roy's parents moved to (A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida soon after Roy was born.
Roy was also involved in the student disturbances which spread throughout the university, by participating in the protest and picket lines.
Roy (whose real name is Roy Brown Ramirez) was raised during turbulent times in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roy_brown_(musician).htm   (537 words)

  
 Roy Bourgeois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy became an outspoken critic of US foreign policy in Latin America after four American churchwomen, Sister Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Sister Ita Ford, and Sister Dorothy Kazel, were raped and killed by a death squad consisting of soldiers from the Salvadoran National Guard.
Father Roy Bourgeois, M.M. is an American priest in the Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church and founder of the human rights group SOA Watch.
Roy founded the School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch), an organization that seeks to close the School of the Americas, renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in 2001, through nonviolent protest.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Bourgeois   (310 words)

  
 Roy Emerson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Emerson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1982.
Roy Stanley Emerson (born November 3, 1936, in Blackbutt, Queensland, Australia) is a former champion tennis player.
Emerson was born on a farm in Australia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Emerson   (834 words)

  
 Roy Meadow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Meadow was born in Wigan, the son of Samuel and Doris Meadow.
Meadow's apparent vindication was to be short-lived: It transpired that another expert witness had failed to disclose the results of medical tests which had suggested that at least one of the Clark babies had died from the bacterial infection Staphylococcus aureus (and not from smothering as the prosecution had claimed).
Meadow rose to public prominence in 1993, when he brought expert testimony in the trial of Beverley Allitt, a nurse accused of murdering several of her patients.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Meadow   (2399 words)

  
 Roy McMillan Autographed Magazine
Sports Illustrated Magazine 9/9/57 autographed by Roy McMillan (Cincinnati reds legend)
www.grandstandsports.com /pages/6670.htm   (2399 words)

  
 Roy Focker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The colors on Roy's VF-1S Valkryie are similar to those of the VF-84 Jolly Rogers unit that flew the F-14 Tomcat, the plane that is the basis of the Valkryie.
Roy dies in episode 18 ("Pineapple Salad"), from wounds sustained while defending Macross from Milia Fallyna's force of Queadluun-Rau battle suits.
Roy may have been named in honor of the Fokker aircraft company, and its founder Anthony Fokker who built the Fokker E.I, the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft during World War I. In flashback sequences, Roy flies a reproduction Fokker D.VII, and gives Hikaru a model of one as a "get well" gift.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Focker   (458 words)

  
 Roy DeMeo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy DeMeo (1941,– January 10, 1983) was a ranking member of the Gambino crime family, formerly one of the largest and most feared crime families in New York.
DeMeo was summoned by the Newark branch of the FBI to provide a photograph and fingerprints in relation to a Federal investigation of an international auto-theft ring.
DeMeo grew up on the same block as nephews of crime boss Joseph Profaci and often sat with them on their porch on nights when members of the Profaci Family would visit, watching the various expensively dressed men pull up in their brand new cars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Demeo   (2555 words)

  
 Roy Jenkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920– January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the Obscene Publications Act, which was responsible for establishing the liable to "deprave and corrupt" criteria as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and literary merit as a defence.
Jenkins replied to public criticism by asserting that the so called permissive society was in reality the civilised society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Jenkins   (2555 words)

  
 Roy Hofheinz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912–November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz, was mayor of the city of Houston, Texas from 1953 to 1955.
Because Hofheinz was the first baseball team owner to put his team in a domed stadium and the first to use artificial turf, it has been suggested that "the baseball gods" placed a curse on the team (or even possibly the city).
The Curse of Judge Hofheinz prevented the team from winning a National League pennant from their 1962 debut until 2005, despite losses in the National League Championship Series in 1980, 1986 and 2004, and losses in the National League Division Series in 1981, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Hofheinz   (287 words)

  
 Roy Hattersley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Hattersley was a strong socialist and Labour supporter from his youth, electioneering for his local MP and city councillors from 1945.
Hattersley was long regarded as being on the right of the party, but with New Labour in power he found himself criticising a Labour government from the left.
Hattersley headed the British delegation to Reykjavik during the "Cod War", but was primarily tasked with renegotiating the terms of Britain's membership of the EEC.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Hattersley   (1676 words)

  
 Patrick Roy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Roy (pronounced "Rwah", IPA: [ɹwɑ]) (born October 5, 1965, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) is a retired ice hockey goaltender.
Notoriously superstitious, Roy would not skate on the blue or red lines, wrote the names of his kids on his stick before each game, and kept the pucks from his current season shutouts in his locker until the end of the season.
Roy started his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens, who drafted him 51st overall in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft from the Granby Bisons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Roy   (602 words)

  
 Roy Cazaly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Cazaly was an Australian rules football player famous his high marks, and for giving rise to the phrase "Up there Cazaly".
Cazaly was famous for his ability to take spectacular marks despite his small stature, and at South Melbourne a teammate would often yell "Up there, Cazaly", a phrase that would become synonymous with football.
He initially developed his marking ability by jumping at a ball strung up in a shed at his home, and held his breath as he jumped, an action that he believed lifted him higher.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Cazaly   (602 words)

  
 Roy Dupuis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Dupuis is also co-founder and co-president of the Rivers Foundation, an organization whose mission is to protect the rivers of Québec and their natural and cultural habitats from small hydroelectric power dam projects and other environmental and economic threats and to encourage the development of alternative energy sources through education.
From early infancy until he was eleven years old, Roy Dupuis lived in Amos, Abitibi, Québec.
Dupuis was introduced to the American public on television as Oliva Dionne in Million Dollar Babies (1994) and, on the big screen, in such film roles as Becker in Screamers (1995) and as John Strauss in Bleeders (1996), also known as Hemoglobin in the UK (1997).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Dupuis   (810 words)

  
 Roy Carroll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Carroll(born September 30, 1977 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh) is a Northern Irish footballer and plays as a goalkeeper for West Ham United.
Carroll gained his greatest infamy for the amazing "goal that never was" against Tottenham; a speculative shot from the half-way line by Pedro Mendes that Carroll dropped behind his goal-line, then scooped back into play.
On February 19, 2005, in an FA Cup match against Everton, Carroll was struck on the back of the head by any of various projectiles including coins and cell phones, in a match high on security for team-mate and Everton returnee Wayne Rooney which Manchester United won 2-0.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Carroll   (377 words)

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