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Anderson, Robert

Anderson, Robert

(1805–71) soldier; born near Louisville, Ky. A West Point graduate (1825) he served in the Mexican War. As an artillery officer, he commanded the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter, S.C., surrendering there on April 13, 1861, after a 34-hour bombardment that signaled the opening of the Civil War. He spent most of the rest of the war keeping Kentucky in the Union until disabilities forced his retirement in 1863. In April 1865 he returned to Fort Sumter for the raising of the original flag.

Anderson, Robert (Woodruff)

(1917–  ) playwright; born in New York City. Best known for Tea and Sympathy (1953), the story of a schoolboy accused of homosexuality, his later plays include You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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Judge Cerone-Marisie also installed the new board of governors for 2019-2020: Jonathan Anderson, Robert Boszko, Allen Gabe, Patricia Jochum, Raj Jutla and Joseph Vito.
He also can't wait to line-up against the likes of world champion Gary Anderson, Robert Thornton, Adrian Lewis, Steve Beaton and Andy Hamilton at a special event at the 02 Academy on July 31.
Founded in 1986 by Lane Anderson, Robert Watson and Richard Garner as a summer festival, the theatre specialized in contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare and other classics, while also producing the occasional new take on a classic, such as Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice.
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High honors went to: Erin Alzapiedi, Tess Anderson, Robert Atwood, Kelly Bagdonas, Camila Bernasconi, Emilia Bernasconi, Andrew Bond, Marcus Braudis, Thomas Bunnell, Brianna Coggins, Allyson Conlin, Kali Cook, Monica Doerr, Cameron Donahue, Emily Doran, Hanna Drugge, Max Drugge, Rachel Farley, Anna Fateiger, Rylee Gillen, Hannah Goddard, Joshua Hogan, Elyssa Jewett, Anthony Kennon, Charles Lamplough, John Mannion, John Mpelkas, Kristen Nash, Jake Parquet, Maggie Quinn, Emily Recko, Drishti Rohatgi, Lillian Sartorius, Kristina Sidopoulos, Lauren Silver, Caroline Szcesuil, Casey Trefry, Kyle Tremblay, Andrew Vittorioso and Jordan Vyas.
We appreciate the luminaries from a wide variety of fields and with contrasting views who have written for us, including (not by any means an exhaustive list) Elving Anderson, Robert Benne, John Hedley Brooke, Richard Bube, Francis Collins, William Dembski, Calvin DeWitt, Owen Gingerich, Joel Green, Malcolm Jeeves, Robert Kaita, Donald MacKay, George Marsden, J.
Against this gloomy backdrop, convicted murderers race in the ultimate pay-per-view battle for survival, burning rubber with a fury as scriptwriters Anderson, Robert Thom and Charles Griffith strip out characterisation and realism in their hunt for maximum carnage.
Scriptwriters Anderson, Robert Thom and Charles Griffith don't flesh out their characters too much, after all most of them are cannon fodder - quite literally when the warden's ultimate weapon hits the track.
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