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Rugg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Gordon Rugg, Scottish academic *Harold Rugg, educational reformer *Paul Rugg, American screen writer *Peter Rugg, fictional character * Sylvanus T. Rugg, American Union Army officer *William Rugg William Rugge (also Rugg, Repps, Reppes; died 1550) was an English Benedictine theologian, and bishop of Norwich from 1536 to 1549. Life He was born in Northrepps, Norfolk. He was a Doctor of Divinity of Gonville Hall, Cambridge in 1513. The Car ...

Gordon Rugg
Gordon Rugg (born 1955) is a British academic, head of the Knowledge Modelling Group at Keele University and a visiting senior research fellow at the Open University, known for his work on the Voynich manuscript.Schinner, Andreas. "The Voynich manuscript: evidence of the hoax hypothesis." Cryptologia 31.2 (2007): 95-107. Biography Born in Perth, Scotland, Rugg has a first degree in French and Linguistics and a PhD in psychology, both from Reading University, UK. His background includes working as a timberyard worker, a field archaeologist and an English lecturer. He became the focus of media attention in 2004 for his work on the Voynich manuscript. He is co-author with Marian Petre of two books for students which focus on semi-tacit skills in research. He is head of the Knowledge Modelling Group at Keele University and a visiting senior research fellow at the Open University. Research His main research theme is elicitation methods – techniques for eliciting information fr ...
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Harold Rugg
Harold Ordway Rugg (1886–1960) was an educational reformer in the early to mid 1900s, associated with the Progressive education movement. Originally trained in civil engineering at Dartmouth College (BS 1908 & CE 1909), Rugg went on to study psychology, sociology and education at the University of Illinois where he completed a dissertation titled "The Experimental Determination of Mental Discipline in School Studies." After earning his Ph.D. he went on to teach at the University of Chicago and later became a professor at Teacher's College at Columbia University. He studied the creativity which he believed was vital to the learning process. He created the first textbook series and his social studies books were extremely popular in US schools. By the early forties his books fell out of favor due to campaigns run by organizations like the Advertising Federation of America and the American Legion, due to Rugg's junior-high textbooks including concepts considered "pro-socialist" ...
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Paul Rugg
Paul Kevin Rugg (born October 21, 1960) is an American screenwriter, producer, voice actor, and puppeteer. Biography Rugg has worked extensively in the field of animation. His list of credits include writing for, co-producing, and playing the voices of several cartoon characters, first being credited as "Mr. Director" (a Jerry Lewis-esque character) from '' Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs''. Afterwards, he voiced the title character in '' Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid'' and the '' Histeria'' portrayal of Nostradamus, as well as the main recurring villain, the Dark Lord Chuckles The Silly Piggy in the Disney series '' Dave the Barbarian''. Recently, he has provided the voice of Gweelok for Cartoon Network's ''Secret Mountain Fort Awesome''. Rugg also appeared live as the eccentric character "Manny" in the ''Manny the Uncanny'' short segments as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning for ABC. Rugg created and directed '' The Sam Plenty Cavalcade of Action Show Plus ...
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Peter Rugg
Peter Rugg is a New England literary character who figures in several American short stories and poems. Rugg is a stubborn and angry man, born about 1730. He rides out into a thunderstorm in the year of the Boston Massacre (1770), and is cursed to drive his carriage till the end of time. Travelers claim to have sighted him along one road or another, driving a carriage with a child at his side, and declaring that he will reach Boston by nightfall. Origin Rugg is often assumed to be a folk character out of New England legends. Actually he was simply made up in 1824 by attorney and writer William Austin (author), William Austin (1778–1841). Austin, writing under the pseudonym "Jonathan Dunwell," wrote the tale "Peter Rugg: The Missing Man" in an epistolary style that suggested reportage. Initially the Rugg story appeared in ''The New England Magazine'', a Boston Masonic periodical. When reprinted by ''The New England Galaxy'' almost immediately afterwards, many readers took it to be ...
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Sylvanus T
Silvanus or Sylvanus may refer to: *Silas (Silvanus), disciple, mentioned in four New Testament epistles *Silvanus (monk), one of the Desert Fathers *Silvanus of the Seventy, a traditional figure in Eastern Orthodox tradition assumed to be one of the Seventy Apostles *Silvanus (mythology), a Roman tutelary deity or spirit of woods and fields *Silvanus (name), a surname and given name (and list of people with the name) * Silvanus (''Forgotten Realms''), a fictional deity in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' *Sylvanus, Michigan, a village * ''Silvanus'' (genus), a genus of beetles See also *''Teachings of Silvanus'', a text from the Nag Hammadi library *Sylvanus Selleck Gristmill, a gristmill built in 1796 in Greenwich, Connecticut *Sylvanus Thayer Award, an award that is given each year by the United States Military Academy at West Point *Silvain (other) *Silvan (other) *Sylvain (other) Sylvain is the French form of Silvanus. It ...
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