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Robert Briggs (publisher)
Robert Briggs may refer to: * Bob Briggs (American football) (1945–1997), played in the American Football League and the National Football League * Bob Briggs (Australian footballer) (1883–1955), Australian rules footballer * Robert Briggs (American football) (born 1941), American football player * Robert Briggs (character), fictitious Hollywood screenwriter * Robert Briggs (MP) (died 1615), MP for Boroughbridge * Robert Briggs (poet) (1929–2015), American poet * Robert Briggs (publisher), American author and publisher, for Straight Arrow Press * Robert Briggs (scientist) (1911–1983), cloning pioneer * Robert H. Briggs, American lawyer and historian * Robert M. Briggs (1816–1886), Wisconsin legislator * Robert O. Briggs (1927–2008), director of the University of California Marching Band * Robert P. Briggs (1903–1998), American businessman See also * Bob Briggs (chemist) Lindsay Heathcote "Bob" Briggs (3 January 1905 – 16 January 1975) was a New Zealand orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Briggs (American Football)
Robert James Briggs (April 28, 1945May 5, 1997) was an American football defensive lineman who played in the American Football League and the National Football League. He played seven seasons for the San Diego Chargers, Cleveland Browns, and Kansas City Chiefs. See also * List of American Football League players The following is a list of men who played for the American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969). Players A B C D Elbert Dubenion E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Notes Player notes 1,398 ... References 1945 births 1997 deaths American football defensive linemen Heidelberg Student Princes football players San Diego Chargers players Cleveland Browns players Kansas City Chiefs players Players of American football from Toledo, Ohio American Football League players {{defensive-lineman-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Briggs (Australian Footballer)
Robert Ernest Briggs (20 November 1883 – 6 July 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Originally from Port Rovers, Briggs played for Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Williamstown in 1907 and 1908, playing 24 games and kicking 63 goals. Briggs played in Williamstown's 1907 premiership victory over West Melbourne at East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1907 and kicked 59 goals in 1908, the highest season tally recorded to that date by a Williamstown player. Briggs was also the first Williamstown player to kick 10 goals in a match, against North Melbourne at Arden Street Oval in round 16, 1908. Switching to Fitzroy, Briggs made eight senior appearances in the 1909 VFL season and didn't miss a game in 1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Briggs (American Football)
Robert Louis Briggs (born January 12, 1941) is a former American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Central Oklahoma and was drafted in the tenth round of the 1965 NFL Draft. Briggs went to Carver High School in Amarillo, Texas Amarillo ( ; Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall County .... 1941 births Living people Players of American football from Amarillo, Texas American football fullbacks Washington Redskins players Central Oklahoma Bronchos football players {{runningback-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Briggs (character)
Robert "Bob" Briggs is a fictional screenwriter living in 1940s Hollywood. His one appearance to date is in Aldous Huxley's dystopian satire ''Ape and Essence''. Briggs is famous for his fascinating smile. Hollywood career Briggs writes for Lou Lublin Productions. (Huxley wrote screen versions of 19th century English novels for producers Hunt Stromberg, William Goetz, Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles, as well as a life of Mme. Curie for Sidney Franklin). He has just been denied a raise, a disappointment with repercussions for his love life. The industry is tightening its belt; Hollywood mogul Schmuel Gelbfisz has announced to the press that those under him may well see their salaries reduced by half. He has no automobile of his own, but uses his wife Miriam's Buick convertible. Briggs is—or was—serious about art; he deplores popular escapism as an abuse of it. He knows exactly how many tens of millions of dollars were raked in by ''Amanda'', a vapid musical love s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Briggs (MP)
Robert Briggs (died 1615), of Old Malton, Yorkshire, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Boroughbridge Boroughbridge () is a town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is north-west of the county town of York. Until a bypass was built the town lay on the mai ... in 1586. References 16th-century births 1615 deaths English MPs 1586–1587 Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Yorkshire People from Malton, North Yorkshire {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Briggs (poet)
Robert Briggs (1929–2015) was an American author and poet associated with the Beat Generation. He read poetry in the Jazz Cellar in San Francisco in 1957, and said, "jazz is to music what poetry is to knowing." He continued to give reads accompanied by jazz musicians up until 2012. In 1972, Briggs co-founded the San Francisco Book Company and then Robert Briggs Associates, as a literary agent and small West Coast publisher. The company was involved in a variety of nonfiction which included "Rolling Thunder: An Exploration into the Powers of an American Indian Medicine Man," by Doug Boyd, :Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer," Kenneth Pelletier's classic book on stress as well as works by Joseph Campbell, Colin Wilson, and Theodore Roszak. In the 1950s he was a bookseller in Greenwich Village, New York, then in North Beach in San Francisco. Robert Briggs served in the Army during the Korean War and witnessed an atom bomb test in Frenchman Flats, Nevada. Filmmaker Chel White direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Briggs (publisher)
Robert Briggs may refer to: * Bob Briggs (American football) (1945–1997), played in the American Football League and the National Football League * Bob Briggs (Australian footballer) (1883–1955), Australian rules footballer * Robert Briggs (American football) (born 1941), American football player * Robert Briggs (character), fictitious Hollywood screenwriter * Robert Briggs (MP) (died 1615), MP for Boroughbridge * Robert Briggs (poet) (1929–2015), American poet * Robert Briggs (publisher), American author and publisher, for Straight Arrow Press * Robert Briggs (scientist) (1911–1983), cloning pioneer * Robert H. Briggs, American lawyer and historian * Robert M. Briggs (1816–1886), Wisconsin legislator * Robert O. Briggs (1927–2008), director of the University of California Marching Band * Robert P. Briggs (1903–1998), American businessman See also * Bob Briggs (chemist) Lindsay Heathcote "Bob" Briggs (3 January 1905 – 16 January 1975) was a New Zealand orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Arrow Press
Straight Arrow Press (Straight Arrow Publishing Co., Inc.) was a publishing company that published the periodical ''Rolling Stone''. They operated a book publishing division in the 1970s in San Francisco, which published authors such as Oscar Zeta Acosta, Stewart Brand, Richard Brautigan, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia (with company founder Jann Wenner and Charles A. Reich), Hunter S. Thompson, William Bast, Roger L. Simon, and the Firesign Theatre. Partial bibliography *''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'', Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1972 *''The Revolt of the Cockroach People'', Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1973 *''Time Zone'', Sätty, 1973 (published in association with Robert Briggs), *''Suburbia'', Bill Owens, 1973 *''Hollywood Babylon'' (distributed by Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Briggs (scientist)
Robert Briggs (December 10, 1911 — March 4, 1983) was a scientist who, in 1952, together with Thomas Joseph King, cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. The same technique, using somatic cells, was later used to create Dolly the Sheep. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplantation performed in metazoans. He was a scientist at the Institute for Cancer Research of the Lankenau Hospital Research Institute (now known as the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research) when the work was conducted. Background Upon the death of his mother when he was two years old, Briggs was raised by his grandparents in Epping, New Hampshire. Inspired by a high school science teacher, Briggs became interested in the biological sciences. However, he began Boston University in the business school, concerned with earning a living during the Depression. Business courses couldn’t maintain his interest and he turned to the sciences. He graduated from Boston University in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert H
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert M
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert O
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
