for Infobox Star Trek character if Title William T. Riker bgcolor ccccff Image WilRiker.jpg Do not replace with publicity shots, they will be deleted, screen caps only please Caption Commander William T. Riker Species Human Gender Male Partner Deanna Troi Planet Earth Affiliation United Federation of Planets ... Current portrayer Jonathan Frakes William Thomas Riker , played by Jonathan Frakes , is a fictional .... The second Riker takes the name Thomas Riker Thomas , which is revealed to be WilliamRiker s middle ... The following actors also auditioned for the role of WilliamRiker they have all appeared at least ... www.startrek.com database article rikerwilliam Character biography at official Star Trek website Memoryalpha Star Trek ships named Enterprise Star Trek TNG Star Trek navbox DEFAULTSORT Riker, William ... introduced in 1987 ca William T. Riker cs WilliamRiker da WilliamRiker de Figuren im Star Trek Universum Commander William Thomas Riker es WilliamRiker fr William T. Riker hr WilliamRiker id WilliamRiker it WilliamRiker hu William T. Riker nl William T. Riker ja T pl WilliamRiker pt William T. Riker Star Trek ru simple WilliamRiker sv WilliamRiker zh ... cast as Riker. Frakes stated I started with the cattle call, then the casting director, the producer ... two seasons, Riker is portrayed as bold and confident, an ambitious young officer however, over time Riker s character becomes more reserved, as experience teaches him the wisdom of a patient ... own command, and he learns to cherish the company of his fellow officers. Nonetheless, Riker retains a willingness to occasionally disregard the chain of command. Riker is usually referred to as Will , although ... on the Enterprise . Riker s background is first explored in the second season episode, The Icarus Factor . In the episode, Riker s estranged father Kyle visits the Enterprise to offer his son the command of the USS Aries , which Riker refuses. We learn that Riker grew up in Valdez, Alaska , that his ... more details
WilliamRiker is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. WilliamRiker may also refer to William E. Riker 1873 1969 , cult leader William H. Riker 1920 1993 , political scientist See also William disambiguation Riker disambiguation hndis Riker, William ... more details
William Harrison Riker September 22, 1920 &ndash June 26, 1993 was an American political scientist who applied game theory and mathematics to political science. Riker was born in Des Moines, Iowa , and received his Ph.D at Harvard University in 1948. He took on a professorship at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin then Lawrence College , where he published The Theory of Political Coalitions 1962 . In 1962, he became the chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Rochester , where he remained chair until 1977, and remained active until his death. He founded the now mainstream field of positive political theory , which introduced game theory and the axiomatic method of social choice theory to political science . Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Kenneth Shepsle in their http www.nap.edu html biomems wriker.html Memoir write that These have proved crucial to predictive tests for political theory. Among other contributions, he is known for work on the theory and history of federalism and on something he called heresthetics the art politicians use when they change political ... in which decisions are made. The William H. Riker Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching ... Duverger s law References Riker, William H. The Paradox of Voting and Congressional Rules for Voting ... http www.nap.edu html biomems wriker.html NAS memoir of William H. Riker with discussion of his contributions http rhetorica.net heresthetics.htm Heresthetics an exposition of Riker s concept for structuring the world so http www.rochester.edu college psc news riker.php William H Riker Prize administered ... Persondata . NAME Riker, William H. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, William H. Category 1920 births Category 1993 ... of Rochester faculty Category People from Des Moines, Iowa US polisci bio stub de William Harrison Riker fr William Harrison Riker ja ... more details
William Edward Riker February 17, 1873 December 3, 1969 was a White nationalist religious leader who ... . ref http www.sjvls.org bens bf002hc.htm William E. Riker and Holy City , Source List, San Joaquin Valley Library System, retrieved 11 April 20 ref Early life Riker was born in California in 1873 ... CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID 157503 Riker, William E. , Our Campaigns, www.ourcampaigns.com, retrieved 16 04 2010 ref Riker was arrested in 1942 for sedition due to his support of Adolf Hitler whom Riker called a second Martin Luther . ref name Kaplan ref Philip Jenkins, The Great Anti Cult Scare ... , 1 January 1940 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, William E. ALTERNATIVE ... PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, William E. Category 1873 births Category 1969 deaths Category ... Riker . Riker moved to Canada rather than face charges of bigamy in San Francisco. In Canada , Riker established The Perfect Christian Divine Way religious doctrine which emphasized White supremacy ... Group series year 1990 page 25 doi isbn 0962997404 ref Religious commune leader In 1918, Riker returned ... . ref name Beal He used the property to found the religious commune of Holy City, which Riker ..., ISBN 0252030389 ref Eventually increasing the commune to convert 200 acre km2 , Riker developed ... and peep show penny peep show machines. Along the roadway entering Holy City, Riker placed nine .... ref name Lodi In 1929 Riker added a radio station with the call letters KFQU, which broadcast popular ..., pg26 ref The station closed after two years when Riker s license was revoked for irregularities. ref name Beal Politics Riker ran for political office on a White Supremacy platform, advocating that Black ... of his political pamphlets titled The Emancipator , Riker wrote blockquote The White Man can take ... and true spirit of California. ref Betty Lewis, Holy City Riker s roadside attraction in the Santa ... elections, he entered both the Republican and Democratic primaries. Riker lost the primaries in 1942 ... more details
There are a number of people called RikerWilliamRikerWilliam T. Riker , a fictional character in the Star Trek saga Kyle Riker , father to the fictional WilliamRiker Thomas Riker , a fictional twin of WilliamRiker in Star Trek William H. Riker , an American political scientist William E. Riker , cult leader Andrew L. Riker , an American automobile designer and engineer John Lafayette Riker , an American Civil War Officer Tim Riker , Free Software programmer, maintainer of BZFlag Richard Riker 1773 1842 , New York politician Rikers Island , in New York As Ryker Ken Ryker , an American pornographic actor John Ryker , a fictional enemy of the Hulk in Marvel comics See also lookfrom Riker disambig de Riker ... more details
William Thomas Tom Riker is a fictional Character arts character from the Star Trek universe, played by actor Jonathan Frakes . He is a duplicate of WilliamRiker , a regular character on Star Trek ... accident when Riker served as second officer aboard the USS Potemkin USS Potemkin . The duplicate goes by his middle name and, later, Tom to distinguish himself from WilliamRiker. Thomas Riker first ... accident. The crew discovers that while WilliamRiker then a Lieutenant beamed aboard the Potemkin and continued his career, a duplicate Riker was unable to return to the ship and rematerialized ... and that Tom Riker not be executed. Non canon appearances In John Vornholt s novel Quarantine part of the Double Helix series , Riker transfers to the sciences division after a conflict with the USS ... . In the Malibu Comics Deep Space Nine title, two stories were published extending Riker s story. Sole Asylum, Part One and Part Two , set at the end of 2371, showed that Riker had been taken to Cardassia ... in order to create an army of duplicates. It was also revealed that Riker s cells were only nine years ... the player to destroy the Imperius before Riker can take command and, if possible, destroy Riker s current ... Reeves Stevens novel series Star Trek Deep Space Nine Millennium , Riker is freed from the camp ... Star Trek Online , the player encounters Riker s son on a mission in which the player must rescue some ... from Deep Space Nine. External links memoryalpha DEFAULTSORT Riker, Thomas Category Fictional ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 James Riker Born New York City, May 11, 1822. Died 1889 New York historian and genealogist. His father, James Riker Snr was a merchant and landowner descended from early Dutch settlers. Riker left school at the age of sixteen to work in his father s business. br During the late 1830s and early 1840s he lived intermittently in Goshen village , New York Goshen, New York , where he ran a store. By the mid 1840s he had settled at the family home on Delancey Street in Manhattan. There Riker studied informally for the Presbyterian ministry and began the genealogical and historical research that would occupy him for much of his life. He collected original documents from the colonial era, copied extracts from documents in state and local archives and corresponded extensively with historians, relatives and old family friends. In 1848 Riker moved with his father to a new family home near to the corner of Fifth Ave. and 125th Street, Harlem. Two years later, having given up his plans for a religious career, he began work as a teacher in New York s Ward School 24. James Riker s first publication, a pamphlet genealogy that traced the Riker family to their early Dutch origins, appeared in 1851. He followed it with a substantial volume of local history, The Annals of Newtown 1852 . Riker married Vashti Wood Horton in 1853, and the couple had several children. Vashti died in 1864, and Riker was re married in 1867 to Anna C. Clute. Several years later Riker moved ... years Riker struggled financially and was forced to auction off a substantial portion of his library. James Riker died in 1889. br James Rikers younger brother was the Civil War Colonel John Lafayette Riker who organized the New York Volunteer Regiment known as the Anderson Zouaves . List of published works A Brief History of the Riker Family, from Their First Emigration to This Country in the Year ... Corps of Artillery 1883 . br DEFAULTSORT Riker, James Category People from New York City ... more details
David Riker born 1963 is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born in Boston , and at the age of five, his family moved to Brussels, Belgium , where he attended a French speaking school. In 1973, at the age of ten, his family moved to London where he studied at The American School. ref http www.zeitgeistfilms.com film.php?directoryname citylaciudad&mode filmmaker Zeitgeist Films biography of David Riker. ref Riker is a graduate of New York University s Graduate Film School where, in 1992 ... Award, David Riker, for The Girl 2010. Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, David Riker, shared with Alex Rivera, for Sleep Dealer 2008. Sundance Film Festival Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, David Riker, shared with Alex Rivera, for Sleep Dealer 2008. Student Academy Awards DGA ... OCIC Award, David Riker. This is an additional special award 1998. Havana Film Festival Coral, Best Work of a Non Latin American Director on a Latin America Subject, David Riker 1998. Gotham Awards Open Palm Award, David Riker 1999. Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Nestor Almendros Award, David Riker Tied with Regret to Inform 1999. XSW Film Festival SXSW Competition Award, Narrative Feature, David Riker 1999. San Antonio CineFestival Premio Mesquite Award, Best Feature Film, David Riker 1999. Santa Barbara International Film Festival Independent Voice Award, David Riker 1999. Taos Talking Picture Festival Taos Land Grant Award, David Riker 1999. Nominated Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Award, Best First Feature Under 500,000, David Riker director producer and Paul S. Mezey producer 2000. Footnotes reflist External links imdb name id 0726935 name David Riker . http www.pbs.org itvs thecity film2.html David Riker at Public Broadcasting Service . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1963 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, David Category American ... more details
For the Star Trek character Thomas Riker Thomas E. Tom Riker born February 28, 1950, in Rockville Centre, New York is an United States American former professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association NBA . He was a 6 10 , 225 lb. center basketball center . Riker was selected 8th overall in the 1972 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks out of the University of South Carolina , and played three seasons for the Knicks from 1972 to 1975. Riker was also selected in the 1972 American Basketball Association 1967 1976 ABA Draft by the Carolina Cougars . External links http www.basketballreference.com players playerpage.htm?ilkid RikerTo01 NBA stats basketballreference.com 1972 NBA Draft 1972 NCAA Men s Basketball Consensus All Americans Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, Tom ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1950 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, Tom Category 1950 births Category Living people Category American basketball players Category South Carolina Gamecocks men s basketball players Category New York Knicks draft picks Category New York Knicks players Category Parade High School All Americans boys basketball Category People from New York Category Centers basketball 1950s US hoops bio stub es Tom Riker it Tom Riker ... more details
BLP sources date April 2011 wikify date April 2011 Riker Anthony Lynch born November 8, 1991 is an American singer songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, and is the singer and bassist of the band R5 with his family Ross Lynch, Rocky Lynch, Rydel Lynch, and best friend Ellington Ratliff. Early life Riker was born in Littleton, CO. He is the first of five kids to Mark and Stormie Lynch. At the age of three, Riker started learning to sing and act at Colorado Productions and later began taking dance lessons. He was in singing groups that performed all around Denver, CO and in the summer he would act in kid versions of plays such as Peter Pan, Aladdin, Annie Get Your Gun, Chorus Line, and Grease. Riker and his siblings would constantly put on concerts in their basement for the rest of the family singing and dancing to Michael Jackson, Elvis, Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC. Riker and his sister Rydel took piano lessons and competed as parters in dance competitions. It became Riker s love for the stage that in 2009 him and the rest of the Lynch family move to California to pursue a career as a young entertainer. After moving to Los Angeles, CA, one of Riker s brothers, Rocky Lynch, began showing interest in playing the guitar and got into bands like Fall Out Boy and Green Day. Rocky taught himself how to play guitar and later taught other brother Ross to play and taught Riker to play the bass. Rydel, already knowing how to play a little piano took up the instrument again and in October 2009 the family met Ellington Ratliff at a dance studio. Learning that Ratliff could play drums they added ... family, Ryland, took no interest in playing music. Career Music Riker is the bassist and one the lead ... on March 9, 2010 consisting of songs all written primarily by Riker and his brother Rocky along with their sister ... by E Vega. Acting Riker is best know as Jeff, one of the Warblers with Darren Criss, on Fox s hit ... http www.imdb.com name nm3382724 Riker Lynch on IMDb Categories morecat date April 2011 Persondata ... more details
Infobox actor name Robin Riker image replace this image female.svg imagesize 150px birthname birthdate Birth date and age 1952 10 2 birthplace New York City, New York New York City , New York , United States U.S. deathdate deathplace othername occupation Actress yearsactive 1976 present spouse Evan Nesbitt ? presont domesticpartner website http www.robinriker.com Robin Riker born October 2, 1952 New York City, New York is an United States American actress who has guest starred in a number of notable television series, including The Rockford Files , M A S H TV series M A S H , The A Team , Airwolf , Murder, She Wrote , Sliders , Malcolm in the Middle , Pyramid game show Pyramid , Six Feet Under TV series Six Feet Under , Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and Sabrina the Teenage Witch , among many others. Probably her most noteworthy role was that of waitress Kelly Hall on the groundbreaking Showtime sitcom Brothers TV series Brothers from 1984 to 1989. She also appeared as Chris Elliott s friend s wife and enemy on the sitcom Get a Life TV series Get a Life and opposite Edward Asner and Haley Joel Osment on the short lived American Broadcasting Company ABC sitcom Thunder Alley . In May 2008, she signed a contract for the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as the recast of Beth Logan . Her first appearance was on June 18, 2008. This is the second daytime drama she has appeared on. In 2000, she played the roll of Bonnie Lockhart Maureen Bonnie Lockhart on the NBC daytime drama Days of our Lives . The role was later played by Judi Evans . Family She is married to cameraman Evan Nesbitt. Fact date March 2009 External links imdb name id 0726939 name Robin Riker Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, Robin ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... , New York , United States U.S. DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, Robin Category 1952 ... Category People from New York City US tv actor 1950s stub it Robin Riker pl Robin Riker ... more details
Samuel Riker was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York . He was born on April 8, 1743 in Elmhurst, Queens Newtown , Long Island , Province of New York New York into a family of Dutch origin. His great grandfather Abraham Ryker http www.familysearch.org eng default.asp 1619 1689 was born in the Netherlands and settled in New Netherland . Samuel Riker attended the common schools, was a member of the Newtown committee of correspondence in 1774, and was supervisor of Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County in 1783. He was the lieutenant of Light Horse during the American Revolution . Samuel Riker was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1784. He was elected as a Democratic Republican Party United States Democratic Republican to the Eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Smith New York John Smith . He served from November 5, 1804 to March 3, 1805. He was also elected to the Tenth Congress , which met from March 4, 1807 to March 3, 1809. He died in Newtown, Long Island, New York on May 19, 1823. He was interred in Dutch Reformed Cemetery. CongBio R000257 start box s par us hs USRepSuccessionBox state New York district 1 district ord 1st before John Smith New York after Eliphalet Wickes years 1804 1805 USRepSuccessionBox state New York district 1 district ord 1st before Eliphalet Wickes after Ebenezer Sage years 1807 1809 end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, Samuel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1743 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1823 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, Samuel Category Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York Category Members of the New York Assembly Category American people of Dutch descent Category 1743 births Category 1823 deaths Category People from Queens Category New York Democratic Republicans NewYork Representative stub ... more details
Infobox musical artist Name Billy Riker Img Img capt Img size Background non vocal instrumentalist Origin Port Ewen, New York , United States Instrument guitar Genre Rock music rock , alternative rock , progressive rock Occupation Musician Years active 1993 present Label Metal Blade Records Associated acts 3 band 3 br MATH band Math br Fire Deuce URL http www.theband3.com Only include the official website, no others Image Riker10String.JPG thumb A close up of Riker s custom 10 string BC Rich. Billy Riker is the lead guitar player, for the Experimental music experimental progressive rock band, 3 band 3 . In addition to his work with 3, Riker is also involved in a local Improv Rock Band known as MATH band MATH . Riker is often characterized on stage by his flowing Jedi like trench robe, his use of a personal fan to blow air onto his face, and his sense of humor. He is currently sponsored by B.C. Rich , Maxon , Electro Harmonix , Knucklehead strings, Analogman and Godlyke. Discography with 3 Paint by Number album Paint by Number 1999 in music 1999 , Planet Noise tracks 6, 9 Half Life 3 album Half Life 2002 in music 2002 , Planet Noise Summercamp Nightmare 2003 in music 2003 , Planet Noise Wake Pig 2004 in music 2004 , Planet Noise 2005 in music 2005 , Metal Blade Records Metal Blade These Iron Bones 2007 in music 2007 , iTunes exclusive The End is Begun 2007, Metal Blade Revisions 2009, Metal Blade Discography with MATH The Puppydog Tape 1996 in music 1996 Live at the Turning Mill 2000 in music 2000 InsertYourNameHere 2007 in music 2007 Discography with Fire Deuce Children of the Deuce EP 2005 in music 2005 , CI Records Deep Down & Dirty EP Deep Down & Dirty EP 2007 in music ... billyriker3 Billy Riker on Myspace http www.theband3.com 3 Official Website http www.myspace.com nakedmusic Naked on Myspace Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, Billy ... Riker, Billy Category American rock guitarists Category American experimental guitarists ... more details
Richard Riker September 9, 1773 Elmhurst, Queens Newtown , Queens County, New York September 26, 1842 New York City was an American lawyer and politician from New York . Life He was a member of the Riker family for which Rikers Island is named. He was admitted to the Bar in 1795. In 1801, he was appointed New York County District Attorney District Attorney of the First District which included New York, Queens, Kings, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester counties. He was the first District Attorney to act in New York County where until 1801 the New York State Attorney General had prosecuted personally. He was a second to DeWitt Clinton in a duel with John Swartwout on July 30, 1802 at the Weehawken Dueling Grounds in Weehawken, New Jersey . Clinton was a supporter of Alexander Hamilton and Swartwout was a supporter of Aaron Burr . Swartwout was wounded in the leg. On November 14, 1803 Riker was shot in the leg by John Swartwout s brother, Robert Swartwout, in a duel in Weehawken at which Pierre C. Van Wyck acted as Riker s second. ref http duel2004.weehawkenhistory.org otherduels.php ref Riker was a member from New York City of the New York State Assembly in 1806. In March 1807, Riker married Janette Phoenix, daughter of Daniel Phoenix ca. 1740 1812, New York City Treasurer 1784 1809 , and they had six children. Riker remained in office until 1810, and was District Attorney again from 1811 to 1813. He was Recorder of New York City from 1815 to 1819, from 1821 to 1822, and from 1825 to 1838. References reflist http books.google.com books?id EGAOcfEpTuAC&pg PA196 History of the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Samuel Harrison Baynard Part 1, Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0766165493 http books.google.com books?id E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg PA179 The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough pages 179, 299 and 367 Weed ... Riker, Richard Category 1773 births Category 1842 deaths Category People from Queens Category ... more details
H. Jay Riker is a pseudonym for William H. Keith, Jr. . He has written the SEALS The Warrior Breed series and Silent Service series. Bibliography SEALS The Warrior Breed series Silver Star 1993 ISBN 0 380 76967 0 Purple Heart 1994 ISBN 0 380 76969 7 Bronze Star 1995 ISBN 0 380 76970 0 Navy Cross 1996 ISBN 0 380 78555 2 Medal of Honor 1997 ISBN 0 380 78556 0 Marks of Valor 1998 ISBN 0 380 78557 9 In Harms Way 1999 ISBN 0 380 79507 8 Duty s Call 2000 ISBN 0 380 79508 6 Casualties of War 2003 ISBN 0 380 79510 8 Enduring Freedom 2005 ISBN 0 060 58597 8 Iraqi Freedom 2007 ISBN 0 060 58607 9 Silent Service Series Grayback Class 2000 ISBN 0 380 80466 2 Los Angeles Class 2001 ISBN 0 380 80467 0 Seawolf Class 2002 ISBN 0 380 80468 9 Virginia Class 2004 ISBN 0 060 52438 3 Ohio Class 2006 ISBN 0 060 52439 1 DEFAULTSORT Riker, H. Jay Category Living people Category Pseudonyms ... more details
Image Andrew L Riker.JPG thumb 200px Andrew L. Riker Andrew Lawrence Riker 1868 &ndash 1930 ref name SAE ref name SI http americanhistory.si.edu onthemove collection object 1289.html Smithsonian Institution America On The Move Riker electric automobile ref was an early automobile designer. He began experimenting with electric vehicle s in 1884. He formed the Riker Electric Motor Company in 1888 to make electric motor s, and 1898 a year later formed the Riker Motor Vehicle Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey . All of the advertising and news items refer to the location as Elizabethport . The company was absorbed by the Electric Vehicle Company in 1901. Riker was hired afterwards by Locomobile for their Internal combustion engine ICE development. Riker was a Co Founder of the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1905 and served as the first president for three years. ref name SAE http www.sae.org sae100 people riker.htm SAE International Andrew L. Riker, SAE s First President ref References reflist Further reading James J. Flink. The Automobile Age. Cambridge MIT Press, 1988. http americanhistory.si.edu onthemove collection object 1289.html Smithsonian Institution America On The Move Riker electric automobile http www.kcstudio.com riker.html A.L. Riker Photos and articles about the early years of the Riker Electric Vehicles Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Riker, Andrew L ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1868 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1930 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Riker, Andrew L Category American automobile designers Category American engineers Category 1868 births Category 1930 deaths US engineer stub ... more details
Infobox University campus university University of Florida color orange name Harold C. Riker Hall picture UF RikerHall.jpg pic caption Riker Hall use Housing style erected 1950 location Main campus campus main namesake architect Guy Fulton free label free website http campusmap.ufl.edu details.php?bldg 0052 Dorm Info Riker Hall built in 1950 is a historic building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida Gainesville , Florida , in the United States . It was designed by Guy Fulton in a modified Gothic Revival architecture Collegiate Gothic style to provide housing for the student body. It was named for Harold C. Riker in 2000. ref http campusmap.ufl.edu details.php?bldg 0052 Riker Hall Information ref References reflist University of Florida Florida struct stub Coord 29.6474767 82.3511863 display title Category Buildings at the University of Florida ... more details
Image 1900 Riker Victoria.jpg thumb 250px 1900 Riker Victoria The Riker was a veteran era veteran and brass era electric car founded in 1898 in Elizabeth, New Jersey . Designed by Andrew L. Riker , they were built in small numbers until the company was absorbed by the Electric Vehicle Company in 1901. An article in the September 26, 1896 edition of Scientific American lists The Riker Electric Motor Company, of Brooklyn , N. Y as the winner of the horseless carriage race in Narragansett Race Track Narragansett Park track at Providence, Rhode Island Providence, R. I . The prize was 900.00. The article also states The fastest mile was made by the Riker electric carriage, the time being 2 13. This is possibly the first automobile race done around a track in the USA,and was won by The Riker Electric Vehicle Company. Sources Flink, James J. The Automobile Age . Cambridge MIT Press, 1988. cite web title America on the Move Riker electric automobile url http americanhistory.si.edu onthemove collection object 1289.html work National Museum of American History publisher Smithsonian Institution cite web title Providence Horseless Carriage Race 1896 url http www.machine history.com PROVIDENCE 20HORSELESS 20CARRIAGE 20RACE Scientific American External Links http www.kcstudio.com riker.html A.L. Riker Photos and articles about the early years of the Riker Electric Vehicles Category Battery electric vehicle manufacturers Category Veteran vehicles Category 1890s automobiles Category 1900s automobiles Category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States Category Companies established in 1898 Category Companies disestablished in 1901 Category History of New Jersey Category Elizabeth, New Jersey Category Companies based in Union County, New Jersey Category Defunct companies based in New Jersey auto company stub Veteran auto stub ... more details
File Riker hill complex radar tower.png thumb right NY 79 80 Radar platform Riker Hill Art Park is a former Nike rocket Nike Missile base which has become an artistic community in Livingston, New Jersey Livingston , Essex County, New Jersey . Together with the Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park and Becker Park , it is a part of the Livingston, New Jersey Riker Hill Complex Riker Hill Complex . The Art Park provides studio space for working artists in various medias including painting , ceramics , glass blowing , woodworking , and sculpture . It also has a collection of outdoor sculpture. History The Army closed the NY 79 80 Nike base in the mid 1970 s and sold the convert 42 acre ha site to the county in 1974 for 1. ref name nyt1988 cite web url http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 940DE3DF143FF935A35750C0A96E948260&pagewanted 1 title Riker Hill What Is Fair to Artists and the County? last Malarcher first Patricia date March 6, 1988 publisher New York Times accessdate 2009 03 09 ref ref cite web url http www.essex countynj.org p index.php?section parks sites riker title RIKER HILL COMPLEX publisher Essex County accessdate 2009 03 09 ref References reflist External links http www.essex countynj.org p index.php?section parks sites riker County page for Riker Hill Complex http www.rikerhillpark.org Riker Hill Park Conservancy http www.essex countynj.org p parks sites maps RICKERHILL.pdf Map of Complex coord 40.8109 74.3181 display title Category Livingston, New Jersey Category Parks in Essex County, New Jersey Category Cold War Category Artist studios Category Sculpture gardens, trails and parks ... more details
Infobox military person name John Lafayette Riker born birth date 1822 8 15 died death date and age 1862 ... wood Cemetery , Brooklyn placeofburial label Place of burial image File John Lafayette Riker LOC.jpg 240px caption John Lafayette Riker allegiance United States United States of America br Union ... Battle of Fair Oaks John Lafayette Riker August 15, 1822 &ndash May 31, 1862 was an United States ... L. Riker was born in Manhattan in New York City . His father, James Riker Sr. was a merchant, landowner ... and Evacuation Day New York Evacuation Day fame. John Lafayette was the younger brother of James Riker , the New York genealogist who wrote A Brief History of the Riker Family, from Their First Emigration ... of New York Veteran Corps of Artillery 1883 . John L. Riker is said to have been given his ... de La Fayette Gen. Lafayette who had arrived at Staten Island on the day that Riker was born. Van ..., the day after Riker s birth. Van Arsdale and the Veteran Corp of Artillery, of which he was a member ... when he visited his new born grandson, he named him John Lafayette . ref Riker, James, Evacuation Day ... raised on the Battery, New York, 1883, p. 49. ref Sometime in the 1840s Riker married his first cousin Anna E. Elder. Anna was the eldest daughter of Hannah E. Riker, who was the younger sister of his father, James. About 1848 Anna gave birth to Riker s first child, Anna E. Riker. A year or two later she gave birth to a son, John L. Riker Jr. In 1851 Riker s wife, Anna, died of hysteria . The following year his father James Riker Sr. died and in 1854 his young son, John L. Riker Jr. died of congestion on the brain. John L. Riker studied law and passed the New York state bar exam in 1860 ... Riker had passed his bar exam in 1860 there is not yet any clear evidence that he practised as an attorney. However, the New York Times , from the same period, often mentions a John Lawrence Riker, also of New York City, who did practice law and was related to John Lafayette Riker. It is possible that the two ... more details
File Walter kidde dinosaur park.png thumb right Riker Hill Fossil Site also referred to as Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park is a convert 16 acre ha paleontological site in Roseland, New Jersey , located at the south western side of the borough at the border between Roseland and Livingston, New Jersey . It is one of the major sites in United States where a large number of dinosaur tracks are preserved. It was declared a National Natural Landmark in June 1971. ref cite web url http www.nature.nps.gov nnl Registry USA Map States NewJersey NNL RH index.cfm title National Natural Landmark summary date Feb 5, 2004 publisher National Park Service NPS accessdate 2009 03 09 ref History File Cast of Eubrontes Gigantis track by Paul Olsen.jpg thumb right Cast of Eubrontes giganteus track made by Paul Olsen in 1970 Originally, the site was part of a convert 55 acre ha stone quarry owned by the Kidde company called Roseland Quarry. ref name olsen Olsen, Paul E. http www.ldeo.columbia.edu polsen nbcp olsen gr 80 vsm.pdf Fossil Great Lakes of the Newark Supergroup in New Jersey. W. Manspeizer ed. , 1980, Field Studies in New Jersey Geology and Guide to Field Trips, 52nd Ann. Mtg.New York State Geology Association, Newark College of Arts and Sciences,Newark, Rutgers University, p. 352 398. ref In 1968, there were a discovery of dinosaur tracks on the quarry. With the news, a 14 year old, Paul E. Olsen who lived in Livingston, and his friend Tony Lessa started visiting the quarry to study them. ref ... part of the Livingston, New Jersey Riker Hill Complex Riker Hill Complex along with Riker Hill Art ... p index.php?section parks sites riker title Riker Hill Complex publisher Essex County, New ... ref ref cite web url http www.waymarking.com waymarks WM34RX title Riker Hill Quarry Roseland, NJ date ... countynj.org p index.php?section parks sites rikerRiker Hill Complex http 3dparks.wr.usgs.gov nyc ... Map of site coord 40.815705 74.326678 name Riker Hill Fossil Site type landmark display title Category ... more details
Infobox Law Firm firm name Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP firm logo headquarters Morristown, New Jersey num offices 4 offices num attorneys approximately 160 num employees practice areas General practice key people Glenn A. Clark, Managing Partner revenue amount year date founded 1882 founder company type Limited liability partnership homepage http www.riker.com www.riker.com dissolved Date Reason the company dissolved, e.g., merger or bankruptcy Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP often shortened to Riker Danzig or simply Riker , is a law firm based in Morristown, New Jersey . Founded in 1882, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious firms in the state of New Jersey ref http www.riker.com firm history.php Firm history ref . The firm also has three other offices One in New York City on Fifth Avenue Manhattan Fifth Avenue in Manhattan , one in Trenton, New Jersey , and one in London , England . Practice areas The firm has a broad range of practice areas ref http www.riker.com practice Full list of practice areas ref , including significant practices in Labor law labor and employment , education law , corporate finance , mergers and acquisitions , insurance and reinsurance , tax trusts & estates , real estate , and United States environmental law environmental law . The firm also has a very successful Bankruptcy in the United States bankruptcy practice, representing large businesses in Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code Chapter 11 proceedings. ref http www.riker.com practice index.php?id 2001 Riker s bankruptcy group ref The firm also does lobbying work within the New Jersey State Legislature . ref http www.riker.com practice index.php?id 2009 Riker ... United States Attorney General and Under Secretary of State , became a partner at Riker Danzig after ... at the firm from 1988 to 1990. William J. Hughes , former United States House of Representatives .... Stewart G. Pollock , former New Jersey Supreme Court justice, currently of counsel to the firm. William ... more details
William may refer to William name , a masculine given name TOC right Royalty British William I of England 1027 1087 , aka William the Conqueror, William the Bastard William II of England 1056 1100 , aka William Rufus William I of Scotland c. 1142 1214 , aka William the Lion William IX, Count of Poitiers 1153 1156 , first son of Henry II of England William III of England 1650 1702 , also William II of Scotland, aka William of Orange William IV of the United Kingdom 1765 1837 Prince William of Wales b. 1982 , son of Charles, Prince of Wales French William of Gellone c.755 814 , Count of Toulouse, canonized a saint William II, Prince of Orange 1626 1650 William IV, Prince of Orange 1711 1751 William V, Prince of Orange 1748 1806 The Netherlands William I, Count of Holland 1167 1222 William II of Holland 1228 1256 , also King of Germany William I, Prince of Orange 1533 1584 , a.k.a. William the Silent William I of the Netherlands 1772 1843 William II of the Netherlands 1792 1849 William III of the Netherlands 1817 1890 Sicily William I of Sicily 1131 1166 , a.k.a. William the Bad or William the Wicked William II of Sicily 1155 1189 , a.k.a. William the Good William III of Sicily 1190 1198 Cameroon William I of Bimbia , 19th century king of the Isubu people William II of Bimbia d. 1882 , king of the Isubu people Other royalty William II of Villehardouin d. 1278 , Prince of Achaea William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1852 1912 William, Prince of Albania 1876 1945 Other historical people British William de Corbeil c.1070 1136 , Archbishop of Canterbury William of Malmesbury c.1080 c.1143 , English historian and monk William of Tyre c.1130 1185 , Archbishop of Tyre, chronicler of the Crusades William of Norwich c.1132 1144 , saint and martyr William of York d.1154 , Archbishop of York and saint William of Ramsey , 13th century monk and hagiographer William of Ockham c.1288 c.1348 , English friar and philosopher, originator of Occam s Razor William of Wykeham 1320 1404 , Bishop ... more details
King William may refer to William I of Bimbia William II of Bimbia , popularly known as Young King WilliamWilliam I of England William II of England William III of England King William III of England and Ireland, and William II of Scotland William IV of the United Kingdom King William County, Virginia William I, German Emperor William II, German Emperor William I of Scotland William I of Sicily William II of Sicily William III of Sicily William I of the Netherlands William II of the Netherlands William III of the Netherlands See also William King disambiguation hndis William ... more details
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