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Siler Ruber
Siler may refer to: People * Brandon Siler, American football linebacker * Eugene Siler, American politician * Howard Siler, American bobsledder * Joseph Franklin Siler, U.S. Army physician and dengue researcher * Lester Eugene Siler, convicted drug dealer * Owen W. Siler, admiral in the United States Coast Guard * Ronald Siler, American amateur boxer * Todd Siler, American visual artist, author, educator and inventor Places in the United States * Siler, Knox County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Siler, Whitley County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Siler, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Siler City, North Carolina, a town Other uses * ''Siler'' (plant), a genus in the family Apiaceae * ''Siler'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders * Siler (Stargate), a character in the ''Stargate'' franchise See also * Sylar Sylar (Gabriel Gray) is a fictional character and a primary antagonist of the NBC superhero drama series '' Heroes''. Portrayed by Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Siler
Brandon T. Siler (born December 5, 1985) is an American former professional American football, football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. He played college football for the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Gators' 2006 Florida Gators football team, 2006 national championship team. He was chosen by the San Diego Chargers in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL draft, and also played for the Kansas City Chiefs. Early life Siler was born Daytona Beach, Florida.Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players Brandon Siler Retrieved January 6, 2015. Growing up in the Pine Hills, Florida, Pine Hills area of Orlando, He attended Maynard Evans High School, Evans High School, where he was a star high school football player for the Evans Trojans. His grandfather, Herb Siler, was a heavyweight boxer in the 1960s. College career Siler accepted a scholarship to attend his home-state University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Siler
Eugene Edward Siler Sr. (June 26, 1900 – December 5, 1987) was an American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky between 1955 and 1965. He was the only member of the House of Representatives to oppose (by pairing against) the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. That resolution authorized deeper involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. Life and career Siler, a self-described "Kentucky hillbilly", was born in Williamsburg, Kentucky, the son of attorney Adam Troy and Minnie (née Chandler) Siler. He was a staunch Republican and hailed from a traditionally Republican region of Kentucky. Siler served in the United States Navy during World War I and in the United States Army as a captain during World War II. His war-time experiences left him, according to David T. Beito, "cold to most proposals to send American troops into harm's way." Siler graduated from Cumberland College in Williamsburg in 1920 and from the University of Kentucky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Siler
Howard Banford Siler Jr. (June 18, 1945 – July 8, 2014) was an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Biography Howard Siler won a bronze medal in the four-man bobsledding event at the 1969 FIBT World Championships in Lake Placid, New York. Competing in two Winter Olympics, Siler's best Olympic finish was fifth place in the two-man event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. In all, he was a 5-time US champion and a 9-time member of the US World team. in 1985 Siler served as the United States team coach and also as chairman of the US Bobsled Federation Competition Committee. Siler later coached the Jamaican bobsleigh team that participated at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. He was the inspiration for the character of Irving "Irv" Blitzer (played by John Candy) in the American film ''Cool Runnings'' (1993). Unlike the fictional Blitzer, Siler was employed outside his sporting activities, as an insurance executive. He died Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Franklin Siler
Colonel Joseph Franklin Siler, MD (1875–1960) was a U.S. Army physician noted for investigations of mosquito transmission of dengue fever in the Philippines and for '' Marijuana Smoking in Panama'', one of the first experimental reports on cannabis. Siler was commander the Laboratory Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I and undertook extensive experimental observations on the manufacture and immunizing efficacy of anti-typhoid vaccines. See also * Army Medical School The Army Medical School (AMS) was founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg. According to some, it was the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine. (The other institution vying for this distinction is ... References External links Bayne-Jones, Stanhope (1968), ''The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939'', Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. (Photo of Siler) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Eugene Siler
Lester Eugene Siler, a convicted drug dealer in the United States, was beaten and tortured by Campbell County, Tennessee police during an interrogation at his home, during which officers attempted to coerce Siler to sign a consent form giving them permission to search his home without a warrant. On July 8, 2004, police officers entered the house of Siler and tortured him using various methods, including applying electricity to his genitalia. Upon arrival, the officers asked his wife, Jenny, and son, Austin, to leave. Before the torture, however, Siler's wife set up an audio recorder which captured a large portion of the incident. Five officers, Gerald David Webber, Samuel R. Franklin, Joshua Monday, Shayne Green, and William Carroll were convicted in federal court of the beatings and attempted cover-up. They received prison sentences ranging from 51 to 72 months. In 2016, a jury trial resulted in a $115,000 award to Siler. This was appealed by Siler for being inadequately low, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen W
Owen may refer to: People and fictional characters * Owen (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Places United States * Owen, Missouri, a ghost town * Owen, Wisconsin * Owen County, Indiana * Owen County, Kentucky * Owen Township (other) * Mount Owen (Colorado) * Mount Owen (Wyoming) Elsewhere * Owen Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Owen Sound, a city in Ontario, Canada * Owen, South Australia, a small town * Owen, Germany, town in Baden-Württemberg * Mount Owen (other) * Port Owen, South Africa Ships * , a destroyer that took part in World War II and the Korean War * , a British Royal Navy frigate Other uses * Owen (automobile), an American car made from 1910 to 1914 * Owen (musician), a solo project of American indie rock singer-songwriter Mike Kinsella ** ''Owen'' (album), a 2001 album * Owen (hippopotamus), a young orphan hippopotamus who formed a bond with a giant tortoise * Owen gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Siler
Ronald "Ron" Siler Jr. (born April 8, 1980) is an American former amateur boxer who competed for the United States at the 2004 Olympics. He is now a boxing coach at the Cincinnati Golden Gloves gym. Background Siler hails from the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, he has nine siblings and as of 2007, six children. He grew up without his mother after she joined the Army when he was an infant and lost contact and at times without his troubled father Ron Sr, too. Boxing since age 7, stringbean Siler almost quit the sport when he lost his first three bouts. He continued, though, and his hard-punching style won his next 50 fights. At the age of 14 he was caught selling drugs and became a 10th-grade high school dropout. Amateur career At boxing he was successful. Until 2001 he was campaigning as a light flyweight, he won the United States championships in 1998 beating Jose Navarro, 1998 and 1999 he lost five times to his nemesis future world champion Brian Viloria and at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Siler
Todd Siler (born August 23, 1953) is an American multimedia artist, author, educator, and inventor. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he became the first visual artist to be granted a PhD from MIT (interdisciplinary studies in Psychology and Art, 1986). Siler began advocating the full integration of the arts and sciences in the 1970s and is the founder of the ArtScience Program and movement. Creativity research In the early 1980s, Siler made an extensive study of genius across numerous disciplines to see what, if anything, such highly creative people as Albert Einstein and Sergei Rachmaninoff have, or more importantly do, in common. Although such inquiries are standard, Siler's work went further than any work before or since in examining how methods used by highly creative people might work on the neurological and cellular level. "Creativity is any unconditioned response," is typical of Siler's approach, which both validates and challenges the work of luminaries in the field such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siler, Knox County, Kentucky
Siler is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ..., United States. The community is located along U.S. Route 25E east of Corbin. References Unincorporated communities in Knox County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{KnoxCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siler, Whitley County, Kentucky
Siler is an unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States. The community is located along Kentucky Route 92 east-southeast of Williamsburg. Siler has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ... with ZIP code 40763, which opened on October 5, 1904. References Unincorporated communities in Whitley County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{WhitleyCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siler, Virginia
Siler is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ..., United States. Siler is located in northern Frederick County on Brush Creek at the crossroads of Brush Creek, Howards Chapel (VA 690), and Siler Roads. References Unincorporated communities in Frederick County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{FrederickCountyVA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siler City, North Carolina
Siler City is a town in western Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 7,702. History Siler City began when Plikard Dederic Siler and his wife, Elizabeth Hartsoe Siler, settled about four miles north of the town's current location. The couple briefly lived in Pennsylvania, then Virginia, and then settled near Lacy's Creek (the location near today's Siler City). They had 10 children. In recent years, Siler City has become a suburb of Greensboro and the Research Triangle Park. The Bowen-Jordan Farm, Cadmus N. Bray House, Bray-Paschal House, East Raleigh Street Historic District, Gregson-Hadley House, Former High Point Bending and Chair Company, Hotel Hadley, North Third Avenue Historic District, Siler City City Hall, Siler City Commercial Historic District, Siler City High School, Snipes-Fox House, William Teague House, and Burdett Woody House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
