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How to use roger in a sentence

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A local radio personality named roger Fredinburg remembers getting a call to see if he wanted to host a show at the new station.
Judge Roger Scott heard that he was a man of previous good character and agreed to adjourn his sentence for the preparation of various reports.
A trademark of Roger Whittaker's performances was a very distinctive ability as a natural whistler.
Dr Roger Bannister clipped a second off the world record in a legendary 1954 race in Oxford.
Roger doesn't notice this, but is taken with how much Carolyn wants to keep David around.
Then after checking my work messages I went up to see Roger in Crouch End for elevenses and a then spot of lunch.
If I gave Roger and crew even a dollar, I'd feel like I wasted a buck that could have been better invested in a gumball machine.
James provided Roger with cover, excluding all enemy fighters within three klicks.
The crushing defeat suffered by Comeragh Gaels is no reflection on the efforts of Roger Casey to field a worthy side.
The puppet shot to fame on TV's late, lamented satire show Spitting Image, and is being sold off by the show's co-creator, Roger Law.
The Bristol-based Emerald Orchestra is led by Roger Huckle with conductor Benjamin Nicholas.
Barnabas is still trying to stall him, but Roger starts heading upstairs, telling Barnabas he is tired and Barnabas can let himself out.
Begun by Arnulf de Montgomery, a son of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, it has an inner and outer bailey.
The tongue trills of the Irish singer Roger Whittaker continue to delight audiences the world over.
Andrew Sullivan and Roger Simon believes these were conscious attacks on warblogs.
The Astros were shutout four times during this period and have been whitewashed a total of five times with Roger on the mound.
In the early 18th century, the English mathematician Roger Cotes computed weighted averages of measurements made by different astronomers.
Roger says they are mainly intended for children aged between three and five.
Roger gives me advice on legal stuff but I really need someone batting for me regarding contracts and that kind of tomfoolery.
He also mentions some halfway decent Manc acts like Roger, Bynatone, Nylon Pylon and Double Grey.
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During his career, Roger once shared a flat with former England captain David Gower, who is the godfather to Roger's oldest son, George.
Roger also worked as a bus boy, a kitchen hand, and a labourer on many different sites.
Sergeant Roger Hutton said the air pistol and BB guns were imported by a local business that did not have a dealer's license to sell them.
Roger and I went to Gibert Jeune the stationer, near Place Saint-Michel, where we bought blue-cover student notebooks lined with graph paper.
Roger and James also commanded squadrons of their own, and were in the thick of the fighting during the battle.
During the heated debate, the Mayor Roger Clarke as Chair, struggled to maintain order amid barracking from the public galleries.
And while he was trying on some hats, which he thought would go well with his Roger Moore safari suit, there was another mortar attack.
In the men's event, Roger Hammond beat off Jeremy Hunt and Jamie Alberts to lift the crown.
Roger beat off some people who would have been worthy winners but he deserves the praise and credit for all the fantastic work he has done.
Imagine my anxiety when Roger riffed today about the history of black music.
Roger, of course, would rather take care of her and keep the shop, but puts on a cheerful face.
He walked me back towards my hotel when I was due to meet Roger and he gave me a quick peck on the cheek to say goodbye.
I see no difficulty with the proposition that Shakespeare was acquainted with Roger Manners, fifth Earl of Rutland.
Attending the event will be Radio Four anchorwoman Sue McGregor and former 1960s singer-songwriter turned poet Roger McGough.
He got so frustrated with his words that he threw his dagger across the room, nailing a Jolly Roger right in the nose.
It's great for Roger because he's had a hard time since he suffered a horrendous injury last season.
Not since the halcyon days of the Cincinnati Kid can a man have been quite so sharp with the cards as referee Roger Furnandiz.
For gentler fun there's now a Jolly Roger family boat ride in the Pirate Cove, where captains and young pirates can jump aboard together.
Roger may have regrets, but he is unapologetic about who he is or what he does.
Jean had hopefully cooled off from this morning, and Roger didn't want to anger her again by being late.
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Soames demonstrates his long-headedness by refusing to give his uncle Roger legal advice for free.
Roger has the honor of a room named after him for all the hard work he put into the project to refurbish the village hall.
There were no surprises in the team, but it was good to see my fellow downhiller Roger in there.
At the top of the mast was a red flag, a Jolly Roger if he'd ever seen one.
Taylor said it was also the last time the liner's captain, Roger Knight, will sail a ship out of a port.
Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons.
Learning of her father's desperate finances, she decides to take one for the team and marry Roger.
Roger is usually the band's roadie, as well as playing with Keighley-based Goth music group Skeletal Family.
I DO agree with Roger Perry that we live in a beautiful world and that we have many blessings to be grateful for.
Like many Keighley men Roger Nowell likes to have a drink with his mates down the pub.
Antique tools displayed in cases designed by Roger are found in their home in La Jolla.
Since Innocent eventually won that rivalry and was recognized as the legitimate pope, Roger came to be painted as a usurper and a tyrant.
The number of women worldwide over all history consigned to Hades by Roger for having abortions must be in the hundreds of millions.
A man of many talents, Roger was an accomplished jazz musician, playing soprano saxophone and clarinet with his Blue Notes band.
No wonder owner Martin Peretz was eager to unload controlling interest in the magazine to investors Michael Steinhardt and Roger Hertog.
Roger, 41, knows he has what it takes to play the suave action hero, as a quick scan of his CV proves.
The greatest among the travesties at this year's Oscars was Roger Deakins not winning for best cinematography.
The other night, the announcer described a lady curler as the Roger Clemens of curling, said she liked to throw the high, hard one.
Once again, Roger Black, a convicted killer who escaped from an Iowa prison, is on the loose.
The initial native program was slated to last only two years, but Roger and staff have made a long-term commitment to keep the areas intact.
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I want to ask you first, Ron, about polls because Roger and Karen get testy with me when I bring up polls.
Sir Roger Scatcherd dies of drink and his dissipated son Louis almost immediately follows him, leaving the Scatcherd fortunes without an heir.
Every once in a while, Roger would invite me to join him for a screening of a new film.
After 25 years of deep thought, Roger believes he has answered the eternal question as to why we are here.
But after falling out with Roger, she drifts on her own initiative into life as a bar girl.
North Yorkshire farmer Roger Brown certainly pulled no punches as he showed his Wensleydales at an agricultural show yesterday.
Roger didn't own a car and he would pull on his book bag and run to and from school.
Stephen Tempest said that in 1453 the Archbishop of York granted a licence to Roger Tempest to establish a private oratory in his house.
Jess declined the services of Roger and grabbed the suitcases herself, tipping him anyway.
Roger says he's used willow water for years to root azaleas, lilacs, summersweets and even roses.
They paced Roger Bannister while the doctor broke the four-minute barrier for the mile.
Scott is the Roger Dodger of the film's title, a shark, a venomous, unpleasant, conniving, self-consciously chauvinistic pig.
Roger hopes to arrange for local rock bands to play support during each Keighley concert.
Back at the camp we found that Roger had our fire going and the billy boiling.
His co-author was Roger Kahn, one of the best writers ever on the topic of baseball.
Having exhausted all his resources, Pope Innocent finally yielded and recognized Roger as a legitimate king.
Sticking his hand in his pocket to finger his switchblade, Roger sped up a bit, but the footsteps followed him in perfect synchronization.
I used to run models of the ultracentrifugal rocket engine Roger Gregory and I designed.
Roger says that a sensor on the first blower determines the amount of air needed and controls the speed of both blowers.
Roger Ebert argues against the attitude attributed to most independent moviemakers that, since they've created a film, it must, somehow, be seen.
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Roger is flabbergasted and said that he has received support from police officers and community safety workers.
Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said he felt the county championship was being downgraded.
Away to his left Roger Palmer was scribbling a note on the smooth surface of his sabretache.
Dori, Roger, Grace, and Grant all sat in the lounge area they had been directed to by the unsmiling woman with the tight bun on top of her head.
Caelyn wasn't too concerned, it was probably Roger or Jeremy ringing up about the movies.
I found Tim Blair, Roger Simon, and Ed Driscoll bunched around a small table near the restrooms.
After dinner, Roger appeared in military fatigues, complete with hat, sunglasses, jackboots, and swagger stick.
In the 1850s the Victorian photographer Roger Fenton took the new technology of wet-plate photography to high levels of artistic achievement and public visibility.
Gardener Roger Brooks will be around to talk to, there will be a plant sale including dicentras from the national collection and the 15th century church will also be open.
Two players who crossed paths with him were not allowed to enter the league in 1966, Connie Hawkins and Roger Brown.
Roger Martin on why Google acts like a great company, not a tradable commodity.
These are among the choice tidbits that emerge from a forthcoming book, Roger Ailes Off Camera, by ZEV Chafets.
The hero, Roger, is a knight who rides a mythical animal, a hippogriff.
Dori's teeth were chattering with cold, and Roger gave up with a sigh.
The Arabs were driven out in 1090 by a band of Norman adventurers under Count Roger of Normandy, who had established a kingdom in southern Italy and Sicily.
Neither Rafael Nadal nor Roger Federer made it to the semis at the U.S. Open.
Roger bent down next to a young blonde girl's body and checked her pulse.
He removed her beige Roger Vivier pumps and white lab coat to reveal a denuded ballerina-pink slip dress.
Designed by French architect Roger Taillibert, the stadium was one of the first sports stadiums in the world to be capped with a plastic dome roof.
As they drove along in silence, the sound of the wipers and the throb of the engine the only real sounds on this Sunday night, Karen waited for something from Roger.
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A yellow rose, given by Roger to Jane, became a symbol of the transitory stage of their marriage.
We then came back to my house, opened the Guinness and watch some of Roger Waters Live on DVD, and followed that with my Led Zeppelin Live DVD that he got me for Crimbo.
On Friday night, Roger Ebert made a triumphal return to television, the first ever talk-show host without a voice of his own.
Several subsequent British reprints as well as editions by Le Clerc and Imbault in Paris and Roger in Amsterdam attest to their popularity in the 18th century.
Elizabeth was brought up in the care of governesses and tutors at Hatfield House and spent her days studying Greek and Latin with the Cambridge scholar, Roger Ascham.
Are you surprised, Roger, that the federal court threw it out today?
However, a few times, I could hear Kareem channeling Roger Murdock.
Even Roger Sterling is beginning to see a bit of darkness in the repetitive nature of hedonism.
Later, when Roger and Eleanore went to a car parts swap meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania, they decided to rent a car and drive around the area for a vacation.
He also had an encounter with Roger Wicker, one of the recipients of the ricin letters.
Brian Lewis Lewis was the right-hand man of Fox News chief Roger Ailes before he was fired last month in spectacular fashion.
Classic hardwood floors may need to be resurfaced every five years, but should be structurally sound for twenty-five years or more, according to Roger Berk of Haywood-Berk.
As the creator of Roger Rabbit, he eventually partnered with Walt Disney Pictures for a blockbuster animation film.
Even Roger Ebert, who hyperbolically called it the worst film he'd ever seen at the festival, has given his upward-thumb to this renovated version.
To this day, Bush media maven Roger Ailes adamantly denies that he or the campaign had any role in the Willie Horton mug shot ad.
I almost expected to see the Jolly Roger flying from the masthead.
My first boss, Roger, reckoned that the key to world progress and prosperity lay in an informed and, within limits, tolerant appreciation of cultural differences.
It's kind of an unlikely feature film to make but Roger put it together.
Roger can close a business deal, read a room, and charm a dinner table, but Don is the creative genius behind all those deals.
Set up by Roger and his young wife Jane in Season 4, Don and Bethany go on a series of unrewarding dates.
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Well Roger, if you want it back. then you are welcome to it.
Sidelined for a year with a nasty joint injury, Rafael Nadal returns to the hard court today against Roger Federer.
For his inaugural show, Mokoena exhibited a series of abstract expressionist paintings by Roger Botembe, a well-known figure from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
How could Uncle Roger meet him if he cabled us from New York?
Roger left his office bound world of writing reports some years ago and took up woodturning initially as a business, selling small artifacts in his shop.
The Roger Federer Foundation is supporting an initiative to develop early-childhood education in Malawi.
Roger Williams lured them with private plane rides, generous consulting contracts and even cash, interviews and records show.
Just as Janet Yellen looks like she has the Fed chairmanship in the bag comes talk of Roger Ferguson.
The suspension of Roger from office and the restoration of the excommunicate status of Gilbert Foliot and Jocelin of Salisbury would derail that plan.
The most significant discoveries came from the upper fills of the mineshaft excavated in 1971 by Roger Mercer, where two inhumation burials were uncovered.
Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, hoop Dreams, which was essential to its success.
This year's chairman, Roger Keverne, exhibits a very rare early fifteenth-century Chinese red lacquer box and a massive Tang Horse, among other treasures.
After nine months, McKeever gradually began to introduce Roger to the bustle and noise of New York.
I sent letters to State Representative Roger Wicker, Senator Trent Lott and Thad Cochran.
Mad Men is very big on surrogate parents on the show, and Roger always viewed Bert as a surrogate father figure.
Roger and his wife, Chaz, courageously opened up their private lives to our filming as they never have before.
She is trying to distance herself from Sir Roger, and from Rogernomics.
Roger was the last to cross and his knees shook like a leaf.
Cameroon had Roger Milla, who was an old man and ran only when it mattered.
By the mid-1400s the property was being used for religious purposes by the Augustinians, an association that ceased when the property was granted to Roger Jones.
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Republican Roger Wicker of tupelo has now cruised easily to re-election to a full term in the US Senate.
The jaded actress gets yanked out of her state of limbo when she abandons herself to an affair with Tom, an American about the same age as her son, Roger.
You felt that it was him that quietly and unassumingly kept things together as both Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry seemed quite volatile characters.
And since 1999, he hosted the Roger Ebert Film Festival in champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois.
She said some more gibberish, and then refused the statuette from presenter Roger Moore.
Commissioner Roger Goodell made Vick come on bended knee to apply for reinstatement.
A lot of big-time directors have been influenced by B-movie guys like Kaufman and Roger Corman, in particular.
But as I sat there and contentiously played the role of the loyal opposition, it occurred to me that, as I wrote above, Roger didn't really care much about all that.
Roger died in 1101 and was succeeded by his son Roger II, who was the first King of Sicily.
New Yorker Roger Greenberg is a single, 40-something at a crossroads in his life as he house-sits for his more successful brother in Los Angles.
The injustice, she was thinking, the low-mindedness of people, to think Roger could do anything wrong.
But I learned quickly, thanks to industry icons like Roger Bissonnette, Norm Sima and Harold Kosova, among others.
Hornish held on for second, giving car owner Roger Penske the top two spots.
Roger L'Estrange produced both The News and City Mercury, but neither of them was a sustained effort.
Roger lovingly describes radiolarians, some of which build skeletons of strontium sulfate while others manage to eat multicelled animals.
Hey, bands, can you help NFL commissioner Roger Goodell out?
He played lead guitar and synthesiser on The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Roger Waters' debut solo album.
They then heard the sound of battle as the main body of his army was met in battle by the forces of Roger Despenser and Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn.
Chief Business Development Officer, Roger Pricer, has an extensive background in health care and technology that spans more than 20 years.
Roger Charlton is well aware of the task Rose Diamond faces in taking on Rainbow View and has worries about the Doncaster going.
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Throughout his career, he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers.
I was standing in the open bar line behind British actor Roger Moore of James Bond fame.
Other liverymen include Animal Health Trust chief executive Peter Webbon, Roger Weatherby, Toby Balding and Andrew Parker Bowles.
Meanwhile in the consolation, Roger Cappallo, noted radio astronomer from Groton, won his first six games to clinch that title.
Richard Hughes completed a double on the Roger Charlton-trained pair Subadar and Moraine.
While some academics call a stock split a non-event, Roger Perry, CEO of Rightline.
Despite Renee's submission, Roger persists in psychopathologically recreating his lost love.
Neuropharmacologist Roger Pertwee says this would allow the sale of safe cannabis and screen out those it could harm.
Earl Roger was not quite so openhanded when it came to endowing his new monastery with lands.
I couldn't believe it when I heard Jenna was a cancer survivor,'' said Simi Valley cross country coach Roger Evans.
Gough's parents, Valentina and Roger, then took her to meet the competitors at the Novotel in Al Barsha afterwards, where she met Atkinson.
Roger was an Industrial Arts teacher in Auburn and then taught and was Department Head at Natick High School for over 30 years.
Little League's version of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris from the 1961 New York Yankees is Danny Leon and John Lister.
Thankyou to Rev Roger Woodward for the lovely service, a special thankyou to Pauline and Tony for all their help on that sad day.
Professor Roger Barlow will be leading the particle accelerator research at the university.
I just read an interview with Roger Linn, the inventor of the Linn Drum.
Hartman not only designed the costumes for this show, he played flamingly gay director Roger DeBris to a hilarious hilt.
Flea markets would be added to that list under legislation proposed by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson.
Sparkbrook's Labour MP, Roger Godsiff, believes that five permanent floodlight towers would be a blot on the skyline.
The free load came courtesy of fellow NFU members and arable farmers Rob Stacey and Roger Burroughs from West Hanningfield and Foulness Island.
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Couture shoe designer Roger Vivier, who invented the stiletto heel in 1954, will bring his flagship store to 750 Madison Avenue in the fall.
Richard Sharpe has suggested to me that Serlo may have hoped for an appointment from Roger and joined the Cluniacs on failing to receive one.
I love a fry-up now and again, especially when I have an early start' said Roger, from Rutland.
Roger Skilton, head teacher at Llangatwg Comprehensive School, paid tribute to the schoolgirl, who has not been named, yesterday.
A strong cast of Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer and Roger Allam adds to the creepiness.
Fortunately for Cubs fans, Scotts and our groundkeeper Roger Baird are helping to recreate that feeling in ballparks and yards across America.
In all his years as a groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox, Roger Bossard has never faced anything quite like this.
In 1638, Roger Williams established the first Baptist congregation in the North American colonies.
Roger Williams was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
Marcus du Sautoy and Roger Penrose are both currently mathematics professors, and Jackie Stedall is a former professor of the university.
According to the contemporary chronicler Roger of Howden, Longchamp dug a moat around the castle and tried in vain to fill it from the Thames.
Writing in the 12th century, Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act.
Beer writing was to evolve into beer blogging, leaders in both fields including Martyn Cornell, Pete Brown, Roger Protz and Melissa Cole.
Roger L'Estrange was a pamphleteer who became the surveyor of presses and licenser of the press after the Restoration.
Lewis has been the subject of several biographies, a few of which were written by close friends, such as Roger Lancelyn Green and George Sayer.
In 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association.
Unlike Roger Waters, Ray Repp did decide to sue, but the court ruled in Lloyd Webber's favour.
Roger Waters met Nick Mason while they were both studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street.
Gilmour worked with several songwriters, including Eric Stewart and Roger McGough, eventually choosing Anthony Moore to write the album's lyrics.
Before forming Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had played together in a band named Smile.
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Brian May and Roger Taylor performed together at several award ceremonies and charity concerts, sharing vocals with various guest singers.
On 11 April 2006, Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared on the American singing contest television show American Idol.
Roger Daltrey of the Who has been intimately involved with the planning of the events.
In North by Northwest, Cary Grant portrays Roger Thornhill, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who is mistaken for a government secret agent.
The film received critical acclaim in the United States and Roger Lewis viewed it as an important practice ground for Sellers.
Roger Lewis notes that like a number of Sellers's characters, he is played in a sympathetic and dignified manner.
Following For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore had expressed a desire to stop playing James Bond.
Roger Deakins signed on as cinematographer, while Dennis Gassner returned as production designer.
Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film for introducing new perspectives and ideas on the issues of morality and guilt.
As of 20 February 2017, Craig is the second longest serving James Bond, surpassed only by Roger Moore.
The other shortlisted artists were Enrico David, Roger Hiorns and Lucy Skaer.
The summer's final show saw former Pink Floyd bass guitarist Roger Waters play at the venue on 14 September as part of The Wall Live tour.
The power, provided by Gareth Chilcott and Roger Spurrell was complemented by the precision of John Horton and winger David Trick.
The last time that Britain won the Ashes was in 1970 with emerging stars like Roger Millward and Mal Reilly.
Roger Federer in 2006 and 2007 and Novak Djokovic in 2012 repeated this, both ultimately losing the French Open final to Rafael Nadal.
However, in the late 1960s Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities appear generically.
He cowrote the script for Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf with Roger Avary, a collaboration that has proved productive for both writers.
Thereafter his mentor, Roger Edwards, suggested that he try his hand at writing instead.
In 1984 he performed on former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, and joined the supporting tour.
Legend, possibly apocryphal, says Robert the Bruce called Comyn to a meeting, stabbed him and rushed out to tell Roger de Kirkpatrick.
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Roger White, CEO of soft drinks group A G Barr is a local lad who went to Dumfries Academy.
Providence Plantation was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams on land provided by Narragansett sachem Canonicus.
Each aircraft had a Jolly Roger flag painted on its port side, alongside nose art featuring female characters.
Llywelyn then moved on to Brycheiniog, and in 1266, he routed Roger Mortimer's army.
By February 1326, it was clear that Isabella was involved in a relationship with the exiled Marcher Lord, Roger Mortimer.
Roger de Montgomery was given the town as a gift from William, and built Shrewsbury Castle in 1074, taking the title of Earl.
Following a silver medal in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, he won the 110m hurdles silver at the 1988 Olympic Games behind Roger Kingdom.
Y Traethodydd was founded by Roger Edwards and Lewis Edwards and the magazine was modelled on the influential Edinburgh Review.
Roger Tsien later chemically manipulated GFP to produce other fluorescent colors to use as markers.
After taking Apulia and Calabria, Roger occupied Messina with an army of 700 knights.
Fort Nieulay, located along the Avenue Roger Salengro originally dated to the 12th or 13th century.
The publication of Roger Tory Peterson's field guide in 1934 led to the initial increase in birding.
The most pronounced tool pirates had at their disposal when confronting a potential prize was to employ the Jolly Roger.
These were followed by new field guides including classics by Roger Tory Peterson.
Benson, Hector Bolitho, George Earle Buckle, Lord Esher, Roger Fulford, and Richard Hough among others.
For Roger it was inscribed on a massive disc of solid silver, two metres in diameter.
Ten manuscript copies of the Book of Roger currently survive, five of which have complete text and eight of which have maps.
Roger I's nephew, Roger Borsa, was the Duke of Apulia and Calabria, and his great nephew, Richard II of Capua, was the Prince of Capua.
When Roger I died in 1101, his young son, Simon of Hauteville, became Count, with his mother Adelaide del Vasto as regent.
Adelaide continued as regent to her younger son Roger, who was just nine years old.
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In the summer of 1110, Roger was visited by the Norwegian king Sigurd Jorsalfare, who was on his way to Jerusalem.
The story suggests that Sigurd gave Roger the name King of Sicily, twenty years before he actually obtained this title.
Roger seems to have felt the slight, and this might explain his later reluctance to go crusading.
Roger, in exchange, provided William with 600 knights and access to money for his campaign.
After this coalition failed, in August 1128 Honorius invested Roger at Benevento as Duke of Apulia.
In September 1129 Roger was generally recognized as duke of Apulia by Sergius VII of Naples, Robert of Capua, and the rest.
The reward was a crown, and, on 27 September 1130, Anacletus' papal bull made Roger king of Sicily.
In 1132, Roger sent Robert II of Capua and Ranulf II of Alife to Rome in a show of force in support of Anacletus.
First Roger dealt with a rebellion in Apulia, where he defeated and deposed Grimoald, Prince of Bari, replacing him with his second son Tancred.
With the emperor's departure, divisions in his opponents' ranks allowed Roger to reverse his fortunes.
Robert was expelled from Capua and Roger installed his third son, Alfonso of Hauteville as Prince of Capua.
Ranulf joined Robert and Sergius there, encouraged by news coming from Sicily that Roger was fatally ill or even already dead.
On June 5, however, Roger disembarked in Salerno, much to the surprise of all the mainland provinces.
Roger, freed from the utmost danger, immediately disembarked in Calabria, at Tropea, with 400 knights and other troops, probably mostly Muslims.
Later, Roger exhumed his body from his grave in Troia cathedral and threw it in a ditch, only to repent subsequently and rebury him decently.
At this time, with Sergius dead, Alfonso was elected to replace him and together with his brother Roger went off to conquer the Abruzzi.
After the death of Anacletus in January 1138, Roger had sought the confirmation of his title from Innocent.
Roger II had not only acquired large wealth through his royal patrimony but also through his military campaigns and their financial rewards.
Roger himself never went on an expedition against Byzantium, instead handing command to the skillful George.
Roger died at Palermo on 26 February 1154 and was buried in the Cathedral of Palermo.
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Roger is the subject of King Roger, a 1926 opera by Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.
When she died, rumors flew that Roger had died as well, as his grief had made him a recluse.
Roger Collins suggests this may be because some Berbers were familiar with mountain terrain, whereas the Arabs were not.
Roger Collins cites the work of Pierre Guichard to argue that Berber groups in Iberia retained their own distinctive social organization.
It was founded by Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Roger Williams Park contains a zoo, a botanical center, and the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium.
Serena Williams and Roger Federer won the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, at the 2010 Australian Open.
Art historians and critics, among them Herbert Read, Roger Fry and Wilhelm Worringer knew Ruskin's work well.
Roger is the youngest, originally the ship's boy, but promoted to able seaman in later books.
This view was championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt and Jessie Weston.
Do you have something against sandalpunk or something? If you don't like that, try some Bacon. Roger Bacon, that is.
Soon she acquired a cult following after appearing in a string of low-budget Roger Corman schlockers.
For the second year in a row at Wimbledon, Roger Federer went to five sets against a Frenchman but this time there would be no slip-ups.
The new Gilmour-led Floyd sounds infinitely more 'Floydian' than Roger Waters' dirge-like solo albums.
Roger ran back and, instead of hoisting a defensive lob, went for a reverse between-the-legs squash shot, which didn't come off.
I applied to M.I.T. I had an admission interview with Roger Borovoy, an alumnus, and was waitlisted.
Adry Merli and Roger Chiquet, licensees, Jeanine Martin and Alain bignonneau, alternates.
Even more peculiar are the recordings of chats between the missing woman's brother Wiggy and Roger the cat.
Brigitte Bardot was only 15 when director Roger Vadim discovered her.
Roger Crawford said regretfully on Saturday night that, with the exception of fellow Alabamian A1 Dillard, he had lost touch with his teammates.
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The actors from The Bear Pit are Shirley Allwork Charlotte Froud, Roger Ganner, David Mears, Dominic Skinner and David Southeard.
Meet Roger, the horse saved from slaughter by a carriage driver.
The comedy story of low-life London is brought alive by The Who frontman Roger Daltrey and Bob Hoskins.
District Judge Roger Elsey heard Kyle Binks, 23, was caught kicking seat 17 in row seven of the away fans' pen.
After a gap of four years, Captain Jack Sparrow is back hoisting the Jolly Roger and splicing the mainbrace.
Diversification of the West Midlands economy is working, according to Roger Bootle, economic adviser to accountants Deloitte.
Roger Hieron was a schoolmaster who was convinced by the martyrologist John Foxe to leave teaching and become a clergyman.
Roger and Kerry, of Evelyn Street, Barry, lost their 18-year-old son, Aaron, when he was killed by a young drink-driver on Boxing Day.
Fonda persuaded director Roger Corman to hire the band for his drugsploitation movie The Trip, a paean to LSD scripted by Jack Nicholson.
O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
William of Ockham and Roger Bacon, who were Franciscans, were major philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Roger was a Norman, son of William fitzOsbern, but had inherited less authority than his father held.
The exact reason for the rebellion is unclear, but it was launched at the wedding of Ralph to a relative of Roger, held at Exning in Suffolk.
Included among them was Robert of Belleme, William de Breteuil, and Roger, the son of Richard fitzGilbert.
In 1018, Roger de Tosny travelled to the Iberian Peninsula to carve out a state for himself from Moorish lands, but failed.
The historian John Gillingham notes that the chronicle of Roger of Howden is the main source for Richard's activities in this period.
Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed by his mother, Isabella of France, and her lover Roger Mortimer.
While in France, however, Isabella conspired with the exiled Roger Mortimer to have Edward deposed.
In the melee which followed Henry II was almost slain had not Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford, rescued the king.
As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.

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