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Robert Fitzroy 'Roy' Foster FBA FRHistS FRSL (born 16 January 1949), publishing as R. F. Foster, is an Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford .
R. F. Foster may refer to: Robert Frederick Foster (1853–1945), disseminator of the rules of many card games; R. F. Foster (historian) (born 1949), Robert Fitzroy ...
Robert Frederick Foster (May 31, 1853 – December 25, 1945) [1] [2] [3] of New York City, known as R. F. Foster, was a memory training promoter and the prolific writer of more than 50 nonfiction books. [4] He wrote primarily on the rules of play and methods for successful play of card, dice, and board games.
Robert Frederick Foster (1853–1945), memory training promoter and author of books on games; Robert P. Foster (1917–2008), president of Northwest Missouri State University (1964–1977) Robert Foster (author) (born 1949), author of The Complete Guide to Middle-earth; R. F. Foster (historian) (born 1949), British historian
Robert Wallace Foster Jr. [1] [2] (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019), known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor.He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), followed by a starring role as news reporter John Casellis in the landmark [3] New Hollywood film Medium Cool (1969).
Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents. Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864. In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle, R. F. Foster wrote: "the game of poker, as first played in the United States, five cards to each player from a twenty-card pack, is undoubtedly the Persian game of As-Nas."
There are two common theories about the origin of rummy, attributing its origins in either Mexico or China in the nineteenth century. [1] The first is that it originated in Mexico around the 1890s in a game described as Conquian in R.F. Foster's book Foster's Complete Hoyle, which was played with a 40 card Spanish deck and had melding mechanics.
Reginald Foster Dagnall (11 April 1888 – 16 November 1942) was a British engineer and aircraft designer. Early life.