Ricketts

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Howard Taylor 1871-1910

American pathologist who discovered bacteria of the genus Rickettsia and determined the cause and methods of transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.

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ricinus oil, rick, Rickenbacker, ricker, rickets, Ricketts, rickettsia, Rickettsia akari, Rickettsia australis, Rickettsia conorii, rickettsial

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Two other Ricketts siblings, Todd and Peter, also have a piece of the action with the ball club.
Joe Ricketts’s Retreat From Obama Attack Campaign: Are the Chicago Cubs to Blame?|Jim Warren|May 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But by early afternoon, a Ricketts aide was disavowing the Jeremiah Wright plan, proclaiming that it went too far.
Joe Ricketts’s Retreat From Obama Attack Campaign: Are the Chicago Cubs to Blame?|Jim Warren|May 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I've never met Ricketts, and for all I know, he may ultimately have had the sense to kill the plan.
Race-Baiting Campaign Proposed Against Obama Revisits What We Thought Was Past|Mark McKinnon|May 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He was nothing like as good a bowler as either Wraysford, or Oliver, or Ricketts.
The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's|Talbot Baines Reed

Soon as Ricketts gets his guns in battery, his men and horses begin to fall, under the fire of these sharpshooters.
The Great Conspiracy, Part 3.|John Alexander Logan
Good-by, Mr. Ricketts; my solicitor will write to you about the business side.
Poor Relations|Compton Mackenzie
Mrs. Ricketts was now silent, and sat revelling in the various thoughts that her active mind suggested.
The Daltons, Volume II (of II)|Charles James Lever
General Ricketts was temporarily placed in command of the 6th corps, and was severely wounded early in the day.
Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers|J. Newton Terrill

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