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Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), the American cartoonist

person, artist, author, journalist, engineer, cartoonist, screenwriter, award winner, Jewish person, person with the star sign cancer

Legal name: "Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg", "Reuben Lucius Goldberg"
Born: ▶
1883; July 1883; July 4th 1883; the United States; California; …
North America; San Francisco, California; the world; the Americas; the San Francisco bay area; the Northern Hemisphere; northern California; Southwestern United States; San Joaquin County, CA; the west coast of the us; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; the G8; San Francisco County, CA; North America; the contiguous United States; the continental United States; the Pacific Standard Time region
Died: 1970, December 1970, December 7th 1970
Wrote: Inventions!, Chain Reaction
Wrote for Screen: Soup to Nuts
Full name: "Reuben Lucius Goldberg", "Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg"
Occupation: artist
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
Gender: male
Nationality: american
Educated: Lowell High School
Last Name: "Goldberg"
First Name: "Reuben", "Rube"
Main Occupation: journalist, cartoonist, engineering services business
Age at Death: 87 years, 5 months and 3 days old
Class: ▶
person, Jewish person, engineer, artist, journalist, …
cartoonist, person with the star sign cancer, screenwriter, author, award winner
Did: die (December 7th 1970)
Born During: January 1st 1880, 00:00 - December 31st 1889, 23:59
Died During: 1970s
Related Websites: ▶
http://www.reuben.org/awards.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w, http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/03/02/rube_goldberg_videos/slideshow.html, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;query=rube%20goldberg;group=Items;onlineItems=Items%20online, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7b69n96m, …
http://smith.hill.googlepages.com/rubegoldbergmachines, http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D91330F934A15757C0A966958260, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325298/bio, http://antiquesandthearts.com/2005-03-08__13-38-43.html&page=1, http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards.asp, http://www.jacobshwirtz.com/RubeGoldberg/index.html, http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/rube/rube.index.html, http://www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/goldbe70.htm, http://www.toonopedia.com/goldberg.htm
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OpenCyc ID: "Mx4rvhrIGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rube_Goldberg
Rare Terms: "rue goldberg"
Middle-name: "Lucius", "Garret"
Birthday: the 4th of July
Quotes: "When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."; "It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."; "And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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