Fred P. Branson
Fred P. Branson( March 1, 1881 – October 5, 1960) was a Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1926 to 1929, serving as Chief Justice from 1927 to 1929.
Fred P. Branson was born in Rockmart, Georgia on March 1, 1881 to Levi Branson and Rhoda Page Mull.
Rhoda had an older son, Joseph Mull, from her marriage to the late Harrison Mull.
The Mulls had moved to Arkansas, but after her first husband died, she and Joseph moved back to the small town of Cass Station, Georgia.
She met and married Levi Branson, a widower.
Levi and Rhoda Mull Branson had three sons and one daughter: Thomas Branson, Frederick Page Branson, Jessie Branson Adams, Homer Branson and Rhoda Page Branson.
Burr H. Nicholls
Burr H. Nicholls( December 9, 1848 – May 12, 1915) was an American painter who studied art with Carolus- Duran in Paris and first exhibited his work in London at Dudley Gallery.
Most of his works were based upon scenes from the seven years that he studied and lived in Europe.
Nicholls was married three times, but it was his marriage to his second wife, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, that caused a media sensation across the United States.
In 1897 both Burr and Rhoda Nicholls submitted paintings to the Paris Salon; Rhoda's was accepted with honorable mention but Burr's was rejected.
This triggered a period of marital discontent followed by separation.
Their divorce was finalized in 1906 and was reported in many American newspapers.
Journalists warned women of the peril of pursuing vocations that put them in competition with their husbands.
Allan Burns
Allan Burns( born May 18, 1935) is an American screenwriter and television producer.
Burns is best known for creating and writing for the television sitcom" The Munsters" as well as" The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and" Rhoda", both of which he created and wrote for alongside James L. Brooks.
Leslie Kurke
Leslie Kurke( born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1988.
Michael Ray Aquino
Michael Ray Aquino is a former intelligence officer in the police force of the Philippines.
He was accused of involvement in a 2000 political murder, and more recently was convicted of helping to transmit classified information from the United States to opposition leaders in the Philippines.
Aquino's Philippine- related career included serving as Deputy Directory of the Intelligence Group, and as senior superintendent of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force( now defunct).
He served under President Joseph Estrada, and remained politically loyal to Estrada after Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo rose to power.
In 2001, he and Cesar Mancao were charged in connection with the killing of Bubby Dacer, a former public relations official for Joseph Estrada.
Aquino then left the Philippines and moved to New York.
In March 2005, Aquino was arrested for overstaying his visa.
He contacted his friend Leandro Aragoncillo, a Philippine- born security specialist at the White House; however, Aragoncillo's efforts on Aquino's behalf eventually led to Aragoncillo's being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In the course of that investigation, evidence of espionage against the United States Government was uncovered.
Aquino was then accused of helping Aragoncillo transmit classified United States documents regarding President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo to her opponents in the Philippines, including both Joseph Estrada and current opposition leader Panfilo Lacson, who had been Aquino's superior in the police force.
Under an eventual plea-bargain agreement, Aquino entered a plea of guilty to illegal possession of classified documents, but avoided the more serious charge of espionage that Leandro Aragoncillo received.
Aquino faced a jail sentence of between 70 and 87 months plus a$ 250,000 fine.
On July 17, 2007, he was sentenced to six years and four months in prison by U.S. District Judge William H. Walls.
Federal prosecutors had sought the maximum 10- year term.
Susan B. Landau
Susan B. Landau( March 31, 1952 – May 31, 2017) was an American film producer, television producer, talent manager, and photographer whose credits included" Mr. Destiny" in 1990," Cool Runnings" in 1993," An Ideal Husband" in 1999, and the 2000 television film," Mary and Rhoda".
Don Nicholls
Don Nicholls( born 23 November 1936) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League( VFL).
The Carlton Football Club recruited Nicholls from the Maryborough Football Club in 1956, the Blues would later sign his younger brother John, their father ensured that both brothers would play together at one club.
Don played 77 senior games as a centreman for Carlton from 1956, when he was Carlton's best first- year player, to 1961.
In 1962 he left Carlton to play for Box Hill.
Leandro Aragoncillo
Leandro Aragoncillo( born 1960) is a former FBI intelligence analyst and a retired United States Marine Corps gunnery- sergeant who was convicted of spying against the United States Government in 2007.
A naturalized Filipino- American, he was charged with espionage and with leaking classified information to the regime of a former Filipino president.
The FBI labeled Aragoncillo the first known case of espionage within the history of the White House.
For over thirty- one months, from 1999 to 2001, Aragoncillo was assigned under Vice President Al Gore and then later under Vice President Dick Cheney.
Hired to work for the FBI at the Army's Ft. Monmouth base in New Jersey in July 2004, Aragoncillo began sending classified documents in January 2005, according to a federal complaint.
On October 5, 2005, Aragoncillo was indicted and arrested in New Jersey for espionage.
Federal agents accused him of stealing classified information, including details about the current President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo and then passing that information onto opposition leaders in the Philippines.
According to reports compiled by Filipino intelligence professionals, there were indications of a link between Aragoncillo and the French intelligence service, Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure.
Frequent visits by Aragoncillo to Manila allegedly were interspersed with clandestine meetings between identified, French operatives and several" illegals"( i.e. unregistered agents) around 2002 to 2004.
Statutes used against Aragoncillo:
Michael Ray Aquino, a former deputy director of the Philippines National Police who lived in New York City, was arrested also and was charged.
He was accused of receiving documents.
He pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of secret, U.S. government documents.
He faced a jail sentence of between 70 and 87 months plus a fine of$ 250,000.
On July 17, 2007, he was sentenced to six years and four months.
Leandro Aragoncillo, on the other hand, was sentenced on July 18, 2007, in New Jersey by U.S. District Judge William H. Walls to ten years in prison.
Under a proposed plea agreement, Aragoncillo had faced up to twenty years in prison.
Maud Briggs Knowlton
Maud Briggs Knowlton( March 17, 1870 – July 15, 1956) was an American watercolorist, still- life painter, art instructor, craftsperson, printmaker, and museum administrator.
She and her friend Alice Swett were the first two women artists in the famous Monhegan Island artists' colony.
She was the first director of the Currier Museum of Art and one of the first women to be a museum administrator in the United States.
Knowlton was a pupil of Rhoda Holmes Nicholls in New York, and she studied in Holland and Paris.
She was a member of the Copley Society in 1900, Boston S.A. Crafts( now the Society of Arts and Crafts), and the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts.
As an artist her specialty was flowers and landscapes.
She was director of the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, from 1929 to 1946.
At the time of its opening, the museum( then called the" Currier Art Gallery") had neither a collection large enough to fill the galleries nor an acquisition policy to guide the development of the collections.
Knowlton wisely arranged a series of notable loan exhibitions from private and commercial sources until she and trustees determined how best to proceed.
She is noted for saying," One good canvas is worth a whole gallery of undistinguished paintings."
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (March 28, 1854 – September 7, 1930) was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England.
She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries.
A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls of Port Elizabeth area's scenery, wildlife and architecture.
She lived there on her brothers' 25,000-acre ostrich farm for one year.
Her watercolor paintings and illustrations were published in journals, and her oil paintings won awards in the United States and Europe.
Nicholls was a successful artist, writer and art instructor.
She was actively involved in many art organizations as a member and leader.

Question: Were Leandro Aragoncillo and Rhoda Holmes Nicholls from the same country?
Answer: yes