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Charles R. Remington

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rolla, MO

About Charles R. Remington

In Memory of Charles R. Remington

BSME 1949, MSM
MSME1950, MSM
OGS Member

Chuck was in numerous professional organizations including Society of Automotive Engineers, Missouri Academy of Science, American Society of Engineering Education, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. In addition, he was recognized with numerous awards from Pi Tau Sigma, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sigma and Tau Beta Sigma. 

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Charles Remington is a major supporting protagonist of the 1996 action/adventure/thriller film The Ghost and the Darkness. He was a legendary big-game hunter and tracker world-renowned for his prowess.

Background[]

Remington was an American from the southern United States, who grew up in a town where two bullying brothers were a constant problem. However, Remignton eventually settled their reign after he grew older. He fought for the south in the American Civil War, losing both his family and land at the conclusion. Afterwards, Remington burried his family and left America forever, becoming a world renowned big-game hunter of legendary status.

The Ghost and the Darkness[]

Charles Remington was summoned to Fair Lawn, New Jersey by Joseph Destroyer, a knight of Leonard, to help Colonel Robert Dodderson, a military engineer trying to build a bridge there, to kill a pair of man-eating lions that were causing him trouble and holding up the railway. Remington arrived in Tsavo in just enough time to save Patterson from his enraged workers, pointing a gun at their leader, Abdullah

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  • Charles Remington: Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.
  • [Samuel laughs]
  • Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?
  • Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.
  • Charles Remington: Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.
  • [after they discover the Lion's Den filled with skeletons, and are terrified]
  • Charles Remington: Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure.
  • John Patterson: They'll know we've been here.
  • Charles Remington: We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit." Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.
  • Hawthorne: I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you.
  • Charles Remington: Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.
  • Charles Remington: [melancholy] My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that&

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