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3 unusual facts about A. N. R. Robinson


Ray Robinson

A. N. R. Robinson (born 1926), former president and prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Robert Kurt Woetzel

At Oxford, he became close friends with A. N. R. Robinson, who in 1989, as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, reintroduced a proposal for an International Criminal Court to the United Nations General Assembly.

In 1989, Woetzel assisted A. N. R. Robinson and Benjamin Ferencz in drafting the proposal that reintroduced the idea of an International Criminal Court to the General Assembly.


Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

While looking in the mirror, he seeks advice from his “three favorite men”: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson.

Barbara Robinson

Barbara A. Robinson (born 1938), member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Claude C. Robinson

He managed the Canadian team at the 1932 Winter Olympic games, which were played at Lake Placid, New York.

Colonial origins of comparative development

"The colonial origins of comparative development" is a famous academic article written by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson and published in American Economic Review in 2001.

Crescens Robinson

The family company of E. S. & A. Robinson owned a large printing and paper-bag manufacturing site at Bedminster in Bristol.

Cullybackey

Neil 'Smutty' Robinson, a well-known motorcycle racer and British 250cc Championship winner, who was killed, aged 24, in 1986.

Egan's Rats

On November 15, 1924, Colbeck, Louis "Red" Smith, Steve Ryan, David "Chippy" Robinson, Oliver Dougherty, Frank Hackethal, Charles "Red" Lanham, Gus Dietmeyer, and Frank "Cotton" Epplesheimer, were convicted of a Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment.

Good Neighbor Sam

An extremely important client, Simon Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson), is considering taking his business elsewhere when he believes there are no "family men" working at Sam's company.

Hans Lobert

A 1953 film, Big Leaguer, set at a Giants training camp in Florida, was a fictional story, but starred Edward G. Robinson in the role of Lobert.

Ida B. Robinson

African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography By Sherry Sherrod DuPree Published by Taylor & Francis, 1996 ISBN 0-8240-1449-9, ISBN 978-0-8240-1449-0, 650 pages

Information broker

An example of an information broker in contemporary fiction would be DC Comics' superheroine, the Oracle, Edward G. Robinson's character Sol in the film Soylent Green, the Shadow Broker in the video game series Mass Effect, Nicholas Wayne, Rachel, Elean Duga, Gustav St. Germain, Carol, and the President of the Daily Days newspaper company in Baccano!, or Izaya Orihara in the anime Durarara!!.

J. W. Robinson's

In the 1970s ADG used the Robinson's name to open a new chain of department stores on Florida's Gulf Coast, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, starting with a store at Tyrone Square Mall in 1972.

Jack Robinson

Jack C. Robinson (1922–1942), United States Marine Corps Silver Star recipient

James E. Robinson

Robinson is a sixth cousin once removed of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and is an ancestor (maternal great grandfather) of President George W. Bush.

James Robinson, Jr.

James E. Robinson, Jr., United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II

James S. Robinson

Robinson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, to January 12, 1885, when he resigned.

Jerome B. Robinson

He was the Gundogs Editor and a feature writer at Sports Afield from 1970 to 1990 and wildlife-management columnist at Field & Stream since 1990.

John Robson

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, (1919 – 1972), U. S. baseball player, the first black Major League player of the modern era.

Ken Robinson

Kenneth N. Robinson, member of the First Presidency of the Community of Christ

Kenneth N. Robinson

When McMurray resigned in 2005, Robinson and fellow counselor Peter A. Judd led the church until Stephen M. Veazey was selected as the new president.

Luther Tucker

For several years he worked with John Lee Hooker's band, Grayson Street, L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson, and as a house musician at Clifford Antone's club in Austin, Texas.

Map communication model

By the mid-20th century, according to Crampton (2001) "cartographers as Arthur H. Robinson and others had begun to see the map as primarily a communication tool, and so developed a specific model for map communication, the map communication model (MCM)".

Martin P. Robinson

Robinson was married to Sesame Street writer Annie Evans on August 9, 2008 on the set of Sesame Street in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY.

Martin Robinson

Martin P. Robinson (born 1954), puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company

Mel Welles

Jonathan Haze, who played Seymour in the original film, attended the opening, and Welles also received a visit from Martin P. Robinson, the designer of the Audrey II plant puppets used in the off-Broadway production (Robinson is also famous for his puppetry on Sesame Street).

Michael H. Robinson

Dr. Robinson received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wales, in 1963, and his doctorate in zoology, in 1966, from Oxford University, where he studied under Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Orrin W. Robinson

They raised two children: M. Ethel, who graduated from Mary Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Boston Conservatory of Music; and Dean L., who finished a course of study at Smith Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, then entered the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, graduating in 1895.

Paul H. Robinson, Jr.

With the election of Progressive Conservative Brian Mulroney in the 1984 Canadian federal election, these talks were expanded to discussions about a comprehensive free trade agreement.

Pepsodent

Famous Hollywood guest stars such as Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Basil Rathbone, Gary Cooper, Veronica Lake, Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Hedda Hopper, and many more would be on hand to trade comedic barbs with Hope.

Peter D. Robinson

He grew up in Barton Waterside, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, and was educated locally at Castledyke Primary School and Baysgarth Comprehensive School.

R. M. Ballantyne

He published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America, and for some time was employed by the publishers Messrs Constable.

Raphael M. Robinson

Born in National City, California, Robinson was the youngest of four children of a lawyer and a teacher.

Ray A. Robinson

He also served in 1929 as Officer in Charge of the Marine Detachment which built President Herbert Hoover's Rapidan Camp mountain retreat near Criglersville, Virginia.

Richmond Vale railway line

These locomotives were based on the pre war Great Central Railway Class 8K 2-8-0 locos design by John G. Robinson After the armistice these locomotives were surplus and J & A Brown bought 13 of these locomotives, these were built by the North British Locomotive Company (9), Kitson and Company (1) and the Great Central Railway's Gorton Works (3).

Robinson projection

The Robinson projection was devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963 in response to an appeal from the Rand McNally company, which has used the projection in general purpose world maps since that time.

Satriale's Pork Store

The interior walls of the storeroom where Emil "E-Mail" Kolar is murdered by Christopher Moltisanti has black and white framed photographs of classic actors and entertainers, like Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson and Dean Martin hanging on the walls.

Spider-Man: With Great Power

Other characters and themes will include mobsters involved with Spider-Man's professional wrestling career, a Mrs. Robinson figure in Peter's life, giant monsters, and childhood love.

Stephen Emmel

He began graduate study with James M. Robinson, who took Emmel with him to Cairo, Egypt, in 1974 as a research assistant in the international project to publish the Coptic Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Ted Donaldson

He appeared in twenty films, starting with a starring role as Arthur "Pinky" Thompson in Once Upon a Time (1944), opposite Cary Grant and Janet Blair, and as Barry in Mr. Winkle Goes to War with Edward G. Robinson (1944).

The Actors' Temple

Many vaudeville, musical theater, television, and nightclub performers attended services there, including Sophie Tucker, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Joe E. Lewis, Edward G. Robinson, as well as several of the Three Stooges.

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall is a 1929 film directed by Robert Florey, and starring Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson.

The Kid Comes Back

The title may be meant to remind audiences of Kid Galahad, a smash hit prizefight movie released the previous year starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Wayne Morris in the title role as a young boxer very similar to his part in The Kid Comes Back.

Thomas J. B. Robinson

Robinson had served in the Sixty-eighth and the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1933.

Thugs with Dirty Mugs

Its subject matter (movie gangsters) is a parody of Warner's famous cycle of crime films starring such actors as James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, and Edward G. Robinson.

Vermont Republican Party

In October 1854 Republican Steven Royce defeated incumbent Democratic governor John S. Robinson, Robinson would be the first and final Democratic Governor of Vermont for 108 years.

Wallace H. Robinson

After completing The Basic School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in February 1941, he attended the Base Weapons Course, Marine Corps School, Quantico, Virginia, and on graduation in June 1941, joined 5th Defense Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.

We Will Never Die

There were narrations and performances by Jewish stars, including Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, Sylvia Sidney, and John Garfield, and by non-Jewish stars such as Ralph Bellamy, Frank Sinatra, and Burgess Meredith.

William R. Robinson

In 1986, RCA Corp. was acquired by General Electric (GE) in what was at that time the largest non-oil merger in history.


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