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unusual facts about Robertson, Western Cape



1962–63 NBA season

A balanced starting five and some key reserves supported Robertson, as coach Charlie Wolf's team won over half their games for the second straight year.

1999 NATO bombing of Novi Sad

A press release one year on from the bombing by then NATO Secretary General Robertson, claims that NATO encountered complications from Yugoslav military use of civilian buildings and human shields.

2008 Houston Cougars football team

The game was originally scheduled to be played at Robertson Stadium in Houston, but due to Hurricane Ike, the game was played at SMU's Ford Stadium.

99 MP Party

Local businessman Jack Yan proposed that Robertson's campaign be turned into a political party in 2001, a decision that she agreed to the following year after finding that most parties in Parliament generally did not support a reduction.

Abram Robertson Byram

Abram Robertson Bryam married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848.

Barbara Robertson

Additionally, Robertson has performed in many film and TV productions, including The Company, Straight Story, Will of Their Own, Disney's Mother's Courage, Paramount's The Untouchables, and Early Edition.

Bevan Fransman

Bevan Fransman (born 31 October 1983 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African footballer, currently playing as a centre back for SuperSport United and the South African national team.

Bloukrans Bridge

The Bloukrans River below forms the border between the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces and is located in the Tsitsikamma region of the Garden Route.

Bruges Group

The group was set up by Lord Harris of High Cross and an Oxford University student Patrick Robertson following Margaret Thatcher's Eurosceptic speech delivered in Bruges in September 1988.

CHARM Bank

Robertson Stephens was acquired by BankAmerica, the holding company owning Bank of America and its subsidiareis, in 1997.

COSAT

Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT) is the first of three STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) schools in the Western Cape of South Africa.

CTV National News

(Jim Lehrer had presented The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since its inception in 1975, beating Robertson by almost a year, but he only presented as a sole anchor of the programme from 1995 until 2011.)

Douglas Argyll Robertson

Robertson made several contributions in the field of ophthalmology; in 1863 he researched the effects on the eye made by physostigmine, an extract from the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), which is found in tropical Africa.

Eben Dönges High School

Eben Dönges High School (Hoërskool Eben Dönges) is a government-funded, Afrikaans-medium high school in Kraaifontein, Western Cape, South Africa.

Elizabeth Triegaardt

In 2003, she received an award from the Western Cape Premier, Ebrahim Rasool, for meritorious service to the Arts in the Province.

Elytropappus rhinocerotis

Although the Renosterveld Vegetation Type is confined to the South-Western Cape of South Africa, the Renosterbos plant is much more widespread - occurring throughout the Cape Floristic Region and further, as far east as Molteno in the Eastern Cape, and as far north as Namibia.

Graham Robertson

Based on the experiences of directing Able Edwards, Robertson went on to write the book, Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on the Home Computer, a step-by-step account into how one would make their own feature film on Apple's Macintosh computer.

Harold Leighton Weller

Formal Conducting studies and mentors include Orien Dalley, and A. Clyde Roller (Interlochen); Robert Fountain, and David Robertson (Oberlin); Haig Yaghjian (Cincinnati Conservatory) and Richard Lert (1964, 1965, 1967; American Symphony Orchestra League; Conductor Institute).

Hollywood Arms

Most of the Chicago cast remained with the play, with Leslie Hendrix replacing Barbara E. Robertson.

Horizon problem

The horizon problem is a problem with the standard cosmological model of the Big Bang which was identified in the late 1960s, primarily by Charles Misner.

Huguenot railway station

Huguenot railway station is the main passenger railway station in the town of Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa.

James Burton Robertson

In 1855 John Henry Newman nominated Robertson as professor of geography and modern history in the Catholic University of Ireland.

Jennifer Robertson

Robertson has since appeared in other American made-for-television movies including Knights of the South Bronx and Relative Chaos.

Jeremy Oxley

He went on to form the Chinless Elite with Luke Bendt (drums), Mark Fuccilli (saxophone) (Big 5, Allniters), Sean McElvogue (trumpet, saxophone) (Big 5), Marcus Phelan (Allniters, Hoi Polloi), John Schofield (bass)(Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls), Andrew Robertson (drums).

Jeriome Robertson

In the game, the Giants clinched a playoff spot, and Barry Bonds hit a home run off Robertson into McCovey Cove to seal the game for them.

John Glasby

Six James Bond-style spy novels written as "Manning K. Robertson".

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Kimmy Robertson

Robertson performed a short spoken-word segment on Roger McGuinn's 1990 album Back from Rio.

Lance Robertson

Years later, when Schultz was co-creating the show Yo Gabba Gabba!, Robertson was asked to serve as host.

Lloyd Robertson

Robertson has outlasted Kirck, the late Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings to become the longest-serving network news anchor in television history; he is also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television (network or local) along with KTRK-TV (Houston)'s Dave Ward, WNBC (New York)'s Chuck Scarborough and KING-TV (Seattle)'s Jean Enersen.

Malpas, Newport

The roads in Woodlands are named after World War II generals, e.g. Allenbrooke Avenue, Horrocks Close, Montgomery Road, Robertson Way, Wavell Drive, etc.

Melvin Robertson

Robertson began his coaching career as an assistant under Bradley Mills at Odessa High School, before joining Bill Yeoman's staff at the University of Houston as defensive backs coach in 1965.

Montgomery Securities

The merger of BankAmerica Corporation and NationsBank Corporation, prompted NationsBank CEO Hugh McColl to propose to put the together the two investment banks, BancAmerica Robertson Stephens and NationsBanc Montgomery Securities.

Morgan Robertson

Episode 17 (segment "Titan") of the American television show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction tells the story of Robertson (Harris Fisher) writing Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan/Futility.

Mtutuzeli Hlomela

Mtutu had played soccer at junior level and at age 17, won a "football" scholarship through the South Australian and Western Cape sports ministries.

Mundell music

Successive artists at the Famous Bein Inn included Curtis Stigers, Long John Baldry, John Martyn, Gene Parsons, Fairport Convention, John Hammond, Andrew Gold, Tony Joe White, Micky Moody, B A Robertson, Albert Lee, Snowy White and the venue developed a reputation as a "living room feel" where you could be part of an intimate audience (max 60) and rub shoulders with legends from the past.

Oswald Hope Robertson

Robertson was born in Woolwich in south-east London, but at the age of one-and-a-half he emigrated with his parents to California, settling in the San Joaquin Valley.

Prionium serratum

This species has a disjunct distribution along the southern and south-eastern seaboard from the Western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal on sandstone substrates, growing in dense mats in marshy areas, and in and along streams and rivers.

Provincial governments of South Africa

The only province that has adopted a constitution is the Western Cape; in doing so it chose to rename its legislature the Provincial Parliament.

RAF Swanton Morley

The site is now occupied by the British Army, and is now known as Robertson Barracks in honour of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, the first Field Marshal to rise from the rank of private and who was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1916 to 1918.

Robert Robertson

R. H. Robertson (Robert Henderson Robertson, 1849–1919), American architect

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

SS Ben Robertson

Ben Robertson was constructed at the yards of the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation, Savannah, Georgia, one of 88 Liberty ships the yard built.

Tex Robertson

Robertson founded Camp Longhorn with his wife Pat in 1939 on Inks Lake in Burnet, Texas.

The Robertson Brothers

The Robertson Brothers is an Australian band of brothers who are probably most famous for their song that was the theme song for Home and Away from 2000 to 2006.

Tom Patey

He climbed extensively in Scotland, (making the first winter traverse of the Cuillin ridge with Hamish MacInnes, David Crabbe and Brian Robertson in 1965), as well as achieving notable ascents in the Alps and the Karakoram including the first ascent of the Muztagh Tower (7273m) with John Hartog, Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis in 1956 and Rakaposhi (7788m) in 1958 with Mike Banks.

Tom Robertson

Tommy received 1 international cap for Scotland playing against Northern Ireland in a British Championship match on the 26 March 1898 at Solitude, Belfast, Robertson also managed to find the net in the 3–0 victory.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).


see also

Robertson Field

Robertson Airfield in Robertson, Western Cape South Africa (ICAO: FARS)