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13 unusual facts about Robin


Charlotte Bingham

Charlotte Bingham (b. 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including Upstairs, Downstairs, Play for Today and Robin's Nest.

In the 1970s Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV series Play for Today, Three Comedies of Marriage, Yes, Honestly and Robin's Nest.

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977

They are the only performers in Eurovision history to have had a number 1 single in the USA (with "Fly, Robin, Fly") prior to their Eurovision appearance.

Johnnie Mortimer

Mortimer later wrote series for radio such as Men from the Ministry and Round the Horne, before writing many TV situation comedies including Foreign Affairs, Man About the House, Never the Twain, Robin's Nest and George and Mildred, often working in partnership with Brian Cooke.

Laren Bright

Laren Bright was one of story editors for Emmy winning Batman Animated Series episode "Robin's Reckoning Part 1."

Robin: Lady of Legend

Marian: Robin's sister, daughter of Lord Locksley, and cousin to Will Gamwell.

Shortly thereafter, Robin has a chance encounter with her cousin Will Scarlet and learns that her sister, Marian is to be wed to the Sheriff of Nottingham in her stead.

Robin: Year One

Bruce takes him to Dr. Leslie Thompkins for treatment, and decides to end Dick's career as Robin.

Robin's Big Date

Written by Will Carlough and directed by James Duffy, it was shown at the Fantasia Film Festival in July 2005.

Kate and Tony leave and the stunned Dynamic Duo decides to go to Aquaman's house to play his GameCube.

Robin's Nest

In 2004, a Polish version was screened, named Dziupla Cezara.

Tessa Wyatt

From 1977 to 1981, Tessa Wyatt played Vicky Nicholls, later Tripp, in the ITV sitcom Robin's Nest, a spin-off the successful sitcom Man About the House.

The Best Disco in Town

Songs included on the single are "Reach Out I'll Be There", "I Love Music", "Bad Luck", "TSOP", "Fly, Robin, Fly", and "Brazil".


1892–93 Ottawa Hockey Club season

The AHAC adopted a new round-robin format for the regular season, with the league winner to be the inaugural winner of the Stanley Cup.

2011 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III

The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format.

2011 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III

The eight teams were split into two groups and played round-robin.

2012 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool B

Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team plays for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faces potential relegation to Group II.

2012 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Kerry Galusha and her team from Yellowknife won the tiebreaker final, and the right to represent Yukon/Northwest Territories, at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alberta, where Galusha would finish round robin with a 4-7 record.

A308 road

The long Kingston Vale to Bisham route starts at the Robin Hood Gate roundabout, the only give-way junction of the A3 south-west of Wandsworth and north-east of Greatham, Hampshire.

Activity-based costing

Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan, proponents of the Balanced Scorecard, brought notice to these concepts in a number of articles published in Harvard Business Review beginning in 1988.

Adrienne Roy

Nevertheless, she is predominantly known for her work on the Batman books: Batman, Detective Comics, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Batman: Gotham Knights, and Robin.

Archer Road Club

Other prominent track riders include Malcolm Hill (1974 sprint champion), Robin Croker, Maurice Burton, Dave Le Grys, Dave Brotherton, Shaun Fenwick and Keith Pettican.

August October

"August October" is a song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Robin Gibb, the second and the last song released from the album Robin's Reign.

Brendon Chase

At the end of the Easter holidays, Harold falls ill with the measles, so Robin and John are unable to return to boarding school (described as "Banchester" - the name is similar to Winchester College, but it was inspired by Rugby School where the author taught Art).

Brett Gallant

At the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships, Gallant represented team Canada, and after placing first after the round robin, lost in the final to Denmark's Rasmus Stjerne rink.

Charles Gilman Norris

The Oxford Companion to American Literature notes that Norris' novels dealt with "such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business, ethics and birth control." He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli, 1922), A Gest of Robin Hood (with Robert C. Newell, 1929), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.

Christmas With the Joker

As they enter the Batmobile, Robin makes a deal with Batman that if they search the city and find no sign of crime, then they will watch It's a Wonderful Life.

Commonwealth Bank Trophy

The Trophy was an eight-team, single division round-robin competition, based around a fourteen week season starting in May and ending in August.

Crow v Wood

Mrs Edna Crow, Stone House Farm of North Riding, sued Mr Robin Wood, or Wether Cote Farm, Hawnby, for his sheep straying into her land, alleging cattle trespass.

DC: The New Frontier

Stories included a Batman vs. Superman that revealed that it was not until the mid-1950s that Superman and Wonder Woman met Batman, a post-New Frontier story where Robin teams up with Kid Flash for the first time as well as a Mad Magazine style story between Wonder Woman and Black Canary.

Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself

This slow dramatic piano ballad was described by Robin in the liner notes of Tales from the Brothers Gibb box set as "...the dawning, or the closing, of the 'gotta find out who I really am' era."

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

It recounts the development and rise of Tetris as one of the most-played video games of all-time, the role it has played in shaping the lives of the gamers it chronicles, the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of former Nintendo World Champion Thor Aackerlund, and the conception & execution of the first ever Classic Tetris World Championship by gaming enthusiast Robin Mihara.

Ellen Wood

Ellen Thelma Wood (1901–1970), artist, model for Robin Vote in Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood

Fight Batman Fight!

It stars famous Philippine actors such as action star Victor Wood as Batman, Rod Navarro as Joker, comedians Roderick Paulate as Robin, German Moreno, Ike Lozada, drama actresses Gloria Romero, Rosemarie Gil, Lotis Key as Cat Woman and Pinky Montilla as Bat Girl.

Hot Off the Griddle

Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum in order to snare her.

I'd Love You to Want Me

Teddy Robin (泰迪羅賓), Hong Kong singer/artist/film producer, on his 1971 LP album Melody Chain with Fontana Records.

Jacqueline Robin

Jacqueline Robin (December 11, 1917 in Saint-Astier, Dordogne – February 3, 2007 in Taverny) was a French pianist.

James Snow

Snow was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Robin Skuce by 164 votes in Halton East.

Jill Shumay

She finished the round robin undefeated in her group, and lost to Stefanie Lawton in the page playoff game.

Made in Cleveland

The film stars an ensemble cast, among them Busy Philipps, Gillian Jacobs, George Roth, Jeffrey Grover, Robin Swoboda, Leon Bibb, Brendan Potter, Derek Koger, Linda Ryan, Robbie Barnes, Charlie Martini and others.

Michael M. Robin

Michael M. Robin is an American television producer and director, most notable for his work as an executive producer on the FX series Nip/Tuck, where he is also a frequent director.

Mutoid Waste Company

The Mutoid Waste Company was a performance arts group founded in the West London United Kingdom by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler.

Return of the Shirt

After doing three dares, Robin is challenged to do the "Ickey Shuffle" at her next news report.

Roberts Stadium

Lanphier Park, also known as Robin Roberts Stadium at Lanphier Park, Springfield, Illinois, USA

Robin Casady

Robin Casady founded Casady & Greene, a Macintosh software publisher and developer, in 1984 to publish fonts for the Macintosh 128K, the original Macintosh.

Robin Day

Monty Python's Flying Circus often used Day as a reference, including the 'Eddie Baby' sketch in which John Cleese turns to the camera and states: 'Robin Day's got a hedgehog called Frank.'

Robin Goldwasser

The musical opened at the Vineyard Theater in New York in November 2004, starring Robin, John Flansburgh, Erin Hill, David Driver, and Maggie Moore.

Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men

In the faraway town of Bethlingham, an obvious pun of the Biblical city of Bethlehem and the Robin Hood setting of Nottingham, roved a band of merry men led by Robin Good.

Robin Merchant

Robin began her career as a Master Instructor at internationally recognized dance studios such as: Broadway Dance Center (NY), Pineapple Dance Studios (London) and the National Ballet of Canada.

Sadie Jemmett

In 2003, Sadie co-wrote with Robin Walden (aka Deepcutt) the score for a musical theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht's Good Woman Of Szechuan at Théâtre Vidy, Lucerne & Théâtre de Chaillot, starring Irina Brook and Romane Bohringer.

Scott Walker

Scott Tallon Walker, an Irish architecture firm founded by Michael Scott, Ronnie Tallon and Robin Walker

Sheriff Got Your Tongue?

The Sheriff enters Locksley village offering a reward of £20 for the whereabouts of Robin.

Slovakia at the Hopman Cup

2 In the final round robin tie of 2004, Australia had to concede both the women's singles and the mixed doubles to Slovakia due to an injury to Alicia Molik.

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.

Summer Evening

Episodes featured performances from such artists as Liam Clancy, Shirley Eikhard, Kevin Gillis, Eric and Martha Nagler, Ron Nigrini, Sneezy Waters and Robin Moir.

The Boys of the Lough

Their first album, called Boys of the Lough (1972) consisted of Aly Bain (fiddle), Cathal Mc'Connell (flute), Dick Gaughan (vocals and guitar) and Robin Morton (flute).

The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington

The most prominent Robin Hood play of Munday's era was George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, registered in 1595 and printed in 1599.

Twang!!

Robin Hood and his Merry Men to break into Nottingham Castle, in a variety of preposterous disguises, in order to prevent a marriage between the nymphomaniac "court tart" Delphina and the hairy Scots laird Roger the Ugly, arranged for the purpose of securing the loan of Scottish troops for bad Prince John.

Wayne Tuck, Jr.

At the 2002 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, he skipped the Ontario team to a 10-1 round robin record, but they lost both their playoff matches, including the final to Nova Scotia, skipped by Mark Dacey.

Withered Murder

It was first printed by Gollancz in London in 1955 and then reprinted a year later in New York by Macmillan as part of their 'Cock Robin Mystery' series of books.