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unusual facts about Robin Hood's Ball


Robin Hood's Ball

Richards, J, "The Stonehenge Environs Project" (English Heritage, 1990) ISBN 1-85074-269-3


2011 G-20 Cannes summit

At the summit protesters donned Robin Hood caps and demanded a tax on international financial transactions in order to provide aid to poor countries instead of catering to banking and other financial institutions.

Adam Thorpe

His most recent work, Hodd, is a novelisation of the story of Robin Hood: among the source material which Thorpe used for this book, he studied medieval pipe rolls.

Anjali Jay

She is best known for her role in the 2006 film Blind Dating as Lisa and as Djaq on the first two seasons of the 2006 television series Robin Hood.

Barrie Dobson

Richard Barrie Dobson, FRHistS, FSA, FBA (3 November 1931 - 29 March 2013) was a British historian who was a leading authority on the legend of Robin Hood as well as a scholar of ecclesiastical and Jewish history.

Bowstones

Local legend states that the name is derived from their use by Robin Hood and his men to re-string their bows.

Brigandage in Southern Italy

They launched attacks against the Italian authorities (who were regarded as foreigners) and the land owning upper-classes, coming to be viewed by many of the common people as Robin Hood like figures, some of them gained celebrity in the area via the spreading of their stories.

Clarence Schmidt

A true eccentric, Schmidt compared himself to Rip Van Winkle, Paul Bunyan, Robin Hood, and Baron Munchausen; "I became some greater part of this mountain up here. Why when I walked along the road, the trees knelt down on my behalf. . . .There I was — in the land of ecstasy!"

Dong people

Best Weather Day - Jiang Yingfang, the "Robin Hood" of the Dong people who led a rebellion in the 1800s, is celebrated on this day.

Elsa Watson

Her first novel, Maid Marian (2005), details a history of Marian, the female companion to Robin Hood.

Enid Bennett

In 1922, she starred in only three films, but one of those became her most famous role, the female lead of "Maid Marian" in Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks.

Extreme Aggression

While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1987 tour with the crossover thrash band D.R.I., this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betrayer" music video on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, which was partly shot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

Fancy Dress Festival

One of the group's members was enamored of the character of Robin Hood, but accidentally shot the nephew of a priest in the eye with a stray arrow on Christmas Day in 1930.

Flesh Gordon

The character names are suggestive innuendos, based on the character names from the first of those multi-chapter serials: the hero Flesh Gordon; his love interest Dale Ardor; the evil Emperor Wang the Perverted; Dr. Flexi Jerkoff; Amora, Queen of Magic; and a very gay Robin Hood-like character called Prince Precious.

Freshwater West

As a filming location, Freshwater West featured extensively in the 2010 film Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe, which depicted the French invasion of southern England.

Greifensteine

Karl Stülpner (1762–1842), a local renegade and folk hero (the Robin Hood of the Erzgebirge) had a hiding place in one of the numerous caverns of the Greifensteine area.

Haiducii

The meaning of her stage name is Haiduc, an "outlaw" or "of outlawry," e.g., Bulgarian, Serbian or Romanian outlaw-type hero who helps the poor (similar to Robin Hood or Tadas Blinda) or the rebels who fought the Ottomans when they occupied the Balkans for over 400 years (1453-circa 1900).

Hulne Priory

Hulne Priory was the filming location of Marion's home in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Jaynestown

After tossing Simon aside, Stitch addresses the crowd, telling them what really happened, and how Jayne's Robin Hood-like act was just a mistake.

Jonas Armstrong

Jonas Armstrong (born 1 January 1981) is an actor best known for his appearances on television in the United Kingdom, where he played the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood.

K-20: Legend of the Mask

However, in the city there are rumors about a mysterious thief, who only steals from the rich, a part Robin Hood, part Spider-Man, part the Shadow character with magical powers, Nicknamed K-20 (short for "Kaijin Nijū-Mensō" - the Phantom Thief with 20 faces.

Kelligrews Soiree

It was patterned on Irish music-hall songs like "The Irish Jubilee" and "Lanigan's Ball", and makes reference to "Clara Nolan's Ball", an American vaudeville song of the nineteenth century.

King John and Matilda

The play bears a strong resemblance to The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, the second of Anthony Munday's two Robin Hood plays (1598; printed 1601) — to the point that Davenport's work has been called a mere rewrite of Munday's play.

Letychiv

Ustym Karmаliuk (1787–1835), a notorious thief and gang leader, is considered a Ukrainian Robin Hood and folk hero.

Nezumi Kozō

This, combined with the public humiliation he dealt out to the daimyo, resulted in the popular legend that he gave the money to the poor, turning the petty crook into a posthumous folk hero similar to Robin Hood.

Nyco Lilliu

The musical Robin des Bois' is a modern adaptation of Robin Hood, where the lead role is played by French singer M. Pokora.

Paul Usher

He appeared in Swing with Lisa Stansfield and Hugo Speer and in Robin Hood (2006, BBC), in the penultimate episode of series two.

Percy French

He became renowned for composing and singing comic songs and gained considerable distinction with such songs as "Phil the Fluther's Ball", "Slattery's Mounted Foot", and "The Mountains of Mourne".

Phoolan Devi

It began to be said that the manhunt was not successful because Phoolan had the support of poor people in the region; stories on the Robin Hood model began circulating in the media.

Player's Ball

The single was released in November 19 1993, and is taken from the group's debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.

Pumpkin Diamond

Halle Berry wore the ring to the 2002 Oscars where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.

River Ure

More recently in 1990, Aysgarth Falls was used as a location in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, in a the scene where Robin Hood fights Little John.

Robin Hood Morality Test

In the test, a situation is posed and the reader is asked to rank Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John and the Sheriff of Nottingham in terms of the morality of their actions in the scenario.

Robin Hood's Bay

The Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales, on the hill side at Raw, above the village, replaced an ancient church which had Saxon origins and was demolished in about 1821 and was a dependent chapel of Whitby Abbey.

Robin Hood's Death

This version inspired the film Robin and Marian, where it is his lover, Maid Marian, now a nun, who is his downfall.

Shoot a Crooked Arrow

In Batman's first episode of the second season, Fenton Quigley, a.k.a. The Archer, a medieval enemy of Superman modeled after Robin Hood, escapes from Police Headquarters in a moving van from the Trojan Hearse Company, driven by Maid Marilyn.

Batman and Robin trace the Archer to his hideout at the Earl of Huntington Archery Range (Robin Hood was the alias of the Earl of Huntingdon) in Gotham's Green Forest section, where Alfred Pennyworth attempts to divert the antagonists long enough for Batman and Robin to inspect his lair.

St Mary's Church, Edwinstowe

It is visited by tourists, who come to see the church where, according to legend, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were married.

Stormtroopers of Death

The song "March of the S.O.D.," from their 1985 debut album, Speak English or Die, was the Headbanger's Ball intro anthem for many years.

Superfantozzi

It so happens that Fantozzi falls into poverty and the help of Robin Hood is not enough to satisfy him.

Superhiks

The band got its name after Superhik (in Italian: Superciuk), a fictitious anti-Robin Hood character who steals from the poor and gives to the rich from the Italian comic book Alan Ford that had and still has a cult status in the former Yugoslav countries.

Tattoo? What Tattoo?

"Tattoo? What Tattoo?" is the eighth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.

Ted McCall

A little over 7 months later, on September 23, 1935, McCall began another strip, this time based on the Robin Hood legends.

The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Secret Policeman's Ball 2006, the 2006 Amnesty benefit show (and the spin-off TV special and DVD)

The Taxman Cometh

"The Taxman Cometh" is the sixth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.

Un monde à changer

The song written and composed by Lionel Florence, Patrice Guirao and Matthieu Mendès is taken from the forthcoming French musical Robin des Bois, an adaptation of Robin Hood, that premiered on Palais des congrès de Paris on 26 September 2013 starring M. Pokora.

William Reeve

Some of his other popular later works included a melodrama, The Purse (1794), a Robin Hood pantomime, Merry Sherwood (1795) (especially the drinking song I am a friar of orders grey) and a comic opera, The Cabinet (1803).

Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar

In Iranian folklore, Ya'qub is sometimes regarded as an Iranian Robin Hood because according to legend he stole from the wealthy and helped the poor.

Zelimxan

Zelimkhan (also spelled Zelim-Khan) (January 1872, Kharachoy, Terek Oblast - 26 September 1913) is a Chechen and Ingush hero, which is viewed today as a version of a Chechen Robin Hood.


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