The closure of the lines to Whitby was marked by the Whitby Moors Rail Tour run by the Stephenson Locomotive Society and the Manchester Lococmotive Society and was hauled by preserved LNER K4 2-6-0 no.3442 The Great Marquess and York shed's K1 2-6-0 no.62005 (which resides at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the care of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG).
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Local legend states that the name is derived from their use by Robin Hood and his men to re-string their bows.
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.
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!"
Best Weather Day - Jiang Yingfang, the "Robin Hood" of the Dong people who led a rebellion in the 1800s, is celebrated on this day.
Her first novel, Maid Marian (2005), details a history of Marian, the female companion to Robin Hood.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The name Greenwood had been given to the Hill's summer place by Ruth's younger brother who loved Robin Hood.
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.
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 was the filming location of Marion's home in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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 (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.
In prison interviews, Razo has told reporters that he hated the time he spent at Harvard, and has portrayed himself as a kind of Robin Hood, stealing to save his starving family.
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.
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.
He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel.
Ustym Karmаliuk (1787–1835), a notorious thief and gang leader, is considered a Ukrainian Robin Hood and folk hero.
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.
The musical Robin des Bois' is a modern adaptation of Robin Hood, where the lead role is played by French singer M. Pokora.
He appeared in Swing with Lisa Stansfield and Hugo Speer and in Robin Hood (2006, BBC), in the penultimate episode of series two.
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.
He is notable for his appearances on stage, radio and TV, which include Charles II: The Power & the Passion (television, 2003), Henry VIII (television, 2003), 'Peace? Off!' (episode of Robin Hood, 2006) and Flash for Freedom! (radio dramatisation, title role, 2002).
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.
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.
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.
This version inspired the film Robin and Marian, where it is his lover, Maid Marian, now a nun, who is his downfall.
Epstein sees the historical figure of Mao as a Robin Hood type, whose group always had sufficient provisions for each and every one of its members.
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.
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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.
It is visited by tourists, who come to see the church where, according to legend, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were married.
It so happens that Fantozzi falls into poverty and the help of Robin Hood is not enough to satisfy him.
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?" is the eighth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.
A little over 7 months later, on September 23, 1935, McCall began another strip, this time based on the Robin Hood legends.
"The Taxman Cometh" is the sixth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.
"Turk Flu" is the fifth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.
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.
He has worked as a stuntman on many TV programmes and films such as The Italian Job, The New Avengers, Superman II, An American Werewolf in London, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Alien 3 and Midsomer Murders among others.
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).
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.
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.