On 8 September 2010, he was announced as a participating celebrity in the eighth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnering Aliona Vilani.

Later research by Robin Bell and Michael Studinger from the Lamont – Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University suggested that the water of the lake is continually freezing and being carried away by the motion of the Antarctic ice sheet, while being replaced by water melting from other parts of the ice sheet in these high pressure conditions.

LDEO scientist Robin Bell at her computer showing a mountain range found under the Antarctic ice.

* Robin Jonsson ( born 1983 ), Swedish ice hockey player

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

The name evolved into the imaginary General Ludd or King Ludd, a figure who, like Robin Hood, was reputed to live in Sherwood Forest .< ref >

Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the medieval period continuing through to modern literature, films and television.

It has been influentially argued by J. C. Holt that the Robin Hood legend was cultivated in the households of the gentry, and that it would be mistaken to see in him a figure of peasant revolt.

* August 17 – Robin Cousins, British figure skater

In more recent times, the figure of Robin Goodfellow is identified as a puck.

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck.

Giants figure in a great many fairy tales and folklore stories, such as Jack the Giant Killer, The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Nix Nought Nothing, Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon, Young Ronald, and Paul Bunyan.

The first wave included action figure representations of Earth-2 Robin, Supergirl, the Monitor, Harbinger, and Psycho-Pirate.

* Robin Cousins won gold for Great Britain in the men's singles figure skating.

Mesrine was widely seen as an anti-establishment ' Robin Hood ' figure.

Later ballads presented Turpin as an 18th-century Robin Hood figure: " Turpin was caught and his trial was passed, and for a game cock he died at last.

Other silent versions appeared for the silver screen, and some adaptations even moulded Turpin into a figure styled on Robin Hood.

In the film, Pezza is a Robin Hood-like figure fighting the French.

In the US the original CBS syndication prints had a few variants to the original UK prints, after the brief title sequence the US prints would repeat this sequence but with " Brought to You By " and after the arrow strikes the tree the sponsors name " Wildroot Cream-Oil " superimposed, " Johnson and Johnson " sponsored episodes had a voice-over over the opening titles " Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood " and over the repeated sequence " presented by " followed by the names of two Johnson and Johnson products, images of which would appear over the shot of the arrow in the tree, a commercial featuring one of the products would then be shown, the Wildroot Cream-Oil sponsored episodes would then feature an animated commercial showing a Robin Hood type figure with lanck hair and a dinosaur.

Little John was also a figure in the Robin Hood plays or games during the 15th to 17th centuries, particularly those held in Scotland.

William Hazlitt's essay " Merry England ", appended to his Lectures on the English Comic Writers ( 1819 ), popularised the specific term, introduced in tandem with an allusion to the iconic figure of Robin Hood, under the epigraph " St George for merry England!

" In the British children's television series Dick Turpin, starring Richard O ' Sullivan, the highwayman was depicted as an 18th-century Robin Hood figure.

He stole from the rich and kept it, though public opinion later turned him into a perverse type of Robin Hood figure.

David is a possible inspiration figure for the Robin Hood legend because the legend plays at the same time as David lived in the 1190s.

Tyler Cowen has described his book Discover Your Inner Economist as " an ( attempted ) rebuttal to Robin " and notes that he is a major intellectual figure in the work ,< ref >

According to Robin Bernstein who describes the meaning in the context of the United States, the pickaninny is characterized by three qualities: " the figure is always juvenile, always of color, and always resistant if not immune to pain .".

Famous skaters in the large cast included Belita, Robin Lee, and Vera Hruba.

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

Confidential ( 1997 ), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ( 2003 ) Cinderella Man ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), 3: 10 to Yuma ( 2007 ) and Robin Hood ( 2010 ).

* Home of the World Wide Robin Hood Society in Sherwood, Nottingham, England

Yet another group of Old World Flycatchers, this time from Africa and Asia is the genus Copsychus ; its members are known as Magpie-robins, one of which, the Oriental Magpie Robin ( C. saularis ), is the national bird of Bangladesh.

Among Japan's largest and most famous studios, Sunrise is renowned for several critically lauded and popular original anime series, such as Gundam, Armored Trooper Votoms, Vision of Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, My-HiME, My-Otome, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, as well as its numerous adaptations of acclaimed light novels including Dirty Pair, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon and Accel World, and manga such as City Hunter, InuYasha, Outlaw Star, Yakitate !!

The series was inspired by a range of fictional media including The Dirty Dozen, Robin Hood, Brave New World, Star Trek, classic Westerns and real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel.

: Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives " and the documentary The World According to Monsanto, a film made by a French independent journalist Marie-Monique Robin.

In 1984, they attempted to kill the northern editor of the Sunday World, Jim Campbell after he had exposed the paramilitary activities of Mid-Ulster brigadier Robin Jackson.

* Clipper Round the World Yacht Race-established by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, the first Clipper race took place in 1996.

Several sources indicate that Mid-Ulster UVF's brigadier, Robin " The Jackal " Jackson from Donaghcloney ( now deceased ) contacted members of the gang in the Shankill, " Mr A " in particular, and had them make an attempt on the life of journalist Jim Campbell, northern editor of the Sunday World newspaper, in May 1984.

* In the 2008 French documentary film The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin shows the corruption of various government officials & the silencing of dissenting scientists by Monsanto.

* Marie-Monique Robin: " The World According to Monsanto, A Film by Marie-Monique Robin " Image & Compagnie – ARTE France – Productions Thalie – National Film Board of Canada – WDR 2008

Walker, Don Sparks, Robin Angers, and Deborah Driggs were guest performers in this production from Mirkinvision and New World Television.

* Hartley Dodge Memorial ( Borough Hall ) appears in a scene of The World According to Garp starring Glenn Close and Robin Williams.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, Jim Garrison in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Robert " Butch " Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, Lt. Cmdr.

He followed this with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ( 1991 ), the Oliver Stone-directed JFK ( 1991 ), The Bodyguard ( 1992 ), and Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World ( 1993 ), all of which provided box office or critical acclaim.

Traditionally, the Turdidae included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but most authorities now place this group in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

" Susan Hayward sings for the first time on the screen, and will win much applause for her throaty voice in such songs as Sing, You Sinners, When the Red, Red Robin ( Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin ' Along ), and I'm Sitting on Top of the World.

Some New World species are called robins, the most famous of which is the American Robin.