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Robin and Hood
After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.
* Robin Hood ( 1922 )
Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )
He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a " modern-day Robin Hood ".
Themes concerning rural laborers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend.
We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.
Protagonists in cyberpunk writing usually include computer hackers, who are often patterned on the idea of the lone hero fighting injustice, such as Robin Hood.
In 1993, he starred as Robin Hood in Mel Brooks's comedy, Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
* Robin Hood Makes Good ( 1939 )
* Robin Hood Daffy ( 1958 )
Searchers canvassed all of West Memphis, but focused primarily on Robin Hood Hills, where the boys were reported last seen.
Despite a human chain making a shoulder-to-shoulder search of Robin Hood Hills, searchers found no sign of the missing boys.
Around 1: 45 p. m., juvenile Parole Officer Steve Jones spotted a boy's black shoe floating in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal in Robin Hood Hills.
According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.
According to HBO's documentaries Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills ( 1996 ) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations ( 2000 ), no blood was found at the crime scene, indicating that the location where the bodies were found was not necessarily the location in which the murders actually happened.
The narratives of traditional songs often also remember folk heroes such as John Henry to Robin Hood.
British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The legendary Robin Hood, initially under the name of Locksley, is also a character in the story, as are his " merry men.
" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

Robin and Monk
* The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari ( 1998 ) by Robin Sharma
The oldest surviving ballad, Robin Hood and the Monk, gives even less support to the picture of Robin Hood as a partisan of the true king.
The ballad Adam Bell, Clym of the Cloughe and Wyllyam of Cloudeslee runs parallel to Robin Hood and the Monk, but it is not clear whether either one is the source for the other, or whether they merely show that such tales were told of outlaws.
The earliest surviving text of a Robin Hood ballad is " Robin Hood and the Monk ".
The plots of neither " the Monk " nor " the Potter " are included in the Gest ; and neither is the plot of " Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne " which is probably at least as old as those two ballads although preserved in a more recent copy.
In " Robin Hood and the Monk ", for example, he is shown as quick tempered and violent, assaulting Little John for defeating him in an archery contest ; in the same ballad Much the Miller's Son casually kills a " little page " in the course of rescuing Robin Hood from prison.
While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.
* Robin Hood and the Monk
In the 15th-century ballad most commonly called " Robin Hood and the Monk ", after being ill-treated by Robin, Little John leaves in anger.
Ballads from the High Middle Ages published in the Child Ballads such as A Gest of Robyn Hode, Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, and Robin Hood and the Potter, as well as Sir Walter Scott's 1820 novel Ivanhoe all point to a possible South Yorkshire birth for the legend.
He appears in some of the oldest ballads, A Gest of Robyn Hode and Robin Hood and the Monk, as one of the company.
In Robin Hood and the Monk, he is one of the rescuers of the captive Robin ; in this brutal ballad, he kills a page boy so that the boy can not bear word that the outlaws killed the monk of the title.
Kelley, Robin D. G. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.
There are notable parallels between this ballad and that of Robin Hood and the Monk, but whether either legend was the source for the other cannot be established.

Robin and Introduction
* Robin Le Poidevin, ( 2010 ) Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-957526-8
In his An Introduction to the American Horror Film, critic Robin Wood views The Brood as a reactionary work portraying feminine power as irrational and horrifying, and the dangerous attempts of Oliver Reed's character's psychoanalysis as an analogue to the dangers of trying to undo repression in society.
: Contents: Dedication & Introduction, The Queen of the Village, Kunwar Singh, Mothi, Pre Red Tape Days, The Law of the Jungle, The Brothers, Sultana: India's Robin Hood, Loyalty, Budhu, Lalajee, Chamari, Life at Mokameh GhatGhat
: Contents: Introduction, Kunwar Singh, Schooldays, Loyalty, Life at Mokameh Ghat, Mothi, The Law of the Jungles, The Muktesar Man-eater, The Panar Leopard, Goongi ( previously unpublished ), The Pipal Pani Tiger, The Pilgrim Road, Terror, Vigil on a Pine Tree, The Chowgarh Tigers, The Bachelor of Powalgarh, The Fish of My Dreams, Robin, Wild Life in the Village-An Appeal ( previously unpublished ), The Mohan Man-Eater, Just Tigers, On Man-Eating, Looking Back
Lurid Revelations, Shocking Rejections, Irate Letters, With an Introduction by Robin Williams

Robin and Information
For example: " Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security ", " The art of deception " ( Kevin Mitnick ), " IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets " ( Chris Davis ), " Hacking exposed " ( Stuart McClure ), “ Hacking For Dummies ” ( Kevin Beaver ), “ Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century ” ( Ryan Trost ), “ FISMA Certification & Accreditation Handbook ” ( L. Taylor ), “ Computer Network Security: Theory and Practice ” ( Jie Wang ), “ A + Certification Study Guide, Sixth Edition ” ( Jane Holcombe, Charles Holcombe ), “ Investigating Digital Crime ” ( Robin P. Bryant ), “ Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems ” ( Ross J. Anderson ), “ Network Know-How: An Essential Guide for the Accidental Admin ” by John Ross, “ Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Sixth Edition ” ( Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz ), “ Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security ” ( Brian Komar ), etc.
His alma mater has dubbed MIR theRobin hood of Information ” for Pakistan, helping bring ground-breaking consciousness to social political discourse.
In his book, Politics and Paranoia, Lobster editor Robin Ramsay criticised Whitney, because he was the head of the Foreign Office's Information Research Department which Ramsay describes as the " State's official, anti-left psy-war outfit ", and had omitted to tell the Commons before denouncing him.
* Information from the Twentieth Century Society on the campaign to protect Robin Hood Gardens

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