Robert Fisk ( born 12 July 1946 ) is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent.

Fisk is a pacifist and has never voted.

" Speaking on " Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East ," at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 22 September 2010, Fisk stated, " I think it is the duty of a foreign correspondent to be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer, whoever they may be.

Fisk has criticised the Coalition's handling of the sectarian violence in post-invasion Iraq, and argued that the official narrative of sectarian conflict is not possible: " The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war?

Fisk is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden — three times ( all published by The Independent: 6 December 1993, 10 July 1996, and 22 March 1997 ).

* Fisk is also a recipient of the College Historical Society's Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.

The highest point in Kent County is Fisk Knob Park, in Solon Township, at 1048 feet.

It is located on Lake Street at Fisk Street in downtown Lincoln and served the community and the surrounding area until 1929.

Fisk is a town in Butler County in Southeast Missouri in the United States.

Fisk is included within the Poplar Bluff Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The town is named for John Skirving Maitland who was a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad ( the construction company for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad ) that arrived in Maitland in 1880 when its superintendent John Fisk Barnard bought the land for the town from John S. and Delila Swope.

Greenleaf Fisk donated 60 acres to relocate the county seat to the west side of the bayou, on what is now the current site of Brownwood, and 100 additional acres for county use.

The unincorporated communities of Elo, Fisk, and Pickett is located in the town.

British journalist Robert Fisk is among the critics of Western policies in the Middle East and argues that recent Western conflicts against the Middle East after the end of the Cold War have been part of a new perpetual war.

Fisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

Jubilee Hall, which was recently restored, is the oldest and most distinctive structure of Victorian architecture on the 40 acre ( 160, 000 m² ) Fisk campus.

Fisk University is the home of a music literature collection founded by the noted Harlem Renaissance figure Carl Van Vechten.

Fisk University is one of four historically black colleges and universities to earn a tier-one ranking on the list of Best National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2011 edition of Best Colleges by U. S. News and World Reports.

According to the Princeton Review, Fisk University is one of America's 373 Best Colleges & Universities.

Additionally, Built to Spill is connected with other Northwest bands including Brett Netson's band Caustic Resin and The Halo Benders, a collaboration between Martsch, Calvin Johnson, Steve Fisk, Wayne Flower, and one-time Built to Spill drummer Ralph Youtz.

The town's highest point is above sea level, where the east slope of Fisk Hill touches the town's western border.

* Robert Fisk – Frequent guest ; British journalist who is Middle East correspondent for The Independent.

Omega Red is currently a crime lord ( head of the Red Mafia ) who poses as a legitimate business man, much like Wilson Fisk does in the U. S. At present, Omega Red has resumed his search for the Carbonadium Synthesizer.

The oldest reefs are around " The Head " of the south end of the island ; slightly younger reefs are found at the Fisk Quarry ; and the youngest ( the famous coral reefs ) are located in fields to the north.

It was at Fisk University, a college for African Americans located in downtown Nashville, that Hardin was taught a more acceptable approach to the instrument.

In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.

Over the years, numerous painters were employed at Balmoral, including Edwin and Charles Landseer, Carl Haag, William Wyld, William Henry Fisk, and many others.

Nonetheless, he left after only a year, stating that " I was not inspired AT ALL in that place ", and instead deciding that he wanted to travel around Europe for three years with his friend Jack Fisk, who was similarly unhappy with his studies at Cooper Union.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, actor John Malkovich when asked whom he would most like to " fight to the death ", replied that he would " rather just shoot " journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.

Fisk reacted with outrage at both the comment made by Malkovitch and also for " associating me with a jerk like Galloway ".

Fisk was educated at Yardley Court preparatory school, Sutton Valence School and at Lancaster University His opposition to the war brought criticism from both Irish Sunday Independent columnist and senator, Eoghan Harris, and The Guardian columnist, Simon Hoggart.

Fisk had earlier addressed similar concerns in a speech at Sydney University in 2006.

* In 2011, Fisk was awarded the International Prize at the Amalfi Coast Media Awards in Italy.

* Fisk gave the 2005 Edward Said Memorial lecture at Adelaide University.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

* Historic maps of Fisk in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri

White American explorers discovered gold at the site on July 2, 1862, and later that year United States Army Captain Jason L. Fisk brought a mule train from Minnesota which stopped at the site and built the first houses that became Montana City.

After earning a bachelor's degree at Fisk University in Nashville, O ' Leary earned her Juris Doctor ( J. D.

It would be identified as the " Alfred Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University ".

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

He retired as the career home run leader for catchers, a record which stood until surpassed by Carlton Fisk and the current record holder, Mike Piazza.

Fisk University also maintains a jazz station.

Nashville has several arts centers and museums, including the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, Fisk University's Van Vechten and Aaron Douglas Galleries, Vanderbilt University's Fine Art Gallery and Sarratt Gallery, and the Parthenon.

Memories of war, fear and friendship in my home city, where time has stood still, The Independent, Robert Fisk, 19 March 2005.

* 1869 – " Black Friday ": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

Her family travelled regularly from segregated Clarksville, Tennessee, to Fisk University's black medical college hospital in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg.

* December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1890 )

* January 1 – Fisk University established.

* January 7 – Big Jim Fisk, American financier ( b. 1834 )

* April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur ( d. 1872 )

She was from Mississippi and had graduated from Fisk University, a historically black college.

The financial misdeeds of various figures throughout American history sometimes casts a dark shadow on financial investing as a whole, and include names such as William Duer, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould ( the latter two believed to have been involved with an effort to collapse the U. S. gold market in 1869 ) as well as modern figures such as Bernard Madoff who " bilked billions from investors ".

* Black Spirituals entered the concert repertoire with the tours of the Fisk College Jubilee Singers, and arrangements of such spirituals are now part of the standard choral repertoire.

A dozen men surrounded Jim Zwerg, a white student from Fisk University, and beat him in the face with a suitcase, knocking out his teeth.