One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

Starting from the ballad tradition, Little John is commonly shown to be the only Merry Man present at Robin Hood's death.

* Little John and Dublin: Exploring that claims that Little John visited Dublin after Robin Hood's death

The Our Gang community was stunned at Hood's unexpected death.

After Hood's death in 1902, he received many tributes from his workforce, and in 1906 a staute of him was unveiled by Rhondda MP William Abraham outside the Llwynypia Miners ' institute.

His grave has been claimed to be at Kirklees Priory near Mirfield in West Yorkshire, as implied by the 18th-century version of Robin Hood's Death, and there is a headstone there of dubious authenticity.

The early ballads are also quite clear on Robin Hood's social status: he is a yeoman.

It is interesting that the village has such a strong connection with maypole celebrations, considering Robin Hood's links with the same thing.

Another view is that Robin Hood's origins must be sought in folklore or mythology ; Despite the frequent Christian references in the early ballads, Robin Hood has been claimed for the pagan witch-cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe.

Marian did not immediately gain the unquestioned role ; in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage, his sweetheart is ' Clorinda the Queen of the Shepherdesses '.

In Barnsdale Forest, Yorkshire, there is a well known as Robin Hood's Well ( by the side of the Great North Road ), a Little John's Well ( near Hampole ) and a Robin Hood's stream ( in Highfields Wood at Woodlands ).

A Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain has acquired the name Robin Hood's Ball, although had Robin Hood existed it is doubtful that he would have travelled so far south.

For example, the plot of Robin Hood's Death, found in the Percy Folio, is summarised in the 15th-century A Gest of Robyn Hode, and it also appears in an 18th-century version.

Sherwood Forest is home to the famous Major Oak, which, according to local folklore, was Robin Hood's principal hideout.

More intriguingly, as Heynick points out, Rand is quoted in a 1943 newspaper interview as referring to Hood's McGraw-Hill Building as the most beautiful in New York, thus, apparently, seeing Hood in a different light.

Half way between Scarborough and Whitby, on Robin Hood's Bay, there is a place called Boggle Hole.

Hood County is named for John Bell Hood, a Confederate lieutenant general and the commander of Hood's Texas Brigade.

The southern boundary is the Ashland city limits, the northern boundary is Hood's Creek.

Another vivid example is Thomas Hood's use of " birth " and " berth " and " told " and " toll'd " ( tolled ) in his poem " Faithless Sally Brown ":

Hood's Pond, covering an area of in the northern part of town, is the largest body of water in Topsfield, though most of it lies in Ipswich.

Robin Hood's enemy in the series is the Sheriff of Nottingham who, with his cohorts, schemes to capture the outlaw by any means possible.

In Robin Hood's Death, he is the only one of the Merry Men that Robin takes with him.

It also functions as an ironic name in this case, due to John being physically enormous, however that is not the original reasoning behind the naming of Robin Hood's " Little John.

Red Riding Hood's cape is also one of the musical's four quest items that are emblematic of fairy tales.

In Highfields Wood is a stream, known as Robin Hood's stream, which springs near the Roman Rigg, and runs into Pick Burn.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

" Locksley " becomes Robin Hood's title in the Scott novel, and it has been used ever since to refer to the fictional outlaw, most notably by Tennyson in his poem, " Locksley Hall ".

Finally, recent research has shown that Hunter's Robyn Hood had been employed by the king at an earlier stage, thus casting doubt on this Robyn Hood's supposed earlier career as outlaw and rebel.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

The ongoing conflicting signals left by Graves, and discrepancies between his and Hood's records of what signals had been given and when, led to immediate recriminations, written debate, and an eventual formal inquiry.

The division of George Pickett started for the capital in mid-February, was followed by John Hood's, and then Longstreet himself was ordered to take command of the detached divisions and the Departments of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

After Hood's Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at the Battle of Nashville, Forrest distinguished himself by commanding the Confederate rear guard in a series of actions that allowed what was left of the army to escape.

As much as Hood might insist that his designs were largely determined by the practicalities of zoning laws and the restraints of economics, each of his major buildings were different enough to suggest that Hood's design artistry was a significanrt factor in the final result.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

Saarinen's tower, which anticipated the coming impact of stripped-down modernism on building form, was preferred by critics like Louis Sullivan, and was a strong influence on the next generation of skyscrapers including Raymond Hood's own subsequent work on the McGraw-Hill Building and Rockefeller Center.

As was the case with most of Hood's projects, the sculptures and decorations were executed by the American artist Rene Paul Chambellan.

West Fort Hood, bounded by Killeen and Copperas Cove, includes Fort Hood's second airfield, Robert Gray Army Airfield, which has been expanded for civilian use ( Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport ( GRK )) and additional training areas.

Close to Lorient, Villaret-Joyeuse was discovered by British admiral Alexander Hood's fleet, guarding the expedition to Quiberon.

Among the earlier of such designs are the illustrations to the Comic English and Latin Grammars ( 1840 ), to Written Caricatures ( 1841 ), to Hood's Comic Annual, ( 1842 ), and to Albert Smith's Wassail Bowl ( 1843 ), subjects mainly of a small vignette size, transcribed with the best skill of such woodcutters as Orrin Smith, and not, like the larger and later Punch illustrations, cut at speed by several engravers working at once on the subdivided block.

The unfortunate turn for the British taken by the campaign of 1781 was largely due to Rodney's neglect of Hood's advice.

During the Battle of Antietam, Hood's division came to the relief of Stonewall Jackson's corps on the Confederate left flank, turning back an assault by the Union I Corps in the West Woods.

In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force.

Hood followed up his defeat in the Atlanta Campaign by moving northwest to disrupt the supply lines of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman from Chattanooga, hoping to challenge Sherman into a battle that could be fought to Hood's advantage.