* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

Scottish traveler Jeannie Robertson from Aberdeen, made the next recorded version in 1961.

Shortly thereafter, design engineer Ralph Robertson further developed the amplifiers, and by the 1940s at least four different Rickenbacker models were made available.

Robertson offered a different take in a 1986 interview: " I made my big statement.

But these eccentric spies made Robertson aware that handling double agents was going to be a difficult task.

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

In 1923, Wright excelled in grade school and was made class valedictorian of Smith Robertson junior high school.

Robertson has made numerous statements on a wide-range of issues that have attracted criticism.

Robertson made suggestions that the explosion of a nuclear weapon at State Department Headquarters would be good for the country, and repeated those comments on the air.

* Several film versions of " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " have been made, including one in 1937 with Preston Foster and another in 1952 with Dale Robertson.

In 2008, Robertson attempted to sue Linspire's bank, Comerica, in an attempt to get Comerica to refund severance payments which had been made to laid-off Linspire employees.

Harrison has a city council made up of 7 members ( Deborah Acra, Tony Burkart, Mark Louis, Hank Menninger, William Neyer, Jim Robertson and Randy Shank ) who are elected to 4 year terms.

In 1778, the first settlement in Robertson County was made by Thomas Kilgore on the waters of the Middle Fork of Red River, three-fourths of a mile west of Cross Plains.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

On Thanksgiving night, 1976, Diamond made an appearance at The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, performing " Dry Your Eyes ", which he had written with Robertson, and which had appeared on Beautiful Noise.

Robertson had not been sacked but was unsure of his position and made plans to start another band with Jimmy Bain of Rainbow.

In 1973 Robertson was made a partner and WSHJ was renamed Skilling, Helle, Christiansen, Robertson.

Mitchell and Geffen were close friends, and in the early 1970s made a trip to Paris with Robbie and Dominique Robertson.

In 2003, an allegation was made by real estate agent Tyna Marie Robertson claiming that Michael had raped her in 2002 at a Las Vegas hotel.

Historians Mark Oxbrow, Ian Robertson, Karen Ralls and Louise Yeoman have each made it clear that the Sinclair family had no connection with the mediaeval Knights Templar.

A few days before the execution George Robertson managed to escape by widening the space between the window-bars of his cell and, with the help of sympathetic supporters eventually made his way to the Netherlands.

A few days before the execution George Robertson managed to escape by widening the space between the window-bars of his cell and, with the help of sympathethic supporters eventually made his way to the Dutch Republic.

The 2010 / 2011 season proved to be a mixed campaign for Doherty, who made the last 32 of the 2010 World Open, yet missed out on qualifying for the 2011 German Masters, 2011 Welsh Open ( snooker ) and crucially, blowing a 6 – 3, losing 10 – 6 Jimmy Robertson in the final stage of qualifying for the 2011 World Snooker Championship, meaning he has only reached The Crucible in 1 of his last 3 attempts.

* 1990 – Britt Robertson, American actress

American ), has resulted in the political disposition that has been labeled the Christian right, whose most visible spokesmen have been figures like Jerry Falwell and the television evangelist Pat Robertson.

* 1973 – Graham Robertson, American director and author

* 1962 – Alvin Robertson, American basketball player

* 1958 – David Robertson, American conductor

* 1930 – Pat Robertson, American media mogul and religious televangelist

Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared in American popular music, such as Robbie Robertson ( The Band ), Rita Coolidge, Wayne Newton, Gene Clark, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Blackfoot, Tori Amos, Redbone, and CocoRosie.

* 1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player

* 1979 – Brian Robertson, American trombonist ( Suburban Legends )

* 1977 – Nate Robertson, American baseball player

The Band was a Canadian / American roots rock group that originally consisted of Rick Danko ( bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals ), Levon Helm ( drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals ), Garth Hudson ( keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet ), Richard Manuel ( piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals ) and Robbie Robertson ( guitar, vocals ).

* December 21 – Leroy Robertson, American composer ( d. 1971 )

** Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author

** Pat Robertson, American televangelist

* September 10 – Cliff Robertson, American actor ( b. 1923 )

" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).

Robertson's papers are at the Caltech archives ; there, in a letter Robertson offers Roe an interview within the first three months of 1949 ( as noted by Goranson on American Dialect Society list 5 / 9 / 2009 ).

The Robertson interview apparently predated the Muroc scenario said by Nick Spark ( American Aviation Historical Society Journal 48 ( 2003 ) p. 169 ) to have occurred in or after June, 1949.

Robertson is the founder and chairman of The Christian Broadcasting Network ( CBN ) Inc., and founder of International Family Entertainment Inc., Regent University, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, American Center for Law and Justice, The Flying Hospital, Inc. and several other organizations and broadcast entities.

In 2010, a spokesman for Robertson said that the company's arrangements — in which the Liberian government got a 10 percent equity interest in the company and Liberians could purchase at least 15 percent of the shares after the exploration period — were similar to many American companies doing business in Africa at the time.

Pat Robertson: An American Life

* Archive of American Television interview with Pat Robertson