Robertson ( 2007 ) reasoned that if evolution is accelerated in conditions of propagative difficulty, then we would expect to encounter variations of religious memes, established in general populations, addressed to scientific communities.

The members of The Band gradually came together as a part of Toronto-based, rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins's backing group, the Hawks: Helm, an original Hawk who journeyed with Hawkins from Arkansas to Ontario, then Robertson who was told by Hawkin's ," You won't make much money but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra ", Danko, Manuel and finally, Hudson.

This plot, launched with the full knowledge of Nivelle and the French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, was announced in guarded terms at a War Cabinet meeting on 24 February, to which neither Robertson nor Lord Derby ( Secretary of State for War ) had been invited, then landed on Robertson and Haig without warning at an Anglo-French conference at Calais ( 26-7 Feb ).

He was assisted in this task by Sir Robert Mark, who later became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Sir James Robertson, the then Chief Constable of Glasgow.

However, these were sold off to Pacific Equity Partners ( which owned rival Angus & Robertson ) in 2008, then were later sold again to RedGroup Retail.

The Australian, New Zealand, and Singaporean stores were sold in June 2008 to Pacific Equity Partners ( who also own local competitor Angus & Robertson ), which then formed a new company, RedGroup Retail, to pay off debt.

When the authorized persons met and adopted the title of the " Future Great " of the then Southwest, several of the earliest settlers had handed in their favorite names, among whom was Kindred Rose, who presented the winning name, " Springfield ," in honor of his former home town, Springfield, Robertson county, Tennessee.

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.

* Royal Robertson ( 1936 – 1997 ), a schizophrenic sign painter who received vivid, violent visions of spaceships, God, and the apocalypse, which he then translated into bright, colourful, comic-book like sketches, often including references to his wife's unfaithfulness.

The Yellow Tape is the Barenaked Ladies ' third indie tape release, after Buck Naked in 1989 with just Ed Robertson and Steven Page, then Barenaked Lunch ( also known as the Pink Tape ) in 1990, with bassist Jim Creeggan and percussionist Andy Creeggan.

On October 10, 2001, George Robertson, then Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, went to the Pentagon to offer NATO troops, planes and ships to assist.

Martineau became a candidate, and despite strong support from some quarters, potent opposition was organised by the anti-clerical George Grote, whose refusal to endorse Martineau resulted in the appointment of George Croom Robertson, then an untried man.

The formation of the SLP was led by Jim Sillars, then MP for South Ayrshire, John Robertson, then MP for Paisley and Alex Neil, the UK Labour Party's senior Scottish researcher.

In 1978, he left the Roman Catholic Church and became a minister in the California-based evangelical / pentecostal Church of the Word ; since then Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have been personal friends.

Robertson attended primary school in Glasgow and then St Albans High School for Girls.

Only the third tallest on his team, but called " easily the No. 1 player in college basketball today ", " the best amateur basketball player in the United States ", and " The White Oscar Robertson ", he scored 41 points in a 80 – 78 loss to Michigan, then led Princeton to the Final Four after defeating heavy favorite Providence by 40 points.

Documents reveal that King, then 70 and weary from six years of war leadership, was aghast when Norman Robertson, his Undersecretary for External Affairs, and his assistant, H. H. Wrong, informed him on the morning of September 6, 1945, that a " terrible thing " had happened.

He was then approached by Parkes, and a government was formed with Robertson as vice-president of the Executive Council and representative of the government in the Upper House.

At the time, Robert Gordon Robertson, then a member of the Cabinet Secretariat, opined that Canadians would not like the title King of Canada, as " most Canadians ... have not thought of themselves as citizens of either a republic or a monarchy.

The College Times is UCC's yearbook and is the oldest school publication in Canada, having been issued without fail since it was founded by John Ross Robertson, then a student at UCC, in September 1857.

Robertson Stadium, then known as Houston Public School Stadium, was erected from March 1941 to September 1942.

A deep result by Neil Robertson and Paul Seymour states that this partial order is actually a well-quasi-ordering: if an infinite list G < sub > 1 </ sub >, G < sub > 2 </ sub >,... of finite graphs is given, then there always exist two indices i < j such that G < sub > i </ sub > is a minor of G < sub > j </ sub >.

Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, and Peter Popoff became well-known televangelists who claimed to heal the sick.

After he left The Band, Robbie Robertson became a music producer and wrote film soundtracks ( including acting as music supervisor for several of Scorsese's films ) before a highly praised comeback with a Daniel Lanois produced, eponymous solo album in 1987.

Owens was an oddity, and it became apparent that he was simply playing the Germans and British against each other-to what end Robertson was unable to uncover.

When the Family Channel became too profitable for Robertson to keep it under the CBN umbrella without endangering CBN's non-profit status, he formed International Family Entertainment Inc. in 1990 with the Family Channel as its main subsidiary.

Soon, Moral Majority became a general term for the conservative political activism of evangelists and fundamentalists such as Pat Robertson, James Robinson, and Jerry Falwell.

In the late 1980s Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition, building from his 1988 presidential run, with Republican activist Ralph Reed, who became the spokesman for the Coalition.

Under the leadership of Reed and Robertson, the Coalition quickly became the most prominent voice in the conservative Christian movement, its influence culminating with an effort to support the election of a conservative Christian to the presidency in 1996.

Michael Robertson ( born 1967 ) is the founder and former CEO of MP3. com, which quickly became one of the most popular Internet music sites.

The grant went through several legal challenges, and later became Robertson's Colony, named for Sterling C. Robertson.

In 1804, Robertson sold his furnace to Montgomery Bell, who became one of the state's wealthiest capitalists and industrialists.

Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.

While there he became a First Team Consensus All-American selection in 1958 ( Elgin Baylor, Bob Boozer, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Guy Rodgers and Don Hennon comprised the first team selections ) and a Second Team Consensus All-American in 1959, while being named to the United Press International and Helms Foundation first teams that season.

The land where the city of Giddings now stands was part of the land granted to Stephen F. Austin in 1821 for a colony in Spanish Texas, and later became part of the Robertson Colony.

Their only child, Nedenia Marjorie, became an actress under the name Dina Merrill, who married Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr., actor Cliff Robertson, and Ted Hartley.

With the retirement of Lloyd Robertson of CTV National News on September 1, 2011, Mansbridge became the longest-serving active anchor among the big three anchors in Canada, as Dawna Friesen had taken over as anchor at Global National only in 2010.

RB Jamal Robertson became the first Argos rusher to put up more than 1000 yards in a season since Michael Jenkins in 2001.

In 1894 in Munich Richardson married the Scot John George Robertson, whom she had met in Leipzig where he was studying German literature and who later briefly taught at the University of Strasburg, where his wife became ladies ' tennis champion.

The following year, he became chief pilot for an airmail venture started by fellow 110th pilots Major William Robertson and his brother Frank.

Ironically, if he became CIGS he wanted Robertson ( whom he thought would refuse ) or whoever else replaced him at Versailles to report to himself.

She was converted from the " dark side " and became the Chief Assistant to Major Robertson and a valuable ally of the Space Patrol.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and wife Jeannine visiting Laura Bush | Laura and George W. Bush at the Bush Ranch in Texas in 2007. He became the 11th NATO Secretary General on 5 January 2004, succeeding Lord Robertson, who held the post from 1999 until 2003.