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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 was
Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.
Robin Williams played the physician ; Robert De Niro was one of the patients who emerged from a catatonic ( frozen ) state.
The song was written by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt.
Broadcast on 15 September 2007, it was written by Robin Glendinning, with Bill Wallis playing Attlee.
An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.
A. Milne, after whom the character Christopher Robin in the Winnie-the-Pooh books was named, used to own the Harbour Bookshop.
On May 7, 1999, Plato appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where she told Stern and Robin Quivers that she was engaged to 28-year-old Robert Menchaca, and that he was managing her career.
Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.
In the 1970s, ML was created by Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh, and David Turner developed initially the language SASL at the University of St. Andrews and later the language Miranda at the University of Kent.
According to academic Corey Robin: " Hayek admired Pinochet's Chile so much that he decided to hold a meeting of his Mont Pelerin Society in Viña del Mar, the seaside resort where the coup against Allende was planned.
Although his work was not initially taken seriously by British critics of the Sight and Sound circle, he was venerated by French critics associated with Cahiers du cinéma, who intellectualized his work in a way Hawks himself was moderately amused by, and he was also admired by more independent British writers such as Robin Wood.
In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.
During the 20th century, John was normally depicted in fictional books and films alongside Robin Hood.
" Ultimately, King Arthur and Sir Robin ( who shows up with his own knights ) both say " it " several times in conversation ( unaware that " it " was the word that was causing the Knights ' pain.

Robin and heroic
* Robin Hood, a heroic outlaw in English folklore ( d. 1247 )
* November 18 – Robin Hood, a heroic outlaw in English folklore ( b. 1160 )
Much of poetry has its source in an oral tradition: the Scots and English ballads, the tales of Robin Hood, of Iskandar, and various Baltic and Slavic heroic poems all were originally intended for recitation, rather than reading.
Some authors like Robin D. G. Kelley and John Manley have penned local histories that portray Communist Party members as effective activists, heroic in many cases because their revolutionary zeal helped them confront extremely adverse circumstances.
These included death threats ( William Tell, Robin Hood, Don Quixote, The Three Musketeers, Sherlock Holmes ), children in danger ( Treasure Island, Gunga Din, William Tell ), insanity ( Don Quixote, Moby Dick ), heroic self-sacrifice ( Gunga Din ), and realistic ( although mostly bloodless ) violence including swordplay, shooting, clubbing, drowning, and character deaths ( most episodes ).
Said story involved Justice Legion T, an 853rd Century trio of young heroes: Robin the Toy Wonder ( a robotic Robin ), Superboy OMAC ( One Millionth Actual Clone, a play on the classic OMAC character ) and Impulse ( a Speed Force-influenced energy being, presumably either personified by the spirits of previous persons who used the heroic name, or else the living embodiment of random thoughts lost in the Speed Force, but most probably a time misplaced Scout of the original Impulse ).

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