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Robinson and understanding
After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".
In 2005, Exeter University conferred an Honorary Doctorate on Robinson, and Honorary Professorships on principal presenter Mick Aston and producer Tim Taylor, to reflect its great appreciation for what Time Team has done for the public understanding of archaeology in the UK.
Many years later, Robinson commented " The pressures were immense but were it not for the ideological understanding that I had, I could very well have ended up with a nervous breakdown ".

Robinson and map
Arthur H. Robinson, an American cartographer influential in thematic cartography, stated that a map not properly designed " will be a cartographic failure.
The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map, which shows the entire world at once.
The University of Cambridge economist Joan Robinson ( 1962 ) emphasized the disutility of 1: 1 maps and other overly detailed models: " A model which took account of all the variegation of reality would be of no more use than a map at the scale of one to one.
* Robinson projection, a map projection popularly used since the 1960s to show the entire world at once
* 03 — Robinson / Fairmount ( Maymont / Fairfield Court ) pdf map
* 04 — Robinson / Fairmount ( Carytown / Whitcomb Court ) pdf map
During World War II, Robinson served as director of the map division of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).
Robinson oversaw the creation of 5, 000 hand-drawn maps and attended the Allied conferences at Quebec and Cairo in 1943 and 1944 as chief U. S. map officer.
* In The Look of Maps ( 1952 ) which was based on his Doctoral research, Robinson urged cartographers to consider the function of a map as an integral part of the design process.
* In the text In The Nature of Maps ( 1976 ), Robinson and co-author Barbara Bartz Petchenik created the term map percipient, a map user who interacts with a map in a discerning way and not merely as a casual observer.
In 1961, Rand McNally asked Robinson to choose a projection for use as a world map that, among other criteria, was uninterrupted, had limited distortion, and was pleasing to the eye of general viewers.
Church member Samuel Smythe purchased 2. 8 acres ( 11, 000 m² ) of land from the heirs of Alexander Robinson, whose house is found on the 1802 Hanna and Warner map of Baltimore, directly across German Street from the Smythe purchase.
sketch map of Robinson
* Robinson Crusoe Island satellite map with anchorages and other ocean-related information

Robinson and must
In the Robinson anemometer the axis of rotation is vertical, but with this subdivision the axis of rotation must be parallel to the direction of the wind and therefore horizontal.
The film was also re-released in 1954, with a written prologue added before the opening credits, advising that gangsters such as Tom Powers and Caesar " Rico " Bandello, the title character in Little Caesar ( played by Edward G. Robinson ), are a menace that the public must confront.
As Boyce notes, " Robinson must have been well aware that the agreement he had reached with Mannalargenna contradicted his own undertakings to the Aborigines Committee and the executive council Governor George Arthur.
Kelly Robinson ( née Esno ) was prom queen of Burgettstown Jr / Sr High School in 1999 ( This woman must be a notable person if she became the queen of the Burgettstown prom.
In one episode, prior to resignation as prime minister, Blair is seen regenerating into David Tennant ( the Tenth Doctor ) during an interview with Nick Robinson, after stating that the Blair legacy must go on.
" A. Robinson wrote of his work in constructive mathematics: " Even those who are not willing to accept Bishop's basic philosophy must be impressed with the great analytical power displayed in his work.
Robinson answered that the moment was inopportune, and that he must be left to choose his own time.
David A. Robinson discovered that the eye muscles require this dual velocity-position drive, and also proposed that it must arise in the brain by mathematically integrating the velocity signal and then sending the resulting position signal to the motoneurons.
It is presumed that Robinson must have been in his twenties then, so that his birth can be dated back to around 1560.
With what must be the last gasp of air left to him, Dolan screams out, " For the love of God, Robinson!
The film focuses on the Robinson family, who undertake a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur and must try to find their way home.
Manne, who called the book ‘ one of the most implausible, ignorant and pitiless books about Australian history written for many years ’, himself summed up the case against Windschuttle, noting that Windschuttle's evidence for Aboriginal deaths is derived from a scholar, Plomley, who denied that any estimate for them could be made from the documentary record ; that a scrupulous conservative scholar, H. A. Willis, using exactly the same sources as Windschuttle, came up with a figure of 188 violent deaths, and another 145 rumoured deaths ; that Windschuttle's method excludes deaths of aborigines who were wounded, and later died ; that all surviving Aborigines transported by Robinson to Flinders ' Island bore marks of violence and gunshot wounds ' perpetrated on them by depraved whites '; that Windschuttle cannot deny that between 1803 and 1834 almost all Tasmanian Aborigines died, and the only evidence for disease as a factor before 1829 rests on a single conversation recorded by James Bonwick, and that Aboriginal women who lived with sealers did not, however, die off from contact with bearers of foreign disease ; that Windschuttle likened Aboriginal attacks on British settlers to ‘ modern-day junkies raiding service stations for money ’, whereas both colonial records and modern historians speak of them as highly ' patriotic ', attached to their lands, and engaged in a veritable war to defend it from settlement ; that by Windschuttle's own figures, the violent death rate of Aborigines in Tasmania in the 1820s must have been 360 times the murder rate in contemporary New York ; that Windschuttle shows scarce familiarity with period books, citing only 3 of the 30 books published on Van Diemen's land for the period 1803-1834, and with one of them confuses the date of the first visit by the French with the publication date of the volume that recounted their expedition ; that it is nonsensical to argue that a people who had wandered over an island and survived for 34, 000 years had no attachment to their land ; that Windschuttle finds no native words in 19th century wordlists for ' land ' to attest to such an attachment, when modern wordlists show 23 entries under ' country '.
A condition of the separation was that the Elder could recover from his son Adriaen ‘ two royal gifts ’, presumably gifts from Charles II for work done in England .” Cordingly ’ s account further relates that the dispute was still continuing after another ten years, since “ in the autumn of 1672 Judith complained to the woman ’ s husband .” Robinson adds that by 1674 the couple “ must have been reconciled ”, for at a chance meeting with Pieter Blaeu in Amsterdam in July the Elder explained that he was only visiting for a few days “ in order to fetch his wife ”.
: Delmore Payne ( Joe Morton ), the new commander of the local army base, must come to terms with his father Otis Payne ( Ron Canada ) who abandoned him and his son ( Eddie Robinson ) who does not wish to follow him into the Army.
As Boyce notes, " Robinson must have been well aware that the agreement he had reached with Mannalargenna contradicted his own undertakings to the Aborigines Committee and the executive council Governor George Arthur.

Robinson and be
It so happened that sports writer Arthur Robinson got out of the hospital that morning after promising his doctor that he be back in an hour or two to continue his convalescence.
Finally he learned through the grapevine that the culprit might be one James W. Robinson in Pope County.
Intentionally performed surgical below-knee amputation can be performed by transtibial techniques such as Burgess and Kingsley Robinson.
It first appeared in Shea Stadium, and the original can still be seen on display at Citi Field, outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
Joan Robinson argues that in a non-growth economy there would be an effective abundance of means of production, and so markets would not be needed.
Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.
Second, Robinson appeals to the critical principle, widely applied in textual study, that the account is most likely to be original that best explains the other variants.
Third, Robinson claims that elements consistent with John's alternative chronology can be found in each of the Synoptic accounts, whereas the contrary is never the case.
The opposition wicket-keeper Richie Robinson would be an opponent in the Test arena only months later.
At the November 2006 groundbreaking for a new ballpark for the New York Mets, Citi Field, it was announced that the main entrance, modeled on the one in Brooklyn's old Ebbets Field, would be called the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
Robinson returned to live in Ireland at the end of 2010, and has set up The Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, which aims to be ' a centre for thought leadership, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for those many victims of climate change who are usually forgotten-the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world.
Many expected Robinson to be the choice, but the party leader instead picked an unknown, new senior counsel called John Rogers.
In these circumstances the decision to propose Robinson proved to be politically inspired.
* 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
Robinson then announced that a bonus of £ 1, 000 would be added to the final total, as it was the 1, 000th episode.
In Robinson v. California,, the Court decided that a California law authorizing a 90-day jail sentence for " be addicted to the use of narcotics " violated the Eighth Amendment, as narcotics addiction " is apparently an illness ," and California was attempting to punish people based on the state of this illness, rather than for any specific act.
Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.
* June 12 – John Winter Robinson, the Secretary of State of Kansas, is convicted and removed from office as the result of a bond scandal, becoming the first state executive official to be impeached and removed from office in American history.

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