A. Milne, after whom the character Christopher Robin in the Winnie-the-Pooh books was named, used to own the Harbour Bookshop.

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.

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

The character of John acts either to highlight the virtues of King Richard, or contrasts with the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is usually the " swashbuckling villain " opposing Robin.

At the same time it is possible that Robin Hood has always been a fictional character ; the folklorist Francis James Child declared " Robin Hood is absolutely a creation of the ballad-muse " and this view has been neither proven or disproven.

When asked about the exiled Duke Senior, the character of Charles says that he is " already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.

The only character to use a quarterstaff in the early ballads is the potter, and Robin Hood does not take to a staff until the 18th century Robin Hood and Little John.

This is also the era in which the character of Robin became fixed as stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

In the 1973 animated Disney film, Robin Hood, the title character is portrayed as an anthropomorphic fox voiced by Brian Bedford.

However, due to concerns that Reynard was unsuitable as a hero, animator Ken Anderson lifted many elements from Reynard into Robin Hood, thus making the titular character a fox.

Since the 1980s, it has become commonplace to include a Saracen among the Merry Men, a trend which began with the character Nasir in the Robin of Sherwood television series.

Critic Robin Roberts opines that this character " is shaped more by her femininity than by her medical, scientific training.

Robin Hood appears one inspiration for the character ; Templar stories were often promoted as featuring " The Robin Hood of modern crime ", and this phrase to describe Templar appears in several stories.

Nor is one allowed to take on the persona of a sufficiently familiar fictional character ( e. g. Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood ).

Actor / comedian Robin Williams revealed in an interview with Jimmy Fallon that his daughter Zelda Rae is named after the title character in the series.

* Robbing Hood: A forest-dweller who, unlike the Robin Hood character he parodies, " takes from the wretch and gives to the peer ", ( usually himself ).

Writer – director Robin Hardy has stated that the ambiguity was intentional, but that fans of The Wicker Man will immediately recognise Lee's character as Lord Summerisle.

Godberd is one candidate for being the character around whom the Robin Hood legend is based.

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

He respected each of these approach techniques, and kept them in character: his quill drawings had a scratchiness, suggesting skin texture ; ;

I mention these features of the book because they are inherent in the book's character and therefore must be mentioned.

Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive ''.

Plutarch states it to have been fear of her husband, together with hatred of his cruel and brutal character, and ascribes these feelings principally to the representations of Pelopidas, when she visited him in his prison.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.

BBS software authors included these extended character sets in their software, and terminal program authors included the ability to display them when a compatible system was called.

The use of these custom character sets was generally incompatible between manufacturers.

The number and arrangement of these dots distinguish one character from another.

From these postulates stems the belief that God periodically reveals his will through divine messengers, whose purpose is to transform the character of humankind and develop, within those who respond, moral and spiritual qualities.

As with most animated Batman media, Kevin Conroy has provided the voice of the character in these games.

The sobriquet occurs in the superscription at 1: 1 and in 3: 1, although it is highly unlikely that the word refers to the same character in both of these references.

Released monthly, these titles are a feature length ( usually about 64 page ) adventure, featuring a character from the comic itself.

In addition, most of these printers were limited to monochrome printing in a single typeface at one time, although bolding and underlining of text could be done by " overstriking ", that is, printing two or more impressions in the same character position.

Other terms such as character set, character map, and code page are used almost interchangeably, but these terms have related but distinct meanings described below.

In the world of martial arts, poison is considered the act of one who is too cowardly and dishonorable to fight ; and indeed, the only character that explicitly fits these characteristics is Jade Fox.

As each of these methods explain to the receiver how the file being sent should be interpreted, it would be inappropriate for these declarations not to match the actual character encoding used.

Three of these use the Chinese character 儒 rú, meaning " scholar ".

Although all of these behaviors merge into each other seamlessly in various bonding situations so that there is no clear line to be drawn between them, nevertheless behaviors of atoms become so qualitatively different as the character of the bond changes quantitatively, that it remains useful and customary to differentiate between the bonds that cause these different properties of condensed matter.

As European states began to assume the character of bureaucratic nation-states supporting professional standing armies, recruitment of these mounted warriors was undertaken in order to fill the strategic roles of scouts and raiders.