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  Robert Smith (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959), a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, is the lead singer and driving force behind English post-punk/gothic rock band The Cure since its founding in 1976.
Smith has played the 6 and 12 string guitars; 4 and 6 string bass guitars; double bass; piano; drums; violin; trumpet and trombone, in various combinations.
Robert Smith is instantly recognizable for his image, which includes deliberately smeared red lipstick and messy fl hair that some have compared to a large spider.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Smith_(musician)   (933 words)

  
 Robert G. Smith, PhD
Berntson A, Smith RG, Taylor WR (2004) Postsynaptic calcium feedback between rods and rod bipolar cells in the mouse retina.
Taylor WR, and Smith RG (2004) Transmission of scotopic signals from the rod to rod-bipolar cell in the mammalian retina.
Smith, R.G., and Vardi, N. Simulation of the AII amacrine cell in cat retina: Functional consequences of electrical coupling and regenerative membrane properties.
retina.anatomy.upenn.edu /~rob/rob_smith.html   (949 words)

  
 Robert E. Smith '39 - Donor and Trustee
Smith and his wife were great benefactors of the University, donating $8 million in February 2002 to fund the Recreation and Athletic Center.
Born in 1917, Smith graduated from the University with a degree in economics.
Smith received the Bucknell Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Loyalty and Service in 1990 and 1997 and the Alumni Achievement Award in 2002, which honors former Bucknell athletes who have gained special distinction in their careers.
www.bucknell.edu /News_Events/Publications/Bucknellian/Archives/2003_04_25/Obituaries/Robert_E_Smith.html   (497 words)

  
 Shortbus Gallery
Robert Eugene Smith was born in 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Smith was discharged from the army in 1948 due to a heart condition and was unable to work.
Smith is included in "Flying Free Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon" and "Rosenak’s Encyclopedia of American Folk Art and Artists".
www.shortbusgallery.com /artists/robert_smith.html   (75 words)

  
 Robert Smith
Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809, Robert Smith, born at Lancaster, Pa., on 3 November 1757, served in the Continental Army and fought in the Battle of Brandywine.
While practicing law in Maryland, Smith was a member of the Electoral College in 1789, a state senator from 1793 to 1795, and a member of the House of Delegates from 1796 to 1800 while also sitting in the upper branch of the Baltimore City Council.
Robert Smith, a steel, flush-deck destroyer, was launched 19 September 1919 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., San Francisco, Calif.; sponsored by Miss Jane Cooper; and commissioned 17 March 1921, Lt. Comdr.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/r7/robert_smith.htm   (506 words)

  
 RockNet Interview: The Cure's Robert Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Smith claims the "goth" crowd is a very small minority and says he gets fan mail from pre-teens to people in their mid-40s.
Smith will be on the road until Christmas with the lineup featured on "Wild Mood Swings:" incumbent bassist Simon Gallup and guitarist Perry Bamonte, re-hired keyboardist Roger O'Donnell, and new drummer Jason Cooper, who answered an ad in the paper.
Smith would have been happy to settle the royalties issue with his childhood friend out of court, but the Cure name was not negotiable.
www.rocknet.com /may96/cure.html   (904 words)

  
 Robert Smith
Robert Smith was born on 14 January 1722 in Lugton [Loughton], in Dalkeith Parish, Lothian, Scotland, the son of John Smith and Martha Laurie.
Although his father and oldest brother were bakers, Robert was instead articled to the same profession as a number of his uncles and cousins, who were well-known masons, carpenters, and master builders.
This member of the Smith family was Surveyor of the Royal Works in Scotland, until succeeded by William Adam (the father of architects Robert and James Adam), who seems to have given Robert Smith his first job.
etc.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Evolution/text_smith.html   (898 words)

  
 Smith, Robert (1722 - 1777) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Smith was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and he assisted in erecting the platform in State House Square from which the philosophers could observe the Transit of Venus.
Robert Smith, architect, died at his house in Second-street, in the fifty-fifth year of his age....
It is likely that Smith owned other books of architecture; he was a friend of David Hall who impored large numbers of pattern books in the 1760s, and through Hall Smith sent cash to his mother in the late 1750s and 1760s.
www.philadelphiabuildings.org /pab/app/ar_display.cfm/100731   (712 words)

  
 Robert E. Smith -- prominent pathologist
Smith's business success allowed him in January of this year to give $500,000 to UCSF to endow a research chair, which is the first endowed chair, named in his honor, in the school's pathology department.
Smith is survived by his wife, Judith Kinder Smith; daughters Vanessa Alston of Miami, Fla., Elizabeth Green, of London, England, and Kindred Lehfeldt, of Batesville, Ind.; sons Mark B. Smith, of Modesto, and Robert Smith of Noblesville, Ind.; and 11 grandchildren.
Smith is to be interred at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/27/BAG3LAHF1J1.DTL&type=health   (569 words)

  
 SSG Capital Advisors, L.P. : Robert C. Smith
Robert Smith joined SSG Capital Advisors, L.P. in 2001 as a senior member of its investment banking staff.
Smith led a $60 million debt recapitalization of a branded consumer products firm and assisted a manufacturer in the refinance of a $45 million senior credit facility.
In addition, Robert facilitated an out of court restructuring of a U.S. consumer products company via the successful sale of a non-core European subsidiary, the proceeds of which were used by the parent to pay down debt and provide working capital for future growth.
www.ssgca.com /about/smith.aspx   (315 words)

  
 Robert Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Smith and 3 of whom are named Robert, what's the probability that there are no Robert Smiths?
The not-Smith condition is independent of the not-Bob condition.
There are 969 (=19!/16!3!) total ways to arrange these 3 Smiths in that 19 element array, with 153+136+120=409 of these possibilities intersecting the first 3 "Bob" elements from the first array.
epsc.wustl.edu /admin/people/robertsmith.htm   (494 words)

  
 Subsurface Science Initiative - SubsurfaceTopics Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Smith, previously the Science Director for the INEEL Subsurface Science Initiative, began a new position as the University of Idaho’s Distinguished Professor of Subsurface Science on October 1, 2001.
Smith worked for the DOE for 16 years and said he had always planned to switch to an academic career when his children had grown, though the change came a little sooner than planned.
The goal of Smith’s new position, which is supported jointly by the University of Idaho and the INEEL, is to enhance graduate education opportunities in the southeastern region of Idaho.
subsurface.inel.gov /Information/Newsletter/Vol2Iss4/smith.asp   (400 words)

  
 ONN. Ohio News Now: Robert Smith resurfaces: Ex-running back tells his story
Smith was rarely seen or heard from since he quit, but he has resurfaced this summer to talk about his soon-to-be-available autobiography, "The Rest of the Iceberg: An Insider's View on the World of Sport and Celebrity."
Smith began working on the book while on vacation in Australia in December 2002, and his girlfriend has helped him edit it under 100,000 words.
Smith details his final appearance, a 41-0 loss to the New York Giants in the NFC championship game.
www.onnnews.com /Global/story.asp?S=2043086   (846 words)

  
 Press : Robert M. Smith
Smith, a San Francisco-based neutral, specializes in commercial mediations and is affiliated with the American Arbitration Association.
According to Smith, 80 percent of the time the parties soon returned and told Smith the matter had settled.
In addition, Smith said, serving as a correspondent enabled him to interact with individuals from all levels of society.
www.robertmsmith.com /about_rms/press.asp   (1050 words)

  
 Privacy Journal - Home
The publisher is Robert Ellis Smith (left), who is recognized as the leading expert on the right to privacy in the U.S. He is an experienced journalist, a lawyer, an author of several essential books on privacy.
Smith digs through reams of government documents and interviews all the important people who affect privacy policies; he's an enterprising journalist who insists on originality and accuracy in his stories.
Smith covers privacy in all of its aspects: the Internet, credit reporting, medical records, computer security, unwanted telephone calls, electronic surveillance, access to an individual's own records, the impact of European and Canadian practices on the U.S., biometric identification systems, the common law of privacy, the constitutional right to privacy, and much more.
www.privacyjournal.net   (774 words)

  
 Robert Smith Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Robert Smith abruptly retired from the NFL after the 2000 season, television networks immediately expressed interest in adding him to their football coverage.
Smith signed a one-year contract this week with ESPN that contains an option for another year, which can be exercised by the network.
Smith, who will commute to Bristol each week from his Florida home, also will be heard on ESPN Radio and do a column for the sports empire's website.
www.vikingsfan.org   (665 words)

  
 Comic creator: Sidney Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Sidney Smith was the creator of the great American family epic 'The Gumps'.
Smith was already almost forty years old when the first panel of this strip was published, in 1917.
In 1919, Smith was forced to abandon this strip due to the immense popularity of 'The Gumps', which had greatly boosted the Tribune's circulation.
www.lambiek.net /smith_s.htm   (172 words)

  
 Robert William Smith (www.whonamedit.com)
Robert William Smith studied medicine in Dublin, his native town, and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1832, fellow in 1844.
He received his doctorate at Trinity College in 1842, and in 1847 he was appointed to the first chair of surgery at Trinity College, becoming a member a member of the Irish Academy in 1849.
It was Smith who firmly attached Colles's eponym to the fracture that Colles described.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1928.html   (482 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NCF - Smith: There was booster cash at OSU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Former Ohio State running back Robert Smith believes Maurice Clarett is telling the truth about receiving cash from boosters and other powerful fans of the Buckeye football team, but stopped short of indicting the university's coaches or staff for providing benefits deemed improper by the NCAA.
Smith said that he never witnessed anything like that when he was in school, however he heard similar stories from Buckeyes who played before him.
Smith said that he spoke with Clarett once, during the 2002 season, when Clarett wanted advice on handling the pressure as a player in Columbus.
sports.espn.go.com /ncf/news/story?id=1920711   (821 words)

  
 CNN.com - The Cure to the rescue - Aug 10, 2004
So it's no surprise that Smith, the spidery-haired, thickly-eyelined front man of the world's most eminent Goth band, the Cure, is tickled pink that turnout has been strong for his North American blowout, Curiosa Festival 2004.
Smith said he scrutinized and researched each group, essentially handpicking the tour's line-up.
SMITH: We pretty much have this perception of the Cure being ever-changing but we celebrate 10 years together this summer, so [this current tour is] a pretty good time for a band that constantly changes.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/10/the.cure   (1102 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Smith, O to R
Smith, Ravon — of Concord, Cabarrus County, N.C. Republican.
Smith, Robert — of Omaha, Douglas County, Neb. Republican.
Smith, Robert Burns (1854-1908) — also known as Robert B. Smith — of Montana.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/smith7.html   (1293 words)

  
 NPR : Robert Smith
Smith's reports have been heard on NPR since 1994, first as a freelance reporter based in the Northwest, then during a short stint for NPR in Los Angeles.
He traveled into the backcountry with Gearheads to talk about their obsession with camping technology; he snuck into a all-night rave in the California desert; he has dressed up as Santa Claus for an undercover look at the wild night of Santarchy; and he has trained for the oft-mocked Olympic sport of curling.
Smith graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1989, and began reporting for community radio station KBOO.
www.npr.org /about/people/bios/rsmith.html   (333 words)

  
 Bob Smith's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bob Smith's research interests are in seismology, tectonophysics, crustal deformation using GPS (Global Positioning System), and active tectonics.
Current research projects include: 1) geodynamics of and evolution of the Yellowstone hotspot and the Yellowstone caldera, 2) seismicity and volcanic hazards of Yellowstone and operation of the Yellowstone seismograph network, and 3) crustal deformation and earthquake hazards of the Wasatch and Teton faults using GPS and fault modeling.
Smith, R. and L. Siegel, 2000, Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Oxford University Press, New York.
www.mines.utah.edu /~rbsmith/rbs-home.index.html   (429 words)

  
 Philadelphia Architects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Smith, who quickly became a member of Philadelphia's Carpenters' Company, is considered by many authorities to be the foremost master-builder, or carpenter-architect, of the Colonial Period.
Smith was active in cultural and political affairs.
Smith also helped to erect a platform in the State House yard from which members of the American Philosophical Society (Franklin, Rittenhouse, and others) placed a telescope to observe the transit of Venus — a major event of the day.
www.ushistory.org /architects.html   (1126 words)

  
 Dr. Robert L. Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Smith, R., Integrative couple therapy: beyond theory and practice, in Integrative and Biopsychosocial Therapy, by Sperry, ACA publications, 2001.
Smith, R., Using solution-oriented techniques with reconstructed family systems, in Techniques in Marriage and Family Counseling, ACA publications, 2002.
Smith, R. and Carlson, J. The ethics of professional skill development: Maintaining one's credential, The Family Digest.
falcon.tamucc.edu /~eduweb/counselor/rsmith.html   (1074 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Robert Smith Surtees (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Robert Smith Surtees (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Robert Smith Surtees, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
Robert Smith Surtees[sUr´tEz] Pronunciation Key, 1803–64, English novelist.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Surtees.html   (233 words)

  
 JAMES ROBERT SMITH, AUTHOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Smith, at the Davidson River State Park in the North Carolina mountains.
James Robert Smith is the author of over seventy published short stories and comic scripts.
Smith's latest work to appear in print was the KLYDE and MERIEM ONE-SHOT, a one issue spinoff of the popular CAVEWOMAN comic.
www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/halley/238   (276 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Don Banks: Robert Smith tells his story - Friday July 23, 2004 8:47PM
The "Robert Treatment'' was a running joke among reporters who regularly covered the Vikings in the five years that I lived and worked in the Twin Cities (1996-2001), and in a way it became a badge of honor to see who could engage him in conversation the longest without inducing his eyes to glaze over.
Naturally, the first thing people want to know about Smith's book is whether there's any smoking gun of an explanation for his surprising retirement from the NFL in the spring of 2001.
Smith finds it both disturbing and telling that most football fans found it unfathomable that he would choose retirement and surrender a lucrative trip to free agency.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/don_banks/07/23/smith.speaks   (1725 words)

  
 R.T. Smith
Yet there is nothing to suggest that Smith, or anyone else, anticipates the events only hours in the future.
Your last letter received over a week ago, and of course I was delighted with the notes from all the Nebraska folks as well as your own.
In addition, Brad Smith maintains a "CBI Bibliography" containing over 1,500 entries that may be very useful to those reading or researching A.V.G. biographies.
home.att.net /~ww2aircraft/RTSmith1.html   (2123 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Gothica: Robert Smith
Born April 21st, 1959 in Blackpool, England, Robert James Smith was one of the founding members of The Cure and is the only member who has been there the whole time.
Robert has played many different instruments over time.
Robert even has tackled the drum set at the finale of the Porn tour.
www.waningmoon.com /gothica/articles/6660050.shtml   (146 words)

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