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  Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk
The victory of the Lebanese army at the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp – the killing of up to 100 al-Qa'ida-type insurgents at the cost of 163 Lebanese soldiers and 42 civilians – is being greeted in the country with "trumpetings" and "hootings" worthy of the country's greatest poet, Khalil Gibran.
Robert Fisk reflects on the human misery and destruction inflicted on the country – and on how lucky he is to be alive after more than 30 years of reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world.
Every one predicted - not least the United Nations officers on the team - that the international UN peacekeeping army in southern Lebanon would be attacked by a Sunni Muslim group attached to al-Qa'ida, and yesterday afternoon three Spanish and three Colombian soldiers paid with their lives for the fulfilment of this prediction.
news.independent.co.uk /fisk   (1292 words)

  
  Robert Strange
STRANGE, (SIR) ROBERT, Knight, the father of the line manner of engraving in Britain, was born in the island of Pomona, in Orkney, July 14, 1721.
He was lineally descended from Sir David Strange, or Strang, a younger son of the family of Strang of Balcaskie, in Fife, who had settled in Orkney at the time of the Reformation.
Sir Robert has been described by his surviving friends, as one of the most amiable and virtuous of men, as he was unquestionably among the most able in his own peculiar walk.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/strange_robert.htm   (973 words)

  
 SIR ROBERT STRANGE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR ROBERT STRANGE
(1721-1792), Scottish line engraver, descended from the Scottish family of Strange, or Strang, of Balcasky, Fife, was born in the mainland of Orkney, on the 14th of July 1721.
His refusal was attributed to his Jacobite proclivities, and it led to an acrimonious correspondence with Ramsay, and to the loss, for the time, of royal patronage.
After his death a splendid edition of reserved proofs of his engrav-ingswas issued; and a catalogue of his works, by Charles Blanc, was published in 1848 by Rudolph Weigel of Leipzig, forming part of Le Graveur en taille douce.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STRANGE_SIR_ROBERT.htm   (1401 words)

  
 Robert Lee Strange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert is in the Knott County, KY Census for years 1900 and 1920.
Robert's age is listed as 23 on the birth certificate of his first son in 1912; this would make Robert born in about 1889.
Robert Lee told one of his daughters that he remembered moving to KY.
www.mindspring.com /~claetsch/robert_lee_strange.htm   (211 words)

  
 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1756-1841).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1787, Robert (in spite of the fact that he was with the Stewarts in 1745, was, by George III, made a knight of the realm.
3 In 1798, Justice Strange was knighted; and, in 1800, made Chief Justice of Madras; and, in 1804, of Calcutta where he "commanded a volunteer battalion and quelled a mutiny." In 1817, Strange resigned and moved back to England.
Presumably feeling it was a better course then to trust them to a long sea voyage, Chief Justice Strange donated his law library to the lawyers in Nova Scotia; it was to form the nucleus of the present library of the Barristers Society.
www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1800-67/Strange.htm   (320 words)

  
 Robert Plant & Strange Sensation Sign With Sanctuary Records And New Album 'Mighty Rearranger' Will Be Released May 3, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Plant Mighty Rearranger finds Robert working again with his band 'Strange Sensation' who were so vital to his 2002 critically acclaimed and Grammy nominated 'Dreamland' album.
Joe Cokell, CEO Sanctuary Recorded Music Worldwide: 'Robert has made a fabulous record that has excited everyone within the company and our belief is the album will be a worldwide success by the summer".
Robert Plant is the keynote speaker at this year's South By Southwest and will also perform at the event.
top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=13367   (463 words)

  
 Archives - Robert Strange McNamara
Robert McNamara shaped the Bank as no one before him.
The strengthening of the research staff stimulated interaction with the academic community and allowed the Bank to claim a role as an intellectual leader in development matters.
Robert Strange McNamara was born in Oakland, California in 1916.
web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/EXTARCHIVES/0,,contentMDK:20502974~pagePK:36726~piPK:437378~theSitePK:29506,00.html   (3085 words)

  
 Green lake
Robert understood that he did not know the names of many colors because they were very different from usual colors.
Robert had an attempt to read a new message in the green water again and again.
Robert was sure that he would find her in the garden near the house.
www.tcart.com /Katharina_Yakovina/prose/7-29.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Stranger in a Strange Land   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars.
Having been raised by Martians, Smith is literally a stranger in a strange land when he is brought back to earth with "miraculous" abilities and a Martian philosophy of life.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441790348?v=glance   (3210 words)

  
 Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction magazine
EDITORIAL: Strange Horizons Podcast: Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum, by Susan Marie Groppi
Strange Horizons is a weekly online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, science fact, opinion, art, and reviews.
All material in Strange Horizons is copyrighted to the original authors and may not be reproduced without permission.
www.strangehorizons.com   (577 words)

  
 The Dying Room---March 98
Robert has this strange fixation for body parts and like to bring them home.
One day Robert is giving the duties of bringing back a corpse found submerged in a lake, but instead of disposing of the carcass, he takes it home.
With one bizarre twist after another, Robert's girl leaves him a dear John letter saying she has left with her one true love....the corpse.
www.houseofhorrors.com /dyingroommarch98.htm   (285 words)

  
 Robert Strange
In films from 1911, American actor Robert Strange was largely confined to walk-on roles as bankers, landlords, lawyers, and doctors.
Cast as Kettler in the 1929 serial King of the Kongo, Strange launched his lengthy career in "chapter plays." He went on to play such serial roles as John Malcolm in The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1940) and Professor Gordon in The Perils of Nyoka (1942).
Robert Strange's grandfatherly facial features were cast in a satanic light when he was cast as the court clerk for the "jury of the damn'd" in 1941's The Devil and Daniel Webster.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+68618   (106 words)

  
 Robert Strange, 1796-1854. Eoneguski, or, The Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This mode of life had become endeared to Robert, by the sacred influence of paternal example, and was followed as the one for which he was best fitted, both by habit and disposition.
Whatever might be said in disparagement of particular features in the face of Robert Aymor, his mouth imparted to the whole countenance a winning expression, which disarmed at once the purpose of scrutiny, and subdued any prejudice with which a stranger might have approached him.
And thus did Robert Aymor often experience an overflowing of tenderness for his wife, and pleasure in offering her atoning kindnesses, after one of those bursts of impatience, she possessed no other means of calling forth or producing.
www.ibiblio.org /docsouth/nc/strange1/strange1.html   (17516 words)

  
 Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Robert Strange McNamera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On 21 January 1961, Robert McNamara's political career began when President John F. Kennedy appointed him as Secretary of Defense.
His growing opposition to both US involvement in Vietnam and deployment of a major missile defense shield troubled military officials.
Robert McNamara resigned from office on 29 February1968.
www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_mcnamara-robert.htm   (330 words)

  
 A brief history of American pseudoscience
We must examine the strange enthusiasms of the past in order to understand their persistence today.
Strange as they seem, the enthusiasms of pseudoscience strike deep chords in the national character.
ROBERT MacDOUGALL is a freelance writer and a doctoral candidate in
www.columbia.edu /cu/21stC/issue-3.4/macdougall.html   (1173 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Robert Strange McNamara
Robert McNamara served as U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 in the administrations of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
He introduced methods for estimating military needs and costs up to 15 years in the future.
From 1968 to 1981 McNamara served as president of the World Bank.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/RefPages/RefMedia.aspx?refid=461515685&artrefid=761577640&pn=3&sec=-1   (57 words)

  
 Tower Records - Mighty Rearranger * - Robert Plant/Strange Sensation
Robert Plant/Strange Sensation: Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica); Skin Tyson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bass guitar); Justin Adams (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bass guitar, bendir); John Baggott (keyboards, Moog synthesizer, electronics); Billy Fuller (double bass, bass guitar); Clive Deamer (drums, bendir).
Given the legacy of Led Zeppelin, a band universally acknowledged as one of the greatest rock groups of all time, anything former frontman Robert Plant releases is naturally compared to the work of that legendary ensemble.
Mighty Rearranger, as a collection, proves that Robert's creative juices are still flowing even in, what one might consider, the twilight of his career.
towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=06076847472&...   (582 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Stranger in a Strange Land   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the sixties to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests.
The novel, while on the surface being the adventures of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by martians, is in fact a very thinly disguised social satire of American culture.
Robert Heinlein's best-known book, and his second-best book (in my opinion, it's second to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"), is "Stranger in a Strange Land".
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0450547426   (1414 words)

  
 Robert Strange
STRANGE, Robert, senator, born in Virginia, 20 September, 1796 ; died in Fayetteville, North Carolina, 19 February, 1854.
Judge Strange published for private circulation a novel entitled "Eoneguski, or the Cherokee Chief," in which he preserved many of the traditions of the region in which he resided.
This site and its contents are not affiliated, connected, associated with or authorized by the individual, family, friends, or trademarked entities utilizing any part or the subject\x92s entire name.
www.famousamericans.net /robertstrange   (378 words)

  
 100 Canadian Poets - Robert Kroetsch - Profile
Robert Kroetsch was born in 1927 in Heisler, Alberta.
Pati, Mitali R. "Robert Kroetsch's Rhetoric of Dis-Closure in The Sad Phonecian." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 1.1 (1993): 48-56.
The Robert Kroetsch Papers: First Accession: An Inventory Of The Archive At The University Of Calgary Libraries.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/r_kroetsch.htm   (349 words)

  
 Stranger in a Strange Land
If any work of fiction will earn Robert Heinlein a permanent place on the collective bookshelf, it is going to be Stranger in a Strange Land, for the impact it has made on American society.
Though he is a man in his twenties, Smith looks at absolutely everything on this new planet through the ignorant eyes of a baby, and faces the job of learning how to be a human being.
The youth is an apt student, a strange admixture of human infant and Martian superman, and as time goes on, he manages to win more and more people over to his own alien viewpoint.
www.wegrokit.com /stranger_in_a_strange_land.htm   (831 words)

  
 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Anson Heinlein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Anson Heinlein
His bestselling Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the biggest cult books of the century.
Great complement to Stranger in a Strange Land which appealed to the Left - Moon tends to appeal to the Right, though it's very prominant Family Values are far from "mainstream" America.
www.wopr.com /books/stranger.htm   (317 words)

  
 Robert Strange McNamara: An American Idol by, Richard Falk, March 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Strange McNamara: An American Idol by, Richard Falk, March 2004
As a film on the life of the former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, “The Fog of War” succeeds brilliantly.
It conveys the distinctive complexity of this fascinating man who occupied such a prominent place in the American political and moral imagination during the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies.
www.wagingpeace.org /articles/2004/03/24_falk_fog.htm   (1375 words)

  
 Sir Robert Strange ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Sir Robert Strange, The Death of Dido, 1776
Sir Robert Strange, Le retour du marcher, 18th century
The Strange and Marvellous in the Land of Islam
wwar.com /masters/s/strange-sir_robert.html   (1513 words)

  
 Author Robert J. Sawyer: Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial Award-winning Science Fiction Writer
Robert J. Sawyer has just won the Galaxy Award — China's top SF award — in the category of Most Popular Foreign Author.
Read the full text of "A Bright Idea for Atheists," Robert J. Sawyer's op-ed piece from The Ottawa Citizen (published there under the title "Unhealthy Skepticism"); this article is an expansion of Rob's talk at the grand opening of the Centre for Inquiry, Ontario.
"Robert J. Sawyer is the science fiction genre's northern star — in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere.
www.sfwriter.com   (1144 words)

  
 Commonweal: WAR & REMEMBRANCE.(Robert Strange MacNamara, secretary of defense in the Vietnam era)(Brief Article)@ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For most people who labor in the imperial capital, chance meetings with notables are a side benefit of the job.
Not for me. Thus my surprise just before noon on a recent Saturday to come upon one of the most notable, if notorious, Washingtonians of them all: Robert Strange McNamara.
He was lunching alone at a table for two in the Old Ebbitt Grill, devouring a fulsomely garnished hamburger, washing it down with a mug of coffee.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:58400715&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (206 words)

  
 Strange Weblog: Robert Blake witness grilled about "UFOs" at trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Featuring updates on strange news headlines, Ufo sightings, the paranormal, ghosts, hauntings, strange creatures like Bigfoot, el chupacabra, Loch ness monster and other animals, bizarre tales and stories of the weird.
Strange Animal known as the "Beast of Burford" hunted
The Robert Blake murder trial took a strange twist yesterday after prosecution lawyers questioned a former "Beretta" stuntman about an alleged UFO sighting.
domainer.typepad.com /strange_weblog/2005/02/robert_blake_st.html   (145 words)

  
 Robert Strange Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Robert_Strange   (218 words)

  
 Family of Robert Strange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
F Child 2: Margaret Strange Born: 1728 in Spouse: William Brown Married: ABT 1750 in
M Child 3: John Strange died at age: 52 Born: 1730 in -, -, VA, USA Died: 1782 in Rowan County, North Carolina Spouse: Susannah C. Skinner
M Child 4: Gideon Strange died at age: 38 Born: 1732 in Lunenburg County, Virginia Died: ABT 1770 in -, -, GA, USA
snark.paypc.com /~kd6lvw/genealogy/data/f46861.html   (112 words)

  
 ROBERT PLANT / STRANGE SENSATION
That project may have helped to inspire the music Strange Sensation are currently making, since it involved Plant and Page satisfying their fans' insatiable yearnings to hear the Zeppelin catalogue again, yet in an evolved, expanded form which fired the imagination of musicians reluctant merely to repeat their past.
The sprinkling of original pieces on the new album are credited to "Robert Plant and band", reflecting the power-sharing nature of the relationship.
By the time he'd assembled Strange Sensation for some American dates last year, the picture was becoming clear.
www.math.uni-magdeburg.de /~rooff/nmedbio.html   (1289 words)

  
 The Literary Gothic | Robert Louis Stevenson
Famed Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet, author of the Gothic-tradition classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Robert Louis Stevenson: a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial [1905]
-- from the "truth is as strange as fiction" file: cadavers as economic commodity is still with us, as this AP story from March 2004 illustrates.
www.litgothic.com /Authors/stevenson.html   (692 words)

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