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Robbins (name)
Robbins is an English language surname. People with the name include: A * Aaron Robbins (born 1983), American football player * Alan Robbins (born 1943), American politician * Alexandra Robbins (born 1976), American journalist and author * Alfred Farthing Robbins (19th c.), British journalist and political biographer * Alwyn Robbins (1920-2002), British geodesist * Amy Robbins (born 1971), British stage, film and TV actress * Amy Robbins (philanthropist) (born 1970), American businesswoman and philanthropist * Andrea Robbins (born 1963), American artist * Apollo Robbins (born 1974), American security consultant and magician * Arthur Robbins (1920-2010), Australian rules football player * Asher Robbins (1757–1845), US Senator from Rhode Island * Austin Robbins (born 1971), American football player * Avalon Robbins (born 2001), American model and actress * Ayn Robbins (late 20th c.), lyricist B * Barbara Robbins (1943–1965), first American woman killed in the Vietnam War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barret Robbins
Barret Glenn Robbins (born August 26, 1973) is a former American football center who played nine seasons for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Texas Christian University, he was taken by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He was elected to the Pro Bowl in 2002. He was the leader of the Raiders offensive line that led them to Super Bowl XXXVII. Professional career After playing college football for Texas Christian University, Robbins was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 1995 NFL Draft, with the 49th overall pick. In 1996, Mike White's last year as head coach, the second-year Robbins replaced Dan Turk in the lineup, becoming only the fifth starting center in Raider history, after Turk, Don Mosebar, Dave Dalby, and Jim Otto. The first sign of his mental health problems turned up during the season when he was found disoriented and wandering around the team hotel in Denve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Robbins
Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (18 August 1903 – 8 February 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College. Life Robbins was born in Middlesex in 1903. J. R. Pole, ‘Robbins , Caroline (1903–1999)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200accessed 8 Sept 2015/ref> Her parents were Rowland Richard (1872–1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (''nee'' Harris). Her father was a farmer and he was a Councillor on the Middlesex County Council. Her brother, Lionel, would become an economist. She took her doctorate at London University with a treatise on Andrew Marvell. Robbins became an instructor in British history at Bryn Mawr College in 1929. She served in that department for 42 years. She wrote ''The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman'' in 1959. She married Stephen J. Herben Jr., who was also a professor at Bryn Mawr, in 1932. Robbins died in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Robbins
Carla Robbins is an American journalist and the former deputy editorial page editor of ''The New York Times''. Prior to her career at ''The New York Times'', Robbins worked for ''BusinessWeek'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', and ''The Wall Street Journal''. During her thirteen-year career at ''The Wall Street Journal'', she was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting teams. Career Robbins graduated from Wellesley College in 1974, with a bachelor's degree in political science. She subsequently attended University of California, Berkeley, receiving master and doctorate degrees also in political science. In 1982, Robbins worked as an editor and, later, as a State Department reporter for ''BusinessWeek''. In 1986, she began working as the Latin America bureau chief for ''U.S. News & World Report'', where she later became a senior diplomatic correspondent. She left ''U.S. News & World Report'' in 1992. In 1993 she began working as a reporter and news editor at ''The Wall Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin H
Calvin may refer to: Names * Calvin (given name) ** Particularly Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States * Calvin (surname) ** Particularly John Calvin, theologian Places In the United States * Calvin, Arkansas, a hamlet * Calvin Township, Jewell County, Kansas * Calvin, Louisiana, a village * Calvin Township, Michigan ** Calvin crater, an impact crater * Calvin, North Dakota, a city * Calvin, Oklahoma, a town * Calvin, Virginia * Calvin, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Calvin, Ontario, Canada, a township * Mount Calvin, Victoria Land, Antarctica Schools * Calvin University (South Korea), a Presbyterian-affiliated university in South Korea * Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Calvin High School (other), various American schools * Calvin Christian School (Escondido, California) * Calvin Christian School (Kingston, Tasmania) * Collège Calvin, the oldest public secondary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Robbins (baseball)
Bruce Duane Robbins (born September 10, 1959) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers from 1979 to 1980. Robbins, a left-handed batter, also threw left-handed. Early life Robbins attended Blackford High School in Hartford City, Indiana Hartford City is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Blackford County, Indiana, Blackford County. Located in the northeast East Central Indiana, central portion of the state, the small farming community underwent a dramatic .... The Tigers drafted him out of high school in the 14th round of the 1977 amateur draft. References Venezuelan Professional Baseball League 1959 births Baseball players from Indiana Birmingham Barons players Bristol Tigers players Detroit Tigers players Evansville Triplets players Lakeland Tigers players Leones del Caracas players American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela Living people Major League Baseball pitchers Montgomery Rebels players People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Robbins
Brian Levine (born November 22, 1963), known professionally as Brian Robbins, is an American film executive, actor, and filmmaker who is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon. He also serves as Chief Content Officer, Kids & Family, Paramount+. In September 2021, it was announced that he would replace Jim Gianopulos as head of Paramount. Early life Robbins was born Brian Levine in Brooklyn, New York City on November 22, 1963. When Robbins was 16, his family moved to Los Angeles. He graduated from Grant High School in 1982. Career Following his father, prolific character actor Floyd Levine, into acting, Robbins made his television acting debut on an episode of ''Trapper John, M.D.'' He guest starred on a number of television series and had a recurring role on ''General Hospital''. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his role as Eric Mardian on the ABC sitcom ''Head of the Class''. He also hosted the children's version of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bret Robbins
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Bret or BRET may refer to: People and fictional characters * Bret (given name), a personal name, including a list of people and fictional characters * Bret (surname), a list of people Other uses * a regional name for either the brill or the turbot fish * the spawn of the herring * Tropical Storm Bret, various storms and a hurricane * Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer See also * Lac de Bret, a lake in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland * ''Bret v JS'', a 1600 formative English contract law * Brett (other) * Breton language Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albeit as a member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Robbins
Brent Dean Robbins is associate professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His areas of research include grief, humor, self-consciousness, spirituality/religion, death anxiety, and the medicalization of the body. He is editor-in-chief and founder of ''Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts'', and is a board member for a number of journals, including ''International Journal of Transpersonal Studies'', the ''International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy'', ''PsyCRITIQUES'', and ''Terrorism Research''. Robbins is a co-editor of ''The Legacy of R.D. Laing'', published by Trivium Press. Robbins is a recipient of the Harmi Carari Early Career Award, from the Society for Humanistic Psychology. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Duquesne University. In 2011, Robbins co-authored an open letter from the Society for Humanistic Psychol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Robbins
Bradley Robbins (born 12 January 1985) is an Australian basketball coach and former player who is most known for his time spent in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Perth Wildcats. He currently serves as an assistant coach with the Perth Lynx of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). Early life and career Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Robbins played his junior basketball at Dandenong. He represented Victoria in national competitions in Under 14s in 1998, Under 16s in 2000 and Under 18s in 2001 and 2002. In 2002, he represented Australia in junior men's teams and was then a member of the World Championship winning Australian Emus Under 19 team in 2003. Professional career NBL Robbins made his debut in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Victoria Giants during the 2003–04 season. He scored 11 points in 13 games. For the 2004–05 season, he played for the Cairns Taipans and averaged 1.6 points and 1.1 rebounds in 25 games. After not playing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Robbins
Betty Robbins (born Berta Abramson, April 9, 1924 – February 19, 2004) was a notable cantor. She was one of the first female cantors. She was the first woman appointed as a cantor in the 20th century. Career Robbins began singing while in 1932 at the age of 8 while living in Poland. She was not allowed to sing in the all-male choir in synagogue and instead sat opposite the boys and sang so loudly the cantor relented. She cut her hair short to fit in and later was the soloist in the choir of the German synagogue in Danzig, Poland for six years prior to fleeing the Nazis. Robbins is sometimes reported to be the first female cantor, although the unofficial cantor Julie Rosewald preceded her. Robbins was appointed cantor of the Reform Temple Avodah in Oceanside, New York, in 1955, when she was 31 and the temple was without a cantor for the High Holidays. Her appointment was reported on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In addition to her cantorial work, Robbins taught re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Robbins Stadium
Surf Stadium is a 5,500-seat baseball stadium in Atlantic City, New Jersey that opened in 1998 and has been mostly closed since 2009, although some renovation was performed in 2011 and 2012. The stadium was officially renamed as Surf Stadium in April 2012, and hosted a few events in 2012. The stadium was called The Sandcastle until 2006, and has continued to be referred to by that name in some sources. It was built as the home of the Atlantic City Surf baseball team, which discontinued operations prior to the 2009 season. College and youthBaseball is back at Atlantic City's Surf Stadium with start of Babe Ruth tournament '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
