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Robinett (other)
Robinett is a surname. It is derived from the given name Robin, French diminutive of Robert. Notable people with the surname include: * Paul Robinett (born 1970s?), American Internet personality * Paul McDonald Robinett (1893-1975), U.S. Army general of World War II * Stephen Robinett (1941–2004), American writer * Thomas Robinett (born 1949), American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives * Warren Robinett Joseph Warren Robinett Jr. (born December 25, 1951) In the A. Miller interview, Robinett says he was 26 in November 1977. is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's ''Adventure'' — ... (born 1951), American video game designer * Florence M. Voegelin (1927–1989), also known as Florence M. Robinett, American anthropologist and linguist See also * Robinet (other) * Robinette (other) {{surname, Robinett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin (name)
Robin is a unisex given name and a surname. It was originally a diminutive masculine given name or nickname of Robert, derived from the prefix ''Ro''- (''hrod'', Old Germanic, meaning "fame" and ''berht'', meaning "bright"), and the suffix ''-in'' (Old French diminutive). In Europe, although it is sometimes regarded as a feminine name, it is generally given to boys. In 2014, 88% of babies named Robin in England were boys. In United States, it used to be more popular as a feminine name—during the 1990s, for example, it was the 325th most popular name for girls and the 693rd most popular name for boys. However the gap has been narrowing and recently the number of baby boys and baby girls named Robin in United States has been roughly similar (as visualized in the adjacent chart). In 2014 46% of babies named Robin in United States were boys, which is about three times that figure in 1990. There are several common variations, including ''Robyn'', ''Robbin'', ''Robine'', ''Robyne'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Robinett
Paul Robinett, known by his screen name Renetto, is an American vlogger and entrepreneur. Robinett's videos have attracted over 56 million views, and his YouTube channel has over 38,100 subscribers. His channel has been viewed over 31.2 million times. YouTube Robinett began posting videos on YouTube in mid-2006.("Four months after starting to post videos on youtube Paul Robinett, known on Web as Renetto a Moby looking bald guy with thick black glasses was recognized...") Initially, he posted videos as the character "renetto", "a squeaky-voiced, intellectually challenged reviewer of others' YouTube videos." Robinett released a video called "Diet Coke+Mentos=Human experiment: EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT" posted in August 2006, in which he placed a large quantity of Mentos in his mouth and drank Diet Coke at the same time, and implied that he suffered serious injury as a result. Robinett was nominated for the first YouTube Video Awards. He is also an official partner in YouTube's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McDonald Robinett
Paul McDonald Robinett (1893–1975) was a cavalry and armor officer (Brigadier General) of the U.S. Army. He spent much of his career as a staff officer, and commanded an armored regiment and combined arms combat command in combat during the Tunisian campaign of World War II. Biography Robinett hailed from Missouri's Ozark foothills, scion of Ozark pioneers. After high school, he worked a summer in the Kansas harvest fields before enrolling in the University of Missouri, where he completed his B.S. (1917) in Agriculture. Since the U.S. had entered World War I, he tried to enlist but was rejected as underweight. After beginning a graduate fellowship at Iowa State, he again tried to enlist, unsuccessfully. But he was accepted for officer training, subsequently commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry. During World War I, First Cavalry served along the border with Mexico; during this time, he was promoted to first lieutenant. He was graduated from the Cavalry School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Robinett
Stephen Allen Robinett (13 July 1941 – 16 February 2004) was an American writer of science-fiction and mystery novels and short stories. Robinett's first publication appeared in the March 1969 edition of the magazine ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', the novelette "Minitalent", which was published with his most-used pseudonym, Tak Hallus (derived from the Persian ''takhallus''). By the mid-1970s, however, he had begun using his own name. He published two novels, ''Stargate'' and ''The Man Responsible'' during the mid-1970s, and continued to publish novels and short fiction until the early 1990s. He also wrote extensively in the area of business journalism and was a lawyer licensed in California. He died on 16 February 2004 from complications caused by Hodgkins disease Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma, in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) are present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robinett
Thomas A. Robinett Jr. (born June 21, 1949) is an American politician who served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ... from the 29th district for one term, in 1993 and 1994. References Living people 1949 births Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives 20th-century American legislators Politicians from Overland Park, Kansas {{Kansas-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Robinett
Joseph Warren Robinett Jr. (born December 25, 1951) In the A. Miller interview, Robinett says he was 26 in November 1977. is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's ''Adventure'' — the first graphical adventure video game — and as a founder of The Learning Company, where he designed ''Rocky's Boots'' and ''Robot Odyssey''. More recently he has worked on virtual reality projects. Robinett graduated in 1974 with a B.A. from Rice University, with a major in "Computer Applications to Language and Art". After graduating from Rice University, he was a Fortran programmer for Western Geophysical in Houston, Texas. He received an M.S. from University of California, Berkeley in 1976, and went to work at Atari, Inc. in November 1977. Atari, Inc. His first effort at Atari was '' Slot Racers'' for the Atari 2600. While he was working on it, he had discovered and played Crowther and Woods' ''Colossal Cave Adventure'' at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence M
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, datISTAT/ref> Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robinet (other)
Robinet may refer to : People * Jean-Baptiste Robinet (1735–1820), French naturalist * Stéphane Robinet (born 1983), French footballer * Thomas Robinet (born 1996), French footballer * Alexandre Robinet de La Serve (1821–1882), French journalist and politician, deputy and then senator of Réunion from 1870 to 1882 * Nicole Robinet de La Serve (1791–1842), French journalist, lawyer and politician * Cora Millet-Robinet (1798–1890), French agricultural innovator and silk producer * Robinet Testard (fl. 1470–1531), French medieval illuminator and painter * Marcel Perez (1884–1929), Spanish comedian, stage name Robinet * Robinet (composer) (fl 1482–1507), French composer Other * Common chaffinch, a small bird of the finch family * European robin, usually referred to simply as a "robin" * Robinet (grape), another name for the French wine grape Jacquère See also * Robinett (other) Robinett is a surname. It is derived from the given name Robin, French diminutive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
