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The most visible central feature to Heartlands is the mine engine house for Robinson's Shaft, seen here from one of the linked themed gardens which tell the story of Cornish mining around the world.
One more, and last, shot from my evening on Robinson taken during the mini heatwave at the end of March. (Ah ... the lazy, hazy days of March!)
You can just make out my car parked at the top of Newlands Pass so only a short descent was required but, in the dark, you have to be careful to avoid Moss Force.
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British postcard. Photo: First National Films.
Romanian-born American actor Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) was a popular star on stage, radio and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age. He appeared in 40 Broadway plays and 101 films during a 50-year career, and is best remembered for his cold-eyed Machiavellian gangster roles, such as his star-making film Little Caesar (1931) and Key Largo (1948). Robinson's character portrayals have covered a wide range, with such roles as an insurance investigator in the Film-Noir Double Indemnity (1944), Dathan, adversary of Moses, in The Ten Commandments (1956), and his final performance in the Science-Fiction film Soylent Green (1973). Next to his work in Hollywood, he also appeared during the 1960s in several European films.
Edward G. Robinson was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in 1893 to a Yiddish-speaking Romanian Jewish family in Bucharest, Romania. He was the fifth of six sons of Sarah (née Guttman) and Morris Goldenberg, a builder. After one of his brothers was attacked by an antisemitic mob, the family decided to emigrate to the United States. Robinson arrived in New York City in 1903. He grew up in the rough-and-tumble ghetto of the Lower East Side, and attended Townsend Harris High School and then the City College of New York, planning to become a criminal attorney. An interest in acting and performing in front of people led to him winning an American Academy of Dramatic Arts scholarship, after which he changed his name to Edward G. Robinson, advised to do because ethnic names were frowned upon. The G. stands for his original surname. He began his acting career in the Yiddish Theater District in 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. His work included The Kibitzer, a comedy he co-wrote with Jo Swerling. During World War I, he served in the US Navy but was never sent overseas. In 1923 made his named debut as E. G. Robinson in the silent film, The Bright Shawl (John S. Robertson, 1923) with Richard Barthelmess and Jetta Goudal. He had already appeared in a bit role in Arms and the Woman (George Fitzmaurice, 1916). He chose for the Broadway stage and played a snarling gangster in the Broadway police/crime drama The Racket (1927). TCM: “The hit production got the attention of movie studios, and though he deflected their offers for years, in 1929 Paramount producer Walter Wanger finally persuaded him to come to the burgeoning film capital in Los Angeles with $50,000 and a chance to star opposite Broadway luminary Claudette Colbert in the film The Hole in the Wall (Robert Florey, 1929). His work so impressed industry players that he grudgingly returned to L.A. for a follow-up film, East Is West (Monta Bell, 1930), for $100,000. Warner Bros. producer Hal Wallis finally convinced Robinson to go on contract in 1930.” He had his breakthrough with s stellar performance as snarling, murderous thug Caesar Enrico ‘Rico’ Bandello in Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931). Ed Stephan at IMDb: “all the more impressive since in real life Robinson was a sophisticated, cultured man with a passion for fine art.“ This triumph led to being further typecast as a ‘tough guy’ for much of his early career, in such films as Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931), Smart Money (Alfred E. Green, 1931) - his only film with James Cagney and Boris Karloff, and Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks, 1932). Robinson was one of the many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era. He had made only three films prior to 1930, but left his stage career that year and made 14 films between 1930–1932. Other classics soon followed, including the screwball comedy The Little Giant (Roy Del Ruth, 1933), Kid Galahad (Michael Curtiz, 1937) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and, in a sendup of his gangster roles, A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon, 1938)). From 1937 to 1942, Robinson starred on the radio as Steve Wilson, editor of the Illustrated Press, in the newspaper drama Big Town. He also portrayed hardboiled detective Sam Spade for a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Maltese Falcon.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Edward G. Robinson was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism which was then growing in Europe. In 1938, he was host to the Committee of 56 who gathered at his home, signing a Declaration of Democratic Independence which called for a boycott of all German-made products. He donated more than $250,000 to 850 political and charitable groups between 1939 and 1949. In early July 1944, less than a month after the Invasion of Normandy by Allied forces, Robinson traveled to Normandy to entertain the troops, becoming the first movie star to go there for the USO. Robinson was also active with the Hollywood Democratic Committee, serving on its executive board in 1944, during which time he became a campaigner for Roosevelt's reelection that year. In 1939, at the time World War II broke out in Europe, he played an FBI agent in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939) with George Sanders and Franz Lederer, the first American film which showed Nazism as a threat to the United States. He volunteered for military service in June 1942 but was disqualified due to his age at 48. In 1940 he played Paul Ehrlich, the passionate, driven German scientist who first cured syphilis, in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (William Dieterle, 1940) and Paul Julius Reuter in A Dispatch from Reuter's (William Dieterle, 1940), both biographies of prominent Jewish public figures. Meanwhile, throughout the 1940s Robinson also demonstrated his knack for both Film-Noir and dramatic and comedic roles, including The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz, 1941), Manpower (Raoul Walsh, 1941) with Marlene Dietrich, Larceny, Inc. (Lloyd Bacon, 1942) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942), Flesh and Fantasy (Julien Duvivier, 1943) with Charles Boyer, Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944) and Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945), both with Joan Bennett, The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946), and Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948). He appeared for director John Huston as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (1948), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role. For his part in Joe Mankiewicz’s House of Strangers (1949), Robinson won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.
During the early 1950s, Edward G. Robinson was called to testify at the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare, but was cleared of any Communist involvement. However, in the aftermath his career noticeably suffered, as he was offered smaller roles and those less frequently. His finances suffered due to underemployment. His career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as the traitorous Dathan in The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956). The film was released in 1956, as was his psychological thriller Nightmare (Maxqwell Shane, 1956). In 1956 he returned to Broadway in Middle of the Night, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination in 1956 for best actor in a dramatic role. He also started to play an increasing number of television roles. After a short absence from the cinema, Robinson's film career restarted for good in 1959, when he was second-billed after Frank Sinatra in A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). Later films include the British adventure film Sammy Going South (Alexander Mackendrick, 1963), The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965) starring Steve McQueen, the Italian crime drama Ad ogni costo/Grand Slam (Giuliano Montaldo, 1967) with Janet Leigh and Robert Hoffmann, and the Western Mackenna's Gold (J. Lee Thompson, 1969). The last-ever scene Robinson filmed was a euthanasia sequence in the science fiction cult film Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973). Wikipedia: “ it is sometimes claimed that he told friend and co-star Charlton Heston that he, Robinson, had in fact only weeks to live at best. As it turned out, Robinson died only twelve days later.” Robinson was never nominated for an Academy Award, but in 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar. He had been notified of the honour, but died two months before the award ceremony, so the award was accepted by his widow, Jane Robinson. Edward G. Robinson died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles of bladder cancer in 1973. He had married his first wife, stage actress Gladys Lloyd in 1927. The couple had one son, Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Robinson (1933–1974), known as an actor as Edward G. Robinson Jr., as well as a daughter from Gladys Robinson's first marriage. In 1956 he was divorced from his wife. In 1958 he married Jane Bodenheimer, a dress designer professionally known as Jane Arden. Thereafter he also maintained a home in Palm Springs, California.
Sources: Ed Stephan (IMDb), TCM, Wikipedia and IMDb.
Stephen K. Robinson was selected as an astronaut in December 1994 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in March 1995.
Robinson has flown on four space shuttle missions and has served as a backup crew member for the fourth crew of the International Space Station. He retired from NASA on June 30, 2012, after 17 years as an Astronaut and 36 years of NASA service. He is now Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
Shuttle Mission STS-85/Discovery (August 7 to August 19, 1997) was a 12-day mission, during which the crew deployed and retrieved the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers & Telescopes for the Atmosphere - Shuttle Palette Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS) satellite, operated the Japanese Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD) robot arm, studied changes in the Earth's atmosphere and tested technology destined for use on the International Space Station.
Robinson's responsibilities on STS-85 included flying both the shuttle robot arm and the experimental Japanese robot arm and serving as a contingency spacewalker. The mission was accomplished in 189 Earth orbits, traveling 4.7 million miles in 284 hours and 27 minutes.
Shuttle Mission STS-95/Discovery (October 29 to November 7, 1998) was a nine-day science mission, during which the crew supported more than 80 payloads, including deployment of the Spartan solar-observing spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform and investigations on spaceflight and the aging process with crew member John Glenn.
As Payload Commander, Robinson was responsible for the accomplishment of all scientific objectives by the crew. As Prime Operator of the shuttle's robot arm, Robinson deployed and retrieved the Spartan satellite. The mission was accomplished in 134 Earth orbits, traveling 3.6 million miles in 213 hours and 44 minutes.
International Space Station Expedition 4 backup (July 1999 to December 2001.) Robinson served as backup crew member for the station Expedition 4 crew, which included cosmonaut training and certification in Star City, Russia.
Shuttle Mission STS-114/Discovery (July 26 to August 9, 2005) was the "Return to Flight" mission; the first shuttle flight in the two and-a-half years after the loss of space shuttle Columbia.
The objective of the mission was to resupply the International Space Station and evaluate new procedures for flight safety and shuttle inspection and repair techniques. Robinson served as Flight Engineer and also performed three spacewalks, totaling 20 hours and 5 minutes, including an unplanned and unprecedented repair of space shuttle Discovery's heat shield.
After a two-week, 5.8 million mile journey in space, Discovery and her crew returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Mission duration was 333 hours, 32 minutes and 48 seconds in 219 Earth orbits.
Shuttle Mission STS-130/Endeavour (February 8 to February 21, 2010) launched at night, carrying the International Space Station's final permanent modules: Tranquility (Node 3) and the seven-windowed Cupola viewing station.
Tranquility is now the life support hub of the ISS, containing exercise, water recycling and environmental control systems. Robinson served as Flight Engineer, as Spacewalk Operations Officer to direct the three spacewalks from inside Endeavour and as chief mechanic for outfitting the new Node 3.
During the two-week mission, Endeavour and her crew traveled more than 5.7 million miles and completed 217 orbits of the Earth, touching down at night at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In total, flying on STS-85 in 1997, STS-95 in 1998, STS-114 in 2005 and STS-130 in 2010, Robinson has logged more than 1,156 hours (48 days) and 19.8 million miles in space, including more than 20 hours of spacewalking.
In-person at the 44th Space Congress, Cape Canaveral, Fla., 25 May 2016.
Astronautenfamilie Robinson / Heft-Reihe
cover: George Wilson
Der Kampf mit den Ungeheuern (Zeichner: Dan Spiegle)
Reprints from Space Family Robinson Lost in Space (Western, 1966 series) #15 (January 1966)
Bildschriften-Verlag
(Aachen/Deutschland; 1966-1970)
ex libris MTP
An old Robinson Crusoe book I found years ago at an antique store. The copyright year is 1882 with a hand written note from a teacher to a student dated Feb.19, 1892
Astronautenfamilie Robinson / Heft-Reihe
cover: George Wilson
> Der Nebel des Wahns (Zeichner: Dan Spiegle)
Reprints from Space Family Robinson (Western, 1962 series) #5 (December 1963)
Bildschriften-Verlag
(Aachen/Deutschland; 1966-1970)
ex libris MTP
Astronautenfamilie Robinson / Heft-Reihe
cover: George Wilson
> Die eisernen Zwerge (Zeichner: Gaylord Du Bois)
Reprints fromSpace Family Robinson (Western, 1962 series) #12 (April 1965)
Bildschriften-Verlag
(Aachen/Deutschland; 1966-1970)
ex libris MTP
"Robinson Crusoe," vintage book published 1963. Illustration by Zdenek Burian.
This image is for educational purposes only. All rights remain with the original author(s).
The Maitland Robinson Library is a library of Downing College in Cambridge (UK). Despite its neo-classical appearance, the building is surprisingly new, designed by Quinlan Terry and built 1992-1993.
Many thanks to Flickr members Fraser Pettigrew and asnacr for identifying the building on the photo.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W. 709. Photo: Warner.
Romanian-born American actor Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) was a popular star on stage, radio and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age. He appeared in 40 Broadway plays and 101 films during a 50-year career and is best remembered for his cold-eyed Machiavellian gangster roles, such as his star-making film Little Caesar (1931) and Key Largo (1948). Robinson's character portrayals have covered a wide range, with such roles as an insurance investigator in the Film Noir Double Indemnity (1944), Dathan, the adversary of Moses, in The Ten Commandments (1956), and his final performance in the Science-Fiction film Soylent Green (1973). Next to his work in Hollywood, he also appeared during the 1960s in several European films.
Edward G. Robinson was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in 1893 to a Yiddish-speaking Romanian Jewish family in Bucharest, Romania. He was the fifth of six sons of Sarah (née Guttman) and Morris Goldenberg, a builder. After one of his brothers was attacked by an antisemitic mob, the family decided to emigrate to the United States. Robinson arrived in New York City in 1903. He grew up in the rough-and-tumble ghetto of the Lower East Side, and attended Townsend Harris High School and then the City College of New York, planning to become a criminal attorney. An interest in acting and performing in front of people led to him winning an American Academy of Dramatic Arts scholarship, after which he changed his name to Edward G. Robinson, advised to do because ethnic names were frowned upon. The G. stands for his original surname. He began his acting career in the Yiddish Theater District in 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. His work included The Kibitzer, a comedy he co-wrote with Jo Swerling. During World War I, he served in the US Navy but was never sent overseas. In 1923 made his named debut as E. G. Robinson in the silent film, The Bright Shawl (John S. Robertson, 1923) with Richard Barthelmess and Jetta Goudal. He had already appeared in a bit role in Arms and the Woman (George Fitzmaurice, 1916). He chose for the Broadway stage and played a snarling gangster in the Broadway police/crime drama The Racket (1927). TCM: “The hit production got the attention of movie studios, and though he deflected their offers for years, in 1929 Paramount producer Walter Wanger finally persuaded him to come to the burgeoning film capital in Los Angeles with $50,000 and a chance to star opposite Broadway luminary Claudette Colbert in the film The Hole in the Wall (Robert Florey, 1929). His work so impressed industry players that he grudgingly returned to L.A. for a follow-up film, East Is West (Monta Bell, 1930), for $100,000. Warner Bros. producer Hal Wallis finally convinced Robinson to go on contract in 1930.” He had his breakthrough with s stellar performance as snarling, murderous thug Caesar Enrico ‘Rico’ Bandello in Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931). Ed Stephan at IMDb: “all the more impressive since in real life Robinson was a sophisticated, cultured man with a passion for fine art.“ This triumph led to being further typecast as a ‘tough guy’ for much of his early career, in such films as Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931), Smart Money (Alfred E. Green, 1931) - his only film with James Cagney and Boris Karloff, and Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks, 1932). Robinson was one of the many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era. He had made only three films prior to 1930, but left his stage career that year and made 14 films between 1930–1932. Other classics soon followed, including the screwball comedy The Little Giant (Roy Del Ruth, 1933), Kid Galahad (Michael Curtiz, 1937) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and, in a sendup of his gangster roles, A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon, 1938)). From 1937 to 1942, Robinson starred on the radio as Steve Wilson, editor of the Illustrated Press, in the newspaper drama Big Town. He also portrayed hardboiled detective Sam Spade for a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Maltese Falcon.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Edward G. Robinson was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism which was then growing in Europe. In 1938, he was host to the Committee of 56 who gathered at his home, signing a Declaration of Democratic Independence which called for a boycott of all German-made products. He donated more than $250,000 to 850 political and charitable groups between 1939 and 1949. In early July 1944, less than a month after the Invasion of Normandy by Allied forces, Robinson traveled to Normandy to entertain the troops, becoming the first movie star to go there for the USO. Robinson was also active with the Hollywood Democratic Committee, serving on its executive board in 1944, during which time he became a campaigner for Roosevelt's reelection that year. In 1939, at the time World War II broke out in Europe, he played an FBI agent in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939) with George Sanders and Franz Lederer, the first American film which showed Nazism as a threat to the United States. He volunteered for military service in June 1942 but was disqualified due to his age at 48. In 1940 he played Paul Ehrlich, the passionate, driven German scientist who first cured syphilis, in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (William Dieterle, 1940) and Paul Julius Reuter in A Dispatch from Reuter's (William Dieterle, 1940), both biographies of prominent Jewish public figures. Meanwhile, throughout the 1940s Robinson also demonstrated his knack for both Film-Noir and dramatic and comedic roles, including The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz, 1941), Manpower (Raoul Walsh, 1941) with Marlene Dietrich, Larceny, Inc. (Lloyd Bacon, 1942) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942), Flesh and Fantasy (Julien Duvivier, 1943) with Charles Boyer, Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944) and Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945), both with Joan Bennett, The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946), and Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948). He appeared for director John Huston as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (1948), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role. For his part in Joe Mankiewicz’s House of Strangers (1949), Robinson won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.
During the early 1950s, Edward G. Robinson was called to testify at the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare, but was cleared of any Communist involvement. However, in the aftermath his career noticeably suffered, as he was offered smaller roles and those less frequently. His finances suffered due to underemployment. His career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as the traitorous Dathan in The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956). The film was released in 1956, as was his psychological thriller Nightmare (Maxqwell Shane, 1956). In 1956 he returned to Broadway in Middle of the Night, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination in 1956 for best actor in a dramatic role. He also started to play an increasing number of television roles. After a short absence from the cinema, Robinson's film career restarted for good in 1959, when he was second-billed after Frank Sinatra in A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra, 1959). Later films include the British adventure film Sammy Going South (Alexander Mackendrick, 1963), The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965) starring Steve McQueen, the Italian crime drama Ad ogni costo/Grand Slam (Giuliano Montaldo, 1967) with Janet Leigh and Robert Hoffmann, and the Western Mackenna's Gold (J. Lee Thompson, 1969). The last-ever scene Robinson filmed was a euthanasia sequence in the science fiction cult film Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973). Wikipedia: “ it is sometimes claimed that he told friend and co-star Charlton Heston that he, Robinson, had in fact only weeks to live at best. As it turned out, Robinson died only twelve days later.” Robinson was never nominated for an Academy Award, but in 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar. He had been notified of the honour, but died two months before the award ceremony, so the award was accepted by his widow, Jane Robinson. Edward G. Robinson died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles of bladder cancer in 1973. He had married his first wife, stage actress Gladys Lloyd in 1927. The couple had one son, Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Robinson (1933–1974), known as an actor as Edward G. Robinson Jr., as well as a daughter from Gladys Robinson's first marriage. In 1956 he was divorced from his wife. In 1958 he married Jane Bodenheimer, a dress designer professionally known as Jane Arden. Thereafter he also maintained a home in Palm Springs, California.
Sources: Ed Stephan (IMDb), TCM, Wikipedia and IMDb.
The A-Star TypeT 3 helicopter serves multiple purposes from aerial reconnaissance, to carrying loads of equipment to the fireline, and on Monday, June 14th, it was used for aerial ignitions to burn open pockets of fuel to reduce danger. Photo by BLM
"Robinson Crusoe," vintage book published 1963. Illustration by Zdenek Burian.
This image is for educational purposes only. All rights remain with the original author(s).
"Robinson Crusoe," vintage book published 1963. Illustration by Zdenek Burian.
This image is for educational purposes only. All rights remain with the original author(s).
Kim Stanley Robinson speaking with attendees at an event titled "The Comedy of Coping: Alarm and Resolve in Climate Fiction" hosted by the ASU Center for Science and Imagination, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Whiteman Hall at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
In 1947, on opening day at Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, changing a game and a country forever. Robinson's stunning career with the Brooklyn Dodgers struck a blow to America's deep-seated racial stereotypes. His awe-inspiring performances helped integrate of baseball. One of the most consistently productive and exciting players in the game, Robinson piled up statistics and became the first African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Robinson's success as a civil rights pioneer hinged on his actions on and off the field. He handled both praise and prejudice with poise. As an advocate for America's growing civil rights movement, Robinson promoted fundamental social reform. His personal integrity and stunning feats on the field made him a living symbol of America's democratic dream.
Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
"Robinson Crusoe," vintage book published 1963. Illustration by Zdenek Burian.
This image is for educational purposes only. All rights remain with the original author(s).
They were not that rare but it might have been a bit unusual to get two of the same Duple Caribbeans together from different Independents especially in sunshine. That happened here at Keswick where a silver and orange DAF of Staffordian met up with an immaculate green and black Robinson's Leyland Tiger.
Joe Robinson (g) + Bernard Harris (b) + Marcus Hill (dr) - www.joerobinson.com/ - comment by will wilson: Bet that chandelier shivered all night!