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Toombs, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Toombs, Robert, 1810–85, American statesman, Confederate leader, b. Wilkes co., Ga. A successful lawyer in Georgia, he entered politics as a Whig, serving in the state legislature and…Treat, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Treat, Robert, 1622?–1710, American colonial governor of Connecticut, b. England. He was taken to America when a child; his father was an early settler of Wethersfield, Conn., and a…Robert Smalls Biography
Robert SmallsCivil War hero, politicianBorn: 1839Birthplace: Beaufort, South Carolina Smalls was a slave and a pilot of the steamboat Planter, a 300-ton armed vessel. In 1862, while the white…Robert Matsui Biography
Robert MatsuiCongressmanBorn: 1941 A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Hastings College of Law, Matsui established a private law practice in 1967. He was elected to the…Robert Stanley Biography
Robert Stanleypop artist used photographs and newspapers to create commercial works of artBorn: 1932Died: 1997Walter Sorell1997 DeathsDawn SteelRobert and Elizabeth Browning
A secret courtship between two legendary poets by David Johnson Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband, Robert Browning, led lives suited for leading Romantic poets. Their story…Robert Graves: 1915
1915I've watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow, In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune; Primroses and the first warm day of Spring, Red poppy floods of June, August, and yellowing…Robert Graves: Babylon
BabylonThe child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry with him. Rhyme and music flow in plenty For the lad of one-and-twenty, But…Robert Graves: Careers
CareersFather is quite the greatest poet That ever lived anywhere. You say you're going to write great music— I chose that first: it's unfair. Besides, now I can't be the greatest painter…Robert Graves: Escape
Escape(August 6, 1916.—Officer previously reported died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R., Royal Welch Fusiliers.) ... But I was dead, an hour or more. I woke when I'd…Trending
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