WebRobert Anthony De Niro jr. (New York, 17 augustus 1943) is een Amerikaans acteur.Naast een aantal nominaties won hij de Oscar voor beste mannelijke bijrol in The Godfather Part II (1974) en de Oscar voor beste acteur in Raging Bull (1980). Hij staat bekend om zijn methodacting, vooral aangewend voor gekwelde, tegenstrijdige en vaak gewelddadige …

WebRobert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist.He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation.His current research interests include complexity theory (especially agent …

WebThe turkey is a large species of bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America.There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (M. gallopavo) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey (M. ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. This photograph, taken at Deer Island Preserve in Novato, California, depicts a male Rio …

WebGeorge Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, ... Honolulu (1939) with Eleanor Powell and Robert Young would be Burns' last film for nearly 40 years although Gracie Allen starred in …

WebRobert Selden Duvall (/ d uː ˈ v ɔː l /; born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker. His career spans more than seven decades and he is considered one of the greatest American actors of all time. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild …

WebRobert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is a former United States Army sniper and mass murderer who killed 16 Afghan civilians in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar massacre.. In order to avoid the death penalty, he pleaded guilty to 16 counts of murder, six counts of attempted …

WebRobert Southey (/ ˈ s aʊ ð i / or / ˈ s ʌ ð i /; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets , William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its …

WebRobert Edward Lee, né le 19 janvier 1807 à la plantation de Stratford Hall et mort le 12 octobre 1870 à Lexington, est un militaire américain. Diplômé de l' Académie militaire de West Point , il est officier du Génie militaire pendant plus de trente ans dans l' armée des États-Unis avant que n'éclate la guerre de Sécession durant laquelle il s'illustra en tant …

WebRobert Burns, né le 5 septembre 1936 à Montréal et mort à Boucherville le 15 mai 2014 (à 77 ans) [1], est un avocat, syndicaliste, député du Parti québécois (de 1970 à 1979), ministre, membre du gouvernement de René Lévesque (de 1976 à 1979), puis juge au Tribunal du travail (1980-2001).

WebRobert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.. Trained in philosophy, Motherwell then …