Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.
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Budget airline BMIbaby, based at the airport, had campaigned for a change and had already used Robin Hood in its advertising.
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There was also disruption at London City Airport, Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster and Leeds Bradford Airport on Wednesday.
The flag incorporates St George's cross on a green background, and a shield with the Robin Hood emblem in its centre.
Easyjet recently announced it was pulling out of Doncaster Robin Hood Airport in the new year, five months after launching its services there.
The BBC has obtained an investigation report by the Health and Safety Executive into the incident at Doncaster Robin Hood Airport in 2009.
Not all concrete ideals of the post-war building boom have survived, Alison and Peter Smithson's polemic Robin Hood Gardens in east London is not long for this life, despite the protestations of the architectural elite.
Alan McLean, who is believed to be from West Yorkshire, has not been seen since 11:15 GMT on Sunday when he left his hotel in Robin Hood's Bay.
' Robin Hood has had his moment in the cinema, now it's time for Richard III to have his time on the big screen too.
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The Robin Hood Foundation, set up in 1988 by three Wall Street dealers to help the poor, uses management consultants and puts an unusual emphasis on helping its clients to look after each other.
In May, Doncaster Robin Hood Airport was forced to close temporarily after the Vulcan bomber aborted take-off due to an engine fault.
Mr Gove said teachers were encouraged to teach the early Middle Ages "by studying the depiction of King John as a cowardly lion in Disney's Robin Hood".
Bill Gates is announcing that he supports the Robin Hood, or Financial Transactions, Tax in order to raise revenue to be spent on aid to the poor in the Third World.
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The Robin Hood Tax campaign is an attempt to bring in a global financial transactions tax.
Walking along, it was easy to see why director Ridley Scott used similar nearby cliffs as a backdrop in his recent movie, Robin Hood.
Others on the Robin Hood board say he loved holding their meetings in the roughest neighborhoods, though he generally deferred to their desire for more convenient midtown locations.
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Rosa filled young Hugo's head with stories about his great-grandfather, a highwayman by the name of Maizanta, whom local historians had cast in the style of a Robin Hood.
Veerappan, over the years, has been regarded by some as a Robin Hood character after gaining the support of many locals in the villages adjoining the forests in Tamil Nadu.
On September 28th it formally proposed a financial-transactions tax (FTT), otherwise known as a Tobin tax after James Tobin, a Nobel economics laureate who put forward a similar scheme for currency markets in 1972 or a Robin Hood tax by those who want to use the proceeds for aid purposes.
Despite hostility from Britain and the US, the Microsoft founder will add weight to the growing campaign for a so-called Robin Hood tax when he tells the two-day summit in Cannes that a levy on finance would help hard-pressed rich nations to meet their aid pledges to the poor.
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Robin Hood has adroitly recognized the fact that the storm upended lives in myriad ways that go beyond physical rebuilding.
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They were also criticised by Mr Barroso, who attacked Mr Blair in unusually harsh terms, comparing him to Robin Hood's adversary, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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In 1889, British actor Claude Rains, who starred in the films "Casablanca, " "Robin Hood" and "Caesar and Cleopatra, " born.
Anthony Hamilton may be regarded as the "Robin Hood of the Green Baize" but thus far he has failed in his bid to steal the thunder from snooker's elite.
"It's beyond belief that in a year marked by dodgy dealings, 200 of HSBC's top brass are celebrating bonuses greater than many people earn in a lifetime, " said David Hillman of the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
In fact, Frishberg credits Laffer in his opening chapter for his unique take on the classic tale of Robin Hood.
In 2009, the city's only dedicated attraction, the Tales of Robin Hood, closed due to falling visitor numbers.
Roach also appeared in, among others, Never Say Never Again, Willow, Conan The Destroyer and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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