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Arthur Howard Robinson

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Arthur Howard Robinson 1915-2004, American cartographer, b. Montreal to American parents, Ph.D Ohio State Univ., 1947. The head of the map division of the Office of Strategic Services for much of World War II, he taught at the Univ. of Wisconsin from 1946 until 1980. The Robinson, or orthophanic, map projection, which he developed (1963), presents a pleasing and relatively balanced world map for thematic use, replacing the widely used Mercator projection, which severely distorts the size of areas near the poles (the so-called Greenland problem). His Elements of Cartography (1953, 6th ed.... Read more
Robinson, Edward G.
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ROBINSON, Edward G. Nationality: American. Born: Emanuel Goldenberg ... as Damon Wells) 1935 The Whole Town's Talking (Ford) (as Arthur Ferguson Jones); Barbary Coast (Hawks) (as Louis Chamacis ... Cocky Wainwright); The Cincinnati Kid (Jewison) (as Cancey Howard) 1968 La Blonde de Pekin ( The Blonde from ... Read more
The 1920s: The Arts: Awards
American Decades ... music 1929 Edwin Arlington Robinson — poetry John Newbery ... 1926 Shen of the Sea, by Arthur Chrisman 1927 Smoky, the ... Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson 1923 Biography or Autobiography ... What They Wanted, by Sidney Howard Fiction: So Big, by Edna ... Twice, by Edwin Arlington Robinson ... Read more

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