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Accidental Empires Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996), is a book written by Mark Stephens under the pen name Robert X. Cringely about the founding of the personal computer industry and the history of Silicon Valley. The style of the book is informal, and in the first chapter Cringley claims that he is not a historian but an explainer, and that "historians have a harder job because they can be faulted for what is left out; explainers like me can get away with printing only the juicy parts." Notably, the book was critical of Steve Jobs and Apple, as well as Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in "InfoWorld", the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG.
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Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident In May 2005, an anonymous editor posted a hoax article in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about journalist John Seigenthaler. The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the assassinations of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The then-78-year-old Seigenthaler, a friend and aide to Robert Kennedy, characterized the Wikipedia article about him as "Internet character assassination".
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Robert Low Robert Low is a Scottish journalist and writer of historical fiction. His "Oathsworn" series of novels are set in the Viking Age.
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Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley (July 17, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
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Robert Crants (CEO) Robert Crants (born 1944) is an American businessman. He is a co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America. He served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 1999.
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Imperial overstretch Imperial overstretch, also known as Imperial overreach, is a hypothesis which suggests that an empire can extend itself beyond its ability to maintain or expand its military and economic commitments. The idea was popularised by Yale University historian Paul Kennedy in his 1987 book "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers".
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Infamous Adventures Infamous Adventures (commonly referred to as IA) is an amateur game development company, founded in 2004 by Shawn Mills (screen name Klytos) and Steven Alexander (screen name Blackthorne), and is dedicated to making games in the classic adventure made famous by the releases of Sierra Entertainment and LucasArts in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Charles Crumb Charles Vincent Crumb, Jr. (March 13, 1942 – February 1992) was the older brother of American cartoonist Robert Crumb.
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Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including "Conan the Barbarian" and "Conan the Destroyer"), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games and other media. The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in "Weird Tales" magazine.
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Robert C. O'Brien (author) Robert Leslie Carroll Conly (January 11, 1918 – March 5, 1973), better known by pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for "National Geographic Magazine".
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Robert Gordon (screenwriter) Robert Gordon is an American screenwriter and producer. His writing credits consist of "Addicted to Love" (1997), "Galaxy Quest" (1999), "Men in Black II" (2002), and "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (2004). He also was an associate producer on "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004).
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Ecological imperialism Ecological imperialism is the theory advanced first by Alfred Crosby that European settlers were successful in colonization of other regions because of their accidental or deliberate introduction of animals, plants, and disease leading to major shifts in the ecology of the colonized areas and to population collapses in the endemic peoples. The many pathogens they carried with them adversely affected the native populations of North America, Australia, and Africa, and were far more destructive than weaponry: it is estimated that disease wiped out up to 90 percent of indigenous people in some locations.
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Mandarin (novel) Mandarin is a Robert Elegant historical novel published by Simon & Schuster in 1983. It is set in China during the Taiping Rebellion. It is the third to appear of Elegant's "Imperial China Trilogy", the first being "Dynasty" (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977) and the second being "Manchu" (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980).
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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Christopher Knight (filmmaker) Robert Christopher Knight is a blogger and filmmaker based in North Carolina who gained some notoriety for a video he uploaded to YouTube and a subsequent copyright infringement clash with Viacom.
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Robert Armstrong (comics) Robert Armstrong (b. 1950 in Pasadena, California) is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and musician. He is known for his underground comix character Mickey Rat, for popularizing the term "couch potato," and for being a member of Robert Crumb's band the Cheap Suit Serenaders.
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Consortium imperii Consortium imperii is a Latin term dating from the Roman Dominate, denoting the sharing of imperial authority between two or more emperors, each hence designated as "consors imperii", i.e. "partner in (exercising) "imperium"", either as formal equals or in subordination, in which case the junior was often the senior's designated heir—not necessarily the natural one—and successor. In theory, this arrangement served to share the burden of government and ensure smooth succession, as rivalry at these moments was a major threat to the stability of the Empire; however, in practice the net result was often more civil war.
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Robert L. Washington III Robert Lee Washington III (November 29, 1964June 7, 2012) was an American writer of comic books, known for co-creating Static (later adapted for a successful animated television series) and the Shadow Cabinet, both for Milestone Media.
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Robert Crittenden Robert Crittenden (January 1, 1797 – December 18, 1834) was an attorney and politician. In his capacity as territorial secretary, he served as acting Governor of Arkansas Territory. He was a co-founder of the Rose Law Firm.
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Robert F. Young Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 – June 22, 1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. He owned a property on Lake Erie.
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Christopher Robert Christopher Rhinelander Robert (23 March 1802 – 28 October 1878) was an American philanthropist from New York City, who founded the building of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey in 1863, the oldest American school outside the United States.