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Robert Blake: Counts
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On February 18, 2003, Court TV reported that despite two of his lawyers quitting and a protracted court battle, Robert Blake eventually got to tell his side of the story on national television to ABC's Barbara Walters. The jailhouse interview lasted for more than two hours and came about after the county sheriff approved Walters's request because she had conducted other similar interviews at the jail.
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Robert lived in Bridgwater for a time after his father's death in 1625. Then, for about ten years, he seems to have been absent from Bridgwater. He may have tried to establish a business in Dorchester - a merchant named Robert Blake was active there around 1629-30. He may have worked at Schiedam in Holland as overseas agent for the family business. Or he may have been living quietly as a Somerset country gentleman at Puriton.
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Robert M. Price believes that Robert Blake is not merely a counterpart to Robert Bloch, but is actually a combination of three different people: Bloch, Lovecraft himself, and Clark Ashton Smith. As one example, Price notes that the dwelling that Blake occupies in Providence parallels Lovecraft's own apartment. Furthermore, Blake, like Smith, is a skilled painter and produces bizarre "studies of nameless, unhuman monsters, and profoundly alien, non-terrestrial landscapes."[6] Lovecraft sometimes mentioned Smith's art in his own stories whenever he wanted to feature a weird setting or the reproduction of one. In the "The Haunter of the Dark"... Price believes that Lovecraft took the notion one step further and depicted Smith himself as one of the three aspects of Robert Blake.[7]
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Blake is charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder, as well as two counts of solicitation of murder. He ... is accused of the special circumstance allegation of lying in wait, but prosecutors will not seek the death penalty if he is convicted.
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Blake was appointed General at Sea (a rank corresponding to Admiral) in 1649. He's often referred to as the "Father of the Royal Navy". As well as being largely responsible for building the largest navy the country had then ever known, from a few tens of ships to well over a hundred, he was first to keep a fleet at sea over the winter. He developed new techniques to conduct blockades and landings; his "Sailing instructions" and "Fighting Instructions", which were major overhauls of naval tactics written while recovering from injury in 1653, were the foundation of English Naval tactics in the Age of Sail. He was ... the first to repeatedly successfully attack despite fire from shore forts.
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