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Robert Aitken, His Bible, sometimes referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution," was the first known English-language Bible to be printed in America and was is the only Bible to receive Congressional approval. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel04.html
Robert Aitken, Canadian flutist and composer
Robert Grant Aitken, astronomer
Robert Baker Aitken, teacher of Zen Buddhism, grandson of Robert Grant Aitken

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Categories: Disambiguation Robert Aitken (b. ... Robert Grant Aitken (December 31, 1864 – October 29, 1951) was an American astronomer. ... Robert Aitken and Anne Aitken Robert Baker Aitken (born 1917) is an American teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Harada-Yasutani (or Sanbo Kyodan) tradition, a blending of Soto and Rinzai schools. ... A woodblock print by Yoshitoshi, (Japan, 1887) depicting Bodhidharma the founder of Chinese Zen. ...

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Aitken, Robert (1103 words)
	Aitken served 1960-4 as second flute of the CBC Symphony Orchestra and 1962-4 as principal flute of the Stratford Festival Orchestra.
	Aitken taught 1957-64 and 1965-8 at the RCMT and 1960-4 and 1965-75 at the University of Toronto.
	Aitken was invested in the Order of Canada in 1994, was a Chevalier de l'ordre des Artes et Lettres (1997), and was an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

Methodist People - Robert Aitken (3744 words)
	Aitken officiated from 1842 to 1844 as curate of the little parish of Perranuthnoe, near Marazion, in Cornwall, and then became the first incumbent of the new parish of Pendeen in the same county.
	Aitken was a Methodist in the widest sense of the term, and at one time had his own connexion of chapels in the north of England and in London.
	Robert Wesley may well have been born on the Island but there is no entry in the IGI - presumeably at this period Robert Aitken would have had no dealings with the Established Church.

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